18.2, Confs: Historical Linguistics; French, English/UK

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Subject: 18.2, Confs: Historical Linguistics; French, English/UK

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Date: 02-Jan-2007
From: richard ingham < richard.ingham at uce.ac.uk >
Subject: Middle English and Anglo-Norman Workshop 

	
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:09:25
From: richard ingham < richard.ingham at uce.ac.uk >
Subject: Middle English and Anglo-Norman Workshop 
 



Middle English and Anglo-Norman Workshop 
Short Title: ME-AN workshop 

Date: 01-Feb-2007 - 02-Feb-2007 
Location: Birmingham UK, United Kingdom 
Contact: Richard Ingham 
Contact Email: richard.ingham at uce.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=middle-english-and-anglo-norman 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)

Meeting Description: 

Two-day workshop on Middle English and Anglo-Norman at UCE Birmingham,
1st-2nd February 2007. 

University of Central England, Birmingham
School of English
Two-day workshop on Middle English and Anglo-Norman
Thursday, 1st and Friday, 2nd February 2007

Anyone interested in the role of French in the history of the English
language is welcome to attend.  There will be no registration charge. 
Those intending to attend are requested to notify Richard Ingham via email
at: richard.ingham at uce.ac.uk 

For information about the themes of the workshop, please go to:
http://www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=middle-english-and-anglo-norman

Program:

Thursday 1st Feb.
Morning Session 
9 a.m.  
Welcome

9.30-10.10 a.m. Anthony Hunt (Oxford Univ.) Anglo-Norman: 
Some chronological considerations

10.10-10.50 a.m. Jean-Pascal Pouzet (Université de Limoges): 
Mapping insular French material: vernacular manuscripts and correlated
dialectology 

10.50-11.20 a.m.
Coffee

11.20-12.30
Panel discussion

12.30-.2 p.m.
Lunch

Afternoon session 
2 p.m. Eric Haeberli (Université de Genève): 
French and LME syntax

2.40 p.m. Richard Ingham (UCE Birmingham): 
Anglo-Norman bilingualism: some syntactic observations

3.20-3.50 p.m.
Tea

3.50-5 p.m.
Panel discussion

6.30 p.m.
Wine party


Friday 2nd February
Morning session 
9 a.m. Mark Chambers & Louise Sylvester (UCE Birmingham): 
>From apareil to wardrobe: French influence in the clothing lexis of the
Middle English period.

9.40 a.m. David Trotter (Univ. of Wales Aberystwyth): 
Building bridges in Anglo-Norman: the lexical evidence

10.20a.m. Laura Wright (Cambridge Univ.): 
On mixed-language business writing, including its demise

11-11.30 a.m.
Coffee

11.30-12.45 a.m.
Panel discussion 

12.45-2 p.m.
Lunch

Afternoon session
2 p.m Andres Kristol (Université de Neuchâtel):  
TBA

2.40 p.m Florence Myles (Newcastle Univ.):
TBA





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