6.901, Confs: Workshop on Hansa and Low German Influence

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Subject: 6.901, Confs: Workshop on Hansa and Low German Influence
 
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Date:  Tue, 27 Jun 1995 11:46:43 GMT
From:  MFCEPDD at fs1.art.man.ac.uk (David Denison)
Subject:        Hansa Workshop at 12ICHL
 
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Date:  Tue, 27 Jun 1995 11:46:43 GMT
From:  MFCEPDD at fs1.art.man.ac.uk (David Denison)
Subject:        Hansa Workshop at 12ICHL
 
Here are details supplied by Ernst Hakon Jahr for one of the
workshops to be held on Friday 18th August 1995.
 
David Denison
 
      Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics,
      Hulme Hall, Manchester, 13-18 August 1995.
 
Please note new dialling codes and revised phone numbers at the
University of Manchester up to the time of the conference:
 
+44 (0)161-275 3194 or 3042 (phone)
+44 (0)161-275 3187         (fax only)
 
Conference e-mail address:  ichl1995 at man.ac.uk
 
Workshop
The Influence of the Hansa and Low German on European Languages
 
Organizers: Ernst Hakon Jahr (Tromso) and Laura Wright (Hertfordshire)
 
Scheduled papers:
 
James Milroy (Newcastle): Internal vs external motivations for
linguistic change:  what does empirical sociolinguistics have to say
about the distinction?
 
Kurt Braunmuller (Hamburg): Communication strategies in the area of
the Hanseatic League: the approach by semicommunication.
 
Raymond Hickey (Essen): Trading with invaders: language contact in
medieval Ireland.
 
Anne Haavaldsen (Bergen): Trade and language from the 'German Wharf'
in Bergen - the runic evidence.
 
Harry Perridon (Amsterdam): Is the definite article in Jutlandic a
borrowing from German?
 
Muriel Norde (Amsterdam): Grammaticalization vs reanalysis: the case
of possessive construction in Germanic.
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