Events
SEU’s fiftieth birthday celebrations: 14 July 2009
To mark the 50th birthday of the Survey Bas Aarts, Jo Close and
Geoffrey Leech organised a symposium entitled 'Current Change in
the English Verb Phrase'. This symposium preceded the Third International
Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, which
the Survey organised at the Institute of English Studies, Senate
House, with colleagues at Queen Mary, University of London.
The programme of the symposium was as follows:
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
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Registration |
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| 9:30 - 9:45 |
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Bas Aarts, Jo Close, and Geoffrey Leech: Welcome and introduction |
| 9:45 - 10:15 |
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Bas Aarts, Jo Close, and Sean Wallis: Choices over
time: methodological issues in current change |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
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Christopher Williams: Changes in the verb phrase
in legal English |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
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Alexander Bergs and Meike Pfaff: I was just reading
this article: Is the present perfect of recent past on its way
out? |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 |
Coffee break |
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| 11:45 - 12:15 |
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Manfred Krug: Recent change and grammaticalization
in constructions marking intention |
| 12:15 - 12:45 |
Magnus Levin: Progressives changing in time |
| 12:45 - 1:15 |
Stig Johansson: Must and have to in Time
magazine 1923-2006 |
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| 1:15 - 2:15 |
Lunch |
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| 2:15 - 2:45 |
José Ramón Varela Pérez: Negative and operator contraction
with present tense be: A study of change in progress
in spoken British English |
| 2:45 - 3:15 |
Marcus Callies: The spread of bare infinitival complements
in present-day English |
| 3:15 - 3:45 |
David Denison: A new class of verbs taking that-clause
complements |
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| 3:45 - 4:15 |
Coffee break |
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| 4:15 - 4:45 |
Geoffrey Leech and Nicholas Smith: Verb constructions
over fifty+ years of written English |
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| 4:45 - 5:45 |
Round table/panel discussion, chaired by Geoffrey Leech |
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| 5:45 - 6:30 |
David Crystal: Surviving Surveying (keynote lecture) |
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| 6:30 - 8:30 |
Reception (Hosted by the Department of English, UCL and Oxford
University Press) |
New book published
A book, The
Verb Phrase in English, including many papers from the Symposium
and contributions from other eminent linguists, is published by
Cambridge University Press. More...
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