Langwidge Sandwidge 2008-9
[Click on the link for the Institute for Linguistics and Language Studies seminars schedule.]
An informal meeting for staff and postgraduates interested in English language and linguistics.
Coffee, tea, juice and biscuits will be provided. Just bring your own sandwiches!
If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please email the organisers at langwidgesandwidge@manchester.ac.uk.
Tuesdays 1-2 pm, room S.1.5, Samuel Alexander Building.
Semester 2, 2008-9
| 1 | 3 Feb | no meeting | |
| 2 | 10 Feb | no meeting | [LEL Forum: Group Work] |
| 3 | 17 Feb | no meeting
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| 4 | 24 Feb | Susanne Wagner (Freiburg/Canterbury) | 'On Early English Pronunciation - an early SED ?' |
| 5 | 3 Mar | Dick Hudson
(UCL) |
'Why memory matters in English grammar' |
| 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' |
| 8 | 24 Mar | Marije van Hattum (Manchester) | 'Irish English modal verbs in the 18th and 19th centuries' |
| Easter break | |||
| 9 | 21 Apr | |
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| 10 | 28 Apr | postponed till 09-10
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| 11 | 5 May | Erik Schleef (Manchester) | 'Sociolinguistics and immigration' |
| 12 | 12 May | Jenny Cheshire (QMUL) | 'Multicultural London English: a source of innovation and change?' |
Semester 1, 2008-9
| 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' |
Email: langwidgesandwidge@manchester.ac.uk
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Langwidge Sandwidge 2007-8
Semester 2, 2007-8
| week | date | speaker | topic |
| 1 | 29 Jan | no meeting | |
| 2 | 5 Feb | Sylvia Adamson (Sheffield) | 'Empson, Williams and Jane Austen: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on polysemy' |
| 3 | 12 Feb | Phillip Wallage (Manchester) | 'Negative Concord, Jespersen's Cycle and variation between no-negation and not-negation in Early English: Some questions' |
| 4 | 19 Feb | Karen Corrigan (Newcastle) | 'The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: What is it and what can you do with it?' |
| 5 | 26 Feb | Massimo Sturiale (Ragusa/Catania) | 'Eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries and language prescriptivism' |
| 6 | 4 Mar | Willem Hollmann (Lancaster) | 'Being "cool" while doing something: The grammaticalisation of "lie" into a progressive aspect marker' |
| 7 | 11 Mar | Laura Wright (Cambridge) | [cancelled due to illness] |
| Easter break | |||
| 8 | 8 Apr | John Payne (Manchester) & Beatriz Macía Vega (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) | 'Do so' |
| 9 | 15 Apr | Rob Drummond (Manchester) |
'The influence of local accent on the pronunciation of non-native English speakers in Manchester' [revised abstract] |
| 10 | 22 Apr | Nick Smith (Salford) |
'From aspect to pragmatics: Will + be -ing and shall + be -ing' |
| 11 | 29 Apr | Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Manchester) | 'A dinghy to Singapore: Evidence for Chung's Generalization' |
| 12 | 6 May | John Bellamy (Manchester) | On attitudes to linguistic variation in the UK and Austria |
Semester 1, 2007-8
| week | date | speaker | topic |
| 1 | 25 Sep | no meeting | |
| 2 | 2 Oct | Alan Scott (Manchester) | Report on Germanic possessive 's project |
| 3 | 9 Oct | Alex Baratta (Manchester) | 'Using the passive voice to reveal stance' |
| 4 | 16 Oct | Filippo Nereo (Manchester) | 'On the identity of an isolated German community' |
| 5 | 23 Oct | Paul Bennett (Manchester) |
'Designing a tagger for teaching purposes' |
| 6 | 30 Oct | reading week: no meeting | |
| 7 | 6 Nov | Claire Cowie (Edinburgh) | 'Attitudes to accent in the Indian call centre industry' |
| 8 | 13 Nov | Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki/Sheffield) |
'Historical sociolinguistics meets typology: Negative concord in 18th-century English' |
| 9 | 20 Nov | Kristin Killie (Tromsø) |
'From locative to durative to focalised? The English progressive and PROG imperfective drift' |
| 10 | 27 Nov | Susan Fitzmaurice (Sheffield) | 'The roles of literacy practices and discourse community in early eighteenth-century England' |
| 11 | 4 Dec | Katie Lowe (Glasgow) | 'Linguistic geography, demography, and monastic community: Scribal language at Bury St Edmunds' |
| 12 | 11 Dec | Richard Ingham (Birmingham City Univ.) |
'Anglo-Norman as a contact variety? The extent of grammatical parallels with Middle English' |