The 2023 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held from Monday 4 September until Wednesday 6 September 2023 at the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal). The…
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CfP: Henry Sweet Society colloquium 4-6 Sept 2023, UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal
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Randy Harris’s second take on the Linguistics Wars
Review ofRandy Allen Harris: The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure. Second edition. Oxford University Press. 2021. John GoldmithUniversity of Chicago Randy Harris has written an extremely engaging account of the rise of generative syntax and…
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Raymond de Saussure’s Freudian appropriation of Antoine Meillet’s historical and general linguistics
John JosephUniversity of Edinburgh One hundred years ago, Raymond de Saussure (1894-1971), the second son of Ferdinand and Marie de Saussure, published a review of a collection of papers by his father’s most famous and devoted student, Antoine Meillet (1866-1936).…
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Call for papers: ICHoLS XVI, Tbilisi, 26–30 August 2024
26–30 August 2024, Tbilisi, Georgia Hosted by Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University The Sixteenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, ICHoLS XVI, will be held from 26 to 30…
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Australian languages, histories of documentation, description and revival
Online workshop, 1–2 December 2022 Organisers: James McElvenny and Clara Stockigt This workshop will bring together linguists, anthropologists and historians to discuss the history of the documentation, description and revival of the Aboriginal languages of Australia. Central questions to be…
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CfP: Colloquium Studienkreis Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, Flensburg 8–11 June 2022
On 8–11 June 2022, the 31st International Colloquium of the “Studienkreis ‘Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft’” (SGdS) on Language and Language Awareness in the History of Linguistics will take place at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. The choice of topics may range from antiquity…
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CfP: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium Leuven 2022
The 2022 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held from Tuesday 20 September until Thursday 22 September 2022 at the University of Leuven (Belgium). The general theme of the colloquium is: …
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Podcast zum Wiener Bühler-Workshop 2021
Am 4. und 5. Februar 2021 fand an der Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien ein internationaler Workshop zu Karl Bühler und der Geschichte des Wiener Psychologischen Institutes statt, der von Janette Friedrich und Gerhard Benetka geleitet wurde. Janette Friedrich und Gerhard…
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CfP: Abralin International Congress, 22–30 Sept 2021
The main theme of InterAb 12 will be “Linguistics Challenges in Open Science”. This edition will be completely online. Proposals in all areas of linguistics are welcome. Papers covering the main theme will be considered for keynote. All InterAb12 activities…
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Public talk online: The “Political” and the Language-Dialect Dichotomy, or Fact-Checking Noam Chomsky
Monday 21 June 2021, 11:00am CEST The “Political” and the Language-Dialect Dichotomy, or Fact-Checking Noam Chomsky Alexander Maxwell (Victoria University of Wellington) In this talk, Alexander Maxwell suggests that linguists pondering the language-dialect dichotomy fall into two schools: apolitical agnostics who…
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History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 