The North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences will meet in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America in Chicago on January 7 and 8, 2000 at the: 

Palmer House Hilton Hotel
17 E. Monroe Street
Chicago IL 60603-5605

Rooms are $83 (single - double).  The reservation number is (312) 726-7500 or FAX: (312) 917-1779.

The NAAHoLS sessions will take place in Parlor A, 6th floor, Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. 
Secretary/Newsletter Editor

Douglas A. Kibbee
Department of French
University of Illinois
2090 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana IL 61801

(217) 333-2020
FAX: (217) 244-2223 Treasurer

Talbot J. Taylor
Department of English
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg VA 23185

dkibbee@uiuc.edu txtayl@wmail.wmu.edu
 

ALL MEETINGS ARE IN PARLOR A, 6TH FLOOR

Friday January 7, 2000

Chair: Julia Falk, Michigan Sttate University

2:00  Daniel Taylor, Lawrence University: “Why the Accusative Case is called Accusative”

2:30  Maria Tsiapera, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: "The End of Enlightenment and the Beginning of the Age of History“

3:00  Kurt Jankowsky, Georgetown University: “The Place of Alexander Potebnja (1835-1891) in the History of Linguistics”

3:30 Douglas A. Kibbee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “The Language-Species Equivalence from Organic Linguistics to Linguistic Ecology”

4:15 Business Meeting

Chair: Julia Falk, Michigan State University

Saturday, January 8, 2000

Chair: Daniel Taylor, Lawrence University

10:00 David Boe, University of Nevada-Reno: “Kantian Origins of Generative Theory”

10:30 Joseph Subbiondo, California Institute of Integral Studies: “The Semantic Theory of Owen Barfield: The Study of Consciousness in Linguistic Theory”

11:00  Erica Benson, Michigan State University:  “Early Studies of Codeswitching in the United States”

11:30 Julia Falk, Michigan State University: “Formulating syntax,  from Bloomfield to Chomsky”
 

Benson, Erica (Michigan State University): Early Studies of codeswitching in the US

      In spite of myriad publications on the topic of codeswitching, few works have made any mention of the history of the field.  Of the studies that have paid tribute to the past, the focus has been on the recent history (see Gal 1987:290-291; Heller 1988:3-15; Jacobson 1998b:52-54; McClure 1981:69; Milroy & Muysken 1995a:7-10; Myers-Scotton 1997:217-220 and 1993b:46-47).  I endeavor to uncover the neglected roots of codeswitching research by examining discussions of the phenomenon before 1950.
 Chronologies of codeswitching usually begin in the late 1960s or early 1970s, identifying the pioneers of the field as Blom and Gumperz with their 1972 study of dialects of Norwegian in Hemnesberget,  Joshua Fishman with his 1965 article on Puerto Ricans in New York, and Michael Clyne with his 1967 book on German and Dutch immigrants in Australia (Milroy & Muysken 1995a:7-10; Myers-Scotton 1993b:46-47).  The prehistory of codeswitching research is generally placed in the 1950s, which witnessed the publication of four now classic works: The Norwegian language in America (1953) and Bilingualism in the Americas (1956) by Einar Haugen (1906-1994), Languages in Contact (1953) by Uriel Weinreich (1926-1967) and “Diglossia” (1959) by Charles Ferguson (1921-1998).  Up to now it has largely been taken for granted (with the notable exception of Clyne 1987:455) that no codeswitching studies appeared before that time.  In fact, Myers-Scotton (1993b:48) claimed that as a result of the prevailing “attitudes (and non-attitudes) towards CS [codeswitching] before B[lom] & G[umperz] few linguists may have even noticed CS”.  I discovered two types of early codeswitching analyses – language diaries of bilingual children and anthropological-linguistic investigations of bilingual communities – that appeared between 1911 and 1949.
      The well-known language diary by Werner Leopold of his daughter Hildegard, included several instances of codeswitching, e.g. “I can’t give you a Kuss because I have a Schmutznase” but little explanation.  In another diary study, which investigated the language development of the children of an American family in China, Madorah Smith (1935) not only identified Chinese words that the children used when speaking English (e.g., mei-mei ‘younger sister’; du-bi ‘belly’) but also tried to explain their use. 
 Three early anthropological-linguistic studies – Barker (1947); Espinosa (1917) and Espinosa (1911) – all based on research from Spanish-speaking communities in the American Southwest, stand out in their recognition and treatment of codeswitching.  Although George Barker (1912-1958) and Aurelio Espinosa (1880-1957) did not use the term codeswitching, their works nevertheless share many characteristics with modern codeswitching analyses: they examined synchronic language use, distinguished codeswitching from other interference phenomena (e.g. loans and borrowing), and attempted to elucidate the social motivations for codeswitching as well as the factors governing language choice.
      These early studies predate the works of the 1960s and 1970s, which are typically seen as the first investigations into the phenomenon, by as much as 60 years.  In closing I consider why these remarkably insightful analyses have gone unnoticed for so long.
 

Boe, David R. Boe (University of Nevada, Reno): Kantian origins of generative theory

     This paper argues that many of the perspectives and innovations of the generative framework, including those of the recent Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995), can be traced to the work of the German idealist philosopher Immanuel Kant, and especially to his Critique of Pure Reason (1781), in which he attempted to reconcile the opposing views of the British empiricists (who argued that knowledge is primarily derived from experience) and the Continental rationalists (who argued that knowledge is primarily derived from reason).  Throughout his career, Chomsky has articulated a connection to the 17th-century rationalist orientations of Descartes and the Port-Royal grammarians (e.g., Cartesian Linguistics, 1966).  These views have been utilized in support of the claim that language acquisition is guided by an innate Universal Grammar which is part of our biological apparatus and which exists prior to any encounter with sense experience (i.e., language data).   Although  children quickly reach an attained “steady state” of grammatical knowledge and intuition, it is the initial “zero state” that is of interest to linguists, and a description of this initial state is an account of Universal Grammar.  By invoking rationalism, Chomsky was ultimately able to render the behavioristic/empiricist outlook of his predecessors invalid.  Kant’s earlier reassessment of the rationalist and empiricist views, and the consequences of this for 20th-century linguistic thought, however, has received comparatively little attention in the literature.
      The apparent line of influence from Kantian philosophy to Chomskyan theory is not necessarily a direct one, though.  With regard to the developments of generative grammar, there appears to have been two significant waves of critical philosophy prior to Chomsky’s arrival.  The first wave, of course, was Kant’s psychological account of the limits of conceptual thought.  We perceive the world as we do because we are equipped with a priori categories such as those of time, space and causation.  Any external sensations that we subsequently encounter are filtered through and ordered by these intuitive categories, which exist prior to experience.  The second wave of critical philosophy was Ludwig Wittgenstein’s linguistic account of the limits of the meaningful language, as detailed in the propositions of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921).  To the extent that language reflects (or “pictures”) reality, the logical form of language constrains what can be said, and thus thought, concerning the world.  Although Wittgenstein later repudiated many of his initial formulations, the arc of the development of Chomskyan theory, especially regarding the increasingly central role given to logical form, has represented a return to Wittgenstein’s earlier account of meaning.  If logical for (LF) is now viewed as a distinct level of linguistic representation which represents the limits of semantic interpretation, and if logical form is constrained by the apparatus of an innate (a priori) Universal Grammar – or indeed is Universal Grammar – then we seem to be experiencing a third wave of critical philosophy, one that is both psychological and linguistic.  The implications of this proposal are examined in this paper.
 

Falk, Julia (Michigan State University): Formulating Syntax, from Bloomfield to Chomsky

      For the two decades from Bloomfield’s Language (1933) to Chomsky’s early publications on syntactic analysis (e.g. Chomsky 1953), modern historiographic literature has focused on the work of Zellig Harris
(especially Harris 1951) as the approach that began in a Bloomfieldian tradition and led to early generative grammar (e.g. Hymes & Fought 1981, Matthews 1993, Seuren 1998).  The discussion of other work in syntax during those years is generally restricted to occasional references to the tagmemes
of Kenneth Pike and the now-classic article on immediate constituents by Rulon Wells (Wells 1947).
 There are two additional major contributors to syntactic analysis whose work is widely overlooked.  In 1946 Bernard Bloch’s Studies in Colloquial Japanese II: Syntax‚ was one of the first accounts of the syntax of any language within the American structuralist tradition to provide for both hierarchical structure and syntactic categories, a fact recognized by Paul Postal in his Constituent Structure: A Study of Contemporary Models of Syntactic Description (1964).   Perhaps it was Bloch’s lack of formalization
that led some historians to ignore his work on syntax, but the syntactic studies of Eugene A. Nida have also been largely overlooked, with retrospectives focusing on his morphology, apparently unaware of his
extensive efforts during the 1940s to formulate both the procedures and the findings of syntactic analysis.
      Nida’s doctoral dissertation A Synopsis of English Syntax (University of Michigan 1943) is best known in its later form (Nida 1960), published in response to the interest in syntax occasioned by Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures (1957).  The dissertation followed a model of immediate constituent analysis, drawn from suggestions in Bloomfield (1933) and on-going work by Nida’s mentor, Kenneth L. Pike (see Pike 1943).  But this was by no means Nida’s only work on syntax.  A section of his Morphology (1949:86-95) was devoted to immediate constituent analysis, with representation of syntactic structure in the form of an inverted tree diagram.  Even earlier, Nida had sought ways of formalizing syntax, e.g., in the mimeographed volume Syntax: A Descriptive Analysis (1946), and then
later in An Outline of Descriptive Syntax (1951).  In addition to the work of his mentor Kenneth Pike, at both Michigan and at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Nida pointed to Bloch’s Japanese syntax work as an important effort in “formulating grammatical analysis in terms of immediate constituents” (Nida 1948:168).
       Not unlike Otto Jespersen in  Analytic Syntax (1937), among the relatively few linguists in America working on syntax in the late 1940s and early 1950s several were actively seeking appropriate means of formalizing, or formulating, the syntactic structures and patterns of human languages.  Some of the formulae and diagrams that were proposed are complex, difficult, and idiosyncratic; others reveal a link between the implied tree diagrams of Bloomfield (see Percival 1976) and the phrase markers (labeled tree diagrams) that began to appear in generative syntax in the mid 1950s.
 
 

Jankowsky, Kurt (Georgetown University): The Place of Alexander Potebnja (1835-1891) in the History of Linguistics

     Alexander Potebnja, well known as an accomplished linguist in his native Ukraine, is hardly known in Western countries. He became acquainted with the works of, for instance, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Heyman Steinthal, and Hermann Lotze, utilizing their ideas, yet always adapting them to his own needs and developing them independently in his linguistic research work mainly on Ukrainian.
     The paper will investigate Potebnja's major writings, especially those on historical syntax, his ideas on the interrelationship of linguistics and poetry, and his position towards the Neogrammarians. Some aspects of his work will be examined in the light of their value to the establishment of structuralism.
     Potebnja vigorously opposed Friedrich Max Mueller's concept of myth as a "disease of language" and developed his own elaborate ideas, which are very much worthwhile to look into.  Even today Potebnja is not fully appreciated outside his Ukrainian home country, largely because he was assigned to obscurity during the years of the Soviet Union. An attempt will be made to answer the question whether reasons other than purely political were behind this unwillingness to acknowledge Potebnja's remarkable contributions to his scientific profession and to the intellectual life of his country.
 
 

Kibbee, Douglas A. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): The Language-Species Equivalence from Organic Linguistics to Linguistic Ecology

     The equivalence of a language to a species is a standard part of linguistic theorizing during the “organicist” period of historical and comparative linguistics in the 19th century.  Darwin himself often used language as an image of the type of evolutionary processes he described (see Alter 1999), and linguists of the period 1860-1870 were quick to see this as a justification of the place of linguistics in the realm of the sciences.  When the organic view of languages was effectively squelched in the 1870s and 1880s the equivalency disappeared from the scientific literature, even though it retained some appeal in popularizations.  It has reappeared with a vengeance in the literature relating to endangered languages and “linguistic ecology” (Hale, Mühlhäusler, etc.).  In this paper I will argue that the theoretical underpinnings for such an equivalency are as weak now as they were a century ago. 
 
 

Subbiondo, Joseph (California Institute of Integral Studies):  The Semantic Theory of Owen Barfield: The Study of Consciousness in Linguistic Theory

     Owen Barfield (1898-1997) - scholar, lawyer, playwright, poet, and novelist  - wrote about a broad range of subjects including history, critical theory, mythology, philosophy, stylistics, and science. While his writings were diverse in genre and content, a recurring theme permeates his work ˆ that human consciousness is evolving and that its evolution can be documented in the history of semantic change. In his earliest scholarly work, History in English Words (1926), Barfield initially articulated his thesis by sketching a history of the English language to demonstrate that it reveals an evolution of consciousness from the ancient Greeks to the 20th-century British.   Barfield continued to develop his semantic theory in many of his later works, especially in his Poetic Diction: A study of meaning (1928) and Speaker’s Meaning (1967). This paper will focus on Barfield's semantic theory as the rationale for his theory of historical linguistics.

Taylor, Daniel (Lawrence University): Why the Accusative Case is called the Accusative Case

       Varro’s translation of Greek ptosis aitiatike as Latin casus accusativus has been severely criticized.  Yet Varro’s choice of accusativus over causativus--and he had no others, as Priscian understands--can be readily explained, or so this paper argues.  We need to understand that Varro thinks and writes both etymologically and analog  ically.  That is to say, he is constantly subject to a tyrannie du mot, and he incessantly pursues linguistic and verbal rationes of one sort or another.   We must also assume that he is reading Aristotle carefully, as we know he did, for at least one typically idiosyncratic Aristotelian technical usage is germane, indeed, crucial, to explaining the Varronian adjective.  The criticism directed at Varro’s calque is based on modern, not ancient, linguistic notions, however, and is thus misguided.  This paper therefore surveys both the history of grammatical nomenclature for case in Greek and Roman antiquity and the misunderstanding of that tradition in 19th century classical philology and linguistics.

Tsiapera, Maria (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): The End of Enlightenment and the Beginning of the Age of History

     During the last years of the 18th century discontinuity is where philosophical thought was at.  Where did this discontinuity come from and how did it affect language theory?  In other words, what was the intellectual environment that got us away from general grammars?  Away from Condillac’s and well as Herder’s universals of grammar?  At the end of the 18th century there was a move away from identities and differences to organic structures whose totality performs a function.  The relationship between one organic structure and another is dependent on the identity of the relationship.  These organic structures are discontinuous so that what emerges is analogy and succession.  These fixed forms of succession proceed from analogy to analogy.  From the end of the 18th century history steps forward and becomes the basis for explanation.  Thus, from William Jones onward, historical significances characterize linguistic events that are linked in an enduring causal chain.  The development and progress of historical linguistics becomes the theoretical basis for the 19th century.  In the 19th century the concern was between events and origin, between evolution and source.
 
 

The Henry Sweet Society Colloquium will be held from Wednesday 20th to Saturday 23rd September 2000 at the University of Edinburgh.  This first meeting of the new millenium will also mark the first time the Colloquium has been held in Scotland.  It is planned that the meetings will be held in Abden House, a Georgian manor house looking out on Arthur’s Seat, and participants will stay in the nearby Pollack Halls. 

Papers are invited on any aspect of the history of linguistics.  They will be of 20 minutes duration with 10 minutes for discussion.  Please send proposals by March 31 2000 in the form of an abstract of no more than 300 words, on paper or electronically, to:

Professor John E. Joseph
Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics
University of Edinburgh
Adam Ferguson Building
40 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LL

e-mail: John.Joseph@ed.ac.uk
FAX:  (44) 0131 650 3962
Telephone: (44) 0131 650 3961

2) ICHOLS VIII

ICHoLS VIII was held September 14-19 at the École Normale Supérieure (Fontenay).  The following papers were accepted for the conference, although not all were presented.  Selected papers from the  conference proceedings will be published by John Benjamins.  At this meeting it was decided that ICHoLS IX will be help in Brazil, jointly hosted by the Universities of Campinas and São Paolo. 

ADAMSKA-SALACIAK, Arleta (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland), Linde's Dictionary : A Landmark In Polish Lexicography
ALTMAN, Christina  (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil),  Universality And Diversity In Missionary Grammars 
AQUECI, Francesco  (Università de Catania, Italy),  La philosophie analytique du langage de Giovanni Vailati (1863-1909)
ARCHAIMBAULT, Sylvie  (CNRS UMR 7597, Université Paris VII/ ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, France),  La première grammaire française de la langue russe : un jeu de miroirs 
BADIR, Sémir  (Université de Liège, Belgium),  Langue et réalité, ou Saussure entre deux epistémologies 
BARATIN, Marc  (Université de Lille 3, UMR CNRS 7597, France),  Place de Quintilien dans l'histoire des doctrines grammaticales dans l'antiquité 
BAUMGARTEN, Jean  (CNRS UMR 7597, Université Paris VII/ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, France),  La composante hébraïco-araméenne en yiddish : histoire et modèles théoriques 
BECHRAOUI, Mohamed Fahdel  (Université de Tunis I, Tunisia),  La grammaire française à l'usage des Arabes de Gustave Dugat à Fares Echchidiak (1854) 
BERGOUNIOUX, Gabriel  (Université d'Orléans, France),  La faculté de langage (linguistique et pathologie du langage en France - 1860-1910) 
BINOTTI, Lucia  (University of North Carolina, USA)  Spanish grammars' descriptions of syntactic functions from the 15th to the 18th century. 
BOLKVADZE, Tinatin  (Université de Tbilissi, Georgia),  The Georgian Dictionary by Sulkhan-Saba (1658-1725) 
BONVINI, Emilio  (CNRS, UMR 7594),  Les deux grammaires françaises d'une langue africaine : une théorisation contrastée. 
BOUQUET, Simon  (Université de Paris X-Nanterre, UMR CNR 7597, France),  La linguistique générale de Ferdinand De Saussure : textes et retour aux textes 
BREVA-CLARAMONTE, Manuel  (Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Espagne),  Some Considerations On The Teaching Of Spanish In 16th-Century Europe 
BRUMME, Jenny  (Université Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain),  Le grand maître et les oeuvres mineures. la grammaire historique espagnole pendant la première moitié du XXe siecle 
CAVALIERE, Ricardo  (Universidade Federal Fluminense, de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil),  Historiographical Research on Brazilian Grammatical Studies in the Scientific Grammar Cycle 
CHABROLLE-CERRETINI, A.-M.  (Université de Metz, France),  Le projet de W. Von Humboldt d'une encyclopédie systématique des langues : un héritage linguistique éclaté 
CHAPMAN, Don  (Brighman Young University, Provo, USA),  The Significance of Figura in Medieval Grammar 
CHEVALIER, Jean-Claude  (Université Paris 8, France),  Le discours de la grammaire française avant Palsgrave 
CHISS, Jean-Louis  (ENS de Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, UMR CNRS 7597, France),  Le structuralisme linguistique dans le structuralisme " generalise " : les annees 1960-1970 en France 
CHRISTY, Craig  (University of North Alabama, USA),  Horne Tooke and the "Abreviation" Of Language : A New Perspective On Grammaticalization 
COLOMBAT, Bernard  (Université de Grenoble III, UMR CNRS 7597, France),  Le traitement de la construction verbale dans la grammaire latine humaniste 
COMTET, Roger  (Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France),  Le morphème dans l'histoire de la linguistique russe (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)
CRAM, David  (Jesus College Oxford, Angleterre),  The Doctrine of Sentence Distinctions in Seventeenth-Century Grammatical Theory 
DAALDER, Saskia  (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands),  A Story from the Structuralist Era : The Relations between Dutch Linguists and the Dane Viggo Broendal 
DESMET, Piet  (K.U. Leuven, Belgium),  Linguistique anthropologie et ethnographie dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle en France 
DOBORJGINIDZE, Nino  (Université de Tbilissi, Georgia),  Algeorgische Exegeten über die verschiedenen Charaktere der Sprachen 
DOTSENKO, Tamara Ivanovna  (Institut Pédagogique de Perm, Russia),  Les conceptions linguistiques de l'école de Petersbourg dans le contexte de la psycholinguistique en Russie 
EHRHARD, Anne-Françoise  (Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille III, France),  La grammaire de Johann Christian Heyse - le role " relais " de la grammaire scolaire en Allemagne au XIXe siècle 
EROFEEVA, Tamara Ivanovna  (Université de Perm, Russia),  L'École linguistique de Perm aujourd'hui : tendances et apports 
FEHR, Johannes  (Collegium Helveticum Zurich, Switzerland),  Interceptions Et Interferences : La Notion De " Code " Entre Cryptologie, Telecommunications Et Les Sciences Du Langage 
FOURNIER, Jean-Marie  (Université de Paris III, UMR CNRS 7597, France),  Le traitement de l'exemple dans quelques grammaires des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 
FRIEDRICH, Jeanette  (Université de Genève, Switzerland),  Karl Bühler - Le passage de la psychologie à la linguistique. deux rencontres significatives au début des années 30 
GARCIA MARTIN, José Maria  (Université de Cadix),  Spanish grammars' descriptions of syntactic functions from the 15th to the 18th century. 
GODART-WENDLING, Béatrice  (CNRS UMR 7597, Université Paris VII/ ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, France),  La formalisation de la sémantique : approche historique de la grammaire universelle de R. Montague 
GONÇALVES, Maria Filomena  (Universidade de Évora, Portugal),  Ideas sobre los "Origenes" de las lenguas peninsulares : Aldrete (1606) y Nunes De Leão (1606)/Idées sur les "origines" des langues de la peninsule ibérique : Aldrete (1606) y Nunes De Leão (1606) 
GOUVARD, Jean-Michel  (Université de Nantes, France),  Analyse Métrique, analyse linguistique 
GRONDEUX, Anne  (IRHT CNRS Paris, France),  Les figures dans le Doctrinale d'Alexandre de Villedieu et le Graecismus d'Evrard de Béthune; étude comparative 
GUARZA CUARON, Beatriz  (Université de Mexico),  Franciso Pimentel, ses travaux linguistiques et ethnologiques, dans leur contexte historique. 
GUIMARAES, Eduardo  (Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil),  Les études de signification au Brésil : une histoire entre le naturel et l'historique au XIXe siècle. 
HAMANS, Camiel  (Université de Breda, The Netherlands),  The Needless Cranberry Case 
HAßLER, Gerda  (Université de Potsdam, Germany),  La notion d''empirique' dans l'histoire des sciences du langage : l'apport d'études sérielles 
HÜLLEN, Werner  (University of Essen, Germany),  Textbook-Families for the Learning of Vernaculars between 1450 and 1700 
ISERMANN, Michael M.  (Université d'Heidelberg, Germany),  Wilkins und Sausure 
IVANOVA, Irina  (Université de Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie),  Le dialogisme de Bakhtine et ses sources dans la linguistique russe des années vingt 
JANKOWSKY, Kurt  (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA),  The Amalgamation of Linguistic and Literary Studies in the Philology of Friedrich Zarncke (1825-1891) 
JOOKEN, Lieve  (K.U. Leuven, Belgium),  Lord Monboddo's Correspondence with Grim Thorkelin (1789-1791) 
JOSEPH, John E.  (University of Edinburgh, UK),  Propaganda : Mistrust of Language as a Motivating Force in 20th-Century Linguistics 
KALTZ, Barbara  (Université de Tours, UMR CNRS 7597, France),  L'étude de l'allemand en France : de ses débuts "pratiques" à l'établissement de la germanistique à l'université
KAROSANIDZE, Lia  (Université de Tbilissi, Georgia),  " Art Of Grammar " by Dionysius Thrax and the Old Georgian Grammatical Thought 
KASSEVITCH, Vadim B.  (Université de Saint-Pétersbourg, Russia),  40 Years Of Generative Grammar : Steady Progress or Back-Pedalling ? 
KERECUK, Nadia  (UK)  Conciousness in Potebnia's theory of language. 
KIBBEE, Douglas A.  (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA),  'Le peuple', 'les peuples' et 'un peuple' dans la pensée linguistique en France, 1800-1850 
KLEINER, Yuri  (University of St. Petersburg, Russia),  Aelfric’s "Latin Grammar" and its Medieval Context 
KOERNER, E.F.K.  (University of Ottawa, Canada),  On the Place of Linguistic Historiography within Linguistics, Again
LARCHER, Pierre  (Université de Provence, UMR CNRS 107 (IREMAN), France),  Diglossie arabisante et Fusha vs Ammiyya Arabes : Essai d'histoire parallèle 
LAUWERS, Peter  (KUL Faculteit Leuven, Belgium),  Les linguistes et la description "grammaticale" du français contemporain à la fin du XIXe siècle 
LAW, Vivien  (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, England),  Why Write a Verse Grammar ? Structure and Mentalité 
LENOBLE, Muriel, Pierre SWIGGERS, Alfons WOUTERS  (Faculteit Letteren de Louvain, Belgium),  La structure des artes grammaticae latines : l'exemple du pronom 
LÉON, Jacqueline  (CNRS UMR 7597, Université Paris VII/ ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, France),  Le mot, les linguistes français et les débuts de la traduction automatique en France (1960-1965) 
LINN, Andrew Robert  (University of Sheffield, England),  Johan Storm (1836-1920) and the Study of French in Scandinavia 
LO PIPARO, Franco  (Université de Palerme, Italy),  Mathématiques et théories du langage dans la Grèce ancienne 
LUHTALA, Anneli  (Université d'Helsinki, Finland),  A Priscian Commentary Attributed to Eriugena 
MAAT, Jaap  (Université d'Amsterdam, The Netherlands),  Locke and Leibniz on Language 
MACKERT, Michael  (Morgantown, WV USA),  Franz Boas' Early Linguistic Fieldwork in British Columbia 
McMAHON,  William (University of Akron, USA) :  The semantics of post-medieval Lullism. 
MARIANI, Bethania Sampaio Correâ  (Université Fédérale Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil),  Le public, le privé et la question de la langue parlée au Brésil 
MERRILEES, Brian  (University of Toronto, Canada),  Vers un français lemmatique : trois lexiques français-latins du moyen age 
MIYAWAKI, Masataka  (Senshu University, Kanagawa, Japan),  John Wallis on Sound Symbolism : One Aspect of 17th-Century Morphophonemics 
NEIS, Cordula  (Université de Potsdam, Germany),  Francesco Soave et la question de l’Académie de Berlin (1771) 
NEWMEYER, Frederick J.  (University of Washington, USA),  The Historical Roots of American Functional Linguistics 
NIEDEREHE, Hans-J.  (Universität Trier, Germany),  La naissance du savoir des langues amérindiennes du Canada et de leurs études 
NOORDEGRAFF, J.  (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands),  Dutch Linguists between Humboldt and Saussure 
ORLANDI, Eni  (Université de Campinas, Brazil),  La notion de "texte " dans l'histoire des sciences du langage 
PERCIVAL, W. Keith  (University of Washington, USA),  The Treatment of Syntactic Figures in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Latin Grammars 
PESSOA DE BARROS, Diana Luz  (Brazil)  Le discours du dictionnaire 
PUECH, Christian  (Université de Paris 3, UMR CNRS 7597, France),  Quelques approches critiques de l'historiographie du structuralisme des années 70-80 
RODRIGUES BARASNEVICIUS, Ana Nilce  (Université de Sao Paulo, Brazil),  For a History of Applied Linguistics in Brazil 
ROMASCHKO, Sergej  (Académie des Sciences de Moscou, Russia), Panini's Pupil from Germany in Siberia : Otto Boehtlingk's Yakut Grammar and Genealogy of Grammatical Descriptive Models 
ROSEN, Evelyne  (Université de Paris X-Nanterre, France),  Histoire d'une notion particuliere : l'interlangue (Il) 
ROSIER-CATACH, Irène  (CNRS UMR 7597, Université Paris VII/ ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, France),  Abélard et les grammairiens : discussions sur le verbe substantif et la prédication 
SAINT-GERAND, Jacques-Philippe  (Université de Clermont-Ferrand II, France),  Aux débuts de la philologie française du XIXe siècle : François Genin, Palsgrave et Du Guez, ombres de l'histoire et esclaircissements méthodologiques 
SAMAIN, Didier  (Université de Paris 7, UMR CNRS 7597, France),  La construction du métalangage dans le premier tiers du XXe siècle 
SANTOS CABRAL, Nilda  (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil),  Critical Edition of Principios De Lingüistica Geral, by J. Mattoso Camara Jr. - establishment of critical text; register of and comments on variants; philosophical apparatus 
SAVATOVSKY, Dan  (IUFM Paris, UMR CNRS 7597, France),  H. Grassmann : grammaire comparée et linéarisation 
SCHMITTER, Peter  (Universität Münster, Allemagne, Deutschland & HUFS Seoul, Korea),  Positivimus, Interpretation und Objectivität in der Wissenschaftsgeschichtsschreibung der Linguistik 
SCHREYER, Ruediger  (RWTH Aachen, The Netherlands),  The Children of Psammetichus 
SERIOT, Patrick  (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland),  Lysenko, Néo-Lamarckisme et linguistique de la totalité en URSS, années 1920-1930 
SHANIDZE, Mzekala  (Université de Tbilissi, Georgia),  Early Linguistic Thought in Georgia 
SPITZL-DUPIC, Friederike  (Université de Clermont II, France),  Primauté du prédicat et primauté du sujet : comment ces deux analyses de la phrase peuvent-elles s'articuler dans la "Philosophische und allgemeine Sprachlehre " (1781) de Johann Werner Meiner ? 
STANCATI, Claudia  (Université de Calabre, Cozensa, Italy),  Une page d'histoire de la lexicographie en Italie et en France 
SUBBIONDO, Joseph L.  (California Institute of Integral Studies, USA).  Owen Berfield's History of Language as History of Consciousness : A Study of History in English Words (1926) 
SWIGGERS, Pierre  (K.U. Leuven, Belgium),  The Study of Native American Linguistics, 1905-1920 : Gleanings from the Sapir-Boas Correspondence 
TAYLOR, Daniel J.  (Lawrence University, Appleton (Wisconsin), USA),  Varro's Casus Accusativus : Not a Case of Mistaken Identity 
TOLLIS, Francis  (Université de Pau, France),  Du langage et de régulation chez Antonio de Nebrija (1492)
VAKULENKO, Serhii  (Kharkiv Pedagogical University, Ukraine),  Lockean Motifs in the Linguistic Work of Alexander Potebnia 
Van der WAL, Marijke J.  (Rijks Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands),  Lambert Ten Kate and Eighteenth-Century Grammar 
VERCILLO, Federica  (Université de Calabre, Cosenza, Italy),  Sur la transformation des langues universelles 
VERSTEEGH, Kees  (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands),  The Study of Non-Western Linguistic Traditions 
VILKOU-PUSTOVAIA, Irina  (Université de Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France),  L'opposition roumain/moldave entre la "latinite" et la “balkanité" 
WILDING, Nick  (Istituto Universitario Europeo, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy),  Athanasius Kircher's Universal Languages

3) SEMIOTIQUE DES CULTURES ET SCIENCES COGNITIVES
    Genève-Archamps, 20-23 June 1999

An inaugural colloquium of the Institut Fernand de Saussure was held in June.  For more information please contact S. Bouquet / F. Rastier / V. Rialle at the Institute:

Institut Fernand de Saussure
Centre Universitaire et de Recherche 
74166 Archamps
France

S. Auroux (Ecole Normale Supérieure - Fontenay-St. Cloud) La révolution sémiotique en philosophie
A. Langaney (Université de Genève) Les pratiques interdisciplinaires en anthropologie
J.-G. Meunier (Université du Québec, Montréal) Niveau de représentation, information et culture
D. Vernant (Université de Grenoble) Dialogisme et culture
G. Jucquois (Université de Louvain) L’émergence de la pensée comparative en Occident et les fondements d’une épistémologie de la diversité
M. Bischofsberger (Université de Bâle) Quel constructivisme pour la linguistique cognitive?
J. Bruner (New York University) Recent findings about the rôle of ‘intersubjectivity’ in the development of culture and in the structuring of langage
C. Geertz (Institute for Adanced Studies, Princeton) The role of culture in the working of the human mind
B. Cyrulnik (Centre hospitalier de Toulon-La Seyne-sur-Mer) Les objets saillants ou Historicisation de nos perceptions
P. Sériot (Université de Lausanne)  Les théories de la culture en Russie
Carol Fleisher Feldman (New York University) Speech Genres as Mental and Cultural Models
Heinz Wismann (University of Heidelberg) Connaissance et reconnaissance dans les sciences de la culture
F. Rastier (CNRS, Paris) Langues et anthropologie linguistique
J.-P. Bronckart (Université de Genève) La culture comme sémantique du social
M. Olender (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) Généalogie d’une fable savante : Babel, raison linguistique et constructions culturelles
R. Caspari (University of Michigan) The concept of Œrace‚ evolutionary biology, ethnogenesis and symbolic construction
G. P. Capprettini (Université de Turin) Protohistoire du symbolique et formation de la pensée mythique
E. Masson (Collège de France) Relations entre configurations naturelles, ensembles architecturaux et mythologie

4) DICTIONARY SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA

The DSNA held its biennial meeting at Berkeley May 26-29, 1999.  Of particular interest to historians of linguistics were the following talks:

Robert Chapman (Drew University): “William Dwight Whitney”
Kazuo Dohi (Toyoko Gakuen Women’s College): “Dr. Thorndike’s Lexicographical Contribution”
Michael Adams (Albright College) and Marilyn G. Piety (Drexel University): “Nationalism and Professionalism: T. G. Repp’s Lexicographical Legacy”

AUTOUR DE LA REVUE DES LANGUES ROMANES
Y a-t-il une linguistique méridionale ?

A symposium will be held in Montpellier (France) April 7-8 2000 concerning the journal, La Revue des Langues Romanes, which has played an important role in defining the place of Occitan among the Romance languages.  For further information please contact:

Philippe Martem 0467525944
or Pierre Boutan : 0467725379 (telephone and fax)
e-mail : boutan@iufm.univ-montp2.fr
 
 

ARCHAIMBAULT, Sylvie.  Préhistoire de l’aspect verbal: l’émergence de la notion dans les grammaires russes.  Paris: CNRS Editions, 1999.  251 p. ISBN 2 271 05631 4

COLLINS, Beverly & Inger M. MEES.  TheReal Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones.  Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.  xxv + 597 p.    ISBN 3 11 015124 3

COLOMBAT, Bernard.  La grammaire latine en France à la Renaissance et à l’Âge classique.  Théories et pédagogie.  Grenoble: ELLUG, Université Stendhal.  724 p.  ISBN 2 84310 015 1

Latin grammar of the Renaissance on into the 18th century has generally been ignored by Latinists (in favor of the Classical works) and by those interested in the history of the vernaculars (in favor of grammars of those languages).  Dr. Colombat demonstrates the errors of such narrow-mindedness in this richly documented work that should constitute required foundation reading for anyone interested in grammatical thought of early modern Europe. 

ESPARZA TORRES, Miguel Angel & Hans-Josef  NIEDEREHE.  Bibliografía Nebrisense.  Las obras completas del humanista Antonio de Nebrija desde 1481 hasta nuestros días (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 90).   Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999.   ISBN 90 272 4578 9

GÖRLACH, Manfred.  An Annotated bibliography of 19th-century Grammars of English.  (= Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 26).  Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999.  ISBN 90 272 3752 2

JONES, William Jervis.  Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800 (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 89). Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999.  ISBN 90 272 4577 0

LECA-TSIOMIS, Marie.  Écrire l’Encyclopédie.  Diderot: de l’usage des dictionnaires à la grammaire philosophique (=Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 373).  Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999.  xii + 528 p.  ISBN 0 7294 0627 X

SERIOT, Patrick.   STRUCTURE ET TOTALITE (Les origines intellectuelles du structuralisme en Europe centrale et orientale).  Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1999, 352 p. ISBN 2-13-050297-0.