LINGUIST List 14.2275

Fri Aug 29 2003

Confs: Historical Ling/English/Bergamo, Italy

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. marina.dossena, 1st International Conference on English Historical Dialectology

1st International Conference on English Historical Dialectology 
Short Title: ICEHD 1

Date: 04-Sep-2003 - 06-Sep-2003
Location: Bergamo, Italy
Contact: Marina Dossena
Contact Email: marina.dossenaunibg.it 
Meeting URL: http://www.unibg.it/anglistica/slin/ehd1-home.html

Linguistic Sub-field: Historical Linguistics 
Subject Language: English

Meeting Description:

The aim of the Conference is to bring together scholars working on
geo-historical variation in English. To this end, invited lectures and
papers are organized in such a way that change in the development of
varieties may be discussed from different perspectives simultaneously:
not only diachronic and diatopic, but also diastratic (that is, how
variation in time and place was in fact also influenced by the social
milieu of speakers/writers and their interlocutors). Methodological
issues are also expected to be highlighted and may include those
developed for the study of historical vernaculars other than
English. Scientific Committee: Michael Benskin, Markku Filppula,
Margaret Laing, Anneli Meurman-Solin, Keith Williamson, Maurizio
Gotti, Richard Dury and Marina Dossena.

Keynote speakers: Roger Lass; Michael Benskin