As new posts are published, they will be added here. 18 September The journal Word and the structural heritage of usage-based linguistics: Three functional tenets and an overarching principle. Enrico Torre University of Genoa 6 November Language in and out…
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Call for Papers: Between form and meaning: the structural quest for “Gesamtbedeutungen”, Open Workshop ICHoLS XV, 24-28 Aug. 2020, Milan
Lorenzo Cigana (University of Copenhagen) Henrik Jørgensen (University of Aarhus) In 1936, Roman Jakobson qualified the “quest for general meanings” as a specific trend in structural linguistics aiming to motivate each morphological category (such as gender, number or case) by…
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CfP: Language as a Specimen, open workshop at ICHoLS XV
24–28 August 2020, Milan Conveners: Floris Solleveld (KU Leuven) Rebeca Fernández RodrĂguez (University of Amsterdam) Anna Pytlowany (independent) The Fifteenth International Conference On The History of The Language Sciences, ICHoLS XV, will be held from 24–28 August 2020 in Milan.…
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CfP: ICHoLS XV, Milan, 24–28 August 2020
24–28 August 2020 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, Italy
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11th Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Argentina, 3–5 March 2020
3–5 March 2020 Universidad Nacional de La Pampa Instituto de Linguistica Coronel Gil 353, 3º piso L6304DWP Santa Rosa La Pampa, Argentina Abstract deadline: 1 November 2019
Workshop: History and Philosophy of Linguistics Research Morning, Sydney, 29 March
Friday 29 March Rogers Room, Woolley Building, University of Sydney Further information at the Sydney Centre for Language Research website
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Program February–June 2019
20 February Henry Sweet, a model for John Rupert Firth? Angela Senis UniversitĂ© Bordeaux Montaigne 6 March Grammaticalization clines: a brief conceptual history Martin KonviÄŤka Freie Universität Berlin 25 March John Hart (c. 1501–1574) and the beginning of English linguistics…
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CfP: International Conference Ideology and Linguistic Ideas 2019, Tblisi
12 September 2019 – 14 September 2019 After the two successful conferences in 2015 and 2017, we are pleased to invite scholars interested in the history of linguistic ideas developed alongside with different ideologies in different times once more to…
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CfP: Panel on Unusual Grammars
I am hoping to organize a panel at the Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2019 on grammars that are based on models that are or might seem unusual, at least from our modern vantage point. An example might be John Palsgrave’s…
CfP: Panel on Political Conceptualization of Linguistic Thought, HSS 2019
We are hoping to organize a panel of papers on the political conceptualization of linguistic thought at the 2019 colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society and would like to hear from other researchers interested in presenting a paper, with 20…
