Language & History 67(2). 2024. Philosophical Language Schemes: Crossroads for Study, ed. David Cram. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor and Francis. Online ISSN: 1759-7544Publisher’s website Philosophical language schemes: crossroads for studyDavid Cram Word as definition. A key principle of the Comenian project for…

Minervini, Laura & Frank Savelsberg, ed. 2024. New Perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the Linguistic History of the Sephardic Jews. Leiden: Brill. (Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 41). 335 p. + index. ISBN 978-90-04-68502-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004685062Publisher’s website At the intersection…

Drechsel, Emanuel J. 2024. Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics: Resources and Inspirations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 346 p. ISBN 9781108966801. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108966801Publisher’s webpage Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), an early pioneer in the philosophy of language, linguistic and educational theory, was…

Dumarty, Lionel, ed. 2024. Langue idéale, langue réelle. Description et normalisation des langues classiques du IIIe s. av. J.-C. au XIIe s. de notre ère. Turnhout : Brepols. (Corpus Christianorum). 268 p. ISBN 978-2-503-60901-0Publisher’s website Depuis la naissance de la grammaire,…

McElvenny, James. 2024. A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 208 p. ISBN 9781474470025Publisher’s website In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the…

Garrett, Andrew. 2023. The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall. Language, Memory, and Indigenous California. Cambridge: MIT Press. 472 p. ISBN 9780262547093Publisher’s website In January 2021, at a time when many institutions were reevaluating fraught histories, the University of California removed anthropologist…

Tourette, Eric, ed. 2023. Les idées linguistiques des moralistes. Paris: Honoré Champion (Moralia). 200 p. ISBN 9782745360120Publisher’s website Observer comment vivent les hommes implique d’observer comment ils parlent : il était sans doute inévitable que l’analyse morale se tournât vers…

Dagostino, Carmen, Marianne Mithun & Keren Rice. 2023. The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide, Vol 1. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 767 p. ISBN 9783110597981.Publisher’s website This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages…

Savatovsky, Dan, Mariangela Albano, Thi Kieu Ly Pham & Valérie Spaëth, ed. 2023. Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 496 p. ISBN 9789463728249Publisher’s website This volume assembles texts dedicated to the linguistic and…

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…