Preliminary Programme
| 14.00- 17.30 | Room: MG1/02.05 Pre-conference workshop |
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| 16.00 | Guided city tour |
| 18.00 | Warm-Up Klosterbräu |
| 8.00 | Registration | |||
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| 9.00- 9.30 | Room: MG1/00.04 Opening | |||
| 9.30- 10.30 | Room: MG1/00.04 The UK, Europe and the path to Brexit - the long view: Europe in two centuries of British newspapersTony McEnery (Lancaster University)Chair: Manfred Krug | |||
| 10.30- 11.00 | Coffee break | |||
| Room: MG1/02.09 General Session 1 | Room: MG1/02.05 General Session 2 | Room: MG2/01.10 Workshop 1: Challenges of computer-mediated communication data: #obstacles #opportunities | Room: MG1/02.06 Workshop 2: New approaches to variation in present-day Scottish Englishes |
| 11.00- 11.30 | Vocalic varation in Standard English spoken by Trinidadian professionals(37.8 KB) Michael Westphal, Johanna Hartmann, Philipp Meer, Ka Man Lau and Dagmar Deuber | Infinitival Complementation Choices with Help in Present-Day American and British English(15.1 KB) Sofía Bemposta-Rivas | Introduction (10 min.) | Digitising the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland: Scope and potential of a new corpus(20.6 KB) John Kirk |
| 11.30- 12.00 | An acoustic study of /s/-retraction in Trinidadian English(28.9 KB) Philipp Meer and Wiebke Ahlers | Into-causatives in World Englishes(14.4 KB) Thomas Brunner | (De)legitimation strategies in company e-mail replies to customer complaints and their related social media comments by (potential) customers(38.0 KB) Rebecca Van Herck and Sofie Decock | When intuitions (don't) fail: Combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots(14.9 KB) E Jamieson, Shouchun Chien, Gary Thoms, David Adger, Caroline Heycock and Jennifer Smith |
| 12.00- 12.30 | A first approach to Standard English pronunciation in Grenada(13.9 KB) Eva Hänsel | You don't see them autotuning the crap out of their songs... The [V the Ntaboo-wordout of]-construction in World Englishes(45.3 KB) Thomas Hoffmann | "holy shit that is awesome good for you!" - The study of speech acts in online comments(37.5 KB) Ursula Lutzky and Matt Gee | Progressive verb forms in Scottish Standard English: A questionnaire-based approach(18.7 KB) Manfred Krug, Ole Schützler and Graeme Trousdale |
| 12.30- 14.00 | Lunch | |||
| 14.00- 15.00 | Room: MG1/00.04 The new London-Lund Corpus (LLC-2): A window into natural speech in the 21st centuryCarita Paradis (Lund University)Chair: Julia Schlüter | |||
Room: MG1/02.09 General Session 3 | Room: MG1/02.05 General Session 4 | Room: MG2/01.10 Workshop 1 (cont.) | Room: MG1/02.06 Workshop 2 (cont.) | |
| 15.00- 15.30 | Negation and the Cognitive Complexity Principle in the English clausal complementation system(15.1 KB) Raquel Romasanta | The superlative alternation in British vs. American English: Questionnaire-based insights(41.1 KB) Nikolai Beland | Analysing emojis in context in a corpus of Twitter data(193.6 KB) Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee | Variety-specific coding practices within a shared system: Modal verbs expressing strong obligation in Scottish, Southern British and American English(19.0 KB) Jenny Herzky, Ole Schützler and Zeyu Li |
| 15.30- 16.00 | Passivization and the Cognitive Complexity Principle in WEs: The case of finite and non-finite complementation clauses(14.5 KB) Noura Abdou | English grammatical alternations and communicative efficiency: An information-theoretic approach based on Generalized Additive Models(13.9 KB) Natalia Levshina | Is text length a linguistic variable? Evidence from social media(62.7 KB) Aatu Liimatta | Rhotics in Scottish Standard English(59.7 KB) Philipp Meer, Robert Fuchs, Anika Gerfer, Ulrike Gut and Zeyu Li |
| 16.00- 16.30 | Grammatical variation in Indian English: The role of gender and age(39.6 KB) Lucìa Loureiro-Porto and Cristina Suárez-Gómez | Quantitive models of referential choice: Lexical anaphora in English(15.6 KB) Nils Norman Schiborr | Face-threatening acts and impoliteness on social media - Webcare on Instagram(38.7 KB) Theresa Müller | The fate of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in contemporary Scottish English(38.2 KB) Jane Stuart Smith and Rachel MacDonald |
| 16.30- 17.00 | Coffee break | |||
Room: MG1/02.09 General Session 5 | Room: MG1/02.05 How to (:) Open Linguistics | Room: MG2/01.10 Workshop 1 (cont.) | Room: MG1/02.06 Workshop 2 (cont.) | |
| 17.00- 17.30 | Recent change in stative progressives: Spreading to new semantic domains(13.2 KB) Paula Rautionaho and Robert Fuchs | Visualizing statistical uncertainty using model-based graphs Jan Vanhove | "We're always looking for great content" - Customer Interaction via Instagram(39.4 KB) Marie-Louise Brunner and Stefan Diemer | Discussion/Closing Session |
| 17.30- 18.00 | Influencing Factors on the Acceptability of Stative Progressives in British and American English(15.3 KB) Bonnie Sheppard | Analyzing language data: Recurring issues Lukas Sönning | Discussion: Challenges of computer-mediated communication data | |
| 19.30 | Reception University Assembly Hall | |||