ISLE 5 Conference Plenaries

The following plenary speakers have confirmed their attendance.

• Anita Auer, Université de Lausanne » blog
  • Abstract: Re(de)fining the beginnings of written Standard English
• Ilse Depraetere, Université de Lille
  • Abstract: The meaning of modals: a view from pragmatics
• John McWhorter, Columbia University
  • Abstract: English is not normal: A case for English as a semi-creole Germanic
• Peter Trudgill, University of East Anglia and University of Fribourg » Wikipedia entry
  • Abstract: Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in English dialects

Presidential Address

• Edgar Schneider, Universität Regensburg
  • Abstract: (World) Englishes as Complex Systems

More information will be available soon.

Email the Organising Committee: isle5.conference@ucl.ac.uk

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