Corpora and the history of English: ARCHER 3 and beyond
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12.12.2008 von 09:15 bis 18:00 |
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| Wo | Albertstr. 19, Seminarraum, 2. Stock |
| Name | Gesa von Essen |
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Among his many other contributions to linguistic variation studies, Douglas Biber is known as the moving spirit behind the compilation of ARCHER ("A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers"), a prime resource for research on regional and stylistic variation in British and American English from 1650 to 1990.
The one-day symposium will use the opportunity of Douglas Biber's presence as a senior FRIAS fellow to bring together a number of leading specialists in the history of English who have used ARCHER data or have been involved in the project in other ways. Participants will include Marianne Hundt (Zürich), Merja Kytö (Uppsala), Teresa Fanego (Santiago de Compostela), Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (Manchester), and others. The aims of the gathering are twofold, namely to discuss:
(1) the future of the ARCHER corpus (possible extensions, improved annotation)
(2) current priorities in corpus-based diachronic linguistics in general.
The symposium will feature a keynote talk by Doug Biber, a round-table discussion and a limited number of presentations.
The organisers would like to encourage participation from Freiburg's historical linguistic community, not necessarily restricted to English. Graduate students and advanced undergraduates with a specialisation in language history are most welcome.
9:15-9:30 | Opening |
9:30-10:00 | Elena Seoane-Posse (Santiago de Compostela) "The role of syntactic complexity, discourse status and animacy in the use of long passives in Modern English" |
10:00-10:30 | Nadja Nesselhauf ( |
10:30-11:00 | Svenja Kranich ( "Grammaticalization and subjectification in the development of the progressive: evidence from ARCHER-2" |
11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30-12:30 | Douglas Biber "Corpora and the history of English: ARCHER 3 and beyond" |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-15:30 | Round table: ARCHER – current activities and perspectives for the future (Douglas Biber, Teresa Fanego, Marianne Hundt, Merja Kytö, Christian Mair, Nadja Nesselhauf, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza) |
15:30-16.00 | Coffee |
16:00-16:30 | Benedikt Szmrecsanyi ( "What happened to the s-genitive? Genitive variation after Early Modern English" |
16:30-17:00 | Belén Méndez-Naya und María José López-Couso (Santiago de Compostela) "Low-frequency phenomena in the light of historical corpora: the case of minor declarative complementizers" |
17:00-17:30 | Marianne Hundt (Zurich) "Differential change in national varieties of English: beyond ARCHER" |
17:30-18:00 | Christian Mair ( "Corpus-based real-time studies of ongoing change in spoken and written English: how autonomous is writing?" |
19:30 | Dinner |
