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,…
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The Chilean Academy of the Spanish Language: the institutionalization of a discourse community
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
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 Article, Constructed languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Posted in Article, Constructed languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Diversity, linguistics and domination: how linguistic theory can feed a kind of politics most linguists would oppose
Nick Riemer University of Sydney & HTL, Université Paris-Diderot What connections might linguists’ professional activities have to politics? Most recently, the question has been posed by the collective self-dismissal of the Lingua board and the journal’s metamorphosis into the open-access…
The secret history of grammaticalization
James McElvenny Universität 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…
Tagged with: aesthetics, agglutination, Gabelentz, grammaticalization, Heine, Hopper and Traugott, idealism, Lehmann, Meillet, positivism, Vossler
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
Christian Karl Reisig as an upholder of philosophical linguistics in 19th century Germany
Jacques François Université de Caen & CNRS In his introduction (p.6-18) to the Vorlesungen über 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…
Tagged with: Humboldt, Karl Reisig, semantics, semasiology
Posted in 19th century, Article, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
Posted in 19th century, Article, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
How Galilean is the ‘Galilean Method’?
Christina Behme Mount St Vincent University In many recent (and some not so recent) publications Noam Chomsky makes an appeal to Galilean science and claims the Galilean framework justifies his own approach to scientific inquiry (e.g., Chomsky, 2002, 2009, 2010,…
Tagged with: Cartesian linguistics, Chomsky, Galilean method
Posted in America, Article, Linguistics, Philosophy
Posted in America, Article, Linguistics, Philosophy
Aree, volumi e spazi: la geometria linguistica di Hjelmslev
Lorenzo Cigana Université de Liège Questo nostro intervento si concentra su alcuni aspetti del pensiero hjelmsleviano e della teoria glossematica in cui è più forte il respiro interdisciplinare che intreccia tra loro almeno i seguenti problemi: a) il ruolo gnoseologico…
Tagged with: Hjemslev
Posted in 20th century, Article, Denmark, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
Posted in 20th century, Article, Denmark, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
Networking and obstacles to the development of the language sciences as reflected in the correspondence of Rodolfo Lenz and Hugo Schuchardt
Silvio Moreira de Sousa & Johannes Mücke Hugo Schuchardt Archive, University of Graz As the call for papers for the upcoming Coloquio Rodolfo Lenz 2016 is open until February 22nd (the conference will be held on May 5th 2016, at…
Tagged with: history of creolistics, Hugo Schuchardt, Rudolf Lenz
Posted in 19th century, Article, Field linguistics, Germany, History, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, Article, Field linguistics, Germany, History, Linguistics
Spanish language in Portuguese texts (16th to 19th centuries)
Sónia Duarte Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto Despite the geographic and linguistic proximity between Spain and Portugal, the first Spanish grammar to be printed in Portugal and for Portuguese native speakers only dates back to 1848, as explored…
Tagged with: history of linguistics, Portugal
Posted in 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Portugal, Spain
Posted in 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Portugal, Spain
Antoine Meillet et les massacres d’Arménie de 1915
Sébastien Moret Université de Tartu / Université de Lausanne L’année 2015 marque le centième anniversaire des tragiques événements que subirent les populations arméniennes de l’empire ottoman en 1915[1], événements auxquels la quasi-totalité de la communauté internationale attribue le terme de…
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
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 