English in Contact
Kyushu University, Nishijin Plaza
Day 1 (28 March)
General session
10:00-10:10:
Welcome address
KEYNOTE 1:
10:10-11:00
Durkin, Philip (Oxford English Dictionary/University of Oxford)
Loanwords in the history of English: An easy topic? Questions of identification, chronology, and (dictionary) coverage
11:00-11:30
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:30–12:00
Toyota, Junichi (Osaka City University)
Contact-induced peculiarities: English grammar in terms of dialect contacts
12:00–12:30
Inoue, Aya (Aichi University of Arts)
Describing for complementation in current Hawai‘i Creole speech
12:30–14:10
LUNCH BREAK
14:10–15:00
KEYNOTE 2:
Tagliamonte, Sali A. (University of Toronto)
The bears, they don’t bother you: English in contact with French in Northern Ontario, Canada
15:00–15:30
Hirano, Keiko (University of Kitakyushu); Britain, David (University of Bern)
English dialect contact in the multinational Anglophone community in Japan: Linguistic constraints of verbs of possession produced by American English speakers
15:30–16:00
Go, Christian (National University of Singapore)
Philippine English: Bottom-up linguistic prescriptivism and the grassroots policing of non-standard Philippine English in online spaces
16:00–16:30
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
16:30–17:00
Lim, Jun Jie; Hiramoto, Mie; Choo, Jessica (National University of Singapore); Gonzales, Wilkinson (University of Michigan); Leimgruber, Jakob (University of Basel)
Sentence-final adverbs in Colloquial Singapore English revisited: Increasing frequency and stabilization in a WhatsApp corpus
17:00–17:50
KEYNOTE 3:
Hackert, Stephanie (University of Munich)
The Caribbean and models of World Englishes: Horse and carriage or chalk and cheese?
CONFERENCE DINNER STARTING AROUND 19:00 AT HILTON SKYHAWK HOTEL (15min walk from conference venue)
Day 2 (29 March)
Themed Session: “Rise and (de-)stabilisation of new contact varieties”
9:30–10:20
KEYNOTE 4:
Matsumoto, Kazuko (University of Tokyo)
A discourse-pragmatic perspective on nativisation in adolescent Palauan English
10:20–11:10
KEYNOTE 5:
Anchimbe, Eric (University of Bayreuth)
Pragmatic stabilisation in contact Englishes: Some illustrations from Africa
11:10–11:40
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:40–12:10
Choo, Jessica; Hiramoto, Mie; Lim, Jun Jie (National University of Singapore); Gonzales, Wilkinson (University of Michigan); Lee, Tong King (University of Hong Kong); Leimgruber, Jakob (University of Basel)
‘I needed you sia’: An emergence of a sentence final particle sia in Colloquial Singapore English
12:10-12:40
Shimada, Tamami (Meikai University)
Contact-induced grammatical formation: A model for Hiberno-English
12:40-13:10
Laker, Stephen (Kyushu University)
The rise of new urban and rural British English varieties in the Northeast
13:10–14:40
LUNCH BREAK
14:40–15:10
Stell, Gerald (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) ; Fuchs, Robert(University of Hamburg)
L1 background and ethnicity in postcolonial ESL varieties: The phonetic features of Namibian English vowels
15:10–15:40
Kinsey, Sonya (University of Freiburg)
Witsuwit’en English and language contact processes
15:40–16:10
Mailhammer, Robert (Western Sydney University)
A moving target: English on Croker Island
16:10–16:30
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
16:30–17:20
KEYNOTE 6:
Borlongan, Ariane M. (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Linguistic aspects of endonormative stabilization: The case of Philippine English
17:20–18:10
KEYNOTE 7:
Schneider, Edgar (University of Regensburg)
Zooming in on endonormative stabilization: How stable, how uniform?