Lia Formigari Sapienza UniversitĂ di Roma A long-dominant historiographical tradition, culminating in Hugo Schuchardt’s essay Ăber die Lautgesetze (1885), depicted the Neogrammarians as the irreducible upholders of the unconditioned validity of phonetic laws. It is my view that, if we…
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Wilhelm Wundt and the Lautgesetze Controversy
Tagged with: Lautgesetze, Neogrammarians, sound laws, Wilhelm Wundt
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
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Program JanuaryâApril 2018
17 January Wilhelm Wundt and the Lautgesetze controversyLia FormigariSapienza UniversitĂ di Roma 31 January âKarte und Gebietâ˛. Die Spatialisierung von Sprache in der Dialektologie des Deutschen von 1918 bis 1955Jan David BraunĂstereichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 14 February Developments in…
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Call for Papers: Kolloquium des Studienkreises Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 2018
Sprache und Kontext in der Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 4.â7. Juli 2018 Der âStudienkreis âGeschichte der Sprachwissenschaftââ lädt zu seinem XXIX. Internationalen Kolloquium ein, das von Mittwoch, den 4. Juli (Anreisetag), bis Samstag, den 7. Juli 2018, in Potsdam stattfinden wird.…
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Call for papers: Central Australian Linguistics Circle
Central Australian Linguistics Circle Meeting 5 April 2018 AND Friends of the Strehlow Centre Symposium 6â7 April 2018 âReflecting on the past, making tracks for the futureâ The Symposium reflects on the rich and interesting history of Central Australia which…
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10th Conference of Missionary Linguistics, 21-24 March 2018
10th Conference of Missionary Linguistics 21-24 March 2018, Rome The International Conference on Missionary Linguistics focuses on older texts (colonial, postcolonial, mainly from missionaries) with the following objectives: the history of linguistics, linguistic documentation, translation studies and sociocultural analysis. The…
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Speech act theory and Georg von der Gabelentz
Sven Staffeldt University of WĂźrzburg 1. The modernity of the ancestors There is a trend in linguistics â or maybe even in general â to reclaim the works of older authors. Older authors are sometimes used as sources of information…
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Posted in 19th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics
Vivien Law Essay Prize 2017
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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Program September-December 2017
September Speech act theory and Georg von der GabelentzSven StaffeldtUniversity of WĂźrzburg October From godly analogy to âdistant like floating cloudsâ: the inevitability of the Sino-Dene hypothesis and the scalability of comparative linguisticsYukun ZengUniversity of Chicago November Benvenuto Terracini and…
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Call for papers: History of Linguistics and its Significance, ICL20, 2-6 July 2018
History of linguistics & its Significance ICL20, International Congress of Linguists The Dynamics of Language 2-6 July 2018, Cape Town South Africa Workshop organiser: Camiel Hamans (hamans@telfort.nl), Adam Mickiewicz University Please submit abstracts in English by 24 July 2017: http://www.icl20capetown.com/index.php/2016-06-20-10-33-33/abstracts…
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Call for papers: The circulation of linguistic and philological knowledge between Germany and the world (16th to 20th cent.), 25-27 January 2018
The goal of this conference is to gain a better understanding of transnational exchanges between the German-speaking world and the rest of the world in the fields of linguistics and philology. The period under consideration stretches from the 16th century…
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History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 