Plenaries

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Dr Mel Evans (University of Leeds)

Monarchs, courtiers, servants and spies: lives, language and future prospects for
historical English correspondence

Dr Mel Evans, University of Leeds

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Dr Mark Faulkner (Trinity College Dublin)

Towards Medieval Big Data: corpora, metadata and methodologies for early English

Dr Mark Faulkner, Trinity College Dublin 

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Prof Salikoko Mufwene (University of Chicago)

Language Speciation: Lessons from Genetic Creolistics

Prof Salikoko S. Mufwene, The University of Chicago

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