General Categories and Subdivisions with Author and Short Title<\/strong><\/h2>\n <\/strong><\/p>\nI. Accidence and syntax.<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>A. Case (Chair: Bas Aarts)<\/em><\/h4>\n1. John Payne and Eva Berlage, “The effect of semantic relations on genitive variation”<\/p>\n
2. Christoph Wolk, Joan Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, “Dative and genitive variability in late ModE”<\/p>\n
3. Stefanie Wulff and Stefan Th. Gries, “A multifactorial study of genitive alternation in L2 English”<\/p>\n
B. Grammaticalization and degrammaticalization (Chair: Peter Siemund)
\n<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Julie Van Bogaert, “A multivariate analysis of that\/zero alternation”<\/p>\n2. Marion Elenbaas, “Tracing grammaticalization in English light verbs”<\/p>\n
3. Stefanie Wulff, “Gradient grammaticalization in English complement constructions\u201d<\/p>\n
4. Graeme Trousdale, “Ish”<\/p>\n
C. Modern English constructions<\/em> \u2013 Set 1 (Chair: Marion Elenbaas)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1.\u00a0Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford, “On the meaning(s) of need to<\/em>”<\/p>\n2. Doris Schoenefeld, “Modern Usage and semantic change”
\n <\/em><\/p>\nC. Modern English constructions \u2013 Set 2 (Chair: Marion Elenbaas)<\/em><\/h4>\n1. Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie, and Sean Wallis, “Typical and atypical change in modal usage over time”<\/p>\n
2. Karin Axelsson, “A new functional model for tag questions based on fiction dialogue data”<\/p>\n
<\/em>3. Linnea Micciulla, “Factors predicting the use of passive voice in newspaper headlines”<\/p>\n D. Early English constructions (Chair: Ilse Depraetere)<\/em><\/h4>\n1. Ayumi Miura, “Lexical semantics in Middle English impersonal constructions”<\/p>\n
2. Lieselotte Brems, “Fear(s) + complement clauses”<\/p>\n
<\/em>3. Izabela Czerniak, “Tracing the Scandinavian influence in early English”<\/p>\n E. Comparative studies of Modern British and American Constructions (Chair: Stefan Diemer)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Thomas Hoffmann: “The more Data, the better”<\/p>\n2. Gunther Kaltenb\u00f6ck, “Comment clauses on the move”
\n <\/em><\/p>\n3. Turo Vartiainen, “Conceptual proximity and the positional variation of directional modifiers in English”<\/p>\n
F. Contact or Comparisons of English and related Germanic languages (Chair: Gisle Andersen)<\/em><\/h4>\n1. Anna W\u00e4rnsby, “Interpreting modal utterances in English and Swedish”<\/p>\n
2. Eline Zenner, “The borrowability of English”<\/p>\n
G. Psychological aspects of English syntax (Chair: Izabela Lazar)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Carlos Prado-Alonso, “A cognitive approach to obligatory subject-dependent XVS constructions in English”<\/p>\n2. Ute R\u00f6mer, Matthew O’Donnell, and Nick Ellis, “Learning verb-argument constructions: New perspectives from corpus and psycholinguistic analyses”<\/p>\n
3. Rainer Schulze, “Aspects of seriality in language”<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 Laurel Smith Stvan, “The influence of lexical conflation on causation”<\/p>\n
II. Sound, Meaning, and Word Formation<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n A. Perceptual Dialectology (Chair: Bas Aarts)<\/em><\/h4>\n1. Chris Montgomery, “A new method for dialect recognition and rating in perceptual dialectology”<\/p>\n
B. Variationism (Chair: Stephen Harris)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Don Chapman, “Why empirical studies of prescriptive rules should be variationist”<\/p>\n2. Kirk Hazen, “Morphological methodology for a rapidly reconfigured variable”<\/p>\n
3. Sandra Jansen, “Variation and Change in the north-west of England”<\/p>\n
C. Pragmatics (Chair: Markus Bieswanger)<\/em><\/h4>\n1. Markus Bieswanger, “Variationist sociolinguistics meets variational pragmatics”<\/p>\n
2. Christine G\u00fcnther, “Pragmatic factors determining variation in the realization of head nouns”<\/p>\n
3. Meike Pfaff, “On the pragmatics of obligative want to<\/em>”<\/p>\n <\/em>4. Alexander Bergs, “On how to integrate context into grammar”<\/p>\nIII. World Englishes <\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>A. African and related diasporic Englishes (Chair: Gunther Kaltenb\u00f6ck)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1.Lars Hinrichs, “Gauging variety status in diasporic dialect mixing”<\/p>\n2. Magnus Huber and Sebastian Schmidt, “New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English. Early Highlife recordings from Ghana”<\/p>\n
3. Robert Fuchs, “The progressive aspect in Nigerian English”<\/p>\n
4. Glenda-Alicia Leung, “Approaching the Acrolect”<\/p>\n
B. Asian and Pacific English (Chair: Edgar Schneider)<\/em><\/h4>\n1. Tatiana Larina, Svetlana Kurtes, and Neelakshi Suryanarayan, “Madam<\/em> or aunty jee<\/em>: contrasting forms of address in British and Indian English(es)”<\/p>\n <\/em>2. Manfred Sailer, “Doubling in New Englishes”<\/p>\n C. Canadian English (Chair: Daniel Donoghue)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Charles Boberg, “Ethnicity and regional variation in Canadian English”<\/p>\n2. Stefan Dollinger: “New Dialect Formation cum Dynamic Model: Language attitudes and the case of Vancouver
\nEnglish”<\/p>\n
D. Irish English (Chair: Lauren Hall-Lew)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Julia Davydova, “Detecting historical continuity in modern Singapore English: A case study of the present perfect”<\/p>\n2. Marije van Hattum, “A preparation of news to come in Irish immigrant letters”<\/p>\n
3. Stephen Lucek, “Invariant tags in Irish English”<\/p>\n
E. Phonological Topics in American English and New Englishes (Chair: Katie Drager) <\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. David Eddington, “Flaps and other variants of \/t\/ in American English”<\/p>\n2. Caroline Wiltshire, “New Englishes and the emergence of the unmarked”<\/p>\n
3. Toshihiro Oda, “Phonetically accidental and systematic gaps”<\/p>\n
IV. Style, Rhetoric, and Idioms<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> A. Academic Styles (Chair: Lynn Clark)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Presley Ifukor, “Towards the emergence of technolectal Nigerian English”<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>2. Ute R\u00f6mer, “The phraseological profile model applied: New insights into academic speech and writing”<\/p>\n3. Peter Siemund, “Varieties of English in the classroom”<\/p>\n
B. Letters and Literature (Chair: Karin Axelsson)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Dustin Grue, “Relevance theory, accountabilities, and collocations in Lord of the Flies <\/em>criticisms”<\/p>\n2. Minna Palander-Collin, “How can we study identity construction in early English letters?”<\/p>\n
3. Jim Walker, “The present-perfect narrative in varieties of British English and farther afield”<\/p>\n
4. Joanna Nykiel, “Do so <\/em>and verb phrase ellipsis in the Canterbury<\/em> Tales” <\/em><\/p>\n C. Developments of Idiosyncratic Constructions (Chair: Rainer Schulze)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Laurel Brinton, “The extremes of insubordination: exclamatory \/as if!\/” <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>2. Beate Hampe, “A study of expressive a(n) N of a(n) N<\/em> constructions in the BNC”<\/p>\n3. Georg Maier, “Pronoun case variation across varieties of English”<\/p>\n
4. Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, \u201cTracing orthographic change in corpora: A methodological approach to the study of English compound spelling\u201d<\/p>\n
D. Internet idioms (Chair: Daniel Donoghue)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Jon Bakos, “QQ More”<\/p>\n2. Daphn\u00e9 Kerremans and Susanne Stegmayr, “Neologisms on the internet”<\/p>\n
3. Ursula Kirsten, “Development of SMS language from 2000 to 2010”<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\nV. Methodology in Corpus Studies<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>A. Corpus Studies (Chair: Magnus Huber)<\/em><\/h4>\n <\/em>1. Garrison Bickerstaff, “Flexibility and application of the bounded virtual corpus”<\/p>\n2. Terttu Nevalainen, “Tools for comparing corpora”<\/p>\n
3. Matthew O’Donnell, “The adjusted frequency list”<\/p>\n
B. Case Studies (Chairs: Magnus Huber and Heli Paulasto)<\/em><\/h4>\n1. Lieven Vandelanotte, \u201cCall so and so and tell him such and such<\/em>: A corpus-based study of suspensive reference in contemporary English\u201d1.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n2. Gregory Garretson, “A new perspective on antonymy”<\/p>\n
3. Stefan Diemer, “Corpus linguistics with Google?”<\/p>\n
4. Michael Erlewine, “The Constituency of Hyperlinks in a Hypertext Corpus”<\/p>\n
Poster Presentations (Chair: Eugene Green)<\/strong><\/h2>\nZeltia Blanco-Su\u00e1rez, \u201cDeath-related intensifiers: Grammaticalization and related phenomena in the development of the intensifier deadly\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nDaniele Franceschi, \u201cShall we start<\/em> or \u2026 commence<\/em>? Stylistic aspects of near-synonymous verb use\u201d<\/p>\nMark Lindsay and Mark Aronoff, \u00a0\u201cNatural selection in self-\u00adorganizing morphological systems\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\nJakob R. E. Leimgruber and Lavanya Sankaran, \u201cImperfectives in Singapore English: New evidence for ethnic varieties?\u201d<\/p>\n
Nadja Nesselhauf, \u201cDiachronic corpus linguistics: overcoming the limitations of automatic analysis\u201d<\/p>\n
Carla Suhr, \u201cIntroducing visuals to historical pragmatics: Book history and multimodality\u201d<\/p>\n
Workshops:<\/strong><\/h2>\n1. Kevin Watson,\u00a0 Lynn Clark ,Warren Maguire: Mergers in English: Perspectives from phonology, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics<\/h3>\n\n- Warren Maguire, Lynn Clark, and Kevin Watson, \u201cThe meaning of \u2018merger\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n
- Maciej Baranowski, \u201cOn the role of social factors in vocalic mergers\u201d<\/li>\n
- Lynn Clark and Kevin Watson, \u201cCapturing listeners\u2019 real-time reactions to the NURSE~SQUARE merger\u201d<\/li>\n
- Katie Drager and Jennifer Hay, \u201cMergers in production and perception\u201d<\/li>\n
- Lauren Hall-Lew, \u201cInterpreting ‘flip-flop’ patterns in vowel mergers-in-progress\u201d<\/li>\n
- Jennifer Nycz, \u201cNew contrast acquisition: Methodological issues & theoretical implications\u201d<\/li>\n
- Phillip Tipton, \u201cModelling (socio)linguistic mergers: the role of global context in the processing of social and linguistic information\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2. Marianne Hundt: English in the Indian Diaspora<\/h3>\n\n- Dagmar Deuber, Glenda Leung and V\u00e9ronique Lacoste, \u201cIndo-Trinidadian speech: features and stereotypes\u201d<\/li>\n
- Marianne Hundt, \u201cZero articles in Indian Englishes: a comparison of primary and secondary diasporasituations\u201d<\/li>\n
- Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, \u201cSingapore\u2019s Indian community: linguistic, social, and sociolinguistic aspects\u201d<\/li>\n
- Rajend Mesthrie, \u201cThe making of a dialect dictionary 1: where does a New English dictionary stop?\u201d<\/li>\n
- Claudia Rathore, \u201cEast African Indians in Leicester, UK: phonological variation across generations\u201d<\/li>\n
- Farhana Alam and Jane Stuart-Smith, \u201cIdentity, ethnicity and fine phonetic detail: an acoustic phonetic analysis of syllable-initial \/t\/ in Glaswegian girls of Pakistani heritage”<\/li>\n
- Lena Zipp, “Features of IndoFijian English across registers”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
3. Lars Hinrichs and Stefan Dollinger: Aspects of methodology and\u00a0 pedagogy<\/h3>\n3A. Lars Hinrichs and Stefan Dollinger: Long-term research projects on local varieties of English<\/h4>\n\n- Walt Wolfram, \u201cThe Theoretical and Methodological Challenge of Longitudinal Studies: The Case of African American English\u201d<\/li>\n
- Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy and Joseph Salmons, \u201cThe Wisconsin Englishes Project and WiSCO\u201d<\/li>\n
- Bill Kretzschmar, \u201cStudent Participation in the Linguistic Atlas Project\u201d<\/li>\n
- Kirk Hazen, \u201cGoals for the project and your career: Long term success\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
3B. Marnie Reed: Evaluation and Instruction<\/h4>\n\n- Jarosalaw Weckwerth, \u201cVariation in the production of the TRAP vowel in advanced Polish learners of English: Beyond averages\u201d<\/li>\n
- Isabela\u00a0 Lazar, \u201cA morphosyntactic algorithm for sentence building in language acquisition\u201d <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
4. Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Anna Mauranen: Global English: contact-linguistic, typological, and second-language acquisition perspectives<\/h3>\n\n- Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, & Anna Mauranen, “Global English: contact-linguistic, typological, and second-language acquisition perspectives”<\/li>\n
- Peter Siemund, “Varieties of English and Language Typology”<\/li>\n
- Niina Hynninen and Henrik Hakala, “Lexical and accent accommodation in ELF interaction”<\/li>\n
- Heli Paulasto, Elina Ranta, and Lea Meril\u00e4inen, “Syntactic features in Global Englishes: how \u2018global\u2019 are they?”<\/li>\n
- Edgar Schneider, “Tracking down American impact on Asian and Pacific Englishes in electronic corpora”<\/li>\n
- Hanna Parviainen, “Question formation in Indian English and in other Southeast Asian varieties”<\/li>\n
- Zhiming Bao, “Systemic Nature of Substratum Transfer: the case of got<\/em> in Singapore English”<\/li>\n
- Rajend Mesthrie, “Diamonds, gender and strong verbs: a study of contact and sociolinguistic factors in the evolution of a variety of Black English in Kimberley, South Africa”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
5. Hubert Cuyckens\u00a0 and Martin Hilpert: How can new corpus-based techniques advance historical description and linguistic theory?<\/h3>\n\n- Hubert Cuyckens & Martin Hilpert,\u201dIntroduction: How can new corpus-based techniques advance historical description and linguistic theory?\u201d<\/li>\n
- Britta Mondorf, “Leg it, floor it, snuff it: A synchronic and diachronic analysis of nonreferential it\u201d<\/li>\n
- Tanja S\u00e4ily, \u201cSociolinguistic variation in morphological productivity in the CEECE\u201d<\/li>\n
- Javier Perez-Guerra, \u201cPairing word order with headedness in the recent history of English: a corpus-based analysis\u201d<\/li>\n
- Stefan Gries & Martin Hilpert, \u201cModeling diachronic change in a morpho-phonemic alternation\u201d<\/li>\n
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, \u201cCulture change versus grammar change: the limits of text frequency (and what we can do about it)\u201d<\/li>\n
- Maria Jos\u00e9 Lopez-Couso, \u201cCorpus-based methodology and grammaticalization theory: Observing, describing, and analyzing grammaticalization and related processes of language change through corpus linguistics\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
6. John Payne and Eva Berlage: Genitive variation in English<\/h3>\n\n- John Payne and Eva Berlage, “Genitive variation: the role of the oblique genitive”<\/li>\n
- Sali Tagliamonte and Bridget Jankowski, “On the genitive\u2019s trail: data and method from a sociolinguistic perspective”<\/li>\n
- Cathy O\u2019Connor, “Is animacy the most important factor in predicting the English possessive alternation?”<\/li>\n
- Kersti B\u00f6rjars, David Denison and Grzegorz Krajewski, “Poss-s vs poss-of revisited”<\/li>\n
- Katharina Ehret, Christoph Wolk, and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, “Genitive variation in Late Modern English: focus on weight and rhythm”<\/li>\n
- Evelien Keizer, “Pre- and postnominal possessives in English, Dutch and German \u2013 an FDG account”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
7. Neal Norrick: Methods of Analyzing Spoken English<\/h3>\n\n- Neal Norrick, \u201cInvestigating Interjections in Narrative Contexts: A Hybrid Corpus Approach\u201d<\/li>\n
- Gisle Andersen, \u201cCorpus-driven approaches to discourse markers in spoken data\u201d<\/li>\n
- Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, \u201cThe participants’ perspective in interactional-linguistic work on the phonetics of talk-in-interaction\u201d<\/li>\n
- Bruce Fraser, “Studying DM Sequences in Spoken English”<\/li>\n
- Christoph R\u00fchlemann, \u201cIntroducing collogation analysis\u201d<\/li>\n
- Klaus P. Schneider, \u201cJust how useless are questionnaires for studying spoken language? Triangulating elicited and natural corpus data\u201d<\/li>\n
- Anne Wichmann and Nicole Deh\u00e9, \u201cCorpus data and prosodic analysis\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Chairs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nBas Aarts, University of London<\/p>\n
Gisle Andersen, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration<\/p>\n
Karin Axelsson, University of Gothenburg<\/p>\n
Markus Bieswanger, University of Flensburg<\/p>\n
Laurel Brinton,\u00a0 University of British Columbia<\/p>\n
Lynn Clark, University of Lancaster<\/p>\n
Ilse Depraetere, University of Lille<\/p>\n
Dagmar Deuber, University of Muenster<\/p>\n
Stefan Diemer University of Saarlandes<\/p>\n
Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University<\/p>\n
Katie Drager, University of Hawaii<\/p>\n
Marion Elenbaas, University of Leiden<\/p>\n
Bruce Fraser, Boston University<\/p>\n
Eugene Green, Boston University<\/p>\n
Lauren Hall-Lew, University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n
Stephen Harris, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/p>\n
Martin Hilpert , University of Freiburg<\/p>\n
Magnus Huber, University of Giessen<\/p>\n
Gunther Kaltenback, Universitry of Vienna<\/p>\n
Izabela Lazar, University of British Columbia<\/p>\n
Charles Meyer, University of Massachusetts<\/p>\n
Heli Paulasto, University of Eastern Finland<\/p>\n
Marnie Reed, Boston University<\/p>\n
Geoffrey Russom, Brown University<\/p>\n
Edgar Schneider, Univeristy of Regensburg<\/p>\n
Rainer Schulze, University of Hannover<\/p>\n
Peter Siemund, University of Hamburg<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Traugott, Stanford University<\/p>\n
Anna W\u00e4rnsby, Malm\u00f6 University<\/p>\n
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