Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics (MMECL)

/ Date: 5 to 9 July 2009
Place: Innsbruck, Karl-Rahner-Platz 3
Convener: The English Department,University of Innsbruck

Conference programme

Pre-conference warming on 5 July 2009, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. (at Karl-Rahner-Platz 3)

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Monday,
6 July
8.30 – 09.15 / Registration
(location: in front of Madonnensaal)
9.15 – 09.30 / Opening of conference
(location: Madonnensaal)
9.30 – 10.30 / Keynote address: Merja Kytö (Uppsala)
Early English and the computer: Issues solved and unsolved
(Introductionby Eric Smitterberg)
(location: Madonnensaal)
10.30 – 11.00 / coffee break / coffee break
Middle English section (Section A) / Late Modern English section (Section B)
11.00 – 11.30 / chair: Hans Sauer
Theresa Wannisch (Regensburg)
Tracing the outsider – ought (to) from Middle English to the present / chair: Thomas Cable
Clive Upton (Leeds)
The importance of being Janus: Midland speakers and the ‘North-South Divide’
11.30 – 12.00 / Melanie Borchers (Duisburg-Essen)
A Fact at hand? “Prepositional phrases rained in upon English from all sides.” A Special Focus on the French Influence on Middle English Prepositional Constructions / Manfred Markus (Innsbruck)
What is interesting in Wright's dialect words?
12.00 – 12.30 / Tomohiro Yanagi (Aichi)
The quantifier all before or after (pro)nominal phrases in Middle English / Eric Smitterberg (Uppsala)
Colloquialization and contraction in nineteenth-century English
12.30 – 14.00 / lunch break / lunch break
14.00 – 14.30 / chair: Yoko Iyeiri
Hans Sauer (Munich)
Interjections in Middle English / chair: Heinrich Ramisch
Ann Thompson (Leeds)
Locating the Voices
14.30 – 15.00 / Stefan Diemer (Berlin)
Standardized Middle English? Procedural observations on the analysis of the Wycliffe Corpus of Middle English texts / Michael Bilynsky (Lviv)
Deverbal Word-Formation within a Self-Compiled Corpus of the OED Textual Prototypes: The Stringing of Nests and the Nesting of Strings
15.00 – 15.30 / Hans-Jürgen Diller (Bochum)
Anger and teen in Middle English / Daisuke Suzuki (Hyogo)
A quantitative analysis of the synonymic expressions no more than, only and mere
15.30 – 16.00 / coffee break / coffee break
16.00 – 16.30 / Lilo Moessner (Aachen)
Mandative constructions in Middle English / María F. García-Bermejo Giner (Salamanca)
Joseph Wright’s Yorkshire Literary Primary Sources for The English Dialect Dictionary
16.30 – 17.00 / Jacob Thaisen (Poznan)
The Poznan Chaucer: An electronic corpus of Middle English scribal copies / F. Javier Ruano Garcia (Salamanca)
Investigating Joseph Wright's sources: The contribution of Bishop White Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities (1695) to the English Dialect Dictionary
18.00 – 20.00 / Welcome reception by the Tyrolean government
at the Landhaus
Tuesday,
7 July / Middle English section (Section A) / Late Modern English section (SectionB)
9.00 – 10.00 / Keynote address: Christian Mair (Freiburg)
"... ging uns der ganze alte Dialektbegriff in eine Illusion auf:" Corpus-based perspectives on the deterritorialisation of dialects in the 20th and 21st centuries
(Introduction by Clive Upton)
(location: Madonnensaal)
10.00 – 10.30 / chair: Anneli Meurmann-Solin
Yoko Iyeiri (Kyoto)
Causative make and its complements in Late Middle English: Using the Innsbruck Computer Archive of Machine-Readable English Texts / chair: Irma Taavitsainen
Maria Pilar Sánchez García (Salamanca)
Cumberland in Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary: A study of its primary sources
10.30 – 11.00 / coffee break / coffee break
11.00 – 11.30 / Namiko Kikusawa (Kyoto)
The subjunctive vs. modal auxiliaries: Lest-clauses in Late Middle English prose texts / Alexander Onysko (Innsbruck)
From ‘head to foot’ in Late Modern English Dialects: An investigation of body part compounds in the English Dialect Dictionary
11.30 – 12.00 / Torsten Müller (Bochum)
Grammaticalisation, constructions and the history of the English language: the case of the Middle English wurthe-passive / Akinobu Tani (Osaka)
The binomials in the computerized English Dialect Dictionary
12.00 – 12.30 / Cristina Suárez Gómez (Balearic Islands)
The genesis ofrelative marker that in Middle English / Christoph Praxmarer (Innsbruck)
Dialect distance in the EDD
12.30 – 14.00 / lunch break / lunch break
Early Modern English section (Section A)
14.00 – 14.30 / chair: Lilo Moessner
Jukka Tyrkkö (Helsinki) & Irma Taavitsainen (Helsinki)
A new resource for diachronic studies on the special language of medicine: Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) / chair: Stefan Gries
Chie Yahashi (Sheffield)
Nice and Lovely: ‘Affective Adjectives’ in the
Late Modern English Literary Discourse
14.30 – 15.00 / Nila Vasquez (Murcia) & Francisco Alonso Almeida (Las Palmas)
A diachronic survey of shall in the Early Modern English Period: A corpus-based approach / Heinrich Ramisch (Bamberg)
New ways of analysing palatalization and assibilation in English dialects
15.00 – 15.30 / AnneliMeurmann-Solin (Helsinki)
A new manuscript-based and annotated corpus: The Corpus of Scottish Correspondence / Emil Chamson (Innsbruck)
The West Germanic heritage in the English Dialect Dictionary: Preliminary observations
15.30 – 16.00 / coffee break / coffee break
16.00 – 16.30 / Sylwester Lodej (Kielce)
Concept-driven semasiology and onomasiology of CLERGY: focus on the lexicogenesis of pope, bishop, priest / Anna-Liisa Vasko (Helsinki)
Helsinki Archives of Regional English Speech: Compiling and presenting a spoken dialect corpus
16.30 – 17.00 / Ursula Lutzky (Vienna)
Discourse markers in Early Modern English
Wednesday,
8 July / Early Modern English section (Section A) / Late Modern English section (SectionB)
9.00 – 09.30 / chair: Michael Bilynsky
Stefan Gries (Santa Barbara) & Martin Hilpert (Freiburg)
From interdental to alveolar in the third person singular: a multifactorial, verb- and author-specific exploratory approach / chair: Ann Thompson
Mariachiara Berizzi (Padua) & Silvia Rossi (Padua)
"Something Here What Made Me Think." New considerations on what as a relative marker in the dialects of England
General & methodological section (Section A) / General & methodological section (Section B)
9.30 – 10.00 / Martina Häcker (Paderborn)
The origins of the be sat and be stood construction / Hubert Cuyckens (Leuven) & Christopher Shank (Leuven)
Grammaticalization and complementation: The case of feel
10.00 – 10.30 / Nikolaus Ritt (Vienna)
Using corpora in diachronic phonotactics / Christopher Shank (Leuven)
The grammaticalization of the verb guess: A diachronic corpus-based study
10.30 – 11.00 / coffee break / coffee break
11.00 – 11.30 / Kalynda Beal (Hamburg)
It-clefts in a new register: Using technology to buildnew corpora / Tine Defour (Ghent)
Really, truly, verily: A comparison between the semantic-pragmatic developments of three truth-based adverbs
11.30 – 12.00 / Isao Hashimoto (Osaka)
The influence of Biblical Hebrew on the development of English numerical expressions
12.00 – 12.30 / John Nerbonne (Groningen) & Wybo Wiersma (Groningen) & Timo Lauttamus (Groningen)
Detecting syntactic differences in the syntax of spontaneous conversation
12.30 – 14.00 / lunch break / lunch break
14.30 – 16.30 / Guided walking tour of Innsbruck's old town
18.15 – 22.00 / Conference dinner
Thursday,
9 July / General & methodological section (Section A)
09.00 – 10.00 / Keynote address: Joan Beal
"Can’t see the wood for the trees?" Corpora and the study of Late Modern English
(Introduction by Hans-Jürgen Diller)
(location: Madonnensaal)
10.00 – 10.30 / chair: John Nerbonne
Peter Petré (Leuven)
Leuven English Old to New (LEON): Some ideas on a new corpus for longitudinal diachronic studies
10.30 – 11.00 / coffee break
11.00 – 11.30 / Hiroaki Sato (Kanagawaken)
Search functions of FrameSQL for FrameNet
11.30 – 12.00 / Stefan Gries (Santa Barbara) & Martin Hilpert (Freiburg)
Assessing frequency changes in multistage diachronic corpora:bottom-up visual methods to identify stages and trends
12.00 – 12.30 / Closing down
12.15 – 14.15 / Cable car trip to Seegrube
14.30 – 16.30 / Visit to Swarovski's Crystal Worlds in Wattens

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