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PUBLIC LECTURES

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

July 12: MR. STURTEVANT, The History and Prehistory of the Hittites. 16: MR. BLAKE, The Practical Value of General Comparative Syntax.

July

July July

19: MR. JACKSON, A Sketch of Manichaeism (illustrated).

23: MR. MÜLLER, The Linguistic Theories of the Geneva School. July 26: MR. CURME, Historical Relations of American English to British English.

July 30: MR. KURATH, Some Phases of American Intonation. August 2: MR. STEPHENSON, The Influence of Movements of Population upon American Dialects.

MR. RUSSELL, Mechanical Methods of Recording Speech. August 6: MR. ROEDDER, Methods and Problems of German Dialect Syntax.

August 9: MR. KENT, 'No Trespass' in Latin Linguistics.

MR. FANSLER, The Development of English in the Philippines. August 13: MR. PETERSEN, The Declension of the Indo-European Personal Pronouns.

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PUBLIC LECTURES

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

July 12: MR. STURTEVANT, The History and Prehistory of the Hittites. 16: MR. BLAKE, The Practical Value of General Comparative Syntax.

July

July
July

19: MR. JACKSON, A Sketch of Manichaeism (illustrated).

23: MR. MÜLLER, The Linguistic Theories of the Geneva School. July 26: MR. CURME, Historical Relations of American English to British English.

July 30: MR. KURATH, Some Phases of American Intonation. August 2: MR. STEPHENSON, The Influence of Movements of Population upon American Dialects.

MR. RUSSELL, Mechanical Methods of Recording Speech. August 6: MR. ROEDDER, Methods and Problems of German Dialect

Syntax.

August 9: MR. KENT, 'No Trespass' in Latin Linguistics.

MR. FANSLER, The Development of English in the Philippines. August 13: MR. PETERSEN, The Declension of the Indo-European Personal Pronouns.

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HELD AT NEW HAVEN, AUGUST 2-3, 1929

SPONSORED BY THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES REPORT COMPILED BY HANS KURATH, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE CONFERENCE on a Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada were begun by Professor E. H. Sturtevant, Director of the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, in the spring of 1929. A Circular of 25 typewritten pages was prepared jointly by a number of scholars, and was sent out early in May to a large number of linguists, with a request for criticism and suggestions. There was a liberal response. A digest of the addenda, the suggestions, and the criticism received was mailed early in June.

The Circular contained in its final form the following documents, which were intended to furnish a basis for the discussion of the numerous problems:

1. A brief account of the Linguistic Atlas of France, by O. Müller. 2. A similar account of the Linguistic Atlas of Germany, by E. C. Roedder.

3. A map of the dialect areas of the United States, by H. Kurath. 4. A fairly exhaustive list of the phonetic features of the American dialects, by H. Kurath.

5. A suggestive word-list, by G. P. Krapp.

6. A brief list of syntactical features, by G. O. Curme.

7. A brief list of grammatical features and idioms, from a paper by S. A. Leonard of the University of Wisconsin.

8. Some remarks on organization and editing, by E. H. Sturtevant. 9. The program of the Conference, including a list of leading questions, the discussion of which is reported in full below.

THE MEMBERS OF THE CONFERENCE who were present by invitation were the following:

Prof. H. T. Alexander, Queens University, Kingston, Canada.
Prof. Edward C. Armstrong, Princeton University.

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