Papers presented
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Events organised
- The conference Mobility, variability and changing literacies in Modern times was held at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) from 11-13 June 2014.
- The one-day symposium “Historical perspectives on English urban vernaculars” was held at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) on 16 November 2013.
Publications
- Auer, Anita & Marcel Withoos (2013) “Social Stratification and Stylistic Choices in Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1600)”, in Dirk Delabastita & Ton Hoenselaars (eds.) Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Special Issue English Text Construction 6.1).