Past Programmes
Forum for Germanic Language Studies
Programme for the 15th bi-annual virtual conference, University of Reading
6-7 January 2022
DAY 1: Thursday, 6 January 2022
All times are given as GMT (CET = +1 hour, EET = + 2 hours, GET = + 4 hours, JST = +9 hours)
9.00-9.15 Welcome and Zoom platform orientation (Melani Schröter, University of Reading)
9.15-10.45 Session 1 - chair: Michael Kranert (Southampton)
1) Simon Masloch/Johanna Poppek/Tibor Kiss (Bochum): Two misbehaving German dative experiencer-object verbs
2) Niklas Wiskant/Dila Turus (Düsseldorf): Bringing experiencers into rage and excitement: Light verb constructions with experiencer object in German
3) Ljublica Leone (Lancaster): Prepositional verb/simplex alternation in the Early Modern English period: evidence from the Corpus of English Dialogues (1560-1760)
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-12.00 Session 2 - chair: Anna Havinga (Bristol)
1) Nicola McLelland (Nottingham): 18th-century German/English bilingual lexicography – and women
2) Sabrina Link (Urbino): The impact of speaker perception on neologism usage
12:00-13:00 Communal lunch
13:00-14:00 Session 3 - chair: Nicola McLelland (Nottingham)
1) Jirayu Tharincharoen (Erlangen): “Meine Mutter ist schöner als/wie/bou deine Mutter.“ Comparative constructions in Westphalian dialect from diachronic and synchronic perspectives
2) Nathanaël Stilmant (Mons): MAAR in Dutch: Small connective, broad diversity
14:00-14:15 Break
14:15-15:15 Session 4 - chair: Kristine Horner (Sheffield)
1) Janett Haid (Frankfurt/Oder): Die sprachliche Dimension des Sozialismus. Gruppen- und Dominanzkonstruktionen in politischen Reden zum Internationalen Frauentag von Erich Honecker (und Hugo Chávez)
2) Louis Cotgrove (Nottingham): Meeeeeegggggaaaa!!! 😻😻😻💕💗 💋❤️💜❄️🦄 Orthography-based metacommunication in digital writing
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:15 Forum for Germanic Language Studies Annual General Meeting
16:30 Social gathering
DAY 2: Friday, 7 January 2022
All times are given as GMT (CET = +1 hour, EET = + 2 hours, GET = + 4 hours, JST = +9 hours)
8.30-9.30 Session 1: Plenary, chair: Melani Schröter (Reading)
Joachim Scharloth (Tokyo): Invectivity and the German New Right: Forms and Functions of a Modality of Interaction
9.30-9.45 Break
9:45-11:15 Session 2 - chair: Winifred Davies (Aberystwyth)
1) Flor Vander Haegen/Torsten Leuschner (Gent): German ‘wh-ever‘ and ‘no matter wh-‘ as allostructions
2) Nicholas Catasso (Wuppertal): Why why is not special in German
3) Steven Schoonjans (Klagenfurt): Question word adjacent modal particles in German
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Session 3 - chair: Sheila Watts (Cambridge)
Irina Gvelesiani (Tblisi): The Concept “Trust” in English and Old Low Franconian
Edorardo Nardi (Rome): The etymology of the Germanic ‘dream’: a possible solution for an ancient problem
12:30-13:30 Communal lunch
13:30-14:30 Session 4 - chair: Torsten Leuschner (Gent)
Georgi Dimitrov (Sofia): Intonation as grammatical marker in the Parable of the Talents, Wycliff’s version of St Matthew’s Gospel
Patrizia Noel (Bamberg): Prosodische Kategorienmarkierung im Standarddeutschen
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45-15:45 Session 5 - chair: Geraldine Horan (London)
1) Michael Kranert (Southampton): Language ideologies and populist discourse. Discursive shifts in German metalinguistic discourses
2) Melani Schröter (Reading): Performative silence in user comments on Alternative für Deutschland Facebook posts
15:45-16:00 Closing of conference (Melani Schröter, Reading)
Virtual Colloquium in Germanic Linguistics for Postgraduate Research Students and Early Career Researchers
12-13 January 2021, hosted by the University of Sheffield, UK
Programme
Times indicated are for the GMT (UK) time zone.
Tuesday, 12 January
2.30 Logon/Check by organisers
2.45–3.00 Welcome/Orientation to platform (organisers)
3.00–4.00 Chaired by Nicola McLelland
Julian Mader (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany): The role of inflexional economy in the loss of thou V-st
Julie Van Ongeval (VUB, Belgium): The diachrony of Dutch relativizers and the d- to w- change
4.00–4.15 Screen Break
4.15–5.15 Chaired by Gertrud Reershemius
Louis Cotgrove (University of Nottingham, UK): 'Weil dann meine schwester will eine ps4 haben‘': Parataxis and non-standard syntax following subordinating conjunctions
Sarah Muller (University of Sheffield, UK): German in the Luxembourgish Education System: Exploring Primary School Students’ Critical Perspectives
5.30–6.30 Social event
Wednesday, 13 January
11.00–12.30 Chaired by Sheila Watts
Joshua Booth (University of Oxford, UK): Metre in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival: a reanalysis
Brenda Assendelft (University of Leiden, Netherlands): The Frenchification of Dutch: French loan suffixes in the Dutch language, 1500-1900
Yasmin Crombez (VUB, Belgium): Exploring multilingualism in an emigrant setting
12.30–1.30 Lunch Break
1.30–2.30 Chaired by Geraldine Horan
Marlena Jakobs (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany): Pan-Nationalist Language Ideologies in Post-Revolutionary Belgium – Language Activism in the Journal De Broederhand (1845-1847)
Eugenio Verra (Università degli Studi di Milano "La Statale", Italy): Die Sprache über die AFD: Ein internationaler Vergleich von Online-Zeitungen
2.30–2.45 Screen Break
2.45–3.45 Chaired by Anna Havinga
Anthony Connor (University of Sheffield, UK): My Ladin or Yours? – Navigating Linguistic Authenticity in the Dolomites Ladin Community
Ryan Carroll (Bard College, Berlin, Germany): Examining Identity in the Linguistic Landscape of South Tyrol, Italy
4.00–5.00 Chaired by Kristine Horner
Keynote presentation by Grit Liebscher (University of Waterloo, Canada): Instructions-giving in the (pre-)COVID German linguistic landscape
5.00–6.00 Social