Christina Behme Mount St Vincent University In many recent (and some not so recent) publications Noam Chomsky makes an appeal to Galilean science and claims the Galilean framework justifies his own approach to scientific inquiry (e.g., Chomsky, 2002, 2009, 2010,…
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How Galilean is the ‘Galilean Method’?
Tagged with: Cartesian linguistics, Chomsky, Galilean method
Posted in America, Article, Linguistics, Philosophy
Posted in America, Article, Linguistics, Philosophy
Aree, volumi e spazi: la geometria linguistica di Hjelmslev
Lorenzo Cigana Université de Liège Questo nostro intervento si concentra su alcuni aspetti del pensiero hjelmsleviano e della teoria glossematica in cui è più forte il respiro interdisciplinare che intreccia tra loro almeno i seguenti problemi: a) il ruolo gnoseologico…
Tagged with: Hjemslev
Posted in 20th century, Article, Denmark, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
Posted in 20th century, Article, Denmark, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
Networking and obstacles to the development of the language sciences as reflected in the correspondence of Rodolfo Lenz and Hugo Schuchardt
Silvio Moreira de Sousa & Johannes Mücke Hugo Schuchardt Archive, University of Graz As the call for papers for the upcoming Coloquio Rodolfo Lenz 2016 is open until February 22nd (the conference will be held on May 5th 2016, at…
Tagged with: history of creolistics, Hugo Schuchardt, Rudolf Lenz
Posted in 19th century, Article, Field linguistics, Germany, History, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, Article, Field linguistics, Germany, History, Linguistics
Spanish language in Portuguese texts (16th to 19th centuries)
Sónia Duarte Centro de LinguÃstica da Universidade do Porto Despite the geographic and linguistic proximity between Spain and Portugal, the first Spanish grammar to be printed in Portugal and for Portuguese native speakers only dates back to 1848, as explored…
Tagged with: history of linguistics, Portugal
Posted in 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Portugal, Spain
Posted in 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Portugal, Spain
Antoine Meillet et les massacres d’Arménie de 1915
Sébastien Moret Université de Tartu / Université de Lausanne L’année 2015 marque le centième anniversaire des tragiques événements que subirent les populations arméniennes de l’empire ottoman en 1915[1], événements auxquels la quasi-totalité de la communauté internationale attribue le terme de…
Tagged with: Antoine Meillet, Armenian, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
Posted in 20th century, Anatolia, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics
Posted in 20th century, Anatolia, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics
Phonetische studien — applied linguistics gets its first journal
Andrew Linn University of Sheffield Several new journals of the late 1870s (Englische studien, Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie and the Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie) gave the linguistics of the modern languages the means for their proponents to talk to…
Tagged with: 19th century, history of linguistics, language teaching, phonetics
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Language teaching, Linguistics, Phonetics
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Language teaching, Linguistics, Phonetics
Family resemblance and semantics: the vagaries of a not so new concept
Jean-Michel Fortis Université Paris Diderot The motivation for writing this post is twofold: first, there is still something to be said about the origins of the notion of family resemblance and its application to semantics, most notably in the version…
Tagged with: Aristotle, cognitive linguistics, cognitive semantics, family resemblances, Lakoff, prototype theory, Rosch, Wittgenstein
Posted in 20th century, Article, Cognitive Linguistics, Europe, History, Linguistics, Semantics
Posted in 20th century, Article, Cognitive Linguistics, Europe, History, Linguistics, Semantics
Translator proditor. The affirmation of the authorial voice in MatÃas Ruiz Blanco.
Roxana Sarion University of Tromsø, Norway MatÃas RuÃz Blanco (1643-1705/1708?) was a Franciscan friar who served as a missionary, historian and linguist in colonial Venezuela. Born in the village of Estepa in the Spanish region of Andalusia, he was devoted…
Tagged with: MatÃas RuÃz Blanco, missionary linguistics
Posted in 17th century, America, Article, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Posted in 17th century, America, Article, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Las disciplinas lingüÃsticas en la España decimonónica: Julián González de Soto y el Colegio de Figueras (1839-1845)
MarÃa José GarcÃa Folgado Universitat de València – Grupo GIEL La historia de la enseñanza de la gramática es un campo que, en el marco hispánico, solo recientemente está siendo objeto de investigación. Aunque desde la HistoriografÃa LingüÃstica se han…
John Stoddart’s The Philosophy of Language: the “last truly universalist work”
Joseph L. Subbiondo California Institute of Integral Studies Introduction Sir John Stoddart (1773-1856) served as England’s advocate in Malta from 1803-1807, editor of The Times from 1814 to 1816, founder and editor of The New Times from 1816 to 1826,…
Tagged with: John Stoddart, universal grammar, William Hazlitt
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, Article, History, Philosophy
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, Article, History, Philosophy
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 