Pre-conference
events:
·
Morning: 3-hour walking tour
of the Upper
Town of Bergamo (focus on Donizetti’s life and times); meet the guide at
Palazzo della Ragione – Piazza Vecchia at 9.30 am;
·
Afternoon: excursion to Cremona,
home to the Stradivari violins; buses depart from Colle Aperto at 1.30 pm;
expect to be back in Bergamo by 8 pm.
9.15: Conference opens: welcoming addresses.
9.30-10.30: Keynote Lecture: Roger Lass (Cape Town), Ut custodiant litteras: Editions, Corpora and
Witnesshood
– chair: Maurizio Gotti
10.30-11: coffee break
11-12.30: Methodological
issues (1) – chair: Keith Williamson
·
M. Ogura (Yokohama) / W. Wang (Hong Kong), Dynamic Dialectology and Complex Adaptive System
·
A. Meurman-Solin (Helsinki), Inventory
versus Typology: Methodological Considerations based on the Corpus of Scottish
Correspondence
15-16.30: Methodological
issues (2) – chair: Richard Hogg
·
M. Laing (Edinburgh), Multidimensionality:
Time, Space and Stratigraphy in Historical Dialectology
·
K. Williamson (Edinburgh), Synchrony, System(s) and Continua
16.30-17: coffee break
17-18: General debate on sessions (1) and (2)
Friday
5 September
·
P. Kitson (Birmingham), On Margins
of Error in Placing OE Literary Dialects
·
G. Stenbrenden (Oslo), Middle
English Long-Vowel Changes: Regional Origin and Spread
11-11.30: coffee break
11.30-12.30: Keynote
Lecture: Michael Benskin (Oslo), The
first emigrant English: some Hiberno-English
problems and perspectives – chair: Richard Dury
14.30-16.30: Data-driven
and corpus-driven analyses – chair:
Anneli Meurman-Solin
·
R. Hogg (Manchester), North
Northumbrian and South Northumbrian: a geographical statement?
·
A. van Kemenade (Nijmegen), Middle
English Dialect Syntax
·
A. Warner (York), Late Middle English Verb Second Order:
Establishing and Interpreting a Dialectal Database
·
R. Hickey (Essen), Standard Wisdoms and Historical Dialectology:
The Discrete Use of Historical Regional Corpora
16.30-17: coffee break
17-18.30: Diatopic
and diatypic variation – chair: Jeremy Smith
·
J.E. Díaz
Vera (Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha), Onomasiological
Variation and Change in Historical Dialectology: Some Principles and Problems
·
J. Fernández Cuesta / N. Rodríguez Ledesma (Seville), Northern Features in 15th- and 16th-century
Legal Documents from Yorkshire
·
G. Shorrocks (Newfoundland), Robert
Southey’s A True Story of the Terrible Knitters
e’ Dent: A Linguistic Analysis
of a Neglected Dialect Specimen
Saturday
6 September
9-10.30: Issues in standardization – chair: Raymond Hickey
·
R. Mooneeram
(Birmingham), History
in the making: The Standardisation of the Mauritian Vernacular
·
J. Beal (Sheffield), Marks of
disgrace: Attitudes to Regional Pronunciation in 18th-Century Pronouncing
Dictionaries
·
S. Fitzmaurice (Northern Arizona Univ.), English Historical Dialectology and the
Curse of the Standard
10.30-11: coffee break
11-12.30: Issues in
language contact – chair: Marina Dossena
·
G. Melchers (Stockholm), Substratum
vs. Borrowing – An Assessment of the Scandinavian Element in Yorkshire and
Shetland Traditional Dialects
·
M. Filppula (Joensuu) / J. Klemola (Tampere), Conservative
British English Dialects as a Source of Evidence for Language Contacts
12.30-13:
Conference closes: business meeting and
parting thoughts.
Afternoon: Conference excursion to Sirmione, on Lake Garda: buses
depart at 14.15 from Colle Aperto; expect to be in Sirmione by 16.00 –
participants will then be free to wander around and enjoy the lake; Sirmione also boasts
Roman excavations (‘Grotte di Catullo’ – the poet allegedly spent some time
there) and a 13th-century castle. As for dinner, participants will
find a range of possibilities to choose from – many places are in fact also
‘cantine’, i.e. ‘wine cellars’, where the produce of well-known local vineyards
may be sampled. Buses will leave Sirmione at 22.00; expect to be back in
Bergamo by 24.00 (upon request, buses may stop at central Lower-Town hotels on
the way back).
Costs:
·
Guided
tour of the Upper Town of Bergamo: € 10 (including entrance fees).
·
Pre-conference
excursion to Cremona: € 30 (including entrance fees to the Stradivari and
Violin museums; at the latter, the
sound of one of the period instruments on display will be demonstrated).
·
Conference
reception: complimentary for registered participants.
·
Conference
dinner: € 50 (including pre-dinner drinks)
·
Excursion
to Lake Garda: € 30 (no entrance fees included).
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