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:…
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âKarte und Gebiet’. Die Spatialisierung von Sprache in der Dialektologie des Deutschen von 1918 bis 1955.
Tagged with: cartography, dialect geography, Dialectology
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics
Wilhelm Wundt and the Lautgesetze Controversy
Lia Formigari Sapienza UniversitĂ di Roma A long-dominant historiographical tradition, culminating in Hugo Schuchardt’s essay Ăber die Lautgesetze (1885), depicted the Neogrammarians as the irreducible upholders of the unconditioned validity of phonetic laws. It is my view that, if we…
Tagged with: Lautgesetze, Neogrammarians, sound laws, Wilhelm Wundt
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
Primitive Languages: linguistic determinism and the description of Aranda eighty years on
David Moore University of Western Australia Introduction The view that Australian Aboriginal languages are primitive endured into the twentieth century and is still widespread throughout the Australian community. âPrimitive languagesâ were a means of using linguistic evidence from a language to…
Tagged with: Arrernte, Strehlow
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Australia, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics, Typology
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Australia, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics, Typology
Benvenuto Terracini and the history of linguistics between the 19th and 20th century
Diego Stefanelli University of Pavia Benvenuto Terracini (1886â1968) was a notable Italian linguist who lived through all the most important methodological innovations that characterize linguistics in the first half of the 20th century. In the Italian context, he played a…
Tagged with: Benedetto Croce, Benvenuto Terracini, Hugo Schuchardt, linguistic historiography, stylistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, History, Italy, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, History, Italy, Linguistics
Speech act theory and Georg von der Gabelentz
Sven Staffeldt University of WĂŒrzburg 1. The modernity of the ancestors There is a trend in linguistics â or maybe even in general â to reclaim the works of older authors. Older authors are sometimes used as sources of information…
Tagged with: Gabelentz, pragmatics, speech act theory
Posted in 19th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics
Posted in 19th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics
Missionary-induced language change, on the trail of the conditional in Nafsan, central Vanuatu
Nick Thieberger University of Melbourne Can a missionary make a change to a language so that an existing construction is replaced by one based on English? This is what appears to have happened in Nafsan, Efate, in Vanuatu, which has independently…
Tagged with: Efate, missionary linguistics, Vanuatu
Posted in 19th century, Article, Field linguistics, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, Article, Field linguistics, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
La langue de Boas. Quelques remarques Ă propos de lâĂ©criture de Franz Boas.
ChloĂ© Laplantine UMR 7597 â Laboratoire Histoire des ThĂ©ories Linguistiques, UniversitĂ© Paris Diderot As we require a new point of view now, so future times will require new points of view and for these the texts, and ample texts, must…
Tagged with: Franz Boas
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics
Missionary linguistics and the German contribution to Central Australian language research and fieldwork 1890-1910
David Moore University of Western Australia Introduction This article explores the outstanding contribution of German Lutheran missionaries to linguistics, language documentation and translation in Aboriginal languages in Central Australia from the last decade of the nineteenth century to the years…
Tagged with: Strehlow
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Australia, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Australia, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Ludwig Noiré and the Debate on Language Origins in the 19th Century
Jacopo D’Alonzo Sorbonne Nouvelle & Sapienza UniversitĂ di Roma Introduction Linguistic naturalism was one of the main positions taken in linguistic research during the 19th century (for France, see Auroux 1984 and Desmet 1996; for England, see Aarsleff 1983; for…
Tagged with: animal communication systems, language and labour, language origins, linguistic naturalism, linguistics, Ludwig Noiré
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Philosophy
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Philosophy
The Chilean Academy of the Spanish Language: the institutionalization of a discourse community
DarĂo Rojas University of Chile In the present entry, I will make an initial case for the thesis that the Academia Chilena de la Lengua (Chilean Academy of the Spanish Language, from this point forward âChilean Academyâ), founded in 1885,…
Tagged with: Academia Chilena de la Lengua, Chile, Spanish
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Chile, History, Language teaching, Lexicography, Linguistics, Spanish
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Chile, History, Language teaching, Lexicography, Linguistics, Spanish
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 