{"id":3420,"date":"2026-04-26T01:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narnihs.org\/?page_id=3420"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:31:56","slug":"program-2026-incubator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/narnihs.org\/?page_id=3420","title":{"rendered":"Program: 2026 Incubator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Official Program for the
2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics <\/strong><\/span>
2026 Research Incubator<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
07-09 May 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Entirely online via video-conference!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

All NARNiHS members welcome!  Not a NARNiHS member yet?<\/strong>
Follow these easy instructions to sign up for membership: https:\/\/narnihs.org\/?page_id=2<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Thursday, 07 May 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 all baseline times are U.S. Eastern Time<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

08:30-09:00  (05:30-06:00 Seattle ; 14:30-15:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Zoom room open for casual conversation<\/strong>
8:55 \u2013 Opening remarks<\/strong> \u2013 Joshua Bousquette, NARNiHS Convenor<\/em><\/p>\n

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Session 1:  Conflict and Contact; Change and Resilience<\/span>
Moderator:  Joshua Bousquette \u2013 University of Georgia, USA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

09:00-09:30  (06:00-06:30 Seattle ; 15:00-15:30 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
The Arrival of Southern English in Oklahoma<\/strong>
\u2013 Andrew Chase Carter \u2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA<\/em><\/p>\n

09:30-10:00  (06:30-07:00 Seattle ; 15:30-16:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
The Gates of Verbal Mistreatment: The Sociopragmatics of Conflict Discourse in the Talmud<\/strong>
\u2013 RB Perelmutter and Bogi Perelmutter \u2013 University of Kansas, USA<\/em><\/p>\n

10:00-10:30  (07:00-07:30 Seattle ; 16:00-16:30 Brussels)<\/em><\/span>
Definiteness in motion: DP variation and scribal influence in Medieval Latin Hagiography<\/strong>
\u2013 Francesca Digiaro \u2013 Universiteit Gent, Belgium<\/em><\/p>\n

10:30-11:00  (07:30-08:00 Seattle ; 16:30-17:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00-12:00  (08:00-09:00 Seattle ; 17:00-18:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Incubation of ideas from the panel<\/strong> – collaborative brainstorming and collective discussion
\u2013 [1 hour] led by: Joshua Bousquette \u2013 University of Georgia, USA<\/em><\/p>\n

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Session 2:  Orality, Discourse, and Social Meaning<\/span>
Moderator:  Mark Richard Lauersdorf \u2013 University of Kentucky, USA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

12:00-12:30  (09:00-09:30 Seattle ; 18:00-18:30 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Reconstructing speaker biographies through oral language data<\/strong>
\u2013 Tobias Weber and Emily Brown \u2013 GESIS (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences), Germany; California State University, Fullerton, USA<\/em><\/p>\n

12:30-13:00  (09:30-10:00 Seattle ; 18:30-19:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Can You Document Language Death in Public Digital Spaces? : Indo-Portuguese Creole on YouTube as a Historical Sociolinguistic Corpus<\/strong>
\u2013 Meenakshi Rajeev \u2013 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India<\/em><\/p>\n

13:00-13:30  (10:00-10:30 Seattle ; 19:00-19:30 Madrid)<\/em><\/span>
From Prestige to Obsolescence: The Life Cycle of Tap [\u027e] in RP over a Century<\/strong>
\u2013 Delia Belando \u2013 Universidad de Murcia, Spain<\/em><\/p>\n

13:30-14:00  (10:30-11:00 Seattle ; 19:30-20:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

14:00-15:00  (11:00-12:00 Seattle ; 20:00-21:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Incubation of ideas from the panel<\/strong> – collaborative brainstorming and collective discussion
\u2013 [1 hour] led by: Mark Richard Lauersdorf \u2013 University of Kentucky, USA<\/em><\/p>\n

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Friday, 08 May 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 all baseline times are U.S. Eastern Time<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

08:30-09:00  (05:30-06:00 Seattle ; 14:30-15:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Zoom room open for casual conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Session 3:  Social Change and (Competing) Language Norms<\/span>
Moderator:  Anna Havinga \u2013 University of Bristol, England<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

09:00-09:30  (06:00-06:30 Seattle ; 15:00-15:30 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Final Fortition in Polish-American English in Trempealeau County, WI<\/strong>
\u2013 Calvin Kosmatka \u2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA<\/em><\/p>\n

09:30-10:00  (06:30-07:00 Seattle ; 15:30-16:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Demographics of Vernacularization in Early Modern Book Printing in Europe 1450-1830<\/strong>
\u2013 Peeter Tinits \u2013 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany<\/em><\/p>\n

10:00-10:30  (07:00-07:30 Seattle ; 16:00-16:30 Berlin ; 17:00-17:30 L’viv)<\/em><\/span>
Competing Pre-Soviet and Soviet Norms in Ukrainian Feminisation: Language Contact and Diaspora Standardisation in the 20th Century<\/strong>
\u2013 Olena Synchak \u2013 Department of Slavic Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Austria<\/em><\/p>\n

10:30-11:00  (07:30-08:00 Seattle ; 16:30-17:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00-12:00  (08:00-09:00 Seattle ; 17:00-18:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Incubation of ideas from the panel<\/strong> – collaborative brainstorming and collective discussion
\u2013 [1 hour] led by: Anna Havinga \u2013 University of Bristol, England<\/em><\/p>\n

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Session 4:  Immediacy and Distance \u2013 Examining our Sources of Data
Moderated Meta-Discussion<\/em><\/span>
Moderator:  Mark Richard Lauersdorf \u2013 University of Kentucky, USA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

12:00-13:30  (09:00-10:30 Seattle ; 18:00-19:30 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Panelists:<\/strong>
Joshua Bousquette \u2013 University of Georgia, USA
Angela Hoffman \u2013 Uppsala universitet, Sweden
\u2013 Discussants \u2013 the assembled audience<\/em><\/p>\n

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Saturday, 09 May 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 all baseline times are U.S. Eastern Time<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

08:30-09:00  (05:30-06:00 Seattle ; 14:30-15:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Zoom room open for casual conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Session 5:  Words and their Meaning in Social\/Historical Context<\/span>
Moderator:  Joe Salmons \u2013 University of Wisconsin-Madision, USA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

09:00-09:30  (06:00-06:30 Seattle ; 15:00-15:30 Berlin ; 18:30-19:00 Hyderabad)<\/em><\/span>
A Historical Sociolinguistic Approach for Analysing the Lexicon of Anglo-Indian English<\/strong>
\u2013 Smita Joseph \u2013 The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India<\/em><\/p>\n

09:30-10:00  (06:30-07:00 Seattle ; 15:30-16:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Haushalter or Boss: language use among Hutterites in reference to community management<\/strong>
\u2013 Cameron Wollmann \u2013 Independent Scholar, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

10:00-10:30  (07:00-07:30 Seattle ; 16:00-16:30 Berlin ; 17:00-17:30 Tel Aviv)<\/em><\/span>
From Kinship Terms to Onomastic Morphemes: Semantic Bleaching, Cliticization, and Orthographic Fusion in Phoenician Personal Names<\/strong>
\u2013 Tal Bernstein, Letizia Cerqueglini, Shai Gordin \u2013 Tel Aviv University (2x), Israel; Ariel University, Israel<\/em><\/p>\n

10:30-11:00  (07:30-08:00 Seattle ; 16:30-17:00 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Ope, You Want a Brat, or No?: Performing Wisconsin English<\/strong>
\u2013 Tia Sadlon \u2013 University of Edinburgh, Scotland<\/em><\/p>\n

11:00-11:30  (08:00-08:30 Seattle ; 17:00-17:30 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:30-12:30  (08:30-09:30 Seattle ; 17:30-18:30 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Incubation of ideas from the panel<\/strong> – collaborative brainstorming and collective discussion
\u2013 [1 hour] led by: Joe Salmons \u2013 University of Wisconsin-Madision, USA<\/em><\/p>\n

12:30-12:35  (09:30-09:35 Seattle ; 18:30-18:35 Berlin)<\/em><\/span>
Closing remarks<\/strong> \u2013 Joshua Bousquette \u2013 NARNiHS Convenor<\/em><\/p>\n

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Official Program for the2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 2026 Research Incubator07-09 May 2026 Entirely online via video-conference! All NARNiHS members welcome!  Not a NARNiHS member yet?Follow these easy instructions to sign up for membership: https:\/\/narnihs.org\/?page_id=2 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Thursday, 07 May 2026 \u2013 all baseline times are U.S. Eastern Time 08:30-09:00  (05:30-06:00 Seattle … <\/p>\n

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