Survey of English Usage
Annual Report 2013
The Annual Report for 2013 incorporates the newsletters published during the year.
1. News
1.1 New Arts and Humanities Research Council project
We are pleased to announce that the Survey was awarded a grant by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to extend the Web-based Platform for English Language Teaching and Learning in secondary schools (called Englicious) to primary schools.
Full details can be found here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/grammar-teaching/primary
Team: Seth Mehl, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts.
1.2 Apps
In February 2012 Bas Aarts was awarded a Teaching Innovation Grant entitled Developing a suite of Apps for the Teaching of English Grammar. The funding was used to develop two new apps for handheld devices that complement the existing interactive Grammar of English: Academic Writing in English (AWE), and English Spelling and Punctuation (ESP).
The apps will help students practise their skills in writing, spelling and punctuation. AWE was published in September 2013 in time for the new academic session, and ESP will be published in the spring of 2014.
For more information on the Surveyâs apps, see www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/apps
1.3 VP book published
In early 2013, Cambridge University Press published The verb phrase in English: investigating recent change with corpora. The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider both spoken and written English in several genres. Each contribution pays particular attention to the methodologies used for investigating short-term patterns of change in English, with detailed discussions of controversies in this area. This cutting-edge collection is essential reading for historians of the English language, syntacticians and corpus linguists.
For more information see .
1.4 Chapter in David Crystalâs book
David Crystal devotes an entire chapter to the Survey of English Usage in his new book , co-written with his wife Hilary Crystal.
1.5 Blog on statistics
Sean Wallisâ blog on statistics for corpus linguistics, , continues to go from strength to strength in its second year, having garnered more than 15,000 page views and two Journal of Quantitative Linguistics papers to-date (see section 3 below). The medium of a blog has allowed Sean to collate explanatory material, powerpoint slides and spreadsheets, as well as more traditional academic papers.
Colleagues are encouraged to review the blog (at ) and add it to reading lists as you feel appropriate.
2. Summer School and Seminars
2.1 Summer School
We are pleased to report that following the success of last yearâs event, we are repeating the Summer School this year from 7-9 July.
For more information see here.
2.2 Survey Seminars
The following seminars took place during 2013:
- 27 February: Sylvia Adamson: âGrammaticalisation and social stylistics: a case studyâ.
- 13 March: Tania Kuteva: âEvolution of grammar, complexity, and creolesâ.
- 21 October, Seth Mehl: âKeywords within a model of semantic changeâ.
- 2 December, Marina Lambrou: âNarrative, Text and Timeâ.
3. 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., J. Close, G. Leech and S.A. Wallis (2013) (eds.) The verb phrase in English: investigating recent change with corpora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Aarts, B., J. Close, G. Leech and S.A. Wallis (2013) âIntroductionâ. In: B. Aarts, J. Close, G. Leech and S.A. Wallis (2013) (eds.). 1-13.
Aarts, B., J. Close and S.A. Wallis (2013) âChoices over time: methodological issues in current changeâ. In: B. Aarts, J. Close, G. Leech and S.A. Wallis (2013) (eds.). 14-43.
Aijmer, K. (2013) Understanding pragmatic markers: a variational pragmatic approach. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Bowie, J., S.A. Wallis and B. Aarts (2013) âThe perfect in spoken British Englishâ. In: B. Aarts, J. Close, G. Leech and S.A. Wallis (2013) (eds.). 318-352.
Bowie, J. (2013) (With B. Aarts and S.A. Wallis.) âExploring variation over time and text typeâ. Paper presented at the fifth Corpus Linguistics in the South meeting, Sussex University, 2013.
Bowie, J. (2013) (With B. Aarts.) âClause fragments in spoken Englishâ. Paper presented at the 34th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2013.
Bowie, J., S.A. Wallis and B. Aarts (2013) âContemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English: mapping the impact of âgenreââ. In: J.I. MarĂn-Arrese, M. Carretero, J.A. Hita and J. van der Auwera (2013) (eds.). 57-94.
Collins, P. (2013) âGrammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals: a comparative studyâ. In: J.I. MarĂn-Arrese, M. Carretero, J.A. Hita and J. van der Auwera (2013) (eds.). 155-169.
Davies, M. (2013) âRecent shifts with three nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100-million word Times corpus (1920s-2000s)â. In: B. Aarts, J. Close, G. Leech and S.A. Wallis (2013) (eds.). 46-67.
De Felice, R, (2013) âA corpus-based classification of commitments in Business Englishâ. In: J. Romero-Trillo (ed.), Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics. Heidelberg/New York: Springer. 153-171.
De Felice, R., J. Darby, A. Fisher, and D. Peplow (2013) âA classification scheme for annotating speech acts in a business email corpusâ. ICAME Journal 37. 71-105.
De Felice, R. (2013) âCorpus-based intercultural pragmaticsâ. Invited talk at the Corpus Linguistics in the South 6 Workshop, Portsmouth, UK, November 2013.
De Felice, R. (2013) âThe role of pragmatic annotation in correspondence corporaâ. Paper presented at the Annotating Correspondence Corpora Workshop, Corpus Linguistics 2013, Lancaster, UK.
De Felice, R. (2013) (with J. Bowie and S.A. Wallis) âCorpus pragmatics across genres: commitments in emails and spoken languageâ . Paper presented at the 34th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2013.
De Smet, H. (2013) Spreading patterns: diffusional change in the English system of complementation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Duran Eppler, E. and G. OzĂłn (2013) English words and sentences: an introduction. Cambridge Introductions to the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gries, S. Th. (2013) Statistics for linguistics with R: a practical introduction. Second edition. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter.
Gries, S. Th. âSources of variability relevant to the (cognitive) sociolinguist, and quantitative corpus methods to handle themâ. Journal of Pragmatics 52.6. 5-16.
Gries, S. Th. and J. Newman (2013) âCreating and using corporaâ. In R. J. Podesva and D. Sharma (eds.). 257-287.
Gries, S. Th. and S. Wulff (2013) âThe genitive alternation in Chinese and German ESL learners: towards a multifactorial notion of context in learner corpus researchâ. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 18.3. 327-356.
Gut, U. and R. Fuchs (2013) âProgressive Aspect in Nigerian Englishâ. Journal of English Linguistics. 41.3, 243-267.
Hilpert, M. (2013) Constructional change in English: developments in allomorphy, word formation and syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kaltenböck, G. (2013) âThe development of comment clausesâ. In: B. Aarts, J. Close, G. Leech and S.A. Wallis (2013) (eds.). 286-317.
Leech, G. (2013) âWhere have all the modals gone? An essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard Englishâ. In: J.I. MarĂn-Arrese, M. Carretero, J.A. Hita and J. van der Auwera (2013) (eds.). 95-115.
MarĂn-Arrese, J. I., M. Carretero, J. ArĂșs Hita and J. van der Auwera (eds.) English modality: core, periphery and evidentiality. Topics in English Linguistics 81. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter.
Mehl, S. (2013) âContours of English and English language studies. Review of Michael Adams and Anne Curzan (eds.) Contours of English and English language studies. English Language and Linguistics 17.3. 571-6.
Mehl, S. (2013) âThinking linguistically about keywords: polysemy, semantic change and divergent identitiesâ. The Keywords Project. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh. » .
Mehl, S. (2013) âCapitalâ. The Keywords Project. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh. » .
Mehl, S., S.A. Wallis and B. Aarts Academic Writing in English (AWE). App for Apple and Android tablets and smartphones. London: Survey of English Usage.
Mehl, S. (2013) âTake a mirror and take a look: reassessing usage of polysemic verbs with concrete and light sensesâ, Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2013, University of Lancaster.
Mehl, S. (2013) âKeywords within a model of semantic change: vagueness, polysemy and the urgency of the debateâ, Paper presented at the Survey of English Usage, UCL.
Podesva, R.J. and D. Sharma (eds.), Research methods in linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Romero-Trillo, J. (2013)(ed.), Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics. Dordrecht: Springer.
Simon-Vandenbergen, A-M. (2013) âREALITY and related concepts: towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbsâ. In: J.I. MarĂn-Arrese, M. Carretero, J.A. Hita and J. van der Auwera (2013) (eds.). 253-280.
Smith, N. and G. Leech (2013) âVerb structures in twentieth-century British Englishâ. In: B. Aarts, J. Close, G. Leech and S.A. Wallis (2013) (eds.). 68-98.
Varela PĂ©rez, J. R. (2013) âOperator and negative contraction in spoken British English: a change in progressâ. In: B. Aarts, J. Close, G. Leech and S.A. Wallis (2013) (eds.). 257-285.
Wallis, S.A. (2013) âBinomial confidence intervals and contingency testsâ. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 20.3. 178-208. »
Wallis, S.A. (2013) âz-squared: the origin and application of ÏÂČâ. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 20.4. 350-378. »
Wallis, S.A. (2013) âCapturing patterns of linguistic interaction in a parsed corpusâ. Paper presented at the 34th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2013.
Wallis, S.A. (2013) âThe London Corporaâ. Plenary presentation at the Greek Corpus 20 Workshop, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Wallis, S.A. (2013) âStatistics for variationistsâ. Paper presented at the fifth Corpus Linguistics in the South meeting, Sussex University, 2013.
Ziegeler, D. (2013) âOn the generic argument for the modality of willâ In: J.I. MarĂn-Arrese, M. Carretero, J.A. Hita and J. van der Auwera (2013) (eds.). 221-250
Bas Aarts
Director
February 2014
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