Judith Kaplan University of Pennsylvania In John Webster Spargoâs 1931 translation of Holger Pedersenâs contribution to the genre of Disziplingeschichte, readers are introduced to a legion of mostly well-bearded men, marching toward the âdiscoveryâ of the Comparative Method. Summing up…
Bart Karstens University of Amsterdam In recent historiography an upsurge in interest in the interaction between academic disciplines can be seen. This is in no small part due to the rise of the history of humanities as a specialized field…
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…
Jan David Zimmermann (Braun) University of Vienna Introduction Beginning with the history of cartography, this paper will first discuss the development of spatial thinking in different scientific contexts. It will then deal with the practice of linguistic mapping in German…
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…
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…
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,…
Kerstin Ohligschlaeger-Lim UniversitĂ€t Potsdam Im folgenden soll die Untersuchung des Pariser Wettbewerbs zum Einfluss der Zeichen auf das Denken (1797/99) vorgestellt werden. Dieser Wettbewerb gliedert sich in epistemologische und semiotische Diskurse des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich ein, in denen…
James McElvenny UniversitĂ€t Potsdam Research into grammaticalization has an established pedigree, first certified by Lehmann (2015[1982]: 1-9) and confirmed, with various additions, by Heine et al (1991: 5-23) and Hopper & Traugott (2003[1993]: 19-38).[1] The standard genealogy records the birth…
Jacques François UniversitĂ© de Caen & CNRS In his introduction (p.6-18) to the Vorlesungen ĂŒber lateinische Sprachwissenschaft (Lectures on Latin Linguistics, 1839), Christian Karl Reisig offered a philosophically grounded account of the epistemology of language as a Prinzipienwissenschaft (“Science of…
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 