Survey of English Usage
Annual Report 2012
The Annual Report for 2012 incorporates the newsletters published during the year.
1. News
In February 2012 Bas Aarts was awarded a UCL Teaching Innovation Grant entitled Developing a Suite of Apps for the Teaching of English Grammar. The funding is being used to develop a number of practical English apps for tablets and smartphones that will complement the existing interactive Grammar of English (iGE).
The new apps will help students practise their skills in four areas, namely grammar, academic writing, spelling and punctuation. Since UCL has an increasingly large contingent of overseas students (and staff!) from around 140 countries who are in need of training in English language skills, the apps will be of benefit to all those studying and working at 911±ŹÁÏÍűhose mother tongue is not English. However, since each and every student at 911±ŹÁÏÍű needs to have impeccable English language skills, the apps will benefit all UCL students. As such the project will directly help to deliver UCLâs Key Skills Strategy. Once completed the apps will be made freely available.
We welcome Dr Rachele De Felice to the Survey of English Usage. While she holds an appointment in the English Department as a Teaching Fellow, Racheleâs research is very much in line with the Surveyâs (see ).
2. Research
Throughout 2012, the Survey was principally engaged in the research project Marketing the Resources of the Survey of English Usage. This project involved a combination of further development of the Surveyâs Englicious website (; currently password-protected) and, working with UCL Business, exploring collaborations with potential partners.
Click here for more information.
We also released an Android version of our iGE App.In April 2012, Sean Wallis launched a new online resource for corpus linguistics researchers. The aim of âcorp.ling.statsâ, which is set up as a blog, was twofold: to provide clear and authoritative answers to the kinds of statistical questions corpus linguists frequently have difficulty with, and to explore some of the more complex questions that corpus linguistics throws up for statistical analysis. For more information see .
A new book edited by Bas Aarts, Geoff Leech, Jonanne Close and Sean Wallis, The English verb phrase: investigating recent language change with corpora, was published by CUP early in 2013.
Click here for an outline of the book, sample articles and ordering information.
3. Publications, conference presentations, talks, theses and other studies using Survey material
3.1 Survey Seminars
The following seminars took place during 2012:
Rachele De Felice: Corpus Pragmatics: Linguistic and Practical Challenges
Peter Trudgill: East Anglian Dialects and the Spanish Inquisition
Sylvia Adamson: Grammaticalisation and Social Stylistics: a Case Study
Tania Kuteva: Grammaticalization in Thetical Grammar
3.2 Publications
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., M. J. LĂłpez-Couso and B. MĂ©ndez-Naya. (2012) âLate modern English syntaxâ. In: A. Bergs and L. J. Brinton (eds.). 869-887.
Aarts, B., D. Clayton and S. Wallis (2012) âBridging the Grammar Gap: teaching English grammar to the iPhone generationâ. English Today 28. 3-8.
Aarts, B. (2012) âNew directions in language teaching using parsed corporaâ. Plenary lecture at the Fourth International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2012), University of JaĂ©n, Spain.
Algama, D. and Bernaisch, T. (2012) âDiachronic perspectives on the discursive elements in the functional profiles of adverbs: a corpus-based study on the development of anyway and meanwhileâ. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
Allan, K. and J. Robinson (2012) (eds.) Current methods in historical semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Allan, K. (2012) âUsing OED data as evidenceâ. In K. Allan and J. Robinson (2012) (eds.). 17-40.
Auwera, J. van der, D. NoĂ«l and A. de Wit (2012) âThe diverging need (to)âs of Asian Englishesâ. In M. Hundt and U. Gut (eds.). 54-75.
Bergs, A. and Laurel J. Brinton (2012) (eds.) English historical linguistics: an international handbook. Volume 2. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 34.2. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter Mouton.
Bowie, J. and B. Aarts (2012) âChange in the English infinitival perfect constructionâ. In T. Nevalainen and E. Closs Traugott (eds.). 200-210.
Bowie, J. and B. Aarts (2012) âMatching and sprouting fragments in spoken Englishâ. Paper presented at the Fourth UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kingâs College London, 10-12 July 2012.
Collins, P. and X. Yao (2012) âModals and quasi-modals in New Englishesâ. In M. Hundt and U. Gut (eds.). 35-53.
De Clerck, B. (2012) âCoulda, woulda, shouldaâ. A closer look at modals in Indian English and British English. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
De Felice, R. (2012) âDeveloping pragmatic awareness in Business English emailsâ. Paper presented at the IATEFL Symposium Pragmatics and ELT â what we need to know, Glasgow, 19 â 23 March 2012.
De Felice, R. (2012) âApplied Pragmatics: corpus-based methods and computational toolsâ. Invited talk at Discourse and Technology: Tools, Methods, and Applications, Birmingham, 17 â 18 May 2012.
De Felice, R. (2012) âA linguistic journey into the world of commitmentsâ. Paper presented at the 6th Intervarietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) International Conference, Leeds, 21 â 22 June 2012.
De Felice, R. (2012) âDataâdriven pragmatics: a corpus-based inquiry into the nature of speech actsâ.Paper presented at the 1st AMPrA Conference, Charlotte, NC, 19 â 21 October 2012.
Deuber, D., C. Biewer, S. Hackert and M. Hilbert (2012) âWill and would in selected New Englishes: general and variety-specific tendenciesâ. In M. Hundt and U. Gut (eds.). 77-102.
Fuchs, R. and U. Gut (2012) âDo women use more intensifiers than men? - Investigating gender and age specific language use with the International Corpus of Englishâ. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
Götz, S. and Mukherjee, J. (2012) âEr, erm, uh and uhm: filled pauses in ENL, ESL and EFLâ. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
Gries, S. Th. (2012a) âFrequencies, probabilities, association measures in usage-/exemplar-based linguistics: some necessary clarificationsâ. Studies in Language 36(3). 477-510.
Gries, S. Th. (2012b) âBehavioral profiles: a fine-grained and quantitative approach in corpus-based lexical semantics. In G. Jarema, G. Libben, and C. Westbury (eds.). 57-80.
HasselgĂ„rd, Hilde (2012) âIt-clefts in English L1 and L2 academic writingâ. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
Hilbert, M. and M. Krug (2012) âProgressives in Maltese English: a comparison with spoken and written text types of British and American Englishâ. In M. Hundt and U. Gut (eds.). 103-136.
Hundt, M. and U. Gut (2012) (eds.) Mapping unity and diversity world-wide. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Jarema, G., G. Libben, and C. Westbury (2012) (eds.) Methodological and analytic frontiers in lexical research. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Lemmens, M. (2012) âEchoes of on-going grammaticalisation: a corpus-based analysis of OK in English, Dutch and Swedishâ. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
Mair, C. and C. Winkle (2012) âChange from to-infinitive to bare infinitive in specificational cleft sentencesâ. In M. Hundt and U. Gut (eds.). 243-262.
Mehl, S. (2012). âFrom making bread to making decisions: historical change and contemporary variation in the semantics of makeâ. Paper presented at Synchrony and Diachrony: Variation and Change in Language History (The Philological Society), Worcester College, University of Oxford, 17 March 2012.
Mehl, S. (2012) âPre-colonial words, postcolonial developments: Usages of make in contemporary Singapore, Hong Kong and Great Britain as outgrowths of make in Early Modern Englishâ. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
Mehl, S. (2012) âWhose prototypes? Prototypicality, corpus data and worldwide usage of łŸČč°ì±đâ. Poster presented at the Fourth UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kingâs College London, 10-12 July 2012.
Nelson, G. and R. Hongtao (2012) âParticle verbs in African Englishes: nativization and innovationâ. In M. Hundt and U. Gut (eds.). 197-213.
Nevalainen, T. and E. Closs Traugott (eds.) The Oxford handbook of the history of English. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Palacios MartĂnez, I. and P. NĂșñez Pertejo (2012) âThe emergence of the intensifiers proper and bare in the language of British teenagersâ. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
Patten, A. (2012) The English it-cleft: a constructional account and a diachronic investigation. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
Prado-Alonso, C. (2012) âA contrastive corpus-based analysis of XVS structures in present-day written and spoken Englishâ. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
Schilk, M. (2012) âThe lexical core and periphery of English â a data-driven analysis of the International Corpus of Englishâ. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
Schilk, M., T. Bernaisch and J. Mukherjee (2012) âMapping unity and diversity in South Asian English lexicogrammar: verb-complementational preferences across varietiesâ. In M. Hundt and U. Gut (eds.). 138-165.
Schneider, G. and M. Hundt ââOff with their headsâ; profiling TAM in ICE corporaâ. In M. Hundt and U. Gut (eds.). 1-34.
Shibuya, Y. (2012) âCharacterization the relation between adjectives and constructionsâ. Paper presented at the Fourth UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kingâs College London, 10-12 July 2012.
Wallis, S., Bowie, J. and Aarts, B. (2012) âThat vexed problem of choice. Some reflections on experimental design and statistics with corporaâ. Paper presented at ICAME 33, K.U. Leuven, 30 May â 3 June 2012.
Wiechmann, D. and A. Lohmann (2012)âModeling domain minimization: a multifactorial approach to PP ordering in English. Paper presented at the Fourth UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kingâs College London, 10-12 July 2012.
Zipp, L. and T. Bernaisch (2012) âParticle verbs across first and second language varieties of Englishâ. In M. Hundt and U. Gut (eds.). 168-196.
Bas Aarts
Director
April 2013
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