All times are BST
DAY 1: THURSDAY 2 JULY 2026
09:00-09:15 WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
09:15-09:50
Margo VAN POUCKE
(Macquarie University, Australia)
Experiential spiritual knowledge and the lexicogrammar of epistemic authority in digital contemplative influencer discourse
09:50-10:00 Changeover
10:00-10:35
Gui WANG
(Zhejiang University, China)
Measuring lexico-grammatical change in English conversion: A comparison of surprisal-based metrics
10:35-10:45 Changeover
10:45-11:20
Priscilla Lola ADENUGA
(Independent Researcher, Wiesbaden, Germany)
Modifier ordering and lexicogrammatical structure in Ògè nominal phrases
11:20-11:50 BREAK 1
11:50-12:25
Eleni KANLI & Evelyn WIESINGER
(Eberhard-Karls-University, Germany; University of Regensburg, Germany)
Covarying collexeme analysis: A springboard for usage-based constructional instruction (UBICON)
12:25-12:35 Changeover
12:35-13:10
Per KLANG
(Halmstad University, Sweden)
Relayed futures and anticipated pasts: A corpus-based study of past-tense constructions with future reference in Swedish online discourse
13:10-13:30 BREAK 2
13:30-14:05
Chaoyi WU & R. Harald BAAYEN
(Beihang University, China; Eberhard Karls University, Germany)
How the grammar of reduplication changes lexis in Mandarin Chinese: A distributional semantics investigation
14:05-14:15 Changeover
14:15-14:50
Anissa Kawther FELOUS
(University of Souk Ahras, Algeria)
Lexicogrammatical variation in English: A corpus-based exploration of the relationship between syntactic complexity and lexical diversity across text types
14:50-15:10 BREAK 3
15:10-15:45
Deise AMARAL & Simone SARMENTO
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil)
Lexical and phraseological sophistication across B2–C1 levels: A corpus-based analysis of English exam texts
15:45-15:55 Changeover
15:55-16:30
Dilay CANDAN
(Georgia State University, USA)
Task effects on pragmatic construction use in adolescent argumentative writing
16:30-16:50 BREAK 4
16:50-18:00 INVITED SPEAKER
Stefan Th. GRIES
(University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
No more collostructions, please! (At least not the traditional type …)
DAY 2: FRIDAY 3 JULY 2026
09:00-09:15 WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
09:15-09:50
Yuqing DING & Andrew HARDIE
(Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Lancaster University, UK)
Generic and structural patterns of behaviour of quadrisyllabic idioms in Mandarin
09:50-10:00 Changeover
10:00-10:35
Yina WANG & Xiaoran LI
(Beihang University, China)
The TAME multifunctionality of the Chinese particle ‘le’ from the perspective of English correspondences: A grounding approach
10:35-10:45 Changeover
10:45-11:20
Gabriela VAUGHAN & Magali PAQUOT
(UCLouvain, Belgium)
Disentangling the construct of phraseological sophistication: A validation study with human judgments
11:20-11:50 BREAK 1
11:50-13:00 INVITED SPEAKER
Martin HILPERT
(University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Constructions with crossed syntactic dependencies show elevated lexical cohesion: The compensatory collocation hypothesis
13:00-13:30 BREAK 2
13:30-14:05
Quentin FELTGEN
(Ghent University, Belgium)
Phraseological shift as a signature of semantic change: The case of French ‘courage’
14:05-14:15 Changeover
14:15-14:50
Sarah RUBIO & Sara L. ZAHLER
(Binghamton University, USA; North Carolina State University, USA)
A corpus-based approach to lexically-constrained usage patterns of determiners in L2 Spanish oral production
14:50-15:10 BREAK 3
15:10-15:45
Pu MENG
(George Mason University, USA)
Influence of animacy and collectivity on the production of the optional Mandarin plural marker ‘men’
15:45-15:55 Changeover
15:55-16:30
Maura CRUZ ENRÍQUEZ, Anahí Alba DE LA FUENTE & François LAREAU
(Université TÉLUQ, Canada; Université de Montréal, Canada)
Past tense use in L1 and L2 Spanish narratives: A corpus-based study of form, meaning, and context
16:30-16:50 BREAK 4
16:50-18:00 INVITED SPEAKER
Serge SHAROFF
(University of Leeds, UK)