Papers presented

2020

2019

  • Tino Oudesluijs – “Resisting Linguistic Change in the Age of Standardisation: The Use and Development of Periphrastic DO in Early Modern Coventry”, presented at SOEMEHL 41 (Annual Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries ) on 13 December 2019.
  • Anita Auer – “Urbanisation, Supralocalisation and the Emergence of Written Standard English”, presented at the international workshop “Language in Urban Spaces” at the University of Bern on 12 December 2020.
  • Anita Auer – “The Digital Turn in Historical Sociolinguists”, presented at the Digital Humanities Institute, EPFL (Lausanne) on 13 November 2019.

2018

  • Moragh Gordon – “Tracing Supralocal Forms in the Urban Vernacular of Late Medieval and Renaissance Bristol: The Story of Third Person Present Indicative Verb Inflections”, presented at SOEMEHL 40 (Annual Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries )  on 14 December 2018.
  • Tino Oudesluijs – “’Th[i/y]s Indentur[e] ma[i]d[e]’ – orthographic variation in 16th- century administrative texts from Coventry”, presented at the 20th international Conference on English Historical Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh (UK) on 28 August 2018.
  • Tino Oudesluijs, Anita Auer & Moragh Gordon – “Broadening the horizon of the written Standard English debate: a view beyond the metropolis”, presented at the 20th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics, at the University of Edinburgh (UK) on 27 August 2018.
  • Tino Oudesluijs – “He maketh, makes or make? 3pers. sing. ind. present tense inflections in Late Medieval and Early Modern Coventry”, presented at the annual SWELL conference at the University of Neuchâtel (CH) on 23 March 2018.

2017

  • Tino Oudesluijs – “Language variation and change in 17th-century civic texts from Coventry”, presented at the annual SWELL conference at the University of Bern (CH) on 31 March 2017.Tino Oudesluijs – “Language variation and change in 17th-century Coventry: a ‘Civil War effect’?” Presented at the HiSoN 2017 conference at the City University of New York (US) on 6 April 2017.
  • Tino Oudesluijs – “Scribes as agents of language change: copying practices in administrative texts from 15th-century Coventry”, presented at the 2017 SAUTE conference at the University of Neuchâtel (CH) on 28 April 2017.
  • Tino Oudesluijs & Anita Auer – “Geographical Variation in Late Medieval Administrative Documents: Evidence from York and Coventry”, presented at the 2017 ICOME conference at the University of Stavanger (NO) on 31 May 2017.
  • Moragh Gordon, Tino Oudesluijs & Anita Auer – “The difficulty of determining contact-induced language change in historical data: evidence from selected English urban vernaculars (c. 1400-1600)”, presented at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio (US) on 4 August 2017.
  • Tino Oudesluijs – “-s or -th? Revisiting the 3rd pers. sing. ind. present tense inflections in the age of standardisation”, presented at Historical English Linguistics at Zürich and Beyond – 2 conference at the University of Zürich (CH) on 27 October 2017.

2016

  • Tino Oudesluijs – “The historical sociolinguistics of medieval Coventry: A look at the source material”, presented at the Atelier méthodologique: Les sciences du manuscrit at the University of Lausanne (CH) on 3 March 2016.
  • Tino Oudesluijs – “Misrepresenting the data? Individual scribal practices in late medieval Coventry”, presented at the Big data and bad data: challenges of quantitative and qualitative research methods in linguistics workshop at the University of Lausanne (CH) on 2 September 2016.

2015

  • Tino Oudesluijs – “Dialect and Language Contact in Coventry, 1400-1600”, presented at the DSNA-20 & SHEL-9 dual conference held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (CA) on 5 June 2015.
  • Tino Oudesluijs – “Travel and migration in fifteenth-century Coventry: moving about during the Wars of the Roses”, presented at the Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World conference held at the University of Bangor (UK) on 3 September 2015.
  • Tino Oudesluijs – “Middle English dialect features in Medieval Coventry”, presented at the interdisciplinary perspectives on the north of England in the later Middle Ages workshop at the University of Lausanne (CH) on 7 September 2015.

2014

  • Moragh Gordon – “Bristol texts in the light of Standardisation, 1400-1700”, presented at the Southern Englishes Workshop at the University of Brighton (UK) on 8 March 2014.
  • Anita Auer – “Strangers and aliens in Early Modern England“ (keynote speech), presented at the conference HiSoN 2014: Historical Discourses on Language and Power at Sheffield University (UK) from 6-8 February 2014.

2013

  • Anita Auer – “Third person singular present tense markers: evidence from Early Modern Norwich and York”, presented at the symposium Historical Perspectives on English Urban Vernaculars at Utrecht University (NL), 16 November 2013.
  • Tamara Peeters – “The Norwich Book of orders: content and context”, presented at the symposium Historical Perspectives on English Urban Vernaculars at Utrecht University (NL), 16 November 2013.
  • Moragh Gordon – “Early Modern Bristol and the world: trade and migration”, presented at the symposium Historical Perspectives on English Urban Vernaculars at Utrecht University (NL), 16 November 2013.
  • Anita Auer & Moragh Gordon – “English Urban Vernaculars, 1400-1700” (work-in-progress report), presented at the ICAME conference at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 22-26 May 2013.
  • Anita Auer – “Urban Vernaculars and the Development of Standard English”, presented at the Department of English Languages and Literatures of the University of Berne (Switzerland), 2 May 2013.

2012

  • Anita Auer – “Socio-economic history and language change: Urbanisation in England, 1400-1700”, presented at the Seminar of the Economic and Social History group, Utrecht University (NL), 13 December 2012.
  • Anita Auer – “Migration, Trade and Language Change in Early Modern England”, presented at the Center for Early Modern Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison (US), 25 October 2012.