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.  

The meeting will take place at the Hilton Anaheim Hotel in Anaheim, California between 4-7 January, 2007.  Further details about the meeting will be provided in the next newsletter (to be distributed Summer 2006).

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 (100 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

    Leiden University, The Netherlands, 28-30 June 2006
 

Balnat, Vincent / Kaltz, Barbara (Université de Provençe, Aix-en-Provençe, Frankreich), Zu einigen theoretischen Problemen der Kurzwortbildung. 
Boe, David (Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan, USA), Cartesian linguistics revisited.
Cavaliere, Ricardo (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Theoretical Sources of Linguistics in Brazil.
Colombat, Bernard / Shimanek, Stephen (Université Paris 7 / École Normale Supérieure, Lyons, France), A database in the History of Linguistics: the CTLF program (Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux).
Daalder, Saskia (Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), How Dutch linguists linked up with structuralism. Aspects of the organisational history of Dutch linguistics, 1930-1960.
Drotvinas, Vincentas (Paedagogische Universitaet Vilnius, Litauen), Michael Mörlin und sein Principium primarium in lingva Lithvanica (Königsberg, 1706).
Douay, Françoise (Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence,  France), Languages in France under German Occupation (1940-1945): historiography of linguistics for hard times and split societies.
Ehlers, Klaas-Hinrich (Universität Siegen, Deutschland), Nachkriegslinguistik. Ein Überblick über die bundesdeutsche Sprachforschung der 1950er und 1960er Jahre.
Elffers, Els (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Beth vs. Reichling: contrary forces in the rise of Dutch generativism.
Eto, Hiroyuki (Yokohama, Japan), Between “traditional” and “modern”: German Influence on Language Studies in Japan at its Early Stage.
Gas?ns, M?rcis (Ministry for Education of the Russian Federation, Maxim Gorky Literary Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation), Two lost Sanskrit dictionaries: by Pavel Petrow and Kaetan Kossowich.
Godart Wendling, Béatrice (CNRS – UMR 7597, Laboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques, Université Paris VII, France), Challenges and Perspectives of Formal Grammars in the 21st Century. 
Hardy, Jörg (Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland), Tempora mutantur? Über den richtigen Umgang mit Wörtern in Platons Dialogen und den zukünftigen, richtigen Umgang mit einem evergreen.
Hassler, Gerda (Universität Potsdam, Deutschland), Zwischen Konservieren und Prognostizieren: vom Wert begriffsbezogener Forschungen in der Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts.
Isermann, Michael (Anglistisches Seminar, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Deutschland), Implikationen der Schriftprojekte in Renaissance und früher Neuzeit: Zur Vorbegriffs-Geschichte des Saussureschen Begriffs der Differenz.
Kärnä, Aino (University of Helsinki / Helsingfors Universitet, Helsinki, Finland), Tracing the origin of some grammatical notions.
Kilarski, Marcin (School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University Pozna?, Poland), “Die Materie gegen den Geist”: Brugmann vs. Roethe on grammatical gender.
Kilic, Savas  (Université Paris X – Nanterre, France),  Saussure’s Critique of Sound Laws. 
Léon, Jacqueline (CNRS, Université Paris 7, France), From restricted languages to registers. Firthian legacy and Corpus Linguistics.
Leuschner, Torsten (Ghent University – German Department, Belgium), Niederländisch und die Niederlande als Schauplatz im 'Krieg der Professoren'. Zur Rezeption sprachbezogener Argumentationsmuster in der nationalpolitischen deutschen Publizistik 1866-1871.
Percival, W. Keith (Universities of Kansas (Lawrence, KS) and Washington (Seattle, WA), USA), Remarks on the Proliferation of Linguistic Structuralisms.
Rathert, Monika (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Deutschland), The Linguistic Historiography of Nominalizations.
Roussos, Lefteris (Laer, Deutschland), Dialektik: (Un)Zeitgemäße Erinnerung an eine von der Historiographie der Linguistik vernachläßigte Tradition.
Rutten, Gijsbert J. (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands), The nature of language. Proposal for a unifying approach to early modern linguistics.
Schmidhauser, Andreas U. (Université de Genève, Switzerland), Aristarchus’ Definition of Pronouns.
Schreyer, Rüdiger (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Deutschland), Pricking the bubble. Unfinished apprehensions about the historiography of linguistics. 
Spitzl-Dupic, Friederike (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, Frankreich), „Sprachkünste“ und ihre Rolle in der Erziehung.
Theunissen, Antonia Regina (Annegien) (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
The premodern tradition of Chinese word classes.
Van de Walle, Jürgen (PhD student, Ghent University, Belgium), Roman Jakobson’s post war linguistics: Communication engineering and the Institute for the ‘Unity of Science’.
Velmezova, Ekaterina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation & Université de Lausanne, Switzerland), The Linguistic Theories of N. Marr: Challenges and New Approaches.
Verleyen, Stijn (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven-Kortrijk, Belgium), The epistemological and methodological tension between individual, speech community, and language system in 20th-century theories of sound change.
Vonk, Frank (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, Niederlande), Relevante Theorien. Rück- und Vorschau auf den Begriff der Relevanz. 
Wakulenko, Serhij (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Parede, Portugal), Anton Reichling (1898-1986) und Myxajlo Kalynovy? (1888-1949)  über das Problem der Worteinheit.
 

Conference location

The conference will take place in the Lipsius Building (also called Centraal Faciliteiten gebouw). It is part of  a modern complex of buildings in the heart of Leiden’s city centre which houses the Faculty of Arts; it includes the office of  LUCL (1166) and the university library. This complex (also called WSD-complex) is situated between the canals Rapenburg and Witte Singel. A map is available on the LUCL website: http://www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl – events – conference information. The Lipsius building is number 1175 on the map.  The conference location and its surroundings offer various opportunities for lunch.
 

Conference program

Above you will find a list of accepted papers. A more detailed conference program will be available in May.  The conference hours will be: 
Wednesday June 28: 11-13.00 (registration), 13.30 (opening) – 18.00. 
Thursday June 29, and  Friday June 30: 9.00 – 18.00. 
A conference dinner will take place on Friday June 30.
 

Accommodation

Accommodation will not be booked by the conference organizers. The participants are invited to make their reservations in one of the hotels in the Leiden region; these hotels are listed on the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics (LUCL) website: http://www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl , sub – events – conference information, or http://www.hollandrijnland.nl/leiden (the city’s tourist information). We would strongly advise you to book well in advance! The celebration of Rembrandt’s 400th birthday is expected to attract many tourists in June and the whole summer period.

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2) 2006 Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas
    University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, 7-11 September 2006
 

The 2006 Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held from Thursday 7 September to Sunday 11 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 on Linguistics and Social Theory in the USSR 1917-38.  Those attending the HSS Colloquium will be welcome to enroll 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 United Kingdom, 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 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 will be indicated on the booking form, which will be available, along with further information about the conference, on the Society website in early 2006.

Papers (30 minutes, including discussion) are invited on any aspect of the history of linguistic thought or practice.  Ideas for themed sessions or panel discussions are also very welcome.  All proposals, including title and abstract (max. 250 words) should be sent to Fiona Marshall (f.c.marshall@shef.ac.uk, or at the address below) by the end of February 2006 (or by agreement with the organizers).  These will be subject to anonymous review. Notification of acceptance of proposals will be made by 31 March 2006.

NB: Financial assistance may be available from 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.  Information about this will be posted on the Society's website in March 2006. 
 
Department of English Language and Linguistics
University of Sheffield
GB-Sheffield S10 2TN
UK
 

Journals

Historiographia Linguistica 32:3 (2005)

Articles

Brigitte Lepinette, La linguistique des grammaires francaises publiees en Espagne dans la premiere moitie du XIXe siecle, 273.

John E. Joseph, The Centenary of the First Publication of Saussure’s Sign Theory – Odier (1905), 309.
 

Review Article

Rene Amacker, Saussure en Grande-Bretagne, 325.
 

Reviews

Deborah K.W. Modrak, Aristotle’s Theory of Language and Meaning (Cambridge, 2001), reviewed by Tim Wagner, 343.

Dirk M. Schenkeveld, A Rhetorical Grammar: C. Iulius Romanus, Introduction to the Liber de adverbio, as incorporated in Charisius’ Ars Grammatica II.13 (Leiden, 2004), reviewed by Stephanos Matthaios, 349.

Anneli Luhtala, Grammar and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 2004), reviewed by Wolfram Ax, 358.

Eugenio Coseriu & Reinhard Meisterfeld, Geschichte der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft, Band 1: Von den Anfangen bis 1492 (Tubingen, 2003), reviewed by Jorn Albrecht, 366.

Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 2003), reviewed by Werner Hullen, 373.

Christoph Konig (Hrg.), Internationales Germanistenlexicon 1800-1950 (Berlin, 2003), reviewed by Wilfried Kurschner, 377.

Clemens Knobloch, “Volkhafte Sprachforschung”: Studien zum Umbau der Sprachwissenschaft in Deutschland zwischen 1918 und 1945 (Tubingen, 2005), reviewed by Werner Hullen, 382.

Noam Chomsky, The Generative Enterprise Revisited (Berlin & New York, 2004), reviewed by Therese Lindstrom-Tiedemann, 387.

Peter Schmitter, Historiographie und Narration: Metahistoriographische Aspeckte der Wissenschaftgeschichtsschreibung der Linguistk (Seoul & Tubingen, 2003), reviewed by Klaas-Hinrich Ehlers, 394.

Otto Zwartjes & Even Hovdhaugen (eds.), Missionary Linguistics / Linguistica missionera: Selected papers from the First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Oslo, 13-16 March 2003 (Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 2004), reviewed by Miguel Angel Esparza Torres, 401.

Miscellanea

Gilbert Debusscher and J.P. van Noppen: Eric Buyssens (1900-2000), 413.

Editor’s end-of-the-year piece, 421.
 
 

Books

Schmitter, Peter (Hrsg.)
Geschichte der Sprachtheorie. Bd. 6.1: Sprachtheorien der Neuzeit III/1. Sprachbeschreibung und Sprachunterricht, Teil 1. Tuebingen: Narr 2005, viii, 405 S. (ISBN 3-8233-5012-9)

Nachdem die Bände 4 und 5 der von Schmitter herausgegebenen Geschichte der Sprachtheorie (GdS) den epistemologischen, sprach- und grammatiktheoretischen Grundlagen neuzeitlicher Sprachbeschreibung gewidmet waren, setzt mit GdS 6.1, dem 1. Halbband der Sprachtheorien der Neuzeit III, die Darstellung der grammatikographischen Praxis der Neuzeit sowie des neuzeitlichen Sprachunterrichts ein. Genauer gesagt wird in diesem Halbband ein fundiertes und facettenreiches Bild der Grammatikographie indoeuropäischer Vernacularsprachen geboten, wobei nicht nur auf die Geschichte der grammatischen Beschreibung 'größerer' Sprachen (Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch, Russisch usw.)   eingegangen wird, sondern auch auf die selten behandelte Grammatikographie solcher 'kleineren' Sprachen,  wie sie das Lettische und Litauische oder auch die skandinavischen Sprachen darstellen. Die Grammatikographie nicht-indoeuropäischer Sprachen und die Geschichte des Sprachunterrichts sind dann Gegenstand des 2. Halbbands, der im Herbst 2006 erscheint.
Mitarbeiter des 1. Halbbands sind: Brigitte Bartschat, Vincentas Drotvinas, Miguel Angel Esparza, Werner Huellen, Barbara Kaltz, Clemens Knobloch, Andrew R. Linn, Hans-Josef Niederehe, Stefan Schallenberger, Rolf Schneider, Pierre Swiggers, Sarmite Trupa, Edeltraud Werner.
 
 

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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.

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