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…
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…
Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific SHLP4 The fourth biennial conference of the Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific will take place in Alice Springs, Australia, 22-23 September 2014. Papers on any aspect of…
ChloĂ© Laplantine Laboratoire dâHistoire des ThĂ©ories Linguistiques CNRS-UniversitĂ© Paris Diderot Les langues amĂ©rindiennes ont une place critique dans la linguistique d’Emile Benveniste (1902-1976). A deux reprises dans les ProblĂšmes de linguistique gĂ©nĂ©rale, il explique lâimportance pour lâhistoire de la linguistique…
Michael Silverstein University of Chicago It should be clear to anyone who surveys the historical record that the âdiscoveryâ of the phoneme â that is, the codification of phonological theory and method â was key in linguistsâ consciousness of a…
Lei Zhu Shanghai International Studies University The speech sound, being the most important medium between our physical body and linguistic mind, is one of human beingsâ oldest objects of study. In different cultures, it has been understood in different ways,…
Christopher Hutton University of Hong Kong My involvement with this topic began when I observed that the notion of a superior âAryan raceâ, which functions in the English-speaking world as a near-universal shorthand for Nazi ideology, has no clear counterpart…