In this interview, Martin Haspelmath talks about how he got started in linguistics, the rise of large-scale areal typology in the 1990s, language description vs language comparison, and the current…

Summary This paper presents a case study of the linguistic work conducted by the German Lutheran missionaries Christian G. Teichelmann (1807–1888) and Clamor W. Schürmann (1815–1893) in producing gram...

A large group of scholars led by Cody Kommers and Drew Hemment at the Alan Turing Institute recently published a paper on ‘computational hermeneutics’. They mention Hans-Georg Gadamer and Wilhelm D…

In this interview, we talk to Geoff Pullum about his career, his contributions to linguistics, and how he sees the future of the field.

CHSTM Working group History of the Language Sciences. Meetings online, September 2025–May 2026 Archives scaffold research in both in history and the sciences. Far from passive repositories, they as…

von Philip Kraut So unwahrscheinlich es auch klingt: Unmarkierte Akkusative machen manche Menschen „wahnsinnig“. Stein des Anstoßes war ein auf X/Twitter gepostetes stockfootageartiges…

Date: 8-11 January 2026Place: New Orleans, LouisianaDeadline for submission: 1 September 2025Information: The North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) will hold…

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As you know, I am now gradually moving from my old ‘Making Science Public’ blog home at the University of Nottingham to my new personal blog home here. This wasn’t easy and lots of people supported…

In this interview, we talk to Ian Stewart about modern ideas surrounding the Celts and how these relate to historical-comparative linguistics.

Bulletin of the Henry Sweet Society

The Vivien Law Prize

Zwartjes, Otto, ed. 2025. The History of Chinese Linguistics in East and West. [Special issue] Historiographia Linguistica 51(1-3). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 385 p. ISSN 0302-5…

Kieran Setiya reviews Christoph Schuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy.”

Riolfi, Alessandro. 2025. The Parameter in Generative Grammar. A History of a Concept. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 348 p. ISBN  9781316516966Publisher’s website Focusing on the dev…

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This book offers a concise introduction to the history of modern linguistics from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to World War II. It has been written as a collective biography of the s...

In this interview, we talk to Philip Kraut about the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, their scholarly contributions and political engagement.

In this interview, we talk to Beijia Chen about the citation networks binding the Neogrammarians as a school.