plenary lectures

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Marina Dossena, University of Bergamo (Italy)
Dialect and Vernacular Forms in Late Modern English
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2.


Philip Durkin, Oxford (United Kingdom)
Etymology and the OED: the uses of etymology in a historical dictionary

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3.


Teresa Fanego, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Diachrony and usage: the English manner verbs of human self-movement
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4.


Thomas Kohnen, University of Cologne (Germany)
Historical text linguistics: Investigating language change in text and genres
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