McElvenny, James. 2024. A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 208 p. ISBN 9781474470025Publisher’s website In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – January 2024
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – December 2023
Garrett, Andrew. 2023. The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall. Language, Memory, and Indigenous California. Cambridge: MIT Press. 472 p. ISBN 9780262547093Publisher’s website In January 2021, at a time when many institutions were reevaluating fraught histories, the University of California removed anthropologist…
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Cfp: “Legacy materials as data sources for language description and documentation”
Workshop“Legacy materials as data sources for language description and documentation”Paris, Université Paris CitéApril 11-12th, 2024 This workshop, to be held on April 11th and 12th 2024 in Paris, will bring together descriptive linguists who engage with legacy materials on their…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – November 2023
Tourette, Eric, ed. 2023. Les idées linguistiques des moralistes. Paris: Honoré Champion (Moralia). 200 p. ISBN 9782745360120Publisher’s website Observer comment vivent les hommes implique d’observer comment ils parlent : il était sans doute inévitable que l’analyse morale se tournât vers…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – October 2023
Dagostino, Carmen, Marianne Mithun & Keren Rice. 2023. The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide, Vol 1. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 767 p. ISBN 9783110597981.Publisher’s website This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages…
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Review of: Cassiodorus. Institutiones humanarum litterarum. Textus Φ Δ.
Review of Morresi, Ilaria, ed. 2022. Cassiodorus. Institutiones humanarum litterarum. Textus Φ Δ. Turnhout: Brepols (Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina, 99A). 512 p. ISBN 978-2-503-59589-4.Publisher’s website Anne GrondeuxUniversité Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, CNRS,Laboratoire d’histoire des théories linguistiques, F-75013 Paris,…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – September 2023
Savatovsky, Dan, Mariangela Albano, Thi Kieu Ly Pham & Valérie Spaëth, ed. 2023. Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 496 p. ISBN 9789463728249Publisher’s website This volume assembles texts dedicated to the linguistic and…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – August 2023
Waugh, Linda R., Monique Monville-Burston, John E. Joseph, ed. 2023. The Cambridge History of Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 900 p. ISBN 9780511842788. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511842788Publisher’s website The establishment of language as a focus of study took place over many centuries, and…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – July 2023
Laplantine, Chloé, John E. Joseph & Émilie Aussant, ed. 2023. Simplicité et complexité des langues dans l’histoire des théories linguistiques. Paris: SHESL (HEL Livres, 3). 486 p. ISBN 979-10-91587-21-1. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8098638Publisher’s websiteBook in Open access « Toutes les langues…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – June 2023
Most, Glenn W., Dagmar Schäfer & Mårten Söderblom Saarela, ed. 2023. Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship. Thinking in Many Tongues. Leiden: Brill. (Ancient Languages and Civilizations, 3). xvi, 484 p. ISBN 978-90-04-46466-7Publisher’s websiteBook in open access Was plurilingualism the exception…
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