Pre-conference workshops

Dialect Death and Rebirth: Exploring Obsolescence in the Traditional Dialects of Britain, Ireland and Canada

Convenors: Karen Corrigan (Newcastle University) & Laura Rupp (Vriej Universiteit Amsterdam)

Agreement in English: Unlocking the Secrets of Grammatical Harmony

Convenors: Yolanda Fernández-Pena (Universidade de Vigo) & Javier Pérez-Guerra (Universidade de Vigo)

Expanding Horizons – Expanding Circles – Expanding Englishes

Convenors: Sofia Rüdiger (Freie Universität Berlin) & Jakob Leimgruber (Universität Regensburg)

Building Historical Corpora of World Englishes

Convenors: Guyanne Wilson (University College London), Danica Salazar (Oxford English Dictionary, OUP) & Amanda Thomas (Oxford English Dictionary, OUP)