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…
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Missionary-induced language change, on the trail of the conditional in Nafsan, central Vanuatu
Tagged with: Efate, missionary linguistics, Vanuatu
Posted in 19th century, Field linguistics, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, Field linguistics, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Praxeology and language: Social science as the study of human action
Daniel W. Hieber University of California, Santa Barbara danielhieber.com Introduction Since the formulation and elaboration of speech act theory by Grice (1957; 1969), Austin (1962) and Searle (1962) as part of the ordinary language movement in philosophy,[1] the linguistics community has…
Tagged with: Austrian school, Ludwig von Mises, ordinary language philosophy, philosophy of linguistics, pragmatics, praxeology, sociocultural linguistics
Posted in Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Posted in Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Joseph Greenberg’s comparative notebooks
Judith Kaplan University of Pennsylvania In John Webster Spargo’s 1931 translation of Holger Pedersen’s contribution to the genre of Disziplingeschichte, readers are introduced to a legion of mostly well-bearded men, marching toward the ‘discovery’ of the Comparative Method. Summing up…
The Prague Linguistic Circle and the Analogy between Musicology and Linguistics
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…
Tagged with: history of humanities, musicology, Prague Linguistic Circle, Roman Jakobson
Posted in 20th century, Europe, History, Linguistics, Phonology
Posted in 20th century, Europe, History, Linguistics, Phonology
La langue de Boas. Quelques remarques à propos de l’écriture de Franz Boas.
Chloé Laplantine UMR 7597 – Laboratoire Histoire des Théories Linguistiques, Université 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, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics
Mapping Language: linguistic cartography as a topic for the history of science
Jan David 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 dialectology.…
Tagged with: cartography, dialect geography, Dialectology
Posted in 20th century, Austria, Dialectology, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics
Posted in 20th century, Austria, Dialectology, Europe, Germany, 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, Australia, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 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 Università 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, Europe, History, Linguistics, Philosophy
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Europe, History, Linguistics, Philosophy
The Chilean Academy of the Spanish Language: the institutionalization of a discourse community
Darío 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 “Chilean Academy”), founded in 1885,…
Tagged with: Academia Chilena de la Lengua, Chile, Spanish
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Chile, History, Language teaching, Lexicography, Linguistics, Spanish
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Chile, History, Language teaching, Lexicography, Linguistics, Spanish
The utility of constructed languages
A.W. Carus Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich The question how language, a sequence of events in spacetime, can have meaning — which seems not to be in spacetime — has puzzled philosophers since antiquity, though it only came…
Tagged with: constructed languages
Posted in Constructed languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Posted in Constructed languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
