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| Société de Linguistique Romane | |
|---|---|
| Name | Société de Linguistique Romane |
| Formation | 1873 |
| Type | Learned society |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Region served | Romance-speaking world |
| Language | French |
| Leader title | President |
Société de Linguistique Romane is a learned society founded in 1873 in Paris devoted to the study of Romance languages and literatures. It promotes research on Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and other Romance varieties through publications, meetings and collaborative projects. The society has connections with major academic institutions and scholarly networks across Europe, the Americas, and North Africa.
The society was established in a context shaped by figures such as Frédéric Maspero-era scholarship, contemporaneous with the activities of Émile Littré, Jules Guesde-era intellectual networks, and the institutional rise of philology linked to École des Chartes, Collège de France, and Sorbonne. Early work echoed methods from the comparative projects of Franz Bopp, Rasmus Rask, and Jacob Grimm, while responding to national language movements exemplified by Giovanni Pascoli, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Leopoldo Alas. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the society interacted with scholars associated with Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Royal Spanish Academy, and Accademia della Crusca. The two World Wars affected membership and publication schedules, with resumed activity paralleling reconstruction efforts involving Universities of Paris, University of Bologna, and University of Salamanca.
Governance follows a structure of elected officers including presidents drawn from universities such as Sorbonne, La Sapienza, Barcelona, Lisbon, and Geneva. Membership comprises professors, researchers, and librarians affiliated with bodies like CNRS, Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel-unrelated academic councils, and libraries such as the BnF and BNE. The society maintains collaborations with international organizations including UNESCO, International Phonetic Association, and the Modern Language Association. Honorary members have included individuals connected with Institut de France, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden-adjacent scholars, and prominent figures from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The society issues a regular bulletin and series of monographs that interact with scholarship from presses such as Presses Universitaires de France, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Garzanti Editore. Publications have covered topics ranging from medieval texts studied by specialists from Bodleian Library, Vatican Library, and Bibliothèque nationale de France to sociolinguistic surveys influenced by work at Geneva and Strasbourg. Its journals have featured contributions by scholars associated with ENS, King's College London, Harvard University, Yale University, and Princeton University. The society also sponsors critical editions, concordances, and bibliographies used in comparative projects with CESSMA, CNRS laboratories, and national academies like Real Academia Española.
Annual meetings convene in cities that have included Paris, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Geneva, and Bucharest, often hosted by partner institutions such as Collège de France, Bologna, Complutense, and Coimbra. The program typically brings together delegates from institutions like Universidad de Buenos Aires, UNAM, UC Berkeley, and Chicago for panels on philology, dialectology, and textual criticism influenced by methodologies developed at Humboldt and Provence. Special symposia have been organized in partnership with repositories such as the Vatican Library, museums like the Louvre, and linguistic institutes including Istituto di Studi Italiani.
The society has shaped research agendas in Romance linguistics, impacting theories advanced by scholars connected to Ferdinand de Saussure, Antoine Meillet, André Martinet, Roman Jakobson, and Noam Chomsky-adjacent comparative syntactic debates. Its editions and discussions have informed philological work on texts by Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Molière, Luís de Camões, and Garcilaso de la Vega. The society's bibliographic and dialectological initiatives have intersected with projects at Atlas Linguistique de France, Atlas Linguistique Roman, and regional corpora maintained by institutions such as Real Academia Española and Accademia della Crusca. Through links to national academies, university departments, and international unions its influence extends to language standardization efforts, historical linguistics, and comparative literary studies associated with European Research Council-funded networks.
Prominent members and presidents have included scholars affiliated with EHESS, ENS, Paris, Bologna, Salamanca, Barcelona, Padua, Geneva, Coimbra, and Harvard. Figures connected to the society have collaborated with editors from Presses Universitaires de France, curators at the BnF, and members of Académie Française and Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Internationally recognized linguists and philologists associated through membership include those whose research links to Friedrich Diez, Ernest Renan, François Raynouard, Ernest Décharrière, and later scholars active at CNRS and major universities listed above.
Category:Linguistic societies Category:Academic organisations based in France