Henry Sweet Society Colloquium
Trinity College, Dublin

August 28th-31st, 2003

Draft programme


Thursday, August 28th, 2003
2-4 Arrival and Registration
Room 1
4.00 Welcome
4.30 Chris Stray (UWS): 
Mnemonics and general grammar: Gregor Feinaigle in Dublin, 1813-19
5.00  Marjorie Lorch (Birkbeck College, London): 
TheDublin School of Aphasia Research in the 19th Century
5.30 Jaap Maat (Amsterdam): The Tulip project: a novel approach to the history of linguistics
6.00-7.30 Reception


Friday, August 29th, 2003
Room 1
9.00 Pascale Hummel (Paris): 
Incunabula comparativa, la philologie comparée comme image dans le tapis
9.30 Luiza Palanciuc (Université de Bucarest/ Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris):
Choix théorique ou pratique linguistique? Autour des jeux de langage
10.00 Frank Vonk (Doetinchem):
Mach and Mauthner revisited
10.30 Reese M. Heitner (The City University of New York):
An Odd Couple: Chomsky and Quine on the Phoneme

11.00-11.30 COFFEE/TEA

Room 1 Room 2
11.30 John Walmsley (Bielefeld):
ëThe Inadequacy of the English Lexiconí: Schäferís thesis and English grammatical terminology
Ekaterina Velmezova (Russian Academy of Sciences / University of Lausanne Switzerland):
On the epistemological value of the ësemantic polarizationí theories by the end of the XIXth century
12.00  Mike McMahon (Glasgow): 
Richard John Lloyd (1846-1906)
Serhii Vakulenko: 
The Notion of Sememe in Adolf Noreen
12.30 Warren Maguire (University of Newcastle): Mr. A. J. Ellis ? the pioneer of scientific phonetics in England" (Sweet 1877, vii): an examination of Ellisís data from the northeast of England Nadia Kerecuk: 
Sign, Obraz, Symbol, Symbolic Thinking and Consciousness in O. O. Potebnia (1835-1891)

1.00-2.00 LUNCH

Room 1
2.00 Irina Vilkou-Poustovaïa:
Martinet face à Grammont ó une rencontre manquée entre Troubetzkoy et Saussure
2.30 John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh):
Pictetís Du beau and the Crystallisation of Saussurean Structuralism
3.00  Irina Ivanova (University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia/ University of Lausanne, Switzerland): 
From the analysis of the phonetic aspect of the poetical speech towards the analysis of the dialogue (the development of linguistic conception by Lev Jakubinskij)

3.30-4.00 COFFEE/TEA

Room 1 Room 2
4.00 Vladimir I. Mazhuga (Institute for History, Saint-Petersburg):
The notion of the "pragmátôn poiótês " in the definition of the "noun" by the Greek grammarians 
Hiroyuki Eto (Osaka/Nagano):
Wilhelm von Humboldt and American Linguistics
4.30 Andreas Schmidhauser:
What is a pronoun?
Birgit K. Schütz
Wilhelm von Humboldtës ÑGreat Work" on the American Indian Languages ? A Reconstruction
5.00 Sune Vork Steffensen (University of Aarhus):
The Emergence of the Subject
Joseph L. Subbiondo (California Institute of Integral Studies):
Language, Culture, and Consciousness: Benjamin Lee Whorfís Critique of the Scientific Assumptions of Structural Linguistics


Saturday, August 30th, 2004
Room 1 Room 2
9.00 Ken-Ichi Kadooka (Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan):
A Brief Review of Japanese Phonology From the Historical Viewpoint
Camiel Hamans (European Parliament):
The morphology of oddities
9.30 Herbert Igboanusi  (University of Ibadan Ibadan, Nigeria):
A socio-historical survey of English in Igboland 
Jacqueline Léon (Paris):
Semantic primitives and intermediary languages in early Machine Translation in Britain (1956- 1970)
10.00 Nikolai Dobronravine:
Arabic and Arabic-script Linguistic Thought in West Africa
Garon Wheeler  (Abu Dhabi, UAE):
Linguistic History vs. Krashen

10.30-11.00 COFFEE/TEA

Room 1
11.00-12.30 Richard Steadman-Jones and Rachael Gilmour (Sheffield and Queen Mary, University of London):
The languages of Africa in travel narratives of the romantic period
(2 papers + theoretical discussion)
12.30
Visit to Book of Kells and Old Library

1.30-2.30 LUNCH

Room 1
2.30 Paul Laurendeau (York University, Canada):
John Locke and Language
3.00 Natascia Leonardi (University of Macerata):
John Wilkinsí Theory of Knowledge: Language, Reality, and  Representation
3.30 David Cram (Jesus College, Oxford):
John Wilkins on the diversity of languages and the special case of Malayan

4.00-4.30 COFFEE/TEA

Room 1 Room 2
4.30 Hedwig Gwosdek ( University of Potsdam):
ëLily-Grammarsí? The English grammars of St Paulís school, London and An Introduction of the eyght partes of speche
[Executive committee meeting]
5.00 Masataka Miyawaki (Senshu University, Kanagawa, Japan):
John Wallisí Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae: Its Aim and Orientation
5.30-7.00 Annual General Meeting of the Henry Sweet Society

7.30  Conference dinner at a local restaurant
 
 


Sunday, August 31st, 2003
Room 1
9.00 Iwona Milweska:
European Approaches to Sanskrit
9.30 Anita Auer (University of Manchester):
Grammatical prescription in English and German in the 18th century
a study of the ësubjunctiveí and the ëKonjunktiví
10.00 Tinatin Bolkvadze (Tbilisi Iv. Javakhishvili State University):
Great tradition and Language Codification From a Sociolinguistic Point of View
10.30 Christiane Schlaps (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Goethe-Woerterbuch Arbeitsstelle Tuebingen):
Transformations of the 'genius of language' in the history of linguistic discourses

11.00-11.30 COFFEE/TEA

Room 1
11.30 Elena Simonato (University of Lausanne):
Energetic metaphor in linguistics (19th-20th centuries):  a page of the history of linguistic ideas
12.00 Peteris Vanags (University of Latvia / Stockholm university)
The interpretation of the origin of and the genetic relationship between languages in 17th and 18th century Baltic area linguistic treatises
12.30 Closing discussion

1.00-2.00 LUNCH

2.00 Excursion: Dublin Castle andChester Beatty library, 10 minutesí walk from College (free)