Monthly Lunch Meetings
Programme for the coming semester
Coming semester
About four times each semester, the Codifiers project organises so-called Monthly Lunch Meetings during which different speakers will present informal papers on topics related to the Codifiers' interests. The meetings usually take place on Fridays.
Abstracts coming semester
Previous monthly lunch meetings
- Casper de Jonge: "Between Grammar and Rhetoric. Ancient Linguistic Theories in the Context of Rhetorical Theory". (31st Monthly Lunch Meeting, 26 March 2010)
- Gijsbert Rutten and Rik Vosters: "Traditions of "good usage" in the Low Countries (1686-1830)". (30th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 26 February 2010)
- Ileana Chersan: "Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century English Law Enforcement Vocabulary." (29th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 29 January 2010)
- Sören Hammerschmidt: "Reading Letters, Reading Lives." (28th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 27 November 2009)
- Geertrui Geraets, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Robin Straaijer: "Preposition Stranding in Late Modern English." (27th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 25 September 2009)
- Lyda Fens-de Zeeuw, "Where two text corpora meet: The implementation of Hexham's (1647) A Copious English and Netherduytch Dictionarie (E-D) into (2006-) Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)". (26th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 29 May 2009)
- MA students: Nienke van Lieshout, "James Elphinston, an 18th-Century Centipede". Matthijs Smits, "William Cobbett and the Politics of Grammar". Vera Willems, "James Buchanan and Ann Fisher's A New Grammar". (25th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 1 May 2009)
- Mathilde Jansen, "'They think we speak Frisian': dialect levelling on the island of Ameland". (24th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 20 March 2009)
- Andries van Helden, "Vicissitudes of the genitive rule". (23rd Monthly Lunch Meeting, 27 February 2009)
- PUC meeting: "Mini Symposium on Wills and Social Networks". (22nd Monthly Lunch Meeting, 12 December 2008)
- Robin Straaijer: "From Copy to Corpus: Building and Using the Joseph Priestley Letter Corpus". (21st Monthly Lunch Meeting, 21 November 2008)
- Xavier Dekeyser: "The Impact of Prescriptive Grammar on Actual Usage: Scope for Research". (20th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 31 October 2008)
- "Celebrating Sociohistorical Linguistics at Leiden". (19th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 19 September 2008)
- Raymond Hickey: "Introducing Corpus Presenter". (18th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 6 June 2008).
- Anita Auer: "The design and objectives of the Leiden Northern English Letter Corpus". (17th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 11 April 2008)
- Mike Scott: "A Demonstration of the Concordancing Program WordSmith." (16th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 14 March 2008)
- Nadine Akkerman: "A Stateswoman Yet: Elizabeth Stuart's Voluminous Correspondence Collected, Annotated, and Analysed". (15th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 22 February 2008)
- Gijsbert Rutten: "Historical Linguistics 'from below'- New Perspectives on the History of Dutch". (14th Monthly Lunch Meeting, 30 November 2007)
- Fátima Faya-Cerquiero - "Who requests whom and how they do it: use of request markers in late modern English letters". (28 September 2007)
- Victorina González-Díaz - "'Lose your language and you lose your soul': Prescriptivism in the media (1985-2005)". (25 May 2007)
- Sylvia Adamson - "'Daughters of earth and sons of heaven': words, things and persons in Johnson's Dictionary". (27 April 2007)
- Thilo C. Schadeberg - "The Standardization of Swahili". (23 March 2007)
- Göran Wolf - "Observations on the History of English Grammar". (23 February 2007)
- Jos Schaeken - "Birch-Bark Literacy from Medieval Russia: Contents and Contexts". (8 December 2006)
- Klaske van Leyden -"The Linguistic Situation in Orkney and Shetland". (17 November 2006)
- Annegien Theunissen - "Criteria of word classification in Japanese grammars in the 18th and 19th century". (20 October 2006)
- Dick Smakman - "Standard Dutch in the Netherlands. What it is and what it sounds like". (15 September 2006)
- Marian Klamer - "Minority language research in Eastern Indonesia: practical and political issues". (23 June 2006)
- Pepijn Hendriks - "'Ja bhogu molitzu da pristoino vtzitzu - Ich wÿll godtt bidden vnd flitigen lehren: On research into the language of Russian conversation manuals from the 16th and 17th centuries". (19 May 2006)
- Anni Sairio - "A social network of eighteenth-century England: linguistic changes and influences in the Bluestocking correspondence". (28 April 2006)
- Marijke van der Wal - "Language History from Below: Egodocuments and Linguistic Variation in 18th- and 19th-century Dutch". (17 March 2006)