Vivien Law Prize for an Essay on the History of Linguistic Ideas
Lovely news. The Henry Sweet Society has decided to award me the 2010 Vivien Law Prize. My paper is entitled “The Origins of the Notion of Anaphora”. It’ll appear in the November 2011 issue of Language & History. Here’s the abstract (slightly uninformative, though, I’m afraid):
Anaphora is a central topic in the study of natural language and as such the object of research in a wide range of disciplines. Yet virtually no work has been done on the early history of the notion. This paper will situate the ancient discussions of anaphora in their proper context, and expound and briefly assess certain key concepts that have been overlooked so far.
I’d love to receive more feedback before submitting the final version in June, so requests for a pre-pub PDF would be warmly welcomed…
Sunday, 16 January 2011 :: {Ancient Grammar, Ancient Philosophy} :: You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.