Language over time: A symposium on Anglo-Norman in the context of medieval French language use
Apollo Hotel Birmingham , 19th January 2008
Welcome: David Roberts, Head of the School of English, Birmingham City University
PROGRAMME
9.00 Welcome: Professor David Roberts, Head of School of English, Birmingham City University.
Papers
9.10 Anthony Lodge (St Andrews) 'The sources of standardisation in medieval French: written or spoken?'
9.50 David Trotter (Aberystwyth) ‘Witnesses to spoken Anglo-French? Evidential problems and documentary transmission'
Coffee 10.30-11.00
11.00 Paul Brand ( Oxford ) 'The language of the English legal profession: the emergence of a distinctive legal lexicon in insular French'
11.40 M. Ormrod & G. Dodd (York, Nottingham) 'The Language and Form of Fourteenth-Century Petitions to the English Crown: Historical Approaches to the Use of Anglo-Norman'
Lunch 12.20-14.00
14.00 Anne Curry ( Southampton ), on behalf of the AHRC project, The Soldier in Later Medieval England: ‘Languages in the military profession in the later middle ages'
14.40. Stéphanie Brazeau et Serge Lusignan (Montréal) ‘Étude diachronique d'un exemple de la graphie picarde : les chirographes de l'échevinage de Douai (1223-1500)'
Tea 15.20-15.40
15.40 Sophie Prévost (Paris) ‘Evolution de la position du sujet pronominal dans quelques textes du 14ème siècle : un cas de grammaticalisation?'
16.20 Isabelle Turcan (Lyon/Nancy) ‘Les particularités linguistiques des comptes du domaine franco-provençal à la lumière des manuscrits historiques de Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne: Variation linguistique, indices de l'oralité traquée via les variations graphiques.'
17.00 Close
Alternant: Richard Ingham (Birmingham City University)
For further information, contact richard.ingham@bcu.ac.uk
This workshop has been made possible by the generous support of the British Academy, research network grant BA sec. H 4.