SHEL-3 Conference Program
Michigan Union, Ann Arbor
Thursday, May 6
9:00 –
10:30
Session 1A: Old and Middle English
Phonology
Chair: Robin Queen
Room: Pond
Session 1B: Early Modern English Texts
Chair: Ian Lancashire
Room: Anderson D
Robert Fulk, “Archaisms and Neologisms in the
Language of Beowulf”
Jane Thomas, “Chancery Schmancery”
Geoffrey Russom, “The structure of the a-verse in
strict Middle English alliterative verse”
Charles Li, “On the footing in Chaucer’s Verse”
11:00 –
12:30
Session 2B: Structural Variation in
Present-Day English Constructions
Chair: William Kretzschmar
Room: Anderson D
Donka Minkova, “Phonetic naturalness vs.
orthography in the formation of a standardized
consonantal inventory of English”
Jessica Ring, “A Sociolinguistic analysis of the
Quotative Verb be+like”
ME /ai ɔu/: Vowel Shifting or Contact
Phenomena?”
Anatoly Liberman, “Palatalized consonants in the
history of English”
Gunnar Bergh, Sölve Ohlander, “Taliban—It or
They?”
Hendrik De Smet, Hubert Cuyckens, “Diachronic
aspects of complementation: Between
Sharing and Ousting”
Session 3A: Effects of Language Contact in
Early English
Chair: Sarah Ghomason
Room: Pond
Session 3B: Morphological and Syntactic
Developments in History of English
Chair: Benjamin Fortson
Room: Anderson D
David L. White, “The Case for Irish Influence in
Some Odd OE Spellings”
Mikko Laitinen, “Development of English
indefinite pronouns and anaphoric he and
they in 1500-1800”
Herbert Schendl, “Language mixing and codeswitching in Old English legal documents”
4:00 –
4:20
Chris Cain, “Old English Dialectology in the
Eighteenth-Century: Hickes’s Thesaurus”
Session 2A: Old and Middle English Verse
Chair: Frances McSparran
Room: Pond
Paul Johnston, “The Convoluted Development of
2:00 –
4:00
Richard W. Bailey and Colette V. Moore, “Henry
Machyn’s English”
Michael Adams, “The story of –y”
Ann-Marie Svensson, “On the stress shifting of
polysyllabic French loanwords in English”
Stephen Laker, “On the Origin of the English
Negative Comparative Particle”
James Milroy, “Interpreting evidence for sound
changes in the history of English”
Don Chapman, “Noun-Adjective compounds in
Old English Poetry”
Ian Lancashire, Demonstration of Lexicons of Early Modern English
Room: Anderson D
4:30 – 6:00 Plenary Address: Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia
“Towards an integrated model of lexicalization and grammaticalization”
Kuenzel Room
6:15
SHEL Organizational Meeting, Room: Anderson ABC
Friday, May 7
9:00 – 12:00
See GLAC
schedule
for sessions
4b, 4c,
5a, 5b
Session 4 A:
Pedagogy Workshop
Chair: Susanmarie Harrington
Room: Kuenzel
Web Session 1 (9.:15-10:15)
Edwin Duncan,
“HEL Resources on the Web: An Update”
Brad Benz,
“Using Online Resources to Study HEL”
Web Session 2 + Discussion (10:15-12.00)
Mohammed Albakry and Kaya Tadayoshi,
“Consciusness-raising of usage issues using CALL”
Anne Curzan and Susanmarie Harrington,
“Teaching HEL: Practical Issues”
2:00 – 4:00
See GLAC
schedule
for sessions
6c, 6d
Session 6A: Linguistic Evidence in
Medieval Literary Texts
Chair: Karla Taylor
Room: Pond
Session 6B: American Dialectology
Chair: Kimberly Emmons
Room: Anderson D
Robert Stockwell, “The status of <ei> spellings
as early evidence of the English vowel shift”
Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery, “Innovation and
Retention in the Evolution of Two American
English Vernaculars”
Frances McSparran, “Updating the Brut:
lexical revision in the Otho redaction of
La3amon’s Brut”
Robert Mailhammer, “Some evidence for
phonological degemination in the
Orrmulum”
Eugene Green, “The Pragmatics of Silencers in
Middle English”
Connie Eble, “Family Papers and Language History:
The Prudhommes of Louisiana”
William Kretzschmar, Sonja Lanehart, Bridget
Anderson, and Becky Childs, “The Relevance of
Community Language Studies to HEL: The View
from Roswell”
Betty Phillips, “Æ-Tensing, Phonologization, Salience,
and the Neogrammarian Controversy”
4:30 – 6:00 Plenary Address: Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan
“Off the shelf or under the counter? On the social dynamics of sound changes”
Kuenzel Room
GLAC-1o Conference Program
Friday, May 7th
9:00–10:30
See SHEL
schedule
for
Session 4a
“SHEL
Pedagogy
workshop”
Kuenzel
Room
11:00–12:30
See SHEL
schedule
for
Session 4a
“SHEL
Pedagogy
workshop”
Kuenzel
Room
Session 4b: Language contact in the US
Chair: David Fertig
Room: Pond
Session 4c: Phonology 1
Chair: Richard Page
Room: Anderson D
Steve Hartman Keiser, "Prayers, Poems, and
Potatoes: Negotiating language use in the
mealtime conversation of bilingual
Anabaptist families"
Garry Davis, “PGmc. Nasalization and the loss of final
coronal obstruents”
Lisa Mays, “Patterns in Codeswitching
among Old Colony Mennonites in Kansas”
Dilara Tepeli, Thomas Purnell, Joseph
Salmons, “German substrate effects in
Wisconsin English: the evidence for 'final
devoicing'”
Regina Smith, “The High-Water Mark of the New High
German Diphthongization”
David L.White, “Why /u/ but Not /i/ is Lowered in Past
Participles of Classes I-IV”
Session 5A: Syntax I
Chair: Neil Jacobs
Room Pond
Session 5B: Phonology II
Chair: Robert Murray
Room: Anderson D
Ulrike Demske, “Quasi-Modals as Raising
Verbs in Old High German”
Kari Ellen Gade, “The Aberrant Syntax of Old Norse
Poems in kvi›uháttr Meter”
Sarah Fagan, “Basic verbs of conveyance:
'bring' and 'take' in German and
English”
Peter Auer and Robert Murray, “Bavarian Isochrony
without Mora-Counting”
Jack Hoeksema, “The Residual of Verb
Projection Raising in Northern Dutch”
Santeri Palviainen, “Baltic-Finnic evidence for
Germanic final syllables”
12:45- 2:oo SGL Executive Committee Meeting: Pond
2:00 – 4:00
See SHEL
schedule
for
Sessions
6a, 6b
Session 6c: Semantics and
Grammaticalization
Chair: Orrin W. Robinson
Room: Anderson ABC
Session 6d: Second language learning and
teaching
Chair: Bruce Spencer
Room: Kuenzel
Douglas Lightfoot, “Heterosemy and
Tautology in German Suffixoidization”
Carrie Jackson, “The Sentence Level Processing of Case
Markings and Word Order in Native and NonNative Speakers of German”
Richard Whitt, “The Development of *skulan
in English and German: Insights from
Grammaticalization”
Elly van Gelderen, “The Peterborough
Chronicle as the beginning of Middle
English: Grammaticalization as late
merge”
Carlee Arnett, Susanne Schwarzer, “Two-way
Prepositions and L2 Student of German”
Felty, Robert “Phonetics in the German classroom:
Learning Umlaut”
Stephen Newton, “Rationale for a German Course for
Gay and Lesbian Students”
4:30 – 6:00 Plenary: Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan
“Off the shelf or under the counter? On the social dynamics of sound changes”
Kuenzel Room
Saturday, May 8th
9:00 10:30
11:00
12:30
Plenary Address: Carol Pfaff, Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
“The creation of mixed codes in an urban migrant community: psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic
and political issues: the case of Turkish/German in Berlin”. Kuenzel Room
Session 7a: Language contact
Chair: Vera Eremeeva
Room: Pond
Session 7b: Syntax II
Chair: Douglas Lightfoot
Room : Anderson D
Session 7c: Poetics
Chair: Mark Louden
Room: Anderson ABC
John Sundquist, “Word Order
Variation and Language Contact
between Middle Low German
and Middle Norwegian”
Bruce Spencer, “A case study in
16th century syntactic variation”
Maria Gallmeier, “On the relevance
of the Discussion about
Capitalization in German by the
Grammarians in the 17th - 19th
centuries”
Anthony Buccini, “A New Look at
the Language of the Late Old
Northumbrian Glosses”
Carmen Kopecky, “Syntactic
Innovation and Context
Sensitivity”
John te Velde, “Accounting for
conditions on homogeneity of
coordinate ellipsis in German”
Jeannette Marshall Denton, “The
Historical Linguistic and
Cultural Underpinnings of
Hand-Symbolism in Early
Germanic Poetry”
Mark Southern, “Metonymic and
linguistic inheritances in Old
Saxon: Betrayal, protection, fate
and death, and words as power”
12:45 – 2:00 SGL Business Meeting: Kuenzel (box lunches will be provided)
2.004.00
Session 8a: Sociolinguistics
and Historiography
Chair: Carlee Arnett
Room: Pond
Session 8b: Syntax III
Chair: Robert Kyes
Room : Anderson D
Session 8c: Phonology III
Chair Joseph Salmons
Room: Anderson ABC
Vera Eremeeva, “Gender, Networks
and Linguistic Adaptation of
Migrants”
Manuela Schoenenberger,
“Ambiguity in Swiss-German
child data: How confusing can it
get?”
Robert Mailhammer, “On the
position of ablaut in the
Germanic strong verbs and in the
verbal system of Indo-Europen”
Mat Schulze, “Case-marking and
passive - what are the
prepositions telling us?”
Katerina Somers Wicka, Robert B.
Howell, “A phonetic account of
Anglian smoothing”
Mary O'Brien, Laura Smith, “The
Impact of First Language Dialect
on the Production of German
Vowels”
David Fertig, “Derivational Analogy
and the Regularization-ThroughDerivation Effect in German and
English”
Richard Page, “The ingenerate
motivation of the Germanic
quantity shift”
Marc Pierce, “Leonard Bloomfield's
contributions to Germanic
Linguistics
J. Durbin, “Are Modals a Form of
Passivization? Evidence from
Dutch moeten/mogen + van”
Orrin W. Robinson, “Does Sex
Breed Gender?: Pronominal
Reference in the Grimms' Fairy
Tales
4.306.00
Session 9a: Syntax IV
Chair: Elly van Gelderen
Room: Pond
Session 9b: Phonology IV
Chair: Jeanette Denton
Room: Anderson D
Dorian Roehrs, “Split NPs as Instances of Sideward
Movement”
Jennifer Cornish, “A role of Accent Correlates in Verner's
Law: A Perceptual Study”
Neil Jacobs, “Constraints on fressing: NP-NP
constructions in Yiddish”
Kurt Goblirsch, „Ausbreitung oder Entfaltung? The
Spread and Gradation of the High German Consonant
Shift Reconsidered”
Christopher Sapp, Dorian Roehrs, “Movement within
the Noun Phrase in the History of Germanic "
Anatoly Liberman, “Stress and Germanic Consonant
Shifts”