Program February–June 2019

20 February Henry Sweet, a model for John Rupert Firth?
Angela Senis
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
6 March Grammaticalization clines: a brief conceptual history
Martin Konvička
Freie Universität Berlin
25 March John Hart (c. 1501–1574) and the beginning of English linguistics in Tudor England
Ji Ma
University of Sheffield
17 April Speech sounds in the field: dynamical approaches to phonology after Maxwell and Einstein
Alexander Teixeira Kalkhoff
Universität Freiburg
1 May Why women botanists outnumbered women linguists in nineteenth century Australia
Jane Simpson
Australian National University, Canberra
29 May The foreign entanglements of Mandarin Chinese in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Mårten Söderblom Saarela
Academia Sinica, Taipei
14 June The formalisation of grammatical meanings in Copenhagen structural linguistics. Some remarks.
Lorenzo Cigana
Institut for Nordiske Studier og Sprogvidenskab (NorS), University of Copenhagen
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