Survey of English Usage
Annual Report 2016
1. News
1.1 Englicious
is a free web resource designed as a practical teaching and learning platform for primary and secondary schools with an emphasis on the grammar of English.
Englicious makes available to pupils and teachers a wide variety of innovative teaching materials, including lesson plans, interactive exercises, projects, glossaries, etc., as well as background materials for teachers to improve their understanding of English grammar, e.g. videos. The example sentences used on the site are sourced from the Survey鈥檚 corpora. Englicious helps pupils and teachers to prepare for the UK Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling tests (colloquially known as the SPAG test) in Year 2 and Year 6. It will also help secondary school pupils to prepare for their GCSEs, in which there is a new emphasis on the correct use of grammar, spelling and punctuation. The site features a detailed and informative grammar overview, an extensive glossary and Continuous Professional Development materials for teachers. To date almost 4,000 teachers have signed up to use the site.
The Englicious project is supported by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at 最准的六合彩论坛, which enabled us to employ a part-time colleague on the project. Dr Ellen Smith-Dennis worked with us during the 2015-2016 session. She has now taken up a post at the University of Warwick.
Joining us as a Teaching Fellow in English Linguistics at 最准的六合彩论坛 in 2017 is Ian Cushing. Before joining 最准的六合彩论坛, he taught English in secondary schools for six years. He is also conducting doctoral research, where he is investigating contextualised grammar and integrated language-literature teaching in Key Stage 3 English. He has published a number of books, chapters and articles related to educational linguistics and stylistics, and delivers regular workshops and talks to teachers about applying linguistics in the classroom.
You may be interested in watching a series of videos on English grammar that the project has produced. They are available on the Englicious .
You can also follow Englicious on
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1.2 Continuous Professional Development
As noted above, the Survey has begun offering Professional Development courses on the National Curriculum Grammar requirements for teachers in UK primary and secondary schools.
We also offer 鈥業nset Teaching鈥 where we provide training to teachers in schools. For more information, email the Survey.
1.3 English Grammar Day 2016
Together with the University of Oxford and Jonnie Robinson of the British Library, the Survey organised the third English Grammar Day on Monday 27 June 2016 at the British Library. Speakers for 2016 were author, broadcaster, and Professor of Children鈥檚 literature Michael Rosen; language specialists Bas Aarts, Ellen Smith-Dennis, Debbie Cameron and Simon Horobin; secondary school teacher Ian Cushing and the British Library鈥檚 Spoken English curator Jonnie Robinson. The panel was chaired by Marcello Giovanelli.
For a brief video impression of the day, see below.
The next English Grammar Day will be held on Monday 3 July 2017
at the British Library. Speakers for 2017 are Times journalist,
Oliver Kamm; language specialists Geoffrey Pullum, Devyani Sharma,
Marcello Giovanelli and Lucy Dipper; and secondary school teacher
Eleanor Trafford. Public participation is encouraged in a Panel
chaired by 最准的六合彩论坛 English Professor John Mullan. The programme will
appear in due course on the British Library鈥檚 Events page.
1.4 Bloomsbury Festival 2016
The Survey team (including Phd students, former MA students, and our teaching fellows) participated in on October 22 with a stand called 鈥榊ou鈥檙e a linguist and you don鈥檛 know it鈥.
We engaged with over 250 people on the day, from children to older visitors, involving them in a range of activities from interactive grammar games on Englicious to 鈥榞uess the source language鈥 and 鈥榤ake your own blends鈥. We also distributed more than a hundred activity sheets, and our 鈥榮tar linguist鈥 stickers proved very popular too!
2. Research
2.1 ICECUP 3.1.1
We
have been using the latest version of our state-of-the-art corpus
research software, ICECUP, for over a year. The program鈥檚 author,
Sean Wallis, explains that the software
had to be rebuilt from the ground up for compatibility with recent
versions of Windows, and he has taken the opportunity to extend
the power of the FTF search tool. A full release is in the works.
This release is compatible with versions of Windows from XP to 10 and is fully 64-bit compatible. It contains a number of additional enhancements over ICECUP 3.1 which are documented on our website and in the help file.
As a service to the Corpus Linguistics research community, the software is available as a download 'release candidate' from here. This means that if you have already got a licence for ICE-GB R2 or DCPSE you can upgrade to the latest version of the software from our website for free.
2.2 Blogs
Bas Aarts has begun a new blog on English grammar aimed at teachers in UK primary and secondary schools. It is called and is linked to the website.
Sean Wallis continues to publish articles, discussion pieces and teaching material on the subject of statistics for corpus linguistics at .
We are also in the process of launching a Survey blog (more soon).
2.3 Survey research seminars
The following seminars took place during 2016:
- Thursday 3rd March: Simon Horobin (University of Oxford) 鈥楴o gentleman goes on a bus鈥: H.C. Wyld and the historical study of English.
- Wednesday 16th March: Nele P枚ldvere (University of Lund) 鈥業 think you're clearly wrong鈥: A corpus-based and experimental study of dialogic engagement in spoken discourse.
- Thursday 1st December: Kate Wild (Oxford English Dictionary) Grammatical description in the Oxford English Dictionary.
- Wednesday 7th December: Peter Patrick (University of Essex) Number-marking in Jamaican Patwa.
For the 2017 seminars, see our website.
2.4 Research publications and presentations
For an overview of research publications, presentations, etc. by members of the Survey, see section 4.
3. Teaching
3.1 Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics
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The Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics was held for the fourth time from 6-8 July 2016. We are pleased to say we were at full capacity. Students from all over the world took part in our concentrated three-day graduate course in corpus linguistics.
The 2017 Summer School will take place from 5-7 July.
For details, see here.
3.2 MA in English Lingustics
Our MA program in English Lingustics (with pathways in English Corpus Linguistics and English in Use) continues to attract students from all over the world.
Our graduates have gone on to PhD scholarships in the UK and abroad, as well as careers in teaching, publishing, and public relations.
For more information, see this
prospectus.
4 Future events
4.1 ISLE 2018
It is still well over a year away, but we thought we would already alert you to the fact that the fifth bi-annual conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE-5; ) will take place from Tuesday 17 July 鈥 Friday 20 July at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1.
We will announce the event on linguistics-related lists and on our website.
5. 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. (2016) 鈥楨nglicious: presenting a new platform for English grammar teaching鈥. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Language, Literature and Society, Bangkok, Thailand, 18-19 January 2016.
Aarts, B. (2016) 鈥楨nglicious: using corpus resources in English grammar teaching around the world鈥. Paper presented at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Aarts, B. (2016) 鈥楨nglicious: using corpus resources in English grammar teaching鈥. Paper for the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLIE) of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. London.
Aarts, B. (2016) 鈥楨nglicious: using corpus resources in English grammar teaching鈥. Paper presented at Sheffield University.
Aarts, B. (2016) 鈥楪rammar for schools: pitfalls and politics鈥. Paper presented at the symposium 鈥楧oing Public Linguistics鈥. Sussex University, June 2016.
Aarts, B. (2016) 鈥楨nglicious: presenting a new platform for English grammar teaching, using corpus resources鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2016.
Aarts, B. and E. Smith-Dennis (2016) 鈥楪rammar鈥檚 not grim! How to teach it in a fun and engaging way鈥. Paper presented at the third English Grammar Day, British Library, London.
Aarts, B. (2016) 鈥楥orpus linguistics and the teaching of English grammar鈥. Plenary lecture presented at the 40th meeting of the Asociaci贸n Espa帽ola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Aarts, B. (2016) 鈥楲inguistic (un)certainties鈥. Paper presented in the English Department, University of D眉sseldorf, Germany.
Allan, K. (2016) 鈥楢 dull paper: an example of proportional analogy in semantic change?鈥 Paper presented at Diachrone Linguistik und anglistische Medi盲vistik Oberseminar, Ludwig Maximilans University, Munich, June 2016.
Allan, K. (2016) 鈥楤orrowing and polysemy in Early Modern English鈥. Paper presented at the International Association of University Professors of English Triennial Conference, London, July 2016.
Allan, K. (2016) 鈥楧egrees of lexicalization in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary鈥. Paper presented at the 19th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Duisberg-Essen, August 2016.
Allan, K. (2016) 鈥楧egrees of lexicalization in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary鈥. Invited paper presented at Postgraduate Research Group Seminar, Queen Mary University London, November 2016.
Auer, A., V. Gonz谩lez-D铆az, J. Hodson and V. Sotirova (2016)(eds.) Linguistics and Literary History. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bernaisch, T. and S. Go虉tz (2016) 鈥楾racing stylistic variation in ENL, ESL and EFL: a corpus-based study on nominal and verbal styles of first-, second- and foreign-language users鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Bowie, J. and S.A. Wallis (2016). 鈥楾he to-infinitival perfect: a study of decline鈥. In: V. Werner, E. Seoane and C. Su谩rez-G贸mez (2010)(eds), 43-94.
Collins, P. (2016) 鈥楥olloquialisation in contemporary Australian English鈥 Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Corrigan, K. and A. Mearns (2016)(eds.) Creating and digitizing language corpora. Volume 3: Databases for Public Engagement. Palgrave, Basingstoke.
Crystal, D. (2016) 鈥榃ho would of thought it? The English language 1966-2066鈥. Lecture delivered at the Annual International IATEFL Conference & Exhibition, Birmingham. http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2016/session/plenary-david-crystal
De Felice, R. (2016) 鈥榃hat can corpus pragmatics tell us about language?鈥 Paper at the English Studies Department, University of Lund, Sweden.
De Felice, R. (2016) 鈥楾he politics of please in British and American English: a corpus pragmatics approach鈥. Paper at the Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden.
De Felice, R. (2016) 鈥楾he Hillary emails: a new dataset for corpus linguistics?鈥 Paper presented at the 8th IVACS (Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies) Conference, Bath.
De Felice, R. (2016) 鈥楲anguage at work - Hillary Clinton鈥檚 emails鈥. Paper at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Gender and Feminism Network Seminar, 最准的六合彩论坛, London.
De Felice, R. (2016) 鈥楾he Hillary Clinton emails: corpus linguistics meets the real world鈥. Paper preseted at Corpus Linguistics in the South 13, Ipswich.
Deshors, S. and A. Edwards (2016) 鈥Americans dreaming, Indians enclosing, Dutch wondering: a correspondence analysis of the progressive across genres and Englishes鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Durkin, P. and K. Allan (2016) 鈥楤orrowing and copy鈥. A. Auer, V. Gonz谩lez-D铆az, J. Hodson and V. Sotirova (2016)(eds.), 71-86.
Garc铆a Castro, L. (2016) 鈥榁ariation in verbal complementation patterns in nativised varieties of English: the case of remember in Indian English鈥. Paper presented at the 40th meeting of the Asociaci贸n Espa帽ola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Gries, S. Th., B. Heller and T. Bernaisch (2016) 鈥楨picentres in South and South-East Asian Englishes: empirical perspectives鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Hundt, M. and P. Rautionaho (2016) 鈥楶rogressively progressive? A corpus- based study of the progressive in World Englishes鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Kirk, J. and G. Nelson (2016) 鈥楾aking stock of the International Corpus of English鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Kruger, H. and B. van Rooy (2016) 鈥楻egister variation in contact varieties of English: a multidimensional analysis鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Kay, C.J. and K. Allan. 2016. 鈥楥hange in the English Lexicon鈥. In: M. Kyt枚 and P. Pahta (2016)(eds.), 203-219.
Kyt枚, M. and P. Pahta (2016)(eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lischynsky, N. and A. Beneteau (2016) 鈥業mproving Chinese students鈥 use of prominence and thought groups with corpus-derived speech samples鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Laporte, S. (2016) 鈥楾he schematic to substantive patterning of make in New Englishes: A Construction Grammar approach鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Lavelle, T. (2016) 鈥楾emporal since in the ICE corpora: variation and three cultures of interpretation鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Lo虂pez-Couso, M-J. and B. Me虂ndez-Naya (2016) 鈥楩rom the Inner to the Outer Circle: A look at the epistemic adverbs perhaps and maybe in Hong Kong English and Philippine English鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Meierkord, C. (2016) 鈥楻eflections of local culture and identity in the lexicon of Ugandan English? Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics meets cultural studies鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Mehl, S., S.A. Wallis and B. Aarts (2016). 鈥楲anguage learning at your fingertips: deploying corpora in mobile teaching apps鈥. In K. Corrigan and A. Mearns (2016)(eds.), 211-239.
M茅ndez Naya, B. and M. J. L贸pez-Couso (2016) 鈥極n the competition between perhaps and maybe: A cross-varietal approach鈥. Paper presented at the 40th meeting of the Asociaci贸n Espa帽ola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Qiu, Y. (2016) 鈥楢djective comparison across speech and writing: A corpus study based on ICE-GB鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
P枚ldvere, N., M. Fuoli and C. Paradis (2016) 鈥楢 study of dialogic expansion and contraction in spoken discourse using corpus and experimental techniques鈥. Corpora 11.2, 191-225.
Seoane, E. and L. Loureiro-Porto and C. Su谩rez-G贸mez (2016) 鈥楾he ICE project looks at Iberia: the International Corpus of Gibraltar English鈥. Paper presented at the 40th meeting of the Asociaci贸n Espa帽ola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Terassa, L. (2016) 鈥榃hat corpora can and cannot tell us about grammatical variation in World Englishes: contrasting corpus findings with experimental data鈥. Paper presented at the 37th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Werner, V., E. Seoane and C. Su谩rez-G贸mez (2016)(eds.) Re-assessing the present perfect. Topics in English Linguistics (TiEL) 91. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Bas Aarts
Director
January 2017
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