Podcast episode 20: Interview with Jacqueline Léon on Firth, Malinowski and...
In this interview, we continue the theme of the previous episode and talk to Jacqueline Léon about John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942) and the London School. Download |...
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences –...
Marcin Kilarski. 2021. A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America. Amsterdam : John Benjamins. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 129. 443 p. ISBN :...
View ArticleCfP: Colloquium Studienkreis Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, Flensburg...
On 8–11 June 2022, the 31st International Colloquium of the “Studienkreis ‘Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft’” (SGdS) on Language and Language Awareness in the History of Linguistics will take place...
View ArticlePodcast episode 21: Karl Bühler’s Organon model and the Prague Circle
In this episode, we look at psychologist Karl Bühler’s (1879–1963) Organon model of communication and observe its influence on the linguists Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890–1938) and Roman Jakobson...
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E. F. K. Koerner (1939–2022)
With the recent passing of Konrad Koerner on 6 January 2022, we offer here as a tribute to his life and work some excerpts from a previously unreleased biographical interview, recorded on 2 January...
View ArticlePodcast episode 22: Interview with Christopher Hutton on linguistics under...
In this interview, we talk to Christopher Hutton about linguistic scholarship under National Socialism and how this relates to linguistics today. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts...
View ArticleAustralian languages, histories of documentation, description and revival
Online workshop, 1–2 December 2022 Organisers: James McElvenny and Clara Stockigt This workshop will bring together linguists, anthropologists and historians to discuss the history of the...
View ArticleCall for papers: ICHoLS XVI, Tbilisi, 26–30 August 2024
26–30 August 2024, Tbilisi, Georgia Hosted by Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of LinguisticsTbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University The Sixteenth International Conference on the...
View ArticlePodcast episode 23: Interview with Noam Chomsky on the beginnings of...
In this interview, we talk to Noam Chomsky about the intellectual environment in which generative grammar emerged. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 23...
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences –...
Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner & Olga Timofeeva, ed. 2021. Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. FILLM Studies in...
View ArticleColorless green ideas and the others
Martin Konvička (Freie Universität Berlin)* 1 Colorless green ideas In the opening pages of his Syntactic Structures (1957: 15)[1], Noam Chomsky demonstrates the independence of grammar (or syntax)...
View ArticlePodcast episode 24: Interview with Lorenzo Cigana on the Copenhagen Circle
In this interview, we talk to Lorenzo Cigana about Louis Hjelmslev and the Copenhagen Linguistic Circle. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 24 Primary Sources...
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences –...
Camille Joseph & Isabelle Kalinowski. 2022. La Parole inouïe. Franz Boas et les textes indiens. Toulouse: Anacharsis. 198 p. ISBN: 9791027904365Publisher’s website Franz Boas (1858-1942) est...
View ArticleCfp: SHESL Conference 2023
Call for papersSHESL Conference 2023New historical and diachronic perspectives on grammaticalization Paris, 12–13 January 2023 The Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage (SHESL)...
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Roger Schöntag. 2022. Das Verständnis von Vulgärlatein in der Frühen Neuzeit vor dem Hintergrund der questione della lingua. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. 761 p. ISBN: 978-3-8233-8540-0Publisher’s...
View ArticlePodcast episode 25: Interview with Felicity Meakins on contact linguistics
In this interview, we talk to Felicity Meakins about Pidgins, Creoles, and mixed languages. We discuss what they are, and how they are viewed in both linguistic scholarship and in speaker communities....
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language...
Giuseppe Cosenza, Claire A. Forel, Genoveva Puskas & Thomas Robert, ed. 2022. Saussure and Chomsky. Converging and Diverging. Lausanne: Peter Lang. 172 p. DOI:...
View ArticlePodcast episode 26: Interview with Philipp Krämer on creoles and creole studies
In this interview, we talk to Philipp Krämer about the history of the study of creole languages and present-day efforts to standardise creoles around the world. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |...
View ArticlePodcast episode 27: Interview with Peter Trudgill on sociolinguistic typology
In this interview, we talk to Peter Trudgill about how the structure of speaker communities may influence the structure of languages. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References...
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language...
Didier Samain & Pierre-Yves Testenoire, ed. 2022. La linguistique et ses formes historiques d’organisation et de production. Paris: SHESL. HEL Livres 1. 336 p. ISBN : 979-10-91587-16-7. DOI:...
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