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| Nickname | PhilSoc |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1842 |
| Founder | Edwin Guest[1] |
| Type | learned society |
| Registration no. | 1014370 |
| Legal status | charity, limited company |
| Purpose | Education |
| Headquarters | London, England |
| Fields | Linguistics |
Membership (2019) | 641[2] |
President | Lutz Marten |
| Publication | Transactions of the Philological Society |
| Website | www |
The Philological Society, or London Philological Society, is the oldest learned society in Great Britain dedicated to the study of language as well as a registered charity.[3] The current Society was established in 1842 to "investigate and promote the study and knowledge of the structure, the affinities, and the history of languages".[4] The society publishes a journal, the Transactions of the Philological Society, issued three times a year as well as a monographic series.
The first Philological Society, based in London's Fitzroy Square, was founded in 1792 under the patronage of Thomas Collingwood of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[5] Its publication was titled The European Magazine, and London Review.[6]
The Philological Society is a member organisation of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics.[7]
- ^ (Madison) Fiona Carolyn Marshall. ‘Edwin Guest: Philologist, Historian, and Founder of the Philological Society of London’. Language & History (July 2016); formerly Bulletin of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas 42, no. 1 (2004): 11–30, doi:10.1080/02674971.2004.11745588.
- ^ "Report of the Council of the Philological Society for the year 2019". Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ "Charity No. 1014370 – Charity Commission for England and Wales". Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ "The Philological Society – About Us". Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ (Madison) Fiona Carolyn Marshall. "History of the Philological Society: The Early Years" (PDF). Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826
- ^ "UCGAL – Members". Retrieved 18 February 2021.