Article Laura Wright: The multilingual origins of Standard English (Topics in Linguistics 107) was published on October 1, 2022 the journal Journal Historical Sociolinguistics (volume 8, issue 2).

Preface: what linguists have made of it Most standard textbooks and historical accounts state that linguistics as a modern science started with the publication of Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Générale in 1916. In this posthumous compilation of course notes, Saussure outlined a new and fully scientific discipline, the object of which would be langue: the stable and structural pa...

The seminar brought together scholars from (historical) linguistics, (historical) philology, computational linguistics and computer science who work with collections of historical texts. These texts or digital libraries or corpora are collected for a number of different purposes such as lexicography, history, linguistics, philology etc. This, naturally, leads to different decisions in their des...

expression or syntactic rule in one there is a corresponding expression or syntactic rule in the other with the same meaning. Rosetta differs from the strict Montague model in making no use of intensional logic or of categorial grammar, but it adheres to the compositionality principle (in relating syntactic rules and semantic structures). The paper includes many formal proofs and only trivial s...