Program > Wednesday 24 June 2026

08:30–09:00

Registration

09:00–09:15

Welcome

09:15–10:15

Plenary 1 – Kathryn Allan
Antonyms and the ‘Negativity Bias’: Lexical Variation in Evaluative Adjectives across the History of English

10:15–10:30

Coffee break

10:30–11:00

Anna Grzeszak – Before Lemmas: Early Multilingual Dictionaries as Usage-Oriented Lexicographic Tools

Hilke Ceuppens – Did Lucky Push Happy? Push-Chains and Drag-Chains in Semantic Change

Poul Anker Hansen – Diachronic Decay of Swedish Prefix Verbs Can Be Studied More Effectively with an Analysis of Compositional Data in Swedish–Danish Dictionaries (1846–2010)

Sven-Eric Soosaar, Tiina Paet, Madis Jürviste, Enriching Historical Dictionaries with modern form and meanings – A case study with J. Gutlaff’s 1648 South Estonian Dictionary

11:00–11:30

Lynda Mugglestone – Scots, Collective Evidence, and the Making of Johnson’s Dictionary

Zukhra Aibazova – Reconstructing Semantic Shift Directionality: From Proto-Turkic būg ‘steam’ to Karachay-Balkar buqu ‘dust’

Laura Diamanti – Stance Adverbs in Evaluative Discourse: Usage Patterns and Lexicographic Implications

Magdalena Bator, Petra Peldova, Game, set, match – on the English-based terminology in tennis jargon of Czech and Polish

11:30–12:00

Ellert Thor Johannsson – Konráð Gíslason’s Danish–Icelandic Dictionary (1851): Definitions and Sense Structure in Purist Lexicography

Natalia Cziganj – Mapping the Social and Lexical Diffusion of Middle English Adjectives of Aesthetic Evaluation

Virginia Meirelles, Thaís Zadorosny Da Silva, Carlos Vitor De Freitas Nascimento – The Dictionary’s Verdict: How Lexicographers Documented the Decline of Thou

Simeon Tsolakidis Historical lexicography and diminution: a case study on the basis of Modern Greek

12:00–12:30

Joseph T. Farquharson – Typologising Definitions in Caribbean Dictionaries of English and English-Related Creoles

Julia Landmann – Crossing Cultures, Shaping Feelings: A Cognitive-Semantic Study of Emotion Terms

Adeline Patard – Drifting from Lexicon to Grammar: The Gradual Grammaticalization of the ‘Future’ aller + INF from a Long Diachronic Perspective

Olga Lyashevskaya, Anna V. Ptentsova, Ilia Afanasyev, Hypocoristics usage in Old Novgorodian as a witness of social practices in Early Slavic Societies

12:30–14:00

Lunch

14:00–14:30

Theodor Georgescu – « Διαφέρει » : distinguer pour mieux employer. L’indication de l’usage dans les lexiques grecs tardifs et byzantins

Carmen Quijada Diez, Bertha M. Gutiérrez Rodilla, Marta Gómez Martínez – Physicians as Translators and Lexicographers: Medical Knowledge and Terminological Consolidation in Nineteenth-Century Spanish

Adriana De Tullio – Enquêtes Linguistiques sur les Anciens Textes Latins de Bari (Pouilles)

Jie Liu, Language contact and headword selection: Missionary linguistic ideology and the construction of the historical Chinese lexicon in the Diccionario China-Portuguez (1833)

14:30–15:00

Cosimo De Giovanni – Usage, Variation et Conventionnalisation : Le Système Métalinguistique du Dictionnaire François de P. Richelet (1680)

Zinaida Geylikman, Joëlle Ducos, Fleur Vigneron – Conceptualising Science in Medieval Terms: The Case of Vertu in the Dictionnaire du Français Scientifique Médiéval

Paola Labadessa, Simone Gabriele Paratore – De l’Élysée au Dictionnaire : diachronie, divergences et processus de conventionnalisation du lexique présidentiel (1848–2026)

Theodore Vyzas, Le parcours des termes du Code de commerce français dans les dictionnaires généraux français-grec (XIXe s. – début XXe s.) : contexte culturel et choix lexicaux

15:00–15:30

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Silvia Domenica Zollo, Variation, usage et conventionnalisation en zoonymie marine : les dénominations des étoiles de mer dans la lexicographie historique

Husam Ma’ayah – Conventionnalisation et émergence lexicale dans les discours présidentiels sur la pandémie de COVID-19

Kusujiro Miyoshi, Mathew’s treatment of idiomatic verb phrases: its comparison with the case of Craigie and Hulbert’s

15:30–16:00

Coffee break

17:30

Visit to the Hôtel de Ville

18:30

Welcome Reception