Rebeca FernĂĄndez RodrĂguez Universidade de TrĂĄs-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…
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The lost Tesoro del ydioma ylocano
Tagged with: 18th century, lexicography, Philippines
Posted in 18th century, Article, Lexicography, Philippines
Posted in 18th century, Article, Lexicography, Philippines
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
ConSOLE XXIII Call for Papers
Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe XXIII The University Paris Diderot-Paris 7 will host the 23rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE XXIII) from 7 to 9 January 2015 in Paris. Graduate students…
Tagged with: announcements, conference, ConSOLE, Europe, history of linguistics, Pairs
Posted in Announcements, Conferences and workshops, Europe, Linguistics
Posted in Announcements, Conferences and workshops, Europe, Linguistics
The Latin-Portuguese grammarian Manuel Ălvares (1526-1583) and his De institvtione grammatica libri tres
Rolf Kemmler University of TrĂĄs-os-Montes e Alto Douro A little more than 440 years ago, in September 1572, the Portuguese typographer JoĂŁo da Barreira printed the first edition of a quite elaborate grammar of the Latin language. Little did the…
Tagged with: 16th century, Grammars, history of linguistics, Latin, Latin Grammar, Madeiran Jesuit Manuel Ălvares, Manuel Ălvares, Portugal
Posted in 16th century, Article, Europe, Grammars, History, Portugal
Posted in 16th century, Article, Europe, Grammars, History, Portugal
Exclamatives: a grammatical category?
Els Elffers University of Amsterdam 1. Introduction In most Western European grammars, sentences such as Hurrah!, How very curious!, or Vienna is so dull! are categorized as exclamatory sentences or exclamatives. Next to declaratives, interrogatives and imperatives, exclamatives are usually…
Tagged with: Den Hertog, exclamatives, Gabelentz, Géza Révész, Georg von der Gabelentz, Hermann Paul, Révész
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Syntax, Uncategorized
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Syntax, Uncategorized
Dr José Rizal and the making of a modern linguistic Messiah
Piers Kelly Australian National University Describing the preeminent Filipino national hero Dr. Jose Rizal as a linguist is a little like referring to Thomas Jefferson as a horticulturalist. The statement may be true, but the many other talents that Rizal…
Tagged with: Dr José Rizal, orthography, Philippines, Spanish, Tagalog
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Philippines, Phonology
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Philippines, Phonology
La historiografĂa mexicana en el contexto de los estudios lingĂŒĂsticos actuales
Ana Balderas GarcĂa Universidad Nacional AutĂłnoma de MĂ©xico El quehacer lingĂŒĂstico en MĂ©xico se remonta al encuentro entre culturas que se dio en el siglo XVI. La imperiosa necesidad de convertir a los nativos al cristianismo, llevando el desconocimiento de…
Tagged with: American languages, field linguistics, HistoriografĂa, history of field linguistics, Mexico
Posted in 20th century, Article, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics
Posted in 20th century, Article, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics
Empirical methods in language construction
BaĆak Aray UniversitĂ© Paris I â PanthĂ©on-Sorbonne, EXeCO (PHICO) Efforts to establish an international auxiliary language (IAL) have a long history. Projects to overcome ethnic languages flourished in the 17th century Britain. Creators of these âphilosophical languagesâ (Descartes, Dalgarno, Wilkins,…
Language and smell: traces of synesthesia in premodern learning
Raf Van Rooy PhD fellow of the Research Foundation â Flanders (FWO) University of Leuven It is well known that, in present-day English, the verb âsmellâ can obtain a negative connotation when used intransitively; the adjective derived from it, âsmellyâ,…
Tagged with: Latin, premodern, semantics, smell, synesthaesia, synesthesia
Posted in Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Semantics
Posted in Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Semantics
New dating of the Iloko manuscript lexicography
Rebeca FernĂĄndez RodrĂguez Centro de Estudos em Letras (CEL) Universidade de TrĂĄs-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 