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Call: CHSTM History of Language Sciences 2025–26

CHSTM Working group History of the Language Sciences. Meetings online, September 2025–May 2026 Archives scaffold research in both history and the sciences. Far from passive repositories, they assert order and give shape to the world. In the midst of what

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NAAHoLS 2026 Annual Meeting

Date: 8-11 January 2026Place: New Orleans, LouisianaDeadline for submission: 1 September 2025Information: https://naahols.wordpress.com/annual-meeting/ The North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) will hold its 2026 Annual Meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

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Cfp: The Prague Linguistic Circle in Geneva and Paris: Circulations and Decenterings

Date: 10-11 September 2026Place: Fribourg (Switzerland)Organizers: Pierre-Yves Testenoire & Patrick FlackInformation: https://comdial.sdvigpress.org/event-100897 The Prague Linguistic Circle holds a clearly defined place in the historiography of the language sciences: it is recognized as an institutional and localized “hub” (Hoskovec 2011) of

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – June 2025

Zwartjes, Otto, ed. 2025. The History of Chinese Linguistics in East and West. [Special issue] Historiographia Linguistica 51(1-3). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 385 p. ISSN 0302-5160. Publisher’s website IntroductionThe history of Chinese linguistics in East and WestOtto Zwartjes Articles – AufsätzeMisquoting the ancients: Editorial practices in

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Cfp: Asian Languages in the History of Lexicography

Date: 23-25 March 2026Place: Montpellier (France)Submission deadline: 15 October 2025Information: https://chedil-alhl.sciencesconf.org Asia is the cradle of important linguistic traditions and lexicography in particular has had a significant history in different Asian countries. Various forms of lexicographic works, such as wordlists,

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – May 2025

Riolfi, Alessandro. 2025. The Parameter in Generative Grammar. A History of a Concept. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 348 p. ISBN  9781316516966Publisher’s website Focusing on the development of Noam Chomsky’s linguistic framework, this book is the first full-length, in-depth treatment of the

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – April 2025

Velmezova, Ekaterina, ed. 2024. Tartu in the History of Slavic Philology, vol. 2 : Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929). Tartu: University of Tartu Press (Acta Slavica Estonica, 18). 160 p. ISBN 978-9916-27-795-9Publisher’s webpage Значение Тарту в истории филологии переоценить трудно. На протяжении

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CHSTM History of the Language Sciences upcoming online meetings

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The CHSTM working group History of the Language Sciences has two upcoming meetings, in April and May. All meeting are held online. For further information and meeting link, see the working group website. The working group will resume in September

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12th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics – Early Linguistic Encounters between Europe and Asia

Organized by National Science and Technology Council, R.O.C.; Institute of History, NTHU; Institute of Linguistics, NTHU; Institute of Taiwan Languages and Language Teaching, NTHU; Center for Sustainable Development of Linguistic Diversity in Taiwan (SDLD); Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, NTHU; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – February 2025

Dubourg Glatigny, Pascal, ed. 2024. Esperantists in the Twentieth Century: Making Connections in an Age of Division. [Special issue] Cultural History 13(2). ISSN 2045-290XPublisher’s website Introduction: Esperantists in the Twentieth Century: Making Connections in an Age of DivisionPascal Dubourg Glatigny

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Upcoming events


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 après la fondation du Cercle linguistique de Prague


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


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