{"title":"Review of Benveniste, Coquet & Fenoglio (2019): Last Lectures. Collège de France 1968 and 1969","authors":"P. Swiggers","doi":"10.1075/HL.00073.SWI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/HL.00073.SWI","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51928,"journal":{"name":"Historiographia Linguistica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43810772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L. V. Ščerba’s conception of language","authors":"Olga Campbell-Thomson","doi":"10.1075/HL.00074.CAM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/HL.00074.CAM","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This contribution offers an introduction to an essay by the Russian linguist Lev Vladimirovič Ščerba (1880–1944),\u0000 “О трояком аспекте языковых явлений и об эксперименте в языкознании” (“The threefold aspect of linguistic\u0000 phenomena and experiment in linguistics”), which was first published in 1931. This introduction is followed by an annotated\u0000 translation of Ščerba’s essay, proposed here for the first time to an English-speaking readership (Read the English translation at 10.1075/hl.00075.sce).\u0000 The critical introduction provides the backstory behind Ščerba’s conception of language as a means of helping the\u0000 reader to understand the connectedness of the various strands of his linguistic research. As is shown in our introduction,\u0000 Ščerba’s general distinction between linguistic raw material, the linguistic system and individual speech activity (the “threefold\u0000 aspect” alluded to in the title of his essay) serves as a framework to conceptualise metalinguistic practice and the relation of\u0000 the social dimension of language to its individual embodiment. An examination of the explanatory potential of Ščerba’s conception\u0000 of language for general linguistic problems suggests that his achievements lay in formulating a cohesive account of the\u0000 interconnectedness of language phenomena, identifying the linguistic means with which to understand the social nature of language,\u0000 and providing a theoretical basis for addressing the practical tasks of linguistics.","PeriodicalId":51928,"journal":{"name":"Historiographia Linguistica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46048968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The threefold aspect of linguistic phenomena and experiment in linguistics*, **","authors":"Lev Vladimirovič Ščerba, Olga Campbell-Thomson","doi":"10.1075/HL.00075.SCE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/HL.00075.SCE","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51928,"journal":{"name":"Historiographia Linguistica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48777129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Joseph (2018): Language, Mind, and Body: A conceptual history","authors":"D. Cram","doi":"10.1075/HL.00076.CRA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/HL.00076.CRA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51928,"journal":{"name":"Historiographia Linguistica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42859253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The monolingual approach in American linguistic fieldwork","authors":"Margaret Thomas","doi":"10.1075/HL.00078.THO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/HL.00078.THO","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the first decades of the 20th century, fieldwork — collection of language data through direct interaction with\u0000 a native speaker — was foundational to American linguistics. After a mid-century period of neglect, fieldwork has recently been\u0000 revived as a means to address the increasing rate of language endangerment worldwide. Twenty-first century American fieldwork\u0000 inherits some, but not all, of the traits of earlier fieldwork. This article examines the history of one controversial issue,\u0000 whether a field worker should adopt a monolingual approach, learning and using the target language as a medium of exchange with\u0000 native speakers, as opposed to relying on interpreters or a lingua franca. Although the monolingual approach is not widely\u0000 practiced, modern proponents argue strongly for its value. The method has been popularized though ‘monolingual demonstrations’ to\u0000 audiences of linguists, which, curiously, are not wholly consistent with the character of 21st-century fieldwork.","PeriodicalId":51928,"journal":{"name":"Historiographia Linguistica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41740657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unecauseet sesraisonsd’être Solution latine à un problème de terminologie arabe","authors":"M. Sartori","doi":"10.1075/hl.00060.sar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00060.sar","url":null,"abstract":"Dans le domaine sémitique occidental, l’hébreu, le syriaque et l’arabe, la plus jeune des langues de ce groupe, partagent des termes qui se présentent comme morphophonologiquement semblables et homonymes: respectivementʿillah, ʿelltāetʿilla. Ce dernier, issu du précédent, possède deux significations en arabe, “maladie” d’une part et “cause” d’autre part. Ce serait également le cas du terme grecaitíaqui serait l’équivalent de ces termes sémitiques. Il est toutefois difficile de relier ces deux significations l’une à l’autre, et l’explication classique pour l’arabe est de poser que la seconde dériverait de la première. Cette étude s’attache à montrer que, contrairement à ce que certains avancent, non seulement le terme grec, mais également ses équivalents syriaque et hébreu ne possèdent que le sens de “cause”. Elle propose par ailleurs de voir dans les termes syriaque et hébreu non pas les descendants d’un proto-sémitique commun (rien de comparable n’étant à signaler en akkadien), mais le fruit vraisemblable d’un emprunt fait au bas latin: là, le verbeīnfĕrō, “causer”, y a pour dérivés nominaux des termes enillāt-. En conséquence, ce n’est pas tant le sens de “cause” qu’il s’agirait d’expliquer en arabe, mais bien plutôt celui de “maladie”, et, contrairement à ce qui a été avancé, c’est certainement le sens de “cause” qui est premier et fondamental et non celui de “maladie”, expliquant alors certainement son emploi en grammaire arabe.","PeriodicalId":51928,"journal":{"name":"Historiographia Linguistica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47878188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expanding the comparative view","authors":"F. Solleveld","doi":"10.1075/hl.00062.sol","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00062.sol","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java can be seen as the first comparative\u0000 grammar of non-Indo-European languages. While Humboldt’s practice of collecting and re-assembling linguistic information has been documented\u0000 extensively in the Berlin Academy edition of his Schriften zur Sprachwissenschaft, this article puts his work in\u0000 perspective by tracing it back to its sources and treating it as part of a wider parallel process of expanding the comparative view. In\u0000 three sections, this article discusses (1) the research agendas of the three British colonial scholars upon whose works Humboldt drew for\u0000 Malayan languages; (2) to which extent his Polynesian language material was ‘rawer’ than these compendia; and (3) how he reworked this\u0000 material into a comparative Malayo-Polynesian grammar. Finally, a comparison is drawn with the work of his assistant and continuator Eduard\u0000 Buschmann, and with Horatio Hale’s slightly later survey of the languages of the Pacific.","PeriodicalId":51928,"journal":{"name":"Historiographia Linguistica","volume":"47 1","pages":"52-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49598819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Une ‘grammaire’ des grammaires de la Renaissance","authors":"Iris Plack","doi":"10.1075/hl.00064.pla","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00064.pla","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51928,"journal":{"name":"Historiographia Linguistica","volume":"47 1","pages":"109-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45242289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crisis in the Linguistic Society of America","authors":"F. Newmeyer","doi":"10.1075/hl.00063.new","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00063.new","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article discusses and analyses the 1970 election for President of\u0000 the Linguistic Society of America. In that year, Dwight Bolinger\u0000 challenged the official candidate Martin Joos and defeated him easily. We see that it was\u0000 mainly personal and generational factors, rather than intellectual ones, that led to\u0000 Bolinger’s victory.","PeriodicalId":51928,"journal":{"name":"Historiographia Linguistica","volume":"47 1","pages":"83-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44608137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}