Break: Walk over to the “Promotiezaal”, Naamsestraat 22, 3000 Leuven

Brinton, Laurel (University of British Columbia) “Take my advice for what it’s worth”: The rise of parenthetical for what it’s worth

Rütten , Tanja (University of Cologne) The English imperative – from verb- to clause-level mood marker

How weird are teenagers ? Variation and change in the use of noun-name collocations

Shibasaki , Reijirou (Meiji University) Diachronic aspects of shell noun constructions: With a focus on the bottom line is (that)

"Because her Majesty said...": Agency, power and reported speech in Early Modern Correspondence

On the role of frequency in the grammatical constructionalization of the passive construction

Is retrievability a guarantee for omission? A look into the recent history of contextual object deletion in American English

The pragmatic functions of I say and I tell (you) in Early Modern English dialogues

The creation of pseudo-archaisms in the 18 th Century: A linguistic study of Thomas Chatterton’s Rowley Poems

Entrenchment in historical corpora? Reconstructing dead authors’ minds from their usage profiles

Frequency measures and collocations in grammaticalisation

The reduced definite article th ’ in the sixteenth century and the definiteness cycle

Reporting clauses in 18th and 19th century English: A diachronic study of past tense I said and historic present I says

It is common in several of the pro-vincial dialects of England: English regional material in John Russell Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms

Relating language change to language processing: A second look at asymmetric priming

Reported speech verbs and semantic/pragmatic change: quethen , quoth , quote

Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved: On the development of WILL and SHALL in Older Scots

Towards a theory of historical psycho-linguistics: The position of adverbial clauses in Early Modern English

The spread of (in)definiteness mark­ing in Early English: Reconstructing category emergence in the lab

Speech, thought and writing presen-tation in medieval history writing

The present participle mark- ing in Northern Middle English: A corpus study

The function(s) of the have -perfect in Old English

A comparison between the Finns-burg fragment and the Finnsburg episode: An information structural approach

Huber, Judith (LMU Munich) Non -motion verbs in the intransitive motion construction in the history of English

Klemola , Juhani (University of Tampere) More on the origin of passive get

Syntactic dislocation in English con-gregational song between 1500 and 1900: A corpus-based study

The rise of epistemic meaning: A corpus-based perspective on subjectification

Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice.

Left-dislocated noun phrases in the recent history of English: Evolution, genre distribution and discourse functions

A diachronic investigation of eviden-tiality and genre variation in English

Strong Class III verbs in time and space

Cognitive approaches to the hi story of English

Null subjects in Old English: A case of diatopic variaton?

(W)ho, w(h)en, w(h)ere, and w(h)at? The eighteenth-century pronunciation of ‘wh’

Third-person present singular verb inflection in Early Modern English: New evidence from speech-related texts

Ogura, Mieko 1 ,2 & Willliam S-Y. Wang 2 ( 1 Linguistics Laboratory, Tsurumi University, Yokohama, 2 Joint Research Centre for Language and Human Complexity, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Calamities and counterfactuals: A historical view of polarity reversal

Contingent polysemy and discursive thresholds: Toward a sociohistorical framework for semantic change

On the history of word clipping: aphesis, syncope, apocope

Negation, grammaticalization and subjectification: The development of polar, modal and mirative no way -constructions

Some notes on Chaucer’s metrics

Cleft constructions in 18th and 19th century spoken English: A historical sociolinguistic study based on the Old Bailey Corpus

The paths and pace of deverbal derivation in the earliest quotations of the Oxford English Dictionary

Reciprocal strategies in Middle English: The development of each other or the like.

Instances of phonological weight-sensitivity in Early Middle English poetry

The rise of the English language in Ireland

Alternative approaches on produc-tivity for the Old English affixes -isc, -cund, -ful and ful - .

The unmarking markers, or variable gender in the Old English gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels revisited

Marit Westergaard (University of Tromsø) ‒ Gradualness vs. abruptness in acquisition and change

Charles Boberg (McGill University, Montreal) ‒ Flanders Fields and the consolidation of Canadian English

From spatial adjunct to degree mod-ifier: On the development of the intensifier function of 'out'-adverbs

Welna , Jerzy (University of Warsaw) On the competition of two inten-sifiers: ME full and very

On MV/VM order in Old English long-line poetry

Old English ead in Anglo-Saxon given names: A comparative approach to the Anglo-Saxon anthroponomy

Mortal lazy and deadly curious: Some diachronic notes on the intensifiers mortal and deadly

The get -passive in nineteenth-century English: Corpus analysis and prescriptive comments

Heaven and earth: Some meta-phorical connections

English morphosyntax from the northern perspective: The resilience of the Northern Subject Rule

The ebb and flow of historical variants of betwixt and between

Late Modern English grammar writing and the aspectual restriction on the progressive

From spatial concepts to time in the history of English: Continuity and remoteness in time ‒ Metonymy and metaphor

The Northern Subject Rule in Northern and Midlands Middle English dialects: Adding be to a picture of morphosyntactic dialect variation

On the relation between degree modifying and focusing adjective uses: The case of sure and true

Velarisation of /l/ in the history of English

‘The wickede secte of Saracenys’: Lexico-semantic means of creating religious diversity in texts from the Middle English Period

The lexical field of INTELLECT in Old and Middle English: A pilot study

Peter Grund (University of Kansas) ‒ Identifying stances: The (re)construction of strategies and practices of stance in a historical community

Gardner, Anne (University of Zurich), Hundt, Marianne (University of Zurich), Kindlimann , Moira (University of Zurich) ‒ Towards the digitisation of the Lady Mary Hamilton archive (letters and diaries)

Schneider, Gerold (University of Zurich), Hundt, Marianne (University of Zurich) ‒ Part-of-speech annotation in historical corpora: Comparative evaluation of tagger output

From quantifiers to focus adverbs: The developments of mostly and at least

Online collaborative corpus annotation: Extending the Old Bailey Corpus one trial at a time

Abbreviating Lydgate: Ideographic symbols in two manuscripts of the Troybook and The Siege of Thebes

Think in Old and Middle English

The increasingly marked status of non-subjects in initial position after the loss of verb second

Suhr , Carla (University of Turku) Relations and news : Textual labels in the titles of early modern news pamphlets

Diversity between panels of the Franks Casket: Spelling and runic paleography

Binomials in English novels of the late modern period: Fixedness, formulaicity and style

Part Three: Early and Late Modern English

Which comes first in the double object construction?

The V-2 Phenomenon in Old English and Old High German translations

Linguistic appropriation of slang in historical context(s)

Old problems and new solutions in English runology: Thorn, eoh, and the duplex runes

Rutkowska , Hanna (University of Poznan) Binomials in several editions of an early modern almanac

The development of the “causative V- ing ” target=“_blank”construction in American English

“Where did these Midland forms come from?”: A dialectological study of the Voigts-Sloane Group of ME medical and alchemical manuscripts

Caxton’s use of binomials for printing or translation?

Syntactic variation and change relating to causative make in early Modern English

Correlative constructions in earlier English: The þa … þa construction

Genre analysis of Old English legal writing: Focus on wills

Standardisation and the Auchinleck manuscript

Part Two: Middle English and Early Modern English

Headless free relatives and resumption in Old English

Profiling stylistic change using instructional writing on horses: The case of reader orientation

A Tretys of Goostely Batayle: One scribe facing more Middle English dialects

Features of word pairs in Old English poetry

Old ‘truths’, new corpora: Old English conjunct clauses revisited

“Dispensers of knowledge”: An early investigation into nineteenth-century popular(ized) science

Binomials or not? A study of double glosses in Farman’s glosses to the Rushworth Gospels

Cognate object constructions in Early Modern English: The case of Tyndale’s New Testament

The simultaneity AS construction from Old English to Middle English

Persuasion in early medicine: Ethos, pathos and logos in Early Modern English recipes

The pragmatic functions of code-switching in Early Modern English school drama

On the time-depth and social conditioning of binomials: The example of to have and to hold

All for one and one for all: the formation, evolution and functions of Modern English ing -clauses

Subordinate clauses in selected Old English translations

Code-switching and script-switching in Early Modern English letters

Part One: General and Old English

Measures in medieval English recipes – culinary vs. medical

He luuede abstinenciam: Code-switching and language-mixing in post-Conquest texts

Thursday 17 July

Room: MSI 02.28 Room: MSI 01.28 Room: MSI 00.08 Room: MSI 00.20 Room: MSI 00.28

Lexicology & Language contact chair: Jerzy Nykiel Pragmatics & Genre chair: Daniela Landert Syntax & Modality chair: Peter Petré VP syntax chair: Lilo Moessner Workshop 4 (De)Transitivization: Processes of argument augmentation and reduction in the history of English

9.00-9.30 Lass, Roger & Laing, Margaret (University of Edinburgh) On Middle English she, sho: A refurbished narrative [1/2] Salmi, Hanna (University of Turku) Features of verbal conflict in early English debate poetry Chankova, Yana (South-West University 'N. Rilski') Generating V fin -IO(Dat)-V non -fin -DO(Acc) and V fin -DO(Acc)-V non -fin -IO(Dat) orders in Old English and Old Icelandic Eitelmann, Matthias (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz) & Haumann, Dagmar (University of Agder, Kristiansand) Processes of argument augmentation and reduction in the history of English

9.30-10.00 Lass, Roger & Laing, Margaret (University of Edinburgh) On Middle English she, sho: A refurbished narrative [2/2] Williams, Graham (University of Sheffield) More cutting than the sword: Verbal irony and 'civilizing trends' of power in medieval Englishes Yanagi, Tomohiro Movability of dative-marked objects of transitive adjectives in Old English Zehentner, Eva (University of Vienna) On privative verbs and the double object construction in Middle English Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg) The emergence of English reflexive verbs: An analysis based on the Oxford English Dictionary

10.00-10.30 Alcorn, Rhona (University of Edinburgh) How ‘them’ could have been ‘his’ Bös, Birte (University of Duisburg-Essen) Verbal misconduct through the lens of Victorian London newspapers Van Gelderen, Elly (Arizona State University) Psych-verbs in the history of English: The reanalysis of argument structure Bemposta-Rivas, Sofia (University of Vigo) I didn't dare to make the smallest repartee, I need hardly tell you: A corpus-based study of the infinitival complements governed by need and dare in the recent history of English Mondorf, Britta (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz) On the relation between verb entrenchment and detransitivization

10.30-11.00 Marcelle Cole (Leiden University) Where did THEY come from? A native origin for THEY, THEIR, THEM. Leitner, Magdalena (University of Glasgow) Slander, cursing and verbal aggression in 16th-/17th-century Scottish court-records Parra-Guinaldo, Víctor (American University of Sharjah, UAE) The linguistic cycle: A re-exam-ination of Old English hwæðer ‘whether’ Shank, Christopher (Bangor University), Plevoets, Koen (University of Ghent) Structural features as predictors for that/zero variation in mental state verbs (MSVs): A diachronic corpus based multivariate analysis. Möhlig-Falke, Ruth (University of Heidelberg) Constructional loss and changes in verbal argument structure: The case of the early English impersonal construction

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

chair: Louise Sylvester chair: Minako Nakayasu chair: Daniela Kolbe-Hanna

11.30-12.00 Pons-Sanz, Sara M. (University of Westminster) Anger, fear and amusement: The lexico-semantic field of emotions in the Ormulum Ingham, Richard (Birmingham City University) Prosodic movement and emphatic focus in Late Middle English Elenbaas, Marion (Leiden University) Valency effects in English verb-particle and light verb constructions (and what it tells us about grammaticalisation

12.00-12.30 Lutz, Angelika (University of Erlangen) The survival of Norse loans into Middle English and their infiltration of late medieval London English Breitbarth, Anne (Ghent University) The development of ‘conditional’ should in English Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KU Leuven) Typological profiling: analyticity versus syntheticity between Middle English and Present-Day English Rohdenburg, Günter (University of Paderborn) On the differential evolution of simple and complex object constructions in English

12.30-13.00 Keller, Jonas (University of Zurich) Semi-Communication and the Lexicon. Leipzig-Jakarta Lists for Old English and Old Norse Haeberli, Eric (University of Geneva), Ihsane, Tabea (University of Geneva) The History of English Auxiliaries: Evidence from Adverb Placement Gonzalez-Diaz, Victorina (University of Liverpool) “Dyvers heynous sedicious and sclanderous Writinges”: Adjective stacking in the English NP Concluding discussion

13.00-14.30 Lunch (Alma student restaurant)

chair: Raymond Hickey chair: Tanja Rütten chair: Patricia Ronan

14.30-15.00 Durkin, Philip (Oxford English Dictionary) & Allan, Kathryn (University College London) Moving beyond date of first attestation and language of origin: Examining the impact of loanwords on a lexical field in Early Modern English Anna Wojtyś (Univerisity of Warsaw) Tracing an obsolete preterite-present verb: the fates of OE *dugan Thim, Stefan (University of Vienna) New native prefixes in Middle English

15.00-15.30 McColl Millar, Robert (University of Aberdeen) Near-relative contact: Causes for the development of Middle English Kaita, Kousuke A study on Old English dugan: Its potential for auxiliation Tanabe, Harumi (Seikei University) Phrasal verbs as an alternative to prefixed verbs in Middle English?

15.30-16.00 Cloutier, Robert A. (University of Amsterdam) The Celtic influence on the Old English beon on V-unge construction re-evaluated Tomaszewska, Magdalena (University of Warsaw) On the status of *magan in Old English Smitterberg, Erik (Uppsala University) Particle placement in nineteenth-century English: A multi-factorial study

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.30 Plenary talk (Room: MSI 03.18) María José López-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela) ‒ On structural hypercharacterization: Some examples from the history of English syntax chair: Hubert Cuyckens