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Cfp: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2025

The 2025 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held from Wednesday 3 September to Friday 5 September 2025 at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA, Reims, France). The general theme of…

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – October 2024

Tenchini, Maria Paola & Savina Raynaud, ed. 2024. Insights Into the History of Linguistics. Selected Papers From ICHOLS XV. Sesto San Giovanni: MIM Edizioni Srl (Literature/Language, 4). 194 p. ISBN 9788869774553Publisher’s websiteBook in open access This volume collects a selection…

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Interview 5: Une nouvelle édition de la Grammaire générale et raisonnée, entretien avec Bernard Colombat et Jean-Marie Fournier

Interview préparée par Lionel Dumarty et Chloé Laplantineenregistrée à Paris le 27 juin 2024 à l’université Paris Cité par Thomas Zoritchak(version PDF)

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – September 2024

Reimann, Daniel, ed. 2024. Geschichte und Gegenwart der romanistischen Fachdidaktik und Lehrkräftebildung. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. 548 p. ISBN 978-3-8233-8578-3Publisher’s website Die Fachdidaktik hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten in der deutschsprachigen Romanistik als eigenständige Teildisziplin neben Linguistik, Literatur-…

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Interview 4: Regna Darnell, “These are the chains of connections that link my work in history of anthropology, my writing, and my fieldwork”

Interview recorded by Zoom on 11 June, 2022.Music: Chief Dan Cranmer, “Feast Song”, recorded by Franz Boas and George Herzog in 1938, in New York. National Recording Registry, Librarian of Congress, 54-235-F.

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – August 2024

Zwartjes, Otto. 2024. Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese: The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 131). 381 p. ISBN 9789027214881. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.131Publisher’s websit This monograph aims to shed light on…

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – July 2024

Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46(1). 2024. Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle), dir. par Fabien Simon. Paris: SHESL. 256 p. ISSN 0750-8069 Publisher’s webpageOpen access Hommage Irène Rosier-CatachC. H. J. M. Kneepkens (1944-2023) Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle)Dossier…

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – June 2024

Language & History 67(2). 2024. Philosophical Language Schemes: Crossroads for Study, ed. David Cram. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor and Francis. Online ISSN: 1759-7544Publisher’s website Philosophical language schemes: crossroads for studyDavid Cram Word as definition. A key principle of the Comenian project for…

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PhD funding – Histoire des théories linguistiques (Université Paris Cité)

Université Paris Cité, the host institution for the Histoire des théories linguistiques (HTL; https://htl.cnrs.fr/) research group, has earmarked PhD funding for international students starting this year. Students will enroll in the Linguistics Department (https://u-paris.fr/linguistique/en/home/) and be supervised by a member of HTL.…

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – May 2024

Minervini, Laura & Frank Savelsberg, ed. 2024. New Perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the Linguistic History of the Sephardic Jews. Leiden: Brill. (Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 41). 335 p. + index. ISBN 978-90-04-68502-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004685062Publisher’s website At the intersection…

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