Trinity Hall, Cambridge
3-4 January 2003

PROGRAMME

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Friday 3 January

1230 Bar opens; sandwiches available.

1415 Chris Pountain (Cambridge): 'Gender without Sex: the semantic exploitation of the masculine/feminine opposition in the history of Spanish'
1445 Paolo Acquaviva (UCD): 'Italian plurals in -a as lexical derivations'
1515 Martin Maiden (Oxford): 'The curious history of the Dalmatian verb, 1878-1897'

1545 Business meeting, followed by free time for tea, visits to bookshops, etc.

1745 Francisco Dubert García (Santiago): 'Una nueva aproximación a las variedades sociolectales en Galicia'
1815 Tony Lodge (St Andrews): 'The social motivation of sound change: prototype theory and Parisian French'

1900 Sherry

1930 Dinner

2115 (approx) Roger Wright (Liverpool): 'Romance and Ibero-Romance in the Descort of Raimbaut de Vaqueiras'

Saturday 4 January

0930 Gladis Massini-Cagliari (Oxford / Universidade Estadual Paulista): 'Diphthong and Hiatus in Medieval Portuguese profane cantigas'
1000 Odile Cyrille-Thomas (Salford): 'For an equational and contrastive approach to clefting'

1030 Coffee

1100 Richard Ashdowne (Oxford): 'The Vocative's Calling? The Syntax of Address in Latin'
1130 Kim Schulte (Exeter): 'Foreign Etymology: an unusual trigger for phonological change in Romanian'
1200 John Green & Marie-Anne Hintze (Bradford): 'Aspirations to silence: the alleged decline of French h-aspiré'

1230 Bar open

1300 Lunch