ICOME-14 panel: Navigating the Lexicon
Our team will be organising a panel and a roundtable at the next International Conference on Middle English (ICOME-14), held 3-6 June 2026 in Zurich.
The theme of the conference being “Travel and Travelling”, we will be proposing a panel entitled "Navigating the Lexicon" dedicated to large-scale, conceptual and theoretical approaches to the Middle English lexicon as well as a roundtable which will give us the opportunity to discuss more practical aspects of our project. We invite researchers who might be interested in joining us for the panel and the roundtable to send abstracts on topics that may include:
• semantic hierarchies and other classification approaches
• practical problems and solutions related to creating thesauri and other lexico-semantic databases
• historical/medieval conceptualisations of lexical fields and lexico-semantic relationships
• (conceptual) metaphors of language change
• case studies on specific lexical or semantic fields
• discussions and evaluations of specific (lexicographical) resources
If you are interested in joining our panel and/or roundtable, please submit an abstract via the official conference website: https://www.icome2026.uzh.ch/en/Abstract-Submission.html