NAAHoLS 2001 Meeting Program

In addition to the papers listed below, the schedule includes the NAAHoLS business meeting which will occur on Saturday, 6 January, 3:00 PM.

Friday, 5 January

Session 1

10:00   Maria Tsiapera (U NC-Chapel Hill):  The Logique & Port-Royal

10:30   Danilo Marcondes (Pontifical U, Rio de Janeiro):  Language & knowledge in early modern philosophy:  Between the 'abuse of words' & the 'veil of ideas

11:00   Zsuzsanna Fagyal (U IL-Urbana/Champaign):  Articulatory phonetics for speaking machines: A brief history of   teaching human sounds to automata from the Middle Ages to this day

11:30   Margaret Thomas (Boston C):  Roger Bacon & Martin Joos:  Often cited, but misconstrued

Session 2

  2:00   Michael Mackert (German-Engl Lang Services):  Horatio Hale's grammar of 'The poetic dialect of English'

  2:30   Hiroyuki Eto (Nagano U/Georgetown U):  George J. Adler’s (1821–1868) treatise on Wilhelm von Humboldt’s linguistic achievements

  3:00   Daniel Davis (U MI-Flint):  Zeuss & the redefinition of Celtic linguistics 1850-1900

  3:30   David Boe (U NV-Reno):  Lithuanian studies & 19th-century comparative philology

Saturday, 6 January

Session 3

  9:00   Chris Hutton (U Hong Kong):  Chinese & its dialects in Western eyes: One language or many?

  9:30   Regna Darnell (U W ON): Americanist linguistics as handmaiden to ethnology

10:00   Thomas Broden (Purdue U):  A. J. Greimas’ La Mode en 1830 (1948) & the development of modern French   lexicology

10:30   Break

11:00   E. F. Konrad Koerner (U Ottawa): Origins of morphophonemics 

11:30   Mark Amsler (E MI U):  Humanism & linguistics”

Session 4   The Concept of Consciousness in the History of Linguistics

  2:00   Joseph Subbiondo (CA Inst for Integral Studies): Benjamin Lee Whorf & the new millenium: Rereading  Language, Thought, & Reality

  2:30   Nadia Kerecuk (London): Language & consciousness in Potebnia