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Call for Papers: VI Simpósio Mundial de Estudos da Língua Portuguesa, 24-28...
The VI Simpósio Mundial de Estudos da Língua Portuguesa (VI SIMELP) will take place in Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém (Portugal) from the 24th to 28th of October...
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Program September-December 2016
7September The Chilean Academy of the Spanish Language: the institutionalization of a discourse community.Darío RojasUniversity of Chile 5October Ludwig Noiré and the Debate on Language Origins in the...
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The Chilean Academy of the Spanish Language: the institutionalization of a...
Darío Rojas University of Chile Library of the Instituto de Chile. Source In the present entry, I will make an initial case for the thesis that the Academia Chilena de la Lengua (Chilean Academy of the...
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Ludwig Noiré and the Debate on Language Origins in the 19th Century
Jacopo D’Alonzo Sorbonne Nouvelle & Sapienza Università di Roma Renato Guttuso, Contadini al lavoro. Source Introduction Linguistic naturalism was one of the main positions taken in linguistic...
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Missionary linguistics and the German contribution to Central Australian...
David Moore University of Western Australia Introduction This article explores the outstanding contribution of German Lutheran missionaries to linguistics, language documentation and translation in...
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Mapping Language: linguistic cartography as a topic for the history of science
Jan David Braun University of Vienna Map of Deutscher Volks- und Kulturboden, by Albrecht Penck (design) and Arnold Hillen Ziegfeld (cartographer; Penck 1925: 73). Introduction Beginning with the...
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Program February-June 2017
[Program updated 30 January 2017] 15February Traduire BoasChloé LaplantineLaboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques CNRS-Université Paris Diderot 8March The Prague Linguistic Circle and the...
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La langue de Boas. Quelques remarques à propos de l’écriture de Franz Boas.
Chloé Laplantine UMR 7597 – Laboratoire Histoire des Théories Linguistiques, Université Paris Diderot F. Boas posant en train de représenter un chasseur de phoque inuit (Minden, Allemagne, 1885) As we...
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The Prague Linguistic Circle and the Analogy between Musicology and Linguistics
Bart Karstens University of Amsterdam In recent historiography an upsurge in interest in the interaction between academic disciplines can be seen. This is in no small part due to the rise of the...
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Joseph Greenberg’s comparative notebooks
Judith Kaplan University of Pennsylvania In John Webster Spargo’s 1931 translation of Holger Pedersen’s contribution to the genre of Disziplingeschichte, readers are introduced to a legion of mostly...
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Praxeology and language: Social science as the study of human action
Daniel W. Hieber University of California, Santa Barbara danielhieber.com Introduction Since the formulation and elaboration of speech act theory by Grice (1957; 1969), Austin (1962) and Searle (1962)...
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Missionary-induced language change, on the trail of the conditional in...
Nick Thieberger University of Melbourne Can a missionary make a change to a language so that an existing construction is replaced by one based on English? This is what appears to have happened in...
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Call for papers: The circulation of linguistic and philological knowledge...
The goal of this conference is to gain a better understanding of transnational exchanges between the German-speaking world and the rest of the world in the fields of linguistics and philology. The...
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Call for papers: History of Linguistics and its Significance, ICL20, 2-6 July...
History of linguistics & its Significance ICL20, International Congress of Linguists The Dynamics of Language 2-6 July 2018, Cape Town South Africa Workshop organiser: Camiel Hamans...
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Program September-December 2017
September Speech act theory and Georg von der GabelentzSven StaffeldtUniversity of Würzburg October From godly analogy to “distant like floating clouds”: the inevitability of the Sino-Dene hypothesis...
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Vivien Law Essay Prize 2017
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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Speech act theory and Georg von der Gabelentz
Sven Staffeldt University of Würzburg 1. The modernity of the ancestors Georg von der Gabelentz(Ezawa & Vogel 2013, 28) There is a trend in linguistics – or maybe even in general – to reclaim the...
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10th Conference of Missionary Linguistics, 21-24 March 2018
10th Conference of Missionary Linguistics 21-24 March 2018, Rome The International Conference on Missionary Linguistics focuses on older texts (colonial, postcolonial, mainly from missionaries) with...
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From godly analogy to “distant like floating clouds”: the inevitability of...
Yukun Zeng University of Chicago Li Fang-Kuei and Edward Sapir (Sources: Li & Sapir) 1. The Problem of Scaling in Language Classification Language classification is a matter of scale and scaling....
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FCSH-UNL, Lisbon, 13th to 15th December 2018 In the 15th and 16th centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval...
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