NAAHoLS 2002 Meeting Program

In addition to the papers listed below, the schedule includes the NAAHoLS business meeting which will occur on Saturday, 5 January, 3:45 PM.

Friday, 4 January

Session 1

9:00
Maria Tsiapera (U NC-Chapel Hill): The Logique & Port-Royal
9:30
Danilo Marcondes de Souza (Pontifical U, Rio de Janeiro):
Giambattista Vico' conception of language
10:00
David Boe (N MI U): Chomsky's tractarian antecedents
 
10:30 - 10:45
Break

Session 2

10:45
Richard Steadman-Jones (U Sheffield, England): 'A file for the serpent': The romantic hero & the practice of grammar
11:15
Brian Merrilees (U Toronto): Cross-referencing & synonymy in a 15th-century French-Latin dictionary
11:45
E-Jung Choi (U IL-Urbana): Reflections on synonymy in 18th-century France: Its contributions to language science

Session 3

2:00
Oleg A. Radchenko (Moscow City Pedagogic U): 'Humboldt redivivus' &
the problem of historiographic correctness in modern linguistic historiography
2:30
Julia S. Falk (La Jolla, CA): Hockett's turn to the history of linguistics
3:00
Linda R. Waugh (U AZ): Roman Jakobson in America:
What he brought to America, what America gave to him
 
3:30 - 3:45
Break


Session 4: Special Session on Language & Consciousness

3:45
Jim Ryan (CA Inst Integral Studies): The theoretical framework of Bhart'hari:
A study of the relationship of grammar & consciousness in 5th-century India
4:15
Dan Moonhawk Alford (CA Inst Integral Studies): From before Humboldt to here:
A still hidden cycle in the history of linguistics
4:45
Nadia Kerecuk (London, England): Internal form, Obraz, & consciousness in
O. O. Potebnia
5:15
Matthew C. Bronson (CA Inst Integral Studies): The grammar of life:
Animacy & consciousness in three linguistic traditions

 

Saturday, 5 January

Session 5

9:00
Stuart Davis (IN U): Francis Lieber & Laura Bridgman: An untold story
9:30
Margaret Thomas (Boston C): The specious battle between 'contrastive analysis'
& 'creative construction'
10:00
Jane Hodson (U Sheffield, England/ UC-Berkeley): The mother tongue &
the mother grammarian in 18th-century England & America
   
10:30 - 10:45 Break

Session 6

10:45
Wil Hass (MN Sch Professional Psych): Cosmologies, evolutions, histories,
& life-spans in the description of language origin, change, & termination
11:15
Steve Seegmiller (Montclair SU): The Marrist period in Soviet linguistics
& its effects on descriptive practice
11:45
Hiroyuki Eto (Seifu Inst Engl Ling & Philol, Osaka, Japan):
C. T. Onions's (1873-1965) undiminished influence on English language education in Japan

Session 7

2:00
Frederick Schwink (U IL-Urbana):
Lambert ten Kate & the discovery of Germanic gender
2:30
Ricardo Cavaliere (U Fed Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro):
Theoretical sources of linguistics in Brazil
3:00
Reese M. Heitner (CUNY): Reducing the phoneme: Meaning, Bloomfield,
& the neopositivist reduction of linguistic equivalence