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Prof. Dr. Giovanna Marotta (Università di Pisa): Historical Sociolinguistics and Latin Language. Data from Inscriptions and Tablets

Dr. Klaas Bentein (UGent): Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek: Have- and Be-Constructions

Julie Boeten en Sien De Groot (UGent): Byzantine Book Epigrams: A Pragmatic Analysis of Medieval Meter

Prof. Dr. Sara Gómez Seibane (Universidad de La Rioja): Indirect contact-induced pronominal changes in a northern Spanish variety

Melissa Farasyn (UGent): Pronominal gaps in Middle Low German

Prof. Dr. Craig Melchert (University of California, Los Angeles): Relative Clauses in Indo-European Anatolian Languages (in collaboration with EVALISA)

Wolfgang de Melo (University of Oxford): Synchronic Semantic and Siachronic Reconstruction: Latin S-Forms

Jasper Vangaever (UGent): The Ablative of the Gerund versus the Present Participle: a Diachronic Corpus Study from Classical Latin to Medieval French

Elisabeth Witzenhausen (UGent): Continuity or change? The post-cyclic development of preverbal negation in Continental West Germanic

Jack Lynch (Rutgers University): Shakespeare Forger and Cretan Liar : Puzzling over William Henry Ireland

I discuss the challenges of using bibliographical evidence to tell the truth about someone who was almost always lying. Most of our evidence about the life of William Henry Ireland is books and manuscripts that have passed through his hands — but he was such a compulsive and pathological liar that anything he said must be doubted and anything he touched is suspect. The result is a strange version of the Cretan Liar’s Paradox, in which we’re forced to glean the truth from documents that refuse to give it.