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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).

  • FGLS abstracts conference 2007 (, 74 KB)
  • 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