Jacques François University of Caen-Normandy http://www.interlingua.fr 1. A forgotten German Enlightenment philosopher Johann Christoph Adelung (1732–1806) was one of the main promoters of the Volksaufklärung (popular Enlightenment) in the vein of Christian Wolff, eager to synthetize what the broad cultivated…
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Towards a history of concept list compilation in historical linguistics
Johann-Mattis List Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena A large proportion of lexical data of the world’s languages is presented in the form of word lists in which a set of concepts was translated into the…
Tagged with: concept list, historical linguistics, Morris Swadesh, Swadesh list
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, Article, historical linguistics, Lexicography, Linguistics
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, Article, historical linguistics, Lexicography, Linguistics
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 “Chilean Academy”), 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
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
The lost Tesoro del ydioma ylocano
Rebeca Fernández RodrĂguez Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro At the end of the 18th century, Russian Empress Catherine II wanted to compile an atlas of the world’s languages. She commissioned first the German Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) and then…
Tagged with: 18th century, lexicography, Philippines
Posted in 18th century, Article, Lexicography, Philippines
Posted in 18th century, Article, Lexicography, Philippines
New dating of the Iloko manuscript lexicography
Rebeca Fernández RodrĂguez Centro de Estudos em Letras (CEL) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) Missionary lexicography in the Philippines is extensive and exhaustive. Dozens of grammars and vocabularies have been written since the Spanish arrival in the Philippines…
Tagged with: Ilocano, lexicography, Philippine
Posted in 17th century, 18th century, Article, Europe, Field linguistics, Lexicography, Linguistics, Philippines
Posted in 17th century, 18th century, Article, Europe, Field linguistics, Lexicography, Linguistics, Philippines
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 