2017 - …. Professeur des universités (première classe depuis 2019), Université de Paris. Laboratoire Histoire des Théories Linguistiques. HTL est une Unité Mixte de Recherche (n°7597), dont les tutelles sont le CNRS, l’Université de Paris et l’Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.
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- Member of the “Conseil d’Administration de la S.H.E.S.L. (Société d’Histoire et d’Épistémologie des Sciences du Langage).
- Member of the Laboratoire d'Excellence “Fondements Empiriques de la Linguistique” (Labex EFL), Axe 3: “Typologie et dynamique des systèmes linguistiques”.
- Member of the Scientific Council of the “Seminario Permanente de Historiografía Lingüística (FES, Acatlán, Mexico).
Director: Otto Zwartjes
The history of the International Conferences on Missionary Linguistics starts in the year 2002 when Otto Zwartjes founded the OsProMil (Oslo Project on Missionary Linguistics), financed by the Norwegian Research Council “Norges Forskningsråd”, until 2006. The conferences are organised in three continents, Europe (Oslo, Valladolid, Bremen, Rome), Americas (São Paulo [Brasil], Mérida [México], Lima [Perú], Santa Rosa de la Pampa [Argentine]) and Asia (Hong Kong, Tokyo, Manila).
Next Conference (2022): University of Macau.
Books published, derived from these conferences (John Benjamins, Series: Studies in the History of Language Sciences) and one special issue of Historiographia Linguistica (Zwartjes & Koerner, eds.).
Recent publication: (proceedings of the VIIIth Conference (Lima, Peru): (with Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino and Álvaro Ezcurra, eds.) (2019): Lingüística Misionera: aspectos lingüísticos, discursivos, filológicos y pedagógicos. Lima: Universidad de Lima/ Fondo Editorial.
Otto Zwartjes is founder of the ROLD Research group and directed the program between 2006-2017.
Description of the research group
The members of the group investigate older texts (colonial, postcolonial, missionary and non-missionary, word lists of travelers and historians) with the following objectives: historical linguistics, the history of linguistics, linguistic documentation, translation studies and socio-cultural analysis. The aim of historical linguistics is to describe older stages of languages as well as (processes of) language change, while the history of linguistics studies early thinking on languages, linguistics typologies and structures and linguistics. Linguistic documentation is a crucial part of both branches. These studies are often interrelated with those of the cultural context in which colonial societies developed. Non-Western languages are our main focus.
Six Meetings were organized at the University of Amsterdam. Selected papers of ROLD meetings are published in the STUF-review (Berlin Akademie Verlag) and in the on-line journal Linguistics in Amsterdam).
Recent publication: (2020). Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus, Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez, Liesbeth Zack & Otto Zwartjes, (éds.): Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia. Leiden & Boston: Brill. [=Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, v. 22.]. E-book: ISBN: 978-90-04-42700-6. Hardback: ISBN: 978-90-04-42460-9. (319 pp.).
Special ROLD Session: Mastering Mandarin and Mĭn-Chinese in Manila and Macao: Revitalizing Older Linguistic Documentation. Séance scientifique du labo. 18-12-2020. http://htl-temp.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/_media/laboratoire/mastering_mandarin_and_min_v2.pdf