Wed  

Pre-conference workshop: Using R for Corpus Linguistics (4188 JFSB)
[INSTRUCTIONS FOR GETTING READY FOR THE WORKSHOP]

  12:00       Retrieving corpus-linguistic data from corpora with R (Stefan Th. Gries)
  3:30 Early-bird registration (4010 JFSB)
  4:00       Statistically analyzing data with R (Harald Baayen)
     
Thurs 7:45 Registration
  8:30 Welcome
  8:45


Tony McEnery: Corpus Linguistics and the Humanities
 

  10:00

Buses to Aspen Grove

    ACQUISITION 1
(Randi Reppen)
CORPUS CREATION 1
(Dee Gardner)
SYNTAX 1
(Stefan Th. Gries)
STYLISTICS 1
(Laurel Stvan)
 
  11:00 Annotation, Indexing and Querying a Multilingual, Multimodal Classroom Discourse Corpus
Huaqing Hong and Paul Doyle [61]
Complementing the BNC with a Corpus from the Web
William H. Fletcher [51]
Finnish case alternating adpositions: A corpus study
Sander Lestrade [128]
Representations of Islam in the British and American press 1999-2005
Paul Baker and Costas Gabrielatos [63]
 
  11:30 A New Corpus of Student Academic Writing
Susan Conrad and Sarah Albers [29]
Introducing WordCruncher 7.1
Monte Shelley and James Rosenvall

 

The diachonic development of some verbs with copulative function in Spanish.
Alfonso Gallegos Shibya [3]
Emotive Language and Disease Outbreak Reports
Mike Conway [97]
 
  12:00 The Nora Corpus: a study of Arab EFL written discourse
Eman Al Nafjan [102]
Tubing the Web: a corpus-based study on video-communication
Elisabetta Adami [40]

 

Scrambling in Spoken Dutch
Geertje van Bergen and Peter de Swart [105]
Discursive construction of terrorism in Peoples Daily and The Sun before and after 9.11
Yufang Qian [116]
 
  12:30 Towards a Multi-layered & Multimodal Annotation Model of Learner Corpora
Yukio Tono [139]
The 360 million word BYU Corpus of American English (1990-2007)
Mark Davies [191]
Subject omission in Russian: A study of the Russian National corpus
Tatiana Zdorenko [153]
Parents, victims, suspects, victims ...: The 'framing' of the McCanns in the British tabloid press
Del Barrett [33]
 
  1:00

LUNCH

    APPLICATIONS
(Dirk Elzinga)
COMPUTATIONAL 1
(Sabine Bartsch)
CROSS-LINGUISTIC 1
(Concepcion Godev)
FREQUENCY 1
(Martin Warren)
 
  2:00 A Corpus-Based Model for the Work of Editors
Joseph Richardson [120]
Learning Appraisal Extraction Patterns
Ken Bloom [80]
Stock Market Jargon Metaphors in General Discourses: A Corpus-based Study of Mandarin Chinese
Carrie Hsin-wen Tsen and Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh [130]
Semantic frequency and the creation of pedagogical word lists: What can we learn from SemCor?
Dee Gardner [158]
 
  2:30 Authorship Attribution : What Mixture-of-Experts Says We Don't Yet Know
Patrick Juola [115]
The CEPRIL Metaphor Candidate Identifier: A program for identifying metaphor in corpora
Tony Berber Sardinha [141]
Towards Predicting New Words from Newer Words: Lexical Borrowings in French
Paula Chesley [156]
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Textual Frequency
Laura Teddiman [84]
 
  3:00 Using Corpora in an English Usage Class
Don Chapman [174]
Semi-automatic Classification and Extraction of Predicates from German Text Corpora
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski [43]
Semantic Anglicisms in Contemporary Metropolitan French
Betsy Kerr [18]
Exploring Text-initial Concgrams in a Newspaper Corpus
Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Mike Scott and Michaela Mahlberg [94]
 
    ACQUISITION 2
(Ray Graham)
COMPUTATIONAL 2
(Eileen Fitzpatrick)
SYNTAX 2
(Alan Manning)
ENGLISH VARIATION
(Wendy Baker)
 
  4:00 The Effect of Computer-Mediated Communication on the Acquisition of Registers of Written Academic Discourse by Creole-Speaking Children 
Arlene Clachar [2]
Estimating the saliency of constructions using document frequencies from the web
Gard Jenset and Christer Johansson [27]
On the development of Nouns as Internal Dependents in the Contemporary English Noun Phrase
Iria Pastor-Gómez [62]
Selected words, phrases, and meanings of African (American) provenience in General American: A corpus-based study
Radoslaw Dylewski [37]
 
  4:30 Word-Frequency and Vocabulary Acquisition: An Analysis of Elementary Spanish Textbooks
Concepción Godev [24]
Creating Subcorpora to Explore the Topic Structure of Domain-Specific Text
Paul Deane [110]
A multifactorial approach to that-deletion in English complement constructions
Stefanie Wulff [135]
"I've never seen anything like it": An inquiry into the grammatical clustering involving never in spoken American English
Hongyin Tao [136]
 
  5:00 Spoken Spanish in Corpora and in Textbooks: Implications for Acquisition
Grant Goodall [159]
Intermodal cohesion and coherence in multisemiotic text
Sabine Bartsch [14]
A Corpus Analysis of Dative Clitic Doubling in Spanish
Karen Vogel and Gerald Delahunty [83]
Ah lovely stuff, eh?  On invariant tag meanings and usage across three varieties of English
Georgie Columbus [52]
 
  5:45
Laurel Brinton: Historical Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics: Problems and Strategies
 
  7:00 DINNER
  8:30 Buses return to BYU
 
Fri 8:30 Buses leave BYU for Aspen Grove
  9:15
Susan Hunston: "You can't deny the fact that...": An Application of Corpus Linguistics
 
    CROSS-LINGUISTIC 2
(Patrick Hanks)
COMPUTATIONAL 3
(Ron Artstein)
SYNTAX 3
(Francisco Ocampo)
STYLISTICS 2
(Cynthia Hallen)
REGISTERS 1
(Ilka Mindt)
  10:30 A corpus-based investigation of cognate prepositions in English and Swedish
Kerstin Lindmark [81]
An Efficient Framework for Large Scale Cross Document Coreference (CRC)
Jian Huang and C. Lee Giles [66]
Corpus-based constituency tests and the structural position of auxiliary verbs
Jack Grieve [65]
The use of hedging devices in American English. Identifying some trends in the FROWN corpus
Adriana Teresa Damascelli [1]
Suggestions and Recommendations in Academic Speech 
Luciana Diniz [36]
  11:00 Colouring COMPARA: contrastive and monolingual colour studies in English and Portuguese
Rosário Silva [35]
Measures of dispersion in corpus data: a critical review and a suggestion
Stefan Th. Gries [133]
Using corpora to quantify contexts: The case of the Portuguese Perfect
Patricia Amaral and Chad Howe [106]
Grammatical Expression of Stance in Outsourced Call Center Discourse
Eric Friginal [45]
Testing Language-Based Indicators of Deception on a Corpus of Legal Narratives
Eileen Fitzpatrick and Joan Bachenko [50]
  11:30 A Statistical Analysis of CEEJUS, Corpus of English Essays by Japanese University Students
Shin Ishikawa [172]
Using an XML database for large corpora: Introducing Cheshire3
Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Catherine Smith, Robert Sanderson, Clare Llewellyn and John Harrison [23]
A corpus-based study of mandative subjunctive triggers in published research articles
Pamela Pearson [48]
Comparing stance in qualitative and quantitative research reports
Bethany Ekle Gray [16]
Social Taboo, Evaluation, and Identity Construction Online
Mohammed Albakry [5]
  12:00 Studying phraseology and translation through the corpus and the database
Maria Freddi [95]
Compiling a new French frequency dictionary
Deryle Lonsdale and Yvon Le Bras [86]
Reflexive Pronoun as Discourse Focus Marker: The Case of Spanish morir vs. morirse
Jeff Turley [167]
Linguistic realizations of rhetorical structure: A corpus-based study of research articles in applied linguistics and educational technology
Phuong Dzung Pho [114]
The representation of time and space across historical discourse: a comparative analysis of evaluative effects
Marc Silver and Sara Radighieri [118]
  12:30

LUNCH

    ACQUISITION 3
(Neil Anderson)
CORPUS CREATION 2
(Dirk Elzinga)
SEMANTICS
(Del Barrett)
HISTORICAL 1
(Betsy Kerr)
REGISTERS 2
(Don Chapman)
  1:30 Developing writer stance  in intermediate level Japanese university writing in academic and disciplinary courses
Jan Minagawa [70]
Developing a Corpus for a Morphologically Rich, Endangered Language
Deryle Lonsdale [87]
Did the boys leave or not? Negation and quantifier scope: a corpus study
Gunnel Tottie [173]
A corpus-based research on the history of clitic climbing in European Portuguese
Aroldo Andrade [10]
Colloquialization: An Alteration in Written English
Ilka Mindt [99]
  2:00 The Use of Linking Adverbials in EFL Learners'' Time-Constrained Spoken Monologue
Kornwipa Poonpon [82]
MayanWiki: Facilitating Consensus Through an Openly Editable Corpus
Robbie Haertel [124]
The role of constructions in the assignment of modal meanings
Ferdinand de Haan and Sheila Dooley [49]
"De Ahí, Por Consiguiente, Por Ende, Por Lo Tanto and Por Tanto: A Distributional Diachronic and Synchronic Analysis"
Arthur H. Wendorf [4]
Corpora of Spanish versus an educational text of astronomy
Cristina Hansen [157]
  2:30 ''Students must'': A corpus based look at directives in university language
Randi Reppen [119]
Biblia Medieval: a parallel corpus of medieval Spanish
Andrés Enrique-Arias and Laura Carmago [162]
Beyond the lemma: Inflection-specific constructions in English
Sally Rice and John Newman [129]
A diachronic process that gives birth to a Spanish discourse particle: The case of "claro"
Francisco Ocampo [170]
Journalistic Corpus Similarity over Time
Cristina Mota [31]
  3:00 Becoming a proficient academic writer: Shifting lexical preferences in the use of the progressive
Ute Römer and Stefanie Wulff [146]
Into the woods: First steps in a collaborative corpus of medical conversations
Boyd Davis and Charlene Pope [21]
Good Nouns, Bad Nouns: What the corpus says and what native speakers think
Philip Dilts [112]
El coche ese vs el coche de marras: The postnominal demonstrative and de marras in Diachronic and Synchronic Corpora
David Alexander [168]
Characterizing genre: The case of scientific texts
Elke Teich [138]
  3:30 Return to BYU, OR
Spend time at Sundance, and then return at 5:30
  6:00 DINNER (At Skyroom, BYU)
 
Sat 8:30
Harald Baayen: Co-occurrence below and above the word level:
exploring language at the intersection of corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics and statistics

 
    HISTORICAL 2
(Don Chapman)
COMPUTATIONAL 4
(Alan Melby)
PATTERNS
(Elke Teich)
STYLISTICS 3
(Dallin Oaks)
 
  10:00 American slang in mainstream magazine writing
Anna Belladelli [9]
A Corpus-Driven Pattern Dictionary for Mapping Meaning onto Use
Patrick Hanks [107]
'Positioning lexical bundles in university class sessions'
Eniko Csomay and Viviana Cortes [41]
Fat and Health Literacy: Two Revealing Terms in CADOH (Corpus of American Discourses on Health)
Laurel Stvan [134]
 
  10:30 Recent Change in Core Grammar: a Case Study Based on Corpus Evidence
Juhani Rudanko [74]
A Corpus Study of Levin's Verb Classification
Jianguo Li, Kirk Baker and Chris Brew [67]
A Cross-sectional Analysis of Lexical Bundles in Written Medical Discourse
Shozo Yokoyama [149]
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in American, Arab, And British Media: Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis
Magdi Kandil [47]
 
  11:00 The OED as a Corpus: Looking for Dual-Form Adverbs
Milagros Chao Castro [98]
Collocates for Word Sense Disambiguation by means of a Discriminant Function Analysis Model: A Corpus-Based Approach
Moises Almela Sanchez [109]
A neo-Firthian approach to academic writing: Uncovering local patterns and local meanings in the discourse of linguistics
Ute Römer [145]
Using collocational profiling to investigate the construction of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the UK press
Paul Baker and Costa Gabrielatos [22]
 
  11:30 Controlling for Fads in Historical Corpora
Angus B. Grieve-Smith [53]
The Arrau corpus of anaphoric relations
Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio [11]
Analysis of Canonical Chinese Antonym Co-occurrence
Xingfu Wang, Eric Ringger, Guohui Liu, and Shiping Liu [171]
Corpus-based Study of New Motherhood in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans Herland
Ya-Jie Chen, Hui-Chuan Lu, Kailing Liu  [55]
 
  12:00

LUNCH

    ACQUISITION 4
(Norm Evans)
COMPUTATIONAL 5
(Deryle Lonsdale)
HISTORICAL 3
(David Eddington)
DIALECTS
(Wendy Baker)
 
  1:30 Evaluating corpus use in language learning: State of play and future directions
Alex Boulton [6]
Accelerating Corpus Annotation through Active Learning
Peter McClanahan, Eric Ringger, Robbie Haertel, Kevin Seppi, George Busby, Deryle Lonsdale [123]
Corpus attestations and linguistic explanations: the case of the history of Spanish prepositional finite clauses
Manuel Delicado-Cantero [160]
Articles in Registers of Indian English: A Corpus-based Study
Chandrika Rogers [32]
 
  2:00

The Reading Class Builder: A tool for creating corpus-based teaching materials
Tony Berber Sardinha and Jose Lopes Moreira Filho [180]

An Efficient Query Package for Richly Annotated Discourse Corpus
Pengcheng Wu and Huaqing Hong [25]
Online Databases and Language Change: the Case of Spanish "dizque"
Viola Miglio [161]
Creole African American Vernacular English:  Origins of a Dialect
Katherine Horwinski Healy [79]
 
  2:30 Corpus consultation in drafting and revising: A case study of a biomedical ESL graduate student
Hongmei Wu [60]
Semantic annotation of a dialog corpus
Silvie Cinkova [28]
Towards a Quantitative Characterization of Corpora at the Morphological Level: the use of Morphological Profiles to Measure Diachronic Change
Alfonso Medina [8]
The Maori presence in New Zealand English: a lexical approach
Marta Degani [96]
 
    CORPUS CREATION 3
(William Fletcher)
COMPUTATIONAL 6
(Christer Johansson)
VARIATION
(Viola Miglio)
FREQUENCY 2
(Patrick Juola)
 
  3:30 Compiling and Annotating a Corpus for Syriac
Eric Ringger [88]
Milk, bread and toothpaste: Adapting Data Mining techniques for the analysis of collocation at varying levels of discourse
Robert Sanderson, Matthew Brook O'Donnell and Clare Llewellyn [13]
The Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of the Spanish Language of Spain and the Americas (PRESEEA)
Laura Camargo [175]
A corpus-driven study of phraseological variation
Martin Warren [42]
 
  4:00 'The design of a  web-based interface for the BAWE corpus' 
Hilary Nesi [54]
Probabilistic tagging of a corpus of Mennonite Low German: A case study using QTag
Christopher Cox [30]
Tracking Sociohistorical Trends in the Use of Roman Letters in Chinese Newswires
Helena Riha and Kirk Baker [122]
Semantic Frequency: a new look at word frequency counts
Athelia Graham [12]
 
  4:30 Corpus Creation: CATE, CPEC & CAHC
Hui-Chuan Lu, Yun-Hui  Chen, Chia-Chi Tien [56]
Using a Query Language as an Annotation Tool
Eric J.M. Smith [46]
Verbal Imperative Variations in Qumran Legal Texts and Other Registers
Donald Parry [154]
Statistical Modelling of Empirical Data in Corpus Stylistics
Ji Meng
[93]
 
  5:15


Doug Biber: Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles
 

  6:30

DINNER