Previous Seasons Meetings
PhilSoc welcomes proposals for papers to be read at meetings. Proposals should be forwarded to the Honorary Secretary (contact details on the Contact page). Papers may be on any topic falling within the scope of PhilSoc's interests, but speakers are asked to bear in mind that the audience will represent a wide range of linguistic interests, and papers should therefore be accessible to non-specialists.
January 2012
James Bond is back: how secret agents from the Dictionnaire Etymologique Roman (DERom) are promoting a paradigm shift in Romance etymology
Prof. Eva Buchi (ATILF-CNRS/Université Nancy 2)
November 2011
Linguistic motion charts: a new corpus-based application for the study of language change
Dr Martin Hilpert (University of Freiburg)
October 2011
Dancing words: metre and music in Somali poetry
Dr Martin Orwin (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Half-day symposium marking the publication of the Historical Thesaurus of the OED
Historical semantics, etymology and lexicography
Hugh Fraser Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow (registration form available on the PhilSoc homepage)
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce a special half-day event to mark the publication of the OED Historical Thesaurus. The event will take place at the University of Glasgow on the afternoon of Sat 18 Jun 11. Speakers include Christian Kay, Rosemarie Lühr and Roger Lass.
June 2011
Politeness in grammar: an East Asian-inspired approach to German and French
Dr Horst Simon (Kings College London)
Jesus College, Cambridge
Annual General Meeting
Grammatical change in present-day English: convergence and divergence in speech and writing
Prof. Christian Mair (University of Freiburg)
March 2011
Areal typology of Proto-Indo- European: the case for Caucasian connections
Prof. Ranko Matasović (University of Zagreb)
in the Haldane Room, Wolfson College, Oxford
February 2011
Tracing discontinuity on a continuum: what sort of 'diachronic isoglosses' can linguists scientifically rely on to establish boundaries between 'diachronic dialects' within the history of a language?
Prof. Phillipe Caron (University of Poitiers)
January 2011
The colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: modern language-teaching methods in the third century AD?
Prof. Eleanor Dickey (University of Exeter)
One-day symposium
Language, Region and Economy
In line with a now well established tradition, the Nov 2010 meeting of the Society will centre on a collection of papers to be delivered on a particular theme. The day-long event, to be held at the University of the West of England in Bristol, will focus on the topic "Language, region and economy", with papers expected from Jannis Androutsopoulos (Hamburg), Joan Beal (Sheffield), Richard Coates (BCL, UWE), Paul Kerswill (Lancaster), Gertrud Reershemius (Aston), and Clive Upton (Leeds).
