Conference Agenda

En Route to Change: The Circuitous Pathways of Spontaneous Speech

Shana Poplack

The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame in English Medieval Society and Metalinguistic Reflections on the Incipient Standard

Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Tamara García-Vidal

Franks and Friendship in The Mary Hamilton Papers

Christine Wallis

Is The Mixed Code Transnational? Contact Phenomena In Medieval Business Texts.

Carmela Perta, Valentina Ferrari, Luca Iezzi

The Linguistic Competence Of The New Testament Writers: A Study In Greek-Hebrew Bilingualism

Edoardo Nardi

The Rise and Fall of Sumerian: Genre, Policy, and Language Use in the 3rd Millennium BCE

Seraina Nett

Conceptual Transformation through Translation in the Late Ottoman Empire

Gozde Serteser Bastug

The Historical Sociolinguistics of Ancient Corpus Languages: Sources and Methods for Detecting Language Change from ‘above’ and ‘below’ in Post-Classical Greek

Ezra la Roi

Hellenistic Inscribed Epigrams: Between Supra-regional Regularisation and Regional Influence

Dalia Pratali Maffei

Atticist Syntax: Prescriptive Norms and Language Change

Chiara Monaco

Panel introduction

Peter Dekker, Dirk Pijpops, Bart de Boer

The Best Solution Short of Time Travel: Simulating Sociolinguistic Theories Around Why Belgian Standard Dutch Pronunciation Did Not Follow Netherlandic Innovations

Anthe Sevenants

How Demography Affects the Use of Strong and Weak Past Tense Forms in English, Dutch and German. Evidence from Agent-based Simulation, and Historical Linguistic and Demographic Data.

Dirk Pijpops, Isabeau De Smet, Julie Nijs, Freek Van de Velde

16th-17th Century Ruthenian Between East and West: Competing Models of Linguistic Norms

Simeon Dekker

Multilingual Migrants Writing Late 18th-century Dutch: Features From Below Or From Above?

Marijke van der Wal

300 Years Of Historic Multilingualism In Friedrichstadt – An Overview Into A Language History Between Heaven And Earth

Jan Niklas Heinrich

How the Japanese Honorific System (Keigo) “Descended” to the Earth – On the Actual State of Honorifics, Changes Occurring within This Category and Attitude towards Keigo

Patrycja Agnieszka Duc-Harada

Diachrony of Ryukyuan Verbal Honorifics: a Preliminary Study

Aleksandra Natalia Jarosz

Pronominal terms of address in The Book of Margery Kempe: Variation by social class and gender

Olga Timofeeva

Elite Latin letters: A sociolinguistic analysis of their lexis

Sólveig Hrönn Hilmarsdóttir

Authority in Lorenzo Valla’s (1407-1457) Libri Sex De Elegantia Linguae Latinae

Josey Parker

Discussion

Dalia Pratali Maffei

Modelling the Interaction of Phonological and Analogical Change: Paradigmatic Irregularities in the Old English s-Stems

Jelke Bloem, Arjen Versloot, Elzbieta Adamczyk

An Agent-Based Model of a Forced Choice Task: combining corpus and experimental data with a simulation

Laetitia Van Driessche

Discussion

Peter Dekker, Dirk Pijpops, Bart de Boer

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue?: On the Fate of the Falkland Island Colonial Koine

David Britain, Hannah Hedegard

The Uniformitarian Principle and contact-induced variation: Seseo in the Spanish of Mallorca then and now

Andrés Enrique-Arias

“A’m t’lass…At wesht all t’shift ta hed it world. Wal thagh laid nakt i’ bed”: The Enregistered Dialect Of Yorkshirewomen In 19th Century Dialect Literature

Paul Cooper

Verifying the faithfulness of the portrayal of mid-19th century North Carolina English in Fisher's River, North Carolina: Scenes and Characters by Hardin E. Taliaferro

Radoslaw Dylewski, Zuzanna Witt

Taking a Third-wave Turn on the Study of Intra-speaker Variation and Identity Projection Processes in Historical Sociolinguistics: The Case of Obama

Belén Zapata-Barrero

Attitudes Towards Latinization in Scandinavian Epigraphy

Alessandro Palumbo

Attitudes towards indigenous languages in French Canadian newspapers: the cases of Acadia and Saguenay (1867-1939)

Emilie Urbain, Sandrine Tailleur

Memory and loss. Spoken Languages vs Written Records in a Medieval Corpus of Vernacular Inscriptions (9th-15th c.).

Nadia Cannata

Language Ideologies and Language Shift: Between Multilingualism and “Banal Nationalism” (Migration from the Black Sea to Switzerland in the 1940s)

Natalia Bichurina

Language Data as Ethnographic Resource: A Critical View of the South Estonian Kraasna Data

Tobias Weber

Voices from Oblivion: The Forgotten Richness of Macrosociolinguistic Debates on Language Maintenance and Language Shift

Jeroen Darquennes

Standardization and Linguistic Ideals: Relativizing the Principle of Variation Reduction

Simon Pickl

The Many Layers of Historical Multilingualism: New Empirical Perspectives on Dutch-French Language Contact

Andreas Krogull, Gijsbert Rutten

Dutch-French Language Contact: a Corpus Study of the Influence of French on the Dutch Lexicon and Morphology (1500–1900)

Brenda Assendelft

Exploring historical multilingualism: A historical sociolinguistic investigation of French influence on Late Modern Southern Dutch

Charlotte Verheyden

Methodological Aspects of Research on the Language Situation in Wallachia in the Mid-17th Century

Vladislav Knoll

Exploring language shift among the Jewish minority in Norway 1870–1940

Stian Hårstad

Adopt, Abstain or Veto? Accommodation and Innovation in Scots Correspondence Among Politicians During the Early Eighteenth Century

Sarah van Eyndhoven

Dissecting Inter-writer Αnd Intra-writer Variation Ιn Early Modern Greek Notarial Acts: Τhe Case Οf Α Family Codex From Cephalonia

Eleni Karantzola, Vasiliki Makri

"Schlüßlich [-]verweise[-] empfehle ich meinen Aufsatz" – Lexical Self-Corrections in 19th and Early 20th-Century Patient Documents

Sabrina Freund

Correlates In German Patient Letters From The 19th And Early 20th Centuries

Katharina Gunkler-Frank

Acceptance of the German Orthographic Codification from 1901 in the Lifespan of Individuals

Markus Schiegg

Elizabethan Metapragmatics: The Folk Linguistics Of Yore

Dennis Richard Preston

Pray And Bitte: Social And Linguistic Factors in the Rise (And Fall) Of Two Parallel Request Markers

Christine Elsweiler, Tanja Ackermann

"Dominus" or "Amicus"? Registers of Person Deixis in Late Medieval Italy

Marco Spreafico

Studying Variation In Finnish Letters Written In French In The 18th And 19th Centuries

Juhani Härmä

The Mediterranean Lingua Franca as Mixed Language Data “from below”

Josh Brown

Reconceptualising Public Engagement in and Through Historical Sociolinguistics

Christopher Strelluf

Names in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts: Policies, Conflicts and Lessons from the Past

Michelle Waldispühl

Alleged Historical Language Conflict as Rationale for Real Modern-day Language Conflict in Belgium

Wim Vandenbussche

The Verticalization Model of Language Shift and the Maintenance of Minoritised Languages

Oliver Currie

Discussion

Christopher Strelluf

Codification in the Shadow of Standards: Ideologies in Early Nineteenth-century Metalinguistic Texts on Luxembourgish

John Bellamy

The “natural History” of Multilingual Policy in Luxembourg: Language Ideology, Discursive Historicity and Strategic Ambiguity

Kristine Horner

Discussion

Jeroen Darquennes, Andreas Krogull, Gijsbert Rutten

The Performance of "Queenness" Across the Lifespan in "The Crown"

Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa

Longitudinal Variation in the Ego-documents of Mary Ann (Wodrow) Archbald (1762-1841): Case Studies of Levelled Past Participle Forms and First-person Shall

Nora Dörnbrack

Exceeding Welcome vs. Exceedingly Welcome: Adverbs with and without -ly in Benjamin Franklin’s English

Yoko Iyeiri

Standard And Non-standard Spelling In Late 17th-century English Letters: A New Corpus Of Non-elite Writers

Samuli Kaislaniemi, Colin Greenstreet

Long-s in English Personal Letters from the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Julian Mader

Forbidden Poetry and New Spelling 'from below': Girl's Autograph Albums during WWII

Agnete Nesse

Tamazight Language-in-Education Policy in Algeria: An Interpretive Policy Analysis

Ikhlas Gherzouli

The History Of Language Teaching In Luxembourg

Melanie Wagner

'So Wrong That Not Even Menander Uses It!': The Atticist Lexicographers On The Ancient Greek Dialects

Mathilde Bru

Assessing Linguistic Prescription: On the Standardization of the Apostrophe

Javier Calle-Martín, Marta Pacheco-Franco

Singin’, Bringin’, Speaking: Comments on the Realisation of -ing in Nineteenth-century Grammars of English

Marco Wiemann

‘Coronavirus’ vs. ‘COVID’: Prescriptivism and Variation in the Greek News Media

Spiros A. Moschonas, Thodoris Paraskevas

Σε καμαρώνω για τα ρωμαίικα που γράφεις (= "I am Proud of You for the Vernacular Greek You Write"): Language Choices in the Mail Correspondence of Jean Psichari

Eleni Karantzola, Konstantinos Sampanis, Maria Vlassopoulou

How to Tell a Story in (Early) Modern Czech

Alena Andrlová Fidlerová

The Histories of Afrikaans

Johanita Kirsten

2,000 Years of Diglossia: Histories of Greek From 'Above' and 'Below'

Theodore Markopoulos

Making the Invisible Visible: Building a Data Corpus of Cyrillic-Lithuanian ‘from Below'

Aurelija Tamošiūnaitė

Introduction

Randi Neteland, Julie Van Ongeval

New Dialect Formation in the Multilingual Arctic

Randi Neteland

Language Shift, Dialect Contact and Ideology in London

Paul Kerswill

Comparing Accent Features, Migration Histories and Social Networks in the North of England

Carmen Llamas, Vincent Hughes

Discussion on Socio-historical Perspectives on Dialect Contact

David Britain

Toward a Sociolinguistic History of Basque: a General Perspective on the Corpus

Eneko Zuloaga

Filling Gaps in the History of Eastern Basque through the Study of Manuscripts

Manuel Padilla-Moyano

Handwritten Religious Texts as Sources for Variation in First Modern Basque (1745-1876)

Oxel Uribe-Etxebarria

Textual Genres and Linguistic Variation: Socio-Historical Explanations for Basque Sibilant Mergers

Eneko Zuloaga, Dorota Krajweska, Ander Egurtzegi

The Role of Population Structure in Language Change

Salikoko Mufwene

Introduction

Ulrike Vogl, Claudia Crocco, Eleonora Serra

Self-representation through variation: Formulae in the Ancient Greek archive of Apollonios the Strategos (II AD)

Klaas Bentein

Women’s Use of Formulae in Sixteenth-century Florence: an Analysis of the Ricasoli Private Letters

Eleonora Serra

How to Greet in Early Modern Dutch: Nominal Forms of Address in Model Dialogues and Letters

André Kött

TITLE: Early Modern Language Teachers on Greeting and Addressing in Europe and Beyond

Horst Simon, Jonas Paetsch

Travelling people, travelling words – Low German in Norwegian

Ivar Berg

From ‘drijver’ to ‘straatcarren’ to ‘gasoline station’: Different loan strategies in 19th and 20th centuries Flemish-American newspapers

Yasmin Crombez

Language Contact in 3rd c. BC Italy: A Case for “Simplified” Latin

William Balla-Johnson

From "Cappuccinos" To "Cappuccini" And From "Gündogan" To "Gündoğan": Reversed Linguistic Integration In German

Christian Zimmer

The Spread of Anterior > Preterite in the Perfects of Europe: Change from Below & Above

Bridget Drinka

“Fertile ground” for the Actuation of Sound Change in Historical Sociophonetic Data

Christopher Strelluf, Matthew Gordon

A Computational Approach to Detect Discourse Traditions and Register Differences. A Case Study on Historical French

Giulia Mazzola, Stefano De Pascale, Malte Rosemeyer

How to Measure the Rate of Linguistic Change? Evidence-based Approaches

Terttu Nevalainen, Aatu Liimatta, Tanja Säily, Turo Vartiainen

Vernacularisation and Historical Multilingualism: An Introduction

Anna Havinga, Delia Schipor

Anglicisation and Trilingualism in the Earliest Extant Records of London’s Livery Companies: An Overview of the Late Middle Ages

José Miguel Alcolado Carnicero

The rise of Shtokavian in Early Modern Croatia: A functional expansion

Ivana Eterovic, Vuk-Tadija Barbaric

Multilingual practices in 17th-century manuscript sermons from Wales

Oliver Currie

Discussion

Laura Wright

Functions of the Nominal Vocative in 19th and Early 20th-century Private Correspondence. An Investigation into the Historical Sociopragmatics of German

Laura Fischlhammer, Stephan Elspaß

Discussion

Ulrike Vogl, Claudia Crocco, Eleonora Serra

Etymological Spelling In The Early Editions Of "The Book Of Good Maners"

Hanna Rutkowska

Beyond the Scripts of Digital Posters: A Case Study of Language Ideologies and Writing Practices in Contemporary China

YAN JIA

Entextualization Processes from a Diachronic Perspective: on the Transmission of 18th and 19th Century Flemish Witness Depositions

Magda Serwadczak

Syntactic Integration and Figural vs. Authorial Perspective in Reported Speech in German Newspapers (1740–1840)

Lucia Assenzi

Of Witchcraft, Treason and Grammatical Gender

Christa Schneider

Loanwords And Code-intermediate Phenomena From English To Italian In Letters Sent By Genoese Merchants To The Datini Network, 1392-1401.

Karissa Stephanie Bowles, Joshua Brown

Proto-urbanisation in Early Modern Iceland and the unweaving of close-knit social networks

Heimir Freyr Viðarsson

Multilingual Practices in Secular and Non-secular Legal Texts in the late 16th Century: a pilot Study on Ordinances from the City of Straßburg

Kerstin Roth, Stefaniya Ptashnyk

Leading Language Change: Variation in Norm and Usage of Strong Verbs in 17th-Century Dutch

Machteld de Vos, Isabeau De Smet

Language Variation Across Text Genres In The Late Sixteenth-Century Southern Netherlands

Nelle Simonet

Hidden languages. Heteroglossic practices in encrypted diplomatic correspondence during the Thirty Years’ War

Michelle Waldispühl