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| Society for Germanic Linguistics | |
|---|---|
| Name | Society for Germanic Linguistics |
| Formation | 1999 |
| Type | Scholarly society |
| Headquarters | North America |
| Leader title | President |
Society for Germanic Linguistics is a professional association devoted to the scientific study of Germanic languages. It brings together scholars working on historical linguistics, comparative philology, phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, and typology of Germanic languages such as German language, Dutch language, English language, Scandinavian languages, Icelandic language, and Yiddish language. The society connects researchers across institutions including Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Chicago.
The society was founded in the late 1990s amid initiatives from scholars active at conferences like the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting and workshops at Collegium Medievale, echoing traditions from the Neogrammarians and programs begun at University of Göttingen, University of Leipzig, and University of Copenhagen. Early organizers included faculty affiliated with Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Toronto, and University of Minnesota. Its formation paralleled developments in projects such as the Old English Dialectal Atlas and collaborations with centers like the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Founding events involved keynote talks by scholars from University of Oslo, Uppsala University, University of Helsinki, University of Bergen, and University of Iceland.
The society's mission emphasizes rigorous empirical research across periods and varieties represented in corpora like the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, TIGER Corpus, and databases maintained by Institute for the German Language. Its scope covers comparative work on Proto-Germanic reconstruction connected to scholars who worked with the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary tradition and fieldwork traditions represented at University of Vienna, University of Freiburg, and University of Würzburg. The society promotes dialogue between subfields represented at meetings of the Society for the Promotion of Scandinavian Studies, the German Studies Association, and the International Congress of Linguists.
Membership includes faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent scholars from institutions such as Columbia University, New York University, Brown University, McGill University, and University of British Columbia. The organizational structure features an elected executive board with officers drawn from departments at Princeton Theological Seminary and research institutes including the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Committees coordinate activities with partners like The Linguistic Society of America, Association for Computational Linguistics, European Society for Translation Studies, Modern Language Association, and discipline-specific groups at King's College London and University College London.
Annual meetings are held in rotation at host institutions including University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University, University of Michigan, Cornell University, and University of Wisconsin–Madison, and have also convened at international venues such as Leiden University, Ghent University, Humboldt University of Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Université Paris Diderot, and University of Zurich. Plenary speakers have included visiting scholars connected to Oxford English Dictionary projects, editors affiliated with Cambridge University Press, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and invited guests from Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Panels often intersect with sessions sponsored by European Society for the Study of English, International Association of Historical Linguistics, and the Henry Sweet Society.
The society sponsors proceedings and special issues published with presses and journals such as Language, Diachronica, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Journal of English Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Studia Linguistica, Transactions of the Philological Society, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press. It maintains a newsletter modeled on formats used by Modern Language Review and collaborates on edited volumes with editors at Routledge, Brill Publishers, De Gruyter, John Benjamins Publishing Company, and scholarly series from Palgrave Macmillan. Digital resources interface with initiatives like Project Gutenberg, Perseus Digital Library, and corpora hosted by Text Creation Partnership.
The society grants awards for best paper, dissertation prizes, and lifetime achievement recognitions similarly to honors awarded by Linguistic Society of America, Royal Society of Canada, British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and national academies such as the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Prize recipients have been affiliated with institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Trinity College Dublin, Leipzig University, and University of Bonn. Special lectures have been named in the spirit of figures connected to Rasmus Rask, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, August Schleicher, and Otto Jespersen.
The society partners with archives and museums such as the British Library, National Library of Norway, Royal Library of Denmark, Bodleian Library, and the Austrian National Library to foster manuscript research involving holdings like the Codex Regius, Beowulf manuscript, and early print collections from Gutenberg Museum. Collaborative projects involve computational groups at Stanford University Natural Language Processing Group, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and centers for digital humanities at King's College London Digital Humanities and University of Oxford e-Research Centre. Educational outreach includes summer schools and workshops held with organizations such as Association for Computational Linguistics, European Research Council projects, and regional societies like the German Studies Association and Nordic Association for English Studies.
Category:Linguistic societies