5 September Examples, circularity and implied metatextuality in Mark Lewis’s Plain and Short Rules for Pointing PeriodsWilfrid AndrieuAix-Marseille University 19 September Typology – a new task of linguisticsGeorg von der Gabelentz & James McElvennyUniversity of Edinburgh 3 October Workshop report:…
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Postdoc: MEITS, University of Cambridge
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 12 months in the first instance. A full-time Research Associate position is available at the University of Cambridge in conjunction with the research project ‘Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS)’, funded…
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MEITS Flexible Funding Call
MEITS is delighted to announce the launch of the second of two calls for funding to encourage other researchers and partners to work in partnership with the project.
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CfP: The direct method in language teaching
Joint conference of PHELLE, CIRSIL, Henry Sweet Society and SIHFLES. Granada (Spain), 16–17 May 2019 Deadline for submission of proposals: 15 January 2019 Notification of accepted proposals: 15 February 2019 What exactly is the ‘Direct Method’? In France, the chief…
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New OA book series: history and philosophy of the language sciences
The open access publisher Language Science Press has just started a new book series on the history and philosophy of the language sciences. Proposals are welcome for books that fall within the aims and scope of the series:
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New Issue: Acta Structuralica – Open Access
Special issue on Phenomenology and Structuralism. Articles:
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Vivien Law Prize 2018
The Vivien Law Prize is offered annually by the Henry Sweet Society for the best essay in the history of linguistic ideas. The competition is open to all currently registered students, and to scholars who have received their PhD or…
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Martin Burr Grant 2019
[Post updated 14 May 2018] Application deadline 30 September 2018 The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas invites applications for the Martin Burr Grant, which awards small amounts of funding (usually up to a maximum of £500)…
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CfP: Sprache und Globalisierung
Die Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik e.V. (GIL) lädt herzlich ein zu ihrer Jahrestagung 2018 mit dem Schwerpunkthema Sprache und Globalisierung
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Call for Papers: “A host of tongues” – Multilingualism, lingua franca and translation in the Early Modern period
FCSH-UNL, Lisbon, 13th to 15th December 2018 In the 15th and 16th centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic…
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