August 28th-31st, 2003
Draft programme
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 5.30-7.00 | Annual General Meeting of the Henry Sweet Society |
7.30 Conference dinner at a local restaurant
| 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)