Fwd: 20.1310, Confs: Historical Ling, Germanic, Insular Celtic, Italic/UK

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

A conference on languages in early Britain will 
be held on May 21 at the University of 
Manchester. See details below.

If you wish to attend, you should contact the organizers ASAP.

Elizabeth

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>Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:26:26
>From: Stephen Laker [stephen.laker at manchester.ac.uk]
>Subject: Languages of Early Britain
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>Languages of Early Britain
>
>Date: 21-May-2009 - 21-May-2009
>Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
>Contact: Stephen Laker
>Contact Email: stephen.laker at manchester.ac.uk
>Meeting URL: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ills/events/earlybritain/
>
>Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
>
>Language Family(ies): Germanic; Insular Celtic; Italic
>Meeting Description:
>
>The University of Manchester Institute of Linguistics and Language Studies is
>hosting a one-day workshop devoted to current research into the languages of
>Early Britain. The event aims to foster an exchange of ideas between
>postgraduate as well as established researchers of differing specializations
>who have a shared interest in the linguistic situation in Britain during the
>Late Roman and Early Medieval periods.
>
>Programme (provisional)
>
>9.15-9.30
>Opening
>
>9.30-10.15
>Katrin Thier (Oxford): 'Language and Technology: Some Examples from
>Seafaring, Germanic and Celtic'
>
>10:15-11.00
>Philip Shaw (Sheffield): 'Hredmonað, Hlyda, Rugern: In search of
>Anglo-Saxon month-names'
>
>11:00-11:45
>Alderik Blom (Cambridge): 'The Welsh Glosses in the Vocabularium
>Cornicum: Identification and Interpretation'
>
>11.45-1:00
>Lunch
>
>1.00-1.45
>Guto Rhys (Glasgow): 'Towards a Phonology of Northern Brittonic'
>
>1:45-2:30
>Stephen Laker (Manchester): 'Early Brittonic Influence on English Phonology'
>
>2:30-3:15
>Peter Trudgill (Adger): 'Old English, Late British, Old Norse: What
>Really Happened?'
>
>3:15-3:45
>Coffee
>
>3.45-5.00
>Paul Russell (Cambridge): 'Latin and British in Roman and Sub-Roman
>Britain: Some Questions of Morphology'
>
>Anyone wishing to attend Languages of Early Britain should get in touch with
>the conference organiser as soon as possible.
>
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