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From Inductivism to Structuralism: the ‘method of residues’ goes to the field
Michael Silverstein University of Chicago It should be clear to anyone who surveys the historical record that the “discovery” of the phoneme – that is, the codification of phonological theory and...
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The social cognition of linguists
Andrea C. Schalley Griffith University It is social cognition which enables us to construct functioning societies sharing knowledge, values and goals, and to undertake collaborative action. It is also...
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Emile Benveniste et les langues amérindiennes.
Chloé Laplantine Laboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques CNRS-Université Paris Diderot Frances Densmore et le chef Blackfoot, Mountain Chief, pendant une session d’enregistrement au Bureau of...
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Program October-December 2013
[Program updated 27 October 2013] 16October A uniform orthography and early linguistic research in AustraliaDavid MooreUniversity of Western Australia 23October Break 30October Hendrik Pos and the...
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A uniform orthography and early linguistic research in Australia
David Moore University of Western Australia Introduction A Uniform orthography can be defined as one which is segmental and phonographic. Each graphic segment is pronounced and has a distinct value....
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Hendrik Pos and the epistemological foundations of structuralism
Patrick Flack Charles University, Prague The name of Dutch linguist and philosopher Hendrik Josephus Pos (1898-1955) is not one that rings many bells today, except perhaps in the Netherlands and the...
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Teaching language to a boy born deaf in the seventeenth century: the...
Jaap Maat University of Amsterdam 1. The Popham notebook In the summer of 2008, a leather-bound booklet attracted the attention of a member of staff of Warner Leisure Hotels in Littlecote House, near...
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Toponymy and ecolinguistics
Joshua Nash University of Adelaide Ecolinguistics can be divided into two strands. The first deals with environmental discourse analysis, often termed eco-critical discourse analysis, critical...
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El Sermonario de fray Bernardino de Sahagún y los fondos en lenguas indígenas...
Pilar Máynez Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Sobre el repositorio que resguarda la versión tardía del Sermonario de los Sanctos del año en lengua mexicana La Biblioteca Nacional de México fue...
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Bloomfield : Du mentalisme au behaviorisme
Jean-Michel Fortis Laboratoire d’histoire des théories linguistiques, Université Paris-Diderot On peut s’interroger sur l’évolution qui voit Bloomfield passer de la psychologie à dominante wundtienne,...
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New dating of the Iloko manuscript lexicography
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez Centro de Estudos em Letras (CEL) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) Missionary lexicography in the Philippines is extensive and exhaustive. Dozens of...
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Program March-May 2014
12March Language and smell: traces of synesthesia in premodern learningRaf Van RooyPhD fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)University of Leuven 26March Language planning as a normative...
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Language and smell: traces of synesthesia in premodern learning
Raf Van Rooy PhD fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) University of Leuven It is well known that, in present-day English, the verb ‘smell’ can obtain a negative connotation when used...
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Empirical methods in language construction
Başak Aray Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, EXeCO (PHICO) Efforts to establish an international auxiliary language (IAL) have a long history. Projects to overcome ethnic languages flourished in...
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La historiografía mexicana en el contexto de los estudios lingüísticos actuales
Ana Balderas García Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México El quehacer lingüístico en México se remonta al encuentro entre culturas que se dio en el siglo XVI. La imperiosa necesidad de convertir a...
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SHLP4 Call for Papers
Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific SHLP4 The fourth biennial conference of the Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific will take place in Alice Springs, Australia,...
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Dr José Rizal and the making of a modern linguistic Messiah
Piers Kelly Australian National University Describing the preeminent Filipino national hero Dr. Jose Rizal as a linguist is a little like referring to Thomas Jefferson as a horticulturalist. The...
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Exclamatives: a grammatical category?
Els Elffers University of Amsterdam 1. Introduction In most Western European grammars, sentences such as Hurrah!, How very curious!, or Vienna is so dull! are categorized as exclamatory sentences or...
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The Latin-Portuguese grammarian Manuel Álvares (1526-1583) and his De...
Rolf Kemmler University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro A little more than 440 years ago, in September 1572, the Portuguese typographer João da Barreira printed the first edition of a quite elaborate...
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Program August-December 2014
6August Saussure’s sound symbolismJohn JosephUniversity of Edinburgh 20August The notions of word and word-class in the 20th centuryMartin HaspelmathMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,...
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