11February Somewhat caught between lexicology and syntax: a look at phraseologySabine FiedlerUniversity of Leipzig 25February Examining material aspects of manuscripts (Part II)Anna PytlowanyUniversity of Amsterdam 13March Some Remarks on Objectivity in PragmaticsSamuel LewinUniversity of Sydney 25March Sensualism for dummiesEls ElffersUniversity…
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“Some Americans could not by any means count to 1000”: the cognitive effects of the lack of names for numbers in exotic languages from the perspective of linguistic theorists before Humboldt
Gerda Haßler Universität Potsdam The limited number word vocabulary in some languages for quantities above a specific amount has for some time been a much-debated topic. A study published in 2008 (Butterworth, Reeve, Reynolds, Lloyd 2008), which attracted much attention,…
(Non-)universality of word-classes and words: The mid-20th century shift
Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig While looking at a range of views by grammarians on word-class distinctions (noun, verb, adjective etc.) and word division in two recent papers (Haspelmath 2011; 2012a), I was struck by what…
Tagged with: 20th century, linguistics, typology, universal grammar, word classes
Posted in 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Typology, Uncategorized
Posted in 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Typology, Uncategorized
Saussure’s sound symbolism
John Joseph University of Edinburgh “The most celebrated opponent of the sound symbolic hypothesis,” writes Magnus (2013: 201), “was, of course, Ferdinand de Saussure”. Of course. One of Saussure’s key contributions to modern linguistics is the principle of the arbitrariness…
Tagged with: arbitrariness, Saussure, sound symbolism, structuralism
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
ConSOLE XXIII Call for Papers
Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe XXIII The University Paris Diderot-Paris 7 will host the 23rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE XXIII) from 7 to 9 January 2015 in Paris. Graduate students…
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Posted in Announcements, Conferences and workshops, Europe, Linguistics
Posted in Announcements, Conferences and workshops, Europe, Linguistics
Program August-December 2014
[Program updated 2 October 2014.] 6August Saussure’s sound symbolismJohn JosephUniversity of Edinburgh 20August Break 3September The lost Tesoro de ydioma ylocoRebeca Fernández RodríguezCentro de Estudos em Letras (CEL)Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) 17September ‘You don’t see what you…
The Latin-Portuguese grammarian Manuel Álvares (1526-1583) and his De institvtione grammatica libri tres
Rolf Kemmler University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro A little more than 440 years ago, in September 1572, the Portuguese typographer João da Barreira printed the first edition of a quite elaborate grammar of the Latin language. Little did the…
Tagged with: 16th century, Grammars, history of linguistics, Latin, Latin Grammar, Madeiran Jesuit Manuel Álvares, Manuel Álvares, Portugal
Posted in 16th century, Article, Europe, Grammars, History, Portugal
Posted in 16th century, Article, Europe, Grammars, History, Portugal
Program March-May 2014
[Updated 22 May 2014] 12March Language and smell: traces of synesthesia in premodern learningRaf Van RooyPhD fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)University of Leuven 26March Empirical methods in language constructionBaşak ArayUniversité Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, EXeCO (PHICO) 9April…
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Program October-December 2013
[Program updated 27 October 2013] 16October A uniform orthography and early linguistic research in AustraliaDavid MooreUniversity of Western Australia 23October Break 30October Hendrik Pos and the epistemological foundations of structuralismPatrick FlackCharles University, Prague 6November Teaching language to a boy born…
Program July-October 2013
[Program updated 30 July 2013] 24July Rethinking the history of the Aryan paradigmChristopher HuttonUniversity of Hong Kong 31July Break 7August Linguists choosing the wrong side: Jacob van Ginneken and other alleged Nazi collaboratorsToon Van HalUniversity of Leuven 14August Der Artikel…
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