LCMND's 32nd Conference: 1989 Proceedings vol. 29
LCMND: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota


LCMND Proceedings
pdf 2011: volume 29 / 1989


Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle's Thirty-Second Conference
October 20th & 21st, 1989
Grand Forks, ND

Hosted by the University of North Dakota
at the Town House Motor Inn

Reception in the UND's J. Lloyd Stone Alumni House



41 p.
Cover: pale-green

1989 LCMND Officers:
President: Tim Messenger, UND; Vice-President: Iain McDougall, UW
Past President: Donna Norell, UM; Secretary-Treasurer: Rory Egan, UM

Editors of Proceedings: Ben L. Collins, Dana College, Nebr. & UND + Theodore Messenger, UND
Honorary Presidents: Demetrius J. Georgacas, UND; J. B. Rudnyckyj, UM
Verso of title page: Obituary of Professor D. J. Georgacas, UND, 1908-1990.
Born in Siderocastro, Greece, he was a research lexicographer at the University of Athens from 1934-1946;
he received his Ph.D in Berlin in 1941 with
Grundfragen des peloponnesischen Griechisch
[=Greek language on the southern peninsula of Greece, the Peloponnesos].
He taught Classics at the universities of Chicago & Utah before he joined the UND faculty in 1959.
He was a Founding Member of the Linguistic Circle taht same year, and its first President.


At the end [=p.42]:
"Call for Papers", for the 4th Annual Midlands Conference on Language & Literature,
Creighton University, Omaha, April, 1991
Submissions to Ben Collins, Blair, Nebraska



The 1989 LCMND Program [35 papers]:

  1. Oral proficiency in Grade XII French Immersion students / Hubert Balcaen, UM.
  2. Epistemology of violence: definition and legitimation / Jovan Brkic, NDSU.
  3. Neglected art & "Forgotten Thought" / Robert W. Brown, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.
  4. "Time's Eunuch": Gerard Manley Hopkins' Dublin years / Ben L. Collins, UND.
  5. Bianca in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew: dramaturgy, critics, text, etc. / Kathleen Rettig Collins, Dana College, Nebr.
  6. The Pelasgoi: an anthropological definition / Michael B. Cosmopoulos, UM.
  7. Linguistic differentiation of spiritual existence in Native American philosophy and language / Joseph E. DeFlyer, UND.
  8. The Eureka dialect in South Dakota / Christie S. Delfanian, NDSU.
  9. Reading: a language universal? / Signe Denbow, Univ. of Western Michigan.
  10. Felix Paul Greve's translations, 1902-1909: their reception in contemporary journals / Gaby Divay, UM.
  11. Noah Webster, patriotism, and the americanization of English / Tom Domek, UND.
  12. Dante, the Questione della lingua, and the Xth Canto of the Inferno / Gene W. DuBois, UND.
  13. Markan sandwiches: interpolation in Markan narratives / James R. Edwards, Jamestown College, ND.
  14. Linguistics erectus: to sapiens and beyond [F. de Saussure's Paris lectures, 1906-1916] / S. Faintuch, Universite Laval, Quebec.
  15. Costume party, or come-as-you-are?: fatalism in Jon Hassler's Staggerford / Laura French, Moorhead State University.
  16. Vicente Huidobro's modernista aspects / Karl H. Gauggel, Concordia College.
  17. The body social & the body individual: Edith Wharton's sense of Self / David A. Godfrey, Jamestown College, ND.
  18. Yeats in French: Bonnefoy's translations / A. L. Gordon, UM.
  19. [Dashiell Hammett's] Red Harvest in Mexico: Carlos Fuentes' La Cabeza de la Hidra, and the thriller tradition / Kenneth E. Hall, UND.
  20. Portrait of the artist as a young woman: Gabrielle Roy's autobiographical fiction / Carol Harvey, UW.
  21. Poppies and oak leaves: German & British symbols of the 1st World War / Ann P. Linder, UND.
  22. Subjects (predicates & persons): our real topic being freedom / E. Levine, UW.
  23. The Commentariolum Petitionis of Cicero: laying to rest an old controversy / A. H. Mamojee, Lakehead Univ., Thunderbay, Ont.
  24. The function of the grotesque in Louise Erdrich's novel Tracks [1988] / Tom Matchie, NDSU.
  25. The heresies of Gabrielle Roy & Andre Langevin / Alan MacDonell, UM.
  26. Continuity of characterization in the Theban plays / I. McDougall, UW.
  27. Meta-narrative and the meaning of shipwreck in Garcilaso de la Vega's [1539-1616] reports of Pedro Serrano and Daniel Defoe's [1660-1731] Robinson Crusoe / Michael E. Moriarty, Valley City State University, ND.
  28. Cicero's quotation from the XII Tables and U. Foscolo's I Sepulcri / L. Palanca, UND.
  29. Jose Triana [Cuba, 1931-] y su teatro / Teresinka Rereira, Moorhead SU, Minn.
  30. The un-American Israel Potter in Melville's 1855 biography / Gordon Roeder, NDSU-Bottineau.
  31. Freedom an captivity in Les Deserteuses of Gabrielle Roy / H. J. Smith, Minot SU.
  32. Dialectics in Shaw's Man & Superman / Mark H. Sterner, Valley City State University, ND.
  33. The figurative structure of As You Like it / Donn E. Taylor, Jamestown College, ND.
  34. Whose gun is it?: gender in Emily Dickinson's poem 'My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun' / Ann Whelan, UND.
  35. The end of reading: after deMan, Zen / Jianjiong Zhu, UM.