Conferences and presentations
2023
▪ January 23rd: College of Law lunchtime lecture, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; lecture on "Can a president be impeached for non-criminal misconduct? Yes, for commission of “high misdemeanors” (with Clark Cunningham)
▪ February 15th: Plenary lecture at the Korean Linguistic Science Society (LSS) winter conference, Kyungpook National University, South Korea (virtual participation); lecture on "The use of learner corpora in research on second language development"
▪ March 18th-21st: AAAL 2023 in Portland, OR; colloquium organization on "Corpus Linguistics and the Law" (with Jesse Egbert); colloquium presentation on "Applied corpus linguistics and legal interpretation: A rapidly developing field of interdisciplinary scholarship" (with Clark Cunningham); presentation on "Formulaic sequences in L2 writing development: The role of intra-sequence variability and productivity" (with Akira Murakami, Marije Michel and Dora Alexopoulou); presentation on "A collostructional approach to Japanese noun-modifying clause construction use and acquisition: A learner corpus study" (with Nicole C. De Los Reyes); presentation on "L2 learners’ use of phrase-frames across proficiency levels: Comparing written and oral production" (with Yoon Namkung)
▪ May 5th: Invited guest lecture at Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden on "Corpus research for Applied Linguistics: The potential of phraseology"
▪ June 7th-10th: Keynote speaker at a conference on Evidence-Based Foreign Language Learning - Multilingualism in Education (EBFL) in Ascona, Switzerland; lecture on "Usage-based SLA research and its relevance for FL pedagogy: What can learner corpora tell us?"
▪ July 3rd-6th: Corpus Linguistics 2023 Conference in Lancaster, UK; presentation on "Can a corpus analysis of “such… as” constructions in 18th century American English facilitate interpretation of the U.S. Constitution’s Appointments Clause?" (with Haoshan Ren and Clark Cunningham)
2022
▪ March 19th-22nd: AAAL 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA; presentation on "“I would love to hear from you”: Emerging modal verb constructions in L2 English learners"
▪ July 27th-30th: ICAME 43 in Cambridge, UK; presentation on "Corpus linguistics meets the law: Can an American president only be impeached for criminal conduct?" (with Clark Cunningham); presentation on "Do formulaic sequences mask proficiency? Considering evidence from a large learner corpus" (with Akira Murakami, Marije Michel and Dora Alexopoulou)
▪ September 9th-11th: AACL 2022 in Flagstaff, AZ; presentation on "How do constructions with modal verbs develop in second language learners of English? Evidence from a large learner corpus"; presentation on "Testing Supreme Court precedent about the meaning of the Constitution’s Appointments Clause against linguistic analysis of the text" (with Haoshan Ren and Clark Cunningham)
▪ November 2nd: CorpusCast episode on Legal Interpretation (hosted by Robbie Love), with Clark Cunningham. Available on YouTube (https://youtu.be/zEuot6SleXo), Spotify (link), Apple Podcasts (link), Podcast Addict (link), Podchaser (link)
2021
▪ February 5th: 6th Annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference (virtual), Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; presentation on "Investigating the original public meaning of "misdemeanors" in the impeachment clause" (with Clark Cunningham)
▪ March 20th-23rd: Plenary speaker at the AAAL 2021 Virtual Conference; plenary lecture on "Applied corpus linguistics for language acquisition, pedagogy, and beyond"; presentation on "Examining the longitudinal development of English verb-argument constructions: Comparing spoken and written learner production data" (with Sanghee Kang and YouJin Kim)
▪ July 13th-16th: Corpus Linguistics 2021 (CL 2021) conference, hosted online by the University of Limerick, Ireland; presentation on "“I can cook but I can’t sing”: Tracing the development of modal verb constructions in second language learners of English"; presentation on "What counted as a misdemeanor in founding era American English? A corpus approach to uncovering the original public meaning of “misdemeanors” in the impeachment clause" (with Clark Cunningham)
▪ August 18th-21st: ICAME 42 in Dortmund, Germany; presentation on "“I can’t sing and dance but I can cook”: How do constructions with modal verbs develop in second language learners of English?"
▪ December 17th: Invited talk on "Phraseology research in applied corpus linguistics: The power of patterns", Trier Center for Language and Communication, University of Trier, Germany
2020
▪ *CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC* February 10th-14th: Keynote speaker at the 5th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2020) in Seoul, South Korea; lecture on "What can a learner corpus tell us about second language development?"; invited pre-conference workshop on "Teaching academic writing with the help of MICUSP" - POSTPONED UNTIL JUNE
▪ *CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC* March 28th-31st: AAAL 2020 in Denver, CO; presentation on "Using phrase-frames to trace the language development of L1 Chinese learners of English" (with Yi Tan); presentation on "Examining the longitudinal development of English verb-argument constructions: Comparing spoken and written learner production data" (with Sanghee Kang and YouJin Kim); poster on "From key words to core constructions in academic writing: Corpus explorations of ELF" (with Selahattin Yilmaz)
▪ *CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC* May 6th: Invited talk, University of Trier, Germany
▪ *SWITCHED TO DIGITAL DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC (PAPERS WITHDRAWN)* May 20th-24th: ICAME 41 in Heidelberg, Germany; presentation on ""I can cook but I can't sing": Tracing the development of constructions with modal verbs in second language learners of English"; presentation on ""Questions Involving National Peace and Harmony" or "Injured Plaintiff Litigation"? Using corpus analysis to uncover the original meaning of "cases" in Article III of the US Constitution" (with Clark D. Cunningham, Haoshan Ren, Margaret Wood, Noor Abbady, Heather Kuhn and Jesse Egbert)
▪ *POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC* July 2nd-3rd: Plenary speaker at the Corpus Linguistics Down Under (CLDU) symposium in Sydney, Australia;
▪ *POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC* July 10th: Invited talk, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
2019
▪ February 22nd: Invited speaker at the English for Professional Purposes Intercultural Center (EPPIC) at The Pennsylvania State University; lecture on "Using corpora in teaching academic writing"
▪ March 9th-12th: AAAL 2019 in Atlanta, GA; presentation on "Effects of L2 Usage and L1 Transfer on Turkish
Learners’ Production of English Verb-Argument Constructions" (with Selahattin Yilmaz); presentation on "Going Beyond Bundles: A Phraseological Approach to Medical English" (with Ndeye Bineta Mbodj); presentation on "A Phraseological Analysis of French wh-Interrogatives and its Pedagogical Implications" (with Julie Carver); presentation on "Phraseological and pragmatic explorations of the presentations and discussion sessions from an applied linguistics conference: Two genres or one?" (with Haoshan Ren)
▪ May 30th: Invited presentation on "How do verb constructions emerge across proficiency levels? Evidence from a large corpus of L2 learner English" as part of a workshop on "Emergent constructions -- Big data in learner language analyses", University of Basel, Switzerland
▪ June 1st-5th: ICAME 40 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland; presentation on "Quantifying disciplinary voices: An automated approach to interactional metadiscourse in successful student writing" (with Hyung-Jo Yoon); presentation on "Beyond n-grams: Introducing a new tool for the identification and analysis of phrase frames and other multi-word units" (with Laurence Anthony)
▪ September 20th-22nd: Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2019) at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; invited colloquium presentation on "Tracing the development of verb constructions in L2 learner English with the help of a corpus"; presentation on "Exploring phrase-frames in L1 Chinese learners' English writing across proficiency levels" (with Yi Tan); presentation on "Investigating personal pronouns in fixed and variable multiword units in a learner oral corpus" (with Tamanna Mostafa)
▪ October 18th: Workshop on Law and Linguistics at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; presentation on "“Questions Involving National Peace and Harmony” or “Injured Plaintiff Litigation”? The Original Meaning of “Cases” in Article III of the Constitution" (with Haoshan Ren, Margaret Wood, Clark Cunningham, Noor Abbady, Heather Kuhn and Jesse Egbert); presentation on "“We the Citizens?”: A Corpus Linguistic Inquiry into the Use of “People” and “Citizens” in the Founding Era" (with Abigail Stout and Diana Coetzee)
2018
▪ February 15th-17th: Keynote speaker at the 3rd Constructional Approaches to Language Pedagogy (CALP-3) conference in Austin, TX; lecture on "Corpus research on emerging constructions in learner language and its relevance for language pedagogy"
▪ February 22nd: Invited webinar lecture on "Using a student writing corpus in teaching academic writing" for the online MA in Applied Linguistics at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
▪ March 24th-27th: AAAL 2018 in Chicago, IL; participation in a colloquium on "Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Application of Corpus-based Construction Grammar" (colloquium organizer: Susan Hunston); presentation on "The Emergence of Verb Constructions in Spoken Learner English: Tracing Effects of Usage and Proficiency" (with James Garner)
▪ June 13th-15th: Keynote speaker at the 9th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS 2018) conference in Valetta, Malta; lecture on "Verb constructions in second language acquisition: From learner corpus analysis to pedagogical recommendations"
▪ September 20th-22nd: Conference co-chair of the 14th American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2018) conference in Atlanta, GA; presentations on "Identification, analysis, and application of n-grams, p-frames, and other multi-word units" (with Laurence Anthony), video of the presentation; and "Phraseological variability in English as an academic lingua franca writing" (with Selahattin Yilmaz)
▪ September 26th-28th: Keynote speaker at the 8th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL-8) in Koblenz, Germany; lecture on "Emerging L2 constructions: From corpus evidence to pedagogical implications"
2017
▪ March 17th-21st: AAAL 2017 in Portland, OR; presentation on "How do constructions emerge in second language learners? Evidence from a pseudo-longitudinal learner corpus" (with Cynthia Berger and Nick Ellis); presentation on "Network analysis of knowledge of verb-argument constructions in L1 and L2 speakers" (with Ann Devitt and Nick Ellis); presentation on "An automated approach to identifying interactional metadiscourse in successful student writing" (with Hyung-Jo Yoon)
▪ May 19th-21st: Keynote speaker at IRMSS 2017 in Limerick, Ireland; lecture on "Combining corpus and psycholinguistic methods in second language acquisition research: The benefits of interdisciplinary work in Applied Linguistics"
▪ May 24th-28th: ICAME 38 in Prague, Czech Republic; presentation on "The role of formulaic sequences in the L2 acquisition of high-frequency English verbs"
2016
▪ February 25th-26th: Keynote speaker at the 9th Second Language Studies Symposium at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; lecture on "Second language learners' acquisition of English verb-argument constructions: Insights from corpora and psycholinguistic experiments"; pre-symposium workshop on "Using corpora in teaching EAP"
▪ April 9th-12th: AAAL 2016 in Orlando, FL; presentation on "Language assessment and the inseparability of lexis and grammar" as part of an invited colloquium on "Connecting Corpus Linguistics and Language Assessment" (colloquium organizer: Sara Cushing)
▪ July 20th-23rd: 12th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 12) Conference in Giessen, Germany; presentation on "L2 learners’ developing knowledge of English verb constructions: Usage-based views and implications for teaching" (with Cynthia Berger and Nick Ellis)
▪ September 9th: Invited presentation on "Corpus linguistics and English language teaching: How has pedagogy changed?" at a British Academy project symposium on “Quantitative language research: Exploring the potential of corpus linguistics in education”, University of Stirling, Scotland
▪ ?September 16-18th: AACL 2016 at Iowa State University in Ames, IA
▪ October 21st-23rd: Keynote at the 3rd Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC) at Beihang University, Beijing, China on "Learner corpora, emerging constructions, and language teaching"
▪ October 28th: Invited presentation as part of a panel on "What Do (Does?) the Data Say? Insights from Language Corpora for Scholars, Teachers, and Learners" at the English Language Institute 75th Anniversary Celebration, University of Michigan, MI; video of panel
2015
▪ May 27th-31st: ICAME 36 in Trier, Germany; presentation on "How does constructional knowledge emerge? Evidence from a longitudinal corpus of German and Spanish learner English" (with Cynthia Berger and Nick Ellis)
▪ June 3rd-5th: TDL 2 conference (Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage-based Perspectives on Second Language Learning) in Groningen, The Netherlands; presentation on "A usage-based view on L2 learners' development of English verb construction knowledge: Mixing methods and data types" (with Cynthia Berger, Nick Ellis and Matthew B. O'Donnell)
▪ July 6th-9th: Keynote at a workshop on Bridging a Gap with Construction Grammar: Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Varieties of English on "Constructions in usage and acquisition: What determines second language learners’ emerging knowledge of verb patterns in English?"; University of Freiburg, Germany
▪ August 1st-5th: SMPC 2015 conference (meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition) in Nashville, TN; poster presentation on "Parker, patterns, processing: How linguistic corpus analysis tools can be used to illuminate central aspects of jazz improvisation" (with Martin Norgaard)
▪ September 2nd: 10th Annual John Sinclair Lecture on "Corpora, Constructions, Collaboration: Providing new insights into the use and acquisition of verb patterns in English", and participation in a Seminar on Corpus Linguistics: Pattern, Variation, and Change; University of Birmingham, UK; video of the lecture
▪ October 29th-31st: SLRF 2015 at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; presentation on "Verb-argument constructions in L2 English learner production: Combining evidence from learner corpora and psycholinguistic experiments" (with Stephen Skalicky and Nick Ellis)
2014
▪ March 14th-16th: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT 2014), Washington, DC; paper on "Typology and transfer effects on L2 learner knowledge of verb-argument constructions: Combining experimental and learner corpus evidence" (with Nick Ellis and Matthew B. O'Donnell)
▪ April 30th-May 4th: Keynote speaker at ICAME 35 in Nottingham, UK; lecture on "Corpus research for SLA: The importance of mixing methods"; video of the keynote lecture
▪ September 26th-28th: AACL 2014 in Flagstaff, AZ; paper on "Combining learner corpus and experimental data in studying L2 learner knowledge of verb-argument constructions" (with Audrey Roberson, Nick Ellis and Matthew B. O'Donnell)
▪ October 3rd-4th: Keynote speaker at MwALT 2014 conference in Ann Arbor, MI; lecture on "A corpus linguist's view on speech and speaking assessment: Searching for patterns"
2013
▪ January 3rd-6th: National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP) in St. Pete Beach, FL; poster on "Understanding the 'Personality' of Psychology Student Writing" (with Jack Hardy, Eric Friginal and Ken Carter)
▪ January 18th-20th: AACL 2013 in San Diego, CA; presentations on "Formulaic sequences in first and second language writing: Investigating effects of frequency, association, and native norm" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis) and on "When 'formal vs. informal' isn't enough: A multi-dimensional analysis of the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP)" (with Jack Hardy and Eric Friginal)
▪ March 13th-16th: Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Las Vegas, NV; session on "Using a corpus of student writing to introduce disciplinary practices in a first-year composition course" (with Jack Hardy and Audrey Roberson); Individual presentations within this session: Disciplinary writing for freshmen: Challenges and possibilities (Roberson), Exploring a corpus of advanced student writing: An introduction to MICUSP Simple (Römer), Corpora and student ethnographers in freshman English: A case study (Hardy)
▪ March 16th-19th: AAAL 2013 in Dallas, TX; presentations on "Using a corpus of advanced student writing in the first year reading and writing classroom" (with Jack Hardy and Audrey Roberson) and "The latent structure of language usage" (with Nick Ellis and Matthew B. O'Donnell)
▪ April 4th-6th: 80th SouthEastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL LXXX) in Spartanburg, SC; presentation on "Preparing graduate students for undergraduate teaching in (applied) linguistics" (with Sara Weigle and Ashley Titak)
▪ May 22nd-26th: ICAME 34 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain; presentation on "Linking learner corpus and experimental data in studying second language learners’ knowledge of verb-argument constructions" (with Audrey Roberson, Nick Ellis and Matthew B. O'Donnell)
▪ July 22nd-26th: Keynote speaker at the Corpus Linguistics 2013 Conference in Lancaster, UK; lecture on "No corpus linguist is an island: Collaborative and cross-disciplinary work in researching phraseology"; poster presentation (with Eric Friginal and Jack A. Hardy on "A multi-dimensional analysis of the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP)"
▪ September 3rd: Invited speaker at the Cambridge English Centenary Symposium on Speaking Assessment in Cambridge, UK; presentation on "Corpus evidence and the lexicogrammar of speaking"
2012
▪ March 8th-11th: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT 2012), Washington, DC; paper on "Measuring speakers’ knowledge of English verb-argument constructions: Psycholinguistic evidence from L1 and L2 settings" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis)
▪ May 30th-June 3rd: ICAME 33 in Leuven, Belgium; paper on "What do speakers know about English verb-argument constructions? Combining corpus and psycholinguistic evidence from L1 and L2 settings" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis)
▪ June 5th-6th: Invited workshop on "Corpora and language patterns", Hermann Paul School of Linguistics, Basel, Switzerland
▪ June 7th-8th: Keynote speaker at the Forum Academic Writing in Basel, Switzerland; lecture on "Korpora und Sprachmuster im akademischen Diskurs" (Corpora and language patterns in academic discourse)
2011
▪ March 14th-21th: Japan trip: Invited lecture and workshop at the University of Miyazaki Medical School, Miyazaki; visit to Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) -- CANCELED bc of earthquake
▪ March 26th-29th: AAAL 2011 in Chicago, IL; paper on "How to uncover the phraseological profile of a text type"
▪ April 15th-17th: Alabama symposium on "Exploring the Boundaries and Applications of Corpus Linguistics", University of Alabama, AL; papers on "How to paragraph in academic writing: Insights from corpus analysis and EAP experts" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell) and "What do people know about verbs in constructions? Combining Corpus and Psycholinguistic Evidence" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis)
▪ May 4th-6th: AESLA conference in Salamanca, Spain; invited participant in AESLA Roundtable on "Corpus linguistics for 21st century language learning"; presentation on "Corpus linguistics and language teaching: Some recent developments and challenges for the 21st century"
▪ June 17th-21st: ISLE 2 conference in Boston, MA; papers on "Learning verb-argument constructions: New perspectives from corpus and psycholinguistic analyses" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis) and "The Phraseological Profile Model applied: New insights into academic speech and writing"
▪ July 20th-22nd: Corpus Linguistcs 2011 Conference in Birmingham, UK; paper on "Exploring Zipfian Distributions in English Verb Argument Constructions: Corpus and Psycholinguistic Evidence" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis) and pecha kucha presentation on "Looking at paragraphs in academic writing: Corpus and pedagogical perspectives" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell)
▪ October 7th-9th: AACL 2011 in Atlanta, GA; papers on "VACnet: Retrieving and analyzing verb-argument constructions at scale" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis) and "The Phraseological Profile Model applied: New insights into academic discourse"
▪ November 10th-12th: Plenary speaker at the 10th Brazilian Corpus Linguistics Meeting (X ELC 2011), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; presentation on "Corpora, phraseology and academic discourse"
2010
▪ March 6th-9th: AAAL 2010 in Atlanta, GA; paper on "Analyzing the disciplinary and textual distribution of phraseological items in a new corpus of proficient student writing" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell); poster on "The Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP): Collection, annotation, classification, and online distribution" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell)
▪ May 26th-30th: ICAME 31 in Giessen, Germany; paper on "Positional variation of n-grams and phrase-frames in a new corpus of proficient student writing" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell); poster on "How to uncover the phraseological profile of a text type"
▪ June 30th-July 3rd: TaLC 9 in Brno, Czech Republic; keynote lecture on "TaLC and academic writing: Exploring the pedagogical potential of MICUSP"
▪ November 17th: LTC Colloquium, University of North Texas; invited speaker; presentation on "Corpora and teaching academic writing"
▪ December 7th: Invited lecture on MICUSP and teaching academic writing at the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication, IUPUI, Indiana
2009
▪ March 21st-24th: AAAL 2009 in Denver, CO; organization of a colloquium (with Stefanie Wulff) on "SLA and the inseparability of vocabulary and syntax"; paper on "Measuring the formulaicity of language" (with Nick Ellis, Matthew B. O'Donnell, Stefan Gries and Stefanie Wulff)
▪ May 22nd: Aston Corpus Symposium, Aston University, Birmingham, UK; invited speaker; presentation on "The use of phraseological items in apprentice academic writing: Does nativeness matter?"
▪ May 27th-31st: ICAME 30 in Lancaster, UK; organization of a pre-conference workshop (with Nick Ellis and Fanny Meunier) on "Corpora and SLA"; paper (with Annelie Ädel) on "Research on proficient student writing across disciplines and levels: Introducing MICUSP"; poster (with Matthew B. O'Donnell) on "From student hard drive to web corpus: The design, compilation, annotation and online distribution of the MICUSP corpus"
▪ June 11th-13th: Fifth Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; paper on "What do linguists want? How corpus analysis can provide insights into the value system of a discourse community"
▪ July 20th-23rd: Corpus Linguistics 2009 Conference in Liverpool, UK; papers on "Establishing the phraseological profile of a text or text type" and (with Matthew B. O'Donnell) on "Exploring the variation and distribution of academic phrase-frames in MICUSP"
▪ October 8th-11th: AACL 2009, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; papers on "Phraseological items in apprentice academic writing: Does nativeness matter?" and "Positional variation of phrase-frames in a new corpus of proficient student writing" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell)
▪ October 29th - November 1st: SLRF 2009 (Second Language Research Forum), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA; paper on "Examining formulaic sequences in corpora of second language writing" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis)
2008
▪ March 12th-15th: AACL 2008 at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT; presentations on "A neo-Firthian approach to academic writing: Uncovering local patterns and local meanings in the discourse of linguistics" and "Becoming a proficient academic writer: Shifting lexical dependencies in the use of the progressive" (with Stefanie Wulff)
▪ March 29th - April 1st: AAAL 2008 in Washington, DC; participation in a colloquium on "Second Language Construction Learning: Frequency, Form, and Function" (paper with Stefanie Wulff, Nick Ellis and Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig entitled "A constructional analysis of tense-aspect in spoken English")
▪ July 3rd-6th: TaLC 8 in Lisbon, Portugal; pre-conference workshop (with Michael Barlow) on "Exploring and teaching the phraseology of academic discourse"; presentation (with Stefanie Wulff) on "The new MICASE online interface and its potential for EAP teaching"
▪ August 24th-29th: AILA 2008 World Congress in Essen, Germany; paper entitled "The inseparability of lexis and grammar: Corpus linguistic perspectives" as part of a symposium on "Constructing a Second Language" (convenors: Nick Ellis and Teresa Cadierno)
▪ October 5th-8th: Anglistentag 2008 in Tübingen, Germany; convenor (with Rainer Schulze) of the linguistics panel on "Patterns in Language"
▪ October 8th-11th: ISLE 1 in Freiburg, Germany
▪ October 22-29: Japan lecture trip: Invited speaker and panelist at Kumamoto University International Symposium on "Corpora and English education: Exploring the interface between corpus research and English education", website, poster; visit to Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
▪ November 7th-9th: "Language as a complex adaptive system" conference, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Language Learning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2007
▪ January 25th: Workshop on corpus analysis and literary studies, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen
▪ February 19th: Invited talk at the University of Michigan English Language Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
▪ May 4th: Aston Corpus Symposium, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
▪ May 23th-27th: ICAME 28 conference in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK; presentation on "Corpora and academic discourse analysis: Providing insights into the lexicalgrammar of linguistic book reviews"
▪ May 29th - June 4th: Visiting scholar at the University of Michigan English Language Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
▪ July 27th-30th: Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference in Birmingham, UK; workshop on "Extracting collocations from specialised corpora" (with Michael Barlow); presentation on "Think local! On the need for text-type specific lexical grammars"
▪ October 25th-27th: Invited speaker at a symposium on "Chunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics. In Honour of John Sinclair", University of Erlangen, Germany; programme
▪ November 6th-8th: Keynote speaker at the 1st International Conference on Corpus-based Approaches to ELT, University of Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
▪ December 7th: Presentation on "The new MICASE online interface" (with Stefanie Wulff), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2006
▪ January 27th: Invited speaker at a symposium celebrating Bernhard Kettemann's 60th birthday; presentation on "The word is not enough! Searching for units of meaning in linguistic discourse"
▪ May 9th: Lecture at the University of Hanover's 175th anniversary celebrations: "Getting your hands on real English - Entdecken von typischen Sprachmustern in der britischen Alltagskonversation", Hanover, Germany
▪ May 24th-28th: 27. ICAME 27 conference at the Hanasaari Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland; paper on "What linguists want: Exploring the language of a discourse community"
▪ June 22nd: Guest lecture at the University of Gießen, Germany; graduate seminar on "The English Verb" (Professor Joybrato Mukherjee)
▪ July 1st-4th: TaLC 7 (Teaching and Language Corpora) Conference in Paris, France
▪ September 17th-20th: Anglistentag 2006 (Annual meeting of the German Association of University Teachers of English) in Halle/Saale, Germany; presentation on "Learner language and the norms in native corpora and EFL teaching materials - A case study of English conditionals" (panel on "Standards and norms in language description and language teaching")
▪ October 5th-7th: Conference co-chair (with Rainer Schulze) of ELeGI 2006, an international conference on the topic "Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface", University of Hanover, Germany
▪ October 16th: Invited speaker at the 3rd Teachers' Day on "Spoken Grammar", University of Saarbrücken, Germany
▪ October 27th-31st: Topic leader on a short intensive course on "Special and Varied Corpora", Tuscan Word Centre, Italy; course description
2005
▪ February 2nd: Invited lecture as part of the LinguA lecture series, University of Hanover, Germany; presentation on "Make it real - Korpusanalyse und ihre Anwendung in Linguistik und Sprachvermittlung"
▪ February 18th-19th: Workshop on research funding programmes, organised by the German Association of University Teachers of English in collaboration with the German Research Foundation, University of Freiburg, Germany
▪ May 12th-15th: Joint ICAME 26 and AAACL 6 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; paper on "Real language for real learners: Towards a new concept of teaching grammar"
▪ June 11th: Invited speaker at "The scope and limits of corpus linguistics -- Empiricism in the description and analysis of English" workshop, Free University of Berlin, Germany; presentation on "Pedagogical applications of corpora: Some resources, their potential, and a wish list"
▪ July 14th-17th: Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference in Birmingham, UK; host of a colloquium on "Corpora and language teaching: The state-of-play and future perspectives in research and practice", co-panelists: Silvia Bernardini, Sylviane Granger, Susan Hunston
▪ July 22nd-23rd: Conference on Evaluation and Text Types, Augsburg, Germany; paper entitled "Evaluation everywhere! An attempt to identify and classify evaluative language in a corpus of book reviews"
▪ September 18th-21st: Anglistentag 2005 (Annual meeting of the German Association of University Teachers of English) in Bamberg, Germany
▪ October 13th-15th: Phraseology 2005 conference "The many faces of phraseology" in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium ; paper on "A phraseology-driven approach to identifying evaluation in a book review corpus"
▪ December 1st-3rd: Invited speaker at a symposium on "Corpora in language teaching", University of Gothenburg, Sweden; paper on "Corpus, Coursebook, Classroom -- Can researchers help teachers, learners, and materials writers?"
2004
▪ January 27th: Guest lecture at the University of Osnabrück, Germany: "Corpus analysis and lexicology"
▪ May 19th-23rd: ICAME 25 Conference in Verona, Italy, presentation on "Taking stock of progressives in spoken English: Where are the patterns?" (ICAME: International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English)
▪ July 6th-9th: TaLC 6 Conference in Granada, Spain, presentation on "A need for better descriptions: Teaching the truth about progressives"
▪ September 2nd-5th: International Conference on Language, Politeness and Gender - The Pragmatic Roots (CLPG) in Helsinki, Finland, presentation on "Academic discourse, gender, and politeness"
▪ September 16th: Teacher's Day - "The textbook myth or real language in the classroom", University of Saarbrücken, Germany
▪ October 21st-23rd: International symposium - "Corpus linguistics - perspectives for the future", University of Heidelberg, Germany
▪ December 10th-11th: First international conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association on "Current Trends in Cognitive Linguistics", University of Hamburg, Germany
2003
▪ April 23rd-27th: ICAME 24 Conference in Guernsey, UK; work-in-progress report on "Looking at 'looking' - functions and contexts of progressives in spoken English and 'school' English"
▪ June 14th-16th: "Evaluation in Academic Discourse" conference, Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy; presentation on "'This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though...' - negative evaluation in linguistic book reviews by male and female authors"
▪ September 4th-6th: 36th Annual BAAL Meeting (British Association for Applied Linguistics), University of Leeds, UK
▪ October 2nd-4th: International conference on "Reconciling 'Anglistik': Didactic strategies for an interdisciplinary approach to literature, linguistics, and cultural studies", presentation on "Corpus analysis in English Studies", University of Trier, Germany
▪ November 14th: 1st Lower-Saxon Colloquium on English language didactics, University of Hanover, Germany, presentation on "Zum direkten und indirekten Einsatz von Korpora im Englischunterricht"
2002
▪ March 6th: Guest lecture at the Centre for Corpus Linguistics (now Centre for Corpus Research, http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk), University of Birmingham; colloquium on "New ideas in corpus linguistics"
▪ June 14th-15th: Presentation at the First International IVACS Conference on "Language in use and language in the classroom", University of Limerick, Ireland
▪ July 27th-31st: TaLC 5 Conference in Bertinoro, Italy; presentation on "Comparing real and ideal language learner input: The use of an EFL textbook corpus in corpus linguistics and language teaching"
▪ October 30th: Lecture on "Where the computer meets language and literature: An introduction to English corpus linguistics" as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series "New Perspectives in English Studies", University of Cologne, Germany
▪ November 13th: Lecture on "Corpus linguistics - a usage-based approach to language learning and teaching", University of Cologne, Germany
2001
▪ January 17th: Work-in-progress report on my PhD research, linguistics colloquium, English Department, University of Cologne, Germany
▪ March 30th - April 2nd: Corpus Linguistics 2001 conference, University of Lancaster, UK
▪ April 17th-21st: 35th Annual IATEFL conference, Brighton, UK
▪ July 5th: Guest lecture on "Using corpora in linguistic research", University of Düsseldorf, Germany
▪ September 6th-8th: Modality in Contemporary English conference, Verona, Italy; presentation on "A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics"
▪ October 14th-20th: Presentation at "How to use corpora in language teaching", intensive course in corpus linguistics at the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy; info on course proceedings
2000
▪ April 24th-30th: Presentation at "How to use corpora in language work", intensive course in corpus linguistics at the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy (http://www.twc.it)
▪ July 19th-23rd: TaLC 4 (Teaching and Language Corpora) Conference in Graz, Austria
▪ November 3rd: 11th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 11) conference, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
▪ November 15th-18th: International round table: The syntax of tense and aspect, University of Paris 7, France
