8th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar
(LxGr2023)
6-8 July 2023

Registration has now closed. The Teams link will be sent to participants on Wednesday 5 July.

The book of abstracts is available on Academia.edu and Research Gate.

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SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

All times are BST

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DAY 1: Thursday 6 July

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09:00 – 09:30         WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS

09:30 – 10:05

Jonathan DUNN  (University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand): Productivity as abstractness in computational construction grammar

10:15 – 10:50

Suzy PARK  (Yonsei University, South Korea): A lexicogrammatical approach to analyzing the Korean MWE kes kathta as a pragmatic marker [CANCELLED]

10:50 – 11:10         BREAK

11:10 – 11:45   

Detong XIA  (Southeast University, China): Exploring phrase frames across rhetorical functions in workplace request emails

11:55 – 12:30

Mauro LE DONNE  (University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy): Scraping the bottom of the corpus: Exploring lexical emergence in Italian time-stamped corpora

12:30 – 12:50         BREAK

12:50 – 13:25

Frane MALENICA  (University of Zadar, Croatia): Schematicity and productivity of synthetic compounds in English and Croatian

13:25 – 14:30         BREAK

14:30 – 15:40        GUEST SPEAKER

Thomas HERBST (Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Germany): How corpus linguistics inevitably leads to Construction Grammar: On the interrelatedness of lexis and grammar

15:40 – 16:00         BREAK

16:00 – 16:35

Heesun CHANG  (Texas A&M University, USA): Corpus-based analysis of lexico-grammatical features of international teaching assistants

16:45 – 17:25

Xiaolong LU  (University of Arizona, USA): Quantify the “big mess” construction in Chinese: A construction grammar approach [CANCELLED]

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DAY 2: Friday 7 July

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09:00 – 09:30          WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS

09:30 – 10:05

Dongchen YAO  (University of Queensland, Australia): Factors influencing the errors of number marking in English nouns: A study of Chinese learners of English

10:15 – 10:50

Shuyi Amelia SUN & Kevin JIANG  (Jilin University, China): Acknowledging limitations in PhD theses across disciplines: A phrase-frame approach

10:50 – 11:10          BREAK

11:10 – 11:45

Susanne HANDL  (LMU München, Germany): Verbal binomials: A gradual phenomenon between coordination, construction and lexical unit

11:55 – 12:30

Jiqiang LU & Caroline GENTENS  (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium): Different speaker-related uses of “I think”: Disentangling pure subjective and epistemic modal uses

12:30 – 12:50          BREAK

12:50 – 13:25

Seval ÖZEN  (Germany): Deviation patterns of multi-word verbs in the writings of Turkish speaking EFL learners

13:25 – 14:30          BREAK

14:30 – 15:40        GUEST SPEAKER

Susan HUNSTON  (University of Birmingham, UK): Constructions and their Networks: Using system networks to derive constructions from grammar patterns

15:40 – 16:00          BREAK

16:00 – 16:35

Ni LI  (Ocean University of China, Idaho State University, USA): Collocation processing in Chinese EFL learners with a wider range of proficiency-based on the L2-textbook frequency

16:45 – 17:25

Victoria FENDEL  (University of Oxford, UK): Giving gifts and doing favours: support-verb constructions with χάριν in classical literary Attic

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DAY 3: Saturday 8 July

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09:00 – 09:30          WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS

09:30 – 10:05

Margo VAN POUCKE  (Macquarie University, Australia): Engagement in (pseudo-)medical menopause discourse on YouTube

10:15 – 10:50

Chenghui WU  (University of International Business and Economics, China): The semantics of credibility concepts and a lexicographic development of corporate online credibility dictionary (COCD) for corpus-based text analysis [CANCELLED]

10:50 – 11:10          BREAK

11:10 – 11:45

Ling (Kathy) LIN & Yang ZHANG  (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China): Part-of-speech patterns in research articles: A cross-sectional analysis

11:55 – 12:30

Marin KEŽIĆ  (University of Zagreb, Croatia): When was the last time your construction’s meaning went undetermined? On the indeterminate aspectual behavior of go un-participle constructions

12:30 – 12:50          BREAK

12:50 – 13:25

Quentin FELTGEN  (Ghent University, Belgium): The diachronic shaping of constructional meaning: A frequency trajectory cluster-based method to explore the emergence of polysemy

13:25 – 14:30          BREAK

14:30 – 15:40        GUEST SPEAKER

Gaëtanelle GILQUIN  (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium): Construction grammar and lexico-grammar, and why they matter to each other

15:40 – 16:00          BREAK

16:00 – 16:35

Lise FONTAINE  (Université de Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada): The ragged middle: A functional approach to lexis

16:45 – 17:00          CONCLUDING REMARKS