With Christmas out the way, and inbox overloads hopefully being cleared, here another reminder of the Call for Papers for the Henry Sweet Society Colloquium. Deadline for abstract is Feb 28th. Looking forward to seeing you all in Berlin in the summer!
Nicola
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The 2013 colloquium is being hosted by Ute Tintemann in the marvellous surroundings of the Berlin Academhy of Sciences in Berlin, with a plenary paper by Jurgen Trabant on Humboldt's linguistic ideas. So put it in the diary now!
Deadline for abstracts is end of February 2013, to be sent to [log in to unmask] (details below). As usual, there is a colloquium theme - the description of exotic languages before and after Humboldt - but papers in anyarea of the history of linguisics are always welcome. Submissions of absstracts from younger scholars are particularly sought, and the Society has a small number of bursaries (normally up to a value of £100) to assist younger or unwaged scholars in meeting the costs of attending the Colloquium.
(For those wanting even more history of linguistics, you could also combine the HSS Colloquium with attending the annual meeting of the German society for the history of linguistics, the Studienkreis, to be held in nearby Potsdam a few days earlier. Details of that colloquium are here: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/romanistik/hassler/aktuelles.html).
We look forward to receiving your abstracts, and please of course pass this on to anyone else who might be interested. Any queries to [log in to unmask]
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Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas Annual Colloquium, 29 August to 31 August 2013 Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
Colloquium theme:
The description of "exotic" languages before and after Humboldt
Call for papers
The 2013 Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society of Linguistic Ideas will take place at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, from Thursday 29th August to Saturday 31st August 2013. As usual, contributions on any aspect on the history of linguistics are welcome, as are ideas for panel discussions or thematic sessions. Papers dealing with the history of describing 'exotic' languages are especially welcome.
Submission of abstracts by 28th February, 2013.
Please send an email to Ute Tintemann ([log in to unmask]) with an attachment giving the title, type of contribution, and an abstract (max. 250 words); your name should not appear in the attachment. In the body of your email please indicate your full contact address and the title of your paper, discussion or thematic session. Papers are expected to be of 20 minutes (+10 minutes discussion time). The deadline for submissions is 28th February 2013.
Notification of acceptance will be made by 31st March 2013.
For further information about the society see the Henry Sweet Society website http://www.henrysweet.org. Information about accommodation and travel, as well as updates on the colloquium, will be posted there.
Colloquium theme
Wilhelm von Humboldt's writings on language and linguistics are edited at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Accordingly, this year's colloquium theme is the description of "exotic" languages before and after Humboldt. During his lifetime, Wilhelm von Humboldt studied a vast number of languages like Basque, the native languages of the Americas, Chinese, Sanskrit, Kawi and other Austronesian languages. At his time these languages were seen as 'exotic' from a European point of view. According to Humboldt collecting language data and then describing the grammar and lexicon of the languages of the world should be the first steps in comparative linguistics. Only by studying the structure of a language in detail one could understand "the organism of languages". Humboldt based his language studies mainly on grammars and dictionaries that had been written before, for example by missionaries.
Humboldt's linguistic ideas are the topic of the Leslie Seiffert Memorial Lecture at the colloquium, to be held by Jürgen Trabant.
http://www.bbaw.de/en/research/wvhumboldt
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