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Unless otherwise noted below, all events are held at Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), located at 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.<\/h1>\n

THURSDAY,<\/strong> JUNE 16
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

4:00-8:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 REGISTRATION (CAS 116)<\/p>\n

8:00-10:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RECEPTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY PUB (225 Bay State Road, behind CAS and in the basement of “The Castle”)<\/p>\n

Please visit our exhibitors’ room, located in CAS 216 throughout the conference.<\/h3>\n

FRIDAY, JUNE 17
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

8:00-9:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 REGISTRATION (CAS 116)<\/p>\n

9:00-9:15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 OPENING REMARKS; GREETING FROM DEAN PATRICIA JOHNSON (CAS 224)<\/p>\n

9:15\u201310:15\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)<\/p>\n

Christian Mair, \u201cWorld Non-Standard Englishes: Reflections on the Global Spread of (Some) Vernacular Varieties of English\u201d (Chair: Charles Meyer)<\/p>\n

10:15-10:45 \u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK <\/strong>(CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

General Session I<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Section A (CAS 203) <\/em><\/h4>\n

Internet idioms (Chair: Daniel Donoghue)
\n<\/em>10:50-11:20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jon Bakos, \u201cQQ More\u201d
\n11:25-11:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Daphn\u00e9 Kerremans and Susanne Stegmayr, \u201cNeologisms on the internet\u201d
\n12:00-12:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ursula Kirsten, \u201cDevelopment of SMS language from 2000 to 2010\u2033<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH <\/em><\/p>\n

Case (Chair: Bas Aarts)
\n<\/em>2:00-2:30 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>John Payne and Eva Berlage, \u201cThe effect of semantic relations on genitive variation\u201d
\n2:35-3:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Christoph Wolk, Joan Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, \u201cDative and genitive variability in late ModE\u201d
\n3:10-3:40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Stefanie Wulff and Stefan Th. Gries, \u201cA multifactorial study of genitive alternation in L2 English\u201d<\/p>\n

3:45-4:10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

Perceptual Dialectology (Chair: Bas Aarts)
\n<\/em>4:15-4:45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chris Montgomery, \u201cA new method for dialect recognition and rating in perceptual dialectology<\/p>\n

Section B (CAS 237)<\/h4>\n

Comparative studies of Modern British and American Constructions (Chair: Dagmar Deuber)
\n<\/em>10:50-11:20\u00a0\u00a0 Thomas Hoffmann: \u201cThe more Data, the better\u201d
\n11:25-11:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gunther Kaltenb\u00f6ck, \u201cComment clauses on the move\u201d
\n12:00-12:30\u00a0\u00a0 Turo Vartiainen, \u201cConceptual proximity and the positional variation of directional modifiers in English<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH<\/p>\n

African and related diasporic Englishes (Chair: Gunther Kaltenb\u00f6ck)
\n<\/em>2:00-2:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lars Hinrichs, \u201cGauging variety status in diasporic dialect mixing\u201d
\n2:30-3:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Magnus Huber and Sebastian Schmidt, \u201cNew ways of analysing the history of varieties of English. Early Highlife recordings from Ghana\u201d
\n3:10-3:40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robert Fuchs, \u201cThe progressive aspect in Nigerian English\u201d<\/p>\n

3:45-4:10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

4:15-4:45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Glenda-Alicia Leung, \u201cApproaching the Acrolect\u201d<\/p>\n

Section C (CAS 316)<\/h4>\n

<\/em>Irish English (Chair: Lauren Hall-Lew)
\n<\/em>10:50-11:20 <\/em> Julia Davydova, \u201cDetecting historical continuity in modern Singapore English: A case study of the present perfect\u201d
\n11:25-11:55\u00a0 Marije van Hattum, \u201cA preparation of news to come in Irish immigrant letters\u201d
\n12:00-12:30 Stephen Lucek, \u201cInvariant tags in Irish English\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH<\/p>\n

Phonological Topics in American English and New Englishes (Chair: Katie Drager)
\n<\/em><\/em>2:00-2:30 <\/em>David Eddington, \u201cFlaps and other variants of \/t\/ in American English\u201d
\n2:35-3:05\u00a0\u00a0 Caroline Wiltshire, \u201cNew Englishes and the emergence of the unmarked\u201d
\n3:10-3:40\u00a0\u00a0 Toshihiro Oda, \u201cPhonetically accidental and systematic gaps\u201d<\/p>\n

3:45-4:10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

Section D (CAS 226)<\/h4>\n

Variationism (Chair: Lynn Clark)
\n<\/em>10:50-11:20\u00a0 \u00a0 Don Chapman, \u201cWhy empirical studies of prescriptive rules should be variationist\u201d
\n11:25-11:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kirk Hazen, \u201cMorphological methodology for a rapidly reconfigured variable\u201d
\n12:00-12:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sandra Jansen, \u201cVariation and Change in the north-west of England\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH<\/p>\n

2:00-2:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Presley Ifukor, \u201cTowards the emergence of technolectal Nigerian English\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Academic Styles (Chair: Lynn Clark)
\n<\/em>2:35-3:05 <\/em> Ute R\u00f6mer, \u201cThe phraseological profile model applied: New insights into academic speech and writing\u201d
\n3:10-3:40\u00a0 \u00a0 Peter Siemund, \u201cVarieties of English in the classroom\u201d<\/p>\n

3:45-4:10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

4:55-5:55 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)<\/p>\n

David Denison, Presidential Address (Chair: Elizabeth Traugott)<\/p>\n

SATURDAY, JUNE 18<\/h2>\n

8:30-9:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
\nApril Mcmahon, \u201cComparing [la\u026ak] with [l\u028c\u026ak]: Methods for Collecting and Comparing Data from Varieties of English\u201d (Chair: Stephen Harris)<\/p>\n

9:35-10:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

General Session II<\/h3>\n

Section A (CAS 213)<\/h4>\n

Workshop: Kevin Watson,\u00a0 Lynn Clark ,Warren Maguire: Mergers in English: Perspectives from phonology, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics<\/em>
\n10:10-10:40 \u00a0Warren Maguire, Lynn Clark, and Kevin Watson, \u201cThe meaning of \u2018merger\u2019\u201d
\n10:45-11:15 \u00a0\u00a0Maciej Baranowski, \u201cOn the role of social factors in vocalic mergers\u201d
\n11:20-11:50\u00a0\u00a0 Lynn Clark and Kevin Watson, \u201cCapturing listeners\u2019 real-time reactions to the NURSE~SQUARE merger\u201d
\n11:55-12: 25\u00a0\u00a0 Katie Drager and Jennifer Hay, \u201cMergers in production and perception\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0LUNCH<\/p>\n

2:00-2:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lauren Hall-Lew, \u201cInterpreting \u2018flip-flop\u2019 patterns in vowel mergers-in-progress\u201d
\n2:35-3:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jennifer Nycz, \u201cNew contrast acquisition: Methodological issues & theoretical implications\u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 EXHIBITORS’ COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216)<\/p>\n

3:40-4:10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Phillip Tipton, \u201cModelling (socio)linguistic mergers: the role of global context in the processing of social and linguistic information\u201d<\/p>\n

Section B (CAS 237)<\/h4>\n

Modern English constructions (Chair: Stefan Diemer)<\/em>
\n10:10-10:40\u00a0 Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie, and Sean Wallis, \u201cTypical and atypical change in modal usage over time\u201d
\n10:45-11:15\u00a0 Karin Axelsson, \u201cA new functional model for tag questions based on fiction dialogue data\u201d
\n11:20-11:50 Linnea Micciulla, \u201cFactbors predicting the use of passive voice in newspaper headlines\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH<\/p>\n

Pragmatics (Chair: Markus Bieswanger)
\n<\/em>2:00-2:30\u00a0 Markus Bieswanger, \u201cVariationist sociolinguistics meets variational pragmatics\u201d
\n2:35-3:05 Christine G\u00fcnther, \u201cPragmatic factors determining variation in the realization of head nouns\u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 EXHIBITORS’ COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216)<\/p>\n

3:40-4:10 Meike Pfaff, \u201cOn the pragmatics of obligative want to<\/em>\u201d
\n4:15-4:45 Alexander Bergs, \u201cOn how to integrate context into grammar\u201d<\/p>\n

Section C (CAS 316)<\/h4>\n

Workshop<\/em>: John Payne and Eva Berlage: Genitive variation in English<\/em>
\n10:10-10:40 John Payne and Eva Berlage, \u201cGenitive variation: the role of the oblique genitive\u201d
\n10:45-11;15 \u00a0Sali Tagliamonte and Bridget Jankowski, \u201cOn the genitive\u2019s trail: data and method from a sociolinguistic perspective\u201d
\n11:20-11:50 Cathy O\u2019Connor, \u201cIs animacy the most important factor in predicting the English possessive alternation?\u201d
\n11:55:12:25 Kersti B\u00f6rjars, David Denison and Grzegorz Krajewski, \u201cPoss-s vs poss-of revisited\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0LUNCH<\/p>\n

2:00-2:30 Katharina Ehret, Christoph Wolk, and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, \u201cGenitive variation in Late Modern English: focus on weight and rhythm\u201d
\n2:30-3:05 Evelien Keizer, \u201cPre- and postnominal possessives in English, Dutch and German \u2013 an FDG account \u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 EXHIBITORS’ COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216)<\/p>\n

Canadian English (Chair: Daniel Donoghue)<\/em>
\n<\/em>3:40-4:10 <\/em>Charles Boberg, \u201cEthnicity and regional variation in Canadian English\u201d
\n4:15-4:45\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Stefan Dollinger: \u201cNew Dialect Formation cum Dynamic Model: Language attitudes and the case of Vancouver English<\/p>\n

Section D (CAS 324)<\/h4>\n

Workshop: Marianne Hundt: English in the Indian Diaspora<\/em>
\n10:10-10:40 Dagmar Deuber, Glenda Leung and V\u00e9ronique Lacoste, \u201cIndo-Trinidadian speech: features and stereotypes\u201d
\n10:45-11:15\u00a0 Marianne Hundt, \u201cZero articles in Indian Englishes: a comparison of primary and secondary diasporasituations\u201d
\n11:20-11:50\u00a0 Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, \u201cSingapore\u2019s Indian community: lidnguistic, social,and sociolinguistic aspects\u201d
\n11:55-12:25 \u00a0\u00a0Rajend Mesthrie, \u201cThe making of a dialect dictionary 1: where does a New English dictionary stop?\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH<\/p>\n

2:00-2:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Claudia Rathore, \u201cEast African Indians in Leicester, UK: phonological variation across generations\u201d
\n2:35-3:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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\u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 EXHIBITORS’ COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216)<\/p>\n

3:40-4:10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lena Zipp, \u201cFeatures of IndoFijian English across registers\u201d
\n4:15-4:45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Capstone Session<\/p>\n

4:55-5:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
\nChristopher Ricks, \u201cThe very words, and not only those\u201d (Chair: Daniel Donoghue)<\/p>\n

SUNDAY, JUNE 19<\/h2>\n

8:30-9:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
\nSali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto: \u201cSystem and society in the evolution of change: The case of Canada\u201d (Chair: Laurel Brinton)<\/p>\n

9:35-10:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

GENERAL SESSION III<\/h3>\n

Section A (CAS 213)<\/h4>\n

Corpus Studies (Chair: Magnus Huber)<\/em>
\n<\/em>10:10-10:40 <\/em>Garrison Bickerstaff, \u201cFlexibility and application of the bounded virtual corpus\u201d
\n10:45-11:15 Terttu Nevalainen, \u201cTools for comparing corpora\u201d
\n11:20-11:50 Matthew O\u2019Donnell, \u201cThe adjusted frequency list\u201d
\n <\/em><\/p>\n

Case Studies (Chairs: Magnus Huber and Heli Paulasto)
\n<\/em>11:55-12:25 <\/em>Lieven Vandelanotte, \u201cCall so and so and tell him such and such<\/em>: A corpus-based study of suspensive reference in contemporary English\u201d
\n<\/em>
\n12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH<\/p>\n

2:00-2:30 Gregory Garretson, \u201cA new perspective on antonymy\u201d
\n2:35-3:05 Stefan Diemer, \u201cCorpus linguistics with Google?\u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

3:35-4:05 Michael Erlewine, \u201cThe Constituency of Hyperlinks in a Hypertext Corpus\u201d<\/p>\n

Section B (CAS 237)<\/h4>\n

Workshop<\/em>: Lars Hinrichs and Stefan Dollinger: Aspects of methodology and\u00a0 pedagogy
\n<\/em>A. Lars Hinrichs and Stefan Dollinger: Long-term research projects on local varieties of English
\n10:10-10:40 Walt Wolfram, \u201cThe Theoretical and Methodological Challenge of Longitudinal Studies: The Case of African American English\u201d<\/p>\n

10:45-11-15 Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy and Joseph Salmons, \u201cThe Wisconsin Englishes Project \u00a0and WiSCO\u201d
\n11:20-11:50 Bill Kretzschmar, \u201cStudent Participation in the Linguistic Atlas Project\u201d
\n11:55-12:25 Kirk Hazen, \u201cGoals for the project and your career: Long term success\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55 LUNCH<\/p>\n

Workshop: B.<\/em> <\/em>Marnie Reed: Evaluation and Instruction<\/em>
\n2:00-2:30 Jarosalaw Weckwerth, \u201cVariation in the production of the TRAP vowel in advanced Polish learners of English: Beyond averages\u201d
\n2:35-3:05 Isabela\u00a0 Lazar, \u201cA morphosyntactic algorithm for sentence building in language acquisition\u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

A Case of Lexicalization: from Middle to Modern English (Chair: Anna W\u00e4rnsby)<\/em>
\n3:35-4:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joanna Nykiel, \u201cDo so <\/em>and verb phrase ellipsis in the Canterbury Tales\u201d<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Section C (CAS 316)<\/h4>\n

Grammaticalization and degrammaticalization (Chair: Peter Siemund)
\n<\/em>10:10-10:40\u00a0\u00a0 Julie Van Bogaert, \u201cA multivariate analysis of that\/zero alternation\u201d
\n10:45-11:15\u00a0 Marion Elenbaas, \u201cTracing grammaticalization in English light verbs\u201d
\n11:20-11:50\u00a0 Stefanie Wulff, \u201cGradient grammaticalization in English complement constructions\u201d
\n11:55-12:25\u00a0 Graeme Trousdale, \u201cIsh\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH<\/p>\n

Letters and Literature (Chair: Karin Axelsson)
\n<\/em>2:00-2:30 <\/em>Dustin Grue, \u201cRelevance theory, accountabilities, and collocations in Lord of the Flies <\/em>criticisms\u201d
\n2:35-3:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Minna Palander-Collin, \u201cHow can we study identity construction in early English letters?\u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

3:35-4:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jim Walker, \u201cThe pre sent-perfect narrative in varieties of British English and farther afield\u201d
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Section D (CAS 324)<\/h4>\n

<\/em>Workshop:<\/em> <\/em>Neal Norrick: Methods of Analyzing Spoken English
\n<\/em>10:10-10:40\u00a0 Neal Norrick, \u201cInvestigating Interjections in Narrative Contexts: A Hybrid Corpus Approach\u201d
\n10:45-11:15\u00a0 Gisle Andersen, \u201cCorpus-driven approaches to discourse markers in spoken data\u201d
\n11:20-11:50\u00a0\u00a0 Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, \u201cThe participants\u2019 perspective in interactional-linguistic work on the phonetics of talk-in-interaction
\n11:55-12:25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bruce Fraser, \u201cStudying DM Sequences in Spoken English\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH<\/p>\n

2:00-2:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Christoph R\u00fchlemann, \u201cIntroducing collogation analysis\u201d
\n2:35-3:05 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Klaus P. Schneider, \u201cJust how useless are questionnaires for studying spoken language? Triangulating elicited and natural corpus data\u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

3:35-4:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anne Wichmann and Nicole Deh\u00e9, \u201cCorpus data and prosodic analysis\u201d
\n4:10-4:40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Capstone Session<\/p>\n

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<\/strong><\/em>4:45-5:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 POSTER SESSION 1 (CAS 227) (Chair: Eugene Green)<\/p>\n

Zeltia Blanco-Su\u00e1rez, \u201cDeath-related intensifiers: Grammaticalization and related phenomena in the development of the intensifier deadly\u201d<\/em>
\nDaniele Franceschi, \u201cShall we start<\/em> or \u2026 commence<\/em>? Stylistic aspects of near-synonymous verb use\u201d
\nMark Lindsay and Mark Aronoff, \u00a0\u201cNatural selection in self-\u00adorganizing morphological systems\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

7:00-9:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CONFERENCE DINNER (<\/em>Faculty Dining Room, 5th floor of George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue)
\nLaurence Horn, Yale: \u201cEtymythology and Taboo\u201d (Introduction: Bruce Fraser)<\/p>\n

MONDAY, JUNE 20<\/h2>\n

8:30-9:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
\nLisa Green \u201cMultiple Grammars and Dialectal Variation: A View from the Perspective of Language Development\u201d (Chair: Geoffrey Russom)<\/p>\n

9:35-10:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

<\/em>GENERAL SESSION IV<\/h3>\n

<\/em>Section A (CAS 213)<\/h4>\n

Early English constructions (Chair: Ilse Depraetere)
\n<\/em>10:45-11:15\u00a0 Ayumi Miura, \u201cLexical semantics in Middle English impersonal constructions\u201d
\n11:20-11:50\u00a0 Lieselotte Brems, \u201cFear(s) + complement clauses\u201d
\n11:55-12:25\u00a0 Izabela Czerniak, \u201cTracing the Scandinavian influence in early English\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Psychological aspects of English syntax (Chair: Izabela Lazar)
\n<\/em>2:00-2:30\u00a0 Carlos Prado-Alonso, \u201cA cognitive approach to obligatory subject-dependent XVS constructions in English\u201d
\n2:35-3:05\u00a0\u00a0 Ute R\u00f6mer, Matthew O’Donnell, and Nick Ellis, \u201cLearning verb-argument constructions: New perspectives from corpus and psycholinguistic analyses\u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

3:35-4:05\u00a0 Rainer Schulze, \u201cAspects of seriality in language\u201d
\n4:10-4:40\u00a0 Laurel Smith Stvan, \u201cThe influence of lexical conflation on causation\u201d<\/p>\n

Section B (CAS 237)<\/h4>\n

Workshop: Hubert Cuyckens\u00a0 and Martin Hilpert: How can new corpus-based techniques advance historical description and linguistic theory?<\/em>
\n10:10-10:40\u00a0 Hubert Cuyckens & Martin Hilpert,\u201dIntroduction: How can new corpus-based techniques advance historical description and linguistic theory?\u201d
\n10:45-11:15\u00a0 Britta Mondorf, \u201cLeg it, floor it, snuff it: A synchronic and diachronic analysis of nonreferential it\u201d
\n11:20-11:50 Tanja S\u00e4ily, \u201cSociolinguistic variation in morphological productivity in the CEECE\u201d
\n11:55-12:25 Javier Perez-Guerra, \u201cPairing word order with headedness in the recent history of English: a corpus-based analysis\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH<\/p>\n

2:00-2:35 Stefan Gries & Martin Hilpert, \u201cModeling diachronic change in a morpho-phonemic alternation\u201d
\n2:40-3:05 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, \u201cCulture change versus grammar change: the limits of text frequency (and what we can do about it)\u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

3:35-4:05 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
\n4:10-4:40 Workshop overview<\/p>\n

Section C (CAS 316)<\/h4>\n

Workshop<\/em>: Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Anna Mauranen: Global English: contact-linguistic, typological, and second-language acquisition perspective
\n<\/em>10:10-10:40\u00a0 Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Anna Mauranen: \u201cGlobal English: contact-linguistic, typological, and second-language acquisition perspective\u201d
\n10:45-11:15\u00a0 Peter Siemund, \u201cVarieties of English and Language Typology\u201d
\n11:20-11:50\u00a0 Niina Hynninen and Henrik Hakala, \u201cLexical and accent accommodation in ELF interaction\u201d
\n11:55-12:25\u00a0 Heli Paulasto, Elina Ranta, and Lea Meril\u00e4inen, \u201cSyntactic features in Global Englishes: how \u2018global\u2019 are they?\u201d<\/p>\n

12:30-1:55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUNCH<\/p>\n

2:00-2:30\u00a0\u00a0 Edgar Schneider, \u201cTracking down American impact on Asian and Pacific Englishes in electronic corpora\u201d
\n2:35-3:05\u00a0\u00a0 Hanna Parviainen, \u201cQuestion formation in Indian English and in other Southeast Asian varieties\u201d<\/p>\n

3:05-3:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

3:35-4:05\u00a0\u00a0 Zhiming Bao, \u201cSystemic Nature of Substratum Transfer: the case of got<\/em> in Singapore English\u201d
\n4:10-4:40\u00a0\u00a0 Rajend Mesthrie, \u201cDiamonds, gender and strong verbs: a study of contact and sociolinguistic factors in the evolution of a variety of Black English in Kimberley, South Africa\u201d<\/p>\n

4:45-5:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 POSTER SESSION 2 (CAS 314) (Chair: Eugene Green)
\n4:45-5:30\u00a0\u00a0 Jakob R. E. Leimgruber and Lavanya Sankaran, \u201cImperfectives in Singapore English: New evidence for ethnic varieties?\u201d
\nNadja Nesselhauf, \u201cDiachronic corpus linguistics: overcoming the limitations of automatic analysis\u201d
\nCarla Suhr, \u201cIntroducing visuals to historical pragmatics: Book history and multimodality\u201d<\/p>\n

5:35-6:35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)<\/p>\n

Stefan Gries, \u201cThe quantitative revolution in corpus linguistics: applications and their theoretical implications\u201d (Chair: Martin Hilpert)<\/p>\n

7:00-10:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HARBOR CRUISE (Buses leave from 725 Commonwealth Avenue at 7)<\/p>\n

TUESDAY, JUNE 21<\/h2>\n

8:30-9:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BUSINESS MEETING (CAS 522)<\/p>\n

9:35-10:05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)<\/p>\n

GENERAL SESSION V<\/h3>\n

Section A (CAS 213)<\/h4>\n

Modern English Constructions (Chair: Marion Elenbaas)
\n<\/em>10:10-10:40 \u00a0Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford, \u201cOn the meaning(s) of need to<\/em>\u201d
\n11:20-:11:50 Doris Schoenefeld, \u201cModern Usage and semantic change\u201d<\/p>\n

Section B (CAS 237)<\/h4>\n

Asian and Pacific English (Chair: Edgar Schneider)
\n<\/em><\/em>10:10-10:40 <\/em>Tatiana Larina, Svetlana Kurtes, and Neelakshi Suryanarayan, \u201cMadam<\/em> or aunty jee<\/em>: contrasting forms of address in British and Indian English(es)\u201d
\n10:45-11:15\u00a0 Manfred Sailer, \u201cDoubling in New Englishes\u201d<\/p>\n

Orthographic Developments (Chair: Edgar Schneider)
\n<\/em> <\/em>11:25- 11:55\u00a0 Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, \u201cTracing orthographic change in corpora: A methodological approach to the study of English compound spelling”<\/p>\n

Section C (CAS 316)<\/h4>\n

Contact or Comparisons of English and related Germanic languages (Chair: Gisle Andersen)
\n<\/em>10:10-10:40 <\/em>Anna W\u00e4rnsby, \u201cInterpreting modal utterances in English and Swedish\u201d
\n10:45-11:15 Eline Zenner, \u201cThe borrowability of English\u201d<\/p>\n

Section D (CAS 324)<\/h4>\n

Developments of Idiosyncratic Constructions (Chair: Rainer Schulze)
\n<\/em>10:10-10:40 Laurel Brinton, \u201cThe extremes of insubordination: exclamatory \/as if!\/\u201d
\n10:45-11:15 Beate Hampe, \u201cA study of expressive a(n) N of a(n) N<\/em> constructions in the BNC\u201d
\n11:20-11:50 Georg Maier, \u201cPronoun case variation across varieties of English\u201d<\/p>\n

1:30-4:00 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0ARCHITECTURAL TOUR: DOWNTOWN BOSTON (Bus leaves from 725 Commonwealth Avenue at 1:30)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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