NARNiHS special session at NWAV 49
University of Texas at Austin – 19-24 October 2021
Saturday, 23 October 2021
NOTE: All times listed are U.S. Central Time (UTC -5:00)
Pre-recorded presentation videos: https://narnihs.org/media/NWAV49/
Historical Sociolinguistics: Variations in Methodologies
10:55-11:00
Introduction of the panel
-Sandrine Tailleur, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, and Nandi Sims, Florida International University
11:00-11:10
“A diachronic study of Dutch verbal cluster order: Evaluating the interaction between linguistic and sociolinguistic variables” [live lightning talk]
– Julie Van Ongeval and Rik Vosters, both Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
11:10-11:20
“Syntactic alternations and audience design: The case of asyndetic complementation in the history of Spanish (15th-18th century)” [discussion of pre-recorded video]
– Giulia Mazzola and Bert Cornillie, both KU Leuven, and Malte Rosemeyer, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
11:20-11:30
“Quotation beyond ‘be like’: Indirect reporting over time” [live lightning talk]
– Alexandra D’Arcy, University of Victoria, and Ildara Enríquez García, Independent Scholar.
11:30-11:40
“Within and beyond futurity: A longitudinal analysis of will and be going to” [live lightning talk]
– Tomoharu Hirota, University of British Columbia.
11:40-11:55
General discussion and Q&A
11:55-12:00
Introduction of the second group of presentations
-Sandrine Tailleur, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, and Nandi Sims, Florida International University
12:00-12:10
“The relationship between prescription and praxis: Towards a systematic account for Dutch” [discussion of pre-recorded video]
– Eline Lismont, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Leiden University, Gijsbert Rutten,
Leiden University, and Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
12:10-12:20
“Contact-induced grammatical change in Early Modern Icelandic: The loss of the dual” [live lightning talk]
– Thórhallur Eythórsson and Heimir F. Viðarsson, both University of Island.
12:20-12:30
“Language shift in a microcosm: Finnish-English bilingualism, contact, and substrate effects in Sointula, British Columbia” [discussion of pre-recorded video]
– Mirva Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Marisa Brook, University of Toronto.
12:30-12:40
” ‘We are all in a feirfull ferment, quhich I pray most ceis’ – Scots in correspondence at the turn of the 18th Century” [live lightning talk]
– Sarah van Eyndhoven, University of Edinburgh.
12:40-12:55
General discussion and Q&A
See the full NWAV 49 program and download the NWAV 49 PDF Abstract Booklet.