The workshop is organised by 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.
It will be held via Teams. Attendance is free but registration is required. Participants must register before 25 May 2025 (12:00 CET) using the following link:
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Certificates of attendance will be issued under 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