History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

In this interview, we talk to John Joseph about the elision of the speaking subject in linguistics and Emile Benveniste’s efforts to bring them back.

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Hiphilangsci theme music by Luca Dinu.

References for Episode 66

Benveniste, Émile (1956) “La nature des pronoms,” in For Roman Jakobson, The Hague: Mouton, 34–7 (repr. in Benveniste 1966a, 251–7).

—— (1966a) Problèmes de linguistique générale, Paris: Gallimard.

—— (1966b) “La forme et le sens du langage,” in Le langage: Actes du XIIIe congrès des sociétés de philosophie de...

In this interview, we talk to Micaela Verlato about how the work of Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt on Native American languages contributed to the development of comparative linguistics.

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References for Episode 65

Adelung, Johann Christoph and Johann Severin Vater (1806–1817) Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vaterunser als Sprachprobe, 6 vols, Berlin: Vossische Buchhandlung.

Andresen, Julie Tetel (1990) Linguistics in America 1769-1924, London/New York: Routledge.

Boas, Franz (1911) “Introduction,” in Franz Boas (ed.) Handbook of Americ...

In this interview, we talk to Martin Konvička about the Dutch Signific Movement, which adapted the ideas of Lady Welby in the early 20th century.

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References for Episode 64

Primary sources

Brouwer, Luitzen E. J. 1916. “Review of J.I. de Haan – Rechtskundige significa en hare toepassing op de begrippen “aansprakelijk verantwoordelijk, toerekeningsvatbaar”. Groot Nederland 14: 333–336.

Brouwer, Luitzen E. J. 1946. Synopsis of the signific movement in the Netherlands. Prospects of the signific movement. Synthese 5: 201–208.

Brouwer, Luitzen E. J., Frederik van Eeden, Jac. van Ginn...

In this interview, we talk to Kristine Palmieri about comparativism in Germany of the early 19th century.

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Image credit: Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

References for Episode 63

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Bopp, Franz. Ausführliches Lehrgebäude der Sanskrita-Sprache. Berlin: Druckerei der Königl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1827.

Bopp, Franz. Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Gothischen und Deutschen. Vol. 1. Berlin: Druckerei der Königl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1833.

Creuzer, Friedrich. Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker. Besonders der Griech...

In this interview, we talk to Peter Austin about his career in field linguistics and the history of language documentation in Australia, in particular how the role of Indigenous community members has changed over the past 50 years.

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References for Episode 62

Austin, Peter K. 2025. Adding value to legacy linguistic fieldnotes: an Australian case study. Submitted to SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics.

Dobrin, Lise , Peter K. Austin and David Nathan. 2009. Dying to b...

In this interview, we talk to Adam Schembri about the nature of sign languages, how they have been studied in the past, and how they are studied today.

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References for Episode 61

Baker, A., van den Bogarde, B., Pfau, R., & Schermer, T. (2016). The Linguistisc of Sign Languages: An introduction. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Hill, J.C., Lillo-Martin, D.C. & Wood, S.K. (2025). Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts. London...

In this interview, we talk to Penny Lee about her research into Whorf and linguistic relativity.

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Photo by Mike Clarke.

Note: On reviewing the recording, Penny Lee noticed a slip of the tongue in her reference to a new Afterword in the 2012 edition of Whorf’s Language, Thought and Reality. This edition, in fact, features a new Foreword by Stephen C. Levinson. 

References for Episode 60

Alford, Danny K. (Moonhawk). 1981. ‘Is Whorf’s relativity Einstein’s relativity?’. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 7.13-26.

Bohm, David...

In this interview, we talk to Anna Wierzbicka about her life and research into semantics.

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References for Episode 59

Apresjan, Juri. 2000. Systematic Lexicography, trans. by Kevin Windle. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Bromhead, Helen. 2009. Reign of Truth and Faith: Epistemic Expressions in 16th and 17th Century English. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Bromhead, Helen. 2018. Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Goddard, Cliff (Ed.) 2018a. Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Goddard, Cliff, and Anna Wierzbicka. 2025. ‘Anch...

In this interview, we talk to Ryan Nefdt about the light latest work in “artificial intelligence” can cast on questions of linguistic relativity.

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Image: Cover of Linguistic Relativity by Pelletier and Nefdt (Oxford University Press)

References for Episode 58

Bickerton, D. (2014). More than nature needs: Language, mind, and evolution. Harvard University Press.

Boroditsky, L., Schmidt, L., & Phillips, W. (2003). Sex, syntax, and semantics. In D. Gentner & S. Goldin-Meadow (Eds.), Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and thought (pp. 61–79). MIT Press.

Chemla, E...

In this interview, we talk to Brigitte Nerlich about her career in the history of linguistics and the public understanding of science

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Image from Brigitte Nerlich

References for Episode 57

Bréal, M. (1897). Essai de Sémantique: Science des significations. Paris: Hachette.

Gardiner, A. H. (1932). The Theory of Speech and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harris, R. (1980). The Language-Makers. London: Duckworth.

Harris, R. (1981). The Language Myth. London: Duckworth.

Harris, R. (1990). Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein: How to play games with words...

In this interview, we talk to Nick Enfield about his research into the connections between linguistic signs and concepts.

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Image from Nick Enfield’s website

References for Episode 56

Dunbar, R. I. M. (2004). “Gossip in Evolutionary Perspective”, Review of General Psychology, 8(2): 100-110. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1037/1089-2680.8.2.100

Enfield, Nick J. (2022), “Linguistic concepts are self-generating choice architectures”, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 378: 20210352. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0352

Enfield, N. J. (2026). “The enchronic envelope”, Psychological Review, 133(2): 296–314.  https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000553

Kockelman, Paul. (2005). “The semiotic stance”...

In this interview, we talk to Janette Friedrich about her research and career.

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References for Episode 55

Bühler, Karl ([1934] 2009). Théorie du langage. La fonction représentationnelle du langage, préface de Jacques Bouveresse, présentation de Janette Friedrich, traduction par Didier Samain. Marseille: Agone.

Friedrich, Janette (1993). Der Gehalt der Sprachform. Paradigmen von Bachtin bis Vygotskij. Berlin : Akademie-Verlag,

Friedrich, Janette (2010). Lev Vygotski : médiation, apprentissage et développement. Une lecture philosophique et épistémologique, 2e édition. Carnets des sciences de l’éducation, FPSE, Université de Genève. (bra...

In this interview, Neil Cohn tells us about his theory that visual art and spoken language draw on the same underlying cognitive abilities.

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References for Episode 54

Cohn, Neil, and Joost Schilperoord. 2025. A Multimodal Language Faculty: A cognitive framework for communication. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Cohn, Neil. 2026. Speaking in Pictures: A vision of language. London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-in-pictures-9781350402164/

Lerdahl, Fred, and Ray S. Jackendoff. 1985. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Publishing.

Transcript by Luca Dinu

In this interview, Paul Kiparsky introduces us to the ancient Indian grammarian Pāṇini and the philosophical significance of his grammatical description of Sanskrit.

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Feature image: Pāṇini stamp, India (2004). Wikimedia Commons

References for Episode 53

Bloomfield, Leonard. Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis, 1917. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50797

Bloomfield, Leonard. The Menominee Language, Yale University Press, 1962.

Kiparsky, Paul. Panini as a Variationist, MIT Press, 1979.

Kiparsky, Paul. “On the architecture of Pāṇini’s grammar.” International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin He...

In this interview, Gereon Müller discusses his new book Lanes to Language, which unites the worlds of history of linguistics and cycling.

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Intro and outro: Bach, Cello Suite no. 1 in G major, Prelude. Recording from Wikipedia.

References for Episode 52

Helbig, Gerhard, and Joachim Buscha. 19721. Deutsche Grammatik. Ein Handbuch für den Ausländerunterricht. Leipzig: Verlag Enzyklopädie.

Müller, Gereon. 2025. Lanes to Language: Linguistic bike rides in and around Leipzig. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. http://home.uni-leipzig.de/muellerg/rad/lingride.pdf

Wun...

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 state of the field.

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References for Episode 51

Dryer, M. S., et al. 2013. The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. München: Max Planck Digital Library. http://wals.info/

Haspelmath, M. 1993. A Grammar of Lezgian. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Haspelmath, M. 2010. Comparative concepts and descriptive categories in crosslinguistic studies. Language, 86(3), 663...

In this interview, Gerda Haßler discusses her career in Romanistik and the history of linguistics in the DDR and re-united Germany.

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References for Episode 50

Haßler, Gerda. 1984. Sprachtheorien der Aufklärung zur Rolle der Sprache im
Erkenntnisprozeß. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.

Haßler, Gerda. 1991. Der semantische Wertbegriff in Sprachtheorien vom 18. bis zum 20.
Jahrhundert. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.

Haßler, Gerda. 2016. Temporalität, Aspektualität und Modalität in romanischen Sprachen.
Berlin: De Gruyter.

Haßler, Gerda, und Cordula Neis. 2009. Lexikon sprachtheoretischer Grundbegriffe des 17. un...

In this interview, Fritz Newmeyer discusses linguistics, history of linguistics, and politics.

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References for Episode 49

Newmeyer, Frederick J. 1986 [1980]. Linguistic Theory in America, 2nd edition. Orlando: Academic Press.

Newmeyer, Frederick J. 2022. American Linguistics in Transition: From Post-Bloomfieldian Structuralism to Generative Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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. [00:13] There you can find links and references to all the lite...

In this interview, Randy Harris interviews James McElvenny about his recent book A History of Modern Linguistics.

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References for Episode 48

McElvenny, James. 2024. A History of Modern Linguistics: From the beginnings to World War II. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

McElvenny, James. 2025. Entstehung und Entwicklung der modernen Linguistik: Von den Anfängen bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg. Berlin: De Gruyter.

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 hi...

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

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References for Episode 47

Huddleston, Rodney, and Geoffrey Pullum K., eds. 2002. Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pullum, Geoffrey K. 2018. Linguistics: Why it matters. Cambridge: Polity.

Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band – Que Sera, Sera (1967) (YouTube)

Transcript by Luca Dinu

JMc: Hi, I’m James McElvenny, and you’re listening to the Histor...

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

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References for Episode 46

See Wikisource for scans of the Grimms’ original works:

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Br%C3%BCder_Grimm

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Jacob_Grimm

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Grimm

DWB – Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Ed.). 1965–2018. Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm. Neubearbeitung. Vol. 1–9. Stuttgart: Hirzel. (ww...

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

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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 Ch...

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

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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-Y...

In this interview, we talk to Judy Kaplan about universals in American linguistics of the mid-20th century.

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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 o...

In this interview, we talk to Randy Harris about the controversies surrounding the generative semantics movement in American linguistics of the 1960s and 70s.

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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...

In this interview, we talk to Chris Knight about Chomsky, pure science and the US military-industrial complex.

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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 Resp...

In this interview, we talk to Nick Riemer about how linguistic theory and political ideology can interact.

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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 marxi...

In this interview, we talk to Ingrid Piller about her forthcoming co-authored book Life in a New Language.

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References for Episode 39

Kachru, Braj B. 1985. ‘Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism: The English language in the outer circle’, in English in the world: Teaching and learning the language and literatures, ed. Randolph Quirk and Henry George Widdowson, pp. 11–30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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.

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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...

In this interview, we talk to Michael Lynch about the history of conversation analysis and its connections to ethnomethodology.

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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...

In this interview, we talk to Ghil‘ad Zuckermann about language reclamation and revival in Australia and around the world.

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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...

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.

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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...

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.

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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. Publisher’s website

Comparative historical reconstruction in Australian languages:

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.

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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), Re...

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.

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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...

In this episode, we explore the historical background to linguistic relativity or the so-called ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’.

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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: Proceedi...

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.

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References for Episode 30

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Dixon, Roland, and Alfred L. Kroebe...

In this interview, we talk to Marcin Kilarski about the history of the documentation and description of the languages of North America.

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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, Linc...