Patrick Sériot

List of John Benjamins publications in which Patrick Sériot is involved.

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History of Linguistics 2011: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII), Saint Petersburg, 28 August - 2 September 2011

Edited by Vadim Kasevich, Yuri A. Kleiner and Patrick Sériot

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 28 August – 2 September 2011. It begins with contributions on 17th-century rationalist ideas and practical grammar… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 123] 2014. xviii, 221 pp.

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Sériot, Patrick 2024 Chapter 2. Type or descent? The philosophical, romantic, and biological sources of typology in Soviet linguistics of the 1920s–1940s History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August – 1 September, Raynaud, Savina, Maria Paola Tenchini and Enrica Galazzi (eds.), pp. 31–46 | Chapter

Either science aims at universal validity, or it is no science. The idea that science can be culturally or nationally determined is unanimously considered as an outdated Romantic cliché. Nonetheless, it is usual to speak of the Western thought, without wondering where its Eastern limit is to be… read more

Sériot, Patrick 2020 Chapter 8. The Russian trail: Dmitrievsky, the little drama metaphor and dependency grammar Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière, Imrényi, András and Nicolas Mazziotta (eds.), pp. 253–276 | Chapter

L. Tesnière is not the first inventor of dependency grammars. In fact, a “climate of opinion” can be formed without any direct contact in time and space between linguists who do not know each other but came to similar views because they met the same problems and were dissatisfied with the… read more

Sériot, Patrick 2014 Anti-positivism in early Soviet linguistics: A Marxist or idealist stance? History of Linguistics 2011: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII), Saint Petersburg, 28 August - 2 September 2011, Kasevich, Vadim, Yuri A. Kleiner and Patrick Sériot (eds.), pp. 169–180 | Article

Soviet linguistics of the 1920s–1930s has often been presented, in the Soviet Union as well as in the so-called “Western world”, as a quest for a Marxist science of language. As a matter of fact, it would be more accurate to speak of an original blend of German romanticism, Neo-Platonistic… read more

Sériot, Patrick 1999 The Impact of Czech and Russian Biology on the Linguistic Thoughts of the Prague Linguistic Circle Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série, Hajičová, Eva, Tomáš Hoskovec, Oldřich Leška †, Petr Sgall and Zdena Skoumalová (eds.), pp. 15–24 | Article

Sériot, Patrick 1999 La théorie des deux sciences dans la linguistique russe et soviétique History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 301–312 | Chapter

Sériot, Patrick 1999 Sketches of Slavic Scholars. Par Henrik Birnbaum Historiographia Linguistica 26:1/2, pp. 199–203 | Review