ICOME6
Participants and Abstracts
Plenary Speakers
We are delighted to announce that the following Middle English scholars have agreed to present plenary papers at ICOME 6:
- Roger Lass (Cape Town) and Margaret Laing ( Edinburgh) (abstract)
Shape-shifting, sound-change and the genesis of prodigal writing systems
- Gabriella Mazzon (Cagliari) (abstract)
Now What? Aspects of Middle English dialogue studies
- Ad Putter (Bristol) (abstract)
The problem of stress in Piers Plowman and alliterative verse.
Other Speakers and Abstracts
- Cynthia Allen, School of Language Studies, The Australian National University (abstract)
The Poss Det Construction in Early Middle English Writings
- Francisco Alonso-Almeida, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (abstract)
Speech Acts and Orality in Middle English Medical Charms
- Gabriel Amores Carredano, Julia Fernández Cuesta and Luisa García García, University of Seville (abstract)
Elaboration of an electronic corpus of northern English texts from Old to Early Modern English.
- Michael Bilynsky, Lviv National University, Ukraine (abstract)
Constituents’ Permutations in Synonymous Strings as a Diachronic Reconstruction Problem: The Oed Evidence for Me and Ene Verbs and Deverbal Coinages
- Joanna Bugaj, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (abstract)
A V or not a V? Transcribing abbreviations in fifteen MSS of the “Man of Law’s Tale”.
- Javier Calle Martín and David Moreno Olalla, University of Málaga (abstract)
Body of evidence: Of ME annotated corpora and dialect atlas
- Nuria Calvo Cortés, Complutense University of Madrid (abstract)
What comes Fore, Be- or A-? The Proliferation and Distribution of Meanings, Uses and Structures of two ‘Fore Relatives’ in Middle English
- María José Carrillo-Linares, Department of English Philology, University of Huelva (abstract)
Semantic and Dialectal Variation in Late Middle English: The Case Of Trowen
- Ewa Ciszek, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (abstract)
The suffix -ish: Its development and productivity in Middle English
- Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo, University of Oviedo (abstract)
The electronic editing of Medieval English Works: textual scholarship and textual criticism
- Hans-Juergen Diller, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (abstract)
Song on Ifaluk, anger and wrath in Middle English: Diachronic Semantics as bridge-builder
- Dr Juliana Dresvina, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge (abstract)
The Legend of St Margaret of Antioch of the South English Legendary
- Edurne Garrido Anes, Department of English Philology, University of Huelva (abstract)
The case of souchen, a Middle English word that didn’t last
- Eugene Green, Department of English, Boston University (abstract)
Now woordis, now sens, now either togidere shal tellen out" - Integrating twelve native and borrowed lexemes in Middle English
- Alpo Honkapohja, University of Helsinki (abstract)
A Digital Edition of MS O.1.77. Trinity College Cambridge
- Carole Hough, University of Glasgow (abstract)
Names in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- Joanna Janecka, University of Warsaw (abstract)
Gratter cost, more grat zenne, þe more gratter torment: inept adaptor or brilliant innovator? On Dan Michel’s manner of comparison in Ayenbite of Inwyt [Arun 57]
- Nils-Lennart Johannesson, University of Stockholm (abstract)
Hunting deer with nets and hounds: Metaphors for preaching in the Ormulum
- Marcin Krygier, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (abstract)
The emergence of semantically motivated zero plurals in Middle English
- Andrzej Łęcki, University of Silesia, Poland (abstract)
The Rise of Causative HAVE in English
- Cynthia Lloyd, University of Leeds (abstract)
Some conclusions on the semantic development of 5 latinate suffixes in ME qnd the 16th century
- Aili Lundmark, Uppsala University (abstract) (Session has been cancelled)
Fair or Foul: Adjectival Descriptions of Characters in King Horn and Havelok the Dane
- Meiko Metsumoto (abstract)
The development of 'be going to' into a fixed semi-auxiliary of the future
- Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Goshen College (abstract)
Ambiguous Evidence, Interpretation, and the Canterbury Tales “Occupation Group”
- Donka Minkova, University of California, Los Angeles (abstract)
Syncopation and functional stress-shifting in Chaucer and Hoccleve
- Rafał Molencki, University of Silesia , Katowice, Poland (abstract)
The grammaticalization of body in Middle English
- Stephen Partridge, Dept. of English, University of British Columbia (abstract)
Compiling and the Canterbury Tales: Linguistic, Textual, and Literary Observations
- Justyna Rogos, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (abstract)
When time (and space) is money: vocalic abbreviations in group d manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
- Celine Romero, University of Toulon (abstract)
OUGHT TO in Middle English : a semi-grammaticalization?
- Emily Runde, University of California at Los Angeles (abstract)
Scribal Orthography and Dialect in the Auchinleck Manuscript
- Kinga Sądej, University of Warsaw (abstract)
Old English–derived words in the Middle English semantic field HILL / MOUNTAIN
- Herbert Schendl, University of Vienna (abstract)
Medieval macaronic sermons: a comparative study of code-switching strategies in medieval England and on the continent
- Karen Smyth, University of East Anglia (abstract)
Rereading John Lydgate’s Fall of [Women]
- Attila Starčević, Eötvös Loránd University (Elte), English Linguistics Department, Budapest, Hungary (abstract)
The Germanic Foot Reinterpreted
- Marta Sylwanowicz, Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna TWP, Warsaw (abstract)
And this is gode medicine in the sikenes...: names of medicines in Late Middle English medical texts
- Elisabeth Tacho, Vienna (abstract)
The use of ME arīven in different text types and genres. A case study.
- Mayumi Taguchi, Osaka Sangyo University (abstract)
Some Characteristics of the Use of Technical Devotional Terms in Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ
- Stefan Thim (abstract)
Verb-Particle Constructions in Middle English: Revisiting the Evidence
- Letizia Vezzosi, University of Perugia, Italy (abstract)
Reciprocal and reflexive strategies in Middle English
- Daniel Węgrzyn, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland (abstract)
On substantival suffixation in the Canterbury Tales
- Jerzy Wełna, University of Warsaw (abstract)
On the origin of 'evil' and its competition with 'bad' in Middle English
- Gyöngyi Werthmüller, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (abstract)
The number of syllables in ME verse – does it count?
- Anna Wojtyś, Institute of English Studies, Academy of Management in Warsaw (abstract)
The prefix y-: a grammatical marker or a meaningless appendage? A contrastive analysis of selected manuscripts of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
- Nicolay Yakovlev, Wolfson College, University of Oxford (abstract)
The metre and spelling of Layamon's Brut