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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PhD funding – Histoire des théories linguistiques (Université Paris Cité)
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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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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – March 2024
Drechsel, Emanuel J. 2024. Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics: Resources and Inspirations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 346 p. ISBN 9781108966801. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108966801Publisher’s webpage Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), an early pioneer in the philosophy of language, linguistic and educational theory, was…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – February 2024
Dumarty, Lionel, ed. 2024. Langue idéale, langue réelle. Description et normalisation des langues classiques du IIIe s. av. J.-C. au XIIe s. de notre ère. Turnhout : Brepols. (Corpus Christianorum). 268 p. ISBN 978-2-503-60901-0Publisher’s website Depuis la naissance de la grammaire,…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – January 2024
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 – 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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