LINGUIST List 19.1691
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Tue May 27 2008
Confs: History of Linguistics/Australia
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1. William
McGregor,
Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific
Message 1: Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific
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Date: 27-May-2008
From: William McGregor <linwmghum.au.dk>
Subject: Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific
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Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific
Short Title: SHLP
Date: 01-Aug-2008 - 02-Aug-2008
Location: Canberra, Australia
Contact: William McGregor
Contact Email: linwmghum.au.dk
Meeting URL: http://fc.hum.au.dk/~linwmg/SHLP/Conference_2008.htm
Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
Meeting Description:
This conference, to be held in the Department of Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU, will
launch the SHLP with contributions on a range of topics in the history of
linguistics in the Pacific region.
The conference has 9 presentations on topics in the history of research on
Pacific linguistics, presented on Friday 1st August.
Chris Ballard & Nick Thieberger:
Daniel Macdonald and the 'Compromise Literary Dialect' in Efate, Central Vanuatu
Hilary Carey:
Lancelot Threlkeld and the Colonial Bible
Ross Clark:
On the Margins of Pacific Linguistics: P.A. Lanyon-Orgill
Jeremy Hammond:
Capell's Tanna: An Investigation into the Depth of Arthur Capell's Documentation
of Tanna Languages
Sylvia Anne Mackie:
Gaps, Transitions, Adjoining, Embedding: Kenneth Hale's Groundbreaking Work in
the Nineteen Seventies on the 'Evolution' of the Relative Clause
William B. McGregor:
Daisy Bates' Documentation of Kimberley Languages
David C. Moore:
History of Arandic Language Research
David Nash:
Daisy Bates' Records of Australian Languages
Paul Sidwell:
Language Classification: Failure, confusion and success in mainland and insular
Southeast Asia
In addition, there will be a book launch of McGregor, William B. (ed.) 2008.
Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian
linguistics. PL 591. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
On Saturday 2nd August there will be a business meeting concerned with the
establishment of the society.
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