History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

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

Brigitte Nerlich
University of Nottingham

My old book Change in Language: Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener has just come out as an ebook. It was first published in 1990 and has no...

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.

Image: HamNoSys base hand shapes, from “

Craig Christy

During my doctoral studies at Princeton (1977-1980), Hans (English Department) was one of my mentors, along with William G. Moulton (German Department) within the interdepartmental Program...