| week |
date |
speaker |
topic |
| 1 |
29 Jan |
no meeting |
| 2 |
5 Feb |
Sylvia Adamson (Sheffield) |
‘Empson, Williams and Jane Austen: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on polysemy’ |
| 3 |
12 Feb |
Phillip Wallage (Manchester) |
‘Negative Concord, Jespersen’s Cycle and variation between no-negation and not-negation in Early English: Some questions’ |
| 4 |
19 Feb |
Karen Corrigan (Newcastle) |
‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: What is it and what can you do with it?’ |
| 5 |
26 Feb |
Massimo Sturiale (Ragusa/Catania) |
‘Eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries and language prescriptivism’ |
| 6 |
4 Mar |
Willem Hollmann (Lancaster) |
‘Being “cool” while doing something: The grammaticalisation of “lie” into a progressive aspect marker‘ (PDF, 24 KB) |
| 7 |
11 Mar |
Laura Wright (Cambridge) |
[cancelled due to illness] |
| Easter break |
| 8 |
8 Apr |
John Payne (Manchester) & Beatriz Macía Vega (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) |
‘Do so‘ (MS Word, 39 KB) |
| 9 |
15 Apr |
Rob Drummond (Manchester) |
‘The influence of local accent on the pronunciation of non-native English speakers in Manchester‘ [revised abstract] (PDF, 64 KB) |
| 10 |
22 Apr |
Nick Smith (Salford) |
‘From aspect to pragmatics: Will + be -ing and shall + be -ing‘ |
| 11 |
29 Apr |
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Manchester) |
‘A dinghy to Singapore: Evidence for Chung’s Generalization’ |
| 12 |
6 May |
(Manchester) |
On attitudes to linguistic variation in the UK and Austria |
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