In this interview, we talk to Nick Enfield about his research into the connections between linguistic signs and concepts.
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Вельмезова, Екатерина, ред. 2025. Тарту в истории славянской филологии, Вып. 3: Из истории Тартуско-московской семиотической школы. [Tartu in the History of Slavic Philology, Issue 3: From the History of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School]. University of Tartu Press. 204 стр. ISBN 978-9908-57-136-2
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История Тартуско-московской / Московско-тартуской семиотической школы до сих пор привлекает к себе внимание ученых — специалистов в самых разных областях научного знания: историков науки, семиотиков, славистов — лингвистов и литературоведов. В посвященном интеллектуальному наследию Школы сборнике собраны работы ученых разных поколений, работающих в разных странах. Их статьи и подготовленные ими материалы содержат размышления о трудах известных ученых, когда-то входивших в Тартуско-московскую / Московско-тартускую семиотическую школу: это Ю. М. Лотман и Вяч. Вс. Иванов, Б. А. Успенский и Т. М. Николаева, П. Тороп и Б. М. Гаспаров, Б. Ф. Егоров и еще многие другие. Содержащиеся в книге размышления о научном языке Школы, об интересовавших ее участников теоретических проблемах, об истоках их работ, об организации научного знания, о человеческом факторе и роли личности в науке подтверждают, что об истории Тартуско-московской / Московско-тартуской семиотической школы сказано еще далеко не все.
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Podcast episode 55: Janette Friedrich
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Podcast episode 54: Neil Cohn on Speaking in Pictures
In this interview, Neil Cohn tells us about his theory that visual art and spoken language draw on the same underlying cognitive abilities.
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – January 2026
Historiographia Linguistica 52(2). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 211 p. ISSN 0302-5160
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Articles
The conjunction between coordination and subordination in missionary grammars of Aymara and Quechua
Annamaria Bartolotta
The many lives of a dictionary: An analysis of how Dutch lexicography was received and repurposed in Early Modern Japan
Lorenzo Nespoli
Germanic affixoids in Jacob Grimm
Douglas Lightfoot
Continu et Discontinu : Antoine Meillet’s sociolinguistic theory of change between philosophy and physics
Lin Chalozin-Dovrat
The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil Post
Geoffrey K. Pullum
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CHSTM History of Language Sciences spring program 2026
CHSTM Working group History of the Language Sciences. Meetings online.
The meetings of the CHSTM working group on the history of the language sciences continue in spring 2026. We have an exciting program lined up over the next few months:
13 January – Adrianna Link (American Philosophical Society)
Reinventing Anthropology through Crisis and Collections
16 February – John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh)
Foucault and the archive as ‘system of enunciability’
10 March – Robert Edwards (UC San Diego / Irvine)
Anticolonial Methods in the History of Linguistic Anthropology
28 April – Chloé Laplatine (CNRS, Histoire des théories linguistiques)
History of language documentation in the Pacific Northwest
12 May – Amanda Harris (University of Sydney)
Archived Sound and Creative Engagements with Papua New Guinean Cultural Heritage in Australia
Full details and information on how to join the meetings can be found
on the group’s webpage: https://www.chstm.org/group/history-language-sciences
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Podcast episode 53: Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini
In this interview, Paul Kiparsky introduces us to the ancient Indian grammarian Pāṇini and the philosophical significance of his grammatical description of Sanskrit.
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Call for Papers: ICHoLS XVII, Niterói (Rio de Janeiro)
23–27 August 2027 — Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organized by: Universidade Federal Fluminense
The 17th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XVII) will take place from 23 to 27 August 2027 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Podcast episode 52: Gereon Müller on Lanes to Language
In this interview, Gereon Müller discusses his new book Lanes to Language, which unites the worlds of history of linguistics and cycling.
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Cfp: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2026
The 2026 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held on 2–4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Confirmed plenary speaker: Cécile Van den Avenne (EHESS)
As ever, we cordially invite papers or panel proposals on any topic in the History of Linguistics and Linguistic Ideas and Practices, but the thematic focus of the colloquium is (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas.
We invite contributions on the shifting role and status of the (non)native speaker and (non)native speakerness within the history of linguistic ideas. What might the history of linguistics offer past, present, and future perspectives on the (non-)native speaker? What contributions has the native speaker made to the history of linguistic thought?
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