Programme and Conference Report
Symposium: Historical English Word-Formation
17-18 February 2023
Fachbibliothek Philologicum: Ludwigstraße 25, 80539 München
Conference Report:
- Majewski, Kerstin. 2023. "Conference Report: Symposium 'Historical English Word-Formation' (17–18 February, 2023; Munich, Germany)". Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation 7 (1): 287‒295. DOI: 10.21248/zwjw.2023.1.96.
Programme:
Friday, 17 February 2023
| Time | Topic (speaker/s) |
|---|
| 13:00–13:15 |
Welcome address (Kerstin Majewski) |
| 13:15–14:00 |
Conveying Sound: Onomatopoeic Word-Formation in Old English (Maria Flaksman) |
| 14:00–14:45 |
Digging into Old English Legal Compounds (Daniela Fruscione & Letizia Vezzosi) |
| 14:45–15:15 |
Coffee break |
| 15:15–16:00 |
PLENARY: Interface of Old English Dictionaries in Database Format: Integrating Derivational Morphology (Javier Martín Arista) |
| 16:00–16:45 |
Old English Occasional Word Formation: Language Rules, External Influence, and Personal Choices (Yekaterina Yakovenko) |
| 16:45–17:00 |
Break |
| 17:00–17:45 |
Word-Formation in The Battle of Maldon and Modern English (Birgit Schwan) |
| 17:45–18:30 |
Beyond Rhetoric: The Semantic Components of Kennings and their Role in Aiding Word Retrieval in Oral Old English Poetry (Mihaela Buzec) |
| 18:45 |
Evening reception |
Saturday, 18 February 2023
| Time | Topic (speaker/s) |
|---|
| 08:45–09:30 |
Lexical Affix Productivity in the History of English: A Quantitative Approach (Hagen Peukert) |
| 09:30–10:15 |
A Corpus-Based Study of the Middle English Derivational Suffix -fien (Susanne Lang) |
| 10:15–10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 10:30–11:15 |
The Decline of -ment: Was Gender a Factor? (Tanja Säily, Martin Hilpert & Jukka Suomela) |
| 11:15–12:00 |
Morphologically Marking Epistemicity in the History of English: English -ly and the Functional Diversification of English Adverbs (Ursula Lenker) |
| 12:00–13:30 |
Lunch break |
| 13:30–14:15 |
PLENARY: Register as a Predictor for the Use of Phrasal Verbs: A Diachronic Approach (Paula Rodríguez-Puente) |
| 14:15–15:00 |
Determining the Impact of Verbs Copied from Old French: Towards a Quantitative Analysis of Verbal Prefixes and Verb Particle Combinations in Middle English (Tara Struik & Carola Trips) |
| 15:00–15:15 |
Coffee break |
| 15:15–16:00 |
Hybridity in Middle English (Michael Bilynsky) |
| 16:00–16:45 |
Word-Formations Coined from French, Spanish, German and Yiddish Borrowings in Late Modern English: A Socio-Cognitive Perspective (Julia Landmann) |
| 16:45–17:00 |
Coffee break |
| 17:00–17:45 |
Bug doc, medico, piss-prophet, knife happy, waterologer or 007: Different Ways of Naming Medical Doctors in English (Marta Sylwanowicz) |
| 17:45–18:30 |
Initialisms in Late Modern English Scientific Writing (Katrin Menzel) |
| 18:30–19:15 |
Structural Analysis of Scientific Neologisms – the Case of Philosophical Transactions (Magdalena Bator) |
| 19:15–19:30 |
Closing address (Kerstin Majewski) |
