On January 17 at 1pm, Magda Serwadczak will defend her joint PhD (VUB-Antwerp) entitled: Actual Words Were Not Included: Orality, Literacy, and Entextualization in Historical Criminal Records (1700-1900).
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Rik Vosters (VUB), Prof. dr. Mieke Vandenbroucke (UAntwerpen)
The defense will take place in auditorium I0.01 at the VUB-campus in Etterbeek.
You are kindly invited!
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We would like to thank Prof. Laura Wright from the University of Cambridge for her inspiring guest lecture last Friday, Nov. 22 on lexical sociolinguistics, communities of spatial practice and enregisterment!
Yasmin Crombez recently published her paper entitled “From ‘dankgevingsdag’ to ’turkey party’: Historical Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Loan Strategies in Flemish-American Heritage Newspapers” in Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies, where she explores borrowing patterns in Flemish-American newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries.
You can find the full paper here!
Julie Van Ongeval (VUB & FWO) was honored with the 2024 Best Paper Presentation Award by the Linguistic Society of Belgium for her paper entitled “Dialect contact in Early Modern Antwerp: Exploring the impact of the socially disruptive Fall of Antwerp (1585)”.
Congratulations, Julie!
Dr. Morana Lukač will be giving a guest lecture on non-binary pronouns in Dutch and the influence of prescriptivism on language change. The lecture will take place on Friday 7 March 2025 at 16h in room C.5.03 on the VUB campus. Registration is not required; everyone is welcome!
As part of the master’s course on historical sociolinguistics, Eline Lismont will give a guest lecture on the relationship between codified norms and usage in Early and Late Modern Dutch. The lecture will take place on Friday 29 November 2024 from 11 a.m. to 13 p.m. in room D.3.13 on the VUB campus. Registration is not required.
Everyone is welcome!