The Second Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology
Featuring the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Lingustics plenary speaker

This is the archive site for the December 2015 conference

About

What do we need to consider in order to understand phonological change and to reconstruct past phonological states? The Second Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology offered an opportunity to discuss fundamental questions in historical phonology as well as specific analyses of historical data.

The symposium was hosted by the Department of Linguistics and English Language on the 3rd and 4th December, 2015, with support from the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics.

The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics’ Plenary Speaker for 2015 was Ranjan Sen, University of Sheffield. We also gratefully acknowledge support from the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.

Invited talks

Here you can find the material for Ranjan Sen’s invited talks What keeps a historical phonologist up at night

• Part 1
  • Slides
  • Handout
• Part 2
  • Slides
  • Handout
• References

Tweets

You can find some of the live tweets to the right. Check also the #eshp2 hashtag for more.

Photos

Below you will find some photos by Rhona Alcorn and Roland Noske.

Latest news

• Find the abstract booklet here. There have also been updates to the practical information page
• Registration was open until 27th November!
• The final amended programme is available (including a restaurant and pub guide)
• The symposium will begin on Thursday 3rd December at 9.30 and will finish around 6pm on Friday 4th December. On the afternoon of Wednesday 2nd December, there will be ‘fringe’ session on the ‘History of Historical Phonology’: this is not part of the symposium, but entry will be free, and open to anyone in Edinburgh in advance of the symposium.

Previous conferences

The first Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology was held in Edinburgh in January 2014. The archived website is here.

Organisers

The conference email address is sympo-org@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk.

Committee:

• Rhona Alcorn (Edinburgh)
• Julian Bradfield (Edinburgh)
• Josef Fruehwald (Edinburgh)
• Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh)
• Pavel Iosad (Edinburgh)
• James Kirby (Edinburgh)
• Benjamin Molineaux (Edinburgh)
• Michael Ramsammy (Edinburgh)
• Patrycja Strycharczuk (Queen Margaret)

Advisory board

The following people have agreed to serve on the Symposium’s Advisory Board:

• Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester)
• David Bowie (University of Alaska — Anchorage)
• András Cser (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
• Mark Hale (Concordia University)
• D. Eric Holt (University of South Carolina)
• José Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Adèle Jatteau (University of Paris 8)
• Madelyn Kissock (Concordia University)
• Martin Kümmel (University of Jena)
• Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford)
• Roger Lass (University of Cape Town and University of Edinburgh)
• Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (University of Glasgow)
• Betty Phillips (Indiana State University)
• Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna)
• Joseph C. Salmons (University of Wisconsin — Madison)
• Tobias Scheer (University of Nice)
• Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield)
• Danielle Turton (Newcastle University)