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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 Jþrgensen (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 Rodríguez (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, 3Âș piso L6304DWP Santa Rosa La Pampa, Argentina Abstract deadline: 1 November 2019

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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 Konvička Freie UniversitĂ€t 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

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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

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CfP: HoLLT panels HSS Colloquium in Edinburgh, 4-7 September 2019

Here are two separate calls for expressions of interest in presenting a paper in a HoLLT-themed panel at the Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, University of Edinburgh, 4–­­7 September 2019. Please contact

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17–20 March 2026
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)
XV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedat Española de HistoriografĂ­a LingĂŒĂ­stica
Prescriptivism and descriptivism from the peripheries


23–25 March 2026
Montpellier (France)
Asian Languages in the History of Lexicography


2-4 September 2026
Nottingham (UK)
Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2026
(Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas


10-11 September 2026
Fribourg (Switzerland)
The Prague Linguistic Circle in Geneva and Paris: Circulations and Decenterings


19-21 November 2026
Sofia (Bulgaria)
La linguistique ‘fonctionnelle’ cent ans aprùs la fondation du Cercle linguistique de Prague


23-27 August 2027
NiterĂłi, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
ICHoLS XVII