Date: 02-Jan-2007
From: richard ingham <richard.inghamuce.ac.uk>
Subject: Middle English and Anglo-Norman Workshop
Middle English and Anglo-Norman Workshop
Short Title: ME-AN workshop
Date: 01-Feb-2007 - 02-Feb-2007
Location: Birmingham UK, United Kingdom
Contact: richard.ingham AT uce.ac.uk
Meeting URL:
http://www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=middle-english-and-anglo-norman
Meeting Description:
Two-day workshop on Middle English and Anglo-Norman at UCE Birmingham,
1st-2nd February 2007.
University of Central England, Birmingham
School of English
Two-day workshop on Middle English and Anglo-Norman
Thursday, 1st and Friday, 2nd February 2007
Anyone interested in the role of French in the history of the English
language is welcome to attend. There will be no registration charge.
Those intending to attend are requested to notify Richard Ingham via email
at: richard.inghamuce.ac.uk
For information about the themes of the workshop, please go to:
http://www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=middle-english-and-anglo-norman
Program:
Thursday 1st Feb.
Morning Session
9 a.m.
Welcome
9.30-10.10 a.m. Anthony Hunt (Oxford Univ.) Anglo-Norman:
Some chronological considerations
10.10-10.50 a.m. Jean-Pascal Pouzet (Université de Limoges):
Mapping insular French material: vernacular manuscripts and correlated
dialectology
10.50-11.20 a.m.
Coffee
11.20-12.30
Panel discussion
12.30-.2 p.m.
Lunch
Afternoon session
2 p.m. Eric Haeberli (Université de Genève):
French and LME syntax
2.40 p.m. Richard Ingham (UCE Birmingham):
Anglo-Norman bilingualism: some syntactic observations
3.20-3.50 p.m.
Tea
3.50-5 p.m.
Panel discussion
6.30 p.m.
Wine party
Friday 2nd February
Morning session
9 a.m. Mark Chambers & Louise Sylvester (UCE Birmingham):
From apareil to wardrobe: French influence in the clothing lexis of the
Middle English period.
9.40 a.m. David Trotter (Univ. of Wales Aberystwyth):
Building bridges in Anglo-Norman: the lexical evidence
10.20a.m. Laura Wright (Cambridge Univ.):
On mixed-language business writing, including its demise
11-11.30 a.m.
Coffee
11.30-12.45 a.m.
Panel discussion
12.45-2 p.m.
Lunch
Afternoon session
2 p.m Andres Kristol (Université de Neuchâtel):
TBA
2.40 p.m Florence Myles (Newcastle Univ.):
TBA
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Aidan Coveney
University of Exeter
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