The Henry Sweet Society for the History of
Linguistic Ideas
and
Pembroke College Cambridge
Onomastics and its History
Pembroke College, Cambridge, 13-15 September 2016
Preliminary Programme
13 September 2016 (Old Library)
2pm-3pm: Registration, coffee and tea available
3pm: Opening
3.15pm: Lesley Seiffert Memorial Lecture
Silvio Brendler (Vienna): In Search of the Name
4.15pm-4.30pm: Tea break
4.30pm-6pm
Savina Raynaud (Milano): Onomastics and the History of its Semantic Theory.
Between Motivation and Identifying Function
Nadia Kerečuk (London): Thesaurus of Human Imagination: The History of
Onomastics Revisited
David Cram (Oxford): Are Proper Names Proper Words? Perspectives on a
Perennial Problem
6pm: Reception
7pm: HSS Committee meeting
14 September 2016 (Parallel sessions: Old Library and Nihon Room)
9am-11am
SESSION A: Old Library
Laura Massetti (Köln): On the Greek Onomastics and Inherited Poetic Phraseology
of Fame and Glory
Domenico Musciansi (Siena/Köln): A New Epithet of Zeus from Archaic Thera
Zsolt Simon (München): Luwian Personal Names in Old Assyrian Transmission
Edoardo Middei (Macerata/Köln): Detecting Names in Palaeo-Sabellian texts:
their Interpretation between Methodical Paths and Historical Aspects of Naming
Systems
SESSION B: Nihon Room
Doyle Calhoun (Boston): What gets lost or elided in the digital (re-)presentation of
older linguistic texts?
David Moore (Perth): Missionary Fieldwork in the Linguistics Landscape of Central
Australia 1890-1910
Kenichi Kadooka (Kyoto): Acceptance of Anton Marty's Semantics in Japan
Yurii Sytko/Ekaterina Sorokina (Sevastopol): Common Features of Charles S.
Peirce's Theory of Signs and Aristotle's Categories through J.Pacius' Table of
Predicabilia
11am-11.30am: Coffee break
11.30am- 1pm
SESSION A: Old Library
Blanca Maria Prósper (Salamanca): What to Expect from the Study of
Epigraphically Attested Names: for a History of Palaeohispanic Onomastics
Colmán Etchingham (Maynooth): Authenticity, Inaccuracy or Creativity? Gaelic
Personal Names in Iceland’s Landnámabók
Riccardo Ginevra (Siena/Köln): Old Norse Sigyn
SESSION B: Nihon Room
Martin Konvička (Berlin): Grammatica Ars Obligatoria: In Search of the Medieval
Origins of Obligatoriness
Ji Ma (Sheffield): Absolute or Limited Monarchy? Diversified Political
Conceptualizations of Orthographic Reform in Tudor England
Frank Breheny/Marjorie Lorch (London): The Influence of Robert Quick’s Essays
on Educational Reformers (1868) upon American Pedagogical Writing on the
Language Teaching Methods
1pm-2.15pm: Lunch
2.15pm-3.45pm
SESSION A: Old Library
Christina Katsikadeli (München): “Onomastics” in Late Antiquity: Some Case
Studies from the Early Rabbinic Literature
Ricardo Muñoz Solla (Salamanca): Hispano-Jewish Medieval Onomastics
Daniela Fruscione (Frankfurt am Main): Italian Onomastics in the Middle Ages: An
History of Identity
SESSION B: Nihon Room
Philomen Probert (Oxford): Ancient Greek Thought on Accents: Its Impact on the
Latin Grammatical Tradition
Toon van Hal (Leuven): The Circulation or Non-Circulation of Missionary
Grammars and Dictionaries in the Early Modern Respublica Literarum
Rayavarapu Vennela (Hyderabad): Grammatical Aspects of Anglo-Telugu
Grammars: A Study of Colonial Bilingual Grammars in 19th Century India
END OF PARALLEL SESSIONS
3.45pm-4.15pm: Tea break
4.15pm-5.15pm
OLD LIBRARY
George Kuparadze/Tsiuri Akhvlediani (Tbilisi): Phraseological Units with an
Onomastic Element
Andy Peetermans (Leuven): Glottonymy as a Might-Be Subfield of Onomastics
5.15pm: Annual General Meeting of the Henry Sweet Society
7.30pm Conference Dinner in Hall
15 September 2016 (Old Library)
9am-11am
Sanda Rapa (Riga): Curriculum Vitae of Place Names
Laimute Balode/Ojārs Bušs (Riga): The Lesser-Known Latvian Onomastician Juris
Plāķis (1869–1942) and his Collection of Latvian Place Names
Tiina Laansalu (Tallinn): The Change in Use of Place Names in User-Specific and
Situation-Specific Perspective
Marit Alas (Tallinn): Several Facets of Transferred Names
11am-11.30am: Coffee break
11.30am- 12.30pm
Milan Harvalík (Praha): Ivan Lutterer and his Role in the Development of Czech
Onomastics
Luzius Thöny (Bern): Conrad Gessner and the Beginnings of Onomastics in 16 th
Century Switzerland
12.30pm-2pm: Lunch
2pm-3.30pm
Gordon Whittaker (Göttingen): Aztec Hieroglyphics: A Name-based system
Margaret Thomas (Boston): Onomastics in American Linguistic Field Work:
Names, Titles, Labels
Micaela Verlato (Berlin): Early Studies of “Indian Names” in the American
Northeast
3.30pm-4pm: Tea break
4pm-5pm
Alina Villalva/Esperança Cardeira (Lisboa): Portuguese Demonyms: Sources and
Usage
John Mills (Canterbury): Cornish Toponymy from the 17th Century to the Present
Day
5pm: Concluding remarks