CFP: History of the English Language session, Kalamazoo, Deadline extended

[Debbie Best]

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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 8-11, 2003

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 by email (prefered) to Debra Best at dbest at uwm.edu or to
Britt Mize at bmize at email.unc.edu, or by fax (marked ATTN: Debra Best)
to 414-229-6070.

If you fax an abstract, include your email address so we can confirm
receipt of your submission.

The submission deadline has been extended to Sept. 21, 2001.

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