Annual Meeting Handbook - Linguistic Society of America

North American Association for the
History of the Language Sciences
Friday, 9 January
Morning
Linguistic Places and Theories 38
Chair:
Room:
Douglas Kibbee (U IL-Urbana/Champaign)
Fairfax B
9:00 Marc Pierce (U MI): Leonard Bloomfield & Germanic linguistics
9:30 Hope C. Dawson (OH SU) & Brian D. Joseph (OH SU): Columbus’s contribution to the foundations of the LSA
10:00 Break
10:15 Danilo Marcondes (Pontifícia U Católica, Rio de Janeiro): Kant’s influence on the philosophy of language
10:45 David Boe (N MI U): Linguistics, philosophy, & the status of 'grammar'
Friday, 9 January
Afternoon
Histories of Grammar and Pedagogy 39
Chair: David Boe (N MI U)
Room: Fairfax B
2:00 Angelo Mazzocco (Mount Holyoke C): Reflections on the linguistic state of ancient Rome & on the development of the
Romance vernaculars in 15th-century Spain
2:30 Margaret Thomas (Boston C): Two proposals for the role of general grammar in education: Eighteenth- century French
Idéologues & contemporary generativists
3:00 Mark Amsler (U WI-Milwaukee): Response to Mazzocco & Thomas
Saturday, 10 January
Morning
Rules, Play, and Prescription 40
Chair: Margaret Thomas (Boston C)
Room: Fairfax B
9:00 al-Husein N. Madhany (U Chicago): Siibawayh’s phonetic & phonological rules concerning the Arabic letter waaw /w/ in
the primary position: A critical translation & commentary
9:30 Patricia Sutcliffe (San Antonio, TX): Friedrich Max Müller’s Lectures on the science of language made silly: Lewis
Carroll’s Alice books as a reaction to Müller’s popular lecture series
10:00 Break
10:15 Giedrius Subacius (U IL-Chicago): Codification in the history of standard European languages
10:45 Douglas Kibbee (U IL-Urbana/Champaign): Prescriptive traditions in linguistics
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