History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences explores the history of the study of language in its varied social and cultural contexts.
Mon, March 31, 2025
Podcast episode 45: Beijia Chen on Neogrammarian networks
In this interview, we talk to Beijia Chen about the citation networks binding the Neogrammarians as a school. Neogrammarian citation network " data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/neogrammariannetwork.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/neogrammariannetwork.png?w=605" src="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/neogrammariannetwork.png" alt="Neogrammarian Network" class="wp-image-9101" style="width:546px;height:auto" /> Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube References for Episode 45 Amsterdamska, Olga. 1985. “Institutions and Schools of Thought: The Neogrammarians.” American Journal of Sociology 91: 332–358. Amsterdamska, Olga. 1987. Schools of thought: the development of linguistics from Bopp to Saussure . Dordrecht u.a.: Reidel. Arens, Hans. 1969. Sprachwissenschaft: der Gang ihrer Entwicklung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart . 2., durchges. und stark erw. Auflage. Freiburg & München: Alber. Bartschat, Brigitte. 1996. Methoden der Sprachwissenschaft: von Hermann Paul bis Noam Chomsky . Berlin: Schmidt. Beveridge, Andrew & Jie Shan. 2015. “Network of Thrones.” Math Horizons 23 (4): 18–22. Chen, Beijia. 2020. “Der Einfluss der akademischen Interaktionen auf die Auflagen- und Wirkungsgeschichte von Hermann Pauls Prinzipien .” Historiographia LInguistica 47 (2–3): 188–230. Crane, Diana. 1972. Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of Knowledge in Scientific Communities . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Einhauser, Eveline. 1989. Die Junggrammatiker: ein Problem für
Fri, February 28, 2025
Podcast episode 44: Ian Stewart on the Celts and historical-comparative linguistics
In this interview, we talk to Ian Stewart about modern ideas surrounding the Celts and how these relate to historical-comparative linguistics. Ian Stewart The Celts bookcover " data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/stewart_celts_cover.png?w=201" data-large-file="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/stewart_celts_cover.png?w=459" src="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/stewart_celts_cover.png" alt="" class="wp-image-9044" style="width:546px;height:auto" /> Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube References for Episode 44 Crump, Margaret, James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge: A Life of Science during the Age of Improvement (Nebraska, 2025). Davies, Caryl, Adfeilion Babel: Agweddau ar Syniadaeth Ieithyddol y Ddeunawfed Ganrif (Caerdydd, 2000). Droixhe, Daniel, La Linguistique et l’appel de l’histoire (1600-1800): rationalisme et révolutions positivistes (Geneva, 1978). Lhuyd, Edward, Archaeologia Britannica: Vol. 1 Glossography (Oxford, 1707). Pezron, Paul-Yves, Antiquité de la nation et de la langue des Celtes, autrement appellez Gaulois (Paris, 1703). Pictet, Adolph, ‘Lettres à M. A.W. de Schlegel sur l’affinité des langues celtiques avec le sanscrit’, Journal asiatique 3.1 (1836), 263-90, 417-448; 3.2 (1836), 440-66. Poppe, Erich, ‘Lag es in der Luft?: Johann Kaspar Zeuß und die Konstituierung der Keltologie’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 2 (1992), 41-56. Prichard, James Cowles, The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations: Proved by a Comparison of their Dialects with
Sat, November 30, 2024
Podcast episode 43: Judy Kaplan on universals
In this interview, we talk to Judy Kaplan about universals in American linguistics of the mid-20th century. Combined book covers of “Universals of Language” and “Universals of Linguistic Theory” " data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-for-podcast.png?w=199" data-large-file="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-for-podcast.png?w=484" src="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-for-podcast.png" alt="Combined book covers of "Universals of Language" and "Universals of Linguistic Theory"" class="wp-image-8963" style="width:546px;height:auto" /> Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube References for Episode 43 Emmon Bach & Robert T. Harms, Universals in Linguistic Theory (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968) Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965). Jamie Cohen-Cole, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). Joseph Greenberg, “Some Universals of Grammar with Special Reference to the Order of Meaningful Elements,” in Idem (ed.), Universals of Language (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1963), 73-113. ______ “The Nature and Uses of Linguistic Typologies,” IJAL 23: 68-77. Roman Jakobson, Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze . (Uppsala: Almquist & Wiksell, 1941). Linguistic Society of America, Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation, “The Need for the Documentation of Linguistic Diversity,” June 1994. (<a h
Thu, October 31, 2024
Podcast episode 42: Randy Harris on the Linguistics Wars
In this interview, we talk to Randy Harris about the controversies surrounding the generative semantics movement in American linguistics of the 1960s and 70s. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube References for Episode 42 Chomsky, N. (2015/1965). Aspects of the theory of syntax (50th Anniversary edition.). The MIT Press. Harris, R. A. (2021/1993). The linguistics wars: Noam Chomsky, George Lakoff, and the battle over Deep Structure (2nd ed.). Oxford. Huck, G. J., & Goldsmith, J. A. (1995). Ideology and linguistic theory : Noam Chomsky and the deep structure debates . Routledge. Katz, J. J., & Postal, P. M. (1964). An integrated theory of linguistic descriptions . M.I.T. Press. McCawley, J. D. (1980). Lingu
Sat, August 31, 2024
Podcast episode 41: Chris Knight on Chomsky, science and politics
In this interview, we talk to Chris Knight about Chomsky, pure science and the US military-industrial complex. SAGE control room " data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sage.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sage.png?w=605" src="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sage.png?w=840" alt="SAGE control room" class="wp-image-8772" style="width:546px;height:auto" srcset="https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sage.png 840w, https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sage.png?w=150 150w, https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sage.png?w=300 300w, https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sage.png?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px" /> Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube References for Episode 41 Radical Anthropology Group . YouTube channel | Vimeo channel Allot, Nicholas, Chris Knight and Neil Smith. 2019. The Responsibility of Intellectuals; Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years , with commentaries by Noam Chomsky. London: UCL Press. Open access Chomsky, Noam. 2016. ‘Chomsky responds to Chris Knight’s book, Decoding Chomsky’ Libcom Chomsky, Noam, and Chris Knight. 2019. ‘Chomsky’s response to Chris Knight’s chapter in the new Responsibili
Fri, May 31, 2024
Podcast episode 40: Interview with Nick Riemer on politics, linguistics and ideology
In this interview, we talk to Nick Riemer about how linguistic theory and political ideology can interact. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 40 Ahmed, Sara. 2012. On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Althusser, Louis 1996 [1965]. Marxism and Humanism. In For Marx (B. Brewtser, tr.), London: Verso, 218–238. Althusser, Louis 2014 [1970]. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation) (B. Brewster, tr.). In Louis Althusser, On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses . London: Verso, 232–272. Althusser, Louis. 2015 [1976]. Être marxiste en philosophie . Paris: PUF. Auroux, Sylvain 1994. La révolution technologique de la gramm
Tue, April 30, 2024
Podcast episode 39: Interview with Ingrid Piller on Life in a New Language
In this interview, we talk to Ingrid Piller about her forthcoming co-authored book Life in a New Language . Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 39 Kachru, Braj B. 1985. ‘Standards, codification and soci
Sun, March 31, 2024
Podcast episode 38: Interview with Dan Everett on C.S. Peirce and Peircean linguistics
In this interview, we talk to Dan Everett about the life and work of the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and Everett’s application of Peirce’s ideas to create a Peircean linguistics. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 38 Cole, David. 2023. “The Chinese Room Argument”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2023 Edition), eds. Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2023/entries/chinese-room/ Everett, Daniel L. 2012. Language: The Cultural Tool . New York: Pantheon Books. Everett, Daniel L. 2017. How Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention . New York: Liveright. Everett, Daniel L. 2023. ‘Underspecified temporal semantics in Pirahã: Compositional transparency and semiotic inference’, in Understanding Human Time , ed. Kasia M. Jaszczolt, pp. 276–318. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Transcript by Luca Dinu JMc: Hi,
Thu, February 29, 2024
Podcast episode 37: Interview with Michael Lynch on conversation analysis and ethnomethodology
In this interview, we talk to Michael Lynch about the history of conversation analysis and its connections to ethnomethodology. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 37 Button, Graham, Michael Lynch and Wes Sharrock (2022) Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Constructive Analysis: On Formal Structures of Practical Action . London and New York: Routledge. Fitzgerald, Richard (2024) “Drafting A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation,” Human Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-023-09700-7 Garfinkel, Harold (2022) Studies of Work in the Sciences , M. Lynch, ed. London & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172611 (open access) Lynch,
Thu, November 30, 2023
Podcast housekeeping December 2023
In this brief audio clip, we provide an update on what’s been happening with the podcast – and what’s coming up. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts McElvenny, James. 2024. A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Entry in the Edinburgh University Press catalogue
Sat, September 30, 2023
Podcast episode 36: Interview with Ghil‘ad Zuckermann on revivalistics
In this interview, we talk to Ghil‘ad Zuckermann about language reclamation and revival in Australia and around the world. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 36 The Barngarla trinity: people, language, land. The Barngarla trilogy: (1) Barngarlidhi Manoo (‘Speaking Barngarla Together’): Barngarla Alphabet & Picture Book , 2019; (2) Mangiri Yarda (‘Healthy Country’): Barngarla Wellbeing and Nature , 2021; (3) Wardlada Mardinidhi (‘Bush Healing’): Barngarla Plant Medicines , 2023. Links to the digital versions of these 3 books, as well as to the Barngarla app, can be found at the following website: https://wcclp.com.au/barngarla/ Anubi, Myra, Shania Richards & Ghil‘ad Zuckermann. 2023. ‘ Bringing dead languages back to life ‘, People Fixing the World . BBC World Service. Schürmann, Clamor Wilhelm. 1844. A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla Language . Adelaide: Dehane. Trove Sivak, Leda, Seth Westhead, Emmalene Richards, Stephen Atkinson, Jenna Richards, Harold Dare, Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, Graham Gee, Michael Wright, Alan Rosen, Michael Walsh, Ngiare Brown & Alex Brown. 2019. ‘“Language Breathes Life”—Barngarla Community Perspectives on the Wellbeing Impacts of Reclaiming a Dormant Australian Aboriginal Language’, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, 3918. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16203918 . Sivak, Leda, Seth Westhead, Graham Gee, Michael Wright, Alan Rosen, Stephen Atkinson, Emmalene Richards, Jenna Richards, Harold Dare, Ngiare Brown, Ghil’ad Zuckermann, Michael Walsh, Natasha J. Howard & Alex Brown. 2023. ‘Developing the Indigenous Language and Wellbeing Survey: approaches to integrating qualitative findings into a survey instrument’, AlterNative . DOI: 10.1177/11771801231194650 Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad. 2003. Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad. 2020. Revivalistics: From the genesis of Israeli t
Mon, July 31, 2023
Podcast episode 35: Interview with Nick Thieberger on historical documentation and archiving
In this interview, we talk to Nick Thieberger about the value of historical documentation for linguistic research, and how this documentation can be preserved and made accessible today and in the future in digital form. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 35 Crane, Gregory, ed. 1987–. Project Perseus . Web resource: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ Gardner, Helen, Rachel Hendery, Stephen Morey, Patrick McConvell et al. 2020. Howitt and Fison’s Archive . Web resource: https://howittandfison.org/ Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle, George Aaron Broadwell, Michel R. Oudijk, Laurie Allen, May Plumb, and Mike Zarafonetis. 2016. Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec , first edition. Web resource: http://ticha.haverford.edu/ Takau, Toukolau. 2011. “Koaiseno”, in Natrauswen nig Efat, Stories from South Efate , ed. Nick Thieberger, pp. 88–90. Melbourne: University of Melbourne. Open access: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/28967 Takau, Toukolau. 2017. “Koaiseno”, in recording NT1-20170718. https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/NT1/items/20170718 Thieberger, Nick. 2017. Digital Daisy Bates . Web resource: http://bates.org.au Thieberger, Nick, Linda Barwick, Nick Enfield, Jakelin Troy, Myfany Turpin and Roman Marchant Matus. 2022–. Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages . Web resource: https://nyingarn.net/ Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). https://www.paradisec.org.au/ Transcript by Luca Dinu TT [singing]: Koaiseno koaiseno seno, nato wawa nato wawa meremo… [00:13] JMc: That was the late Toukolau Takau from Erakor village, Vanuatu, singing Koaiseno, a song that’s part of the folktale of the same name. [00:24] The recording of the son
Fri, June 30, 2023
Podcast episode 34: Interview with Mary Laughren on Central Australia languages and Ken Hale
In this episode, we talk to Mary Laughren about research into the languages of Central Australia in the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on the contributions of American linguist Ken Hale. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 34 Hale, Kenneth L., and Kenny Wayne Jungarrayi. 1958. Warlpiri elicitation session. archive.org Laughren, Mary, with Kenneth L. Hale, Jeannie Nungarrayi Egan, Marlurrku Paddy Patrick Jangala, Robert Hoogenraad, David Nash, and Jane Simpson. 2022. Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary . Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. <a href="https://shop.aiatsis.gov.au/products/warlpiri-e
Wed, May 31, 2023
Podcast episode 33: Formalism and distributionalism
In this episode, we examine the formalist aspects of the linguistic work of Edward Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield, and see how their methods were turned into the doctrines of distributionalism by the following generation. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 33 Primary sources Bloch, Bernard (1948), ‘A set of postulates for phonemic analysis’, Language 24:1, 3–46. Bloch, Bernard, and George Trager (1942), Outline of Linguistic Analysis , Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America. Bloomfield, Leonard (1909–1910), ‘A semasiological differentiation in Germanic secondary ablaut’, Modern Philology 7, 245–288, 345–382. (Introduction reprinted in Hockett 1970, pp. 1–6.) Bloomfield, Leonard (1922), Review of Sapir Language , The Classical Weekly 15, 142–143. (Reprinted in Hockett 1970, pp. 95–100.) Bloomfield, Leonard (1926), ‘A set of postulates for a science of language’, Language 2, 153–164. (Reprinted in Hockett 1970, pp. 128–138.) Bloomfield, Leonard (1942), Outline Guide for the Practical Study of Foreign Languages , Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America. Harris, Zellig S. (1942), ‘Morpheme alternants in linguistic analysis’, Language 18:2, 169–180. Harris, Zellig S. (1951), Methods in Structural Linguistics , Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Hockett, Charles F., ed. (1970), A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology , Bloomington: Indiana University Press. archive.org Hockett, Charles F. (1980), ‘Preserving the heritage’, in First Person Singular , ed. Boyd H. Davis and Raymond K. O’Cain, Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 97–107. Mandelbaum, David G., ed. (1949), Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality , Berkeley: University of California Press. archive.org Sapir, Edward (1921), Language , New York: Harcourt, Brace and co. archive.org Sapir, Edward (1949 [1924]), ‘The grammarian and his language’, in Mandelbaum (1949), pp. 150–159. (Or
Sun, April 30, 2023
Podcast episode 32: Leonard Bloomfield and behaviourism
In this episode, we discuss the leading American linguist Leonard Bloomfield and his connections to the psychological school of behaviourism and the philosophical doctrines of logical positivism. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 32 Primary sources Bloomfield, Leonard (1914), An Introduction to the Study of Language , New York: Henry Holt. archive.org Bloomfield, Leonard (1926), ‘A set of postulates for a science of language’, Language 2, 153–164. (Reprinted in Hockett 1970, pp. 128–138.) Bloomfield, Leonard (1930 [1929]), ‘Linguistics as a science’, Studies in Philology , 553–557. (Reprinted in Hockett 1970, pp. 227–230.) Bloomfield, Leonard (1933), Language , New York: Henry Holt. archive.org Bloomfield, Leonard (1936 [1935]), ‘Language or ideas?’, Language 12, 89–95. (Reprinted in Hockett 1970, pp. 322–328.) Bloomfield, Leonard (1938), Linguistic Aspects of Science (= International Encyclopedia of Unified Science , vol. 1, no. 4), Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Carnap, Rudolf (1931a), ‘Überwindung der Metaphysik durch logische Analyse der Sprache’, Erkenntnis 2, 219–241. (English translation: Carnap 1959 [1931].) Carnap, Rudolf (1931b), ‘Die physikalische Sprache als Universalsprache der Wissenschaft’, Erkenntnis 2, 432–465. (English translation: Carnap 1934 [1931].) Carnap, Rudolf (1934 [1931]), The Unity of Science , trans. Max Black, London: Kegan Paul. (German original: Carnap 1931b.) Carnap, Rudolf (1959 [1931]), ‘The elimination of metaphysics through logical analysis of language’, trans. Arthur Pap, in Logical Positivism , ed. Alfred Jules Ayer, Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, pp. 60–81 (German original: Carnap 1931a). Hockett, Charles F., ed. (1970), A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology , Bloomington: Indiana University Press. archive.org Verein Ernst Mach (2006 [1929]), ‘Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: der Wiener Kreis’, in Wiener Kreis
Fri, March 31, 2023
Podcast episode 31: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
In this episode, we explore the historical background to linguistic relativity or the so-called ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 31 Primary sources Boas, Franz, ed. (1911), Handbook of American Indian Languages , Part I, Washington DC: Government Printing Office. Google Books Carroll, John B. (1956), Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf , Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. archive.org Chase, Stuart (1938), The Tyranny of Words , New York: Harcourt, Brace and co. archive.org Hoijer, Harry (1954), ‘The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’, in Language in Culture: Proceedings of a conference on the interrelations of language and other aspects of culture , ed. by Harry Hoijer, 92–105, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. archive.org Korzybski, Alfred (1933), Science and Sanity: An introduction to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics , Lancaster: International Non-Aristotelian Library. archive.org Mandelbaum, David G., ed. (1949), Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality , Berkeley: University of California Press. archive.org Ogden, Charles Kay (1933 [1930]), Basic English: A general introduction with rules and grammar , London: Kegan Paul. Ogden, Charles Kay and Ivor Armstrong Richards (1956 [1923]), The Meaning of Meaning , London: Kegan Paul. (Reprinting of tenth edition with finger: archive.org ) Sapir, Edward (1907), ‘Herder’s Ursprung der Sprache ’, Modern Philology 5:1, 109–142. Sapir, Edward (1921), Language , New Yor
Fri, March 31, 2023
Podcast housekeeping April 2023
This clip is a brief audio update on what’s been happening with the podcast, and what’s going to happen in the next few months. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts
Wed, November 30, 2022
Podcast episode 30: Interview with Andrew Garrett on Alfred Kroeber
In this episode we talk to Andrew Garrett about the life, work and legacy of American anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. Kroeber achieved a number of firsts in American anthropology: he was Boas’ first Columbia PhD and the first professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. But Kroeber is not only of historical interest. The recent “denaming” of Kroeber Hall at UC Berkeley illustrates the clash of the past with our present-day social and political concerns. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 30 Primary sources Dixon, Roland, and Alfred L. Kroeber. 1913. New linguistic families in California. American Anthropologist 15:647-655. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1907. Shoshonean dialects of California. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 4:65-165. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1907. The Washo language of east central California and Nevada. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 4:251-317. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1907. The Yokuts language of south central California. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 2:165-377. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1917. The superorganic. American Anthropologist 19:163-213. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1919. On the principle of order in civilization as exemplified by changes of fashion. American Anthropologist 21:235-263. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1923, 2nd edition 1948. Anthropology . Harcourt, Brace. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California . Smithsonian Institution. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1952. The nature of culture . University of Chicago Press. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1976. Yurok myths . University of California Press. Kroeber, Alfred L., and George William Grace. 1960. The Sparkman grammar of Luiseño . University of California Press. Kroeber, Theodora. l961. Ishi in two worlds . University of California Press. Kroeber, Theodora. 1970. Alfred Kroeber: A personal configuration . University of California Press. Secondary sources Buckley, Thomas. 1996. “The little history of pitiful events”: The epistemological and mo
Mon, October 31, 2022
Podcast episode 29: Interview with Marcin Kilarski on the study of North American languages
In this interview, we talk to Marcin Kilarski about the history of the documentation and description of the languages of North America. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 29 Primary sources Bloomfield, Leonard. 1946. “Algonquian”. Linguistic structures of native America ed. by Harry Hoijer, 85-129. New York: Viking Fund. Boas, Franz & Ella Cara Deloria. 1941. Dakota grammar. Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office. Deloria, Ella Cara. 1932. Dakota texts. (= Publications of the American Ethnological Society 14 .) New York: G. E. Stechert. (Reprinted with an introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie, 2006, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press). Deloria, Ella Cara. 1988. Waterlily. New edition, 2009, with an introduction by Susan Gardner, a biographical sketch by Agnes Picotte and an afterword by Raymond J. DeMallie. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen & John Heckewelder. 1819. “A correspondence between the Rev. John Heckewelder, of Bethlehem, and Peter S. Duponceau, Esq. corresponding secretary of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, respecting the languages of the American Indians”. Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society 1.351-448. Edwards, Jonathan. 1788. Observations on the language of the Muhhekaneew Indians: In which the extent of that language in North-America is shewn, its genius is grammatically traced, some of its peculiarities, and some instances of analogy between that and the Hebrew are pointed out. New Haven, Conn.: Printed by Josiah Meigs. (New ed. by John Pickering, Boston: Phelps and Farnham, 1823; Repr. in American Linguistics , vol. I. London: Routledge, 1997.). Eliot, John. 1666. The Indian grammar begun: Or, an essay to bring the Indian language into rules, for the help of such as desire to learn the same, for the furtherance of the Gospel among them. Cambridge, Mass.: Marmaduke Johnson. (New ed. with an introduction by John Pickering and commentary by Peter S. Du Ponceau, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections , 2nd series, vol. 9, 247-312, Boston, 1822; Repr. in American Linguis
Fri, September 30, 2022
Podcast episode 28: Franz Boas and the Boasians
In this episode, we begin our exploration of American linguistics by looking at the innovative contributions of Franz Boas (1858–1942) and his circle of students. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 28 Primary sources Bastian, Adolf (1893), Controversen in der Ethnologie I, die geographischen Provinzen in ihren culurgeschichtlichen Berührungspuncten , Berlin: Weidmannische Buchhandlung. archive.org Benedict, Ruth (1946), The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese culture , Boston: Houghton Mifflin. archive.org Boas, Franz (1887a), ‘The occurrence of similar inventions in areas widely apart’, Science 9: 485–486. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ns-9.224.485 Boas, Franz (1887b), Response to Powell (1887), Science 9: 614. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ns-9.229.614.a Boas, Franz (1889), ‘On alternating sounds’, American Anthropologist 2.1: 47–54. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1889.2.1.02a00040 Boas, Franz, ed. (1911), Handbook of American Indian Languages , Part I, Washington DC: Government Printing Office. Google Books Boas, Franz, and Ella Cara Deloria (1941), Dakota Grammar , Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Brinton, Daniel Garrison (1890 [1888]), ‘The earliest form of human speech, as revealed by American tongues’, in Daniel Garrison Brinton, ed., Essays of an Americanist , 390–409. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. Google Books Deloria, Ella Cara (1932), Dakota Texts , New York: Stechert and Co. archive.org Hurston, Zora Neale (1990 [1935]), Mules and Men , New York
Sun, July 31, 2022
Podcast episode 27: Interview with Peter Trudgill on sociolinguistic typology
In this interview, we talk to Peter Trudgill about how the structure of speaker communities may influence the structure of languages. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 27 Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Morphology by itself: stems and inflectional classes . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Dahl, Östen. 2004. The growth and maintenance of linguistic complexity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Dediu, Dan, & Stephen Levinson . 2013. On the antiquity of language: the reinterpretation of Neandertal linguistic capacities and its consequences. Frontiers in Psychology 2013 1-17. Derbyshire, Desmond. 1977. Word order universals and the existence of OVS languages. Linguistic Inquiry 8, 590-599. Dixon, R.M.W. 2010. Basic linguistic theory II: grammatical topics. Dryer, Matthew. 1989. Large linguistic areas and language sampling. Studies in Language 13, 257-292. Evans, Nicholas, & Hans-Jürgen Sasse (eds.) 2002. Problems of polysynthesis. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Fortescue, Michael. 1992. Morphophonemic complexity and typological stability in a polysynthetic language family. International Journal of American Linguistics 58: 242–48. Givón, Talmy. 1979. On understanding grammar . New York: Academic Press. Givón, Talmy. 1984. Syntax: a functional-typological introduction. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Givón, Talmy & Philip Young. 2002. Cooperation and interpersonal manipulation in the society of intimates. In M. Chibatani (ed.) The grammar of causation and interpersonal manipulation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 23-56. Graeber, David & David Wengrow. 2021. The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity. Toronto: Signal, McClelland & Stewart. Hassan, Fekri. 1981. Demographic archaeology . New York: Academic. Joseph, John E. 2021. Why does language complexity resist measurement? Frontiers in Communication https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.624855 Lass, Roger. 1997. Historical linguistics and language change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. McElvenny, James. 2021. Language complexity in historical per
Thu, June 30, 2022
Podcast episode 26: Interview with Philipp Krämer on creoles and creole studies
In this interview, we talk to Philipp Krämer about the history of the study of creole languages and present-day efforts to standardise creoles around the world. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 26 Primary sources Adam, Lucien (1883): Les idiomes négro-aryen et maléo-aryen. Essai d’hybridologie linguistique . Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie. Baissac, Charles (1880): Etude sur le patois créole mauricien . Nancy: Berger-Levrault et Cie. Dietrich, Adolphe (1891): Les parlers créoles des Mascareignes . In: Romania , 20: 216-277. Focard, Volcy (1885): Du patois créole de l’île Bourbon. In: Bulletin de la Société des Sciences et Arts de l’île de la Réunion , année 1884: 179-239. Magens, Jochum Melchior (1770): Grammatica over del creolske sprog, som bruges paa de trende Danske Eilande, St. Croix, St. Thomas, og St. Jans i Amerika . Copenhagen: Gerhard Giese Salikath. Oldendorp, Christian Georg Andreas (2000): Historie der caribischen Inseln Sanct Thomas, Sanct Crux und Sanct Jan, insbesondere der dasigen Neger und der Mission der Evangelischen Brüder unter denselben. Erster Teil: Kommertierte Ausgabe des vollständigen Manuskriptes aus dem Archiv der Evangelischen Brüder-Unität Herrnhut (G. Meier, S. Palmié, P. Stein, & H. Ulbricht, Eds.). Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung. Oldendorp, Christian Georg Andreas (2002): Historie der caribischen Inseln Sanct Thomas, Sanct Crux und Sanct Jan, insbesondere der dasigen Neger und der Mission der Evangelischen Brüder unter denselben. Zweiter Teil: Die Missionsgeschichte (3 vols.). (H. Beck, G. Meier, S. Palmié, A. H. van Soest, U. von Horst, & P. Stein, Eds.). Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung. Poyen-Bellisle, René de (1894): Les sons et les formes du créole dans les Antilles . Baltimore: John Murphy & Co. Saint-Quentin, Auguste de (1872): Notice grammaticale et philologique sur le créole de Cayenne. In: Saint-Quentin, Alfred de (ed.): Introduction à l’histoire de Cayenne . Antibes: Marchand. 99-169. Schuchardt, Hugo (1882-1987) : Kreolische Studien I-X. Online at http://schuchardt.uni-graz.a
Tue, May 31, 2022
Podcast episode 25: Interview with Felicity Meakins on contact linguistics
In this interview, we talk to Felicity Meakins about Pidgins, Creoles, and mixed languages. We discuss what they are, and how they are viewed in both linguistic scholarship and in speaker communities. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 25 Bakker, Peter, Daval-Markussen, Aymeric, Parkvall, Mikael, & Plag, Ingo. (2011). Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages , 26(1), 5-42. DeGraff, Michel. (2005). Linguists’ most dangerous myth: The fallacy of Creole Exceptionalism. Language in Society , 34(4), 533-591. McWhorter, John. (2001). The world’s simplest grammars are creole grammars. Linguistic Typology , 5(2/3), 125-166. Mufwene, Salikoko. (2000). Creolization is a social, not a structural, process. In I. Neumann-Holzschuh & E. Schneider (Eds.), Degrees of restructuring in creole languages (pp. 65-83). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Meakins, Felicity. (2013). Mixed languages. In Y. Matras & P. Bakker (Eds.), Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide (pp. 159-228). Berlin: Mouton. Meakins, Felicity, Hua, Xia, Algy, Cassandra, & Bromham, Lindell. (2019). The birth of a new language does not favour simplification. Language , 95(2), 294-332. Transcript by Luca Dinu JMc: Hi, I’m James McElvenny, and you’re listening to the History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences podcast, online at hiphilangsci.net. [00:20] There you can find links and references to all the literature we discuss. [00:24] Regular listeners will recall that in the last episode, we finally concluded our look at European linguistics from the 19 th to the 20 th century, and were planning to continue our story in America. [00:36] The North Atlantic is well known for being a stormy sea. [00:40] During our passage from Europe to America, we were blown off course and will now make a short detour over the next few episodes via the topic of contact linguistics. [00:51] To introduce us to this topic, we’re joined today by Felicity Meakins, who’s Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland in Australia. [01:01] Felicity is an expert on conta
Thu, March 31, 2022
Podcast episode 24: Interview with Lorenzo Cigana on the Copenhagen Circle
In this interview, we talk to Lorenzo Cigana about Louis Hjelmslev and the Copenhagen Linguistic Circle. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 24 Primary Sources ‘Travail collectif du Cercle linguistique de Copenhague’, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Linguists , Paris, Klincksieck, 1949, pp. 126–135. Bulletins du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague , 1–7 (1931–1940) Bulletin du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague 1941–1965 (8–31). Choix de communications et d’interventions au débat lors des séances tenues entre septembre 1941 et mai 1965 , Copenhague, Akademisk Forlag. Rapport sur l’activité du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague 1931–1951 , Copenhague, Nordisk Sprog- og Kulturforlag, 1951 Diderichsen, Paul (1960), Rasmus Rask og den grammatiske tradition: Studier over vendepunktet i sprogvidenskabens historie, København: Munskgaard. Hjelmslev, Louis (1931–1935), Rasmus Rask. Udvalgte Afhandlinger udgivet paa Bekostning af Rask-ørsted Fondet i Hundredaaret for Rasks Død paa Foranledning af Vilhelm Thomsen af Det danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab ved Louis Hjelmslev med inledning af Holger Petersen. Bind 1–3, København, Levin & Munksgaards Forlag. Holt, Jens (1946), Rationel semantik (pleremik), København: Munskgaard. Jespersen, Otto (1913), Sprogets logik (The Logic of Language’), København, J.H. Schultz. Jespersen, Otto (1918), Rasmus Rask: i hundredåret efter hans hovedvaerk , Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal. Jespersen, Otto (1924), Philosophy of Grammar, London, G. Allen and Unwin. Saussure, Ferdinand de (1916), Cours de linguistique générale , Payot, Paris. Togeby, Knud (1951), Structure immanente de la langue française , Copenhagen, Nordisk Sprog- og Kulturforlag. Secondary Sources Gregersen, Frans and Viggo Bank Jensen (forthcoming). Worlds apart? Roman Jakobson and Louis Hjelmslev. History of a competitive friendship , in Lorenzo Cigana and Frans Gregersen (eds.), Studies in Structuralism. Harder, Peter (forthcoming). Functionalism from Martinet to Dik, Croft and Da
Mon, February 28, 2022
Podcast episode 23: Interview with Noam Chomsky on the beginnings of generative grammar
In this interview, we talk to Noam Chomsky about the intellectual environment in which generative grammar emerged. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 23 Primary Sources Bloomfield, Leonard (1933). Language . New York: Henry Holt and Co. Carnap, Rudolf (1936). ‘Testability and meaning’, Philosophy of Science 3.4: 419–471. Chomsky, Noam (1957). Syntactic Structures . The Hague: Mouton. Chomsky, Noam (1959). Review of Verbal Behavior by B.F. Skinner. Language 35.1: 26–58. Chomsky, Noam (1975). The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chomsky, Noam (1979 [1949]). Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew . New York: Garland. Goodman, Nelson (1951). The Structure of Appearance . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Harris, Zellig S. (1951). Methods in Structural Linguistics . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Harris, Zellig S. (1965). ‘Transformational theory’, Language 41.3: 363–401. Hockett, Charles F. (1968). The State of the Art . The Hague: Mouton. Lashley, Karl (1951). ‘The problem of serial order in behavior’, in Lloyd Jeffress (ed.), Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior , 112–136. New York: Wiley. Lenneberg, Eric (1967). Biological Foundations of Language . New York: Wiley. Miller, George A. (1951). Language and Communication . New York: McGraw-Hill. Quine, Willard Van Orman (1960). Word and Object . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Shannon, Claude & Warren Weaver (1949), The Mathematical Theory of Communication , Urbana: University of Illinois Press. MPI PuRe: 1964 edition Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1948). Walden Two . New York: Macmillan. Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1957). Verbal Behavior . New York: Appleton Century Crofts. Secondary Sources Chomsky, Noam (2021), ‘Linguistics then and now: some personal reflections’, Annual Review of Linguistics 7: 1–11. DOI: <a href="https:
Mon, January 31, 2022
Podcast episode 22: Interview with Christopher Hutton on linguistics under National Socialism
In this interview, we talk to Christopher Hutton about linguistic scholarship under National Socialism and how this relates to linguistics today. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 22 Primary Sources Boas, Franz (1911), Handbook of American Indian languages , vol. 1, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 40, Washington: Government Print Office. Boas, Franz (1911), The mind of primitive man , New York: Macmillan. Fishman, Joshua (1964), Language maintenance and language shift as a field of inquiry, Linguistics 2: 32–70. Kloss, Heinz (1941), Brüder vor den Toren des Reiches. Vom volksdeutschen Schicksal , Berlin: Hochmuth. Mühlhausen, Ludwig (1939), Zehn irische Volkserzählungen aus Süd-Donegal, mit Übersetzung und Anmerkungen , Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Keltische Studien, Heft 3, Halle: Niemeyer. Philipson, Robert (1992), Linguistic imperialism , Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sapir, Edward (1949), Selected writings of Edward Sapir in language, culture and personality , Los Angeles: University of California Press. Schmidt-Rohr, Georg (1932), Die Sprache als Bildnerin der Völker. Eine Wesens- und Lebenskunde der Volkstümer , Jena: Diederichs. Schmidt-Rohr, Georg (1933), Mutter Sprache , Jena: Eugen Diederichs. Weinreich, Max (1946), Hitler’s professors: The part of scholarship in Germany’s crimes against the Jewish people , New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute – Yivo. Weinreich, Uriel (1953), Languages in contact: Findings and problems , New York: Publications of the Linguistic Circle of New York. Weisgerber, Johann Leo (1939), Die volkhaften Kräfte der Muttersprache , 2nd edition, Frankfurt: Diesterweg. Secondary Sources Burleigh, Michael (1988), Germany turns eastwards: A study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hutton, Christopher (1999), Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-tongue fascism, race and the science of language , London: Routledge
Fri, December 31, 2021
Podcast episode 21: Karl Bühler’s Organon model and the Prague Circle
In this episode, we look at psychologist Karl Bühler’s (1879–1963) Organon model of communication and observe its influence on the linguists Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890–1938) and Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), who were associated with the Prague Circle. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 21 Primary Sources Bühler, Karl (1927), Die Krise der Psychologie , Jena: Fischer. Bühler, Karl (1931), ‘Phonetik und Phonologie’, Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague 4, 22–53. MPI PuRe (last page of scan missing) Bühler, Karl (1933), Axiomatik der Sprachwissenschaften , Frankfurt: Klostermann. (English trans., The Axiomatization of the Language Sciences , in Innis 1982.) Bühler, Karl (1934), Sprachtheorie: Die Darstellungsfunktion der Sprache , Jena: Fischer. MPI PuRe: 1965 edition (English trans.: 2011, Theory of Language , trans. Donald Fraser Goodwin, ed. Achim Eschbach, Amsterdam: Benjamins.) Bühler, Karl (1960), Das Gestaltprinzip im Leben des Menschen und der Tiere , Bern: Huber. Durnovo, Nikolaj, Bohuslav Havránek, Roman Jakobson, Vilém Mathesius, Jan Mukařovský, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, & Bohumil Trnka (1929), ‘Thèses présentées au Premier Congrès des philologues slaves’, in Mélanges linguistiques dédiés au Premier Congrès des Philologues Slaves , pp. 5–29. Praha: Jednota Československých Matematiků a Fysiků. BnF Gallica (English trans. by Marta K. Johnson, 1978, ‘Manifesto’, in Recycling the Prague Linguistic Circle , ed. Marta K. Johson, pp. 1–31. Anne Arbor: Karoma.) Gardiner, Alan Henderson (1932), Theory of Speech and Language , Oxford: Oxford University Press. archive.org Jakobson, Roman (1981 [1960]), ‘Poetry and grammar’, in Selected Writings: Roman Jakobson , vol. III, Poetry of Grammar and
Tue, November 30, 2021
Podcast episode 20: Interview with Jacqueline Léon on Firth, Malinowski and the London School
In this interview, we continue the theme of the previous episode and talk to Jacqueline Léon about John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942) and the London School. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 20 Primary Sources Archives Firth : John Rupert Firth collection, PP MS75, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Biber, D. 1988. Variation across Speech and Writing . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Brown, K. & Law V. (eds.), 2002, Linguistics in Britain: Personal Histories , Oxford: Publications of the Philological Society. Firth, J. R. 1930. Speech. London: Benn’s Sixpenny Library. Firth, J. R. 1957 [1935]. “The technique of semantics”, in Papers in Linguistics (1934–1951). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 7–33. Firth, J. R. 1970 [1937]. The Tongues of Men . London: Oxford University Press, Firth, J. R. 1957 [1950]. “Personality and language in society”, in Papers in Linguistics (1934–1951) . Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177–189. Firth, J. R. 1957 [1951]. “General Linguistics and Descriptive Grammar”, in Papers in Linguistics (1934–1951) , pp. 216–228. Firth, J. R. 1968 [1956]. “Descriptive linguistics and the study of English”, in Palmer F. R. (ed.), pp. 96–113. Firth, J. R. 1968 [1957a].“Ethnographic analysis and language with reference to Malinowski’s views”, in Palmer F. R. (ed.), Selected papers of J.R. Firth (1952–59). London and Bloomington: Longman and Indiana University Press, pp. 137–67. Firth, J. R. [posthumus manuscript 1]. Conference on University training and research in the use of English as a second / foreign language , British Council 15–17 December 1960 [J. R. Firth collection, SOAS, London, PP MS 75, box 2] Firth, J. R. [posthumus manuscript 2]. October 1960 Commonwealth Conference of the teaching of English as a second language , Makerere, Uganda, January 1961 [J. R. Firth collection, SOAS, London, Personal File]. Gumperz, J. J. & Hymes, D. 1972. Directions in sociolinguistics, The Ethnography of Communication . New Y
Sun, October 31, 2021
Podcast episode 19: Meaning and British linguistics – Firth, Malinowski and the context of situation
In this episode, we look at the central role the analysis of meaning played in British linguistics in the first half of the twentieth century. We focus on the work of John Rupert Firth (1890–1960) and Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942) and their varying versions of the ‘context of situation’. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 19 Primary Sources Firth, John Rupert (1957), Papers in Linguistics, 1934–1951 , London: Oxford University Press. archive.org Firth, John Rupert (1957), ‘A synopsis of linguistics theory, 1930–1955’, in Studies in Linguistic Analysis , ed. John Rupert Firth, 1–32, Oxford: Blackwell. Firth, John Rupert (1964 [1930 & 1937]), The Tongues of Men (1937) and Speech (1930), Oxford: Oxford University Press. archive.org Malinowski, Bronisław (1923), ‘The problem of meaning in primitive languages’, in Ogden & Richards (1923), 296–336. Malinowski, Bronisław (1935), Coral Gardens and their Magic , 2 vols., London: Allen & Unwin. Ogden, Charles Kay and Ivor Armstrong Richards (1923), The Meaning of Meaning , London: Kegan Paul. (Reprinting of tenth edition with finger: archive.org ) Orwell, George (1949), Nineteen Eighty-Four , London: Secker & Warburg. Palmer, Frank R., ed. (1968), Selected Papers of J. R. Firth, 1952–59 , Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Secondary Sources Honeybone, Patrick (2005), ‘J.R. Firth’, in Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language , ed. by S. Chapman and P. Routledge, 80–86, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Author’s copy Joseph, John E., Nigel Love & Talbot J. Taylor (2001), Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II: The Western tradition in the twentieth century , London: Routledge. See chap. 5, ‘Firth on language and context’. McElvenny, James (2018), Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism: C. K. Ogde
Thu, September 30, 2021
Podcast episode 18: Interview with H. Walter Schmitz on Victoria Lady Welby
In this interview, we talk to H. Walter Schmitz about pioneer of semiotics Victoria Lady Welby. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 18 Primary Sources Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiyé (1939), Language in Thought and Action , New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. Ogden, Charles Kay and Ivor Armstrong Richards (1923), The Meaning of Meaning , London: Kegan Paul. (Reprinting of tenth edition with finger: archive.org ) Russell, Bertrand (1905), ‘On denoting’, Mind 14, 479-493. Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott, Bertrand Russell & Harold Henry Joachim (1920), ‘The meaning of “meaning”: a symposium’, Mind , 29:116, 385-414. Strawson, Peter F. (1950), ‘On referring’, Mind 59, 320-344. Welby, Victoria Lady (1883 [1881]), Links and Clues , London: Macmillan & Co. archive.org Welby, Victoria Lady (1897), Grains of Sense , London: J. M. Dent & Co. archive.org Welby, Victoria Lady (1983 [1903]), What is Meaning? Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (original published London: Macmillan and Co.). Welby, Victoria Lady (1985 [1893]), ‘Meaning and Metaphor’, in Welby (1985), reproduced with original pagination (original in The Monist 3:4, 510-525). Welby, Victoria Lady (1985 [1896]), ‘Sense, meaning and interpretation’, in Welby (1985), reproduced with original pagination (original in two parts: Mind 5:17, 24-37 and 5:18, 186-202). Welby, Victoria Lady (1985 [1911]), Significs and Language: The articulate form of our expressive and interpretative resources , ed. by H. Walter Schmitz, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (original published London: Macmillan). Welby, Victoria Lady, George Frederick Stout and James Mark Baldwin (1902), ‘Significs’, in Dictionary of philosophy and psychology in three volumes , vol. 2, ed. by J. M. Baldwin, New York: Macmillan, 529. Wells, H.G. (1933), The Shape of Things to Come , London: Hutchison. Secondary Source
Tue, August 31, 2021
Podcast episode 17: Philipp Wegener and the beginnings of functionalism
In this episode, we take a step back to explore the earliest beginnings of functional linguistics as represented by the work of Philipp Wegener. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 17 Primary Sources Bréal, Michel (1866), ‘De la forme et de la fonction des mots’, Revue des Cours Littéraires de la France et de l’étranger 5 (29 Dec), 65–71. BnF RetroNews (English trans. in Bréal 1991.) Bréal, Michel (1868), Les Idées Latentes du Langage , Paris: Hachette. Google Books (English trans. in Bréal 1991.) Bréal, Michel (1897), Essai de sémantique (science des significations) , Paris: Hachette. archive.org (Engl. trans.: 1900, Semantics: Studies in the science of meaning , trans. by Nina Cust, London: Heinemann. archive.org ) Bréal, Michel (1991), The Beginnings of Semantics: Essays, lectures and reviews , trans. by George Wolf, London: Duckworth. Dilthey, Wilhelm (1922 [1883]), Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften. Versuch einer Grundlegung für das Studium der Gesellschaft und der Geschichte , vol. 1. Leipzig: Teubner. archive.org Gabelentz, Georg von der (1869), ‘Ideen zu einer vergleichenden Syntax. Wort- und Satzstellung’, Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft 6, 367–384. Google Books Gabelentz, Georg von der (1871), ‘Weiteres zur vergleichenden Syntax. Wort- und Satzstellung’, Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft 8, 129–165, 300–338. Google Books Lazarus, M. (1884 [1856–1867]), Geist und Sprache: Eine psychologische Monographie , Berlin: Dümml
Wed, June 30, 2021
Podcast episode 16: Interview with Chloé Laplantine on Émile Benveniste
In this episode, we talk to Chloé Laplantine about the life and work of French structuralist Émile Benveniste. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 16 Primary Sources Annuaire du Collège de France . 1937-1938. Paris: Ernest Leroux. Benveniste, Émile. 1937. La négation . (Manuscript notes). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Papiers d’orientalistes 33, f°333-484. Benveniste, Émile. 1966. Problèmes de linguistique générale . Gallimard: Paris. [English translation: E. Benveniste. 1971. Problems in general linguistics . Translated by Mary Elizabeth Meek. Coral Gables (Florida): University of Miami. Press]. Benveniste, Émile. 1969. Le vocabulaire des institutions indo-européenne s (2 vol.). Paris: Minuit. Benveniste, Émile. 1974. Problèmes de linguistique générale, 2 . Paris: Gallimard. Benveniste, Émilie. 2011. Baudelaire . Présentation, éditions et notes par Chloé Laplantine. Limoges : Éditions Lambert-Lucas. Benveniste, Émile. 2012. Dernières leçons. Collège de France. 1968 et 1969. Édition établie par Jean-Claude Coquet et Irène Fenoglio. Paris: Seuil/Gallimard. [English translation: E. Benveniste. 2012. Last Lectures: Collège de France, 1968 and 1969 , ed. by Jean-Claude Coquet and Irène Fenoglio, trans. by John E. Joseph, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press]. Benveniste, Émile. 2015. Langues, cultures, religions . Choix d’articles réunis par Chloé Laplantine et Georges-Jean Pinault. Limoges: Éditions Lambert-Lucas. Jakobson, Roman & Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1962. “Les Chats” de Baudelaire. L’homme 2(1) : 5-21. Jespersen, Otto. 1917. Negation in English and other languages . Copenhagen: A. F. Høst Publication. Secondary Sources Adam, Jean-Michel & Laplantine, Chloé, dir. 2012. Semen 33, Les notes manuscrites de Benveniste sur la langue de Baudelaire . Besançon : Annales littéraires de l’Université de Franche-Comté. [Online: http://semen.revues.org/9442 ]. Dessons, Gérard. 20
Mon, May 31, 2021
Podcast episode 15: Roman Jakobson, Prague Circle structuralism and phonology
In this episode, we enter the age of classical structuralism by exploring the phonological research of Roman Jakobson and his colleague Nikolai Trubetzkoy undertaken within the Prague Linguistic Circle. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 15 Primary Sources Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan (1877), ‘Podrobnaja progamma lekcij . . . v 1876–1877 uč. godu’ [A detailed program of lectures for the academic year 1876–1877]. (English trans. in Stankiewicz (1972), pp. 92–113) Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan (1895), Versuch einer Theorie phonetischer Alternationen , Strassburg: Trübner. archive.org (English trans. in Stankiewicz (1972), pp. 144–212) Durnovo, Nikolaj, Bohuslav Havránek, Roman Jakobson, Vilém Mathesius, Jan Mukařovský, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, & Bohumil Trnka (1929), ‘Thèses présentées au Premier Congrès des philologues slaves’, in Mélanges linguistiques dédiés au Premier Congrès des Philologues Slaves , pp. 5–29. Praha: Jednota Československých Matematiků a Fysiků. BnF Gallica (English trans. by Marta K. Johnson, 1978, ‘Manifesto’, in Recycling the Prague Linguistic Circle , ed. Marta K. Johson, pp. 1–31. Anne Arbor: Karoma.) Ehrenfels, Christian von (1890), ‘Über Gestaltqualitäten’, Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie 14, 249–292. BnF Gallica Jakobson, Roman (1962), ‘Retrospect’, in Selected Writings , vol. I, pp. 631–658. The Hague: Mouton. Jakobson, Roman (1971 [1929]), Trans. of article on the Prague Linguistic Circle in Čin , 31 October 1929, in ‘Retrospect’, Selected Writings , vol. II, pp. 711–712. The Hague: Mouton. Kruszewski, Mikołai (1881), Ueber die Lautabwechslung , Kazan: Universitätsbuchdrückerei. Google Books (English trans. by Robert Austerlitz in Koerner (1995), pp. 3–36) Saussure, Ferdinand de (1879), <em
Wed, March 31, 2021
Podcast episode 14: The emergence of phonetics in the 19th century
In this interview, we talk to Michael Ashby about the emergence and development of phonetics in the 19th and early 20th century. document.createElement('audio'); https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hiphilangsci_015_int.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767962 References for Episode 14 Primary Sources Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm von (1856), Grundzüge der Physiologie und Systematik der Sprachlaute für Linguisten und Taubstummenlehrer , Wien: Carl Gerold’s Sohn. archive.org Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias (1854), Christianity and mankind: their beginnings and prospects , London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. [Alphabetical conferences: pages 377–488] archive.org Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1885), On the sensations of tone, as a physiological basis for the theory of music , trans. by Alexander John Ellis, 2nd edn., London: Longmans, Green & Co. archive.org Lepsius, Richard (1863), Standard alphabet for reducing unwritten languages and foreign graphic systems to uniform orthography in European letters , London: Williams & Norgate. archive.org Müller, Friedrich Max (1864), Lectures on the science of language delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April & May 1863: Second series , London: Longman. [“The physiological alphabet”: pages 103–175] archive.org Rousselot, Pierre Jean (1891), Les modifications phonétiques du langage, étudiées dans le patois d’une famille de Cellefrouin (Charente) , Paris: H. Welter. archive.org Sievers, Eduard (1881),
Sun, February 28, 2021
Podcast episode 13: Interview with John Joseph on Saussure
In this interview, we talk to John Joseph about Ferdinand de Saussure. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/hiphilangsci_013_int.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767939 References for Episode 13 Primary Sources Arnauld, Antoine and Claude Lancelot (1660), Grammaire générale et raisonnée contenant les fondemens de l’art de parler, expliqués d’une manière claire et naturelle , Paris: Pierre le Petit. BNF Gallica (English version: General and Rational Grammar: The Port-Royal Grammar , trans. by Jacques Rieux & Bernard E. Rollin, The Hague: Mouton, 1975.) Benveniste, Émile (2019 [2012]), Last Lectures: Collège de France, 1968 and 1969 , ed. by Jean-Claude Coquet and Irène Fenoglio, trans. by John E. Joseph, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Bloomfield, Leonard (1924), Review of Saussure (1922), Modern Language Journal 8, 317–319. DOI: 10.2307/313991 Boas, Franz, ed. (1911), Handbook of American Indian Languages , Part 1, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. archive.org Firth, J. R. (1950), ‘Personality and language in society’, Sociological Review 42, 37–52. (Repr. in Firth (1957), Papers in Linguistics, 1934-1951 , London & New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 177–189.) Hjelmslev, Louis (1928), Principes de grammaire générale , Copenhagen: Munksgaard. Hjelmslev, Louis (1935–1937), La catégorie des cas. Étude de grammaire générale , Aarhus: Universitetsforlaget. Jakobson, Roman (1962 [1959]), ‘Why “mama” and “papa”?’, in Selected Writings, vol. I: Phonological studies , The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 538–545. archive.org Jakobson, Roman (1971 [1929]), ‘Retrospect’, in Selected Writings, vol. II: Word and language , The Hague: Mouton de Gr
Sun, January 31, 2021
Podcast episode 12: Language as a system – Ferdinand de Saussure
In this episode, we look at Ferdinand de Saussure’s contributions to linguistics, which are widely considered to be foundational to the later movement of structuralism. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/hiphilangsci_012_epi.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767891 References for Episode 12 Primary Sources Bloomfield, Leonard (1924), Review of Saussure (1922), Modern Language Journal 8, 317–319. DOI: 10.2307/313991 Bréal, Michel (1897), Essai de sémantique (science des significations) , Paris: Hachette. archive.org (Engl. trans.: (1900), Semantics: Studies in the science of meaning , trans. by Nina Cust, London: Heinemann. archive.org ) Brugman, Karl (1876), ‘Nasalis sonans in der indogermanischen Grundsprache’, Studien zur griechischen und lateinischen Grammatik 9: 285–338. archive.org Kuryłowicz, Jerzy (1927), ‘ə indo-européen et h hittite’, in Symbolae grammaticae in honorem Ioannis Rozwadowski , vol. I, Krakow: Gebethner & Wolff, pp. 95–104. Möller, Hermann (1880), Review of F. Kluge, Beiträge zur Geschichte der germanischen Conjugation , Straßburg: K. J. Trübner (1879), Englische Studien 3: 148–164. archive.org Paul, Hermann (1920 [1880]), Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte , Halle an der Saale: Niemeyer. archive.org (English trans.: (1891), Principles of the history of language , trans. H. A. Strong, London: Longmans, Green and co. archive.org ) Saussure, Ferdinand de (1879), Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les la
Mon, November 30, 2020
Podcast episode 11: Interview with Floris Solleveld on disciplinary linguistics in the 19th century
In this interview, we talk to Floris Solleveld about the character of linguistic research in the 19th century. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/hiphilangsci_011_intx.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767978 References for Episode 11 Primary Sources Adelung, Johann Christoph and Johann Severin Vater (1806–1817), Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde , Berlin: Vossische Buchhandlung. archive.org: vol. I , vol. II , vol. III parts I and II , vol. III part III , vol. IV Balbi, Adriano (1826), Atlas ethnographique du Globe , Paris: Rey. Google Books: Introduction , archive.org: Atlas Bleek, Wilhelm (1858–1859), The library of His Excellency Sir George Grey K.C.B.: Philology , London: Trübner & co. Google Books: Vol. I , Vol. II Boas, Franz (1940), Race, Language, and Culture , New York: Macmillan. archive.org Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen (1838), Mémoire sur le système grammatical des langues de quelques nations Indiennes de l’Amerique du Nord , Paris: Pihan de la Forest. Google Books Grierson, George (1903–1926), The Linguistic Survey of India , 11 in 20 vols, Calcutta: Govt. Printing House. University of Chicago Haeckel, Ernst (1868), Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte: Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche V
Sat, October 31, 2020
Podcast episode 10: Neogrammarian critics – Hugo Schuchardt and Karl Vossler
In this episode, we examine some of the major critiques directed against the Neogrammarians and see what they tell us about the state of linguistics around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. We focus in particular on the arguments made by Hugo Schuchardt and Karl Vossler. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/hiphilangsci_010_ep.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767874 References for Episode 10 Primary Sources Osthoff, Hermann and Karl Brugman (1878), ‘Vorwort’, Morphologische Untersuchungen 1: i-xx. archive.org Schmidt, Johannes (1870), Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der indogermanischen Sprachen , Weimar: Böhlau. archive.org Schmidt, Johannes (1887), ‘Schleichers Auffassung der Lautgesetze’, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 28: 303–312. archive.org Schuchardt, Hugo (1928 [1870]), ‘Über die Klassifikation der romanischen Mundarten’, in Schuchardt and Spitzer (1928), pp. 166–188. Schuchardt, Hugo (1885), Über die Lautgesetze. Gegen die Junggrammatiker , Berlin: Oppenheim. Hugo Schuchardt Archiv (English and French trans. available from the Hugo Schuchardt Archiv. Text included in Schuchardt and Spitzer (1928), pp. 51–107.) Schuchardt, Hugo and Leo Spitzer, eds. (1928), Hugo Schuchardt-Brevier: ein Vademecum der allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft , 2nd ed., Halle (Saale): Niemeyer. Vossler, Karl (1904), Positivismus und Idealismus in der Sprachwissenschaft , HeidelBerg: Winter. archive.org Vossler, Karl (1905), Sprache als Schöpfung und Entwicklung , Heidelberg: Winter. archive.org <
Wed, September 30, 2020
Podcast episode 9: The Neogrammarians
In this episode, we introduce the Neogrammarians, the dominant school of linguistics in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/hiphilangsci_009_epg.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767863 References for Episode 9 Primary Sources Brugman, Karl (1876a), ‘Nasalis sonans in der indogermanischen Grundsprache’, Studien zur griechischen und lateinischen Grammatik 9: 285–338. archive.org Brugman, Karl (1876b), ‘Zur Geschichte der Stammabstufenden Declinationen. Erste Abhandlung: die Nomina auf -ar- und -tar- ‘, Studien zur griechischen und lateinischen Grammatik 9: 361–406. archive.org Brugman, Karl (1897), ‘Zum Gedächtniss W. D. Whitney’s’, The Whitney Memorial Meeting , Boston: Ginn and co, pp. 74–81. archive.org Curtius, Georg (1876), ‘Nachwort’, Studien zur griechischen und lateinischen Grammatik 9: 468. archive.org Leskien, August (1876), Die Declination im Slavisch-Lithauischen und Germanischen , Leipzig: Hirzel. archive.org Osthoff, Hermann and Karl Brugman (1878), ‘Vorwort’, Morphologische Untersuchungen 1: i-xx. archive.org Paul, Hermann (1920 [1880]), Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte , Halle an der Saale: Niemeyer. archive.org (English trans.: (1891), Principles of the history of language , trans. H. A. Strong, London: Longmans, Green and co. arch
Mon, August 31, 2020
Podcast episode 8: Language as an institution – William Dwight Whitney
In this episode, we look first at the critiques of Schleicher’s “physical” and Steinthal’s “psychological” theory of language put forward by the American linguist William Dwight Whitney. We then turn to Whitney’s own conception of language as a “human institution” and its intellectual background. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/hiphilangsci_008_epi.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767853 References for Episode 8 Primary Sources Lyell, Charles (1830–1833), Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation , 3 vols., London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles (1863), The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man , London: John Murray. archive.org Steinthal, H. (1875), ‘Antikritik. Gegen Whitney’, Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft , 8: 216–250. archive.org Whitney, William Dwight (1867), Language and the Study of Language , London: Trübner and Co. archive.org Whitney, William Dwight (1873a), ‘Schleicher and the physical theory of language’, Oriental and Linguistic Studies , Vol. I, pp. 298–331, New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. archive.org Whitney, William Dwight (1873b), ‘Steinthal and the psychological theory of language’, Oriental and Linguistic Studies , Vol. I, pp. 332–375, New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. archive.org Whitney, William Dwight (1874), ‘The elements of English pronunciation’, Oriental and Linguistic Studies , Vol. II, pp. 202–276, New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. <a href="https://archive.org/details/oriental
Mon, June 29, 2020
Podcast episode 7: Interview with Clara Stockigt on missionary grammars in Australia
In this interview, we talk to Dr Clara Stockigt about missionary grammars in Australia and their links to the academic linguistic scholarship of the time. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hiphilangsci_007_int.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767849 References for Episode 7 Primary Sources Bleek, Wilhelm H. I. (1858), The Library of His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B Philology, Australia , Vol. II, Part I, Australia , London: Trübner and Co. Flierl, J. (1880), Dieri Grammatik [Comparative grammar of Diyari and Wangkangurru], unpublished ms., Lutheran Archives, Adelaide, Box 22 Immanuel Synod–Bethesda Mission, 306.510. Gabelentz, Hans Conan von der (1861), ‘Über das Passivum: Eine sprachvergleichende Abhandlung’, Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Classe der Königlich-Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften , 8, pp. 449–546. Grey, George (1839), Vocabulary of the dialects spoken by the Aboriginal races of South-Western Australia , Perth: The author. (Repr. London: T & W. Boone, 1840). Grey, George (1841), Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia: During the years 1837, 38, and 39 , 2 Volumes, London: T & W. Boone. Grey, George (1845), ‘On the languages of Australia, being an extract from a dispatch from Captain G. Grey, Governor of South Australia, to Lord Stanley’, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London , 15, pp. 365-367. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1797917 Kempe, F. A. H. (1891), ‘A grammar and vocabulary of the language spoken by the Aborigines of the Macdonnell Ranges, South Australia’, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia , 14, pp. 1–54. Leonhardi, Moritz von (1901), Letter to C. Strehlow 10/09/1901 written in Germany, Strehlow Research Centre, Alice Springs, 1901-1-2, The NT Interpreter and Translator Service. Lepsius, Karl R. (1855), Das allgemeine linguistische Alphabet
Sat, May 30, 2020
Podcast episode 6: Schleicher’s morphology and Steinthal’s Völkerpsychologie
In this episode, we look first at August Schleicher’s proposal for a linguistic “morphology” and its intellectual background in nineteenth-century biology. We then compare Schleicher’s approach to the scheme of language classification developed by H. Steinthal within Völkerpsychologie , or “psychology of peoples”. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hiphilangsci_006_ep.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767841 References for Episode 6 Primary Sources Darwin, Charles (1861 [1859]), On the Origin of Species , 3rd ed., London: John Murray. Google Books Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1877 [1817–1824]), ‘Zur Morphologie’, Goethe’s Werke , vol. 33, ed. Salomon Kalischer, Berlin: Dümmler. archive.org Haeckel, Ernst (1866), Generelle Morphologie der Organismen , 2 vols., Berlin: Georg Reimer. archive.org: vol. 1 , vol. 2 Humboldt, Wilhelm von. (1905 [1822]), ‘Über das Entstehen der grammatischen Formen und ihren Einfluss auf die Ideenentwicklung’, Wilhelm von Humboldts gesammelte Schriften , vol. 4, pp. 285–313, ed. Albert Leitzmann, Berlin: Behr. archive.org (English trans.: 1997, Wilhelm von Humboldt: Essays on language , ed. and trans. Theo Harden and Daniel J. Farrelly, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.) Lazarus, M. and H. Steinthal (1860), ‘Einleitende Gedanken über Völkerpsychologie, als Einladung zu einer Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft’, Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft 1: 1–73. Schleicher, August (1859), ‘Zur Morphologie der Sprache’, Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg I:7, 1-38.
Wed, April 29, 2020
Podcast episode 5: Comparativism in the mid-19th century – August Schleicher and materialism
In this episode, we look at the expansion of comparative-historical linguistics around the middle of the nineteenth century. We focus in particular on the figure of August Schleicher, the great consolidator of the field, and his “materialist” philosophy of science. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/hiphilangsci_005_epx.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767838 References for Episode 5 Primary Sources Bleek, Wilhelm (1862–1869), A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages , 2 vols., London: Trübner and Co. Google Books: Vol. I , Vol. II Bopp, Franz (1841), Über die Verwandtschaft der malayisch-polynesischen Sprachen mit den indisch-europäischen , Berlin: Dümmler. archive.org Caldwell, Robert (1856), A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages , London: Harrison. archive.org Diez, Friedrich Christian (1836–1844), Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen , 3 vols., Bonn: Weber. Vol. I , Vol. II , Vol. III Gabelentz, Hans Conon von der (1861–1873), ‘Die melanesischen Sprachen nach ihrem grammatischen Bau und ihrer Verwandtschaft unter sich und mit den malaiisch-polynesischen Sprachen untersucht’, Abhandlungen der Königlich-Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig , Philologische-historische Classe, 3: 1–266, 7: 1–186. Google Books: Part I , Part II Le
Mon, March 30, 2020
Podcast episode 4: Interview with Jürgen Trabant on Wilhelm von Humboldt
In this episode, we talk to Jürgen Trabant about Wilhelm von Humboldt. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/hiphilangsci_004_int.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767830 References for Episode 4 Primary sources Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1836), ‘Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues’, Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java , vol. 1, ed. Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin: Dümmler. archive.org (English trans. On Language. The diversity of human language structure and ist influence on the mental development of mankind [1988], trans. Peter Heath, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.) Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1994), Mexikanische Grammatik , ed. Manfred Ringmacher, Paderborn: Schöningh. Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1997), Essays on Language , trans. Theo Harden and D. Farrelly, Frankfurt am Main: Lang. Humboldt, Wilhelm von (2012), Baskische Wortstudien und Grammatik , ed. Bernhard Hurch, Paderborn: Schöningh. Secondary sources Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt and Markus Messling (2017), ‘Wilhelm von Humboldt’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2017 Edition), ed. Edward N. Zalta. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2017/entries/wilhelm-humboldt/ Trabant, Jürgen (1986), Apeliotes oder der Sinn der Sprache, Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprachbild , München: Wilhelm Fink. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (French trans. Humboldt ou le sens du langage [1992], avec François Mortier et Jean-Luc Evard, Liège: Mardaga.) Trabant, Jürgen (2012), Weltansichten: Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprachprojekt , München: C.H. Beck. Trabant, Jürgen (2015), Wilhelm von Humboldt Lectures, Université de Rouen. <a href="https://webtv.univ-rouen.fr/channels/#2015-wilhelm-von-humboldt-lectures"
Sat, February 29, 2020
Podcast episode 3: Language classification
In this episode, we look at language classification in the first half of the nineteenth century and at some key ideas in the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/hiphilangsci_003_epr.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767813 References for Episode 3 Primary Sources Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de (1746), Essai sur l’origine des connoissances humaines , 2 vols., Amsterdam: Mortier. Bibliothèque Nationale de France (English trans. Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge [2001], ed. and trans. Hans Aarsleff, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.) Herder, Johann Gottfried von (1772), Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache , Berlin: Voß. archive.org (English trans. ‘Treatise on the Origin of Language’, Herder: Philosophical Writings , ed. and trans. Michael N. Forster, pp. 65–164, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.) Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1836), ‘Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues’, Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java , vol. 1, ed. Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin: Dümmler. archive.org (English trans. On Language. The diversity of human language structure and ist influence on the mental development of mankind [1988], trans. Peter Heath, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.) Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1905 [1820]), ‘Über das vergleichende Sprachstudium in Beziehung auf fie verschiedenen Epochen der Sprachentwicklung’, Wilhelm von Humboldts Gesammelte Schriften , vol. 4, ed. Albert Leitzmann, pp. 1-34, Behr: Berlin. archive.org (English trans. ‘On the comparative study of language and ist relation to the different periods of language development’, Wilhelm von Humboldt: Essays on Language [1997], ed. T. Harden and D. Farrelly, pp.
Fri, January 31, 2020
Podcast episode 2: Comparative-historical linguistics – Bopp and Grimm
In this episode, we look at the emergence of comparative-historical grammar, focusing on the work of Franz Bopp and Jacob Grimm. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/hiphilangsci_002_epx.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767805 References for Episode 2 Primary Sources Bopp, Franz (1816), Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache , Frankfurt am Main: Andräische Buchhandlung. archive.org Bopp, Franz (1820), Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, shewing the origingal identity of their grammatical structure , Annals of Oriental Literature , 1, pp. 1–64. Google Books Bopp, Franz (1833–1852), Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Lithauischen, Gothischen und Deutschen , 6 vols, Berlin: Dümmler. Google Books: All vols. (2nd ed. 1857–1861, Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Send, Armenischen, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litauischen, Altslavischen, Gothischen und Deutschen , 3 vols.) (English trans.: Edward B. Eastwick, 1845–1853, A Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic Languages , London: Madden and Malcolm, 3 vols. Google Books: Vol. 1 [2nd ed., 1856] , Vol. 2 , <a href="https://books.google.de/books?id=uq40AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=comparative+grammar+bopp&sa=X&v
Mon, December 30, 2019
Podcast episode 1: Pre-history of comparative-historical linguistics
The first series of the History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast looks at the history of modern linguistics. We begin in this episode by examining the pre-history of comparative-historical grammar. https://hiphilangsci.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/hiphilangsci_001_ep.mp3 Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767778 References for Episode 1 Primary Sources Adelung, Johann Christoph and Johann Severin Vater (1806–1817), Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde , Berlin: Vossische Buchhandlung. archive.org: vol. I , vol. II , vol. III parts I and II , vol. III part III , vol. IV Gessner, Conrad (2009 [1555]), Mithridate/Mithridates , ed. and trans. Bernard Colombat and Manfred Peters, Geneva: Librairie Droz. Jones, William (1807 [1786]), The Third Anniversary Discourse, on the Hindus. The Works of Sir William Jones , ed. Lord Teignmouth, vol. III, pp. 24–46. London: Stockdale and Walker. Google Books Jones, William (1807 [1792]), The Ninth Anniversary Discourse, on the Origin and Families of Nations. The Works of Sir William Jones , ed. Lord Teignmouth, vol. III, pp. 185–204. London: Stockdale and Walker. Google Books Schlegel, Friedrich (1808), Ueber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier , Heidelberg: Mohr und Zimmer. archive.org (English trans. ‘On the Indian Language, Literature and Philosophy’ [1900], The Æsthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel , ed. and trans. E. J. Millington, pp. 42
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