The Henry Sweet Society
for the History of Linguistic Ideas

President: Professor Anders Ahlqvist
Chair of Executive Committee: Professor Andrew Linn

 Photograph of Henry Sweet
We award an annual prize for an essay in the field of the History of Linguistic Ideas. It is named after one of the Society's founder members, Dr Vivien Law, and is open to both students and early-career academics.

The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas was founded in February 1984. Its aims are to promote and encourage the study of the history of all branches of linguistic thought, theoretical and applied, and including non-European traditions.

Its fields of interest include the history both of the major subject areas of linguistics and also of more specialised topics, such as writing systems, literacy, rhetoric, and the application of linguistic ideas within professional and technical fields.

This website is maintained for the Henry Sweet Society by Richard Steadman-Jones, University of Sheffield | updated 21 January 2008