Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography

In 2005 the Société de Linguistique de Paris (S.L.P.) was to celebrate the appearance of the 100th volume of its Bulletin , which had long since become a major, internationally recognized journal. In preparation of this event, a conference was held at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 19–20 November 2004. My original task hd been to evaluate the place of the Bulletin within linguistic periodicals in general. This goal however could not be attained within the short time allotted. A comparison