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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]:
- Aspects in the French verb / D. A. Mitchell, UM.
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Nova Scotian place names / R. McG. Dawson, UM.
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A Philological problem facing the modern translator /
R. A. Peterson.
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The richness of the linguistic heritage in geology /
F. D. Holland.
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Legal usage of latin-derived words / R. G. Larson.
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The decipherment of the Cretan scripts / G. P. Goold,
UM.
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Present practices in translations of scientific publications
from Russian and other languages / L. Summers.
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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.
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The King's 'Justice' in pre-exilic Israel: semantic-institutional
study / W. I. Wolverton.
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Sputnik and its derivatives in North American English
/ J. B. Rudnyckyj UM.
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Audiological implications for the linguist / F. E. Garbee.
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The origin and development in Urdu / Norman B. Levin,
UND.
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