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“Except in the case of Andrade”: Manuel J. Andrade’s Quileute (1933) on the...
Perry Wong University of Chicago “PLATE: Portrait of Manuel J. Andrade (1885-1941)……Frontispiece” is the caption. This image, included at the beginning of the posthumously published “Materials on the...
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Lawyers, Linguists and Truthiness
Douglas Kibbee University of Illinois Michigan Supreme Court in the Hall of Justice. Source: Wikimedia Commons Are lies information? This was the question before the Supreme Court of Michigan in a 2016...
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What Zarathustra said: The sixty-year controversy regarding...
Floris Solleveld University of Amsterdam Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Zend-Avesta, ouvrage de Zoroastre, vol. I (1771), title page (source) In 1771, a French scholarly adventurer by the name of...
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Jon Orman My purpose in this piece is to offer a few brief thoughts on a series of questions with which I have become increasingly interested in recent months. Linguistics, it seems to me, is awash...
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Typology – a new task of linguistics
James McElvenny University of Edinburgh In lieu of an introduction Below I offer an English translation of the last essay Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) personally submitted for publication,...
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Olivia Walsh University of Nottingham On Saturday 22 September 2018, I organized a workshop, ‘In the Shadow of the Standard’, at the University of Nottingham. The aim of the workshop was two-fold:...
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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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Pierre-Philippe Potier’s Elementa Grammaticae Huronicae (1745)
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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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View ArticleJohn Hart and the Beginning of English Linguistics in Tudor England
Andrew Ji Ma Southern 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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The formalisation of grammatical meanings in Copenhagen structural...
Lorenzo Cigana University of Copenhagen (NorS) The aim of this outline contribution, which will receive a proper treatment elsewhere, is to describe a single piece within the broader mosaic of European...
View ArticleThe journal WORD and the structural heritage of usage-based linguistics:...
Enrico Torre Università degli Studi di Genova The first issue of WORD was launched in 1945, announced on its front cover as “the journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York, devoted to the study of...
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Language in and out of society: Converging critiques of the Labovian paradigm
Johannes Woschitz University of Edinburgh The following text is based on and is, where appropriate, an elaboration of Woschitz (2019), a paper I have recently published and which is the centrepiece of...
View ArticlePodcast episode 1: Pre-history of comparative-historical linguistics
The first series of the History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast looks at the history of modern linguistics. We begin in this episode by examining the pre-history of...
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Has the LSA Been a Generativist-Dominated Organisation?
Frederick J. Newmeyer University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and University of Washington There are two stories about how the field of linguistics (at least in the United States)...
View ArticlePodcast episode 2: Comparative-historical linguistics – Bopp and Grimm
In this episode, we look at the emergence of comparative-historical grammar, focusing on the work of Franz Bopp and Jacob Grimm....
View ArticleDer Siegener Diskursmonitor – ein Onlineportal zur strategischen Kommunikation
Friedemann Vogel, Fabian Deus & Clemens Knobloch Universität Siegen 1. Gegenstand und Ziel des Diskursmonitors Der “Diskursmonitor” (www.diskursmonitor.de) ist ein disziplinenübergreifendes,...
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