The Survey of English Usage
Quarterly Newsletter
June 2013
This newsletter is part of a series of quarterly newsletters from the Survey of English Usage, intended to keep the academic community and other interested parties informed about research in the Survey. The newsletter will be sent out in March, June, September and December. The March issue is the Survey’s Annual report.
Research
App development
The project Mobile Device Apps: A New Channel for UCL Knowledge Transfer Activities is described on the UCL Business website as a case study.
We are also developing a suite of additional Apps on spelling, punctuation, and academic writing.
Reminder: blog for corpus linguistics statistics launched
A new blog, called corp.ling.stats, has been published by our senior research fellow Sean Wallis. Sean says that the idea of the blog is to provide guidance to corpus researchers on using statistics effectively and appropriately, and to encourage a broader debate in corpus linguistics about the kinds of research that may be possible with corpora. For more information go to http://corplingstats.wordpress.com.
Survey seminars during the spring term
27 February 2013, Professor Sylvia Adamson, From ‘your very very Rosalind’ to 'my very very sweet queen': a case-study in the socio-stylistics of grammaticalisation.
13 March 2013, Professor Tania Kuteva, Evolution of grammar, complexity, and creoles: a study of relative clauses.
Bas Aarts
Director
June 2013
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