Official Program for the
2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator
North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
2023 Research Incubator
20-22 April 2023
Entirely online via video-conference!
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Thursday, 20 April 2023 – all baseline times are U.S. Eastern Time
Sociohistorical perspectives on language contact Part 1
Chair: Carolina Amador-Moreno, University of Bergen
09:00-09:25 (08:00-08:25 Madison WI ; 15:00-15:25 Brussels, Madrid)
Automatic analysis of genre variation in historical corpora of Spanish in contact with Catalan
– Thomas Louf; Barbara Montoya; David Sanchez; Ruth Miguel Franco – University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
09:30-09:55 (08:30-08:55 Madison WI ; 15:30-15:55 Brussels, Madrid)
Exploring the Civil War effect abroad: linguistic changes across the lifespan of the Antwerp merchant Andries van der Meulen
– Julie Van Ongeval – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
10:00-10:15 (09:00-09:15 Madison WI ; 16:00-16:15 Brussels, Madrid)
Break
10:15-11:00 (09:15-10:00 Madison WI ; 16:15-17:00 Brussels, Madrid)
Collaborative Brainstorming and Collective Discussion
– incubation of ideas from the panel
Sociohistorical perspectives on language contact Part 2
Chair: Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Hofstra University
12:30-12:55 (11:30-11:55 Madison WI ; 18:30-18:55 Brussels, Madrid)
Seseo in the Spanish of Mallorca: Then and now
– Andrés Enrique-Arias – University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
13:00-13:25 (12:00-12:25 Madison WI ; 19:00-19:25 Brussels, Madrid)
Final stop aspiration: An overlooked contact feature in American Norwegian bilingual English
– Laura Moquin – University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
13:30-13:45 (12:30-12:45 Madison WI ; 19:30-19:45 Brussels, Madrid)
Break
13:45-14:30 (12:45-13:30 Madison WI ; 19:45-20:30 Brussels, Madrid)
Collaborative Brainstorming and Collective Discussion
– incubation of ideas from the panel
Friday, 21 April 2023 – all baseline times are U.S. Eastern Time
Social mobility, ideologies, and identity formation
Chair: Kelly Wright, Virginia Polytechnic University
09:00-09:25 (10:00-10:25 São Paulo ; 15:00-15:25 Madrid, Berlin)
“I have forgotten much of years past but I still yearn towards even the inanimate things of my natal soil”: A historical sociolinguistic analysis of James J. Wright’s letters
– Nancy E. Avila-Ledesma – University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
09:30-09:55 (10:30-10:55 São Paulo ; 15:30-15:55 Madrid, Berlin)
Learning from failure – New approaches to language cartography in the 19th century
– Marlena Jakobs – Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
10:00-10:25 (11:00-11:25 São Paulo ; 16:00-16:25 Madrid, Berlin)
Social mobility and forms of address in Portuguese immigrant letters
– Victor Carreao – State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
10:30-11:00 (11:30-12:00 São Paulo ; 16:30-17:00 Madrid, Berlin)
Break
11:00-12:00 (12:00-13:00 São Paulo ; 17:00-18:00 Madrid, Berlin)
Collaborative Brainstorming and Collective Discussion
– incubation of ideas from the panel
Saturday, 22 April 2023 – all baseline times are U.S. Eastern Time
Morphological, grammatical, and lexical evolutions
Chair: Israel Sanz-Sánchez, West Chester University
09:00-09:25 (16:00-16:25 Bucharest)
Between Folklore and the Literati: A Diachronic View on the Duende
– Ilinca-Simona Ionescu – University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
09:30-09:55 (16:30-16:55 Bucharest)
Beyond the paradigm: Studying Thai pronominal change and expansion through 17-20th century pedagogical materials
– Rikker Dockum; Qiyou Lu – Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA
09:55-10:15 (16:55-17:15 Bucharest)
Break
10:15-11:00 (17:15-18:00 Bucharest)
Collaborative Brainstorming and Collective Discussion
– incubation of ideas from the panel