NARNiHS @ SHEL-12

North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) at
Studies in the Historical of the English Language (SHEL-12)

University of Washington – 19-21 May 2022

Official SHEL-12 website:  https://depts.washington.edu/shel12/
Complete SHEL-12 program:  https://depts.washington.edu/shel12/program/

NARNiHS Sessions
Thursday, 19 May 2022

Session 2B | HUB 334
Historical Sociolingustics I
10:45 am – 12:15 pm

Chair: Mark Richard Lauersdorf, University of Kentucky (NARNiHS)

Approaching the History of English “from below”: The Value of Late Modern English Pauper Petitions
Anita Auer, Anne-Christine Gardner, Mark Iten, University of Lausanne

Reconsidering the Role of Race in Historical Sociolinguistics Data: Who Gets to Be Minnesotan?
Anna Whitney, University of Michigan

Oral Histories in Dialectology Research: Monophthongal /oʊ/ Among Nordic Americans in Seattle
Julia Thomas Swan, San Jose State University

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Session 3B | HUB 334
Historical Sociolingustics II
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Chair: Mark Richard Lauersdorf, University of Kentucky (NARNiHS)

How to Certify the Truth: Stance, Evidential Verbs, and Intensifying Adverbs in Early and Late Modern English
Peter J. Grund, University of Kansas

Historical retention or 20th century revival? Canadian evidence for the rise of gotten in North America
Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto

Historical Folk Linguistics: Shakespeare & Elizabethan linguistic folk belief
Dennis R. Preston, University of Kentucky

Discussion:
Historical sociolinguistics as a field and the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) as a professional support initiative