[Lingtyp] Abralin talk on the history of typology (by James McElvenny)

[Jorge Rosés Labrada]

Thank you, Martin, for sharing this.

I'll also mention James's podcast on the history of linguistics, which I
thoroughly enjoyed this past fall but which is, I think, on pause now. If
you haven't listened to it, there are now 11 episodes:
https://hiphilangsci.net/category/podcast/

Best,
Jorge
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 2:05 PM Martin Haspelmath <
martin_haspelmath at eva.mpg.de> wrote:

> Dear typologists,
>
> Many of you may well be interested in this fascinating talk by James
> McElvenny on Georg von der Gabelentz and the earlier history of typology:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNsNV1AQD-8&t
>
> Highly recommended! Many people know Gabelentz from ALT's Gabelentz
> Award, and some may have heard that he was the first to use the term
> "typology" (in 1894), in a fascinating article that also mentions the
> idea of expert-based comparative methodology, as well as statistical
> correlations.
>
> McElvenny does not glorify Gabelentz, and also puts him in the context
> of racist physical anthropology and Galton's eugenics, which were very
> fashionable in the days before Boas.
>
> (One new thing that I learned from the talk is that Friedrich von
> Schlegel (1808) actually used my preferred term "comparative grammar",
> so it also has a very respectable pedigree.)
>
> Best,
> Martin
>
> P.S. I should also mention that McElvenny is series editor of a LangSci
> series on the history of linguistics
> (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/hpls), and co-editor of the
> LangSci edition of Gabelentz's famous book "Die Sprachwissenschaft"
> (1891/1901): https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/97
>
> --
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