Talks

2023

Booth, Hannah. ‘Discourse markers and the information-structural watershed: An LFG approach.’ Presented at the conference Discourse markers – theories and methods, Paris, May 2023. Slides.

2022

Booth, Hannah. ‘Beyond given versus new: the proprial article in Old Icelandic’. Presented at the All Þings Germanic Group, Ghent University, December 2022.
Booth, Hannah. ‘The annotation of information structure: challenges and opportunities’. Presented at the Ghent Generative Grammar Group (G4), Ghent University, November 2022.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Desiderata for the annotation of information structure in complex sentences’. Presented at the Sixteenth Linguistic Annotation Workshop, co-located with LREC, Marseille, June 2022. Slides.
Booth, Hannah. ‘The diversity of expletives: an LFG approach’. Presented at the workshop The Theory and Historical Development of Expletives, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, June 2022. Slides.
Booth, Hannah. ‘The diversity of expletives: theoretical possibilities and diachronic opportunities’. Invited plenary at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics, University of Manchester, April 2022. Abstract.
Rehn, Alexandra & Hannah Booth. ‘OCP effects in Germanic possession’. Presented at the Ghent Generative Grammar Group (G4), Ghent University, March 2022. Slides.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar’. Presented at the Ghent Generative Grammar Group (G4), Ghent University, March 2022.

2021

Rehn, Alexandra & Hannah Booth. ‘OCP effects in Germanic possession: dialectal and diachronic evidence.’ Presented digitally at the 35th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, University of Trento, June 2021. Abstract. Slides.
Booth, Hannah & Christin Beck. ‘V1, V2 and information structure in the history of Icelandic ’. Presented digitally at the 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, University of Oslo, June 2021. Abstract. Slides.
Booth, Hannah & Christin Beck. ‘Information structure and word order change: verb-first and verb-second in Icelandic’. Presented digitally at the 22nd Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) conference, University of Konstanz, May 2020. Abstract. Slides. Video.

2020 — Those marked * were accepted but postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19

Beck, Christin, Booth Hannah, El-Assady, Mennatallah & Miriam Butt. ‘Representation Problems in Linguistic Annotations: Ambiguity, Variation, Uncertainty, Error and Bias’. Presented digitally at the online 14th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, co-located with COLING 2020, Barcelona, December 2020. Poster.
Booth, Hannah & Alexander Rehn. ‘Germanic possessor doubling is possessor linking’. Presented digitally at the online Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax, Universität des Saarlandes, November 2020. Abstract. Slides.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Argument configurationality and discourse configurationality in Old Icelandic ’. Presented digitally at the e-version of the 25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, University of Oslo, June 2020. Slides. Video.
* Booth, Hannah & Tina Bögel, Christin Beck & Nicole Dehé. ‘Stylistic Fronting and information structure in Icelandic: insights from prosody and diachrony ’. Accepted as a talk at a work shop on Word order, Prosody and Information Structure in the Scandinavian Languages, scheduled to be co-located with the 25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, University of Oslo, June 2020. Abstract.
Schätzle, Christin & Hannah Booth. ‘Investigating interactional syntactic change in Middle English: insights from visual analytics ’. Presented digitally at the e-version of ICAME 41, Heidelberg University, May 2020. Abstract. Slides. Video. Extended Book of Abstracts.
* Booth, Hannah, Anne Breitbarth, Aaron Ecay & Melissa Farasyn ‘A Penn-style treebank of Middle Low German’. Accepted as a poster at the Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), Marseille, May 2020. Paper.

2019

Booth, Hannah. A Penn-style Treebank of Middle Low German. Talk at Research Colloquium, University of Konstanz, December 2019. (Joint work with Anne Breitbarth, Aaron Easy & Melissa Farasyn.) Slides.
Breitbarth, Anne, Melissa Farasyn & Hannah Booth. ‘Parsing the Corpus of Historical Low German (CHLG)’. Poster presented at the LW Research Day, Ghent University, September 2019. Poster.
Schätzle, Christin & Hannah Booth. ‘DiaHClust: an Iterative Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Identifying Stages in Language Change’. Poster presented at the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, Florence, Italy, August 2019. Paper.
Booth, Hannah & Christin Schätzle. ‘Verb-first and verb-second in the history of Icelandic’. Paper presented at the 24th International LFG Conference (LFG2019), Australian National University, July 2019. Handout.
Booth, Hannah & Tine Breban. ‘Expletives in competition: diverging pathways of change in English and Icelandic’. Paper presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Australian National University, July 2019. Handout.
Booth, Hannah. ‘How to fill the prefield in Icelandic: the diachrony of expletives and Stylistic Fronting’. Invited talk at the University of Konstanz, June 2019. Handout.

2018

Booth, Hannah. ‘Expletives and clause structure in the history of Icelandic’. Paper presented at the Workshop on Word Order in Scandinavian Languages, University of Konstanz, December 2018. Handout.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Subjectless’ constructions and expletives: syntactic change in Icelandic’. Paper presented at the 25th South of England Lexical Functional Grammar Meeting, SOAS, University of London, May 2018. Handout.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Structural ambiguity and the history of impersonal constructions in Icelandic’. Paper presented at Grammatikk i Norden 2 (GRAMINO), University of Oslo, May 2018. Handout.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Corpus linguistics and medieval studies: old problems, new methods’. Invited talk at the Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen, May 2018.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Structural ambiguity, expletives and impersonal constructions in the history of Icelandic’. Paper presented at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics, University of Manchester, April 2018.

2017

Booth, Hannah & Christin Schätzle. ‘Word order change, case and expletives in the history of Icelandic’. Paper presented at the 19th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS 19), Stellenbosch University and the University of the Western Cape, September 2017. Slides.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Just how oral are the sagas? New insights from corpus linguistics’. Paper presented at the Nordic Research Network 2017 (NRN 2017), University of Aberdeen, August 2017.
Booth, Hannah & Christin Schätzle. ‘Subjects, case and word order change in Icelandic: a corpus study’. Paper presented at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Texas at San Antonio, July 2017. Slides.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Expletives in Icelandic: a diachronic study’. Paper presented at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Texas at San Antonio, July 2017.
Booth, Hannah, Kersti Börjars, Miriam Butt & Christin Schätzle. ‘Dative subjects and the rise of positional licensing in Icelandic’. Paper presented at the 22nd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Universität Konstanz, July 2017. Slides.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Tracking language change through historical corpora: the rise of expletive subjects in Icelandic’. iPoster presented at the Postgraduate Summer Research Showcase, University of Manchester, June 2017.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Expletives in Icelandic: a diachronic study’. Paper presented at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics, University of Manchester, April 2017.
Booth, Hannah. ‘The development of overt expletives in Icelandic’. Paper presented at the 22nd South of England Lexical Functional Grammar Meeting, SOAS, University of London, February 2017.

2016

Bech, Kristin, Hannah Booth, Kersti Börjars, Tine Breban, Svetlana Petrova, George Walkden & Sheila Watts. ‘Modifiers in early Germanic: a comparative corpus study’. Paper presented at Grammar & Corpora 2016, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, November 2016.
Booth, Hannah, Kersti Börjars & John Payne. ‘Non-recursive modification in Old Icelandic’. Paper presented at Nätverket för nordisk syntaxhistoria 8, Uppsala Universitet, October 2016.
Börjars, Kersti & Hannah Booth. ‘Modifier order in Old Norse’. Paper presented at a workshop as part of the collaborative project Structure and variation in the early Germanic noun phrase, University of Manchester, April 2016.
Booth, Hannah. ‘Connectives and the spoken/written dimension: connective profiling Old Norse texts’. Paper presented at Diachronic Corpora, Genre and Language Change, University of Nottingham, April 2016.