24.1365, Confs: Middle English, Historical Linguistics/Spain
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Subject: 24.1365, Confs: Middle English, Historical Linguistics/Spain
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:00:58
From: Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre [jcconde at um.es]
Subject: 8th International Conference on Middle English
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8th International Conference on Middle English
Short Title: ICOME 8
Date: 02-May-2013 - 04-May-2013
Location: Murcia, Spain
Contact: J Camilo Conde Silvestre
Contact Email: jcconde at um.es
Meeting URL: http://www.um.es/icome8
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English, Middle (enm)
Meeting Description:
The 8th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 8) will be hosted by the English Department at the University of Murcia (Spain) in May 2013 (from Thursday 2 May to Saturday 4 May). ICOME 8 is co-organized with members of the Universities of Málaga and Jaén and it continues the series of successful ICOME conferences held at Rydzyna (1994), Helsinki (1997), Dublin (1999), Vienna (2002), Naples (2005), Cambridge (2008) and Lviv (2011). As its predecessors, ICOME 8 will include sessions on different aspects of Middle English language and texts, with historical linguistic, philological-textual or literary orientations.
The following plenary speakers have kindly confirmed their participation:
Herbert Schendl (University of Vienna)
Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki)
Vincent Gillespie (Oxford University)
Mª José López Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Registration for the conference is now open at http://www.um.es/icome8.
Provisional Conference Programme:
Thursday, 2 May
9:00-9:30
Registration
9:30-10:00
Opening ceremony
10.00-11:00
Plenary session 1:
Herbert Schendl (University of Vienna, Austria)
Multilingualism, multilingual texts and language shift in late Medieval England
11:00-11:30
Break
11:30-13:30
Paper session 1: Languages in contact in Middle English
Melanie Borchers (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
‘Que ma lange lor est salvaige’: The status of French in Medieval England
Janne Skaffari (University of Turku, Finland)
Vbi est tesaurus: Patterns of code-switching in post-conquest texts
Laura Wright (University of Cambridge, UK)
Middle English wills - whose language?
Angelika Lutz (University of Erlangen, Germany)
The stratal role of the Old Norse loans in Middle English: New questions and explanations
Paper session 2: Middle English syntax
Francisco Alonso Almeida & Elena Quintana Toledo (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
The status of may in Middle English medical writing
Artur Bartnik (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Headless free relatives in Old English
Andrzej Łęcki (University of KraKow, Poland)
Purposive so that in Middle English
Reiko Ito (Tokiwa University, Japan)
The French influence on multiple negation in Middle English: A corpus-based study
13:30-15:30
Lunch
15:30-17:00
Paper session 3: Middle Scots
Ragnhild Ljosland (University of the Highlands and Islands, UK)
The establishment of Middle Scots in the Orkney Islands
Keith Williamson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Historical dialectological remarks on the Scottish legends on the Saints in Cambridge University Library, MS GG.II.6
Eva Zehentner (University of Vienna, Austria)
-And vs. -ing: An account of non-finite constructions in Middle Scots
Paper session 4: Middle English syntax: word order
Mª Francisca Buys Lerma (Open University, Málaga, Spain) & Concha Castillo (University of Málaga, Spain)
On the V2 type that disappears in ME
Ireneusz Kida (University of Silesia, Poland)
A corpus-based analysis of the dynamism of word order changes in the Middle English period
Theo Vennemann (University of Munich, Germany)
On the rise of VO and SV order in Middle English
17:00-17:15
Break
17:15-18:15
Plenary session 2:
Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Sociolinguistic perspectives on variation in late Middle English
Friday, 3 May
08:30-10:30
Paper session 5: Middle English literary texts
Minako Nakayasu (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan)
Spatio-temporal systems in A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Matti Peikola (University of Turku, Finland)
Liturgical paratexts: Old Testament lectionaries in Middle English New Testaments
Liliana Sikorska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
’Lordinges’, he seyd ‘what to red? / Me haþ ben don a gret misdeede’ or On pride and prejudice in The King of Tars
Kristin Lynn Cole (Penn State York University, USA)
Did William Langland write William of Palerne?: An exercise in forensic metrics
Paper session 6: Middle English morphology
Ryuichi Hotta (Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan)
The representativeness of the Laeme Corpus and word frequency in early Middle English with special reference to the lexical diffusion of -s pluralisation
Paulina Kolasińska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Late 11th and 12th century English morphology
Nicole Studer-Joho (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
3inc and gunker: On Middle English oblique forms of the second person dual pronoun with initial /j/
Takahiro Yamasaki (Chuo University, Japan)
The survival of /n/ in min(e) and þin(e) in the language of Hand I of the Auchinleck Manuscript
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Plenary session 3:
Vincent Gillespie (Oxford University, UK)
Fatherless books: Authorship, attribution and orthodoxy in later Medieval England
12:00-14:00
Paper session 7: Middle English phonology and morphology
Gyöngyi Werthmüller (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Final -e in Gower’s and Chaucer’s monosyllabic premodifiers: A grammatical/metrical analysis
Raymond Hickey (U. of Duisburg and Essen, Germany)
Language contact and the sound system of Middle English: A reassessment
Donka Minkova (U. of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Did the principles of syllabification change in Middle English?
Roger Lass (University of Cape Town, South Africa) & Margaret Laing (University of Edinburgh, UK)
The early Middle English reflexes of Germanic *ik - unpacking the changes
Paper session 8: Editing and manuscript studies
Nils-Lennart Johannesson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
‘Alphabetum anglicum’: An analysis of the Runic alphabet in the Ormulum MS
David Moreno Olalla (University of Málaga, Spain)
On a colophon of Oxford, Bodleian Library Additional A. 106 - again!
José Francisco Martín Del Pozo (University of Málaga, Spain)
Some linguistic features of Henry Daniel’s De Urinis (British Library MS Sloane 340)
14:00-15:30
Lunch
15:30-17:30
Paper session 9: Middle English dialects
Mª José Carrillo Linares (University of Huelva, Spain)
The investigation of lexical variation as a means to identify genealogical relationships: The case of The Prick of Conscience
Marcelle Cole, Julia Fernández Cuesta, Christopher Langmuir & Nieves Rodríguez Ledesma (University of Seville, Spain)
The Northern Subject Rule: From Old English to Modern English
Hanna Rutkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Late medieval dialectal spellings in the early sixteenth-century editions of The Kalender of Shepherdes
Merja Stenroos & Kjetil V. Thengs (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Middle English legal documents and the geography of written dialects
Paper session 10: Middle English semantics
Michael Bilynsky (Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Ukraine)
The diachronic reshuffling of constituents in the oed-reflected (de)verbal synonymy for Middle English
Rafał Molencki (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
The competition between purvey and provide in late Middle English
Maria Volkonskaya (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
On the origins and functions of synonyms in Middle English alliterative poetry
Bozena Duda (University of Rzeszow, Poland)
There are wenches and sluts, but no traces of cats or bats: On characteristics of the Middle English conceptualisation patterns within the conceptual category fallen woman
17:30-17:45
Break
17:45-18:45
Plenary session 4:
María José López-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Exploring linguistic accretion: Middle English as a testing ground
19:00
Business meeting and closing ceremony
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