35.879, Confs: Language Change and Variation in English: Methods and Frameworks

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-879. Wed Mar 13 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.879, Confs: Language Change and Variation in English: Methods and Frameworks

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Date: 12-Mar-2024
From: Eric Mélac [eric.melac at univ-montp3.fr]
Subject: Language Change and Variation in English: Methods and Frameworks


Language change and variation in English: Methods and frameworks

Date: 11-Apr-2024 - 11-Apr-2024
Location: Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 (site St Charles;
room 126), France
Contact: Eric Mélac
Contact Email: eric.melac at univ-montp3.fr

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims to discuss the several approaches and methods in
the field of language change and variation in English.

9:30 AM (French timezone) Welcome drinks and opening

9:45 Eric Mélac (Uni. Paul Valéry), The development of English
evidential markers: A case of grammaticalization or
constructionalization?

10:45 Debra Ziegeler (Uni. Sorbonne Nouvelle, Uni. Paul Valéry), Can
co-optation be replicated in contact? English final discourse
particles in New Englishes

12PM Lunch pause

2:00 PM Alessandro Basile (Uni. Sorbonne Nouvelle), What a
“pan-stratist” model tells us about modality in contact: A case study
from Singapore English

3:00 Cameron Morin (ENS Lyon), Double modal constructions in
Australian and New Zealand English: A computational sociolinguistic
survey.

4:00 Marc-Philippe Brunet (Uni. Savoie Mont Blanc), Investigating the
social meaning of language variation in the US South: Epistemological
elements of sociolinguistic research

5:00 Discussion and conclusion

Free, both on-site and online. Zoom link: : https://univ-montp3-fr.zoo
m.us/j/99339242289?pwd=dzlCaE9UcnQycDV2NnlEMUdZWDdCQT09



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