Wednesday, May 11th (at the ELI - see above for directions) |
| 2:00 |
Registration begins |
| 3:00 |
Pre-conference workshop: Degenrate Data (abstract)
Facilitated by John Sinclair and Anna Mauranen |
| 5:00 |
Welcome reception |
Thursday, May 12th |
| 8:00 |
Registration (Kessler Room) |
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Session 1A:
Diachronic Studies I
Chair:Terttu Nevalainen
Room D |
Session 1B:
Grammatical Analysis I
Chair: Hongyin Tao
Kalamazoo Room |
Session 1C:
Spoken Academic Discourse
Chair: Rita Simpson
Michigan Room |
| 9:00 |
Christine Johansson
The use of the It-Cleft construction in 19th-century English |
Loretta Gray and Suzanne Johnson
Distanced relative clauses in academic prose |
Nancy L. Drescher
Gender and power in the American academic community: A corpus-based analysis of pragmatic meaning |
| 9:30 |
Christer Geisler
Comparing two factor analyses of 19th-century English |
Ilka Mindt
That and zero following adjectives
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Erik Schleef
'Ja. Guten Morgen, meine Damen und Herren.' - 'Okay ... let's get started.' Discourse markers and question tags in English and German academic discourse
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| 10:00 |
Udo Fries
Sentence length as a style marker in 18th-century newspapers (the ZEN-Corpus)
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Tao Ming
A corpus-based study of the order of demonstratives and relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese |
Eniko Csomay
Interactivity in university classrooms: a corpus-based perspective
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| 10:30 |
Break - Kessler Room |
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Session 2A:
British and American English
Chair: Merja Kytö
Room D |
Session 2B:
Written Academic Discourse I
Chair: John Flowerdew
Kalamazoo Room |
Session 2C:
Spoken Discourse
Chair: John Swales
Michigan Room |
| 11:00 |
Juhani Rudanko
Grammatical change in British and American English: A case study with evidence from the Bank of English corpus
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Marina Bondi and Marc Silver
Emphatics in academic discourse: A cross-disciplinary perspective on research articles
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Brona Murphy and Aisling O'Boyle
LI-BEL case: A spoken corpus of academic discourse
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| 11:30 |
Nicholas Smith
The divergent paths of the progressive passive in British and American English
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Tamsin Sanderson
Corpus-based approaches to discourse analysis: Rhetorical self-fashioning strategies in academic writing
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Michael McCarthy, Anne O'Keeffe, and Steve Walsh
'...post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on so forth' -- vague language in academic discourse, a comparative analysis of form, function and context
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| 12:00 |
Sebastian Hoffman and Gunnel Tottie
Tag questions in American and British English
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Hongyin Tao
'So you can do a lot of things with a corpus? Oh, absolutely!' An essay on frequency effects on meaning and structure of language
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| 12:30 |
Lunch break
ICAME Board Meeting (Lunch provided) - at Angell Hall in the English department |
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Session 3A:
Language Variation and Change
Chair: Graeme Kennedy
Room D |
Session 3B:
Teaching with Corpora
Chair: Sylviane Granger
Kalamazoo Room |
Session 3C:
Methodology I
Chair: Sebastian Hoffmann
Michigan Room |
| 2:00 |
Christian Mair
The corpus-based study of language change in progress: The extra value of tagged corpora
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Ute Römer
Real language for real learners:Towards a new concept of teaching grammar
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Dorota Smyk-Bhattacharjee
INDIANA: A system for identifying lexical innovations
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| 2:30 |
Joybrato Mukherjee
Describing verb-complementational profiles of outer circle varieties of English: The case of Indian English
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Viviana Cortes
Using corpora in the disciplinary writing class
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Antoinette Renouf
Revisiting the 'corp' in Webcorp
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| 3:00 |
Pam Peters
Australian English grammar: Variation across speech and writing
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Mohammed Albakry
Language variation in American journalism: A corpus-based study
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Paul Rayson
Keywords are not enough
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| 3:30 |
Break - Kessler Room |
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Session 4A:
Diachronic Studies II
Chair: Winnie Cheng
Room D |
Session 4B:
Grammatical Analsysis II
Chair: Gunnel Tottie
Kalamazoo Room |
Session 4C:
Verb Patterns and Phraseology
Chair: Mark Davies
Michigan Room |
| 4:00 |
Radoslaw Dylewski
On the retarded rate of development of early American English: Evidence from verbal morphology with ablaut verbs in focus |
Ditte Kimps
Constant polarity tag questions: A data-driven typology of core meaning and contextualizations |
Graeme Kennedy
Collocational patterning with high frequency verbs in the British National Corpus.
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| 4:30 |
Matti Rissanen, Peter Grund, and Merja Kyto
The development of till and until in English |
Yoichi Arai
A corpus-based analysis of some neg-intensifying expressions |
Göran Kjellmer
Collocations and semantic prosody |
| 5:00 |
Plenary Talk: Charles Fillmore
Pie-in-the-sky corpus tools to support semantic parsing
(In the Vandenberg Room) |
| 6:30 |
ICAME general meeting (same room as plenary) |
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Friday, May 13th |
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Session 5A:
Corpora and the Study of Regional and Social Variation
Chair: Charles Meyer
Room D |
Session 5B:
Written Academic Discourse II
Chair: Viviana Cortes
Kalamazoo Room |
Session 5C:
Variation in Spoken English
Chair: Nancy Drescher
Michigan Room |
| 9:00 |
Edgar Schneider
When I started to using BLUR: Accounting for unusual verb complementation patterns in an electronic corpus of earlier African American English
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Davide Mazzi
The construction of argumentation in judicial texts: Combining a genre and a corpus perspective
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Federica Barbieri
Revisiting the effect of sex and age on quotative use in American English: A corpus-based study
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| 9:30 |
Terttu Nevalainen
Negative concord in 18th-century English: A corpus perspective on social stratification
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Lynne Flowerdew
Corpus analysis of discourse moves in apprentice and professional reports
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Kristen Precht
Men and hedging in American conversation |
| 10:00 |
Marianne Hundt
The committee has/have decided ... On concord patterns with collective nouns in inner and outer circle varieties of English
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Ulla Connor and Thomas Upton
Understanding the moves of grant proposals: Exploring the role of stance
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Elaine Vaughan
Got a date or something?: A corpus analysis of the role of humour and laughter in the workplace meetings of English language teachers.
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| 10:30 |
William Kretzschmar
Collaboration on corpora for regional and social analysis
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Budsaba Kanoksilapatham
Convergences and divergences of rhetorical organizations: Two comparable corpora of research articles |
Paulo Quaglio
The language of NBC's Friends and naturally-occurring conversation: Functional differences |
| 11:00 |
Break - Kessler Room |
| 11:30 |
Session 6: Panel discussion
Chair: Charles Meyer
Panelists:
Susan Conrad, Edgar Schneider, Wolfgang Teubert, Randi Reppen
Corpus Linguistics: Methodology or Sub-field? |
| 1:00 |
Lunch break |
| 2:00 |
Depart for Cranbrook Institute excursion & dinner |
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Saturday, May 14th |
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Session 7A:
Grammaticalization
Chair: Christian Mair
Room D |
Session 7B:
Corpora and EFL
Chair: Ute Römer
Kalamazoo Room |
Session 7C:
Intonation:
Chair: Kristen Precht
Michigan Room |
| 9:00 |
Tine Breban and Kristen Davidse
The development of postdeterminer uses of adjectives: Grammaticalization and semantic shift |
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Iris Lin
Discourse intonation and functions of questions and responses across genre types in business/professional settings
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| 9:30 |
An Van linden and Hubert Cuyckens
The changing distribution of complementation patterns with adjectives (and verbs) of volition
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Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot
The phraseology of EFL academic writing: Methodological issues and research findings
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Winnie Cheng
One country two systems: The intonation patterns of extended collocations
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| 10:00 |
Collette Moore
The spread of grammaticalized forms: The case of "be + supposed to"
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Fanny Meunier and Celine Gouverneur
Selecting formulaic sequences for instructed EFL teaching: A multi-dimensional approach.
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Martin Warren
Title: // æ // æ WOW //: The intonation of listenership in an intercultural corpus
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| 10:30 |
Break - Kessler Room |
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Session 8A:
Translation and Contrastive Analysis
Chair: Anna Mauranen
Room D |
Session 8B:
Learner Corpora
Chair: Pam Peters
Kalamazoo Room |
Session 8C:
Methodology II
Chair: Antoinette Renouf
Michigan Room |
| 11:00 |
Rosa Rabadán, Blen Labrador, and Noelia Ramon
The ACTRES project: Using corpora to assess English-Spanish translation
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Annelie Adel
Involvement and detachment in writing: The effects of task setting and intertextuality
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Marina Santini
Annotated corpora vs. raw web page collections. Text types, web pages, and linguistic features: Some issues
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11:30 |
Roberta Facchinetti
Exploiting specialized dictionaries as corpora: The case of DITELI
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Nur Aktas
Functions of 'Shell Nouns' as cohesive devices in academic writing: A comparative corpus-based study
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Shawn Martin
Corpus inter corpora: The text creation partnership
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| 12:00 |
Gregory Garretson
The use of translation corpora for grammatical analysis: The case of 'of'
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John Flowerdew
A taxonomy of learner errors in signalling nouns
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Gaëtanelle-Gilquin
Building bridges within and beyond corpus linguistics: Methodological and theoretical issues.
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| 12:30 |
Lotte Tavecchio
A corpus-based contrastive analysis of English and Dutch sentencing patterns
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William Crawford
Is L2 writing like native-English conversation?
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Dominic Widdows
Pervasive technology for corpus based research: Distributed data, search, and collaborative annotation
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| 1:00 |
Lunch break |
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Session 9: Poster session
Chair: Randi Reppen
Vandenberg Room |
| 2:30 |
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| 3:30 |
Poster viewing session - authors present to answer questions
Room D |
| 4:30 |
Break - Kessler Room |
| 5:00 |
Plenary Talk:Jonathon Culpeper and Merja Kytö
Exploring speech-related Early Modern English texts: Lexical bundles revisited
(In the Vandenberg Room) |
| 7:00 |
Dinner banquet and dance,
with music by The Johnstown Cats |
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Sunday, May 15th |
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Session 10A:
Diachronic Studies III
Chair: Colette Moore
Room D |
Session 10B:
Newspaper Language
Chair: Anne O'Keeffe
Kalamazoo Room |
Session 10C:
Register Variation
Chair: Stig Johansson
Michigan Room |
| 9:00 |
Antonio Miranda, Javier Calle, and Nadia Obegi
Subordinating uses of 'and' in Old English: A corpus-based analysis |
Richard Forest
<President> bush is a <?>: Construal of semantic preference within and across discourse communities |
Sabine Bartsch, Elke Holtz, and Monica Teich
Corpus-based register profiling: The case of mechanical engineering texts |
| 9:30 |
Antonio Miranda, Javier Calle, and Laura Esteban
Prepositional anastrophe in Old English: A corpus-based study |
Annelie Adel and Gregory Garretson
Who's speaking?: Evidentiality in US newspapers during the 2004 presidential campaign |
Douglas Biber, James K. Jones, Mark Davies, and Nicole Tracy
Register variation in Spanish: A multi-dimensional comparison with English, Somali, and Korean |
| 10:00 |
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Isabel Alonso and Antonello Maddalena
Exploring the interactive dimension of newspaper editorials: A corpus driven approach |
Mark Davies
Examining register-based variation in the BNC: The case of phrasal verbs |
| 10:30 |
Break - Kessler Room |
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| 11:00 |
Plenary Talk: John Sinclair
Too much meaning?
A corpus-driven perspective on language theory
(In the Vandenberg Room) |
| 12:00 |
Closing |
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