The members of the research project «Linguistic Change and Morphosyntactic Variation in Late Modern English», funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (grant PID2021-126496NB-I00) are organising the I International Seminar on Late Modern English: Grammars, Usage and Variation, which will be held via Teams on May 27-28, 2025.
Attendance is free. Registration is necessary before May 23, 2025 (12:00 CET) here. Certificates of attendance will be issued on request.
Programme
Tuesday – May 27th, 2025
10:30. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Leiden University): Late Modern English Grammars, Grammarians and the English Language.
11:15. Massimo Sturiale (University of Milan): Elocution, Editorials, and Englishness: The Role of Print Media in Shaping Accent Attitudes in the Long Nineteenth Century.
12:00. Lieselotte Anderwald (University of Kiel): The Emergence of Morphological Americanisms in Late Modern English.
12:45. Discussion.
Wednesday – May 28th, 2025
10:30. Javier Ruano-García (University of Salamanca): Grammatical Variation and Vernacular Norming in Late Modern English: South-western Dialects in Focus.
11:15. Marta Pacheco-Franco (University of Málaga): Standard, Variation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Insights into Late Modern English Spelling.
12:00. Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (University of Vigo): ‘A comma placed at the head of letters’: The Apostrophe in Eighteenth-Century Grammar Books.
12:45. Discussion.
