In this interview, we talk to Brigitte Nerlich about her career in the history of linguistics and the public understanding of science
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13th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics
Contributions to the Safeguarding of the World’s Linguistic and Cultural Heritage
University of Vigo, Spain (March 31 – April 1, 2027)
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal (April 2–3, 2027)
Web: https://icml-xiii.utad.pt/
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Podcast episode 56: Nick Enfield on linguistic signs and concepts
In this interview, we talk to Nick Enfield about his research into the connections between linguistic signs and concepts.
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – February 2026
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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