Day 1

Hours
DAY ONE: THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2015
Conference venue: Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, ul. Sienkiewicza 32
1:30 - 3:00
REGISTRATION (hall)
3:00 - 3:15
OPENING CEREMONY (room 114)
Prof. dr hab. Norbert Morciniec (Rector of the Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, Poland)
Prof. dr hab. Jacek Fisiak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland / Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, Poland)
SESSION 1
SECTION I (room 203)
SECTION II (room 205)
Chair: A. Hebda
3:30 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:00
O. Andrushenko (Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University, Ukraine)
Information-structural load of adverb only in 14th-century English
A. Seiler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Off heoffness fir, & off þe lifft, Off waterr, & off eorþe: Article choice with generic mass
nouns in early Middle English
Chair: M. Bator
B. Duda (University of Rzeszów, Poland)
An onomasiological insight into drinking and being drunk in Middle English
E. Kubaschewski (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany)
Binominals in Caxton’s Ovid and its Middle French source Ovide moralisé en prose II
H. Rutkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
A late medieval French almanac and its early modern Scots and English translations
SECTION III (room 206)
Chair: D. Scott-Macnab
G. Bergstrøm (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Linguistic variation in a corpus of Cambridge conveyances
J. Schultz (Heidelberg University, Germany / University of Mannheim, Germany)
The structure of the noun phrase in Middle English translations: Evidence for the influence
of French?
M. Bilynsky (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine)
Clumps of textual prototypes in the OED-based recovery of ME deverbal derivation and
(near-)synonymy
K. Krakowiecki (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
A cross-section of change: Middle English seyn and its functions
5:00 - 5:30
COFFEE BREAK (hall)
5:30 - 6:30
PLENARY LECTURE 1 (room 114)
Hans Sauer (University of Munich, Germany) & David Scott-Macnab (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
The names of a thousand-and-one hunting-hounds in a 15th-century list
Chair: J. Fisiak