
In this episode, we talk to JĂŒrgen Trabant about Wilhelm von Humboldt.
Claudia Schweitzer Histoire des ThĂ©ories Linguistiques, CNRS, UniversitĂ© de Paris Dans sa Lettre sur la musique française (1753 : 91), Rousseau dĂ©clare « quâil nây a ni mesure ni mĂ©lodie dans la Musique Française, parce que la langue nâen est pas…
Lorenzo Cigana University of Copenhagen (NorS) The aim of this outline contribution, which will receive a proper treatment elsewhere, is to describe a single piece within the broader mosaic of European Structuralism: an undercurrent of Danish structural linguistics focused on…
Alexander Teixeira Kalkhoff UniversitĂ€t Freiburg 1 The notion of field in physics The mutual interaction, i.e. attraction and repulsion, of bodies across space without direct mechanical contact, such as the movement of planets, gravity, magnetism, electricity, or light, posed a…
Angela Senis UniversitĂ© Bordeaux Montaigne This post introduces a few of the insights developed during the Henry Sweet Society colloquium in 2017. My full research on this topic is the subject of a paper that is soon to be proposed…
Olivia Walsh University of Nottingham On Saturday 22 September 2018, I organized a workshop, âIn the Shadow of the Standardâ, at the University of Nottingham. The aim of the workshop was two-fold: firstly, to explore new perspectives on how attitudes…
James McElvenny University of Edinburgh In lieu of an introduction Below I offer an English translation of the last essay Georg von der Gabelentz (1840â1893) personally submitted for publication, “Hypologie [Typologie] der Sprachen, eine neue Aufgabe der Linguistik”. This essay…
Floris Solleveld University of Amsterdam In 1771, a French scholarly adventurer by the name of Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron shocked the Republic of Letters with his translation of Zend-Avesta, Ouvrage de Zoroastre. Published in three volumes with a long series of appendices…
Emma Mojet University of Amsterdam Why congresses? The organisation of an international congress of a discipline marks a noteworthy stage in the development of a discipline. Taking a broader perspective, the many first disciplinary congresses held around 1900 also mark…
Jan David Zimmermann (Braun) UniversitĂ€t Wien & Ăsterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bericht aus einer Akademie)[1] Vorbemerkung Der vorliegende Text ist ein Bericht aus den bisherigen Arbeiten und eine ErklĂ€rung einiger theoretischer AnsĂ€tze zu meiner wissenschaftshistorischen Dissertation, die folgenden Arbeitstitel trĂ€gt:…