Call for Papers: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2019
The next annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held at the University of Edinburgh, 4–7 September 2019. Our confirmed plenary speakers are: Gerda...
View ArticleTowards a history of concept list compilation in historical linguistics
Johann-Mattis List Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena A large proportion of lexical data of the world’s languages is presented in the form of word lists in which a set of...
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics,...
Claude Favre de Vaugelas. Remarques sur la langue françoise. Edition de Wendy Ayres-Bennett. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2018. Descriptions et théories de la langues française, n°2. Série remarques et...
View ArticleCfP: HoLLT panels HSS Colloquium in Edinburgh, 4-7 September 2019
Here are two separate calls for expressions of interest in presenting a paper in a HoLLT-themed panel at the Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, University...
View ArticleCfP: Panel on Political Conceptualization of Linguistic Thought, HSS 2019
We are hoping to organize a panel of papers on the political conceptualization of linguistic thought at the 2019 colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society and would like to hear from other researchers...
View ArticleCfP: Panel on Unusual Grammars
I am hoping to organize a panel at the Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2019 on grammars that are based on models that are or might seem unusual, at least from our modern vantage point. An example might...
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Pierre-Philippe Potier’s Elementa Grammaticae Huronicae (1745)
Zanna Van Loon University of Leuven Introduction Instead of imposing European languages, Catholic friars conducting missions in the Americas in the early modern period opted to learn indigenous tongues...
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics, December 2018
DEPRETTO Catherine, PIER John, ROUSSIN Philippe (dir.), Le formalisme russe cent ans après , Communications, n° 103, 2018, 292 p., Paris, Seuil, ISBN : 9782021406467. Publisher’s website Proches des...
View ArticleCfP: International Conference Ideology and Linguistic Ideas 2019, Tblisi
12 September 2019 – 14 September 2019 After the two successful conferences in 2015 and 2017, we are pleased to invite scholars interested in the history of linguistic ideas developed alongside with...
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics, January 2019
Francesco BINAGHI (dir.), Histoire Epistémologie Langage, 40-2 : La tradition linguistique arabe et l’apport des grammairiens arabo-andalous. Paris : SHESL / EDP Sciences, 2018. ISBN :...
View ArticleProgram February–June 2019
20 February Henry Sweet, a model for John Rupert Firth?Angela SenisUniversité Bordeaux Montaigne 6 March Grammaticalization clines: a brief conceptual historyMartin KonvičkaFreie Universität Berlin 20...
View ArticleHenry Sweet, a model for John Rupert Firth?
Angela Senis Université Bordeaux Montaigne This post introduces a few of the insights developed during the Henry Sweet Society colloquium in 2017. My full research on this topic is the subject of a...
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics, February 2019
Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague. Karl Bühler, une théorie du langage redécouverte. Prague : OPS éditions, 2018. Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série 7. ISBN...
View ArticleGrammaticalisation clines: a brief conceptual history
Martin Konvička Freie Universität Berlin 1 Grammaticalisation clines In this blog post, I will sketch the history of grammaticalisation clines. Hopper and Traugott (2003: 6) understand this concept as...
View ArticleCfp: SHESL-HTL Conference 2020 – Simplicity and complexity of languages in...
Call for papers SHESL-HTL CONFERENCE 2020 Paris, January 23-25, 2020 Simplicity and complexity of languages in the history of linguistic theories The goal of this conference is to explore the ways in...
View ArticleWorkshop: History and Philosophy of Linguistics Research Morning, Sydney, 29...
Friday 29 March Rogers Room, Woolley Building, University of Sydney Further information at the Sydney Centre for Language Research website Timetable 9.30-9.45 Why the history and philosophy of...
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics, March 2019
John GOLDSMITH & Bernard LAKS, Battle in the Mind Fields. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019, 656 p. ISBN: 9780226550800 Publisher’s website “We frequently see one idea appear in one...
View ArticleJohn Hart and the Beginning of English Linguistics in Tudor England
Andrew Ji MaSouthern University of Science and Technology, China 1. Introduction John Hart (c. 1501–1574) is a remarkable figure in the history of British linguistic thought. Along with Thomas Smith...
View ArticleSpeech sounds in the field: Dynamical approaches to phonology after Maxwell...
Alexander Teixeira Kalkhoff Universität Freiburg 1 The notion of field in physics The mutual interaction, i.e. attraction and repulsion, of bodies across space without direct mechanical contact, such...
View ArticleWhy women botanists outnumbered women linguists in nineteenth century Australia
Jane Simpson Australian National University 1. Introduction In colonial Australia (1788–1901), only about a dozen women are recorded as documenting Australian languages, compared with nearly 300 women...
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