Semester two, 2008-9
Tuesdays 1-2 pm, room S.1.5, Samuel Alexander Building.
| 1 | 3 Feb | no meeting | |
| 2 | 10 Feb | no meeting | [LEL Forum: Group Work] |
| 3 | 17 Feb | no meeting | |
| 4 | 24 Feb | Susanne Wagner (Freiburg/Canterbury) | ‘On Early English Pronunciation – an “early SED”?‘ (PDF, 10 KB) |
| 5 | 3 Mar | Dick Hudson (UCL) | ‘Why memory matters in English grammar‘ (PDF, 11 KB) |
| 6 | 10 Mar | David Tizón-Couto (Vigo) | ‘Left Dislocation in the recent history of English’ |
| 7 | 17 Mar | Charlotte Brewer (Oxford) | ‘“Lesbianism” and the Dictionary‘ (PDF, 10 KB) |
| 8 | 24 Mar | Marije van Hattum (Manchester) | ‘Irish English modal verbs in the 18th and 19th centuries‘ (PDF, 15 KB) |
| Easter break | |||
| 9 | 21 Apr | ||
| 10 | 28 Apr | Carmen Llamas (York) | postponed till 09-10 |
| 11 | 5 May | Erik Schleef (Manchester) | ‘Sociolinguistics and immigration‘ (PDF, 14 KB) |
| 12 | 12 May | Jenny Cheshire (QMUL) | ‘Multicultural London English: a source of innovation and change?’ |
Semester one, 2008-9
Tuesdays 1-2 pm, room S.1.5, Samuel Alexander Building.
| week | date | speaker | topic |
| 1 | 30 Sep | no meeting | |
| 2 | 7 Oct | no meeting | |
| 3 | 14 Oct | Stephen Laker (Manchester/Leiden) | ‘Investigating Celtic influence on English phonology’ |
| 4 | 21 Oct | Javier Pérez-Guerra (Vigo) | ‘Measuring text types: two quantitative approaches to text-type variation in the (recent) history of English’ |
| 5 | 28 Oct | Linda van Bergen (Edinburgh) | ‘Ne plus infinitive in Old English?’ |
| 6 | 4 Nov | reading week: no meeting | |
| 7 | 11 Nov | Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford) | ‘Dictionaries, the OED, and the illusions of history’ |
| 8 | 18 Nov | Kate Wild (Glasgow) | ‘”When we find in a language one word serving many needs, we may be sure that that language is the mental furniture of an intellectually rude and poverty-stricken people”: attitudes towards polysemy in Late Modern English’ |
| 9 | 25 Nov | Sophie Guile (Manchester) | ‘English adnominal possessive constructions: an analysis of expositions & omissions in 18th century precept texts’ |
| 10 | 2 Dec | Kevin Watson (Lancaster) | ‘Exploring phonological variation and change in Merseyside’ |
| 11 | 9 Dec | no meeting | |
| 12 | 16 Dec | Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh) | ‘Constructionalization’ |
Organisers:
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