Category: corpus linguistics

Pre-announcing Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

 

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Through the BAAL mail list

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The International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017 will take place from Monday 24 to Friday 28 July at the University of Birmingham.

Opening plenary

Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham

Keynote speakers

Susan Conrad (Portland State University, US)
Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK)
Christian Mair (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Mike Scott (Aston University, UK)

SACODEYL corpora #corpuslinguistics in The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology

 

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Corpus types and uses
B Murphy, E Riordan – The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and …, 2016
… 2008). Another is the SACODEYL corpus, which includes transcribed interviews with
British, German, French, Italian Spanish, Lithuanian and Romanian adolescents
between 13 and 18 years of age (Hoffstaedter and Kohn 2009). …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology
F Farr, L Murray – 2016
… Page 19. Acronyms OLPC OMC OPUS PC PLE PLN RPG RSS SACODEYL SBCSAE SCMC
SEN SLA SOLE SSI Model TEC TESOL TNC VLE VOICE VSL WiA WoW ZPD one laptop per
child Oslo Multilingual Corpus Open Parallel Corpus personal computer personal learning …

Spoken language corpora and pedagogical applications
A Caines, M McCarthy, A O’Keeffe – The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning …, 2016
… Focusing on an innovative tool developed to make corpus use easier to access for language
teaching, Farr (2010) details the potential of the SACODEYL (System Aided Compilation and
Open Distribution of European Youth Language, a European Commission–funded project …

Written language corpora and pedagogical applications
A Chambers – The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and …, 2016
… 241–245), based on Mur Dueñas (2009), while the other focuses on intermediate learners of
EAP (pp. 260–263), based on Boulton (2010). Notes 1 http://www. um. es/sacodeyl (accessed
27 June 2014). 2 http://www. um. es/backbone (accessed 27 June 2014). 3 http://www. …

Corpus linguistics in the South 11, U. Sussex

 

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Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, 27 February 2016

Some of the presentations

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Lee Oakley, University of Birmingham
Some challenges when analysing a Census Corpus

The SexEd Corpus: a census corpus 1950-2014
93,202 words
11-16 year olds
Teenage readership
How are different sexualities presented to British teenagers?

Methodological approach to more qualitative analyses
All analysis is comparison

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Jill Bowie &  Sean Wallis, UCL

Investigating changes in structures and collocations, from a treebank to a megacorpus

Corpus: COHA (Davies 2012)

The to-infinitival perfect

80% decrease in use since 1820

402 verb lemmas in order of frequency

Top 30 collocates account for 95% of tokens (top 95% percintile)

Seem, Appear, Say, Ought, Be, Report, Claim

Seeming group

Cognition group

Cognition and saying group

Modality group

Grammatical change tends to be lexically constrained

Benefits of using dual corpora (ICE-GB + COHA)

We need open data to do more with the corpus data

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Taming the beast: getting to grips with a mega corpus.

Chris Turner, Coventry

Oxford corpus of English

some / any

Corpus of law reports

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Frequency and grammaticalization in a spoken corpus of Cameroon Pdgin English

Gabriel Ozon, Sheffield

estimated 50% of the population use it

West of Cameroon

Stigmatised status

Pilot study: 30 hours recordings, British Academy

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How to use a nanocorpus. Enriching corpora of interpreting.
 
Camille Ciollard & Bart Defrancq
 
Female interpreters hedge more than male speakers
 
Use of the marker well
 

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Capturing the zoo: a system for downloading, preparing and managing corpus data from online forums.
 
Clausia Viggiana & John Williams
 

Open source tools 
Citizen science 
To capture and interrogate linguistic data form online CS forums: zooniverse
 

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How small corpora paradoxically uncovered the nexr quark in corpus studies.
 
Bill Louw, Coventry & Zimbabwe
 

Theory of scientific method, William Whewell, Trinity College, Colligation.
 
Text reads text
 

#CFP CLS12: Corpus studies at the lexis-grammar interface NEW deadline March 10

CLS12 will take place on Saturday 2 April 2016 at Edge Hill University.

The focus of CLS12 is the interaction of lexis and grammar. The focus is influenced by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that “if you interrogate the system grammatically you will get grammar-like answers and if you interrogate it lexically you get lexis-like answers” (1992: 64).

We welcome corpus-based papers which examine any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar, or to extend Halliday’s conception, studies which interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. The studies …

-may be located more towards the lexis end or the grammar end of the continuum.
-may be descriptive, theoretical or applied (e.g. related to language teaching).
-may (but don’t need to) be situated within any theoretical approach that recognises the combination or interaction of lexis and grammar (e.g. Construction Grammar, Lexical Grammar, Pattern Grammar, Systemic Functional Grammar).
-may be synchronic or diachronic.
We also welcome papers which discuss methodological issues related to the corpus-based study of the lexis-grammar interface.

Presentations will be allocated a total of 40 minutes (including at least 10 minutes for discussion).

Please send an abstract of 400-500 words (excluding references) to Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk). Please make sure to specify the research questions or hypotheses, the corpus and methodology, and the main findings.

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The deadline for abstract submission is 10 March 2016. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed.

More info: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/english/research/conferences/cls12/

Thrilled to take part in the @CamLangsci Multilingualism seminar tomorrow

 

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Cambridge Language Sciences Initiative

Speakers: Dr Teresa Parodi (Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) and Dr Pascual Perez-Paredes (Faculty of Education)

-Longitudinal corpora of untutored learners

Teresa Parodi, Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

-Noun Phrases in Spanish young learners of EFL: insights from the International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI)

Pascual Pérez-Paredes, RSLE, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

 

CFP Journal Research in Corpus Linguistics


Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL), issue 4 (2016)
(Official journal of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics AELINCO)

Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL, ISSN 2243-4712), the official journal of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics AELINCO, is a peer-reviewed international scientific journal published annually, aiming at the publication of original research based on corpus data from different languages and language families and from different theoretical perspectives and frameworks, with the goal of improving our knowledge about the linguistic theoretical background of a language, a language family or any type of cross-linguistic phenomena/constructions/assumptions.

RiCL invites previously unpublished research articles and book reviews in the field of corpus linguistics. Specific areas of interest include corpus design, compilation and typology; discourse, literary analysis and corpora; corpus-based grammatical studies; corpus-based lexicology and lexicography; corpora, contrastive studies and translation; corpus and linguistic variation; corpus-based computational linguistics; corpora, language acquisition and teaching; and special uses of corpus linguistics. The journal also publishes special issues on specific topics, with leading specialists in the field of corpus linguistics as guest editors.

Editors: Javier Pérez-Guerra (University of Vigo) and María José López-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela)

Links:
– journal website: http://www.aelinco.es/ricl
– instructions for authors: http://www.aelinco.es/ojs/index.php/ricl/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions