Patrick Sériot Universités de Lausanne et de Saint-Pétersbourg Introduction La réception positive de Saussure est bien connue, elle est au fondement des manuels de linguistique générale dans la plupart des pays. Curieusement, on s’attarde beaucoup moins sur sa réception négative,…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – May 2020
Beata SHEYHATOVITCH & Almog KASHER. 2020. From Sībawayhi to ʾAḥmad Ḥasan al-Zayyāt: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition. Leiden:Brill. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume, 101. ISBN : 978-90-04-42321-3 Publisher’s website From Sībawayhi to ʾAḥmad Ḥasan al-Zayyāt: New…
Galant grammarians: Donneau de Visé’s Mercure galant
Doyle Calhoun Yale University (Department of French) What was the Mercure galant and why should it interest historians of linguistics? Founded in 1672 by Jean Donneau de Visé (1638–1710) — journalist and royal historiographer under Louis XIV — the bestselling…
Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – April 2020
Bernard Colombat et Aimée Lahaussois (dir). 2019. Histoire des parties du discours. Leuven : Peeters. Orbis Supplementa, 46. XXII-563 p. ISBN : 978-90-429-3952-3 Publisher’s website Comment définir le nom ? Qu’est-ce qu’un verbe ? Faut-il faire du pronom une catégorie…
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What is Syriac and what is Aramaic according to Syriac grammarians (8th-16th cent.)
Margherita Farina Histoire des Théories Linguistiques (Paris) What is Aramaic? In modern linguistic terms, we can say that Aramaic is a linguistic group, composed by dialectal varieties defined on a geographical, chronological and socio-cultural basis. For example, we speak about…
Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics – March 2020
Jacques FRANCOIS (dir.). 2019. Les linguistes allemands du XIXème siècle et leurs interlocuteurs étrangers. Paris: Société de Linguistique de Paris. 220 p. ISBN: 978-2957089406 Un siècle avant la parution posthume du Cours de linguistique générale de Ferdinand de Saussure, la…
Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics – February 2020
Simone AURORA (ed.). 2019. Acta Structuralica 4. Publisher’s website The fourth issue of Acta Structuralica contains new source materials from major figures: an unknown short publication by Saussure from 1896, edited and commented by Alesandro Chidichimo, as well 35 letters…
Has the LSA Been a Generativist-Dominated Organisation?
Frederick J. Newmeyer University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and University of Washington There are two stories about how the field of linguistics (at least in the United States) reacted sociologically to the advent of generative grammar. I call…
Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics – December 2019
Henri MESCHONNIC. 2019. The Henri Meschonnic Reader. A Poetics of Society. Edited by Marko Pajević. Translated by Pier-Pascale Boulanger, Andrew Eastman, John E. Joseph, David Nowell Smith, Marko Pajević, Chantal WrightMarko The Henri Meschonnic Reader. A Poetics of Society. Edinburgh:…
