Thursday 27th March 2008
[All events will take place in the Council Chamber]
0900-0945
Registration, Old Fire Station Foyer
0945-1000
Welcome and introduction, Professor Myriam Salama-Carr, European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford.
1000-1100
Chair: Phillip Tipton
Social class and the performance of ‘being Northern’ in narratives of identity and belonging, Gaynor Bagnall, University of Salford (Plenary Lecture)
1100-1115
COFFEE
Paper Session 1 - Chair: Kevin Watson
1115-1145
Shee is Northern, and speakes so: Two Representations of Northern Dialect in 17th Century Drama. Lauren Stewart, University of Edinburgh.
1145-1215
Northern English transported: The nineteenth-century goldrushes and the formation of a diaspora. Katie Wales, University of Sheffield
1215-1315
LUNCH
Special Session: Northern Englishes and (Socio)linguistic Theory
1315-1415
Do we still need dialectology?Joan Beal, University of Sheffield
1415-1515
Theoretical approaches to syntactic variation in the speech community. Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh
1515-1530
Tea
1530-1630
Why LVC needs phonological theory. Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh
1630-1730
Sociophonetics: more than the sum of its parts? Kevin Watson, Lancaster University
End of special session
1730-1800 [for postgraduate students]
How to get published in a linguistics journal. Paul Rowlett, University of Salford.
2000 onwards
Workshop dinner at Stock Restaurant, Manchester.
Friday 28th March 2008
0900-1000
Round-table discussion of yesterday's special session
1000-1100
Chair: Phillip Tipton
In search of regions. Mike Coombes, University of Newcastle [CANCELLED due to family emergency, but presentation now available online]
1100-1130
COFFEE
Paper Session - Chair: Patrick Honeybone
1130-1200
A corpus analysis of the have to construction in Lancashire dialect: movement towards a more grammaticalized function. Claire Dembry, Lancaster University
1200-1230
Exploring Syntactic Variability in Tyne and Wear. Karen Corrigan and Isabelle Buchstaller, University of Newcastle
1230-1300
Syntactic Variation and Change in Shetland Dialect. Dianne Jonas, Yale University
1300-1400
LUNCH
Paper Session - Chair: Will Barras
1400-1430
"That's just stupid, that" Pronoun copying in Teesside.. Julia Snell, University of Leeds
1430-1500
The resilience of some Middle English features in 20th century Northern English: evidence from LALME and the SED. Julia Fernández Cuesta and Nieves Rodríguez Ledesma, University of Seville
1500-1530
TEA
Paper Session - Chair: Graeme Trousdale
1530-1600
Can a linguistic variable travel? The NURSE~SQUARE merger and the Leeds-Liverpool canal. Phillip Tipton, University of Salford
1600-1630
The relevance of Northern dialects in the history of English. Cristina Suárez Gómez, University of the Balearic Islands
1630-1645
Closing remarks