Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 08:29:48 CDT

From: Randy Roberts robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EXT.MISSOURI.EDU

Subject: Labov Lecture



"Why Are American Dialects Diverging?"



William Labov of the University of Pennsylvania will present a public

lecture on the subject of dialect divergence at the 11th annual Peter

Tamony Memorial Lecture on American Language at the University of

Missouri-Columbia on Thursday, April 25th. Dr. Labov's talk will be

held at 4:15 in Ellis Library Auditorium and will be followed by a

public reception at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. Dr.

Labov, an internationally recognized scholar, has been professor of

linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania since 1971 and director

of its Linguistics Laboratory since 1976.



The lecture series is named in honor of Peter Tamony of San Francisco

whose voluminous collection of slang and colloquialism citations were

donated to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection in 1985. This

year's lecture, in addition, recognizes the receipt of the archives of

the Linguistic Society of America by the Western Historical Manuscript

Collection.



For further information contact Nancy Lankford at Western Historical

Manuscript Collection, 23 Ellis Library, University of Missouri,

Columbia, Missouri 65201; phone (573) 882-6028; e-mail

whmc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ext.missouri.edu