As new posts are published, they will be added here. 18 September The journal Word and the structural heritage of usage-based linguistics: Three functional tenets and an overarching principle. Enrico Torre University of Genoa 6 November Language in and out…
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Program February–June 2019
20 February Henry Sweet, a model for John Rupert Firth? Angela Senis Université Bordeaux Montaigne 6 March Grammaticalization clines: a brief conceptual history Martin Konvička Freie Universität Berlin 25 March John Hart (c. 1501–1574) and the beginning of English linguistics…
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Program September–December 2018
[Program updated 21 November 2018] 5 September Typology – a new task of linguisticsGeorg von der Gabelentz & James McElvennyUniversity of Edinburgh 3 October Workshop report: In the shadow of the standardOlivia WalshUniversity of Nottingham 17 October Triangulating the history…
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Program January–April 2018
17 January Wilhelm Wundt and the Lautgesetze controversyLia FormigariSapienza Università di Roma 31 January ‛Karte und Gebiet′. Die Spatialisierung von Sprache in der Dialektologie des Deutschen von 1918 bis 1955Jan David BraunÖstereichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 14 February Developments in…
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Program September-December 2017
September Speech act theory and Georg von der GabelentzSven StaffeldtUniversity of Würzburg October From godly analogy to “distant like floating clouds”: the inevitability of the Sino-Dene hypothesis and the scalability of comparative linguisticsYukun ZengUniversity of Chicago November Benvenuto Terracini and…
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Program February-June 2017
[Program updated 16 February 2017] 16February La langue de Boas. Quelques remarques à propos de l’écriture de Franz Boas.Chloé LaplantineLaboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques CNRS-Université Paris Diderot 7March The Prague Linguistic Circle and the analogy between musicology and linguisticsBart KarstensUniversity…
Program September-December 2016
Updated: 27 November 2016 7September The Chilean Academy of the Spanish Language: the institutionalization of a discourse community.Darío RojasUniversity of Chile 28September Ludwig Noiré and the Debate on Language Origins in the 19th CenturyJacopo D’AlonzoSorbonne Nouvelle & Sapienza Università di…
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Program February-June 2016
17February 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 and Johannes MückeHugo Schuchardt Archive, University of Graz 10March Aree, volumi e spazi: la geometria…
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Program August-December 2015
[Updated 16 September 2015] 5August Esperanto: some observations of a speaker-linguistKen MinerUniversity of Kansas 19August John Stoddart’s The Philosophy of Language: the “last truly universalist work”Joseph SubbiondoCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies 2September Las disciplinas lingüísticas en la España decimonónica: Julián…
Program February-June 2015
11February Somewhat caught between lexicology and syntax: a look at phraseologySabine FiedlerUniversity of Leipzig 25February Examining material aspects of manuscripts (Part II)Anna PytlowanyUniversity of Amsterdam 13March Some Remarks on Objectivity in PragmaticsSamuel LewinUniversity of Sydney 25March Sensualism for dummiesEls ElffersUniversity…
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