On Saturday, 16 November 2013 the symposium ‘Historical perspectives on English urban vernaculars’ will be held at Utrecht University.
The programme of this one-day event can be found below:
| 9.30-10.00 | Welcome and coffee |
| 10.00-10.15 | Introduction (Anita Auer) |
| 10.15-10.45 | Kjetil Thengs (University of Stavanger) |
| The traces of vernacular literacy: mapping Middle English written variation | |
| 10.45-11.15 | Moragh Gordon (Utrecht University) |
| Early Modern Bristol and the world: trade and migration | |
| 11.15-11.45 | Coffee break |
| 11.45-12.15 | Tamara Peeters (Utrecht University) |
| The Norwich Book of orders: content and context | |
| 12.15-12.45 | Peter Trudgill (University of Agder) |
| Norwich as a trilingual city | |
| 12.45-14.15 | Lunch break |
| 14.15-14.45 | Anita Auer (Utrecht University) |
| Third person singular present tense markers: evidence from Early Modern Norwich and York | |
| 14.45-15.15 | Marcelle Cole (Leiden University) |
| Morphosyntactic variation and competing agreement systems | |
| 15.15-15.45 | Julia Fernández Cuesta (University of Seville) |
| Wills and testaments as evidence for sociolinguistic analysis: supralocalisation processes in two corpora of wills from 16th-century northern England | |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee break |
| 16.15-16.45 | Laura Wright (Cambridge University) |
| On the names of some 17th-century London rookeries (slums): data and methodology | |
| 16.45-17.15 | Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield) |
| Double Standards? Court vs City in Early Modern London | |
| 17.15-17.45 | Final discussion and closing of the symposium |
| 17.45-19.00 | Drinks |
Venue
The symposium will be held at the Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, 3512 BR Utrecht, which lies in the centre of Utrecht.
Contact
For more information about the symposium (as well as travel and accommodation details), please contact us at info@emergingstandards.eu.
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