Presentations and programme
Conference programme
Saturday the 25th of November
8:00 — registration opens
9:00 — 9:30 conference opening and general welcome
9:30 — 10:30 plenary talk
Julia Fernández Cuesta (Universidad de Sevilla) - Anecdotal evidence: The evolution of Old Northumbrian in context
10:30 — 11:00 coffee break
11:00 — 13:00 session papers
Session A
Matylda
Włodarczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) — Verbosity and understatement: Speech act profiles of nineteenth century institutional (im)politeness cultures
Paloma
Tejada & Mariann
Larsen (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) — A diachronic linguistic approach to the British cultural model of age: From the late Middle Ages to the Age of Revolutions
Anna
Rogos-Hebda (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) — It's raining immigrants! HELLelujah!
Minako
Nakayasu (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine) — Spatio-temporal systems in Shakespeare’s dialogues: A case from Julius Caesar
Session B
Anna
Wojtyś (University of Warsaw) — The demise of preterite-present verbs: Evidence from the sources surviving in more than one version
Elżbieta
Adamczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań / Bergische Universität Wuppertal) — On the interaction of frequency, salience and semantics: Evidence from Old English nominal inflection
Kamila
Korcz (The University of Silesia) — Productivity of derivational ablaut in Old English on the example of the Vespasian Psalter
Ana Elvira
Ojanguren López (Universidad de La Rioja) — The loss of the adjectival inflection of participles. Tense, case and text type variation in Old English
Session C
María del Mar
Sierra Rodríguez (Universidad de Sevilla) — Morphological syncretism or phonological merger? The levelling of inflexional vowels in the verbal paradigm of the glosses to the Old Northumbrian Gospels
Koichi
Kano (Koeki University) — Reconsideration on sound change and scribal corrections
Magdalena
Bator (Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa) & Radosław Dylewski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) — Null complementation in Northern and Southern American culinary recipes of the 19th century
Hanna
Rutkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) — Mathew Lucatella’s "Secrets & Experiments": A case study on the language of seventeenth-century medical recipes
13:00 — 15:00 lunch break
15:00 — 17:00 session papers
Session D
Ekkehard
Koenig (Freie Universität Berlin / Universität Freiburg) & Letizia Vezzosi (University of Florence) — From OE swa to ModE so: The origin of multiple chains of grammaticalization
Alena
Novotná (Charles University) — Grammatical concord in existential there-clauses in Early Modern English
Rafał
Molencki (The University of Silesia) — Middle English adjectives of certainty
Jirina
Popelikova (Charles University) — …for it wer to long to wryte. On tough-constructions in diachrony
Session E
Jerzy
Nykiel (University of Bergen) — Onmang þat – incipient grammaticalization in Old and Middle English
Monika
Skorasińska (Szczecin University) — Expression of modality by means of can in the comedies of William Shakespeare
Agnieszka
Grząśko (University of Rzeszów) — A cognitive approach to selected synonyms of playboy
Veronika
Volná (Charles University) — Collocations of kingly, royal and regal from a diachronic perspective
17:15 — 19:00 conference reception
Sunday the 26th of November
9:00 — 10:00 plenary talk
Joanna
Kopaczyk (University of Glasgow) - On the impossibility (?) of historical corpus phonology
10:00 — 10:30 coffee break
10:30 — 12:00 session papers
Session F
Anna
Wrzesińska (University of Warsaw) — The semantics of RIVER, STREAM, SEA and FLOOD in Middle English
Ewa
Ciszek-Kiliszewska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) — Middle English dialectology of the preposition and adverb beyond
Michiko
Ogura (Tokyo Woman's Christian University) — Christian terms in interlinear glosses of the Psalter: A lexical comparison between Vespasian, Regius and Lambeth Psalters
Session G
Maciej
Grabski (University of Łódź) — The nature of the Old English adjectival premodification
Yuki
Takahashi (Kyoto University) — Word order and verb types in Old English: A functional perspective
12:00 — 12:30 coffee break
12:30 — 14:00 session papers
Session H
Julia
Hubner (Universität Augsburg) — "But, these paper-pedlers! These inke-dablers!" Compound new-formations in Early Modern English plays and their documentation in the OED
Julia
Schultz (University of Heidelberg) — From rodeo, lasso and gringo to paella and tango: The Spanish influence on English in the nineteenth century
Paulina
Zagórska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) — The patronage of Eadwine’s Psalter
Session I
Anna
Cichosz (University of Łódź) — Null subjects in the Old English Bede: A translation effect?
Javier Martín
Arista (Universidad de La Rioja) — Causativity and reflexivity in Old English motion constructions
Andrzej
Łęcki (Pedagogical University of Cracow) — On the evolution of subordinators expressing negative purpose in English: The case of for fear that
