Conference
Program
SHEL-3 (Thursday, May 6 | Friday, May 7)
GLAC-10 (Friday, May 7 | Saturday, May 8)
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SHEL-3 Conference Program
Michigan Union , Ann Arbor
9:00 – 10:30 |
Session 1A: Old and Middle English Phonology Chair: Robin Queen Room: Pond |
Session 1B: Early Modern English Texts Chair: Ian Lancashire Room: Anderson D |
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Robert Fulk, “Archaisms and Neologisms in the
Geoffrey Russom, “The structure of the a-verse
Charles Li, “On the footing in Chaucer’s Verse”
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Jane Thomas, “Chancery Schmancery”
Richard W. Bailey and Colette V. Moore, “Henry
Chris Cain, “Old English Dialectology in the |
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11:00 – 12:30 |
Session 2A: Old and Middle English Verse Chair: Frances McSparran Room: Pond |
Session 2B: Structural Variation in Present-Day English Constructions Chair: William Kretzschmar Room: Anderson D |
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Donka Minkova, “Phonetic naturalness vs.
Paul Johnston, “The Convoluted Development
Anatoly Liberman, “Palatalized consonants
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Jessica Ring, “A Sociolinguistic analysis of the
Gunnar Bergh, Sölve Ohlander, “Taliban—It or They?”
Hendrik De Smet, Hubert Cuyckens, “Diachronic
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2:00 – 4:00 |
Session 3A: Effects of Language Contact in Early English Chair: Sarah Ghomason Room: Pond |
Session 3B: Morphological and Syntactic Developments in History of English Chair: Benjamin Fortson Room: Anderson D |
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David L. White, “The Case for Irish Influence in Some Odd OE Spellings”
Herbert Schendl, “Language mixing and code-switching in Old English legal documents”
Ann-Marie Svensson, “On the stress shifting of polysyllabic French loanwords in English”
James Milroy, “Interpreting evidence for sound changes in the history of English” |
Mikko Laitinen, “Development of English indefinite
Stephen Laker, “On the Origin of the English Negative Comparative Particle”
Don Chapman, “Noun-Adjective compounds in Old English Poetry”
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4:00 – 4:20 |
Ian Lancashire, Demonstration of Lexicons of Early Modern English Room: Anderson D |
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4:30 – 6:00 Plenary Address: Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia “Towards an integrated model of lexicalization and grammaticalization” Kuenzel Room
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6:15 SHEL Organizational Meeting, Room: Anderson ABC
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9:00 – 12:00 |
Session 4 A: Pedagogy Workshop Chair: Susanmarie Harrington Room: Kuenzel
Web Session 1 (9.:15-10:15) Edwin Duncan, “HEL Resources on the Web: An Update” Brad Benz, “Using Online Resources to Study HEL”
Web Session 2 + Discussion ( 10:15 -12.00) Mohammed Albakry and Kaya Tadayoshi, “Consciusness-raising of usage issues using CALL” Anne Curzan and Susanmarie Harrington, “Teaching HEL: Practical Issues”
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See GLAC schedule for sessions 4b, 4c, 5a, 5b |
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2:00 – 4:00 |
Session 6A: Linguistic Evidence in Medieval Literary Texts Chair: Karla Taylor Room: Pond |
Session 6B: American Dialectology Chair: Kimberly Emmons Room: Anderson D |
See GLAC schedule for sessions 6c, 6d |
Robert Stockwell, “The status of <ei> spellings as early evidence of the English vowel shift”
Frances McSparran, “Updating the Brut: lexical revision in the Otho redaction of La3amon’s Brut”
Robert Mailhammer, “Some evidence for phonological degemination in the Orrmulum”
Eugene Green, “The Pragmatics of Silencers in Middle English”
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Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery, “Innovation and Retention in the Evolution of Two American English Vernaculars”
Connie Eble, “Family Papers and Language History: The Prudhommes of Louisiana ”
William Kretzschmar, Sonja Lanehart, Bridget Anderson, and Becky Childs, “The Relevance of Community Language Studies to HEL: The View from Roswell ”
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4:30 – 6:00 Plenary Address: Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan “Off the shelf or under the counter? On the social dynamics of sound changes” Kuenzel Room
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GLAC-10 Conference Program
Friday, May 7th
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9:00–10:30 |
Session 4b: Language contact in the US Chair: David Fertig Room: Pond |
Session 4c: Phonology 1 Chair: Richard Page Room: Anderson D |
See SHEL schedule for Session 4a “SHEL Pedagogy workshop” Kuenzel Room |
Steve Hartman Keiser, "Prayers, Poems, and Potatoes: Negotiating language use in the mealtime conversation of bilingual Anabaptist families"
Lisa Mays, “Patterns in Codeswitching among Old Colony Mennonites in Kansas ”
Dilara Tepeli, Thomas Purnell, Joseph Salmons, “German substrate effects in Wisconsin English: the evidence for 'final devoicing'”
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Garry Davis , “PGmc. Nasalization and the loss of final coronal obstruents”
Regina Smith, “The High-Water Mark of the New High German Diphthongization”
David L.White, “Why /u/ but Not /i/ is Lowered in Past Participles of Classes I-IV”
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11:00–12:30 |
Session 5A: Syntax I Chair: Neil Jacobs Room Pond |
Session 5B: Phonology II Chair: Robert Murray Room: Anderson D |
See SHEL schedule for Session 4a “SHEL Pedagogy workshop” Kuenzel Room |
Ulrike Demske, “Quasi-Modals as Raising Verbs in Old High German”
Sarah Fagan, “Basic verbs of conveyance: 'bring' and 'take' in German and English”
Jack Hoeksema, “The Residual of Verb Projection Raising in Northern Dutch”
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Kari Ellen Gade, “ The Aberrant Syntax of Old Norse Poems in kvi›uháttr Meter ”
Peter Auer and Robert Murray, “Bavarian Isochrony without Mora-Counting”
Santeri Palviainen, “Baltic-Finnic evidence for Germanic final syllables”
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12:45 - 2:oo SGL Executive Committee Meeting: Pond |
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2:00 – 4:00 |
Session 6c: Semantics and Grammaticalization Chair: Orrin W. Robinson Room: Anderson ABC |
Session 6d: Second language learning and teaching Chair: Bruce Spencer Room: Kuenzel |
See SHEL schedule for Sessions 6a, 6b
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Douglas Lightfoot, “Heterosemy and Tautology in German Suffixoidization”
Richard Whitt, “The Development of *skulan in English and German: Insights from Grammaticalization”
Elly van Gelderen, “The Peterborough Chronicle as the beginning of Middle English: Grammaticalization as late merge”
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Carrie Jackson, “The Sentence Level Processing of Case Markings and Word Order in Native and Non-Native Speakers of German”
Carlee Arnett, Susanne Schwarzer, “Two-way Prepositions and L2 Student of German”
Felty, Robert “Phonetics in the German classroom: Learning Umlaut”
Stephen Newton, “Rationale for a German Course for Gay and Lesbian Students”
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4:30 – 6:00 Plenary: Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan “Off the shelf or under the counter? On the social dynamics of sound changes” Kuenzel Room |
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9:00 - 10:30 |
Plenary Address: Carol Pfaff, Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin “The creation of mixed codes in an urban migrant community: psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and political issues: the case of Turkish/German in Berlin ”. Kuenzel Room
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11:00-12:30 |
Session 7a: Language contact Chair: Vera Eremeeva Room: Pond |
Session 7b: Syntax II Chair: Douglas Lightfoot Room : Anderson D |
Session 7c: Poetics Chair: Mark Louden Room: Anderson ABC |
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John Sundquist, “Word Order Variation and Language Contact between Middle Low German and Middle Norwegian”
Anthony Buccini, “A New Look at the Language of the Late Old Northumbrian Glosses”
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Bruce Spencer, “A case study in 16th century syntactic variation”
Carmen Kopecky, “Syntactic Innovation and Context Sensitivity”
John te Velde, “Accounting for conditions on homogeneity of coordinate ellipsis in German” |
Maria Gallmeier, “On the relevance of the Discussion about Capitalization in German by the Grammarians in the 17th - 19th centuries”
Jeannette Marshall Denton, “The Historical Linguistic and Cultural Underpinnings of Hand-Symbolism in Early Germanic Poetry”
Mark Southern, “Metonymic and linguistic inheritances in Old Saxon: Betrayal, protection, fate and death, and words as power”
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12:45 – 2:00 SGL Business Meeting: Kuenzel ( box lunches will be provided ) |
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2.00-4.00 |
Session 8a: Sociolinguistics and Historiography Chair: Carlee Arnett Room: Pond |
Session 8b: Syntax III Chair: Robert Kyes Room : Anderson D
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Session 8c: Phonology III Chair Joseph Salmons Room: Anderson ABC |
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Vera Eremeeva, “Gender, Networks and Linguistic Adaptation of Migrants”
Orrin W. Robinson, “Does Sex Breed Gender?: Pronominal Reference in the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Mary O'Brien, Laura Smith, “The Impact of First Language Dialect on the Production of German Vowels”
Marc Pierce, “Leonard Bloomfield's contributions to Germanic Linguistics
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Manuela Schoenenberger, “Ambiguity in Swiss-German child data: How confusing can it get?”
Mat Schulze, “Case-marking and passive - what are the prepositions telling us?”
David Fertig, “Derivational Analogy and the Regularization-Through-Derivation Effect in German and English”
J. Durbin, “ Are Modals a Form of Passivization? Evidence from Dutch moeten/mogen + van ”
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Robert Mailhammer, “On the position of ablaut in the Germanic strong verbs and in the verbal system of Indo-Europen”
Richard Page, “The ingenerate motivation of the Germanic quantity shift”
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4.30-6.00 |
Session 9a: Syntax IV Chair: Elly van Gelderen Room: Pond |
Session 9b: Phonology IV Chair: Jeanette Denton Room: Anderson D |
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Dorian Roehrs, “ Split NPs as Instances of Sideward Movement”
Neil Jacobs, “Constraints on fressing: NP-NP constructions in Yiddish”
Christopher Sapp, Dorian Roehrs, “ Movement within the Noun Phrase in the History of Germanic "
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Jennifer Cornish, “A role of Accent Correlates in Verner's Law: A Perceptual Study”
Kurt Goblirsch, „Ausbreitung oder Entfaltung? The Spread and Gradation of the High German Consonant Shift Reconsidered”
Anatoly Liberman, “Stress and Germanic Consonant Shifts”
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