Philology

(8am-10am; Communication Building, Room 304)

Henry Machyn's English (part 2)

Richard W. Bailey (The University of Michigan)

The Language of 18th Century Women in Robert Munford's Plays

Susan Garzon (Oklahoma State University)

The Philological Renaissance of Noah Webster and Emily Dickinson

Cynthia Hallen (Brigham Young University )

The "Correct Speech" Industry Elocution, Historical Linguistics and Language Change

Ray Hickey (Essen University)

Corpus Linguistics

(8am-10am; Communication Building, Room 306)

The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: A Resource for the Analysis of Variation and Change in a 20th-Century English Dialect

Joan Beal (University of Sheffield)

Examining Diachronic Shifts with Phrasal Verbs: Data from a New 37 Million Word Corpus of English

Mark Davies (Brigham Young University)

Making Use of Historical Texts on the Internet for Lexical Studies

Mark Kaunisto (University of Tampere)

Coinage: The Derivation and Naturalization of Economic Borrowings in Late Medieval and Early Modern English

Chris Palmer (University of Michigan)

Syntax

(1030am-Noon; Communication Building, Room 304)

The Status of Middle English Subjunctive Complements after French Loans:Evidence from the Middle English Compendium

Mariana Bahtchevanova (Arizona State University)

Non-Subject Gaps in the Old English to-Infinitive

Marjorie Pak (University of Pennsylvania)

But the Houses did not Like us: The End of the English Impersonal Construction

Graeme  Trousdale (University of Edinburgh)

Metrics 1

(1030am-Noon; Communication Building, Room 306)

Ubbe dubbede him to knith': The Scansion of Havelok and Middle English -es, -eth, and -ed(e)

Christina Fitzgerald (University of Toledo)

Terasawaís Law and Old English Metrical Change

R.D. Fulk (Indiana University)

Beowulf: Fidelity in Versification

Jennifer Tran (UCLA)

Metrics 2

(1pm-3pm; Communication Building, Room 304)

Metrical Evidence:  Did Chaucer Translate "The Romaunt of the Rose"?

Charles Li (Central Washington University)

The Metrical and Linguistic Lineage of the ME Alliterative Long Line

Donka Minkova (UCLA)

An Unnoticed Constraint on the A-verse in Middle English Alliterative Verse

Geoffrey Russom (Brown University)

Grammaticalization

(1pm-3pm; Communication Building, Room 306)

Anytime: The Grammaticalization of a Subordinator

Laurel Brinton (University of British Columbia)

Arrested Grammaticalization:  A Diachronic Analysis of Start

Lynn Sims (Arizona State University)

The lady was al demonyak: Historical Aspects of Adverbial ALL

Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University) and Isabelle Buchstaller (Stanford University)

Posing Historical Problems

(330pm-530pm; Communication Building, Room 304)

Britons in Anglo-Saxon England: Linguistic and Historical Arguments for Survival

James Berry (Arizona State University)

Ælfric in Iceland

Kari Ellen Gade (Indiana University)

Manuscripts as Sources for Linguistic Research: A Methodological Case Study Based on the Mirror of Lights

Peter Grund (University of Michigan)

Language Status and Language Change

William Kretzschmar (University of Georgia)

Metrics 3

(330pm-5pm; Communication Building, Room 306)

Middle English Suprasegmentals in the Harley Lyrics

Tom Cable (The University of Texas at Austin)

Breaking the Code: Isolating Versification Patterns in the Morte Arthure through computerized analysis

John Carlson (University of Virginia)

"Foted like a plane"?: Foot-based Analyses of John Skelton's Meter

Thomas O'Donnell (UCLA)

Sound change

(8am-1030am; Communication Building, Room 304)

Palatalization of Old English and Old Frisian

Stephen Laker (Leiden University)

The Underlying Form of Syllabic Consonants in Old English: The Existence of Schwa

Toshihiro Oda (Fukuoka University)

Word Frequency, Orm, and Vowels before Homorganic Clusters

Betty Phillips (Indiana State University)

The Apparent Loss and Re-Emergence of [h] in English

Julia Schlüter (University of Paderborn)

The Case of "Cheese" and the Meaning of "ie"

David White

Pedagogy

(8am-1030am; Communication Building, Room 306)

Essential Linguistics for the History of the English Language

Mary Blockley (University of Texas at Austin)

Multimedia Resources for Teaching Alternative Histories of English

Felicia Jean Steele (The College of New Jersey)

Teaching HEL in a Japanese Context: Proposal for an Approach to Teaching HEL via Nursery Rhymes

Akinobu Tani (Hyogo University of Teacher Education)

The English Language: A History

Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University)

Plenary

11:00am-12:00pm

Liberal Arts Building, Room 135

Triggering Events

William labov

University of Pennsylvania

Word histories

(2pm-330pm; Communication Building, Room 304)

Brobdingnagian Appetites and Lilliputian Ambitions: Jonathan Swift's Contributions to 21st Century English

Elizabeth Coggshall (North Carolina State University)

Etymology, Grammar, and the Germanic View of Humanities: The Case of English "wife"

Anatoly Liberman (University of Minnesota)

A Brief History of Him, Hem, Them, and Em

Stephanie Schlitz (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania)

North American Englishes

(2pm-330pm; Communication Building, Room 306)

Progressive Colonial English? The modalities of "may" vs. "can" in Early Canadian English

Stefan Dollinger (Vienna University)

English/French Bilingualism in 19th Century Louisiana: A Social Network Analysis

Connie Eble (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

A History of American English as a Postcolonial Variety: the "Dynamic Model" applied

Edgar Schneider (University of Regensburg)

New Englishes

(4pm-530pm; Communication Building, Room 304)

Quotative "be like" in American English: Ephemeral or Here to Stay?

Federica Barbieri (Northern Arizona University)

Picker-uppers and Putter-downers: Nominalizations of Verb-particle Constructions in English

Don Chapman (Brigham Young University)

I am not knowing if she has come here yesterday: The Tense-Aspect System in Registers of Indian English

Chandrika Rogers (Western Carolina University)

Corpus Linguistics and Syntax

(4pm-530pm; Communication Building, Room 306)

Subjunctive Triggers in British and American Newspapers: A Diachronic Perspective

Bill Crawford (Northern Arizona University)

Complements of Consent: a Case Study on Variation and Change in Complement Selection in Recent Centuries

Juhani Rudanko (University of Tampere)

The information-statuses of Old English left dislocations

Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University) and Susan Pintzuk (University of York)