Official Program for the
2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator
North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
2025 Research Incubator
25-27 April 2025
Entirely online via video-conference!
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Friday, 25 April 2025 – all baseline times are U.S. Eastern Time
08:30-09:00 (05:30-06:00 Seatle ; 14:30-15:00 Madrid)
Zoom room open for casual conversation
8:55 Opening remarks: Kelly Elizabeth Wright | NARNiHS Convenor
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Session 1: Representing People and Place
Chair: Carolina Amador-Moreno, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
09:00-09:30 (06:00-06:30 Seattle ; 15:00-15:30 Palma)
Towards a historical sociolinguistics of medieval Spanish: the Historical Atlas of Spanish
– Andrés Enrique-Arias – University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
09:30-10:00 (06:30-07:00 Seattle ; 15:30-16:00 Sarajevo)
The manifestations of face and the speech act of request in medieval diplomatic discourse
– Ana Lalíc – University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
10:00-10:30 (07:00-07:30 Seattle ; 16:00-16:30 Brussels)
Bridging Dialect and Language Contact Approaches: A Sociolinguistic Study of Fin-de-Siècle Brussels (1865-1914)
– Emma Lambrecht – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
10:30-11:00 (07:30-08:00 Seattle ; 16:30-17:00 Madrid)
Break
11:00-12:00 (08:00-09:00 Seattle ; 17:00-18:00 Madrid)
Incubation of ideas from the panel – collaborative brainstorming and collective discussion
– [1 hour] led by: Carolina Amador-Moreno
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Session 2: Quantifying Ideology
Chair: Kelly Elizabeth Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
12:00-12:30 (09:00-09:30 Seattle ; 18:00-18:30 Flensburg)
Future teachers’ perception(s) of language in the 19th century Duchy of Schleswig
– Andre Hermann – Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany
12:30-13:00 (09:30-10:00 Seattle ; 18:30-19:00 Madrid)
Zooming In, Zooming Out: The Spread of Linguistic Variables in Epigraphic Mayan Seen from Multiple Perspectives
– David Mora-Marín – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
13:00-13:30 (10:00-10:30 Berkeley ; 19:00-19:30 Madrid)
A Feature-Set Analysis of Mark Twain’s Epistolary Corpus
– Madeleine Strait – University of California, Berkeley, USA
13:30-14:00 (10:30-11:00 Seattle ; 19:30-20:00 Madrid)
Break
14:00-15:00 (11:00-12:00 Seattle ; 20:00-21:00 Madrid)
Incubation of ideas from the panel – collaborative brainstorming and collective discussion
– [1 hour] led by: Kelly Elizabeth Wright
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Saturday, 26 April 2025 – all baseline times are U.S. Eastern Time
Session 3: Roundtable – Why Does Historical Sociolinguistics Matter?
Discussant: Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
09:00-10:30 (06:00-07:30 Seattle ; 15:00-16:30 Madrid ; 16:00-17:30 Åland)
Panelists:
Laura Moquin – University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
David Mora-Marín – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Sandrine Tailleur – Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
10:30-11:00 (07:30-08:00 Seattle ; 16:30-17:00 Madrid)
Break
Session 4: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints
Chair: Mark Richard Lauersdorf, University of Kentucky, USA
11:00-11:30 (08:00-08:30 Seattle ; 10:00-10:30 Urbana-Champaign ; 17:00-17:30 Madrid)
Tracing discourses of deviance: Media narratives of (homo)sexuality in Montreal after the Quebec Quiet Revolution (1969-1977)
– Robin Turner – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
11:30-12:00 (08:30-09:00 Seattle ; 17:30-18:00 Madrid)
Looking back on Acadian French: Variation in preverbal negation and first-person plural reference
– Philip Comeau – Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
12:00-12:30 (09:00-09:30 Seattle ; 11:00-11:30 Central ; 18:00-18:30 Madrid)
Liturgy and Language Change: Translated Ritual Speech in Colonial Poqom
– James Tandy – Independent Scholar, USA
12:30-13:00 (09:30-10:00 Seattle ; 18:30-19:00 Madrid)
Break
13:00-14:00 (10:00-11:00 Madison ; 19:00-20:00 Madrid)
Incubation of ideas from the panel – collaborative brainstorming and collective discussion
– [1 hour] led by: Mark Richard Lauersdorf
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Sunday, 27 April 2025 – all baseline times are U.S. Eastern Time
Session 5: Mixed Methods for the Analysis of Variation
Chair: Joshua Bousquette, University of Georgia, USA
09:00-09:30 (06:00-06:30 Seattle ; 15:00-15:30 Jean)
Convergence of Standard Ukrainian Varieties in XX Century
– Natalia Cheilytko – Friedrich Schiller University, Germany
09:30-10:00 (06:30-07:00 Seattle ; 15:30-16:00 Zürich)
Th-Stopping in Anglo-Canadians and NunatuKavut Communities: A Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective
– Vicky Loras – University of Zurich, Switzerland
10:00-10:30 (07:00-07:30 Victoria ; 16:00-16:30 Madrid)
“I think they said that Cedar Hill was the original Mount Doug…”: Sociolinguistic Variation Over Time in English Evidential Verbs
– Jamie Buckley – University of Victoria, Canada
10:30-11:00 (07:30-08:00 Seattle ; 16:30-17:00 Madrid)
Break
11:00-12:00 (08:00-09:00 Seattle ; 17:00-18:00 Madrid)
Incubation of ideas from the panel – collaborative brainstorming and collective discussion
– [1 hour] led by: Joshua Bousquette
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Session 6: Illustrative Text Types
Chair: Aaron Yamada, Louisiana State University, USA
12:00-12:30 (09:00-09:30 Seattle ; 18:00-18:30 Gent)
Language and society in ancient comedy: sociolinguistic perspectives on conversational strategies (Pseudolus 574-594, 1246-1270; Adelphoe 88-97)
– Veronica Papotti – Universiteit Gent, Belgium
12:30-13:00 (09:30-10:00 Seattle ; 18:30-19:00 Gent)
Ancient Greek Dialects through the Lens of Third-Wave Sociolinguistics
– Dalia Pratali Maffei – Universiteit Gent, Belgium
13:00-13:30 (10:00-10:30 Seattle ; 19:00-19:30 Madrid)
Break
13:30-14:30 (10:30-11:30 Seattle ; 19:30-20:30 Madrid)
Incubation of ideas from the panel – collaborative brainstorming and collective discussion
– [1 hour] led by: Aaron Yamada