presentations

past presentations

guest lectures and invited talks

Franco, Karlien. 2025. Plat, platter platst? Lexicale variatie in de Limburgse dialecten. Invited talk at Bilisium: Heemkundige kring Bilzen, Bilzen, 3 February 2025.

Franco, Karlien. 2024. The lexicon of Limburg today: results from a large-scale survey and Limburgish tweets. Invited talk presented at the workshop Limburg as a linguistic laboratory. The impact of territorial reorganization and coalmining on language variation and grammar, Linguistics @ Meertens, Genk, 26-27 September 2024.

Franco, Karlien. 2024. Lexical variation and change in Dutch: A computational analysis of two near-synonyms over time. Invited talk at the Language in 4D research group, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen/online, 14 May 2024.

Franco, Karlien. 2024. Lexicologie: de structuur achter de Nederlandse woordenschat. Guest lecture at UAntwerpen, Antwerp, 5 March 2024.

Franco, Karlien. 2023. Perspectieven op de toekomst van de streektalen van het Nederlands. Invited talk at the Marnixring Overijse De Vrijheit, Overijse, 20 December 2023.

Franco, Karlien. 2022. Lexical variation and change in Dutch: A quantitative onomasiological perspective. Corpus-based and computational approaches to linguistic variation. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, April 26-27, 2022.

Mariana Montes & Karlien Franco. 2021. Nephological semantics: Using token based vector space models for large scale analyses of lexical variation and change. II Jornadas de Lingüística y Gramática Española. Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina/online, 1 October 2021. [ youtube ]

Franco, Karlien. 2019. Variation in lexical diversity within one language: Semantic and sociolinguistic factors. Mapping Language Variation and Change workshop. DAAD–University of Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies Research network, Cambridge UK, 19 March 2019.

Franco, Karlien. 2017. Waarom kunnen we boerenkool ook groenkool, boerenmoes of winterkool noemen, maar kennen we slechts één woord voor een tomaat? De invloed van conceptkenmerken op lexicale dialectvariatie in het Woordenboek van de Limburgse dialecten. Lanaken, een lappendeken in taal en geschiedenis. 43th conference of the Society for Limburgish dialectology and onomastics. Lanaken, 25 November 2017. 

Franco Karlien. 2017. Explaining lexical diversity in dialect data. The influence of concept features. Diversity in Language, Culture & Cognition Colloquium series. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 9 November 2017.

Franco, Karlien. 2016. Lexicale diversiteit en geografische heterogeniteit in de Limburgse dialecten. De dynamiek van het Limburgs. Wetenschappelijke schakeringen en fundamenten. Maastricht, The Netherlands, 14 December 2016.

Franco, Karlien & Laura Rosseel. 2016. #dialect: de perceptie van taalvariëteiten op Twitter. Streektaalconferentie 2016: Taalvariatie in sociale media. Middelburg, The Netherlands, 7 October 2016.

Franco, Karlien. 2014. Concept features and lexical dialectometry. Guest lecture at the Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology (now Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities), Vienna, 22 September 2014.

presentations at scientific conferences

Franco, Karlien. 2024. Variation in lexical diversity in the lexicon of Limburg today: Results from a large-scale survey. Paper presented at CogLing Days 2024, UAntwerpen, Antwerpen, 12-13 December 2024.

Franco, Karlien & Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2024. It WAS socialized and then it GOT grammaticalized: Variation and change in the English passive. Paper presented at ICLaVE-12, Universität Wien & ÖAW, Vienna, Austria, 8-11 July 2024.

Franco, Karlien & Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2023. Getting socialized: Variation and change in the passive in Canada. Paper presented at NWAV51, Queens College, New York, NY, USA, 13-15 October 2023.

Franco, Karlien. 2023. Explaining the speed of lexical change in historical Dutch. Paper presented at the The 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL-26), Heidelberg, Germany, 4-8 September 2023.

Franco, Karlien & Dirk Geeraerts. 2023. Explaining the speed of lexical change in historical Dutch. Paper presented at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-16), Düsseldorf, Germany, 7-11 August 2023.

Franco, Karlien. 2023. My tweet is cooler than yours 😎 The effect of language variation in professional communication on Belgian Dutch Twitter. Presented at the Sociolinguistics Circle, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 31 March 2023.

Vancauwenbergh, Margot & Karlien Franco. 2022. Women, Blood and Dangerous Things: The Conceptualization of Menstruation. Presented at the CogLing Days, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. December 8-9, 2022.

Franco, Karlien, Kris Heylen & Mariana Montes. 2022. Diachronic destruction: A computational analysis of two near-synonyms in historical Dutch. Presented at the CogLing Days, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. December 8-9, 2022.

Franco, Karlien, Kris Heylen & Mariana Montes. 2022. Deconstructing destruction: A Cognitive Linguistics perspective on a computational analysis of diachronic change. LChange'22 workshop at ACL-60. Dublin, Ireland, May 26-27, 2022.  

Huisman, John, Karlien Franco & Roeland van Hout. 2022. Using geographic regression to analyse linguistic diversity: The interplay of language-internal and -external factors. ICLaVE-11, Vienna, Austria, April 11-14, 2022. [scheduled for 2021, postponed to 2022 and held online due to COVID-19]

Huisman, John, Karlien Franco & Roeland Van Hout. 2021. Dialect maps with meaning. Explaining semantic patterns of variation with dialectometric geo-analyses. Taal & Tongval colloquium 2021. Online, 26 November 2021. 

Franco, Karlien & Dirk Geeraerts. 2021. What makes the clock tick? The effect of concept characteristics and sociocultural variation on lexical replacement rates. Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 54). Online, 31 August - 3 September 2021.

Pijpops, Dirk & Karlien Franco. 2021. Introduction to the workshop ‘What counts as an alternation in usage-based construction grammar?’ International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-11), Antwerp, Belgium, August 18-20, 2021. 

Franco, Karlien & Dirk Geeraerts. 2021. What makes the clock tick? The effect of concept characteristics and sociocultural variation on lexical replacement rates. NARNiHS Research Incubator 2021 (at KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference). Lexington, Kentucky, US, 22-24 April 2021. [online due to COVID-19]

Franco, Karlien & Dirk Geeraerts. 2020. Does grammar boost virility? Grammatical and semantic explanations for nominal gender ratings. UK Cognitive Linguistics Congerence (UK-CLC 2020), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 28-30 July 2020. [digital presentation due to COVID-19]

Franco, Karlien & Dirk Geeraerts. 2020. Concept characteristics and lexical variation in dialectological data. Empirical Studies of Word Sense Divergences across Language Varieties, workshop at DGfS-42, Hamburg, Germany, March 4-6, 2020.

Franco, Karlien & Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2020. Lexicalization in grammatical change? The simple past/present perfect alternation in Canadian English. 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, US, January 2-5, 2020.

Franco, Karlien & Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2020. How to gain a new guy in 10 decades: A study of lexical variation in Ontario dialects. American Dialect Society Annual Meeting (ADS). New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. January 2-5, 2020.

 Franco, Karlien & Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2019. How to gain a new guy in 10 decades: A study of lexical variation in Ontario dialects. Urban and Rural Language Research: Variation, Identity and Innovation. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. November 8-10, 2019.

Franco, Karlien & Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2019. Lexicalization in grammatical change? The simple past/present perfect alternation in Canadian English. Urban and Rural Language Research: Variation, Identity and Innovation. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. November 8-10, 2019.

Franco, Karlien & Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2019. What’s going on here anyway(s)? A sociolinguistic perspective on specialization. NWAV-48, Eugene, Oregon, US, October 10-12, 2019.

Piersoul, Jozefien, Karlien Franco & Freek Van de Velde. 2019. The quantitative fingerprint of exaptation. SLE 2019, Leipzig University, Germany, 21-24 August 2019.

Franco, Karlien & Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2019. 'Interesting fellow' or 'tough old bird'? Third person singular male pronouns in Ontario. CVC 11, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 14-15 June 2019.

Franco, Karlien, John Huisman & Roeland van Hout. 2019. Dialect maps with meaning: Explaining semantic patterns with dialectometric geo-analyses. ICLaVE 10, Leeuwarden/Ljouwert, The Netherlands, 26–28 June 2019.

Franco, Karlien, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman & Roeland van Hout. 2018. Variation in lexical diversity: the influence of concept-related features. International Congress of Linguists 20 (ICL20). Cape Town, South Africa, 2-6 July 2018.

Franco, Karlien, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman. 2017. Heteronymy in dialect data: three case-studies on the influence of semantic concept features. Methods in Dialectology XVI, NINJAL, Tokyo, Japan, 7-11 August, 2017.

Franco, Karlien, Dirk Speelman & Dirk Geeraerts. 2017. Converging evidence for the influence of semantic features on lexical diversity and geographical heterogeneity. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-14), ECLA, Tartu, Estonia, 10-14 July 2017.

Franco, Karlien, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman. 2017. The where and when of loanword usage in dialectal varieties. Sociolinguistics Circle 3, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 31 March 2017.

Franco, Karlien, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman. 2017. Over het gebruik van leenwoorden in de Brabantse en Limburgse dialecten. Lentevergadering van de KZM, KANTL, Ghent, Belgium, 25 March 2017.

Franco, Karlien, Barbara Piringer & Eveline Wandl-Vogt. 2017. A case-study on lexical variation in plant names using interlinked digitized dialect dictionaries. Action meeting ENel (European network of e-lexicography). Budapest, Hungary, 24-25 February 2017.

Franco, Karlien, Dirk Speelman & Dirk Geeraerts. 2017. Botany meets lexicology. Correlating ecological distribution and dialectal variation. CogLing-7. Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 5-6 January 2017.

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Karlien Franco, Douglas Biber & Jesse Egbert. 2016. Toward more accountability: Modeling ternary genitive variation. Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE-4). Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 18-21 September 2016.

Franco, Karlien, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman. 2015. Why dialects differ: the influence of concept features on lexical geographical variation. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8). Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 27-29 May 2015.

Franco, Karlien, Dirk Speelman & Dirk Geeraerts. 2015. The influence of concept features and semantic field on lexical heterogeneity. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13). Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 20-25 July 2015.

Franco, Karlien, Eline Zenner & Dirk Speelman. 2015. Gender assignment to anglicisms in Dutch: a variationist perspective. Taal & Tongval 2015: Borrowing: pragmatic and variational linguistic approaches. KANTL, Ghent, Belgium, 27 November 2015.

Franco, Karlien, Eline Zenner & Dirk Speelman. 2014. Adnominal and pronominal gender assignment to English loan words in Belgian Dutch. Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 47). Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 11-14 September 2014.

Franco, Karlien & Dirk Geeraerts. 2014. Adnominal and pronominal agreement with neuter nouns in Belgian Dutch. Methods in Dialectology XV. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, 11-15 August 2014.

poster presentations at scientific conferences

Franco, Karlien, Dirk Speelman & Dirk Geeraerts. 2017. Excusing my French/Latin/German. Modelling geographical and semantic structure in the use of loanwords in dialectal varieties of Dutch. TABU-dag. Groningen, 22-23 June 2017.

Franco, Karlien, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman. 2015. Do semantic features influence lexical geographical variation in dialect data? Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-6). Tübingen, Germany, 4-6 November 2015.

Daems, Jocelyne, Karlien Franco, Laura Rosseel & Thomas Wielfaert. 2014. Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL) and the study of Dutch: a goal as well as a tool. Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Day. Leuven, Belgium, 12 March 2014.

workshop organization

Pijpops, Dirk, Karlien Franco, Dirk Speelman & Freek Van de Velde. 2021. What counts as an alternation in usage-based construction grammar? Workshop at the International Conference of Construction Grammar (ICCG-11), Antwerp, Belgium, August 18-20, 2021. [scheduled for 2020, postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19]

Tagliamonte, Sali A., Karlien Franco & Arne Ziegler. 2019. Urban and Rural Language Research: Variation, Identity and Innovation. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. November 8-10, 2019.

Daems, Jocelyne, Karlien Franco, Laura Rosseel & Melanie Röthlisberger. 2017. Extending the scope of lectometry I & II: From dialects to global varieties & New methods and features. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE). Málaga, Spain, 6-9 June 2017.

last updated: 4 February 2025