19.1691, Confs: History of Linguistics/Australia

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Date: 27-May-2008
From: William McGregor < linwmg at hum.au.dk >
Subject: Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific

 

	
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Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:49:04
From: William McGregor [linwmg at hum.au.dk]
Subject: Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific 
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Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific 
Short Title: SHLP 

Date: 01-Aug-2008 - 02-Aug-2008 
Location: Canberra, Australia 
Contact: William McGregor 
Contact Email: linwmg at hum.au.dk 
Meeting URL: http://fc.hum.au.dk/~linwmg/SHLP/Conference_2008.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This conference, to be held in the Department of Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU, will
launch the SHLP with contributions on a range of topics in the history of
linguistics in the Pacific region. 

The conference has 9 presentations on topics in the history of research on
Pacific linguistics, presented on Friday 1st August.

Chris Ballard & Nick Thieberger: 
Daniel Macdonald and the 'Compromise Literary Dialect' in Efate, Central Vanuatu

Hilary Carey: 
Lancelot Threlkeld and the Colonial Bible

Ross Clark: 
On the Margins of Pacific Linguistics: P.A. Lanyon-Orgill

Jeremy Hammond: 
Capell's Tanna: An Investigation into the Depth of Arthur Capell's Documentation
of Tanna Languages

Sylvia Anne Mackie: 
Gaps, Transitions, Adjoining, Embedding: Kenneth Hale's Groundbreaking Work in
the Nineteen Seventies on the 'Evolution' of the Relative Clause

William B. McGregor: 
Daisy Bates' Documentation of Kimberley Languages

David C. Moore: 
History of Arandic Language Research

David Nash: 
Daisy Bates' Records of Australian Languages

Paul Sidwell: 
Language Classification: Failure, confusion and success in mainland and insular
Southeast Asia

In addition, there will be a book launch of McGregor, William B. (ed.) 2008.
Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian
linguistics. PL 591. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

On Saturday 2nd August there will be a business meeting concerned with the
establishment of the society.







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