ISLE 2011 Conference Schedule
Unless otherwise noted below, all events are held at Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), located at 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
THURSDAY, JUNE 16
4:00-8:00 REGISTRATION (CAS 116)
8:00-10:00 RECEPTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY PUB (225 Bay State Road, behind CAS and in the basement of “The Castle”)
Please visit our exhibitors’ room, located in CAS 216 throughout the conference.
FRIDAY, JUNE 17
8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION (CAS 116)
9:00-9:15 OPENING REMARKS; GREETING FROM DEAN PATRICIA JOHNSON (CAS 224)
9:15–10:15 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
Christian Mair, “World Non-Standard Englishes: Reflections on the Global Spread of (Some) Vernacular Varieties of English” (Chair: Charles Meyer)
10:15-10:45 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
General Session I
Section A (CAS 203)
Internet idioms (Chair: Daniel Donoghue)
10:50-11:20 Jon Bakos, “QQ More”
11:25-11:55 Daphné Kerremans and Susanne Stegmayr, “Neologisms on the internet”
12:00-12:30 Ursula Kirsten, “Development of SMS language from 2000 to 2010″
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
Case (Chair: Bas Aarts)
2:00-2:30 John Payne and Eva Berlage, “The effect of semantic relations on genitive variation”
2:35-3:05 Christoph Wolk, Joan Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, “Dative and genitive variability in late ModE”
3:10-3:40 Stefanie Wulff and Stefan Th. Gries, “A multifactorial study of genitive alternation in L2 English”
3:45-4:10 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
Perceptual Dialectology (Chair: Bas Aarts)
4:15-4:45 Chris Montgomery, “A new method for dialect recognition and rating in perceptual dialectology
Section B (CAS 237)
Comparative studies of Modern British and American Constructions (Chair: Dagmar Deuber)
10:50-11:20 Thomas Hoffmann: “The more Data, the better”
11:25-11:55 Gunther Kaltenböck, “Comment clauses on the move”
12:00-12:30 Turo Vartiainen, “Conceptual proximity and the positional variation of directional modifiers in English
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
African and related diasporic Englishes (Chair: Gunther Kaltenböck)
2:00-2:30 Lars Hinrichs, “Gauging variety status in diasporic dialect mixing”
2:30-3:05 Magnus Huber and Sebastian Schmidt, “New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English. Early Highlife recordings from Ghana”
3:10-3:40 Robert Fuchs, “The progressive aspect in Nigerian English”
3:45-4:10 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
4:15-4:45 Glenda-Alicia Leung, “Approaching the Acrolect”
Section C (CAS 316)
Irish English (Chair: Lauren Hall-Lew)
10:50-11:20 Julia Davydova, “Detecting historical continuity in modern Singapore English: A case study of the present perfect”
11:25-11:55 Marije van Hattum, “A preparation of news to come in Irish immigrant letters”
12:00-12:30 Stephen Lucek, “Invariant tags in Irish English”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
Phonological Topics in American English and New Englishes (Chair: Katie Drager)
2:00-2:30 David Eddington, “Flaps and other variants of /t/ in American English”
2:35-3:05 Caroline Wiltshire, “New Englishes and the emergence of the unmarked”
3:10-3:40 Toshihiro Oda, “Phonetically accidental and systematic gaps”
3:45-4:10 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
Section D (CAS 226)
Variationism (Chair: Lynn Clark)
10:50-11:20 Don Chapman, “Why empirical studies of prescriptive rules should be variationist”
11:25-11:55 Kirk Hazen, “Morphological methodology for a rapidly reconfigured variable”
12:00-12:30 Sandra Jansen, “Variation and Change in the north-west of England”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
2:00-2:30 Presley Ifukor, “Towards the emergence of technolectal Nigerian English”
Academic Styles (Chair: Lynn Clark)
2:35-3:05 Ute Römer, “The phraseological profile model applied: New insights into academic speech and writing”
3:10-3:40 Peter Siemund, “Varieties of English in the classroom”
3:45-4:10 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
4:55-5:55 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
David Denison, Presidential Address (Chair: Elizabeth Traugott)
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
8:30-9:30 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
April Mcmahon, “Comparing [laɪk] with [lʌɪk]: Methods for Collecting and Comparing Data from Varieties of English” (Chair: Stephen Harris)
9:35-10:05 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
General Session II
Section A (CAS 213)
Workshop: Kevin Watson, Lynn Clark ,Warren Maguire: Mergers in English: Perspectives from phonology, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics
10:10-10:40 Warren Maguire, Lynn Clark, and Kevin Watson, “The meaning of ‘merger’”
10:45-11:15 Maciej Baranowski, “On the role of social factors in vocalic mergers”
11:20-11:50 Lynn Clark and Kevin Watson, “Capturing listeners’ real-time reactions to the NURSE~SQUARE merger”
11:55-12: 25 Katie Drager and Jennifer Hay, “Mergers in production and perception”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
2:00-2:30 Lauren Hall-Lew, “Interpreting ‘flip-flop’ patterns in vowel mergers-in-progress”
2:35-3:05 Jennifer Nycz, “New contrast acquisition: Methodological issues & theoretical implications”
3:05-3:35 EXHIBITORS’ COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216)
3:40-4:10 Phillip Tipton, “Modelling (socio)linguistic mergers: the role of global context in the processing of social and linguistic information”
Section B (CAS 237)
Modern English constructions (Chair: Stefan Diemer)
10:10-10:40 Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie, and Sean Wallis, “Typical and atypical change in modal usage over time”
10:45-11:15 Karin Axelsson, “A new functional model for tag questions based on fiction dialogue data”
11:20-11:50 Linnea Micciulla, “Factbors predicting the use of passive voice in newspaper headlines”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
Pragmatics (Chair: Markus Bieswanger)
2:00-2:30 Markus Bieswanger, “Variationist sociolinguistics meets variational pragmatics”
2:35-3:05 Christine Günther, “Pragmatic factors determining variation in the realization of head nouns”
3:05-3:35 EXHIBITORS’ COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216)
3:40-4:10 Meike Pfaff, “On the pragmatics of obligative want to”
4:15-4:45 Alexander Bergs, “On how to integrate context into grammar”
Section C (CAS 316)
Workshop: John Payne and Eva Berlage: Genitive variation in English
10:10-10:40 John Payne and Eva Berlage, “Genitive variation: the role of the oblique genitive”
10:45-11;15 Sali Tagliamonte and Bridget Jankowski, “On the genitive’s trail: data and method from a sociolinguistic perspective”
11:20-11:50 Cathy O’Connor, “Is animacy the most important factor in predicting the English possessive alternation?”
11:55:12:25 Kersti Börjars, David Denison and Grzegorz Krajewski, “Poss-s vs poss-of revisited”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
2:00-2:30 Katharina Ehret, Christoph Wolk, and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, “Genitive variation in Late Modern English: focus on weight and rhythm”
2:30-3:05 Evelien Keizer, “Pre- and postnominal possessives in English, Dutch and German – an FDG account ”
3:05-3:35 EXHIBITORS’ COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216)
Canadian English (Chair: Daniel Donoghue)
3:40-4:10 Charles Boberg, “Ethnicity and regional variation in Canadian English”
4:15-4:45 Stefan Dollinger: “New Dialect Formation cum Dynamic Model: Language attitudes and the case of Vancouver English
Section D (CAS 324)
Workshop: Marianne Hundt: English in the Indian Diaspora
10:10-10:40 Dagmar Deuber, Glenda Leung and Véronique Lacoste, “Indo-Trinidadian speech: features and stereotypes”
10:45-11:15 Marianne Hundt, “Zero articles in Indian Englishes: a comparison of primary and secondary diasporasituations”
11:20-11:50 Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, “Singapore’s Indian community: lidnguistic, social,and sociolinguistic aspects”
11:55-12:25 Rajend Mesthrie, “The making of a dialect dictionary 1: where does a New English dictionary stop?”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
2:00-2:30 Claudia Rathore, “East African Indians in Leicester, UK: phonological variation across generations”
2:35-3:05 Farhana Alam and Jane Stuart-Smith, “Identity, ethnicity and fine phonetic detail: an acoustic phonetic analysis of syllable-initial /t/ in Glaswegian girls of Pakistani heritage”
3:05-3:35 EXHIBITORS’ COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216)
3:40-4:10 Lena Zipp, “Features of IndoFijian English across registers”
4:15-4:45 Capstone Session
4:55-5:55 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
Christopher Ricks, “The very words, and not only those” (Chair: Daniel Donoghue)
SUNDAY, JUNE 19
8:30-9:30 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto: “System and society in the evolution of change: The case of Canada” (Chair: Laurel Brinton)
9:35-10:05 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
GENERAL SESSION III
Section A (CAS 213)
Corpus Studies (Chair: Magnus Huber)
10:10-10:40 Garrison Bickerstaff, “Flexibility and application of the bounded virtual corpus”
10:45-11:15 Terttu Nevalainen, “Tools for comparing corpora”
11:20-11:50 Matthew O’Donnell, “The adjusted frequency list”
Case Studies (Chairs: Magnus Huber and Heli Paulasto)
11:55-12:25 Lieven Vandelanotte, “Call so and so and tell him such and such: A corpus-based study of suspensive reference in contemporary English”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
2:00-2:30 Gregory Garretson, “A new perspective on antonymy”
2:35-3:05 Stefan Diemer, “Corpus linguistics with Google?”
3:05-3:30 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
3:35-4:05 Michael Erlewine, “The Constituency of Hyperlinks in a Hypertext Corpus”
Section B (CAS 237)
Workshop: Lars Hinrichs and Stefan Dollinger: Aspects of methodology and pedagogy
A. Lars Hinrichs and Stefan Dollinger: Long-term research projects on local varieties of English
10:10-10:40 Walt Wolfram, “The Theoretical and Methodological Challenge of Longitudinal Studies: The Case of African American English”
10:45-11-15 Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy and Joseph Salmons, “The Wisconsin Englishes Project and WiSCO”
11:20-11:50 Bill Kretzschmar, “Student Participation in the Linguistic Atlas Project”
11:55-12:25 Kirk Hazen, “Goals for the project and your career: Long term success”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
Workshop: B. Marnie Reed: Evaluation and Instruction
2:00-2:30 Jarosalaw Weckwerth, “Variation in the production of the TRAP vowel in advanced Polish learners of English: Beyond averages”
2:35-3:05 Isabela Lazar, “A morphosyntactic algorithm for sentence building in language acquisition”
3:05-3:30 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
A Case of Lexicalization: from Middle to Modern English (Chair: Anna Wärnsby)
3:35-4:05 Joanna Nykiel, “Do so and verb phrase ellipsis in the Canterbury Tales”
Section C (CAS 316)
Grammaticalization and degrammaticalization (Chair: Peter Siemund)
10:10-10:40 Julie Van Bogaert, “A multivariate analysis of that/zero alternation”
10:45-11:15 Marion Elenbaas, “Tracing grammaticalization in English light verbs”
11:20-11:50 Stefanie Wulff, “Gradient grammaticalization in English complement constructions”
11:55-12:25 Graeme Trousdale, “Ish”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
Letters and Literature (Chair: Karin Axelsson)
2:00-2:30 Dustin Grue, “Relevance theory, accountabilities, and collocations in Lord of the Flies criticisms”
2:35-3:05 Minna Palander-Collin, “How can we study identity construction in early English letters?”
3:05-3:30 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
3:35-4:05 Jim Walker, “The pre sent-perfect narrative in varieties of British English and farther afield”
Section D (CAS 324)
Workshop: Neal Norrick: Methods of Analyzing Spoken English
10:10-10:40 Neal Norrick, “Investigating Interjections in Narrative Contexts: A Hybrid Corpus Approach”
10:45-11:15 Gisle Andersen, “Corpus-driven approaches to discourse markers in spoken data”
11:20-11:50 Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, “The participants’ perspective in interactional-linguistic work on the phonetics of talk-in-interaction
11:55-12:25 Bruce Fraser, “Studying DM Sequences in Spoken English”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
2:00-2:30 Christoph Rühlemann, “Introducing collogation analysis”
2:35-3:05 Klaus P. Schneider, “Just how useless are questionnaires for studying spoken language? Triangulating elicited and natural corpus data”
3:05-3:30 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
3:35-4:05 Anne Wichmann and Nicole Dehé, “Corpus data and prosodic analysis”
4:10-4:40 Capstone Session
4:45-5:30 POSTER SESSION 1 (CAS 227) (Chair: Eugene Green)
Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, “Death-related intensifiers: Grammaticalization and related phenomena in the development of the intensifier deadly”
Daniele Franceschi, “Shall we start or … commence? Stylistic aspects of near-synonymous verb use”
Mark Lindsay and Mark Aronoff, “Natural selection in self-organizing morphological systems”
7:00-9:00 CONFERENCE DINNER (Faculty Dining Room, 5th floor of George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue)
Laurence Horn, Yale: “Etymythology and Taboo” (Introduction: Bruce Fraser)
MONDAY, JUNE 20
8:30-9:30 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
Lisa Green “Multiple Grammars and Dialectal Variation: A View from the Perspective of Language Development” (Chair: Geoffrey Russom)
9:35-10:05 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
GENERAL SESSION IV
Section A (CAS 213)
Early English constructions (Chair: Ilse Depraetere)
10:45-11:15 Ayumi Miura, “Lexical semantics in Middle English impersonal constructions”
11:20-11:50 Lieselotte Brems, “Fear(s) + complement clauses”
11:55-12:25 Izabela Czerniak, “Tracing the Scandinavian influence in early English”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
Psychological aspects of English syntax (Chair: Izabela Lazar)
2:00-2:30 Carlos Prado-Alonso, “A cognitive approach to obligatory subject-dependent XVS constructions in English”
2:35-3:05 Ute Römer, Matthew O’Donnell, and Nick Ellis, “Learning verb-argument constructions: New perspectives from corpus and psycholinguistic analyses”
3:05-3:30 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
3:35-4:05 Rainer Schulze, “Aspects of seriality in language”
4:10-4:40 Laurel Smith Stvan, “The influence of lexical conflation on causation”
Section B (CAS 237)
Workshop: Hubert Cuyckens and Martin Hilpert: How can new corpus-based techniques advance historical description and linguistic theory?
10:10-10:40 Hubert Cuyckens & Martin Hilpert,”Introduction: How can new corpus-based techniques advance historical description and linguistic theory?”
10:45-11:15 Britta Mondorf, “Leg it, floor it, snuff it: A synchronic and diachronic analysis of nonreferential it”
11:20-11:50 Tanja Säily, “Sociolinguistic variation in morphological productivity in the CEECE”
11:55-12:25 Javier Perez-Guerra, “Pairing word order with headedness in the recent history of English: a corpus-based analysis”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
2:00-2:35 Stefan Gries & Martin Hilpert, “Modeling diachronic change in a morpho-phonemic alternation”
2:40-3:05 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, “Culture change versus grammar change: the limits of text frequency (and what we can do about it)”
3:05-3:30 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
3:35-4:05 Maria José Lopez-Couso, “Corpus-based methodology and grammaticalization theory: Observing, describing, and analyzing grammaticalization and related processes of language change through corpus linguistics”
4:10-4:40 Workshop overview
Section C (CAS 316)
Workshop: Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Anna Mauranen: Global English: contact-linguistic, typological, and second-language acquisition perspective
10:10-10:40 Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Anna Mauranen: “Global English: contact-linguistic, typological, and second-language acquisition perspective”
10:45-11:15 Peter Siemund, “Varieties of English and Language Typology”
11:20-11:50 Niina Hynninen and Henrik Hakala, “Lexical and accent accommodation in ELF interaction”
11:55-12:25 Heli Paulasto, Elina Ranta, and Lea Meriläinen, “Syntactic features in Global Englishes: how ‘global’ are they?”
12:30-1:55 LUNCH
2:00-2:30 Edgar Schneider, “Tracking down American impact on Asian and Pacific Englishes in electronic corpora”
2:35-3:05 Hanna Parviainen, “Question formation in Indian English and in other Southeast Asian varieties”
3:05-3:30 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
3:35-4:05 Zhiming Bao, “Systemic Nature of Substratum Transfer: the case of got in Singapore English”
4:10-4:40 Rajend Mesthrie, “Diamonds, gender and strong verbs: a study of contact and sociolinguistic factors in the evolution of a variety of Black English in Kimberley, South Africa”
4:45-5:30 POSTER SESSION 2 (CAS 314) (Chair: Eugene Green)
4:45-5:30 Jakob R. E. Leimgruber and Lavanya Sankaran, “Imperfectives in Singapore English: New evidence for ethnic varieties?”
Nadja Nesselhauf, “Diachronic corpus linguistics: overcoming the limitations of automatic analysis”
Carla Suhr, “Introducing visuals to historical pragmatics: Book history and multimodality”
5:35-6:35 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224)
Stefan Gries, “The quantitative revolution in corpus linguistics: applications and their theoretical implications” (Chair: Martin Hilpert)
7:00-10:30 HARBOR CRUISE (Buses leave from 725 Commonwealth Avenue at 7)
TUESDAY, JUNE 21
8:30-9:30 BUSINESS MEETING (CAS 522)
9:35-10:05 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall)
GENERAL SESSION V
Section A (CAS 213)
Modern English Constructions (Chair: Marion Elenbaas)
10:10-10:40 Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford, “On the meaning(s) of need to”
11:20-:11:50 Doris Schoenefeld, “Modern Usage and semantic change”
Section B (CAS 237)
Asian and Pacific English (Chair: Edgar Schneider)
10:10-10:40 Tatiana Larina, Svetlana Kurtes, and Neelakshi Suryanarayan, “Madam or aunty jee: contrasting forms of address in British and Indian English(es)”
10:45-11:15 Manfred Sailer, “Doubling in New Englishes”
Orthographic Developments (Chair: Edgar Schneider)
11:25- 11:55 Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, “Tracing orthographic change in corpora: A methodological approach to the study of English compound spelling”
Section C (CAS 316)
Contact or Comparisons of English and related Germanic languages (Chair: Gisle Andersen)
10:10-10:40 Anna Wärnsby, “Interpreting modal utterances in English and Swedish”
10:45-11:15 Eline Zenner, “The borrowability of English”
Section D (CAS 324)
Developments of Idiosyncratic Constructions (Chair: Rainer Schulze)
10:10-10:40 Laurel Brinton, “The extremes of insubordination: exclamatory /as if!/”
10:45-11:15 Beate Hampe, “A study of expressive a(n) N of a(n) N constructions in the BNC”
11:20-11:50 Georg Maier, “Pronoun case variation across varieties of English”
1:30-4:00 ARCHITECTURAL TOUR: DOWNTOWN BOSTON (Bus leaves from 725 Commonwealth Avenue at 1:30)