The 1998 Henry Sweet Society Colloquium will be held from Wednesday 16 September to Saturday 19 September in Amsterdam. This will be the first time the Colloquium has ventured outside England and the Dutch members of the Society of various university affiliations are combining efforts to ensure that this Colloquium will be a particularly enjoyable one.
Amsterdam, with its distinguished history of linguistics
publishers from the seventeenth century to today, seemed eminently
suitable as the centre most easily accessible to members both on the
Continent and in Britain.
The exact location of the sessions will be determined by the number
of participants, but options have been taken on a number of places at
the University of Amsterdam, the Free University and in the City of
Amsterdam itself.
Papers are invited on any aspect of the history of linguistics.
They will typically be of 20 minutes duration with 10 minutes for
discussion. We would like to make abstracts available to participants
at the Colloquium and these should be sent to Robin Smith at the
address below by the 31st January 1998. Abstracts should be no longer
than 300 words and may be submitted on paper and/or electronically.
Please check that your submission is acknowledged.
Dr Robin SmithVakgroep Engels
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
Postbus 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel: 071 5272151; Fax: 071 5272615; e-mail: rdsmith@rullet.leidenuniv.nl
To express interest, or for further information, please feel free
to contact any member of the organising committee:Els Elffers-van
Ketel, Jaap Maat, Jan Noordegraaf, Els Ruisendaal, Robin Smith
More information will follow with the first circular in due
course.