No. 51 (2025): Historical Perspectives in Linguistic-Grammatical Studies

The 20th century, especially from its second half, marked a period of relative decline for philology, grammar, and diachronic studies in Brazil, primarily driven by a misguided belief that linguistics, the new science of the century, would surpass these studies and their researchers. However, time has shown that it is indeed possible to maintain philological, linguistic, and grammatical studies simultaneously, either integrated as a whole or viewed as different ways to approach and analyse languages. Due to this movement of returning to the past, the 21st century has experienced a growing interest in analysing language aspects from a perspective that could, in a somewhat simplistic manner, be described as "historical." In this dossier, titled "Historical Perspectives in Linguistic-Grammatical Studies," we seek papers in which different perspectives and approaches to historical, historiographical, philological, and/or diachronic analyses in linguistic-grammatical studies are presented, with the aim of valuing these aspects in the interpretation of language facts and phenomena. Therefore, we will accept papers that adopt any historical approach to languages, such as historical linguistics, the history of linguistics, the historiography of linguistics, grammar writing, linguistic description from a diachronic perspective, philological and grammatical studies, textual criticism, paleography, and others.