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Program August-December 2015
[Updated 5 August 2015] 5August Esperanto: some observations of a speaker-linguistKen MinerUniversity of Kansas 19August John Stoddart’s The Philosophy of Language: the “last truly universalist...
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Esperanto: some observations of a speaker-linguist
Ken Miner University of Kansas (emer.) Esperantism is one of those many small worlds that have more substance to them than outsiders think but less than most insiders think. The twain rarely meet. Much...
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John Stoddart’s The Philosophy of Language: the “last truly universalist work”
Joseph L. Subbiondo California Institute of Integral Studies Introduction Sir John Stoddart (1773-1856) served as England’s advocate in Malta from 1803-1807, editor of The Times from 1814 to 1816,...
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Las disciplinas lingüísticas en la España decimonónica: Julián González de...
María José García Folgado Universitat de València – Grupo GIEL La historia de la enseñanza de la gramática es un campo que, en el marco hispánico, solo recientemente está siendo objeto de...
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Vivien Law Essay Prize 2015
The Vivien Law Prize is offered annually by the Henry Sweet Society for the best essay in the history of linguistic ideas. The competition is open to all currently registered students, and to scholars...
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Translator proditor. The affirmation of the authorial voice in Matías Ruiz...
Roxana Sarion University of Tromsø, Norway Matías Ruíz Blanco (1643-1705/1708?) was a Franciscan friar who served as a missionary, historian and linguist in colonial Venezuela. Born in the village of...
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Family resemblance and semantics: the vagaries of a not so new concept
Jean-Michel Fortis Université Paris Diderot The motivation for writing this post is twofold: first, there is still something to be said about the origins of the notion of family resemblance and its...
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Phonetische studien — applied linguistics gets its first journal
Andrew Linn University of Sheffield Several new journals of the late 1870s (Englische studien, Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie and the Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie) gave the...
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Antoine Meillet et les massacres d’Arménie de 1915
Sébastien Moret Université de Tartu / Université de Lausanne L’année 2015 marque le centième anniversaire des tragiques événements que subirent les populations arméniennes de l’empire ottoman en...
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Spanish language in Portuguese texts (16th to 19th centuries)
Sónia Duarte Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto Despite the geographic and linguistic proximity between Spain and Portugal, the first Spanish grammar to be printed in Portugal and for...
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Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific SHLP5
Call for Papers 5-7 September 2016, Universität Potsdam The fifth biennial conference of the Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific will be held in Potsdam, Germany, 5-7 September 2016....
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Program February-June 2016
17February Networking and obstacles to the development of the language sciences as reflected in the correspondence of Rodolfo Lenz and Hugo Schuchardt.Silvio Moreira de Sousa and Johannes MückeHugo...
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Networking and obstacles to the development of the language sciences as...
Silvio Moreira de Sousa & Johannes Mücke Hugo Schuchardt Archive, University of Graz Rodolfo Lenz (1863-1938). Source: Filosofía U. De Chile, via Wikimedia Commons As the call for papers for the...
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Aree, volumi e spazi: la geometria linguistica di Hjelmslev
Lorenzo Cigana Université de Liège Questo nostro intervento si concentra su alcuni aspetti del pensiero hjelmsleviano e della teoria glossematica in cui è più forte il respiro interdisciplinare che...
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How Galilean is the ‘Galilean Method’?
Christina Behme Mount St Vincent University In many recent (and some not so recent) publications Noam Chomsky makes an appeal to Galilean science and claims the Galilean framework justifies his own...
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Christian Karl Reisig as an upholder of philosophical linguistics in 19th...
Jacques François Université de Caen & CNRS In his introduction (p.6-18) to the Vorlesungen über lateinische Sprachwissenschaft (Lectures on Latin Linguistics, 1839), Christian Karl Reisig offered a...
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The secret history of grammaticalization
James McElvenny Universität Potsdam Research into grammaticalization has an established pedigree, first certified by Lehmann (2015[1982]: 1-9) and confirmed, with various additions, by Heine et al...
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Diversity, linguistics and domination: how linguistic theory can feed a kind...
Nick Riemer University of Sydney & HTL, Université Paris-Diderot Antonio Gramsci, a co-founder of the Italian Communist Party and one of the twentieth century’s most prominent intellectuals....
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Anforderungen an eine serielle Untersuchung des Pariser Wettbewerbs von...
Kerstin Ohligschlaeger-Lim Universität Potsdam Im folgenden soll die Untersuchung des Pariser Wettbewerbs zum Einfluss der Zeichen auf das Denken (1797/99) vorgestellt werden. Dieser Wettbewerb...
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The utility of constructed languages
A.W. Carus Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich The question how language, a sequence of events in spacetime, can have meaning — which seems not to be in spacetime — has puzzled...
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