Mårten Söderblom Saarela Academia Sinica in Taipei This blog post will discuss some transnational aspects of the history of Mandarin Chinese, what in the twentieth century became codified as the national language of China. I will first briefly discuss what…
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Why women botanists outnumbered women linguists in nineteenth century Australia
Jane Simpson Australian National University 1. Introduction In colonial Australia (1788–1901), only about a dozen women are recorded as documenting Australian languages, compared with nearly 300 women contributors to herbariums (Maroske and Vaughan 2014), and with the 100 or so…
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Posted in 19th century, Article, Australia, Field linguistics, Grammars, Missionary Linguistics, Uncategorized
Posted in 19th century, Article, Australia, Field linguistics, Grammars, Missionary Linguistics, Uncategorized
Cfp: SHESL-HTL Conference 2020 – Simplicity and complexity of languages in the history of linguistic theories (Paris, January 23-25, 2020)
Call for papers SHESL-HTL CONFERENCE 2020 Paris, January 23-25, 2020 Simplicity and complexity of languages in the history of linguistic theories The goal of this conference is to explore the ways in which, through the history of linguistic theories, languages…
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics, July-September 2018
Below is a list of some monographs and collected volumes in the history and philosophy of linguistics that have appeared recently.
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History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 