Blog Archives

Cfp: SHESL Conference 2023

Call for papersSHESL Conference 2023New historical and diachronic perspectives on grammaticalization Paris, 12–13 January 2023 The Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage (SHESL) invites abstracts for the 2023 annual conference on the topic “New historical and diachronic perspectives…

Posted in Conferences and workshops

Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – April 2022

Camille Joseph & Isabelle Kalinowski. 2022. La Parole inouïe. Franz Boas et les textes indiens. Toulouse: Anacharsis. 198 p. ISBN: 9791027904365Publisher’s website Franz Boas (1858-1942) est considéré comme le père fondateur de l’anthropologie américaine. Par-delà de vastes collectes d’objets, il…

Posted in Publications

Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – March 2022

Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner & Olga Timofeeva, ed. 2021. Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 16. 252 pp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16Publisher’s website The essays collected in this…

Posted in Publications

Call for papers: ICHoLS XVI, Tbilisi, 26–30 August 2024

26–30 August 2024, Tbilisi, Georgia Hosted by Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University The Sixteenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, ICHoLS XVI, will be held from 26 to 30…

Posted in Announcements, Conferences and workshops

Australian languages, histories of documentation, description and revival

Online workshop, 1–2 December 2022 Organisers: James McElvenny and Clara Stockigt This workshop will bring together linguists, anthropologists and historians to discuss the history of the documentation, description and revival of the Aboriginal languages of Australia. Central questions to be…

Posted in Announcements, Conferences and workshops

CfP: Colloquium Studienkreis Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, Flensburg 8–11 June 2022

On 8–11 June 2022, the 31st International Colloquium of the “Studienkreis ‘Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft’” (SGdS) on Language and Language Awareness in the History of Linguistics will take place at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. The choice of topics may range from antiquity…

Posted in Announcements, Conferences and workshops

Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – December 2021

Marcin Kilarski. 2021. A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America. Amsterdam : John Benjamins. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 129. 443 p. ISBN : 9789027210494Publisher’s website The languages indigenous to North America are…

Posted in Publications

CfP: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium Leuven 2022

The 2022 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held from Tuesday 20 September until Thursday 22 September 2022 at the University of Leuven (Belgium). The general theme of the colloquium is: …

Posted in Announcements, Conferences and workshops

Podcast zum Wiener Bühler-Workshop 2021

Am 4. und 5. Februar 2021 fand an der Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien ein internationaler Workshop zu Karl Bühler und der Geschichte des Wiener Psychologischen Institutes statt, der von Janette Friedrich und Gerhard Benetka geleitet wurde. Janette Friedrich und Gerhard…

Posted in Announcements, Conferences and workshops

Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – Novembre 2021

De Troia Paolo & Otto Zwartjes. 2021. Missionary Linguistics VI. Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018. Amsterdam : Benjamins. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 130. xii,…

Posted in Publications

Upcoming events


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


6-9 January 2027
San Francisco (United States)
NAAHoLS 2027


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


9-11 June 2027
Aubervilliers (France)
SHESL Conference
Esperanto – 140 years: this is no longer a project


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