14. Old Latin and its Development into Classical Latin. MR. KENT. Registrants: Miss Kinnirey, Mr. Owen, Mr. Poynter, Mr. Strodach, Miss Turnbull.

15. Latin Syntax. MR. ELMER.

Registrants: Miss Jones, Mr. Murray, Mr. Poynter.

16. Vulgar Latin and Introduction to Romance Philology. MR. HILL. Registrants: Miss Allsop, Mr. Darby, Mr. Will.

17. Old French Phonology and Morphology. MR. MUELLER. Registrants: Miss Allsop, Mr. Darby, Mr. March, Miss Wright.

18. Historical Syntax of the French Language. MR. MUELLER. Registrant: Mr. Richardson.

19. Old Provençal. MR. HILL. Registrants: Mr. Bates, Mr. Rowell.

20. History of the Italian Language. MR. LIPARI. Registrant: Mr. Mangano.

21. Old Spanish. MR. REED.

Registrant: Mr. Goldiere.

22. Old Portuguese. MR. REED.

Registrants: none.

23. Early Irish. MR. DUNN.

Registrants: Miss Greer, Mr. Kerns, Miss Miller.

24. Early Welsh. MR. DUNN.

Registrant: Mr. Rice.

25. Gothic and Comparative Germanic Philology. MR. COLLITZ.

Registrants: Mr. Bauer, Mrs. Collitz, Mr. Cross, Miss Field, Mr.

Kerns, Mr. Stutzmann.

26. Old Norse. MR. FLOM.

Registrant: Mr. Peterson.

27. Old High German. MR. SHUMWAY.

Registrants: none.

28. History of the German Language. MR. SHUMWAY. Registrants: Mr. Frantz, Mr. Stutzmann, Mr. Zieglschmid.

29. History of the Dutch Language. MR. GRAFF. Registrants: none.

30. Old English. MR. MALONE.

Registrants: Mr. Peterson, Mr. Riker.

31. History of the English Language. MR. MALONE. Registrant: Mr. Riker.

32. American English. Miss POUND. Registrants: for shorter course only, Mr. Flom, Miss Greer, Miss

Miller, Mr. Peterson.

33. Lithuanian and Church Slavonic. MR. PROKOSCH.

Registrant: for shorter course only, Mr. Kerns.

34. Hittite. MR. STURTEVANT.

Registrants: none.

35. Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages. MR. BLAKE. Registrants: for shorter course only, Mr. Saleski, Mr. Sturtevant.

36. Hebrew. MR. BLAKE.

Registrant: Mr. Wyatt.

37. Assyrian. MR. DOUGHERTY. Registrants: none.

38. Arabic. MR. DOUGHERTY. Registrant: Mr. Bellinger.

39. Turkish. MR. REUNING. Registrants: Mrs. Collitz, Mr. Rice.

PUBLIC LECTURES

During the session of the Institute, the following public lectures were delivered in the evening, at Harkness Recitation Hall:

July 13: MR. KENT, The Conquests of the Latin Language.

July 17: MR. RUSSELL, The Fallacy of the Vowel Triangle (illustrated). July 20: MR. MALONE, The Problem of Standard English.

July 24: MR. PROKOSCH, The Origin and Trend of Vowel Mutation in Germanic.

July 27: MR. BUCK, The History of Ideas and Changes in Vocabulary. July 31: MR. REUNING, Syntactical Influences upon the Present Inflection in Middle English.

August 3: MR. SALESKI, Chinese for Grammarians.

August 7: MR. EDGERTON, The Languages of India.

August 10: MR. COLLITZ, Some Fundamental Notions in Linguistics.

August 14: MR. BOLLING, Some Aspects of the Homeric Question.

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LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Founded 1924

OFFICERS FOR 1929

President, PROFESSOR CHARLES H. GRANDGENT, Harvard University.
Vice-President, PROFESSOR W. A. OLDFATHER, University of Illinois.

Secretary and Treasurer, PROFESSOR ROLAND G. KENT, University of Penn

sylvania.

Executive Committee, the preceding, and

PEOFESSOR LEONARD BLOOMFIELD, University of Chicago.

PROFESSOR FRANKLIN EDGERTON, Yale University.

PROFESSOR EDWARD PROKOSCH, Yale University.

Committee on Publications:

Chairman and Editor: PROFESSOR GEORGE MELVILLE BOLLING, Ohio State University.

To serve through 1929: PROFESSOR SAMUEL MOORE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

To serve through 1930: PROFESSOR HANS KURATH, Ohio State University. To serve through 1931: PROFESSOR EDWARD SAPIR, University of Chicago.

The Linguistic Society of America was founded in December, 1924, for the advancement of the scientific study of language. The Society plans to promote this aim by bringing students of language together in its meetings, and by publishing the fruits of research. It has established a quarterly journal, a series of language monographs, and a series of language dissertations; the last two will appear at irregular intervals, according to the material offered to the Committee on Publications and the funds available for the purpose. Members will receive all in return for the annual dues of Five Dollars.

Membership in the Society is not restricted to professed scholars in linguistics. All persons, whether men or women, who are in sympathy with the objects of the Society, are invited to give it their assistance in furthering its work. Application for membership should be made to the Secretary, Professor Roland G. Kent, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Baltimore, Maryland. This Journal is published quarterly by the Linguistic Society of America. Members of the Society receive it without extra charge, three dollars of the annual dues being appropriated for this purpose; to others, its price is five dollars per annum. Subscriptions and other business communications should be addressed to Language, or to Roland G. Kent, Treasurer, L. S. A., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Manuscripts for publication should be sent to George Melville Bolling, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

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