May 22, 2025 - May 23, 2025
https://www.cbdaconference.org
The eighth edition of the international Colloque Bisannuel sur la
Diachronie de l’Anglais (Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of
English, CBDA-8) will take place in Tours from May 22nd to May 23rd
2025, hosted by the Université de Tours (Laboratoire Ligérien de
Linguistique, équipe VETD-VO) and organised in collaboration with the
Université de Lorraine-Metz (laboratoire InterDisciplinarité dans les
Études Anglophones) and the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
(Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur les Langues et la
Pensée).
The plenary speakers at this year's conference will be Richard Ingham
(University of Westminster, Great Britain), and Aude Mairey (Sorbonne University,
(France).
Richard Ingham will be giving the second Xavier Dekeyser Memorial
Lecture.
Submission instructions:
We invite contributiors to present session papers on all topics
concerned with change and variation in the history of English (syntax,
semantics, phonology, morphology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics,
language contact, lexicology, etc.), on all periods in the history of
English, or on other languages directly relevant to the study of
the evolution of English. Full papers will be allotted 30 minutes,
including 10 minutes for discussion.
If you would like to present a paper, please submit an abstract (approximately
300 - 400 words) in pdf format, using the EasyAbs system.
Submissions open: Oct. 18, 2024 - Feb. 3, 2025
Abstract review period: Feb. 5, 2024 - Feb. 24, 2024