Research Presentations
The acquisition of discourse rules. University of Nairobi linguistic forum talk. 1978.
Surface phonotactic constraints in the Sam languages. University of Nairobi linguistic forum talk. 1980.
Experimental evidence concerning the acquisition of a Somali discourse rule. First International Congress of Somali Studies, Mogadishu, Somalia; July 1980.
A multi-dimensional framework for the analysis of the spoken and written modes. Western Conference on Linguistics, Eugene, Oregon; October 1983.
Unravelling the spoken/written contrast through discriminant analysis. NWAVE 12, Montreal, Canada; October 1983.
Towards a unified model of sociolinguistic prestige. NWAVE 12, Montreal, Canada; October 1983. (E. Finegan and DB).
A model of textual relations: resolving the contradictory findings on the spoken/written dichotomy. U.S.C., February 1984; University of Michigan, March 1984.
English nominal groups and their uses. Glendon College, April 1984. (Richard W. Bailey and DB).
A textual comparison of British and American writing. NWAVE 13, Philadelphia, October 1984.
A multi-dimensional model of linguistic complexity in English. NWAVE 13, Philadelphia, October 1984. (E. Finegan and DB).
Luddites, linguists, or the literati: Who speaks to style in the computer age? Invited paper, U.S.C., Division of Humanities, Life of the Mind Series, October 1984. (DB and E. Finegan).
Linguistic dimensions of style. U.C.L.A., April 1985. (E. Finegan and DB)
Adverbials as markers of stance: A multivariate analysis. Invited paper, Sixth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 6), Rostanga, Sweden, May 1985. (DB and E. Finegan).
Styles of stance: A cluster analysis of texts by adverbial use. NWAVE XIV, Washington, D.C., October 1985. (DB and E. Finegan)
Spoken and written textual dimensions. Northern Arizona University, February 1986.
An initial typology of English text types. NWAV XV, Stanford, October 1986. (DB and E. Finegan)
Discussant: Colloquium on Coherence, TESOL 1986 (March), Anaheim
Freshman student writing and the contrastive rhetoric hypothesis. SLRF 7, USC, February 1987. (B. Grabe and DB)
Dimensions of variation in speech and writing. Invited lecture, University of Uppsala, Sweden, May 1987.
Dimensions of variation in speech and writing. Invited lecture, University of Stockholm, Sweden, May 1987.
Three centuries of style in British and American prose. Invited paper, ICAME 8, Helsinki, Finland, May 1987. (DB and E. Finegan)
Genre relations in flux: A comparison of prose genres from the 18th to the 20th century. ALLC annual conference, Goethenburg, Sweden, June 1987. (E. Finegan and DB)
Drift in three English genres from the 18th to the 20th centuries. NWAV XVI, Austin, October 1987. (E. Finegan and DB)
Computational applications in linguistics. California State University at Fullerton, December 1987.
Historical drift in three English genres. Georgetown University Roundtable, March 1988 (DB and E. Finegan)
Neither speech versus writing nor orality versus literacy: Abandoning the garden path. 17th Annual University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, April 1988. (DB and E. Finegan)
Grammatical and rhetorical prescriptivism: Arbitrary or systematic? 17th Annual University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, April 1988. (E. Finegan and DB)
Problems in the automated grammatical analysis of 17th- century English texts. Invited paper, ICAME 9, Birmingham, England, May 1988. (DB and E. Finegan)
Variation in oral and written discourse. Invited paper, Summer TESOL Institute, Flagstaff, July 1988.
Oral and literate characteristics of primary school reading materials. Invited paper, American Educational Research Association Conference, San Francisco, March 1989.
Drift in three English genres: The historical evolution of essays, fiction, and letters from the 17th century to the present. Northern Arizona University, April 1989.
A corpus-based approach to genre variation in Somali. Fourth International Congress of Somali Studies, Mogadishu, Somalia, June 1989. (DB and M. Hared)
Linguistic differences among Somali written genres: Elaboration and integration of information in press commentaries, fiction, and personal letters. Fourth International Congress of Somali Studies, Mogadishu, Somalia, June 1989. (M. Hared and DB)
Drift and the evolution of English style. Invited lecture. University of Uppsala, Sweden, May 1990.
A cross-linguistic comparison of form/function correspondences in Somali and English. Invited lecture. University of Stockholm, Sweden, May 1990.
The historical evolution of four English written and speech-based genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries. International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Helsinki, Finland, May 1990. (DB and E. Finegan)
Practicing what you preach: A linguistic comparison of authors' prescripts and expository styles. International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Helsinki, Finland, May 1990. (E. Finegan and DB)
Multi-dimensional analyses of variation in English. Invited lecture. Arizona State University, October, 1990.
Multi-dimensional analyses of genre variation in English. Keynote Address. 14th Annual San Diego State University Linguistics Colloquium, February 1991.
Multi-dimensional analyses of author's style: Some case studies from the 18th century. Joint Conference of the Association of Computers in the Humanities and Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing, Phoenix, March 1991.
Using computer-based text corpora to analyze the referential strategies of spoken and written texts. Plenary lecture. Nobel Symposium on Corpus Linguistics, Stockholm, August 1991.
Synchronic and diachronic multi-dimensional analyses of genre variation in English. Invited lecture. University of Oslo, Norway. September 1991.
Dimensions of register variation in Somali: Synchronic and diachronic patterns. Invited lecture. University of New Mexico. October 1991.
Using text corpora for lexicographic research: Some examples from the distribution of adjectives marking 'certainty'. Invited lecture. First Workshop of the Consortium for Lexical Research, New Mexico State University. January 1992.
Representativeness in corpus design. Pisa Workshop on Textual Corpora. Plenary lecture. University of Pisa, Italy. January 1992.
Issues in corpus linguistics. Invited seminar. Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. February, 1992.
Referential strategies in speech and writing. Invited lecture. Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. February, 1992.
Capturing representations of speech in writing for a corpus of 18th-century English. Colloquium on Linguistics and the Literature of Early Modern England, NAU, April, 1992. (E. Finegan and DB)
Addressee-conditioned gender variation in 18th-century personal letters. Colloquium on Linguistics and the Literature of Early Modern England, NAU, April, 1992. (A. Beck and DB)
Linguistic correlates of the transition to literacy in Somali. Keynote Address. Linguistic Association of the Southwest Annual Meeting, October, 1992.
The Design and Analysis of the ARCHER Corpus: A Progress Report. Cambridge Colloquium on Historical English Language Corpora; Cambridge University; March 1993. (DB and E. Finegan)
Corpus-based approaches to issues in applied linguistics. Colloquium presentation; American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Atlanta, April 1993.
The ARCHER Corpus: Design and analysis. ICAME 93; Zurich, Switzerland; May 1993. (DB, E. Finegan, D. Atkinson, A. Beck, D. Burges, J. Burges)
Methodological issues in quantitative and corpus-based linguistics. Norwegian National PhD seminar, University of Bergen. May 1993.
The evolution of two registers in English: Legal and medical prose. International Conference on English Historical Linguistics XI, Los Angeles; August 1993. (E. Finegan and DB)
Register variation in elementary student speech, writing, and literature. Fifth Annual Winter Text Conference; January 1994. (R. Reppen and DB)
A multi-dimensional comparison of elementary student spoken and written registers. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Baltimore, March 1994. (R. Reppen and DB)
Investigating patterns of historical register variation in the ARCHER Corpus. Invited lecture. Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster, UK. May, 1994.
Design, methodology, and theoretical basis of the BG Corpus-Based Grammar Project. Invited lecture. LINGLEX, London, UK. May, 1994.
Corpus analysis for applied linguistics. Invited workshop. Computers in Applied Linguistics Conference. Iowa State University; July 1994.
Collocations with modal verbs: Register distribution and co-occurrence patterns within texts. Workshop on Large Scale Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Acquisition and Representation. Plenary lecture. University of Pisa, Italy; July 1994.
Cross-linguistic dimensions of register variation. Plenary lecture, Conference on discourse in the professions, University of Turku, Finland. August 1994
The evolution of professional written registers: A multi-dimensional analysis. Invited lecture. Department of Communication, University of Uppsala, Sweden. November, 1994.
Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation in three languages: English, Korean, and Somali. Invited lecture. Department of American and British Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. November, 1994.
Historical genre variation: A multi-dimensional approach. Invited lecture. Faculty of the Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway. November, 1994.
Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation in three languages: English, Korean, and Somali. Invited lecture. Computing Centre for the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway. November, 1994.
Investigating linguistic variability through corpus-based analyses of association patterns. Plenary lecture, Conference on usage-based models of language, Rice University. March 1995.
Diverging literacies in English: The evolution of specialist and non-specialist written registers. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Long Beach, March 1995. (DB and E Finegan)
Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation in three languages: English, Korean, and Somali. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Long Beach, March 1995.
Applying corpus-based research to ESL/EFL teaching. TESOL Annual Conference, Long Beach, March 1995. (DB, S Conrad, and R Reppen)
Register and social dialect variation: A reconsideration. Plenary lecture, Stanford workshop on style; February 1996. (E Finegan and DB)
Colloquium organizer: Corpus-based perspectives on discourse. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Chicago, March 1996.
Multi-dimensional perspectives on discourse variation. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Chicago, March 1996.
Colloquium organizer: Corpus linguistics and language teaching: Concordancing and beyond. TESOL Annual Conference, Chicago, March 1996.
Grammar and discourse across registers. TESOL Annual Conference, Chicago, March 1996.
Investigating language use through corpus-based ananlyses of association patterns. Invited plenary address, National PhD Seminar on English Language Studies, Vatnahalsen, Norway, October 1996.
Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation. Invited lecture, Center for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Arts and Science, Oslo, October 1996.
The use of factor analytic techniques in English language research. Invited lecture, University of Oslo, Norway, October 1996.
Lexical bundles: What the grammar books don't tell you. Invited lecture, University of Compiegne, France, October 1996.
Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation. Invited lecture, Department of Computational Linguistics, Ecole Normale Superieure Fontenay / Saint-Cloud, Paris, October 1996.
Lexical bundles: What the grammar books don't tell you. Invited plenary address, France TESOL Annual Conference, Paris, October 1996.
Colloquium organizer: Perspectives on spoken and written discourse. TESOL Annual Conference, Orlando, March 1997.
Lexical bundles: What the grammar books don't tell you. TESOL Annual Conference, Orlando, March 1997.
Can spoken English sweet-talk its way into the classroom? TESOL Annual Conference, Orlando, March 1997.
Lexical bundles in speech and writing. Invited lecture, Department of English, University of Uppsala, Sweden, May 1997.
Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation. Invited lecture, Department of English, University of Uppsala, Sweden, May 1997.
The Longman Grammar of Speech and Writing: Research goals, methods, and major findings. Longman Linglex Meeting, London, December 1997.
Pilot study to test the influence of linguistic variables on listening and reading test performance. Educational Testing Services Report, San Diego, January 1998. (DB and J Jamieson)
Variation and difference in writing and speech in the 18th century. Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, Flagstaff, February 1998.
Teaching actual language use in conversation and writing. TESOL Annual Conference, Seattle, March 1998.
Exploiting corpora for grammatical analysis: Variation in the form and use of English complement clauses. Invited plenary address, Colloque international: Questions de methode dans la linguistique sur corpus. Universite de Perpignan (France), May 1998. Also presented as an invited lecture, University of Uppsala (Sweden), May 1998.
Variation in the form and use of English complement clauses. ICAME 97, Belfast (N Ireland), May 1998.
Dimensions of variation among 18th century speech-based and written registers. Historical Corpora Workshop, Belfast (N Ireland), May 1998.
Synchronic and diachronic evidence concerning the linguistic correlates of literacy. Invited plenary address, International conference on speech, writing, and context, Centre for English Language Education, University of Nottingham (UK), July 1998.
Literacy and linguistic specialization. Invited plenary address, Society for Text and Discourse Annual Conference, Madison, July 1998.
Linguistic corpora: Whys and hows. Invited lecture, Conference on developing a linguistic textbank of philanthropic fund raising materials. IUPUI, Indianapolis, August 1998.
Subjectivity, scope, and the interaction of negation and modality in English. Panel discussion, LASSO, Phoenix, October 1998. (S Fitzmaurice, R Reppen, and DB)
Diverging literacies in English: The evolution of specialist and non-specialist written registers. Invited keynote address; Conference on Text, Variation, and Meaning (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association); University of Sydney (Australia); Dec 1998.
Cross-linguistic patterns of variation in three languages: English, Korean, and Somali. Invited keynote address; Conference on Text, Variation, and Meaning (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association); University of Sydney (Australia); Dec 1998.
Corpus-based approaches to grammatical variation. Invited workshop; Conference on Text, Variation, and Meaning (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association); University of Sydney (Australia); Dec 1998.
Grammatical marking of stance in speech and writing. Invited keynote address; Conference on Taking a stance: Appraisal systems in discourse; University of Sydney (Australia); Dec 1998.
Synchronic and diachronic evidence concerning the linguistic correlates of literacy. Invited lecture, University of Cologne, Germany; February 1999.
Literacy and linguistic specialization. Invited lecture, University of Bonn, Germany; February 1999.
Diverging literacies in English: The evolution of specialist and non-specialist written registers. Invited lecture, University of Freiburg, Germany; February 1999.
Historical shifts in the language of women and men: Gender differences in dramatic dialogue. Invited plenary lecture; Conference on The History of English as a History of Genres; Bochum, Germany; February 1999.
Colloquium organizer (with S. Conrad): New perspectives on grammar in TESOL. TESOL 99, New York, March 1999.
Explaining grammatical choice: The importance of lexical associations and register differences. Colloquium presentation, TESOL 99, New York, March 1999.
A register perspective on grammar and discourse: Variation in the form and use of English complement clauses. Invited lecture, University of Arizona, April 1999.
Computational tools for corpus-based analyses of grammar and discourse. Invited workshop, University of Arizona, April 1999.
Linguistic analysis of corpus data: Patterns in structure and function. Invited workshop, The First North American Symposium on Corpora in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University of Michigan, May 1999.
Prospects, challenges and trends for corpus linguistics in America. Panel discussant, The First North American Symposium on Corpora in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University of Michigan, May 1999.
The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Speech at the UK book launch. The British National Library, London, October 1999.
Verb Patterns in English: Intuition versus actual use. IATEFL-Poland annual conference, Katowice, Poland, November 1999.
Historical shifts in the language of women and men: Gender differences in dramatic dialogue. Invited lecture, University of Uppsala (Sweden), January 2000.
Using corpus-based analysis for investigations of grammatical variation. Invited lecture, University of Helsinki (Finland), February 2000.
Corpus-linguistics as a research approach in linguistics: methodological considerations and survey of current research findings. Invited lecture series, University of Helsinki (Finland), February 2000.
Historical shifts in the language of women and men: Gender differences in dramatic dialogue. Invited lecture, University of Turku (Finland), February 2000.
Corpus-based approaches to issues in applied linguistics. Invited colloquium, AAAL 2000, Vancouver, March 2000.
Corpus-based analyses of language use: Specifying the contexts of lexical and grammatical variants. AAAL 2000, Vancouver, March 2000.
Bringing authentic language into the classroom with The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. TESOL Annual Conference, Vancouver, March 2000.
Register variation within the academy: A multi-dimensional analysis. Second North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics. NAU, April 2000.
Grammatical marking of stance in speech and writing. Invited lecture, University of Freiburg, Germany; May 2000.
A register perspective on grammar and discourse: Variation in the form and use of English complement clauses. Invited lecture, University of Toulouse, June 2000.
Synchronic and diachronic evidence concerning the linguistic correlates of literacy. Invited lecture, Department of Computational Linguistics, Ecole Normale Superieure Fontenay / Saint-Cloud, Paris, June 2000.
Using corpus-based analysis for investigations of grammatical variation: The making of the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Invited lecture, University of Zurich, June 2000.
Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb? Invited plenary lecture; International Congress of English Historical Linguistics 11; Santiago de Compostela, Spain; September 2000.
A register perspective on grammar and discourse: Variation in the form and use of English complement clauses. Invited lecture, Seoul National University, Korea; October 2000.
Corpus linguistics and the study of sociolinguistic variation. Invited plenary lecture; Korean Association of Sociolinguistics; Seoul, Korea; October 2000.
Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. Invited plenary lecture; Japanese Association of English Corpus Studies; Tokyo; October 2000
Using corpora to investigate the lexical associations of related words. Invited lecture, Daito Bunka University, Tokyo; October 2000.
Using corpus-based analysis for investigations of grammatical variation: The making of the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Invited lecture, University of New Mexico (Computer Science Department), November 2000.
Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb? Invited lecture, University of New Mexico (Linguistics Department), November 2000.
Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. Invited lecture; University of Utah, January 2001.
Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. Invited lecture; Brigham Young University , January 2001.
Academic discourse: Corpus-based perspectives. Invited plenary address; AAAL 2001, St. Louis; February 2001.
What does frequency have to do with materials development? TESOL Annual Conference, St. Louis; February 2001.
Modal verbs in English: Quantitative patterns of use. TESOL Annual Conference, St. Louis; February 2001.
Language use in the university: A new multi-dimensional analysis. Invited plenary address; Third North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics. Boston; March 2001.
Economy vs. explicitness: The evolution of increasingly dense nominal styles in newspaper language. Invited plenary address; Conference on Language, the media, and international communication. University of Oxford, UK; March 2001.
Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb? Invited plenary address; Corpus Linguistics 2001. University of Lancaster, UK; March 2001.
Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. Invited lecture; University of Georgia, November 2001.
Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. Quentin Johnson Memorial Linguistics Lecture; Iowa State University, February 2002.
Variation among university spoken and written registers: A new multi-dimensional analysis. Invited lecture; Iowa State University, February 2002.
Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. Invited Keynote address; The 9th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, February 2002.
Historical shifts in the grammatical marking of stance: A cross-register comparison. Invited Plenary address, SHEL 2 Conference (Studies in the History of the English Language), University of Washington, March 2002.
Discourse units in spoken and written registers. Invited Plenary address, CamConf 2002: Corpora and Discourse, University of Camerino, Italy, September 2002.
Analyzing discourse units in speech and writing. Colloquium organized with Eniko Csomay, Conference of the American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics 2002; IUPUI, October 2002.
A corpus-based analysis of discourse units in spoken and written registers. with Eniko Csomay, James K. Jones, Casey Keck. Conference of the American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics 2002; IUPUI, October 2002
Take a look at¼: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Invited Plenary address, Conference on Discourse and Text, University of Murcia, Spain, March 2003.
Identifying and analyzing discourse units in speech and writing. Colloquium organized with Eniko Csomay, Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics 2003; Washington DC, March 2003.
A corpus-based analysis of discourse units in spoken and written registers. with Eniko Csomay, James K. Jones, Casey Keck. Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics 2003; Washington DC, March 2003.
Discourse unit types in conversation. with Eniko Csomay, James K. Jones, Casey Keck. Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics 2003; Washington DC, March 2003.
Take a look at¼: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Invited Plenary address, PALC 2003, University of Łódz, Poland, April 2003.
What does frequency have to do with grammar teaching. Invited lecture, British Council, Warsaw, Poland, April 2003.
(Some thoughts on) the future of corpus linguistics. Invited Plenary address, Conference on Directions for Corpus Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2003.
Historical shifts in the grammatical marking of stance: A cross-register comparison. Invited lecture. University of Hannover, Germany, November 2003.
Historical shifts in the grammatical marking of stance: A cross-register comparison. Invited lecture. Colloquium on Category Formation in Multilingual Data and Corpus Analysis. University of Hamburg, Germany, November 2003.
Linguistic consequences of the technology of literacy: A survey of multi-dimensional studies. Invited lecture. University of Hamburg, Germany, November 2003.
Take a look at¼: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Invited lecture. University of Uppsala, Sweden, November 2003.
Corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches to the study of English grammar. Invited lectures. JALT – Temple University Japan, Tokyo and Osaka, February 2004.
Take a look at¼: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Invited keynote lecture. Annual Conference of the SLAT Program, University of Arizona, February 2004.
Corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches to the study of English grammar. Invited lecture. Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 , France, March 2004.
Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. Invited lecture. University of Leuven, Belgium, March 2004.
Conversation text types: A multi-dimensional analysis. Invited keynote lecture. 7th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data. Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, March 2004.
Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. Invited keynote lecture. Annual Conference of the Linguistics and Languages Program. Brigham Young University; Provo, Utah, March 2004.
Take a look at¼: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Invited plenary address, Malaysia International Conference on English Language Teaching, Melaka, Malaysia, May 2004.
Take a look at¼: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Invited plenary address, Conference on Discourse in Context, Belfast, N. Ireland, June 2004.
Towards a typology of web registers: A multi-dimensional analysis. Invited lecture, Conference on Corpus Linguistics: Perspectives for the future. University of Heidelberg, Germany, October 2004.
Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. Invited workshop. LIA Conference. Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2005.
Corpus linguistics and language teaching. Invited plenary address. LIA Conference. Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2005.
Corpus linguistics and language teaching: The next nexus?. Invited plenary address. TESOL annual convention. San Antonio, Texas, March 2005.
How can corpus linguistics inform grammar teaching? Invited colloquium lecture. TESOL annual convention. San Antonio, Texas, March 2005.
Lexical bundles in university written registers and textbook disciplines. Invited colloquium lecture. TESOL annual convention. San Antonio, Texas, March 2005.
Corpus-based analyses of discourse: Registers, text types, and discourse units. Invited lecture, International Roundtable on Discourse Analysis. City University of Hong Kong, April 2005.
Register variation in Spanish: A multi-dimensional analysis. Co-presenters: Mark Davies, James K. Jones, Nicole Tracy. American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Michigan, May 2005.
Corpus linguistics and language teaching. Invited 'Featured Speaker' Lecture. Summer ESL Workshop, University of California, Berkeley. August 2005.
Teaching English Grammar or English Grammars? Comparing Spoken and Written Registers for English Instruction. Invited keynote address. First National English Grammar Conference, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE), Santiago, Chile. August 2006.
How will corpus linguistics change the way we teach English grammar? Invited plenary address. First National English Grammar Conference, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE), Santiago, Chile. August 2006.
The role of grammar in teaching ESL. Invited workshop. Universidad de La Serena. August, 2006.
How will corpus linguistics change the way we teach English grammar? Invited lecture. Universidad de La Serena (Chile). August, 2006.
Current trends in English grammar: Teaching and research. Invited workshop. Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE), Santiago, Chile. August 2006.
How will corpus linguistics change the way we teach English grammar? Invited lecture. Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaiso, Chile. August, 2006.
Register variation in Spanish: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis. Invited lecture. University of Tübingen, Germany. November, 2006.
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited lecture. University of Zurich, Switzerland. November, 2006.
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited plenary lecture. 4th Tage der Schweizer Linguistik Conference (University of Basel), Switzerland. November, 2006.
Historical patterns for the grammatical marking of stance: A cross-register comparison. Invited lecture. Otto-Friedrich University (Bamberg), Germany. November, 2006.
Historical patterns for the grammatical marking of stance: A cross-register comparison. Invited lecture. University of Helsinki, Finland. December, 2006.
How will corpus linguistics change the way we teach English grammar? Invited plenary lecture. 5th International Conference on Applied Linguistics, Tongji University, Taipei, Taiwan. March 2007.
Lexical bundles in university spoken and written registers. Annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA. April 2007. (with Federica Barbieri)
Stance in spoken and written university registers. Invited lecture. Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. May 2007.
How will corpus linguistics change the way we teach English grammar? Invited lecture. Tongji University, Shanghai, China. May 2007.
Lexical bundles in university spoken and written registers. Invited lecture. Henan Normal University, China. May 2007.
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited lecture. Henan Normal University, China. May 2007.
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited lecture. Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. May 2007.
Lexical bundles in university spoken and written registers. Invited lecture. University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China. May 2007.
Teaching English Grammar or English Grammars? Contrasting the grammar of spoken and written university registers. University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. May 2007.
Stance in spoken and written university registers. Invited Keynote Address. 5th International Conference on ELT in China, Beijing. May 2007.
Research designs for corpus-based studies. Invited workshop, University of Sheffield, England. June 2007.
Describing linguistic patterns of variation: Intuitions versus corpus-based findings. Invited lecture, University of Sheffield, England. June 2007.
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited plenary lecture. International Pragmatics Association Annual Conference, Göteborg, Sweden. July 2007.
Teaching English Grammar or English Grammars? Contrasting the grammar of spoken and written registers. Invited Workshop. Carolina TESOL, Asheville, NC. November 2007.
A corpus-driven approach to comparative phraseology: Lexical bundles in English, Spanish, and Korean. Invited lecture: The 17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, UCLA, November 2007.
Are there linguistic consequences of literacy? Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing. Invited lecture. University of Rome III, Italy. November 2007.
Corpus linguistics and language teaching: Intuitions versus corpus-based findings. Invited plenary address. TESOL Italy 32nd National Convention, Rome. December 2007.
Teaching English Grammar or English Grammars? Contrasting the grammar of spoken and written registers. Invited Workshop. TESOL Italy 32nd National Convention, Rome. December 2007.
The expression of stance in medical registers of the Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1712:
Research goals, procedures, and methodological issues. Invited lecture. University of Helsinki, Finland. December 2007.
Are there linguistic consequences of literacy? Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing. Invited lecture. University of Helsinki, Finland. December 2007.
Register variation in the university: A multi-dimensional analysis. Invited lecture. University of Uppsala, Sweden. December 2007.
A corpus-driven approach to comparative phraseology: Lexical bundles in English, Spanish, and Korean. Invited lecture. University of Uppsala, Sweden. December 2007.
Describing linguistic patterns of variation: Intuitions versus corpus-based findings. Invited lecture. University of California, Davis. February 2008.
Research designs for corpus-based studies. Invited workshop, University of California, Davis. February 2008.
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited lecture. University of California, Davis. February 2008.
Are there linguistic consequences of literacy? Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing. Invited lecture. Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh. February 2008.
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited plenary lecture. AACL 2008 (American Association for Corpus Linguistics), Brigham Young University, Utah. March 2008.
Describing linguistic patterns of variation: Intuitions versus corpus-based findings. Invited lecture. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. April 2008.
Are there linguistic consequences of literacy? Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing. Invited lecture. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. April 2008.
Research designs for corpus-based studies. Invited workshop, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. April 2008.
Are there linguistic consequences of literacy? Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing. Invited plenary lecture. ICAME 2008, Ascona, Switzerland. May 2008.
Are there linguistic consequences of literacy? Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing. Invited keynote lecture. 3rd International LABLITA Workshop in Corpus Linguistics. University of Florence, Italy. June 2008.
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited lecture. 3rd International LABLITA Workshop in Corpus Linguistics. University of Florence, Italy. June 2008.
Critical issues in the analysis of stance and keywords: Concluding discussion. Invited talk. Workshop on Persuasion, Stance and Keywords. Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy. June 2008.
Using corpus-based analysis to study fictional style: A multi-dimensional analysis of variation among and within novels. Invited plenary lecture. International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature. University of Memphis. July 2008.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Invited plenary lecture. 7th Annual International AELFE Conference. University of Murcia, Spain. September 2008.
Teaching genres or teaching the language of the professions? What corpus-based descriptions of language use can tell us. Invited plenary lecture. 7th Annual International AELFE Conference. University of Murcia, Spain. September 2008.
Frequency-based approaches to formulaic language in English: Extending the construct of lexical bundle. Invited plenary lecture. Anglistentag 2008 (German Society for the Study of English), University of Tübingen, Germany. October 2008.
A multi-dimensional analysis of variation among novels. Conference lecture, ISLE first annual conference. University of Freiburg, Germany. October 2008.
Corpus linguistics and language teaching: Intuitions versus corpus-based findings. Invited plenary lecture. VIII Semana de Eventos da Faculdade de Letras da UFMG. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. October 2008.
Research designs for corpus-based studies. Invited workshop: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. October 2008.
A corpus-driven approach to comparative phraseology: Lexical bundles in English, Spanish, and Korean. Invited lecture: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. October 2008.
Quantitative methods in corpus linguistics. Invited plenary lecture. 5. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik Conference. Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Winterthur, Switzerland. November 2008.
Corpus linguistics and language teaching: Intuitions versus corpus-based findings. Invited lecture. Universitat Jaume 1, Castellon, Spain. December 2008.
Frequency-based approaches to formulaic language in English: Extending the construct of lexical bundle. Invited lecture. King’s College London. December 2008.
Grammatical complexity in speech vs. writing. Invited seminar. Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany. December 2008.
The historical shift of formal expository writing in English towards less elaborated (and less explicit) styles of expression: Grammar emerging in writing. FRIAS Research Fellowship Lecture. Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany. December 2008.
Frequency-based approaches to formulaic language in English: Extending the construct of lexical bundle. Invited lecture. University of Debrecen, Hungary. January 2009.
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited lecture. Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest. January 2009.
Register variation in the university: A multi-dimensional analysis. Invited lecture. HUSSE 9 (Hungarian Society for the Study of English), Pecs, Hungary. January 2009.
Are there linguistic consequences of literacy? Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing. Invited plenary address. HUSSE 9 (Hungarian Society for the Study of English), Pecs, Hungary. January 2009.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Invited plenary lecture. 8th Annual SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable, University of Arizona, Tucson. March 2009.
Speech and writing: Are there real differences. Ian Gordon Fellowship Lecture. Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. April 2009.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Invited lecture. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. May 2009.
Using corpus-based analysis to study fictional style: A multi-dimensional analysis of variation among and within novels. CL 2009, University of Liverpool, England. July 2009.
A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English: Multi-word patterns in speech and writing. Invited keynote address, CL 2009, University of Liverpool, England. July 2009.
Is conversation more grammatically complex than academic writing? Invited plenary address. Third International Conference on Grammar & Corpora, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany. September 2009.
Grammar emerging in the noun phrase: The influence of written language use. Invited plenary address. First International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English, University of Vigo, Spain. October 2009.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Invited lecture. Penn State University. October 2009.
Multi-word patterns in speech and writing. NAU, GSAAL Lecture. October 2009.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Symposium on Second Language Writing. Arizona State University. November 2009.
Corpus linguistics and language teaching: Intuitions versus corpus-based findings. Invited plenary lecture. The Eighteenth International Symposium on English Teaching. ETA-ROC, Taipei, Taiwan. November 2009.
Preparing corpus-based grammar materials: Theory and practice. Invited workshop. The Eighteenth International Symposium on English Teaching. ETA-ROC, Taipei, Taiwan. November 2009.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Invited lecture. National Ilan University, Taiwan. November 2009.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Invited e-lecture. University of Hawaii. November 2009.
Using corpus analysis to describe language use. Invited lectures, Tokyo, Japan, December 2009:
Daito Bunka University
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Tokyo International University
Register variation in the university: A multi-dimensional analysis. Invited lecture. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. December 2009.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Invited lecture. Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. December 2009.
Corpus Linguistics and its application to TEFL/TESL. Invited lecture. Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan. December 2009.
Preparing corpus-based grammar materials: Theory and practice. TESOL Conference, Boston, March 2010
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited plenary lecture. 24th International Symposium of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society, Osijek, Croatia. May 2010.
A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English: Multi-word patterns in speech and writing. Invited lecture. University of Osijek, Croatia. May 2010
Corpus linguistics and language teaching: Intuitions versus corpus-based findings. Invited lecture. University of Zadar, Croatia. May 2010.
Preparing corpus-based grammar materials: Theory and practice. Invited lecture. University of Zadar, Croatia. May 2010.
Corpus linguistics and language teaching: Intuitions versus corpus-based findings. Invited lecture. University of Split, Croatia. May 2010.
Preparing corpus-based grammar materials: Theory and practice. Invited lecture. University of Split, Croatia. May 2010.
Corpus linguistics and language teaching: Intuitions versus corpus-based findings. Invited lecture. Brazilian Binational Centre, São Paulo, Brazil. October 2010.
Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Invited lecture. Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. October 2010.
Stance in spoken and written university registers. Invited lecture. Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. October 2010.
Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Methods and interpretation of findings. Invited workshop (2 days). Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil. October 2010.
A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English: Multi-word patterns in speech and writing. Invited keynote address, ELC 2010, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. October 2010.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Invited plenary lecture, ELC 2010, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. October 2010.
Using multi-dimensional analysis to investigate cross-linguistic patterns of register variation. Invited lecture, Workshop on Cross-linguistic and Language-internal Variation in Text and Speech. Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany. February, 2011.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Invited lecture, University of Mainz, Germany. February, 2011.
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Invited keynote lecture, 34th Annual Linguistics Spring Colloquium, San Diego State University. April, 2011.
Being specific about historical change: The influence of subregister. Invited plenary lecture, ICAME 2011, Oslo, Norway. June 2011.
Corpus-based analyses of registers, genres, and styles. Invited workshop (full day), Conference on Stylistics across Disciplines. University of Leiden, Netherlands. June 2011.
Being specific about historical change: The influence of subregister. Invited plenary lecture, Conference on Stylistics across Disciplines. University of Leiden, Netherlands. June 2011.
Being specific about historical change: The influence of subregister. American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference. Georgia State University, Atlanta. October 2011.
Preparing corpus-based grammar materials: Theory and practice. Invited plenary lecture, Tri-TESOL Conference, Seattle. October 2011.
Preparing corpus-based grammar materials: Theory and practice. Invited plenary lecture, CO-TESOL Conference, Denver. November 2011.
The technology of corpus-based grammar books: What goes in? What comes out? Invited keynote address, Amazing Minds 2012, Seattle. February 2012.
Is there a prosody of stance? Invited plenary lecture, GSCP 2012 (Speech and Corpora), Belo Horizonte, Brazil. March 2012.
The ubiquitous ‘oral’ versus ‘literate’ dimension: A survey of multi-dimensional studies. Invited plenary lecture, GURT 2012, Georgetown University. March 2012.
Register variation in the university: A multi-dimensional analysis. Invited lecture. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. October 2012.
Lexical bundles in university spoken and written registers. Invited lecture. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. October 2012.
The technology of corpus-based grammar books: What goes in? What comes out? Invited plenary address, The 5th International Symposium on SLA in China, Wuhan, China. October 2012.
Register as a predictor of linguistic variation: A comparison of quantitative research designs. Invited lecture, University of Tampere, Finland. November 2012.
Grammar emerging in the noun phrase: The influence of written language use. Invited lecture, University of Tampere, Finland. November 2012.
The ubiquitous ‘oral’ versus ‘literate’ dimension: A survey of multi-dimensional studies. Invited lecture, University of Tampere, Finland. November 2012.
Complexity in L1 and L2 English student writing: The development of phrasal discourse styles. Invited lecture, University of Tampere, Finland. November 2012.
Corpus-based analyses of registers, genres, and styles. Invited lecture, University of Tampere, Finland. November 2012.
Register as a predictor of linguistic variation: A comparison of quantitative research designs. Invited lecture, University of Helsinki, Finland. November 2012.
Using multi-dimensional analysis to investigate cross-linguistic patterns of register variation. Invited plenary lecture, Conference on Genre- and Register-Related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora; Linguistic Society of Belgium; Institut libre Marie Haps, Brussels, Belgium. January 2013.
A corpus-based analysis of writing and speaking task types on the TOEFL iBT. (DB and Bethany Gray). American Association of Corpus Linguistics Annual Conference. San Diego State University. January 2013.
A multi-dimensional analysis of writing and speaking task types on the TOEFL iBT. (DB and Bethany Gray). American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference. Dallas, Texas. March 2013.
Being specific about historical change: The influence of subregister. Invited plenary lecture, Register II Colloquium. Finnish Literature Society, University of Helsinki. May 2013.
Register as a predictor of linguistic variation. Invited plenary lecture, Register Revisited Conference. University of Vechta, Germany. June 2013.
Grammar emerging in the noun phrase: The influence of written language use. Invited lecture, University of Mainz, Germany. July 2013.
Developing a User-based Method of Web Register Classification. (Jesse Egbert and DB) The 8th Web as Corpus (WAC) Workshop. University of Lancaster, England. July 2013.
Grammar emerging in the noun phrase: The influence of written language use. Invited lecture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. September 2013.
Using multi-dimensional analysis to investigate cross-linguistic patterns of register variation. Invited plenary lecture, Free Linguistics Conference, Hong Kong. September 2013.
Are there linguistic consequences of literacy? Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing. Invited lecture. University of Hong Kong. March 2014.
A user-based taxonomy of web registers: Investigating the composition of the web through corpus analysis. Invited plenary lecture. Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, Hong Kong. March 2014.
Register as a predictor of linguistic variation: A comparison of quantitative research designs. Invited lecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing. March 2014.
Complexity in L1 and L2 English student writing: The development of phrasal discourse styles. Invited lecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing. March 2014.
Predicting patterns of grammatical complexity across textual task types and exam score levels. Invited plenary lecture. LTRC 2014 (Language Testing Research Colloquium), Amsterdam. June 2014.
Simple versus derived adverbs in English: A register perspective. Invited plenary lecture. Conference on the Interfaces of Adjective and Adverb in Romance and English, University of Graz, Austria. June 2014.
Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Methods and interpretation of findings. Invited workshop (2 days). Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil. November 2014.
A user-based taxonomy of web registers: Investigating the composition of the web through corpus analysis. Invited lecture. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil. November 2014.
Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Methods and interpretation of findings. Invited workshop. University of Lancaster, England. July 2015.
When an uptight register lets its hair down: The historical development of grammatical complexity features in specialist academic writing. Invited plenary lecture. Corpus Linguistics 2015, University of Lancaster, England. July 2015.
Methods of characterizing discontinuous lexical frames: Quantitative measurements of predictability and variability. (B. Gray; DB; J. Geluso). Corpus Linguistics 2015, University of Lancaster, England. July 2015.
MDA perspectives on Discipline and Level in the BAWE corpus. (S. Gardner; DB; H. Nesi) Corpus Linguistics 2015, University of Lancaster, England. July 2015.
A linguistic taxonomy of registers on the searchable web: Distribution, linguistic descriptions, and automatic register identification. (DB; J. Egbert; M. Davies) Corpus Linguistics 2015, University of Lancaster, England. July 2015.
On the (non)utility of Juilland’s D for corpus-based vocabulary lists. (DB; R.Reppen; E. Schnur; R. Ghanem) Corpus Linguistics 2015, University of Lancaster, England. July 2015.
Using corpora in the classroom: Vocabulary, grammar, lexico-grammar, and register. (R. Reppen and DB) Invited Symposium. TESL Canada, Lake Louise, Canada. Oct. 2015.
Complexity in L1 and L2 English student writing: The development of phrasal discourse styles. Invited Keynote Lecture. TESL Canada, Lake Louise, Canada. Oct. 2015.
Corpus Linguistics: An overview of methods, research finding and applications. (DB and R. Reppen) Invited Workshop. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. Oct. 2015.
When an uptight register lets its hair down: The historical development of grammatical complexity features in specialist academic writing. Invited lecture. University of Helsinki, Finland. November 2015.
Corpus Linguistics: An overview of methods, research finding and applications. (DB and R. Reppen) Invited Workshop. University of Arizona. November 2015.
Register variation as a mediating factor for linguistic processing. Invited Plenary Lecture. 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Florida. March 2016.
Complexity in academic writing: The development of phrasal discourse styles. Invited Keynote Lecture. Language in Focus 2016. Istanbul, Turkey. March 2016.
Register and dialect variation on the searchable web: A multi-dimensional analysis. (DB and Jesse Egbert). Invited Plenary Address. ICAME 2016, Hong Kong, May 2016.
Register and dialect variation on the searchable web: A multi-dimensional analysis. (DB and Jesse Egbert). Invited Plenary Address. Korean Association of Corpus Linguistics, Pusan, Korea, August 2016.
Genitive variation in English: Expanding the domain of inquiry to include non-interchangeable variants. (Erin Schnur, Romy Ghanem, and DB). American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference. Iowa State University. September 2016.
How to express evaluation without stance: Informational Persuasion on the Web. (DB and Meixiu Zhang). American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference. Iowa State University. September 2016.
Exploring register differences across TOEFL iBT and disciplinary writing tasks. (Shelley Staples, DB, and Randi Reppen). American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference. Iowa State University. September 2016.
Register variation on the searchable web: A multi-dimensional analysis. (DB and Jesse Egbert). American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference. Iowa State University. September 2016.
Do all roads lead to Rome? Modeling register variation with factor analysis and discriminant analysis. (Jesse Egbert and DB). American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference. Iowa State University. September 2016.
Empirical corpus linguistics: The state of the field. (Jesse Egbert, Bethany Gray, DB). American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference. Iowa State University. September 2016.
Introduction to multi-dimensional analysis: Concepts, research findings, methodological decisions. Invited Workshop. 4th International Workshop on Discourse Analysis. University of Santiago de Compostela. September 2016.
How to express evaluation without stance: Informational Persuasion on the Web. Invited Plenary Lecture. 4th International Workshop on Discourse Analysis. University of Santiago de Compostela. September 2016.
Complexity in academic writing: The development of phrasal discourse styles. Invited Keynote Lecture. 2nd LITU-CULI Conference. Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. October, 2016.
Introduction to multi-dimensional analysis: Concepts, research findings, universal patterns of variation. Invited Lectenure. Aston University, England. February 2017.
Corpus Linguistics: An overview of methods, research findings and applications. Invited Workshop. Aston University, England. February 2017.
When an uptight register lets its hair down: The historical development of grammatical complexity features in specialist academic writing. Invited lecture. Aston University, England. February 2017.
Are law reports an ‘agile’ or an ‘uptight’ register? Historical change in the use of phrasal complexity features. ICAME 38. Prague. May 2017.
Introduction to multi-dimensional analysis: Concepts, research findings, universal patterns of variation. Invited Workshop. University of Texas, Austin. March 2018.
When an uptight register lets its hair down: The historical development of grammatical complexity features in specialist academic writing. Invited lecture. University of Texas, Austin. March 2018.
Incorporating text dispersion into keyword analyses. (Jesse Egbert and DB). AACL 2018; Georgia State University; September 2018.
Reconceptualizing register as a continuous construct. (DB, Jesse Egbert, Daniel Keller). AACL 2018; Georgia State University; September 2018.
Using multi-dimensional analysis to investigate cross-linguistic patterns of register variation. Invited plenary lecture, SlaviCorp 2018, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. September 2018.
Corpus-based analyses of registers and register variation. Invited lecture series, International Autumn School (Variation in Language Corpora), Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany. October 2018.
Using corpus-based analysis to study fictional style: A multi-dimensional analysis of variation among and within novels. Invited plenary lecture, Digital Stylistics 2019. University of Wurzburg, Germany. February 2019.
Complexity in academic writing: The development of phrasal discourse styles. Invited plenary lecture, 3rd Annual Purdue Linguistics Conference. Purdue University, March 2019.
Using multi-dimensional analysis to study contrastive register variation. Invited plenary lecture, WITTA 2019, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, China. May 2019.
May 2019 = ICAME Neuchatel Switzerland
Registers and register variation. Invited lecture series, RUEG-Summer School, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany. August 2019.
Challenging Stereotypes about Academic Writing: Structurally elaborated and explicit in meaning? November 2019. Castellon Spain.
Brussels March 2020 – workshop on methods for historical linguistics
May 2020 – ICAME plenary
Greece plenary – October 2020
Stockholm plenary – January 2021
U of Uppsala talk – March 2021
2021 KASELL Spring Conference on English Linguistics, Seoul Korea – plenary - June 2021
U of Helsinki talk – Dec 2021
France conference on genre and register – plenary - June 2022
AACL Sept 2022 - Two papers on complexity
LCR Padua, Italy; Oct 2022 – Three papers on complexity, longitudinal development, etc.
Hong Kong conference – Dec 2022. Complexity.
Comparing conceptualizations of (non)canonical structures in English: Exploring the implications for studies of linguistic variation. Oxford. March 2023.
On the complexity of grammatical complexity -- And why we should not be surprised by it…Lancaster. July 2023