Program
| Thursday 26 September 2024 |
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| 9:00 | 9:30 | Arrival & coffee | ||||
| 9:30 | 9:45 | Opening | ||||
| 9:45 | 10:30 | Leen Roels (Nederlands Mijnmuseum) | A brief history of mining in Belgian and Dutch Limburg | |||
| 10:30 | 11:15 | Roeland van Hout (RU Nijmegen) | Mining terminology in the Belgian and Netherlandic Limburg coalmines: the role of region, country, dialects and source languages | |||
| 11:15 | 11:45 | Coffee | ||||
| 11:45 | 12:30 | Leonie Cornips (NL-Lab Amsterdam; Maastricht University) | Place-making in Dutch Limburg and the impact of coalmining on languageculture: The case of (parodic) Heerlen Dutch | |||
| 12:30 | 14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00 | 14:45 | Karlien Franco (KU Leuven – Brussel) | The lexicon of Limburg today: results from a large-scale survey and Limburgish tweets | |||
| 14:45 | 15:30 | Marjo van Koppen (Meertens Institute Amsterdam; Utrecht University) & Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven; Meertens Institute Amsterdam) | Syntactic microvariation in the two Limburgs | |||
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Coffee | ||||
| 16:00 | 16:45 | Evelyn Ziegler (Universität Duisburg-Essen) | The indexical value of mining language and mining symbols for local identity construction in the Ruhr Area (Germany) and the East Midlands (UK) | |||
| 16:45 | 17:30 | Astrid Cleeren (KU Leuven), Stefania Marzo (KU Leuven) & Stef Grondelaers (Meertens Institute Amsterdam) | The emergence and evolution of urban style in peripheral industrial areas: the case of Limburg | |||
| 19:00 | Dinner | With Els Beerten
Het zwarte goud van onze mijnen. Literary evocation of life in multicultural Limburg (in Dutch) |
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| Friday 27 September 2024 |
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| 9:00 | 9:45 | Nantke Pecht (University of Münster) | ‘Superdiversity’ from underground: Linguistic and social dynamics in a Belgian mining cité | |||
| 9:45 | 10:30 | Astrid van Alem (Utrecht University), Marjo van Koppen (Meertens Institute Amsterdam & Utrecht University) & Stef Grondelaers (Meertens Institute Amsterdam) | Complementiser agreement in Limburg: grammatical, social, and geographical factors of variation | |||
| 10:30 | 10:45 | Coffee | ||||
| 10:45 | 11:30 | Carlos Gussenhoven (RU Nijmegen) | The tones of Limburgish: their shapes and their lexical distributions | |||
| 11:30 | 12:15 | Ton van der Wouden (Meertens Instituut Amsterdam) | Variation in Dutch pragmatic markers – the case of Limburg | |||
| 12:15 | 14:15 | Lunch | With Els Beerten
Het zwarte goud van onze mijnen. Literary evocation of life in multicultural Limburg (in Dutch) Followed by guided tour of C-Mine site |
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| 14:15 | 15:00 | Kristel Doreleijers (Meertens Instituut Amsterdam) & Ilias Vierendeels (NaLLT, Université de Namur) | “Digging deeper” into glocal place-making: A languagecultural analysis of the football marketing videos of PSV Eindhoven and KRC Genk | |||
| 15:00 | 15:45 | Dirk Speelman (KU Leuven) & Stef Grondelaers (Meertens Institute Amsterdam) | Existential matters. How the Limburgs introduce new information in discourse | |||