CFP: History of the English Language

[Britt Mize]

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HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE session:
Sponsored by the Carolina Association for Medieval Studies
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
May 2-5, 2002

Papers on any aspect of the history of the English language
are invited for this session. Proposals on any period of the
history or prehistory of English are eligible, as are proposals
with an emphasis on HEL pedagogy, and approaches to the
subject matter may be diachronic or synchronic. Some
possible areas of interest include sociolinguistic factors in the
history of English; morphological, syntactical, or phonological
change; lexical borrowing; orthography; the relationship
between spoken and written English; semantics; dialect; the
emergence of English from the West Germanic dialect
continuum; gender representation; grammatical gender; the
sociohistorical relationship of English to other languages; and
the development of standardized forms of English.

Send abstracts to Britt Mize by email at bmize at email.unc.edu,
or by surface mail at the following address:

       CAMS, c/o Department of English
       Greenlaw Hall, CB #3520
       University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
       Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520

If you send an abstract by surface mail, include your email
address so we can confirm receipt of your submission.
Submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2001.

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