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