Survey of English Usage
Annual Report 2015
1. News
1.1 Englicious
The Englicious project has received generous support from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at 果冻影院 which has enabled us to employ a part-time colleague on the project. Dr Ellen Smith joined us from Newcastle University in Australia to help enlarge the site and develop its functionality. She is also involved with our new Professional Development course entitled 鈥楨nglish Grammar for Teachers鈥, designed for those who feel they need to brush up on their English grammar subject knowledge. See below for further details.
In case you haven鈥檛 heard of Englicious, it is a web resource designed as a practical teaching and learning platform for primary and secondary schools with an emphasis on the grammar of English.
You can sign up for free at .
Englicious contains a wide variety of innovative and interactive teaching materials. These include classroom lessons on English grammar, activities focusing on how written and spoken language differ, projects on the different uses of English in diverse settings, tutorials on how to analyse texts from a range of genres, as well as an expanding library of videos. There are also many interactive exercises for students. Englicious uses authentic examples sourced from 果冻影院鈥檚 English language corpora. In addition the site features a detailed and informative grammar glossary and CPD materials for teachers. Englicious has been tested in schools, and has now been released to the teaching community. To date almost 2,000 teachers have signed up to use the site.
You may be interested in watching a series of videos on English grammar that the project has produced. They are available on the Englicious .
You can also follow Englicious on
and .
1.2 Continuous Professional Development
As noted above, the Survey has begun offering Professional Development courses on the National Curriculum Grammar requirements for teachers in UK primary and secondary schools.
We also offer 鈥業nset Teaching鈥 where we provide training to teachers in schools. For more information, email the Survey.
1.3 English Grammar Day 2015
Together with the University of Oxford and Jonnie Robinson of the British Library (BL), the Survey organised the second English Grammar Day on Monday 29 June 2015 at the British Library. Speakers included Jenny Cheshire, Dan Clayton, Jonnie Robinson, Amanda Redfearn, Charlotte Brewer and Harry Ritchie. There was a panel discussion at the end of the day, led by John Mullan. See the (archived here) and the programme (PDF).
This year鈥檚 English Grammar Day will be held on 27 June 2016 at the British Library. Speakers for 2016 are author, broadcaster, and Professor of Children鈥檚 Literature Michael Rosen; language specialists Bas Aarts, Ellen Smith, Debbie Cameron and Simon Horobin; secondary school teacher Ian Cushing and the British Library鈥檚 dialect curator Jonnie Robinson. Public participation is encouraged in a Panel chaired by English Professor John Mullan. The programme will appear in due course on the BL鈥檚 Events page.
2. Research
2.1 ICECUP 3.1.1
We
are pleased to report that the latest release of our parsed corpus
exploration software (ICECUP 3.1.1), written by Sean
Wallis, is available for download from our website. In 2016
we plan a full formal release and relaunch of both ICE-GB
(Release 2) and DCPSE corpora.
Sean reports that this is a robust release. We have been using the
new version on our 果冻影院 network systems for teaching since the start
of the Autumn term. The latest package contains a completely reworked
help file which is integrated with the software.
This release is compatible with versions of Windows from XP to 10 and is fully 64-bit compatible. It contains a number of additional enhancements over ICECUP 3.1 which are documented on our website and in the help file.
As a service to the Corpus Linguistics research community, the software is available as a download 'release candidate' from here. This means that if you have already got a licence for ICE-GB R2 or DCPSE you can upgrade to the latest version of the software from our website for free.
2.2 Blogs
Bas Aarts has begun a new blog on English grammar aimed at teachers in UK primary and secondary schools. It is called and is linked to the website.
Sean Wallis continues to publish articles, discussion pieces and teaching material on the subject of statistics for corpus linguistics at .
2.3 Research publications and presentations
For an overview of research publications, presentations, etc. by members of the Survey, see section 4.
3. Summer School, seminars and other events
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The Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics was held for the third time from Monday 6 July 鈥 8 July 2015. This year鈥檚 Summer School will take place from 6-8 July 2016.
For more information, including curriculum, timetable and how to
book, see here.
3.2 Survey Seminars
The following seminars took place during 2015:
- 26 January, Gabriel Oz贸n, University of Sheffield. 鈥楻ethinking the light verb category鈥
- 9 March, Lia Litosseliti, City University of London, 鈥楪ender and language: theory and practice鈥
- 18 November, Christopher Shank, Bangor University, 鈥楽tructural features as predictors for that/zero variation in mental state verbs: a diachronic corpus-based multivariate analysis鈥
- 2 December 2015, Charlotte Taylor, Sussex University, 鈥楳ock politeness: a corpus pragmatic study of perceptions and practice鈥
3.3 OX-LEX 2015
Kathryn Allan was one of the co-organisers of the OX-LEX conference in Oxford in March 2015. See also the
3.4 Looking forward: ISLE 2018
It鈥檚 two years away, but we thought we would already alert you to the fact that the fifth bi-annual conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE-5; ) will be held at 果冻影院. Meanwhile, will be held at Poznan.
4. Publications, conference presentations, talks, theses and other studies using Survey material
Please let us know if you would like us to include your publications based on SEU material. We will appreciate it if you send us offprints of any such publications.
Aarts, B. (2015) (with J. Bowie and S.A. Wallis) 鈥楶rofiling the English verb phrase over time: modal patterns鈥. In: I. Taavitsainen, M. Kyt枚, C. Claridge and J. Smith (eds.). 48-76.
Aarts, B. (2015) 鈥極nline resources for grammar teaching鈥. Paper presented at Middlesex University.
Aarts, B. (2015) 鈥楽yntactic corpus annotation: the case in favour鈥. Paper presented at Annotations syntaxiques sur corpus: enjeux et perspectives, Universit茅 Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
Aarts, B. (2015) 鈥For-to constructions in English鈥. Paper presented at the General Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford.
Aarts, B. (2015) 鈥楧oes English have a subordinator for?鈥 Plenary lecture at the 10th Language at the University of Essex Postgraduate Conference (LangUE), Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex.
Aarts, B. (2015) 鈥楾he grammar of spoken English鈥. Plenary lecture First International Conference on English Language, Literature, Teaching and Translation Studies (CELLTTS). University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Aijmer, K. and C. R眉hlemann (2015)(eds.) Corpus pragmatics: a handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Aijmer, K. (2015) 鈥楶ragmatic markers鈥. In: K. Aijmer and C. R眉hlemann (2015)(eds.). 195-218.
Allan, K. (2015) 鈥楨ducation in the Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary: exploring diachronic change in a semantic field鈥. In: J. Daems, E. Zenner, K. Heylen, D. Speelman and H. Cuyckens (2015)(eds.), 81-96.
Allan, K. (2015) 鈥楲ost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor鈥. In: J. Diaz-Vera (ed.), 31-50.
Allan, K. (2015) 鈥楳apping historical metaphor: surprising and astonishing developments鈥. Paper presented at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Newcastle University, July 2015.
Allan, K. (2015) 鈥楧egrees of lexicalization鈥 in the Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. Paper presented at a training workshop for the AHRC-funded project 鈥楾he Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought鈥, University of Brighton.
Allan, K. (2015) 鈥楨ducation in the Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary: exploring diachronic change in a semantic field. Paper presented at the seminar 鈥楥hange of paradigms: New paradoxes鈥, in honour of Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven.
Allan, K. (2015) 鈥楢 dull paper: an example of proportional analogy in semantic change?鈥 Paper presented at departmental seminar series, University of Glasgow.
Bowie, J. (2015) (with B. Aarts and S.A. Wallis) 鈥楶rofiling the English verb phrase over time: modal patterns鈥. In: I. Taavitsainen, M. Kyt枚, C. Claridge and J. Smith (eds.). 48-76.
Daems, J., E. Zenner, K. Heylen, D. Speelman and H. Cuyckens (2015)(eds.) Change of paradigms 鈥 new paradoxes. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
De Felice, R. (2015) (with L. Murphy) 鈥楾he politics of please in British and American English: a corpus pragmatics approach鈥. Paper presented at the 2015 Corpus Linguistics Conference, Lancaster University.
De Felice, R. (2015) 鈥楿nderstanding email politeness through corpus linguisics鈥. Invited seminar at the Department of Anglistik, Heidelberg University.
De Felice, R. (2015) (with E. Moreton) 鈥業ntroducing the Corpus of Business English Correspondence: a resource for the lexicon and pragmatics of Business English鈥. Paper presented at the 36th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), University of Trier.
De Smet, H. (2015) 鈥楶articiple clauses between adverbial and complement鈥. Word 61.1. 39-74.
Diaz-Vera, J. (2015) (ed.) Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Gilquin, G., S. Granger, and F. Meunier (2015)(eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gries, S. Th. (2015) 鈥楺uantitative corpus approaches to linguistic analysis: seven or eight levels of resolution and the lessons they teach us鈥. In: I. Taavitsainen, M. Kyt枚, C. Claridge, and J. Smith (eds.), 29-47.
Gries, S. Th. (2015) 鈥楽tatistical methods in learner corpus research鈥 In: G. Gilquin, S. Granger, and F. Meunier (eds.), 159-181.
Gries, S. Th. (2015) 鈥楳ore (old and new) misunderstandings of collostructional analysis: on Schmid and Ku虉chenhoff (2013). Cognitive Linguistics 26.3. 505鈥536.
Gries, S. Th. (2015) 鈥楺uantitative designs and statistical techniques鈥. In: D. Biber and R. Reppen (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of English corpus linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 50-71.
Gries, S. Th. (2015) 鈥楾he most underused statistical method in corpus linguistics: multi-level (and mixed-effects) models鈥. Corpora 10.1. 95-125.
Gries, S. Th. (2015) 鈥楽tructural priming: a perspective from observational data and usage-/exemplar-based approaches鈥. In: A. A. Kibrik, A. D. Koshelev, A. V. Kravchenko, J. V. Mazurova and O. V. Fedorova (eds.), 携蟹褘泻 懈 屑褘褋谢褜: 小芯胁褉械屑械薪薪邪褟 泻芯谐薪懈褌懈胁薪邪褟 谢懈薪谐胁懈褋褌懈泻邪/Language and thought: Contemporary cognitive linguistics, 721-754. Moscow: Languages of Slavic Culture.
Gries, S. Th. (2015) 鈥楽ome current quantitative problems in corpus linguistics and a sketch of some solutions鈥. Language and Linguistics 16.1. 93-117.
Hancil, S., A. Haselow, M. Post (2015)(eds.) Final Particles. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 284. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Heine, B., G. Kaltenb枚ck and T. Kuteva (2015) 鈥楽ome observations on the evolution of final particles鈥. In: S. Hancil, A. Haselow, and M. Post (2015)(eds.). 111-140.
Kaltenb枚ck, G. (2015) 鈥楶rocessibility鈥. In: K. Aijmer and C. R眉hlemann (2015)(eds.). 117-142.
Kay, C. and K. Allan. 2015. English historical semantics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Keizer, E. (2015) A functional discourse grammar for English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Taavitsainen, I., M. Kyt枚, C. Claridge and J. Smith (2015) (eds.) Developments in English: expanding electronic evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wallis, S.A. (2015) (with B. Aarts and J. Bowie) 鈥楶rofiling the English verb phrase over time: modal patterns鈥. In: I. Taavitsainen, M. Kyt枚, C. Claridge and J. Smith (eds.). 48-76.
Wallis, S.A. (2015) 鈥楢dapting random-instance sampling variance estimates and Binomial models for random-text sampling鈥. London: Survey of English Usage. 禄 禄
Wallis, S.A. (2015) ICECUP help (3rd ed). London: Survey of English Usage. 禄
Wallis, S.A., G. Schneider, J. Lijffijt, V. Brezina, A. Hardie, S. Th. Gries, and P. Rayson. (2015) Statistics Panel at Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster University.
Bas Aarts
Director
February 2016
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