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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

How to get there?

 

Registration

 

Programme

Friday

 

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

14:00-14:30

Clausdirk Pollner

Code-Mixing in Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Sea
of Poppies

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)

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik /
Department of English
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