Studying Change in the History of English:
New Directions in Linguistics
A symposium in co-operation with the Birmingham City University in honour of Professor Herbert Schendl's 70th Birthday.
24-25 February 2012
Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
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Programme
| Friday |
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| 14:00 | Nikolaus Ritt | Conference opening |
| 14:30-15:00 | Peter Trudgill | Dialect contact in the history of English |
| 15:00-15:30 | Christian Liebl | Brandl, Doegen and the recording campaign in German prisoner-of-war camps during World War I – a neglected resource for English dialectology |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
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| 16:00-16:30 | Stefan Dollinger | Historical perspectives on the low-back vowel merger |
| 16:30-17:00 | Wilfried Wieden | Knowledge changes may trigger language changes |
| 19:00 |
| Conference Dinner |
| Saturday |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Louise Sylvester & Mark Chambers | Linguistic choices relating to dress and textiles across different text types produced in medieval Britain |
| 10:30-11:00 | Lilo Moessner | Discipline-specific English vocabulary use in the 17th-century |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
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| 11:30-12:00 | Gabriella Mazzon | Nominal/Adjective/Gerund/Verb? The first stages of the expansion of the –ing form as aspectual indicator |
| 12:00-12:30 | Theresa Illés | British-Celtic influence on Middle English relative clauses – a view on fronting phenomena |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Clausdirk Pollner | Code-Mixing in Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Sea |
| 14:30-15:00 | Richard Ingham | English/Anglo-Norman code-switching in later medieval charter boundary clauses |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Eva Duran Eppler & Jane Davies | Linguistic transfer - bridges between bilinguals’ languages |
| 16:30-17:00 | Nikolaus Ritt and Ursula Lutzky | Conference closing |
Book of abstracts (PDF)
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