[Lingtyp] languages of scholarship

[Hartmut Haberland]

Et si l'article porte sur le grec moderne, il doit souvent se référer à la tradition grammaticale grecque (Tzartzanos) ou française (Roussel, Mirambel). Restricting oneself to discourses in one language is myopic. Most linguists really need to read more than just two or three languages to keep up with the relevant literature, but how many do?
(Robert E. Wall said in the famous McCawley Festschrift, "More people can make out what it is about in French than actually read it".)
To take a concrete example: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia was founded in 1939 and its first issue contained papers in German, French and English. Today, it still calls itself an 'international journal', but now practically all papers are in English, with very few exceptions. However, if you take a random issue (51(1), May 2019), apart from one paper specifically dealing with English, there are references to literature in German, French, Greek, Norwegian, and Swedish. So linguists are at least not passively monolingual.
Hartmut Haberland
Fra: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> På vegne af Nigel Vincent
Sendt: 26. juni 2020 10:04
Til: Wiemer, Bjoern <wiemerb at uni-mainz.de>; Gilles Authier <gilles.authier at gmail.com>
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Emne: Re: [Lingtyp] languages of scholarship

Et si l'article est sur une langue romane mais les références jugées indispensables sont écrites en allemand ou en danois ... ?


Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
The University of Manchester

Linguistics & English Language
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
The University of Manchester



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Subject: AW: [Lingtyp] languages of scholarship


Je pense que oui...  Actually, the same applies to articles on (a language from) other language groups (e.g., Slavic) or subgroups (e.g., Scandinavian)...

BW



Von: Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] Im Auftrag von Gilles Authier
Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Juni 2020 09:35
An: Nigel Vincent <nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk>>
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Si l'article est sur une langue romane et que les références jugées indispensables sont écrites dans une langue romane, il me semblerait devoir être rejeté, oui.

GA



On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 7:52 AM Nigel Vincent <nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk>> wrote:

A related question to Ian's that I have sometimes thought about concerns the languages a researcher should be able to read in order to access relevant scholarship. Should, for example, a paper be rejected or revisions asked for if someone writing in English on a general linguistic topic has not cited relevant work written in a language other than English?

Nigel





Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
The University of Manchester



Linguistics & English Language
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

The University of Manchester







https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/nigel-vincent(f973a991-8ece-453e-abc5-3ca198c869dc).html

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