Abstract

The First Cambridge Colloquium on the “History of Spanish”

Participants: Miriam Bouzouita (Universitat de les Illes Balears) Miguel Calderón Campos (Universidad de Granada) María Teresa García Godoy (Universidad de Granada) John N. Green (University of Bradford) Ian MacKenzie (University of Newcastle) Chris Pountain (QMUL) Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge, Queens’ College) Roger Wright (Liverpool University)

Organiser: Ioanna Sitaridou (Queens’ College, University of Cambridge) For any information please email Ioanna Sitaridou on is269@cam.ac.uk

Registration: There is no registration fee but pre-registration is essential. Please register by 20th September 2010.

Programme

8.30 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 9.50 Roger Wright: Old Spanish in Muslim Spain: the African Connection

9.50 – 10.10 Coffee Break

10.10 – 11.00 Chris Pountain: The diastratic dimension of the history of Castilian/Spanish

11.00 – 11.50 Miguel Calderón Campos & María Teresa García Godoy: Corpus “de pequeño dominio” en la historia del español. El corpus del Reino de Granada (1492-1833)

11.50 – 13.50 Lunch

13.50 – 14.40 Ian MacKenzie: Non-finite fronting in Old Spanish and Middle English: reanalysis versus continuity

14.40 – 15.10 Coffee Break

15.10 – 16.00 Ioanna Sitaridou: Word Order in Old Spanish