SĂ©bastien Moret UniversitĂ© de Tartu / UniversitĂ© de Lausanne LâannĂ©e 2015 marque le centiĂšme anniversaire des tragiques Ă©vĂ©nements que subirent les populations armĂ©niennes de lâempire ottoman en 1915[1], Ă©vĂ©nements auxquels la quasi-totalitĂ© de la communautĂ© internationale attribue le terme de…
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Antoine Meillet et les massacres dâArmĂ©nie de 1915
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
Family resemblance and semantics: the vagaries of a not so new concept
Jean-Michel Fortis UniversitĂ© 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
Le Formalisme russe dans l’histoire de la linguistique
Patrick Flack sdvig press Le Formalisme russe, Ă bien des Ă©gards, constitue un phĂ©nomĂšne paradoxal. Il a, câest bien connu, fourni les fondements dâune approche systĂ©matique de la littĂ©rature (ou du « langage poĂ©tique « ) et contribuĂ© Ă produire une grande partie…
Tagged with: 20th century, formalism, linguistique structurale, Roman Jakobson, Russian formalism, structuralism
Posted in 20th century, Article, Europe, Structuralism
Posted in 20th century, Article, Europe, Structuralism
Sensualism for Dummies
Els Elffers University of Amsterdam 1. From sensualism to intentionalism. Four examples. What do Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), Jacques van Ginneken (1877-1945), Ernst Cassirer (1894-1945) and Martinus Langeveld (1905-1989) have in common? Apart from the fact that they were all men,…
Tagged with: Ernst Cassirer, intentionalism, Jacob van Ginneken, Karl BĂŒhler, Martinus Langeveld, psycholinguistics, psychology, sensualism, Van Ginneken, Wilhelm Wundt
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Austria, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Netherlands, Psycholinguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Austria, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Netherlands, Psycholinguistics
Somewhat caught between lexicology and syntax: a look at Phraseology
Sabine Fiedler University of Leipzig Terminology and characteristics A number of different terms have been used to name the topic of this blog entry. For example, in English, the following expressions are used synonymously: multi-word lexemes, phrasemes, set phrases, prefabricated…
Tagged with: history of phraseology, phraseology
Posted in 20th century, Article, History, Lexicography, Linguistics, Phraseology
Posted in 20th century, Article, History, Lexicography, Linguistics, Phraseology
In Praise of âExceptionless:â Linguistics among the Human Sciences at Bloomfield and Sapirâs Chicago
Michael Silverstein University of Chicago Edward Sapir (1884-1939) arrived at the University of Chicago for Autumn Quarter, 1925, having spent the summer, in transit from Ottawa, in New York City teaching summer school at Columbia. Two years later, in 1927,…
Tagged with: Bloomfield, Chicago, history of linguistics, Sapir
Posted in 20th century, America, Article, History, Linguistics
Posted in 20th century, America, Article, History, Linguistics
Early Descriptions of Gender in Pama-Nyungan Languages
Clara Stockigt University of Adelaide There is little correlation between the existence of a system of gender in Pama-Nyungan languages and the inclusion of a discussion of these systems under the heading “Gender” in early grammatical sources. Of the small…
Tagged with: 19th century, 20th century, Australian language, Australian languages, gender, grammar, history of field linguistics, history of linguistics, Pama-Nyungan languages, Pitta Pitta
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Australia, Field linguistics, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Syntax, Typology
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Australia, Field linguistics, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Syntax, Typology
Sapir’s form-feeling and its aesthetic background
Jean-Michel Fortis Laboratoire dâhistoire des thĂ©ories linguistiques, UniversitĂ© Paris-Diderot I find that what I most care for is beauty of form, whether in substance or, perhaps even more keenly, in spirit. A perfect style, a well-balanced system of philosophy, a…
Tagged with: 19th century, 20th century, aesthetics, Edward Sapir, FormgefĂŒhl, history of linguistics, Sapir
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics
(Non-)universality of word-classes and words: The mid-20th century shift
Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig While looking at a range of views by grammarians on word-class distinctions (noun, verb, adjective etc.) and word division in two recent papers (Haspelmath 2011; 2012a), I was struck by what…
Tagged with: 20th century, linguistics, typology, universal grammar, word classes
Posted in 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Typology, Uncategorized
Posted in 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Typology, Uncategorized
Saussure’s sound symbolism
John Joseph University of Edinburgh “The most celebrated opponent of the sound symbolic hypothesis,” writes Magnus (2013: 201), “was, of course, Ferdinand de Saussure”. Of course. One of Saussure’s key contributions to modern linguistics is the principle of the arbitrariness…
Tagged with: arbitrariness, Saussure, sound symbolism, structuralism
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 