Forum for Germanic Language Studies
FGLS 2007 meeting
University of Nottingham
5 - 6 January 2007
The FGLS 2007 conference will be held at the University of Nottingham on 5 - 6 January 2007. Details and a registration form are available from the local organiser, Dr. Nicola McLelland (email: Nicola.Mclelland@nottingham.ac.uk).
Programme
Friday 5 January
11.00 - 12.00 Arrival and registration - Trent B40
12.00 Lunch
1.00 Plenary: Prof. Helmut GLÜCK (University of Bamberg) - Trent B40
Deutsch als fremde Sprache - eine alte Geschichte
2.00 - 2.30 break
2.30 Melanie Wagner (University of Luxemburg) - Trent B40
Verbs in Luxemburgisch: domain distribution of verbs stemming from either French or German
Kerstin Börjars (University of Manchester) - Trent B46
Germanic will(en) and periphrasis
3.15 Martin Durrell, Paul Bennett, Astrid Ensslin (University of Manchester)
Towards a Methodology for Constructing and Annotating Historical Corpora: Tackling Structural and Lexical Variability in Early Modern German Newspaper Texts
4.00 - 4.30 Break
4.30 Torsten Müller (University of Sheffield) - Trent B40
Grammatical past time reference in spontaneously produced language
5.15 Andreas Musolff (University of Durham) - Trent B40
From Staatskörper to Volkskörper - the history of a political metaphor
6.30 FGLS General Meeting - Trent B40
7.30 Dinner
Saturday 6 January
9.00 Plenary: Professor Marijke VAN DER WAL (University of Leiden) - Trent B40
Letters as precious loot:Dutch letters in English archives and ''Private Schriftlichkeit''.
10.00 - 10.30 break
10.30 Saskia Daalders (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) - Trent B40
Present and past of the Dutch conditional conjunction mits
Alan Scott (University of Manchester) - Trent B46
Competition in the lexicon: a failure of blocking?
11.15 Johanneke Sytsema (Taylor Institution, Oxford) - Trent B40
Old Frisian and Latin in legal texts: chicken or egg?
John Partridge (University of Kent) - Trent B46
How deep is context?
12.00 Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) - Trent B40
Topicalization in Modern Frisian
Christopher Beedham (University of St. Andrews) - Trent B46
The empirical investigation of grammar: the method of lexical exceptions
12.45 - 1.30 Lunch
1.30 Sylvia Jaworska (Aston University) - Trent B40
Where have all the applied linguists gone? Zur Stellung der Sprachwissenschaft in den britischen German Studies
Charles V. Russ (University of York) - Trent B46
East and West Prussia: its linguistic and dialectal development and structure past and present
2.15 Round table: Sheila Watts (Chair) (University of Cambridge) - Trent B40
Title: Round table: The future of Linguistics within German Studies
3.00 - 3.30 Break
3.30 Carol Fehringer - Trent B40
Title: Hesitation phenomena in the language production of bilingual speakers: the role of working memory
Livia Schanze - Trent B46
Title: Regulating language use in German schools: language ideologies, public debates and individual practices
4.15 Klaus Fischer - Trent B40
Title: Verb position, complement attachment and processing: is there a case to answer?
Filippo Nereo - Trent B46
Title: The German Speech of Enclave of Vyakov, Czech Republic
5.00 End of conference