Language, text and history: 19-20 March 2010

[Professor Wendy Bennett]

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The Philological Society
www.philsoc.org.uk

LANGUAGE, TEXT & HISTORY: Linguistics and Philology in the 21st Century

A Symposium sponsored by the Philological Society, to be held on Friday 
19th-Saturday 20th March, 2010, in Murray Edwards College, University of 
Cambridge.

Call for Papers  

For much of the 20th century it was common to figure Linguistics and 
Philology as rivals or even antagonists in the field of language-study. 
More recently, the border barriers have started to come down as researchers 
on both sides have increasingly recognised the complex interdependencies 
between code and context, synchrony and diachrony. The aim of our symposium 
is to celebrate this new spirit of partnership and to showcase some of the 
new research and researchers it will bring to the fore in the 21st century. 
We therefore invite offers of papers from doctoral students and early 
career researchers working on topics which link language-structure to 
language history or textual practice. The two-day event will also feature a 
hands-on workshop exploring ways in which philological and linguistic 
approaches can enrich each other and a panel discussion and Q&A session led 
by members of the Society representing work across a range of 
language-families. The workshop will be led by Professor Andrew Garrett of 
the University of California at Berkeley, who will also give the concluding 
paper of the symposium on Saturday 20th March. An outline programme is 
given below as well as details of grants offered by the Society for student 
paper givers and for student associate members of the Society participating 
in the symposium workshop. Offers of papers, accompanied by an abstract of 
not more than 150 words, should be sent to Professor Sylvia Adamson at 
president at philsoc.org.uk by Monday 14 December 2009.



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