ChloĂ© Laplantine UMR 7597 â Laboratoire Histoire des ThĂ©ories Linguistiques, UniversitĂ© Paris Diderot As we require a new point of view now, so future times will require new points of view and for these the texts, and ample texts, must…
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La langue de Boas. Quelques remarques Ă propos de lâĂ©criture de Franz Boas.
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Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics
The Chilean Academy of the Spanish Language: the institutionalization of a discourse community
DarĂo Rojas University of Chile In the present entry, I will make an initial case for the thesis that the Academia Chilena de la Lengua (Chilean Academy of the Spanish Language, from this point forward âChilean Academyâ), founded in 1885,…
Tagged with: Academia Chilena de la Lengua, Chile, Spanish
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Chile, History, Language teaching, Lexicography, Linguistics, Spanish
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Chile, History, Language teaching, Lexicography, Linguistics, Spanish
How Galilean is the âGalilean Methodâ?
Christina Behme Mount St Vincent University In many recent (and some not so recent) publications Noam Chomsky makes an appeal to Galilean science and claims the Galilean framework justifies his own approach to scientific inquiry (e.g., Chomsky, 2002, 2009, 2010,…
Tagged with: Cartesian linguistics, Chomsky, Galilean method
Posted in America, Article, Linguistics, Philosophy
Posted in America, Article, Linguistics, Philosophy
Translator proditor. The affirmation of the authorial voice in MatĂas Ruiz Blanco.
Roxana Sarion University of TromsĂž, Norway MatĂas RuĂz Blanco (1643-1705/1708?) was a Franciscan friar who served as a missionary, historian and linguist in colonial Venezuela. Born in the village of Estepa in the Spanish region of Andalusia, he was devoted…
Tagged with: MatĂas RuĂz Blanco, missionary linguistics
Posted in 17th century, America, Article, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Posted in 17th century, America, Article, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
In Praise of âExceptionless:â Linguistics among the Human Sciences at Bloomfield and Sapirâs Chicago
Michael Silverstein University of Chicago Edward Sapir (1884-1939) arrived at the University of Chicago for Autumn Quarter, 1925, having spent the summer, in transit from Ottawa, in New York City teaching summer school at Columbia. Two years later, in 1927,…
Tagged with: Bloomfield, Chicago, history of linguistics, Sapir
Posted in 20th century, America, Article, History, Linguistics
Posted in 20th century, America, Article, History, Linguistics
âSome Americans could not by any means count to 1000â: the cognitive effects of the lack of names for numbers in exotic languages from the perspective of linguistic theorists before Humboldt
Gerda HaĂler UniversitĂ€t 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,…
Sapir’s form-feeling and its aesthetic background
Jean-Michel Fortis Laboratoire dâhistoire des thĂ©ories linguistiques, UniversitĂ© Paris-Diderot I find that what I most care for is beauty of form, whether in substance or, perhaps even more keenly, in spirit. A perfect style, a well-balanced system of philosophy, a…
Tagged with: 19th century, 20th century, aesthetics, Edward Sapir, FormgefĂŒhl, history of linguistics, Sapir
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics
Bloomfield : Du mentalisme au behaviorisme
Jean-Michel Fortis Laboratoire dâhistoire des thĂ©ories linguistiques, UniversitĂ© Paris-Diderot On peut sâinterroger sur lâĂ©volution qui voit Bloomfield passer de la psychologie Ă dominante wundtienne, qui imprĂšgne son Introduction de 1914, au behaviorisme, et dâune linguistique âmentalisteâ Ă une linguistique psycho-abstinente…
Tagged with: behaviourism, history of structuralism, Leonard Bloomfield, linguistics, mentalism, psychology, Wilhelm Wundt
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
El Sermonario de fray Bernardino de SahagĂșn y los fondos en lenguas indĂgenas de la Biblioteca Nacional de MĂ©xico
Pilar MĂĄynez Universidad Nacional AutĂłnoma de MĂ©xico Sobre el repositorio que resguarda la versiĂłn tardĂa del Sermonario de los Sanctos del año en lengua mexicana La Biblioteca Nacional de MĂ©xico fue oficialmente inaugurada el 2 de abril de 1884 en…
Tagged with: 15th-century, history, Mexico, NĂĄhuatl, Spain
Posted in 15th century, 16th century, America, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics
Posted in 15th century, 16th century, America, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics
Emile Benveniste et les langues amérindiennes.
ChloĂ© Laplantine Laboratoire dâHistoire des ThĂ©ories Linguistiques CNRS-UniversitĂ© Paris Diderot Les langues amĂ©rindiennes ont une place critique dans la linguistique d’Emile Benveniste (1902-1976). A deux reprises dans les ProblĂšmes de linguistique gĂ©nĂ©rale, il explique lâimportance pour lâhistoire de la linguistique…
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