Plenaries
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University:
Corporate English and the semiotics of global (linguistic) success
Prof. Joan Bresnan, Stanford University:
Frequency effects in spoken syntax: 'Have' and 'be' contraction
Prof. David Britain, University of Berne:
Linguistic diffusion and the social heterogeneity of space and mobility
Prof. Susan M. Fitzmaurice, University of Sheffield:
When voices fall silent: Adapting literary and linguistic methods for the (re)construction of varieties of English
Dr. Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh:
Variation and Construction Grammar: The case of English hypocoristics