history of linguistic ideas the henry sweet society for the history of linguistic ideas fifteenth annual colloquium : amsterdam , 16th - 19th september 1998 second circular date and venue the colloquium is scheduled to begin with registration at 1 p . m . on wednesday 16 september , and to finish with breakfast on saturday 19 september . there will be associated events on wednesday and thursday evenings . registration and papers will take place in amsterdam university 's doelenzaal and its oudemanhuispoort facility . both locations are in the centre of amsterdam and can be easily reached by public transport . there will be a special bus on thursday and friday mornings for participants from hotel casa 400 . amsterdam , the capital of the netherlands , has the largest historical inner city in europe and the beautiful canals , monumental buildings , museums , world famous art galleries , open air markets and shopping streets can easily be explored on foot , should you have time before or after the colloquium . accommodation and travel a number of rooms have been booked for colloquium participants at hotel casa 400 . a list of low budget or more expensive hotels will be provided on request . amsterdam is easily accessible by air , rail and road . there is a direct rail connection to amsterdam from schiphol international airport located about 10 miles from the city centre . the city of amsterdam discourages its citizens from using cars , which means that there is no free parking either at the hotel or in the vicinity . detailed travel arrangements will be sent to those who have made bookings . keynote speaker we are delighted to announce that reinier salverda , professor of dutch at university college london , has agreed to be our keynote speaker . his topic will be " dutch linguists around 1900 : a critical reappraisal " . a book of abstracts will be made available to participants at the beginning of the colloquium . speakers who wish to make any adjustments to their abstracts should do so before 31 may . provisional lecture programme wednesday 16 september . 13 00arrival and registration 14 30r . schreyer ( aachen ) , " john wilkins , the man in the moone and everything : on links and hyperlinks in the history of ideas " . 15 00m . m . iserman ( heidelberg ) , " sounds and their signs in john wilkin 's essay " . 15 30n . wilding ( rome ) , " galilean linguistics " . 16 00tea 16 30i . zwiep ( amsterdam ) , " hebrew studies at the time of the counter - refomation : the reception of bellarmine 's institutiones " . 17 00a . j . klijnsmit ( amsterdam ) , " vossius , spinoza and schultens : the application of analogia in hebrew grammar " . 18 00dinner 20 00r . salverda ( london ) , " dutch linguistics around 1900 : a critical reappraisal " . thursday 17 september 09 30j . privratska ( prague ) , " the reflections of comenius language endeavours in the encyclopaedia comeniana " . 10 00j . mills ( luton ) , " twentieth - century cornish lexicography and language revival " . 10 30p . j . lucas ( dublin ) , " john minshew , polymath and poseur : old english in an early seventeenth-century dictionary " . 11 00coffee 11 30l . kelly ( cambridge ) , " michel foucault , richard mckeon and grammatica speculativa " . 12 00j . murphy ( davis , ca ) , " early modern grammarians who write about rhetoric " . 13 15lunch 14 30w . e . mcmahon ( akron , oh ) , " revisiting the concept of logical form " . 15 00b . godart - wendling ( paris ) , " la place de la semantique dans les premieres grammaires categorielles " . 15 30l . shi - xu ( singapore ) , " the poetics of formalism and functionalisn : understanding linguistic science as discourse " . 16 00tea 16 30m . j . van der wal ( leiden ) , " feral children in the netherlands : an eighteenth-century case within its european context " . 17 00l jooken ( louvain ) , " james hutton 's synthesis of epistemolinguistic issues at the end of the scottish enlightenment " . 17 30r . steadman - jones ( cambridge ) , " face and race in the early nineteenth century : european grammars of wolof and urdu " . friday 18 september 09 30s . a . romaschko ( moscow ) , " transferring grammars : how german grammarby jacob grimm was converted into russian historical grammar by fedor buslaev " . 10 00t . becker ( munich ) , " hermann paul , the post-generative morphologist " . 10 30n . helsloot ( amsterdam ) , " nietsche 's tone " . 11 00coffee 11 30h . gwosdek ( tuebingen ) , " the english grammars for st paul 's school , london " . 12 00p . loonen ( groningen ) , " the production of french grammars by hugenot refugees in the dutch republic " . 12 30i . tieken - boon van ostade ( leiden ) , " towards an edition of lowth 's correspondence " . 13 15lunch 14 30e . h . jahr ( tromso ) , " clara holst ( 1868-1935 ) : norwegian historical linguist and woman pioneer " . 15 00a . linn ( sheffield ) , " towards a stylistics of standardisation : the case of norwegian and faroese " . 15 30j . m . morris ( london ) , " linguistic ideas for literacy in english " . 16 00tea 16 30b . collins ( leiden ) & i . m . mees ( copenhagen ) , " daniel jones role in the development of a prestige variety of british english pronunciation " . 17 00m . k . c . macmahon ( glasgow ) , " the beginnings of phonetics in the british university system " . 17 30annual general meeting - - - conference dinner on behalf of the organising committee : dr . robin smith department of english language and literature university of leiden p . o . box 9515 2300 ra leiden the netherlands e-mail : rdsmith @ rullet . leidenuniv . nl those who want to attend the conference are kindly requested to print the following registration form and hotel reservation form , complete them , and send them by fax or regular mail to the addresses mentioned on the forms . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * the henry sweet society for the history of linguistic ideas * * * * * * fifteenth annual colloquium , amsterdam , september 16-18 , 1998 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * registration form ( please print or use a typewriter ) * * * o mr o mrs family name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . first name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . title ( prof . / dr . etc . ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . code / city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . telefax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e - 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