29.812, Confs: English, Historical Linguistics/Austria

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Subject: 29.812, Confs: English, Historical Linguistics/Austria

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:46:33
From: Gabriella Mazzon [Gabriella.Mazzon at uibk.ac.at]
Subject: Contact and Contaminations in the History of English(es)

Contact and Contaminations in the History of English(es) 
Short Title: SLIN 18 

Date: 15-Mar-2018 - 17-Mar-2018 
Location: Innsbruck, Austria 
Contact: Gabriella Mazzon 
Contact Email: Gabriella.Mazzon at uiibk.ac.at 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

The 18th SLIN Conference, marking the 30th anniversary of the constitution of
the group and of its first conference, will take place on March 15th- 17th
2018 at the Leopold-Franzens Universität in Innsbruck, Austria. The conference
will take place in the historical rooms of the seventeenth-century “Palais
Claudiana”, named after Claudia de’ Medici: you can have a preview at
https://www.uibk.ac.at/public-relations/veranstaltungen/standorte/claudiana/fo
tos.html . More information will be on the conference website, which will be
announced shortly.

The conference fee, including conference materials and coffee breaks, is set
at € 120.00. Information about travelling, accommodation options and social
programme will be circulated in the summer. 

The theme of the conference is 'Contact and Contaminations in the History of
English(es).'

Keynote speakers who have kindly accepted to give lectures at the event are:

Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
Robert McColl Millar (University of Aberdeen)
Herbert Schendl (University of Vienna)

The focus is on the impact of language coexistence from Old English to late
Modern English.

Program: 

Thu 15 March:

13:00:
Registration starts

14:15:
Conference Opening

14:20:
Thirty years of SLIN

14:30:
Keynote 1: chair: Giovanni Iamartino
Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam) 
The role of contact in English syntactic change and the problems involved in
recognizing borrowings

15:30: Coffee break

16:00:
Paper session I: chair: Monika Kirner-Ludwig

Monika OPALIŃSKA (University of Warsaw), Romance elements in the architecture
of non-canonical variants of medieval English Pater noster

Yekaterina YAKOVENKO (Russian Academy of Sciences), Ælfric’s grammatical
terminology as a peculiar form of language contact

Valeria DI CLEMENTE (University of Catania), Personal names, place names and
appellatives of French origin in the Peterborough Chronicle, 1070-1154

Letizia VEZZOSI (University of Florence), When a lexical borrowing becomes an
ideological tool: the case of Saint Erkenwald

Fri 16  March:

09:30:
Keynote 2: chair: Gabriella Mazzon
Herbert Schendl (University of Vienna) 
Code-switching, lexical innovation, and borrowing in medieval English

10:30: Coffee break
11:00:
Paper session II: chair Nick Brownlees

Giuliana RUSSO (University of Catania), Latin and English grammars 1500-1850:
a peculiar story of language contact

Olga TIMOFEEVA (University of Zurich), Vices and Virtues: Pastoral care and
lexical innovation in the thirteenth century

Harumasa MIYASHITA & Hisao TOKIZAKI (Tsurumi University), Borrowing, Stress
Shift and Word Order Change in the History of English

12:30: Lunch break

14:00:
Paper session III: chair: Massimo Sturiale

Megan TIDDEMAN (Aberystwyth University), The Southampton Stewards’ Books of
1487-93: a rare glimpse of contact between Middle English and Venetian 

Polina SHVANYUKOVA (University of Bergamo), That 'vociferous conversation':
metalinguistic commentary on the encounters with the peoples of the Pacific in
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British travel journals 

Elisabetta LONATI (University of Milano), Borrowing foreign plants, borrowing
foreign names: medical, pharmaceutical, commercial issues in Late Modern
English

15:30: Coffee break

16:00:
Guided Tour

20:00: Conference dinner

Sat 17 March:

09:30:
Keynote 3: chair: Marina Dossena
Robert McColl Millar (University of Aberdeen)
Near relative contact and the History of the English Language: two case
studies

10:30: Coffee break

11:00:
Paper session IV: chair: Reinhard Heuberger

Giovanni IAMARTINO & Lucia BERTI (University of Milano), Anglo-Italian lexical
exchange in a bidirectional perspective. Borrowings in Joseph Baretti’s
bilingual dictionary (1760)

Julia SCHULTZ (University of Heidelberg), From aberglaube, glühwein and
Zeitgeist to Weltschmerz and katzenjammer: the German influence on the English
lexicon in the nineteenth century 

12:30:
Conference closing + business meeting of the SLIN group
Late registration possible! For more information & registration form visit
www.flingue.unict.it/slin/

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