text_combined: harold orton centenary conference preliminary announcement call papers harold orton centenary conference dialectal variation english march 2426 1998 plenary speakers include bill kretzschmar jim milroy 1998 sees centenary birth harold orton cofounder survey english dialects halfcentenary establishment survey conference aims take stock research achievements dialectology date address current issues diachronic synchronic variation english point view dialectology sociolinguistics corpusbased linguistics sociocultural studies literary studies related fields bring together people working linguistic variation different perspectives english using world look forward research projects new millenium selection proceedings published leeds studies english invite send onepage proposals papers workshops panel discussions areas papers 20 minutes duration 10 minutes discussion please send abstracts proposals 30 september 1997 one following either post address email dr clive upton c upton sheffield ac uk dr juhani klemola j klemola leeds ac uk dr anthea fraser gupta f gupta leeds ac uk school english university leeds leeds ls2 9jt uk information contact professor katie wales k wales leeds ac uk