Dear all,
The conference described below will interest EPNL folk.
To see an attractive flyer rather than my cut-and-paste effort, click
on 'Perceptions first flyer' in the 'Files Area' of our homepage:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/epnl
Cheers,
Paul
Perceptions of Place: English place-name study and regional variety
Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham
Wednesday 23 – Sunday 27 June 2010
This is advance notice of an international conference to be held in association
with the English Place-Name Society. Topics will include:
• differences in naming practices in different regions of England
• relations with place-names in neighbouring countries
• place-names and dialectal variation
• reassessments of varying methodological and disciplinary approaches
to place-names
o linguistic
o historical
o topographical
o archaeological
A call for papers will be sent out later in the autumn. Further details will in due
course be available at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins
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