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FGLS 2010 meeting, January 8 – 9, 2010
University of Wales Conference Centre,
Gregynog, Nr Newtown, Powys
PROGRAMME AND FURTHER INFORMATION
Local organiser: Wini Davies, Aberystwyth University (wid@aber.ac.uk)
▪ How to get to Gregynog
By Car
Gregynog Hall is located near the village of Tregynon, six miles north of Newtown in Powys. Directions from Newtown can be found at http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/UniversityConferenceCentre/Directions.aspx.
By Train
Trains to Newtown run every two hours from Birmingham International and Birmingham New Street on the Birmingham-Aberystwyth line. See http://www.nationalrail.co.uk. Once you reach Newtown local taxi services can take you to Gregynog Hall. Please call either Station Cars on 01686 621818 or Steve’s Cabs on 01686 621474.
▪ Parking
Ample parking is available at Gregynog.
▪ Internet
In addition to PowerPoint facilities, there will also be wireless connection available. Gregynog also supply laptops in all their seminar rooms.
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Friday |
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8.00 |
Breakfast |
10.00 |
Registration |
11.00 |
Coffee |
11.30 |
Welcome |
11.50 |
Kristine Horner (Leeds) & Cedric Krummes (Bangor)Mapping Luxembourgish: Negotiating linguistic boundaries on YouTube |
12.25 |
Melanie Wagner (Université du Luxembourg)Luxembourgish on Facebook: Language ideologies and writing strategies |
13.00 |
Lunch |
14.15 |
Gertrud Reershemius (Aston)Tourism, language shift and the discourse on regional ethnicity:The case of Low German |
14.50 |
Roel Vismans (Sheffield)Dutch between English and German: Some reflections |
15.25 |
Johanneke Sytsema & Aditi Lahiri (Oxford)Phonological changes in Middle Dutch rhyming verse:Looking at a Bodleian manuscript. |
16.00 |
Afternoon Tea |
16.30 |
Petra Storjohann (Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim)How authentic is information in modern German dictionaries? |
17.05 |
Astrid Ensslin, Cedric Krummes (Bangor), Chan Jia Wei, Hagen Hirschmann, Thomas Krause, Anke Lüdeling, Marc Reznicek, Amir Zeldes (Humboldt, Berlin)‘What’s hard in German?’Touching the void of under-represented structures |
17.40 |
Michael Maerlein (University College Dublin)Error analysis: Identifying students’ grammatical/linguistic problemsand what to do against them |
18.15 |
AGM |
19.00 |
Dinner |
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SATURDAY |
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8.00 |
Breakfast |
9.00 |
Carol Fehringer (Newcastle)Diminutive nouns in Swabian compounds: A ‘words and rules’ approach |
9.35 |
Alan Scott (Nottingham)The development of once-only possessive marking in German:A comparison with other Germanic languages |
10.10 |
Paul Bennett, Martin Durrell, Silke Scheible, Richard J. Whitt (Manchester)Explorations in the GerManC corpus:The status of the würde + infinitive construction in EMG |
10.45 |
Coffee |
11.15 |
Barbara Fennell (Aberdeen)An analysis of forms of address in Swedish parliamentary records |
11.50 |
Geraldine Horan (University College London)Linguistic characteristics of humour and ridicule inGerman parliamentary discourse |
12.25 |
Melani Schröter (Reading)Merkel’s secrets: How not to have an election campaign |
13.00 |
Lunch |
14.00 |
Nicola McLelland (Nottingham)Prescriptions of German for foreign language learnersin the UK, 1850 – 2000 |
14.35 |
Horst Simon (King’s College London)Early ‘German as a foreign language’ textbooks as sourcesfor historical syntax and pragmatics |
15.10 |
Guest Plenary Lecture:Professor Evelyn Ziegler (Duisburg-Essen)A new norm on the horizon? Verb second in weil-clauses |
16.10 |
Closing Session |