HiSoN 2017 Conference
New York University/CUNY Graduate Center

CUNY Graduate Center,
Thursday, April 6

1. Industrialisation and Language Standardisation in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of German
Konstantin Niehaus, University of Innsbruck, and Stephan Elspaß, University of Salzburg

2. Codifying Irish in the Period 1890-1920
Aidan Doyle, University College Cork

3. Describing the Spanish(es) of America in the Twentieth Century: Linguistic Science and the Geopolitics of Standardization in the Modern History of Spanish
Ernesto Cuba, CUNY Graduate Center

1. Microscopic Analysis of Sociolinguistic Models of Intra-Speaker Variation in Late Middle English Written Correspondence
Tamara García-Vidal, University of Murcia

2. Scribal Scribbles: Visible and Invisible Notes in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
Christine Wallis, University of Sheffield

3. On One Linguistic Outcome of a New Social Class: Chivalric Knights, Their Badges, and Fourteenth-Century London Commerce
Laura Wright, University of Cambridge

1. The Effects of Assimilation and Host Community Structure on the Properties of Linguistic Varieties in Historical Dialect Contact Contexts
Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt, Peter French, Almut Braun, and Duncan Robertson, University of York

2. How To Deal with a (Forbidden) Minority Language: Memories of Teachers in the Italian Immigration Region in Southern Brazil (1937-1945)
Carmen Maria Faggion, Independent Researcher, and Terciane Ângela Luchese, University of Caxias do Sul

1. Conflict-Induced Contact: What Might It Have Contributed to the Twentieth-Century History of English?
Dominic Watt and Paul Foulkes, University of York

2. When False Friends Get Married. Italianizing English Words the Sicilian Way To Make Them Maltese
Joseph M. Brincat, University of Malta

1. Linking Grammaticalization to Historical Demography
Freek Van de Velde, University of Leuven, and Peter Petré, University of Antwerp

2. Language Variation and Change in Seventeenth-Century Coventry: A "Civil War Effect"?
Tino Oudesluijs, University of Lausanne

3. Examining Social Aspects of Language Change: Between Individuals and Networks
Oscar Strik, University of Antwerp

1. Compositors and Their Spellings in Fifteenth-Century Printed Texts
Rosie Shute, University of Sheffield

2. Negotiating a Multilingual Society: Craftsmen and Traders as Vectors for Language Contact in Ancient Italy
Katherine McDonald, University of Exeter

3. The Social Life of d-Stems: Norms and Usage in the Northern Low Countries (1750-1850)
Andreas Krogull, Bob Schoemaker, Gijsbert Rutten, and Marijke van der Wal, Leiden University

1. What Kind of Language Was "Chinese Malay"?
Tom Hoogervorst, Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

2. Re-Writing the "Social" from Scratch in Historical Sociolinguistics: An Ecological Approach to Latin American Spanish Historical Morphology
Israel Sanz-Sánchez, West Chester University

3. Code-Switching and the Visibilisation of Middle Scots in the Aberdeen Council Registers
Anna D. Havinga, University of Aberdeen

1. The Pronunciation of Çaragoza: Orthographic Clues Shed Light on Golden Age Spanish Speech
William Johnson, Ohio State University

2. Standardization and Dialectalization in Spanish: The Case of the Third-Person Clitic Pronoun in Spanish
Fernando Tejedo-Herrero, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1. Gendering Historical Literacy: Two Cases of Vernacular Writing in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Sweden and Iceland
Ann-Catrine Edlund, Umeå University, and Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir, University of Iceland

2. Tracing Genealogies of Religion and Gender in Basque Pronominal Shift: Towards a Method
Begoña Echeverria, University of California Riverside

3. Towards the Social History of Contractions: The Amazing Disappearing -d
Anni Sairio, University of Helsinki

1. Commemoration, Return or/and Immutability: The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
Inés Vañó Garcia, CUNY Graduate Center

2. Language Ideology in Quebec in the Twentieth Century: Les chroniques de langage and Attitudes towards French
Olivia Walsh, University of Nottingham

3. Graphic Humor as a Social Strategy against Hegemonic Language Ideologies: A Note on the Sociolinguistic History of Galician Language
Estefanía Mosquera, Universidade da Coruña

1. From Script and Print to Screen: The Leiden Letters as Loot and Going Dutch Corpora
Marijke van der Wal, Andreas Krogull, and Gijsbert Rutten, Leiden University

2. The HCA Prize Papers: A Treasure for the Taking
Tom Truxes, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University

Wim Vandenbussche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Jeroen Darquennes, Université de Namur and the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis

Sandrine Tailleur, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

1. Ab uno disce omnes? A Case Study of Individual Variation in Language History from Below
Jill Puttaert, Research Foundation-Flanders, and Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

2. Adopting Cyrillic for Lithuanian "From Below"
Aurelija Tamošiūnaitė, Johannes Gutenberg Universität-Mainz

1. Revisiting Old Relatives: Evidence from the Corpus of English Dialogues and the Old Bailey Proceedings (1600-1900)
Stephen Levey, University of Ottawa

2. Boku as an Expression of Modern Self: A Historical Study of First Person Pronouns in Japanese
Katsue Reynolds, University of Hawaii at Manoa

3. Towards a Social History of Epistolary Spelling: Charting Orthographical Reliability in Editions of English Historical Letters
Anni Sairio, Samuli Kaislaniemi, and Terttu Nevalainen, University of Helsinki

1. The Edwardian Postcard: An Exploratory Study
Julia Gillen, Lancaster University

2. Compiling a Corpus from Scratch: Nineteenth-Century Finnish as a Sociolinguistic Laboratory
Katja Litola, Johanna Marttila, and Tara Nordlund, University of Helsinki

3. Plotting the Effects of Standardization in the Correspondence of a Croatian Family
Alexander Hoyt, University of Zagreb

New York University,
Friday, April 7

1. Instituting the Linguistic Norm: The Social Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century Standardization of the Icelandic Language
Haraldur Bernharðsson, University of Iceland

2. Perceptions of Language Contact and Linguistic Diversity in Spanish Grammar Books 1820-1875
Jenny Brumme, Pompeu Fabra University

3. The Social – An Overt or a Hidden Category in Dictionaries? On the Relation of Explicit and Implicit Sociolinguistic Marking in Dictionaries of the Historical Viennese Urbolect with a Focus on Language Contact with Slavic Languages
Agnes Kim, University of Vienna

1. Colonial Borderlines: Discursive Ways of Constructing Group Membership
Doris Stolberg, IDS Mannheim

2. Labelling North Frisians: The Change from Ethnic Minority to a Topographic Sense of Belonging
Robert Kleih, University of Flensburg

1. Koineization in Renaissance Italy
Josh Brown, Stockholm University

2. Prestige, Diglossia and the Case of Sixteenth-Century Florence
Eleonora Serra, University of Cambridge

3. Linguistic Variation and Change in Central and Southern Italy during the Middle Ages: The Contribution of Historical Dialectology and Sociolinguistics
Francesco Avolio, University of L’Aquila

1. Transitional Contact Varieties: The Case of Mozarabic and Aljamía
Lotfi Sayahi, University at Albany

2. The Use of Arabic in Aljamiado Literature
Juan Antonio Thomas, Utica College

3. The Origin of the Direct Object Marker /li-/ in Andalusi Arabic
Estefanía Valenzuela Mochón, University of Texas Austin

4. Judeo Spanish in Contact: Arabic Emphatic /ṣ/ in Moroccan Hakitía
Benjamin Mielenz, University at Albany

Franz Meier, University of Augsburg

Sabine Schwarze, University of Augsburg

Olivia Walsh, University of Nottingham

Carmen Marimón Llorca, University of Alicante

1. Historical Multilingualism in the Borderlands of the Russian Empire
Gesine Argent, University of Edinburgh

2. New State Borders vs. Inherited Language Ideologies: The Case of the Interwar Czechoslovak Province of Subscarpathian Ruthenia
Serhii Vakulenko, Kharkiv National Pedagogic University

3. Along the Green Line: Language and Politics in Divided Cyprus
Stavroula Varella, University of Chichester

4. Small States as Borderlands: The Paradoxical Politics of Language in Luxembourg
Kristine Horner, University of Sheffield

1. Social Trajectories and Linguistic Practices in Québec: The Evolution of Linguistic Variables through Four Generations of the Papineau Family (1700-1860)
France Martineau, University of Ottawa, and Wim Remysen, Université de Sherbrooke and CRIFUQ (Interuniversity Research Centre for Québécois French)

2. The Written Legacy of Anne-Marie Palardy (1871-1928)
Sandrine Tailleur and Marie-Ève Rouillard, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

3. (Unintentional?) Dialect in Lower-Class Writings from Eighteenth-Century Upper Normandy
Myriam Bergeron-Maguire, University of Zurich

4. A Fresh Look at the History, Geography, and Social Meaning of the Vigesimal System in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European French Varieties
Mathieu Avanzi, Université Catholique de Louvain, and André Thibault, Paris-Sorbonne University

1. On the Linguistic Continuity of Chancery Ruthenian
Andriy Danylenko, Pace University

2. Language and Law in Nineteenth-Century Croatia
Lelija Sočanac, University of Zagreb

3. Professionalization in Interethnic Communication: Russian Trade Pidgins as Professional Languages
Kapitolina Fedorova, European University at St. Petersburg

4. Professional Languages as a Skilled Behaviour: An Insight from the "Vernacular Turn" in the Western and Eastern Slavic
Marija Lazar, Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig

1. Trade, Contact, and Language Change in the Musina/Beit Bridge Border Zone
Susan Fitzmaurice, University of Sheffield

2. From Chungking Mansions to Tertiary Institution: A Tale of an Immigrant Mother and Her Daughter
Michelle Mingyue Gu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

3. Imploding Linguistic Boundaries? Metalinguistic Discourse on Code Usage in Places in Urban Maputo, Mozambique
Torun Reite, Stockholm University

4. Roundtable Discussion

1. The Book of Mormon: Establishing Prophetic Authority by Language Appropriation
Gregory Bowen, Purdue University

2. Cognitive Sociolinguistics Meets Historical Sociolinguistics: The Case of Alexander Thomson's Early Literary Production in Judeo-Spanish
Daniel Martín González, Harvard University

3. The Church and the Language: How Linguistic Practice in Norwegian Churches has Mirrored the Society
Agnete Nesse, University College of Bergen

1. Standardization of Todays' Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin (BCMS)
Natasha Tolimir-Hölzl, Independent Scholar

2. Language Differentiation in Late-Soviet Moldova: Patterns of Iconicity, Recursivity, and Erasure in the Print Media
Matthew Ciscel, Central Connecticut State University

3. Linguistic Purism and Soccer Terminology in the German-Speaking Countries
Matthias Fingerhuth, University of Texas at Austin

1. Testing the Relationship between Societal Typology and Grammatical Complexity in Norwegian Dialects
Edit Bugge and Randi Neteland, Bergen University College

2. The Affordances of Rhetoric in Historical Sociolinguistics
Elizabeth Kimball, Drew University

3. Tracing the Linguistic Path of the Old English Demonstrative Pronoun from Old Northumbrian to Late Northern Middle English
Marcelle Cole, Utrecht University