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| 10.00-10.30 | Registration (coffee at 10.15) | |
| 10.30-10.45 | Welcome | |
| 10.45-11.45 Plenary | Margaret Laing and Roger Lass: Shape-shifting, sound-change and the genesis of prodigal writing systems | |
| 11.45-12.15 | Stephen Partridge: Compiling and the Canterbury Tales: Linguistic, Textual, and Literary Observations | Donka Minkova: Syncopation and Functional Stress-Shifting in Chaucer and Hoccleve |
| 12.15-14.15 | lunch | lunch |
| 14.15-14.45 | Mayumi Taguchi: Some Characteristics of the Use of Technical Devotional Terms in Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ | Nicolay Yakovlev: The metre and spelling of Layamon’s Brut |
| 14.45-15.15 | Karen Smyth: Rereading John Lydgate’s Fall of [Women] | Gyöngyi Werthmüller: The number of syllables in ME verse – does it count? |
| 15.15-15.45 | Francisco Alonso-Almeida: Speech Acts and Orality in Middle English Medical Charms | Attila Starčević: The Germanic Foot Reinterpreted |
| 15.45-16.15 | break | break |
| 16.15-16.45 | Nils-Lennart Johanneson: Hunting deer with nets and hounds: Metaphors for preaching in the Ormulum | Stefan Thim: Verb-Particle Constructions in Middle English: Revisting the Evidence |
| 16.45-17.15 | Gabriel Amores Carredano, Julia Fernández Cuesta and Luisa García García : Elaboration of an electronic corpus of northern English texts from Old to Early Modern English. |
Michael Bilynsky: Constituents’ permutations in synonymous strings as a diachronic reconstruction problem: the OED evidence for ME and ENE verbs and deverbal coinages |
| 9.15-10.15 Plenary | Ad Putter: The problem of stress in Piers Plowman and alliterative verse. | |
| 10.15-10.45 | break | break |
| 10.45-11.15 | Juliana Dresvina: The Legend of St Margaret of Antioch of the South English Legendary | Ewa Ciszek: The suffix -ish: its development and productivity in Middle English |
| 11.15-11.45 | Alpo Honkapohja: A Digital Edition of MS O.1.77. Trinity College Cambridge | Cynthia Allen: The Poss Det Construction in Early Middle English Writings |
| 11.45-12.15 | Carole Hough: Names in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale | Marcin Krygier: The emergence of semantically motivated zero plurals in Middle English |
| 12.15-14.15 | lunch | lunch |
| 14.15-14.45 | Joanna Bugaj: A V or not a V? Transcribing abbreviations in fifteen MSS of the Man of Law’s Tale | Letizia Vezzosi: Reciprocal and reflexive strategies in Middle English |
| 14.45-15.15 | Justyna Rogos: When time (and space) is money: vocalic abbreviations in group d manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales | Daniel Węgrzyn: On substantival suffixation in Canterbury Tales |
| 15.15-15.45 | Javier Calle Martín and David Moreno Olalla: Body of Evidence: Of ME Annotated Corpora and Dialect Atlases | Nuria Calvo Cortés : What comes Fore, Be- or A-? The Proliferation and Distribution of Meanings, Uses and Structures of two ‘Fore Relatives’ in Middle English |
| 15.45-16.15 | break | break |
| 16.15-16.45 | Santiago G. Fernández-Corugedo: The electronic editing of Medieval English Works: textual scholarship and textual criticism | Anna Wojtyś : The prefix y-: a grammatical marker or a meaningless appendage? A contrastive analysis of selected manuscripts of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales |
| 16.45-17.15 | Kinga Sądej: Old English–derived words in the Middle English semantic field HILL / MOUNTAIN. | Edurne Garrido Anes The case of souchen, a Middle English word that didn’t last |
| 9.15-10.15 Plenary | Gabriella Mazzon: Now What? Aspects of Middle English dialogue studies | |
| 10.15-10.45 | break | break |
| 10.45-11.15 | Hans-Juergen Diller: Song on Ifaluk, anger and wrath in Middle English: Diachronic Semantics as bridge-builder | María José Carrillo-Linares: Semantic and Dialectal Variation in Late Middle English: the Case of trowen. |
| 11.15-11.45 | Jerzy Wełna: On the origin of evil and its competition with bad in Middle English | Meiko Matsumoto: The development of be going to into a fixed semi- auxiliary of the future |
| 11.45-12.15 | Marta Sylwanowicz: And this is gode medicine in the sikenes ...: names of medicines in Late Middle English medical texts | Andrzej Łęcki: The Rise of Causative HAVE in English |
| 12.15-14.15 | lunch | lunch |
| 14.15-14.45 | Herbert Schendl: Medieval macaronic sermons: a comparative study of code-switching strategies in medieval England and on the continent | Céline Roméro: OUGHT TO in Middle English : a semi-grammaticalization? |
| 14.45-15.15 | Elisabeth Tacho: The use of ME arīven in different text types and genres. | Rafał Molencki : The grammaticalization of body in Middle English |
| 15.15-15.45 | Eugene Green: “Now woordis, now sens, now either togidere shal tellen out” - Integrating twelve native and borrowed lexemes in Middle English | Cynthia Lloyd: Some conclusions on the semantic development of five latinate suffixes in ME and the 16th century |
| 15.45-16.15 | break | break |
| 16.15-16.45 | Robert J. Meyer-Lee: Ambiguous Evidence, Interpretation, and the Canterbury Tales “Occupation Group” | Emily Runde: Scribal Orthography and Dialect in the Auchinleck Manuscript |
| 16.45-17.15 | Joanna Janecka: 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] | |
| 17.15-17.45 | Business meeting |