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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Martin Burr Grant 2019
[Post updated 14 May 2018] Application deadline 30 September 2018 The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas invites applications for the Martin Burr Grant, which awards small amounts of funding (usually up to a maximum of £500)…
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Call for Papers : SHESL-HTL CONFERENCE 2019. Linguistics and its historical forms of organization and production. Paris, 24-26 January 2019
This conference is an occasion for celebrating the 40th anniversary of the SHESL (Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage) and the associated journal HEL (Histoire Epistémologie Langage), as well as the 35 years of existence of the HTL…
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CfP: Sprache und Globalisierung
Die Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik e.V. (GIL) lädt herzlich ein zu ihrer Jahrestagung 2018 mit dem Schwerpunkthema Sprache und Globalisierung
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Call for Papers: “A host of tongues” – Multilingualism, lingua franca and translation in the Early Modern period
FCSH-UNL, Lisbon, 13th to 15th December 2018 In the 15th and 16th centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic…
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Query: Boas on Alternating Sounds
What secondary literature exists on the historical context and significance of Franz Boas’ (1889) essay “On alternating sounds” or on his approach to phonology more generally?
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CALL FOR PAPERS: I° National Conference of History of linguistic and semiotic thought, Rome (17-18 September 2018)
CALL FOR PAPERS I° National Conference of History of linguistic and semiotic thought State of the art and case studies Organized by CISPELS – Rome, Department of Philosophy, at Villa Mirafiori, 17-18 September 2018 The first National Conference of the…
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Grant proposals: Language Acts and Worldmaking
The deadline for this round of funding is midnight on 27th May 20. Application form available here Languages Memory is the theme for the first Language Acts and Worldmaking conference, due to be held in Bush House, London, 13-14 June…
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Panel proposal: Linguistics as a Go-Between
Panel proposal for The Making of the Humanities VII, Amsterdam, 15-17 November 2018. For the upcoming 7th The Making of the Humanities Conference, to be held in Amsterdam from November 15-17 2018 (link) I am contemplating to submit a panel session…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics, April 2018
Below is a list of some monographs and collected volumes in the history and philosophy of linguistics that have appeared recently.
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History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 