REsearch in English Linguistics
(REEL Day 2019)
Digital data in English linguistics:
Lexical and functional uses of verbs
Mainz, 16.2.2019, 9.45am – 6pm
Organizers: Ulrike Schneider (Mainz) & Manfred Sailer (Frankfurt)
Keynote: Bas Aarts (UCL)
Webpage: https://www.english-linguistics.de/digital-data-in-english-linguistics-2019/
Program
| 9.45-10.00 | Welcome |
| 10.00-11-15 | Bas Aarts: Auxiliaries and lexical verbs in Engish: Three approaches |
| 11.15-11.30 | coffee break |
| 11.30-12.00 | Group 1 (Mainz): A new approach to the TIME-away construction: An analysis of the role of punctuality, volitionality, and stativity |
| 12.00-12.30 | Group 2 (Mainz): Why smiling a happy smile is better than fighting a fight: The influence of modifiers on cognate objects |
| 12.30-13.30 | lunch break |
| 13.30-14.00 | Group 3 (Frankfurt a.M.): To hornswaggle or to talk the audience into believig your story? A productivity analysis of into-causatives by genre |
| 14.00-14.30 | Group 4 (Mainz): We will talk you into believing this is a really interesting construction: On the semantic transitivity of the into-causative |
| 14.30-15.00 | Group 5 (Mainz): The into-causative: Investigating semantic differences in Canadian and Australian English |
| 15.00-15.30 | coffee break |
| 15.30-16.00 | Group 6 (Mainz): The death of let’s don’t and don’t let’s and the rise of let’s not |
| 16.00-16.30 | Group 7 (Mainz): A closer look at Go-Verb: Does the situation type of the verb predict the construction’s syntactic environment? |
| 16.30-16.45 | Closing |
| 17:00-18:00 | Screencasts teaser presentation |
Support
The workshop is supported by Gutenberg Lehrkolleg (Mainz) and the Förderfonds Lehre (Frankfurt).
Students interested in submitting an abstract can participate in the Förderfonds project’s academic license for the BYU corpus interface.