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...
View ArticleThe 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....
View ArticleThe 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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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...
View ArticleMissionary 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 Zimmermann (Braun) University of Vienna Map of Deutscher Volks- und Kulturboden, by Albrecht Penck (design) and Arnold Hillen Ziegfeld (cartographer; Penck 1925: 73). Introduction Beginning...
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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...
View ArticlePraxeology 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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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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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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Benvenuto Terracini and the history of linguistics between the 19th and 20th...
Diego Stefanelli University of Pavia Benvenuto Terracini (1886–1968) Source: Atlante Linguistico Italiano Benvenuto Terracini (1886–1968) was a notable Italian linguist who lived through all the most...
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Primitive Languages: linguistic determinism and the description of Aranda...
David Moore University of Western Australia Strehlow Research Centre, Alice Springs. Photo by Alex Nelson. Introduction The view that Australian Aboriginal languages are primitive endured into the...
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Wilhelm Wundt and the Lautgesetze Controversy
Lia Formigari Sapienza Università di Roma Wilhelm Wundt (centre) with his research group, ca. 1880 (source: Wikimedia Commons) A long-dominant historiographical tradition, culminating in Hugo...
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‛Karte und Gebiet’. Die Spatialisierung von Sprache in der Dialektologie des...
Jan David Zimmermann (Braun) Universität Wien & Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wissenschaft, Alfred Kubin, 1901. Quelle (Bericht aus einer Akademie)[1] Vorbemerkung Der vorliegende...
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Discussing Disciplinary Development: The role of the First International...
Emma Mojet University of Amsterdam Newspaper cutting from Leidsch Dagblad, 1928, on the opening of the First International Congress of Linguists in The Hague. On the first row, from left to right, J....
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