The laboratory is directed by Emilie Aussant and Christian Puech. The lab is the site of development and dissemination of thought about language and languages, across a number of cultural zones. It brings together mainly linguists, specialists in very different languages (German, English, Arab, Spanish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Icelandic, Khaling rai, Koyirai, Slav languages, Latin, Malayalam, Persian, Portuguese of Brazil, Sanskrit, Tagalos, Tamoul, Thulung rai) along with historians and philosophers.

See the lab website (link to the English version).

You can find conference announcements and book publications in the field of the history of linguistic on our new website “Les carnets d’HTL” https://carnetshtl.hypotheses.org/ developed on the platform hypotheses.org.

The journal website offers a presentation of the journal and information about issue availability. Articles from older issues are now available on the platform Persée in open access : http://www.persee.fr/collection/hel

The journal also publishes “Les Dossiers d’HEL” (http://htl.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/hel/dossiers/accueil) as a free supplement to the HEL journal. The last issue was published in April 2017.