harold orton centenary conference preliminary announcement and call for papers harold orton centenary conference : dialectal variation in english march 24-26 1998 plenary speakers will include : bill kretzschmar jim milroy 1998 sees the centenary of the birth of harold orton , co-founder of the survey of english dialects , and the half-centenary of the establishment of the survey itself . the conference aims : - to take stock of the research achievements in dialectology to date - to address current issues in diachronic and synchronic variation in english , from the point of view of dialectology , sociolinguistics , corpus-based linguistics , socio-cultural studies , literary studies and any other related fields - to bring together people working on linguistic variation from different perspectives and from all the english - using world - to look forward to research projects for the new millenium a selection of the proceedings will be published in leeds studies in english . we invite you to send one-page proposals for papers , workshops , and panel discussions in the above areas . papers will be 20 minutes duration + 10 minutes for discussion . please send your abstracts / proposals by 30 september 1997 to one of the following , either by post to the address below or by email : dr clive upton ( c . upton @ sheffield . ac . uk ) dr juhani klemola ( j . klemola @ leeds . ac . uk ) dr anthea fraser gupta ( a . f . gupta @ leeds . ac . uk ) school of english university of leeds leeds ls2 9jt uk for more information , contact : professor katie wales ( k . wales @ leeds . ac . uk )