Program September-December 2017

September Speech act theory and Georg von der Gabelentz
Sven Staffeldt
University of Würzburg
October From godly analogy to “distant like floating clouds”: the inevitability of the Sino-Dene hypothesis and the scalability of comparative linguistics
Yukun Zeng
University of Chicago
November Benvenuto Terracini and the history of linguistics between the 19th and 20th century
Diego Stefanelli
University of Pavia
December Primitive languages: linguistic determinism and the description of Aranda eighty years on
David Moore
University of Western Australia
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