Historical Linguistics Research Cluster


2010-05-10 14:00: Grammaticalization as analogically driven change (Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam / ACLC))

2010-05-10 14:45: Recent changes in the modal system of English (Joanne Close (University of Leeds))

2010-05-10 16:00: The history of English phrase-level syllabification (Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester))

2011-01-17 14:00: Testing reflexivity and logophoricity in Latin (Marius Jøhndal (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-17 14:40: Preterite/periphrasis interchange in Old English (Morgan Macleod (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-17 15:40: Tying up syntactic loose ends: hwæt/huat-clauses in Old English and Old Saxon (George Walkden (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-17 16:20: Converging methods in the study of language change (Joel Wallenberg (University of Iceland))

2011-03-07 17:00: Communicative competence and eighteenth-century English norms of correctness (Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, University of Leiden and Clare Hall, Cambridge)

2011-05-09 10:00: Commandeering language? Linguistic prescriptivism and variation in Quebec today (Leigh Oakes, QMUL)

2011-05-09 10:40: Speaker attitudes to the French language in France and Québec: Purist or moderate? (Olivia Walsh, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-09 11:30: The development of normative metalanguage in English grammars, 1677-1712. (Thomas Godard, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-09 12:00: Introducing the Corpus of Dutch English: Background and methodological insights (Alison Edwards, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-09 12:30: Polynomia in Sardinia and Corsica: A case study (Elena Pala, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-21 16:00: The pro cycle (Jan Terje Faarlund, University of Oslo)