Call for Papers (2nd notice)
NAAHoLS at LSA

The 2007 NAAHoLS meeting will again be held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America, the American Dialect Society, the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, and the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.  Featured plenary speakers this year include Carol Padden, Edward Keenan, and Sally McConnell-Ginet.

The meeting will take place at the Hilton Anaheim Hotel in Anaheim, California between 4-7 January, 2007.  Further details about the meeting are provided below.

As in the past, we invite papers relating to any aspect of the history of the language sciences.  All presenters must be members of the association (contact the NAAHoLS Treasurer for details).  Papers will be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion.  Abstracts may be submitted as hard copies or as file attachments (MS Word only).  The length of the abstract should not exceed 500 words -- a shorter (200 word) abstract will also be requested for the meeting handbook.  The deadline for abstracts is 1 September 2006.

Abstracts should be sent to:  David Boe, Department of English, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI  49855; (906) 227-2677; dboe@nmu.edu
 

The 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will take place at the Hilton Anaheim Hotel, Anaheim, CA, 4-7 January 2007.  The American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas will meet concurrently with the LSA.
 

Plenary Presentations

Thursday, 4 January, 7:30 pm  Phonology Panel

Friday, 5 January, 12:30 pm  Carol Padden (UC – San Diego), “Person inflection in sign           languages”

Friday, 5 January, 7:30 pm  Edward Keenan (UCLA), “How much logic is built into natural language?”

Saturday, 6 January, 5:30 pm  Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell U.), “Words in the world: How and why meanings can matter” (Presidential Address)
 

The titles of all papers and presentations will be posted in November 2006, and will be available at the LSA website.
 

Other Events

Thursday, 4 January, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm  The Officers and Executive Committee will meet.

Friday, 5 January, 5:30 – 7:00 pm  Annual Business Meeting, The 6th Biennial Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award will be presented.

The Hilton Anaheim Hotel has reserved a block of rooms for those attending the 2007 meeting.  The special LSA room rates for the hotel are:

Single/Double:  $135.00
Triple:  $155.00
Quad:  $175.00

The Hilton Anaheim Hotel reservation telephone numbers are: (714) 750-4321 and (800) 445-8667.  All reservations are subject to availability if received after 18 December 2006.  To get the special room rates, you must identify yourself as attending the LSA meeting.

Everyone attending the meeting is expected to register.  Compliance is important for keeping fees affordable.  Only those who register will be allowed to present papers, use the Job Placement Service, or attend plenary presentations.

Advance Registration:

Only LSA members may register in advance.  Members planning to attend may preregister on-line beginning 1 August 2006.  The Secretariat strongly encourages you to preregister by 5 December but will, in any case, stop accepting preregistrations on 18 December.  Advance registration fees for the 2007 Annual Meeting are:

Regular Members:  $100.00
Emeritus Members:  $75.00
Student Members:  $40.00
Unemployed Members:  $40.00

Preregistrants may claim their badges and handbooks at the registration desk in the meeting area of the hotel beginning at 11:00 am on 4 January.

On-site registration will open at 11:00 am on 4 January and will be open all day 5 and 6 January.  The on-site registration fees for the 2007 Annual Meeting are:

Regular Members:  $125.00
Emeritus Members:  $85.00
Student Members:  $50.00
Unemployed Members:  $50.00
1-day registration:  $65.00

Note that credit card payments will not be accepted for on-site registration
 
 

The 2006 Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held from Thursday 7 September to Saturday 9 September 2006 at the University of Sheffield, UK. The Leslie Seiffert Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Peter Burke, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and author of Language and Communities in Early Modern Europe. The conference will overlap with a symposium entitled Sociological Theories of Language in the USSR, 1917-1938. Those attending the HSS Colloquium will be welcome to enrol in this symposium and vice versa. 

Sheffield University is the leading centre for the study of the history of linguistics in the United Kingdom, offering undergraduate, Master’s level and PhD-level teaching in this area. The City of Sheffield is located centrally in the UK, and is very accessible by air, train or road. International airports in close proximity to Sheffield include Manchester, East Midlands, and Robin Hood Sheffield-Doncaster, and Sheffield is two hours north of London by train. Sheffield has witnessed a great deal of regeneration in recent years and is now a vibrant and attractive city, surrounded by some of the most stunning countryside in England. 

Accommodation and meals will be provided at Ranmoor House, a hall of residence which is a 15-minute walk or 5-minute bus journey from the main University site. There will also be the option of staying in nearby hotel accommodation, and all the options are indicated on the booking form.
Papers (30 minutes, including discussion) will be presented on various aspects of the history of linguistic thought or practice. Themed sessions/panel discussions will also form part of the conference programme. 

Financial assistance may be available via the Paul Salmon-Pieter Verburg Memorial Fund to members of the Society, who wish to present a paper, but whose financial circumstances make this difficult. For further information about the 2006 Henry Sweet Society Colloquium, please contact Ms Fiona Marshall via e-mail or at the address shown below:
Department of English Language and Linguistics
University of Sheffield
GB-Sheffield S10 2TN
 

Preliminary Program

Thursday, 7 September 

12:00-14:00   Arrival and Registration 
                       Foyer, Richard Roberts Building

14:15     Welcome
14:30     Leslie Seiffert Lecture:
              Professor Peter Burke (Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge)
              Social History of Language, Past, Present and Future
15:30     Refreshments
16:00     Barry L. Velleman (Marquette University)
              The ‘Scientific Linguist’ Goes to War: Tasks and Assessment in the U. S. ASTP 
              Foreign Language Training Program 
16:30     Christine Horne (University of New Brunswick)
              I. A. Richards’ Role in the Development of Linguistic Theories of Metaphor in the 
              Twentieth Century

18:00-19:00  DINNER, RANMOOR HALL

Friday, 8 September 

07:45-08:30   BREAKFAST, RANMOOR HALL

Session 1 
09:00     Savas Kilic (Université Paris X-Nanterre) 
              Saussure’s Theory of Valeur: A Retrospective Approach 
09:30     Inna Ageeva (Université de Lausanne, Suisse)
              La critique de F. de Saussure dans le Marxisme et philosophie du langage et le contexte 
              de la  réception de ses idées dans les années 20-30 en Russie 
10:00     John Joseph (Edinburgh)
              Saussure and Flournoy on synaesthesia 

Session 2
09:00    Tinatin Bolkvadze (Tbilisi Iv. Javakhishvili State Univ.)
             Towards the notions of “bookish” and “rural” languages in 11th to 13th-century 
             Georgian religious texts

09:30    Nadia Kerecuk (London)
             The influence and circulation of British ideas on language in O. O. Potebnia’s 
             (1835-1891) oeuvre
10:00    EkaterinaVelmezova (Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Lausanne)
             The notions of phoneme and sememe in the theories of P.A. Florenskij: a challenge 
             to the “traditional linguistics” of his time? 

10:30    Refreshments 

11:00    Daniel H.Rellstab (University of Bern)
             Charles Sanders Peirce’s Phenomenological, Almost Radical, Pragmatic Approach to Language
11:30    Gesine Lenore Schiewer (University of Bern)
             "Das System an der Geschichte aufgezeigt" (Karl Bühler) Systematic and Historical Thinking– 
             It’s not a Contradiction
12:00    Jacqueline Léon (Université Paris 7)
             Empirical traditions of computer-based methods. Firth’s restricted languages and Harris's 
             sublanguages

12:00    Lunch

14:00   William B. McGregor (Aarhus University) 
            The emergence of the concept of the phoneme in Australian Aboriginal Linguistics 
14:30   Robert Mailhammer (LMU München - Institut für Deutsche Philologie) 
            Syllable cut in the history of phonology 
15:00   Mike MacMahon (University of Glasgow)
            Henry Sweet’s musical notation
15:30   Round Table Discussion on Music and Language in the History of Linguistics 
            Chair: David Cram (Jesus College, Oxford)

16:45-17:30    Annual General Meeting

18:00   Reception

18:30   CONFERENCE DINNER
 

Saturday 9 September 

07:45-08:30  BREAKFAST, RANMOOR HALL

09:00    Izabella Lombardi Garbellini (University of São Paulo)
             Comment on De poematibus 
09:30    Serhii Vakulenko
             The Portuguese School of Semiotics from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries
10:00    Jean-Marie Fournier (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle / Paris 3) 
             La théorie du nom dans le programme de la grammaire générale

10:30    Refreshments

11:00    Antonia Regina Theunissen (Leiden University)
             The approaches to word classification in Japanese late-18th and early-19th
             century grammars
11:30    Antonella Leila Madia (Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Milano)
             The Symbolic Form of Language: Insight into Cassirer "Inner Sprachform" through 
             Humboldt and Marty
12:00    Marjorie Perlman Lorch (Birkbeck College, University of London)
             Multiple languages, memory and regression: an examination of Ribot's Law 
12:30    Béatrice Godart-Wendling (Université Paris VII)
             Which strategies are developed by Formal Grammar to achieve the expressivity of natural 
             languages?

13:00   CLOSE OF CONFERENCE AND LUNCH 
 

Yearly Membership: $20 (US)

Lifetime Membership: $250 (US)

(Note: As NAAHoLS has increased the dues amounts, current lifetime members are invited to contribute $50 to our organization.)

Please make your check out to "NAAHoLS" and send it to:  Talbot Taylor, Department of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795.

Members from outside the United States:  Our treasurer regrets that we are no longer able to accept checks written in currencies other than US Dollars.  The cost of bank exchange is more than the cost of membership.  We ask that those members send a check written on a US bank or pay their dues by some other means that arrives in US Dollars.  We regret any inconvenience this may cause.
 

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