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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics, October-November 2018

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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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SPRACHE UND KONTEXT IN DER GESCHICHTE DER SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT — LANGUAGE AND CONTEXT IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS (4. – 7. Juli 2018, Universität Potsdam)

“Studienkreis ‘Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft’” (SGdS) XXIX. Internationales Kolloquium SPRACHE UND KONTEXT IN DER GESCHICHTE DER SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT — LANGUAGE AND CONTEXT IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS 4. – 7. Juli 2018 Campus am Neuen Palais Universität Potsdam Haus 8, Raum 060/61…

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of linguistics, May 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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Call for Papers : SHESL-HTL CONFERENCE 2019. Linguistics and its historical forms of organization and production. Paris, 24-26 January 2019

This conference is an occasion for celebrating the 40th anniversary of the SHESL (Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage) and the associated journal HEL (Histoire Epistémologie Langage), as well as the 35 years of existence of the HTL…

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(Non-)universality of word-classes and words: The mid-20th century shift

Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig While looking at a range of views by grammarians on word-class distinctions (noun, verb, adjective etc.) and word division in two recent papers (Haspelmath 2011; 2012a), I was struck by what…

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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…

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