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Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2020, London

The 2020 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held on Thursday 30 April at the University of Westminster, London. Papers are invited on any topic in the History of Linguistics and

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SHLP VII Conference, 2020, Canberra

Due to the situation with coronavirus and uncertainties regarding international travel in the next few months the SHLP 2020 committee has regretfully decided that the best course of action is to postpone the conference. This decision is also partly influenced

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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 : First International Conference on Linguistic Terminology, Glossing and Phonemicization (Yamagata University, Japan, Feb. 22–23, 2020)

Hosted by the Japanese Linguistics Internationalization Committee Held at Yamagata University, Yonezawa Campus, Japan, Feb. 22–23, 2020 Call for Papers As linguistic research expands to cover an ever increasing number of languages and subfields, various collaborations have been carried out

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Cfp : Open workshops, ICHoLS 15, Milan, August 24-28, 2020

From ICHoLS XV website : Proposals for the following open workshops must be sent to the address of the workshop organiser. They must be submitted no later than December 1 2019.

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Horizons of projection – The Future of Linguistic Knowledge: A Historical Perspective, open workshop at ICHoLS XV, 24–28 August 2020, Milan

Convenors: Jean-Marie Fournier, Christian Puech, Valérie Raby (Université Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3 / Histoire des théories linguistiques) 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: 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, 3º 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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Prague (Czech Republic)
Some Less Well-Known Relations of the Prague School: Networks and Dynamics of Cultural Transfer


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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


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Rome (Italy)
Studienkreis Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft
Universality and Universals in the History of Linguistics


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


10-11 December 2026
Paris (France)
Language, Norm, and Society: The Prague Linguistic Circle (1926-2026) in the Face of Contemporary Challenges


28-29 January 2027
Paris (France)
SHESL Conference 2027
History of terminology – Diachronic terminology The emergence of a terminological conscienceness


31 March–3 April 2027
Vigo (Spain), Vila Real (Portugal)
13th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics


16–19 June 2027
Flensburg (Germany)
Language abuse and language criticism in the history of linguistics


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