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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – August 2023

Waugh, Linda R., Monique Monville-Burston, John E. Joseph, ed. 2023. The Cambridge History of Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 900 p. ISBN 9780511842788. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511842788Publisher’s website The establishment of language as a focus of study took place over many centuries, and

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – July 2023

Laplantine, Chloé, John E. Joseph & Émilie Aussant, ed. 2023. Simplicité et complexité des langues dans l’histoire des théories linguistiques. Paris: SHESL (HEL Livres, 3). 486 p. ISBN 979-10-91587-21-1. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8098638Publisher’s websiteBook in Open access « Toutes les langues

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – June 2023

Most, Glenn W., Dagmar Schäfer & MÃ¥rten Söderblom Saarela, ed. 2023. Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship. Thinking in Many Tongues. Leiden: Brill. (Ancient Languages and Civilizations, 3). xvi, 484 p. ISBN 978-90-04-46466-7Publisher’s websiteBook in open access Was plurilingualism the exception

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – May 2023

Cavaliere, Ricardo. 2023. História da gramática no Brasil, séculos XVI a XIX. São Paulo: Editora Vozes. 656 p. ISBN 9786557136348Publisher’s website A origem da gramática está no interesse de compreensão e interpretação do texto, seja o texto poético, o texto

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Cfp – SHESL conference 2024 – Ethnolinguistics – Linguistic anthropology: history and current trends

Call for papersSHESL conference 2024Ethnolinguistics – Linguistic anthropology: history and current trendsorganized by Chloé Laplantine (HTL), Cécile Leguy (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – LACITO), Valentina Vapnarsky (LESC & EPHE) Paris, 1-2 February, 2024 Please send abstracts for contributions by 21 July

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PhD funding for international students – Université Paris Cité

Université Paris Cité, the host institution for the Histoire des théories linguistiques (HTL; https://htl.cnrs.fr/en/home/) research group, has earmarked PhD funding for international students starting this year. Students will register at the Linguistics Department (https://u-paris.fr/linguistique/en/home/#pll_switcher), and be supervised by a member of

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – April 2023

James McElvenny, ed. 2023. The Limits of Structuralism. Forgotten Texts in the History of Modern Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 336 p. ISBN 9780192849045Publisher’s website Based around seven primary texts spanning 130 years, this volume explores the conceptual boundaries of

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – March 2023

Zanna Van Loon, John Steckley, Toon Van Hal, Andy Peetermans, eds. 2023. Anchored in ink: Pierre-Philippe Potier’s Elementa Grammaticae Huronicae (1745), a Jesuit grammar of Wendat. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam. 446 p.ISBN 978-3-86956-516-3. DOI : https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-51306Book in open accessPublisher’s website This

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – February 2023

Lorenzo Cigana & Frans Gregersen, ed. 2023. Structuralism as one – structuralism as many – Studies in Structuralisms. Copenhagen: Gads Forlag. 560 p. ISBN 9788773044476Publisher’s website This book includes 14 contributions to the study of structuralism as a historical current

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – January 2023

Danielle Candel, Didier Samain & Dan Savatovsky, ed. 2023. Eugen Wüster et la terminologie de l’école de Vienne. Paris : SHESL (HEL Livres, 2). 338 p. ISBN 979-10-91587-18-1. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.7503185Book in open accessPublisher’s website La terminologie, avec ses analyses théoriques et

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