Official Program for the
2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator
North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
2020 Research Incubator
Now taking place via online video-conference!
[originally co-located at KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference – University of Kentucky]
Friday Morning, 17 April 2020 – all times are U.S. Eastern Time
Indexicality and identity in Historical Sociolinguistics
Chair: Nandi Sims, The Ohio State University
9:30 – Linguistic (dis)continuity, politics, and identity in fifteenth-century Valencia: The Wrath of the Peasants and the Catalan language
Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Hofstra University
10:00 – Actors and Events: Racialized Semantic Intensity Over Time
Kelly Elizabeth Wright, University of Michigan
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Collaborative Brainstorming and Collective Discussion (incubation of ideas from the panel)
led by Nandi Sims – The Ohio State University (1 hour)
Friday Afternoon, 17 April 2020 – all times are U.S. Eastern Time
The Historical Sociolinguistics of language contact
Chair: Donald Tuten, Emory University
2:00 – Historical insights in the study of language contact phenomena: variation and change in the Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca
Andrés Enrique-Αrias, Universitat de les Illes Balears
2:30 – Exploring the role of young children as sociohistorical agents of language change
Israel Sanz, West Chester University & María Irene Moyna, Texas A&M University
3:00 – Category-specific coordinating conjunctions in a Germanic language
Αriana Bancu, Northeastern Illinois University
3:30 – Coffee Break
4:00 – Collaborative Brainstorming and Collective Discussion (incubation of ideas from the panel)
led by Donald Tuten, Emory University (1 hour)
Saturday Morning, 18 April 2020 – all times are U.S. Eastern Time
The Historical Sociolinguistics of chronologically remote environments
Chair: Kelly Wright, University of Michigan
9:00 – Prerequisites for a historical sociolinguistics of ancient Mayan hieroglyphic texts
David Mora-Marín, University of North Carolina – Chapell Hill
9:30 – The scribe’s imprint on medieval Arabic manuscripts from the western Islamic world
Estefanía Valenzuela Mochón, University of Texas – Austin
10:00 – The generalized compound pluperfect as an areal feature
William Balla-Johnson, The Ohio State University
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Collaborative Brainstorming and Collective Discussion (incubation of ideas from the panel)
led by Kelly Wright, University of Michigan, (1 hour)