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Language & History (formerly the Bulletin of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas) aims to promote the study of the history of all branches of linguistic thought, theoretical and applied, and including non-European traditions. Its fields of interest include the history both of the major subject areas of linguistics and also more specialised topics, such as writing systems, literacy, rhetoric, and the application of linguistic ideas within professional and technical fields.
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‘To be avoided by every correct Writer’: George Harris’s Observations upon the English Language and the first English usage guide
Don Chapman et al.
Article | Published online: 25 Jun 2024
Pronominal variation in Arabic among the grammarians, Qurʾānic reading traditions and manuscripts
Marijn van Putten et al.
Article | Published online: 3 May 2024
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Word as definition. A key principle of the Comenian project for universal language: its sources and contexts
Petr Pavlas
Article | Published online: 24 May 2024
John Wallis on sound symbolism
David Cram
Article | Published online: 24 May 2024
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Early modern Europe’s other real characters
Sean O’Neil
Article | Published online: 24 May 2024
Effable characters: the problem of language and its media in seventeenth-century linguistic thought
Kelly Minot McCay
Article | Published online: 24 May 2024
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