16th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology>

Program > Thursday 25 June 2026

09:00–10:00

Plenary 2 – Peter Petré
How grammar change affects verb meanings … and some like it more than others

10:00–10:30

Coffee break

Session 4 – Variation, Phraseology, and Lexical Semantics in Historical Perspective (10:30–12:30)

Time

Room A – Variation and Dialect

Room B – Phraseology and Evaluation

Room C – Lexicography and Cultural Knowledge

Room D – Lexical Semantics and Usage

10:30–11:00

 

 

Roberto Lassandro – “A Carousel of Names”. A Case of Heteronymy in the Field of Cucurbitaceae between Puglia and Salento

 

Quentin Feltgen – Show Your Courage, Great or Vile: Meaning Shift from a Corpus-Driven Phraseological Perspective

Geoffrey Williams – Mangez des pommes : Apples in English and French Dictionaries

Alice Brenon – À la frontière des langues : l’exotisme lexical dans les discours encyclopédiques

11:00–11:30

Gábor Tillinger – Hungarian Dialect Words in Old and Modern Hungarian–French Dictionaries

 

Michela Murano – La Phraséologie dans les Grands Dictionnaires Bilingues Français–Italien au XIXe Siècle : Cercare un ago in un pagliaio ?

Mitja Trojar – Plant Names in Hieronymus Megiser’s Thesaurus Polyglottus (1603)

Yuri Komuro – From Consultants to Co-editors: The Evolving Roles of Native Speakers in English–Japanese Learners’ Dictionaries

11:30–12:00

Abdelaziz Berkai – L’archaïsme lexical en kabyle : étude sur le dictionnaire kabyle-français de Huyghe (1901)

Maël Farina – Holding Meaning: The Lexical Network of Grasp, Grip and Grab

Szabó Réka, Kata Jasper – How Landscape Shapes Meaning: Culture, Conventionalization, and the Egyptian Desert

Cécile Margelidon – La Variation Linguistique et l’Usage dans les Étymologies d’Isidore

12:00–12:30

Xingni Li – From Manuscript to Print: Orthographic Variation and Stylised Ideographs in Late Imperial China

Olga Menagarishvili – Collecting, Recording, and Distributing the Language of Science and Technology: The American Artist’s Manual, or, Dictionary of Practical Knowledge in the Application of Philosophy to the Arts and Manufactures

Geraint Paul Rees – A Historical Perspective on the Visual Accessibility of an Online Dictionary

 

   

12:30–14:00

Lunch

14:00–15:00

Plenary 3 – Richard Ingham
Loanword Polysemy in the History of English

15:00–16:00

Anglo-Norman Hub Demonstration

16:00–16:30

Coffee break

Session 5 – Lexicographic Practice, Terminology, and Digital Approaches (16:30–17:00)

Room A – Lexicographic Practice

Room B – Terminology and Specialised Domains

Room C – Digital Lexicography

Room D – Corpus and Digital Methods

Harald Bichlmeier – Vol. IX of the Etymological Dictionary of Old High German (Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen, EWA)

Chiara Benati, Marialuisa Caparrini – Words for Disease: A Contrastive Study of Pathological Terminology in Middle English and Early New High German Antidotaries of Lanfranc of Milan

Bruno Oliveira Maroneze – Lexicographie Historique et Humanités Numériques : Le Vocabulaire Biologique Portugais au XVIIIe Siècle

Mariarosaria Gianninoto, Rebecca Fernandez-Rodrigues - Linguistic variation and Metalinguistic Labelling in Sino-Spanish Manuscript Dictionaries

 

   

17:30

Château visit

19:00

Rooftop drinks followed by 20.00 Gala dinner

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