LINGUIST List 9.630

Wed Apr 29 1998

Calls: History of Ling, Teaching Ling (Grammar)

Editor for this issue: Elaine Halleck <elainelinguistlist.org>

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1. Els Elffers, History of Linguistic Ideas
2. Salvatore Attardo, Teaching Linguistics (Grammar)

 THE HENRY SWEET SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC IDEAS
 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM: AMSTERDAM, 16TH - 19TH SEPTEMBER 1998

 Second Circular

 Date and venue
The colloquium is scheduled to begin with registration at 1 p.m. on
Wednesday 16 September, and to finish with breakfast on Saturday 19
September. There will be associated events on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings. Registration and papers will take place in Amsterdam University's
Doelenzaal and its Oudemanhuispoort facility. Both locations are in the
centre of Amsterdam and can be easily reached by public transport. There
will be a special bus on Thursday and Friday mornings for participants from
Hotel Casa 400. Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, has the largest
historical inner city in Europe and the beautiful canals, monumental
buildings, museums, world famous art galleries, open air markets and
shopping streets can easily be explored on foot, should you have time
before or after the colloquium.

 Accommodation and travel

A number of rooms have been booked for colloquium participants at Hotel
Casa 400. A list of low budget or more expensive hotels will be provided
on request. 
 Amsterdam is easily accessible by air, rail and road. There is a
direct rail connection to Amsterdam from Schiphol International Airport
located about 10 miles from the city centre. The city of Amsterdam
discourages its citizens from using cars, which means that there is no free
parking either at the hotel or in the vicinity. Detailed travel
arrangements will be sent to those who have made bookings.

 Keynote speaker

We are delighted to announce that Reinier Salverda, Professor of Dutch at
University College London, has agreed to be our keynote speaker. His topic
will be "Dutch linguists around 1900: a critical reappraisal".

 A book of abstracts will be made available to participants at the
beginning of the Colloquium.
Speakers who wish to make any adjustments to their abstracts should do so
before 31 May.


 Provisional lecture programme

Wednesday 16 September.

13 00Arrival and registration
14 30R. Schreyer (Aachen), "John Wilkins, the man in the moone and
 everything: on links and hyperlinks in the history of ideas".
15 00M.M. Iserman (Heidelberg), "Sounds and their signs in John Wilkin's
 Essay".
15 30N. Wilding (Rome), "Galilean linguistics".
16 00Tea
16 30I. Zwiep (Amsterdam), "Hebrew studies at the time of the
 Counter-Refomation: the reception of Bellarmine's Institutiones".
17 00A.J. Klijnsmit (Amsterdam), "Vossius, Spinoza and Schultens: the
 application of Analogia in Hebrew grammar".
18 00Dinner
20 00R. Salverda (London), "Dutch linguistics around 1900: a critical
 reappraisal".

Thursday 17 September

09 30J. Privratska (Prague), "The reflections of Comenius language
 endeavours in the Encyclopaedia Comeniana".
10 00J. Mills (Luton), "Twentieth-century Cornish lexicography and
 language revival".
10 30P.J. Lucas (Dublin), "John Minshew, polymath and poseur: Old English
 in an early seventeenth-century dictionary".
11 00Coffee
11 30L. Kelly (Cambridge), "Michel Foucault, Richard McKeon and Grammatica
 Speculativa".
12 00J. Murphy (Davis, CA), "Early Modern grammarians who write about
 rhetoric".
13 15Lunch
14 30W.E. McMahon (Akron, OH), "Revisiting the concept of logical form".
15 00B. Godart-Wendling (Paris), "La place de la semantique dans les
 premieres grammaires categorielles".
15 30L. Shi-Xu (Singapore), "The poetics of Formalism and
 Functionalisn:understanding linguistic science as discourse".
16 00Tea
16 30M.J. van der Wal (Leiden), "Feral children in The Netherlands: an
 eighteenth-century case within its European context".
17 00L Jooken (Louvain), "James Hutton's synthesis of epistemolinguistic
 issues at the end of the Scottish Enlightenment".
17 30R. Steadman-Jones (Cambridge), "Face and race in the early
 nineteenth century: European grammars of Wolof and Urdu".

Friday 18 September

09 30S.A. Romaschko (Moscow), "Transferring grammars: how German
 grammarby Jacob Grimm was converted into Russian historical grammar
 by Fedor Buslaev".
10 00T. Becker (Munich), "Hermann Paul, the post-generative morphologist".
 
10 30N. Helsloot (Amsterdam), "Nietsche's tone".
11 00Coffee
11 30H. Gwosdek (Tuebingen), "The English grammars for St Paul's School,
 London".
12 00P. Loonen (Groningen), "The production of French grammars by Hugenot
 refugees in the Dutch Republic".
12 30I. Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Leiden), "Towards an edition of Lowth's
 correspondence".
13 15Lunch
14 30E. H. Jahr (Tromso), "Clara Holst (1868-1935): Norwegian historical
 linguist and woman pioneer".
15 00A. Linn (Sheffield), "Towards a stylistics of standardisation: the
 case of Norwegian and Faroese".
15 30J. M. Morris (London), "Linguistic ideas for literacy in English".
16 00Tea
16 30B. Collins (Leiden) & I.M. Mees (Copenhagen), "Daniel Jones role in
 the development of a prestige variety of British English
 pronunciation".
17 00M.K.C. MacMahon (Glasgow), "The beginnings of phonetics in the
 British university system".
17 30Annual General Meeting

- --Conference Dinner

On behalf of the organising committee:
 dr. Robin Smith
 Department of English Language and Literature
 University of Leiden
 P.O. Box 9515
 2300 RA Leiden
 The Netherlands
 e-mail: rdsmithrullet.leidenuniv.nl

Those who want to attend the conference are kindly requested to print the
following registration form and hotel reservation form, complete them, and
send them by fax or regular mail to the addresses mentioned on the forms.

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*** THE HENRY SWEET SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC IDEAS ***
*** FIFTEENTH ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM, AMSTERDAM, SEPTEMBER 16-18, 1998 ***
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*** REGISTRATION FORM (please print or use a typewriter) ***

O Mr O Mrs 
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MEMBERS of the Henry Sweet Society (or participants who wish to become a
member of the Henry Sweet Society, and will pay the membership fee of 9
British pounds (approx. DFL 32) at the registration desk on the first day
of the conference)
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NON-MEMBERS
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STUDENTS
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SOCIAL EVENT
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The conference Office should be notified of cancellations in writing.
If cancellations are received by the Conference Office before August 1,
1998, the total conference fee will be refunded, less DFL 45 administration
costs.
After August 1, 1998, no refunds will be made. Please note that refunds
will only be made after the completion of the conference.

PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM: by fax or by regular mail (as a hard copy) to:
Conference Office, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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*** END OF REGISTRATION FORM HSS AMSTERDAM CONFERENCE ***
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*** THE HENRY SWEET SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC IDEAS ***
*** FIFTEENTH ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM, AMSTERDAM, SEPTEMBER 16-18, 1998 ***
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*** HOTEL RESERVATION FORM (please print or use a typewriter) ***

* Hotel prices can only be guaranteed, if the hotel reservation form is
 returned before July 15.
* Since the year 1998 is a very busy year in Amsterdam, we strongly
 advise you to take care of your hotel reservation as soon as
 possible.

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taxes. All rooms have private facilities.
In order to guarantee the reservation, a deposit of DFL 200 per room is
required and must be remitted in advance. After receipt of this amount the
hotel reservation will be confirmed and a hotel deposit voucher will be
sent, less DFL 25 for reservation and bank charges. The value of the
voucher will be deducted from your final hotel bill. For cancellations
received before September 2, 1998, refunds will be made less DFL 50
administration fee.
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*** Call for Papers *** *** Call for Papers ***

 "Teaching Linguistics" Symposium 
 on 
 
 TEACHING GRAMMAR

In conjunction with the Twenty-Second Annual Conference on 
the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Youngstown State University
Youngstown, Ohio,
October 24, 1998

Plenary Speaker: 

* Robert DeKeyser, University of Pittsburgh, Linguistics Dept. 

Dr. DeKeyser will speak on "focus on form"

Proposals on topics related to the teaching of grammar in 
first, second and foreign languages are welcomed. College and 
university faculty, high school teachers, and graduate 
students are invited to submit proposals.

Possible areas of focus might include, but are not limited 
to: pedagogical grammars, history of grammatical teaching, 
normatism/prescriptivism, pros and cons of formal 
instruction, and all aspects of grammatical teaching, such as 
methods, social aspects, audiences, situations of teaching 
(L1, L2, FL), goals and objectives, etc. Special attention 
will be given to papers dealing with the position and role of 
grammatical instruction within the curriculum.

* All disciplinary approaches are welcome, such as language 
arts teaching; second language acquisition: theory, research 
and practice; pedagogical approaches and classroom 
strategies; techniques and materials; innovations in media 
technology; testing and assessment; ethnographic studies. 
This is not, however, a symposium on Universal Grammar. 

* Abstracts: Presentations should be 30 minutes long, 
including time for questions. Send three copies of a one-
page, double spaced abstract to the Symposium Committee 
(address below) by June 1, 1998. E-mail submissions (ASCII 
only, no attachments) are OK. Include contact information on 
a cover sheet attached to the abstract. The abstract should 
contain no information that identifies the presenter. 
Notification will be mailed no later than July 1, 1998.

* Registration: All participants, including presenters, are 
required to register to the Conference, however, a lower fee 
for the Symposium day alone will be available. Registration 
materials will be mailed in early August 1998. All accepted 
presenters will receive the conference registration mailings. 
Those interested in attending, but not presenting need only 
request to be put on the mailing list.

Graduate students needing crash space or with financial 
problems should mention this fact in the cover sheet.

* The Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and 
Literatures will feature two plenary speakers: Helena Curtain 
(U. of Wisconsin) who will speak on FLES and David D. Herren 
(Middlebury College) who will speak on CALL. Besides the 
plenary speakers the conference will feature over thirty 
presentations and workshops on various aspects of teaching 
Foreign Languages and Literature.

* Abstracts and requests for information about the Teaching 
Grammar symposium should be sent to:
Salvatore Attardo & Steven Brown
English Department, DeBartolo Hall 202
Youngstown State University
Youngstown OH 44555 USA
sattardocc.ysu.edu
srbrowncc.ysu.edu