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Dear colleagues, You are very warmly invited to the MHRA Presidential Address (details below). You do not need to be a member of the Association to attend, although you can of course join if you wish. Full details of what we do for modern languages including English, our publishing and grant-giving activity, can be found at: www.mhra.org.uk<http://www.mhra.org.uk/>. MODERN HUMANITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Professor Nigel Vincent 'What Exactly is the History of a Language?' 5.00 p.m., Friday 11 October 2013, in the Library of the Institute of Minerals, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AF (nearest underground stations Piccadilly Circus or Charing Cross). All welcome. Nigel Vincent is Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics at The University of Manchester, following his retirement from the Mont Follick Chair in Comparative Philology in 2011. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Pavia, the Romansk Institut in Copenhagen and an Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury (NZ). His publications include The Romance Languages (with Martin Harris, 1988) and numerous articles on the modelling of linguistic change, with special reference to Latin, Italian and the dialects of Italy. From 2000 to 2005 he co-directed with Mair Parry and Robert Hastings the AHRC-funded project Sintassi degli antichi volgari d’Italia (SAVI). He chaired Main Panel M (Modern Languages and Linguistics) in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006, where he is currently the Vice-President for Research & Higher Education Policy. In this capacity he has overseen projects on postgraduate funding, the case for modern languages in schools and universities, and open access publishing. Dr Barbara Burns Dean of Graduate Studies, College of Arts School of Modern Languages and Cultures Room 210B, The Hetherington Building The University of Glasgow Bute Gardens Glasgow G12 8RS Direct line: +44 (0) 141 330 6192 Email: [log in to unmask] www.gla.ac.uk/smlc<http://www.gla.ac.uk/smlc> The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401