Programme (as of 19 February):
Times indicated are for Central European Time UTC+1 (Germany).
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
09:00- 10:15 |
Opening of the conference (room 1) – Markus Schiegg (Erlangen) Plenary: Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki) The register potential of linguistic change: Individual and group perspectives |
Session 1: Intra-writer variation 'from below' I |
Session 2: Identity and supralocalisation |
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10:30- 11:00 |
Agnete Nesse (Bergen) Varying spelling techniques in the texts of an adult, inexperienced writer |
Anita Auer (Lausanne) The relationship between intra- and inter-individual variation and supralocalisation processes |
11:00- 11:30 |
Katharina Gunkler-Frank (Erlangen) Clitics in German patient letters from the 19th and 20th centuries |
Josh Brown (Canberra) Urban vernaculars and intra-speaker variation: Linguistic accommodation in merchant letters from Milan |
11:30- 12:00 |
Aurelija Tamošiūnaitė (Mainz) Positioning the self ‘from below’: A case study of peasant’s complaints (1901) |
Jennifer Hendriks (Canberra) The malleability of sociolinguistic identity: Intra-writer variation in the De Baccher/Thijs Family correspondence, 1590-1622 |
12:00- 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
Session 1: Intra-writer variation 'from below' II |
Session 2: Intra-writer variation in the Middle East |
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14:00- 14:30 |
Marijke van der Wal (Leiden) Early Modern delegated writing: A case of intra-writer variation or a more complex phenomenon? |
Martina Schmidl (Vienna) Intra-writer variation in Late Babylonian letters |
14:30- 15:00 |
Anita Auer, Anne-Christine Gardner & Mark Iten (Lausanne) Patterns of linguistic variation in pauper petitions from the parish of Pangbourne, Berkshire |
Esther-Miriam Wagner (Cambridge) Intra-writer variation in the Arabic sources of the Cairo Genizah |
15:00- 15:30 |
Frauke Griese (Duisburg-Essen) “I am having quite a good time dodging the shells” – Exploring lexical emotional perspectives in Scottish war correspondence |
Marta Andrić (Zagreb) Intra-Writer variation in Ottoman Turkish: The case of Evliya Çelebi |
15:30- 16:00 |
Screen Break |
Session 1: Intra-writer variation in diaries & logbooks |
Session 2: Sociolinguistic identity & linguistic ideology |
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16:00- 16:30 |
Laura Linzmeier (Regensburg) Style-shifting and individual language use in French logbook entries during the 17th–18th centuries |
Mallory Matsumoto (Providence) Reconstructing the ideological foundations of classic Maya hieroglyphic writing |
16:30- 17:00 |
Anna D. Havinga (Bristol) Intra-writer variation in an Austrian winegrower’s nineteenth-century chronicle |
Sarah van Eyndhoven (Edinburgh) Pragmatism, patriotism and presbyterianism: Use of Scots in written correspondence during the Union debates (1689–1707) |
17:00- 17:30 |
Andreas Krogull & Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden) The observee’s paradox. Accounting for differences between types of ego-document |
Paul Cooper (Liverpool) “They would not change for the faultless style of the Queen herself”: Style-shifting, “Yorkshiremen”, and enregistered nineteenth-century Yorkshire dialect |
17:45 | Get-together (wonder.me) |

Thursday, 18 March 2021
09:00- 10:15 |
Plenary (room 1): Juan M. Hernández-Campoy (Murcia) Intra-speaker variation and descending into the real world of epistolary interaction - Historical Sociolinguistics book series presentations – Nils Langer (Peter Lang); Terttu Nevalainen & Marijke van der Wal (John Benjamins) |
12:00- 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
Session 1: Historical Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis |
Session 2: Standardisation and language historiography |
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14:00- 14:30 |
Phil Beier & Gohar Schnelle (Berlin) Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta |
Vince Liégeois (Burgundy) Intra-writer variation and the Italo-Romance “philological problem”. A case study of Old Sicilian syntax. |
14:30- 15:00 |
Christine Elsweiler (Munich) Intra-speaker variation regarding request strategies in Scottish letters (1500–1700) |
Peeter Tinits (Tallinn) Mechanisms behind standardization of written Estonian 1880–1920 |
15:00- 15:30 |
Taru Nordlund (Helsinki) License to declare and enforce? Historical sociolinguistics meets historical discourse analysis |
Eneko Zuloaga & Dorota Krajewska (Basque Country) Intra-writer variation and speaker design in pre-standardized Basque dialects |
15:30- 16:00 |
Screen Break |
Session 1: Language contact and variation in Spanish and Portuguese |
Session 2: Variation in legal and administrative documents I |
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16:00- 16:30 |
Israel Sanz-Sánchez (West Chester) A tale of two mergers: Sociohistorical agencies across the lifespan in language change |
Donald Tuten & María Jesús Torrens-Alvárez (Atlanta, Madrid) Nicholaus Martini scripsit: Latin-Romance hybridity in the documents of a thirteenth-century Castilian scribe |
16:30- 17:00 |
Victor Carreão (Campinas) Solidarity within the city of Santos and in the usage of personal pronouns by its inhabitants |
Theodore Markopoulos (Patras) Μorphosyntactic variation in Early Modern Greek notary acts: Assessing the evidence |
17:00- 17:30 |
Tania Avilés Vergara (New York) Familial letters from the War of the Pacific (1879–1881): Deixis, identity negotiation and communities of practice |
Christa Schneider (Bern) Towards the written language in Early Modern Bern (Switzerland) |
17:45 | Get-together (wonder.me) |

Friday, 19 March 2021
Session 1: Variation in legal and administrative documents II |
Session 2: Norms and usage in Dutch |
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09:15 09:45 |
Jenelle Thomas (Oxford) Performing the gubernatorial persona(e): Stylistic variation in official correspondence |
Iris Van de Voorde, Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters & Marijke van der Wal (Brussels, Leiden) Historical pluricentricity in the Dutch language area |
09:45- 10:15 |
Snježana Husinec (Zagreb) Metalinguistic discourse of legal professionals: What does it reveal about the history of the Croatian language of the law? |
Eline Lismont & Rik Vosters (Brussels) Norms and usage: A case study of Dutch |
12:00- 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
Session 1: Stylistic choices of educated writers II |
Session 2: Language contact & multilingualism II |
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14:00- 14:30 |
Oliver Currie (Ljubljana) At the beginning was the verb: Word order change and style shifting in the sixteenth-century Welsh Bible translations |
Jenny Robins (Munich, Urbana) Stylistic variation and code-switching in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Das buch der cirurgia |
14:30- 15:00 |
Lucia Assenzi (Innsbruck) Intra-writer variation at the top of the social hierarchy in 17th-century Germany: The letters of Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen |
Carmela Perta (Chieti-Pescara) A trois de la clocke apres noone. On writer’s language use in some multilingual letters |
15:00- 15:30 |
Tino Oudesluijs & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (Manchester, Vigo) Through the lens of The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1750–c.1820): Ego-documents, individuals and historical social networks |
Veronika Girininkaitė (Vilnius) A case study of the intra-writer variation in the multilingual Diary (1904–1910) of Vytautas Civinskis (1887–1910) |
15:30- 16:00 |
Screen Break |
Session 1: Intra-writer variation in heritage settings |
Session 2: Intra-writer variation in prescriptive and nationalist texts |
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16:00- 16:30 |
Yasmin Crombez, Rik Vosters & Wim Vandenbussche (Brussels) Exploring layers of language contact in emigrant writing |
Eleonora Serra (Cambridge) Looking for norms for informal writings: An examination of sixteenth-century Italian metalinguistic texts |
16:30- 17:00 |
Doris Stolberg (Mannheim) Intra-writer variation within and between languages: Developmental and social aspects |
Spiros A. Moschonas (Athens) Intra-writer variation in prescriptive texts: On the standards of Standard Modern Greek |
17:00- 17:30 |
Nora Dörnbrack (Oslo) Longitudinal variation in verb inflection in Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald’s writings |
Giedrius Subačius (Urbana-Champaign) Modification of Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864) own prestandard Lithuanian orthography |
17:30- 18:00 |
Screen Break |
18:00- 19:15 |
Plenary (room 1): José del Valle (New York) Making voices, making publics: Language history and linguistic memorialization - HiSoN 2022 – Juan M. Hernández-Campoy (Murcia) - Closing of the conference – Judith Huber (Erlangen) |
