LCMND's 1st Conference May 1959: Proceedings vol. 1, no. 1
LCMND: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota


LCMND Proceedings
pdf 2011: volume 1, no. 1 / May 1959

Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle's First Conference
May 15th & 16th, 1959
Grand Forks, N.D.

Hosted by the University of North Dakota


32 p.
Cover: beige with dark-brown print:
"vol.I no.i may mdcccclix"

1959 LCMND Officers:
President: Demetrius J. Georgacas, UND; Vice-President: G. P. Goold, UM
Secretary-Treasurer: Norman B. Levin, UND.

A copy of this rare First LCMND Proceedings-Issue
was donated by Professor E. Annandale, UM, in July 1997.

The cover of the first three issues of the LCMND Proceedings
[=v.I, no.1 & 2, May & Nov. 1959 and v.II, no.1, May 1960]
features as design a concentric, circular logo
using "word" [in the centre] in various languages on the periphery:
"verbum" to the North, in Latin,
"logos" to the East in Greek letters,
"slovo" to the South in Russian alphabet,
&"Wort" to the West in Gothic type.
All are entirely in capitals.

On page 2, an editorial note by R. MacG. Dawson, UM, reads:
"Following the organizational meeting in Winnipeg
of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota on March 30, 1959,
the first regular meeting was held [at the UND] in Grand Forks..." on May 15-16, 1959.



The May 1959 LCMND Program [12 papers]:

  1. Aspects in the French verb / D. A. Mitchell, UM.
  2. Nova Scotian place names / R. McG. Dawson, UM.
  3. A Philological problem facing the modern translator / R. A. Peterson.
  4. The richness of the linguistic heritage in geology / F. D. Holland.
  5. Legal usage of latin-derived words / R. G. Larson.
  6. The decipherment of the Cretan scripts / G. P. Goold, UM.
  7. Present practices in translations of scientific publications from Russian and other languages / L. Summers.
  8. A Symposium: Linguistic, folkloric, and other field work in Central Canada and the Northern Plains : results & future tasks / conducted by J. B. Rudnyckyj, UM, & Norman B. Levin, UND.
  9. The King's 'Justice' in pre-exilic Israel: semantic-institutional study / W. I. Wolverton.
  10. Sputnik and its derivatives in North American English / J. B. Rudnyckyj UM.
  11. Audiological implications for the linguist / F. E. Garbee.
  12. The origin and development in Urdu / Norman B. Levin, UND.