| Friday, 6 January 2012 |
| 9.30 |
Registration and tea/coffee |
| 10.15 |
Welcome
Kristine Horner, Roel Vismans and Regina Weinert (Sheffield) |
SESSION A
Chair: Gertrud Reershemius |
| 10.30 |
Katerina Somers (QMUL)
The intersection between meter and syntax in the Old Saxon Hêliand |
| 11.00 |
Anne Breitbarth (Ghent), George Waldken and Sheila Watts (Cambridge)
Building a corpus for Middle Low German: Notes and queries |
| 11.30 |
Nils Langer (Bristol)
Promoting Low German in the nineteenth century |
| 12.00 |
Lunch |
SESSION B
Chair: Patrick Stevenson |
| 13.15 |
Paul Bennett, Martin Durrell, Silke Scheible and Richard J. Whitt (Manchester)
The standardisation of German: Evidence from the GerManC corpus |
| 13.45 |
Nicola McLelland (Nottingham)
Pragmatist and purist: Otto Siepmann, Walter Rippmann and the teaching and learning of German around the turn of the 20th century |
| 14.15 |
Wini Davies (Aberystwyth), Melanie Wagner (Luxembourg) and Eva Wyss (Basel)
German at grammar schools in Germany, Luxembourg and German-speaking Switzerland: A comparison |
| 14.45 |
Afternoon tea/coffee |
SESSION C
Chair: Melani Schröter |
| 15.15 |
John Bellamy (Manchester)
"Ich höre gern diesen Dialekt, erinnert mich an meine Urlaube in Kärnten..." |
| 15.45 |
Patrick Stevenson (Southampton)
Superdiversity, language mapping, and the house at Mareschstrasse 74 |
| 16.15 |
Kristine Horner (Sheffield)
Competing discourses on language and citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg |
| 16.45 |
Short break |
| 17.00 |
PLENARY 1: Gerald Newton (Sheffield)
Radio Luxembourg 1933-1992: Multilingual broadcasting from the heart of Europe
Chair: Kristine Horner |
| 18.00 |
AGM/Wine reception |
| 19.30 |
Conference dinner |
| Saturday, 7 January 2012 |
SESSION D
Chair: Regina Weinert |
| 9.00 |
Torsten Leuschner (Ghent)
Comparative Germanic word-formation: Affixoids in German and its sister languages |
| 9.30 |
Alan Scott (Nottingham)
Constructional change affecting German possessive -s: A diachronic, usage-based account |
| 10.00 |
Adrian Luescher (Bangor)
How neutral is the Home Office: Swiss German gender choices with English nouns |
| 10.30 |
Morning tea/coffee |
SESSION E
Chair: Sheila Watts |
| 11.00 |
Caroline Hyde-Simon (Southampton)
Predicting relative difficulty in the acquisition of 'new' and 'similar' phonemes in second language phonology: A case study of L2 Zürich German |
| 11.30 |
Daniel Williams (Sheffield)
The role of phonetic and phonological variation in English listeners' perception of Dutch vowels |
| 12.00 |
Toke Van Gehuchten (Minnesota)
Flemish dialects and their borders: A case study of "Vejels" and "Loois" |
| 12.30 |
Lunch |
SESSION F
Chair: Wini Davies |
| 13.45 |
Roel Vismans (Sheffield)
'I have been properly brought up.' Changing forms of address among Dutch students and their (grand)parents |
| 14.15 |
Gertrud Reershemius (Aston)
Humour in English and German academic researchpresentations |
| 14.45 |
Melani Schröter (Reading)
Methodological adaptability and methodological challenges of discourse key word research |
| 15.15 |
Afternoon tea/coffee |
| SESSION G Chair: Nils Langer |
| 15.45 |
Kim Germeys (VU Brussel)
200 years of Dutch philology in Flanders: the interplay between academia, social struggle and national identity building |
| 16.15 |
Els Belsack (VU Brussel)
Language planning in Europe during the long 19th century: The selection of the standard language in Norway and Flanders |
| 16.45 |
Short break |
| 17.00 |
PLENARY 2: Robert Howell (UW Madison)
On the Origin of the Urban Dialects of Holland 1250-1650: Are they New Town Koinés?
Chair: Roel Vismans |
| 18.00 |
Closing session |
