28.1405, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Spain

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Subject: 28.1405, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Spain

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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:30:37
From: Sara M. Pons-Sanz [pons-sanzs at cardiff.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop on Medieval Northern English

Full Title: Workshop on Medieval Northern English 

Date: 06-Nov-2017 - 07-Nov-2017
Location: Seville, Spain 
Contact Person: Julia Fernández Cuesta
Meeting Email: jcuesta at us.es

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

Northern English, like mainland Scandinavian languages, is characterised by
its tendency towards analyticity from its earliest stages, as evidenced
already in the written records from the Old Northumbrian period (7th-10th
centuries). There is no general agreement about the causes/motives for the
early development of northern English (whether the result of language contact
or language internal change, or both). It has been argued that contact with
both Celtic and Scandinavian languages may have been responsible for the early
processes of change (morphological simplification, loss of grammatical gender
and grammaticalisation) in these varieties (Thomason and Kaufman 1988,
McWhorter 2007, Trudgill 2011, Benskin 2011), but there is no general
consensus as to the reasons for the changes and the period in which they
started. Quantitative analysis of our medieval witnesses against the
socio-cultural background in which they were written (as well as
re-examination of the actual manuscripts) may shed light on many of these
questions.

Medieval northern English is also characterized by its rich vocabulary, as
attested in toponyms as well as various texts penned throughout the period,
from the late Old Northumbrian glosses to various fourteenth- and
fifteenth-century texts. Much work has been done on the identification of
Celtic, Norse, French and Latin loans, and the stylistic effects arising from
their use (e.g. Turville-Petre 1977: Chapter 4, Pons-Sanz 2000, and the Gersum
Project: https://www.gersum.org/), but, as is the case with morphosyntactic
issues, we can only gain a better understanding of contemporary attitudes
towards the effects of multilingualism by such studies in a wider context that
also considers  other issues related to the texts’ linguistic, cultural and
sociohistorical milieu.   

Following the seminar on the Lindisfarne Gospel Gloss, organised at the
University of Westminster (Fernández Cuesta & Pons-Sanz 2016), we now announce
a second workshop on Old and Middle Northern English, which will take place at
the University of Seville on 6-7 November 2017.

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Carole Hough (University of Glasgow)
Dr. Peter Stokes (King’s College, London)

References:

Benskin, Michael. 2011. “Present Indicative Plural Concord in Brittonic and
Early English”. Transactions of the Philological Society 109: 158‒185.
Fernández Cuesta, Julia & Sara Pons-Sanz (eds) 2016. The Old English Gloss to
the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language, Author and Context. De Gruyter Mouton.
McWhorter, John H. 2007. Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-native Acquisition
in Standard Language Grammars. Oxford: OUP. 
Pons-Sanz, Sara M. 2000. Analysis of the Scandinavian Loanwords in the
Aldredian Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels. Valencia: Department of English
and German Philology (University of Valencia).
Thomason, Sarah G. and Terrence Kaufman. 1988. Language Contact, Creolization,
and Genetic Linguistics. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Turville-Petre, Thorlac. 1977. The Alliterative Revival. Cambridge: Brewer.
Trudgill, Peter. 2011. Sociolinguistic Typology: Social Determinants of
Linguistic Complexity. Oxford: OUP.

Call for Papers: 

We welcome papers (20 mins + 10 mins discussion) on the conference theme.
Please note that the chronological scope of the papers ranges between Old and
Middle English. Possible focus areas include:

- Northern English and language contact with Celtic, Old Norse and French. The
effects of language contact on the spelling, phonology, morphosyntax, lexis
and pragmatics of Northern Old and Middle English.
- Northern Middle English as a radical analytical language /creole language? 
- Northern English texts in context. Cultural and socio-historical context of
northern English texts and linguistic analysis.
- Glossing practices and translation. The influence of translation on the
development of written English.
- Northern Middle English and Older Scots

Abstracts of approx. 250 words (excluding references) should be sent to Julia
Fernández Cuesta (jcuesta at us.es) and Sara Pons-Sanz (Pons-SanzS at cardiff.ac.uk)
by 1 May 2017.

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