Dear HSS members,


The Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of 
Linguistic Ideas will take place in the Faculty of English, University of 
Cambridge on Saturday 19 March 2011. The programme (copied below) promises 
a range of interesting papers, and we hope that many members of the Society 
will be able to attend.

Registration forms are currently available online at 
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk (under 'Events'). Please return your form by 
*Saturday 12 March 2011* with a registration fee (£30 full, £15 
student/unwaged, made payable to 'The Henry Sweet Society') to the 
following address:

Dr Deborah Hayden, 
Department of ASNaC, 
9 West Road, 
Cambridge CB3 9DP 

Email: [log in to unmask]

Please do not hesitate to contact me at the above address if you have any 
further questions about the event. I hope to see many of you in Cambridge 
on the 19th of March.

Best wishes,


Deborah Hayden


COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMME


SATURDAY 19 MARCH 2011
Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

9.00: Registration and Coffee
	Faculty of English Foyer

9.50: Opening remarks: Andrew Linn (University of Sheffield)
	Faculty of English Room GR06/07

10.00: Leslie Seiffert Memorial Lecture: Professor Emeritus Richard Hudson 
(UCL)
 
'Why History Matters: From Babylon to Sweet, Tesnière, Chomsky and the 
National Curriculum'

11.00-11.30: Coffee and refreshments
	Faculty of English Foyer

11.30-13.00: Session I
	Faculty of English Room GR06/07

Chair: Nicola McLelland (University of Nottingham)

11.30-12.00: Hung-yi Chien (National Taiwan Normal University)

The Jesuit grammatology of Chinese from Ricci to Prémare

12.00-12.30: Camiel Hamans (European Parliament, Brussels)

The Reception of TGG in the Netherlands in the sixties of the 20th century

12.30-13.00: Helena Sanson (University of Cambridge) 

Women's language in the 'Questione della Lingua' debates of 
post-unification Italy


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13.00-14.00: Lunch
	Faculty of English Foyer

14.00-14.30: Annual General Meeting of the Henry Sweet Society

*******

14.30-15.30: Session II
	Faculty of English Room GR06/07

Chair: Deborah Hayden (University of Cambridge)

14.30-15.00: Toon Van Hal (Research Foundation, Flanders) 

From Alauda to Zythus: Collecting and discussing Old-Gaulish words in Early 
Modern Europe

15.00-15.30: Paul Russell (University of Cambridge) 

Irish f-, Latin u-, and the Greek digamma: Medieval Irish perceptions of 
sound laws, sound change, and linguistic borrowing

15.30-16.00: Coffee and refreshments
	Faculty of English Foyer

16.00-17.00: Session III
	Faculty of English Room GR06/07

Chair: Paul Russell (University of Cambridge)

16.00-16.30: Denis Casey (University of Cambridge)

Teaching Irish to the English Queen

16.30-17.00: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (University of Leiden/University 
of Cambridge) 

The Bishop's grammar: Revising Robert Lowth's status as a prescriptivist

17.00: Closing remarks


-- 
Dr Deborah Hayden
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
Tel.: +44(0)1223.767.314
Email: [log in to unmask]