Plenaries
- Blommaert, Jan: Corporate English and the semiotics of global (linguistic) success
- Bresnan, Joan W.: Frequency effects in spoken syntax: `have' and `be' contraction
- Britain, David: Linguistic diffusion and the social heterogeneity of space and mobility
- Fitzmaurice, Susan M: When voices fall silent: Adapting literary and linguistic methods for the (re)construction of varieties of English
- Mair, Christian: The "English Language Complex", English Language Studies, and the Linguistics of English: the Terrain, the Landscape, and the Map
- Trousdale, Graeme Murray: Variation and Construction Grammar: the case of English hypocoristics