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2009

 

February

 

• 6 February: Natalia Levshina, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman - Causative-prone or Causative-proof? A Study of Semantic Features of Effected Predicates in Dutch Causative Constructions. Verb Typologies Revisited, Ghent.

 

January

 

• 30 January: Dirk Geeraerts - Decontextualisation and recontextualisation: Thirty years of Cognitive Linguistics. Conference 'History of Cognitive Linguistics', Société d'Histoire et d'Epistémologie des Sciences du Language, Paris.
• 22 January: Yves Peirsman & Dirk Geeraerts - Modelling Lexical Variation with Word Space Models. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• 22 January: Kris Heylen, Yves Peirsman & Dirk Geeraerts - Bootstrapping Automatic Synonymy Extraction. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• 22 January: Tom Ruette & Dirk Speelman - Automatic Text Categorization: Adding Syntactic Knowledge. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• 17 January: Dirk Geeraerts - La présence de la linguistique du français dans la linguistique cognitive. Journée thématique 'Grands courants et chemins de travers de la linguistique cognitive'. Société de Linguistique de Paris, Paris.

 

2008

 

December

 

• 18 December: Ann Bertels - Etude sémantique et corpus spécialisés : une double analyse quantitative. Invited speaker, Workshop "corpus spécialisés", Université de Toulouse le Mirail, Toulouse, France.

 

November

 

• 21 November: Leen Impe, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman - Objective and Subjective Determinants of Mutual Comprehensibility between Dutch Language Varieties. Guest lecture for the CLCG Linguistic Colloquium, Groningen.

 

October

 

• 22 October: Dirk Geeraerts - Schmidt redux: How systematic is the system if variation is rampant ?. AELCO 6, Castellón de la Plana.
• 20 October: Dirk Geeraerts - Bringing Schuchardt to the 21st century. FRIAS Workshop 'Constructions and Variation', Freiburg im Breisgau.

 

September

 

• 5 September: Dirk Geeraerts - Belgisch Nederlands en Nederlands Nederlands. Guest lecture for the Nederlandse Taalunie Seminarium Nederlands als Tweede Taal.
• 9 September: Tom Ruette - Thematische tekstcategorisatie. (INTERNAL QLVL MEETING)
• 30 September: Leen Impe & Dirk Geeraerts - Mutual intelligibility in the Low Countries - A cognitive sociolinguistic approach. Cognitive Linguistics, Dubrovnik.
• 30 September: Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman - Style, Meaning and Identity. The use of Colloquial Belgian Dutch in 'Expeditie Robinson'. Cognitive Linguistics, Dubrovnik.

 

August

 

• 29 August: Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman & Caroline Gevaert - How anger rose. ICHEL 10, München.
• 14 August: Yves Peirsman - Word Space Models of Semantic Similarity and Relatedness. Student Session of ESSLLI-2008, Hamburg.
• 7 August: Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen & Dirk Geeraerts - Size Matters: Tight and Loose Context Definitions in English Word Space Models. Lexical Semantics workshop at ESSLLI-2008, Hamburg.
• 5 August: Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman - Concept characteristics and lexical heterogenity in dialects. Methods in Dialectology 13, Leeds.
• 4 August: Leen Impe, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman - Mutual intelligibility between Flemings and Dutchmen: linguistic and attitudinal determinants. Methods in Dialectology 13, Leeds.

 

July

 

• 14 July: Yves Peirsman & Dirk Geeraerts - Modelling Language Perception on the Basis of Corpus Data. Language, Culture and Mind III, Odense.
• 14 July: Dirk Geeraerts & Gitte Kristiansen - The scope of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Language, Culture and Mind III, Odense.
• 12 July: Ann Bertels - Automatiser et quantifier l’analyse sémantique du français technique. 1er Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF-08), Paris.
• 7 July: Leen Impe, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman - What did you say? A comparative study on the intelligibility of various Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch language varieties. International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Leuven.
• 7 July: Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman - Saving the Other. Contrastive Pragmatics in 'Expeditie Robinson'. International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Leuven.

 

June

 

• 26 June: Leen Impe - Mapping the Mutual Intelligibility of Dutch Language Varieties: a Lexical Decision Experiment. Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Ghent.

 

May 2008

 

• 31 May: Dirk Geeraerts - Deliteralization and the birth of emotion. RaAM7, Cáceres.
• 30 May: Dirk Geeraerts - Delimiting and defining metonymy from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. Panel discussion, RaAM7, Cáceres.
• 30 May: Yves Peirsman, Simon De Deyne, Kris Heylen & Dirk Geeraerts - The Construction and Evaluation of Word Space Models. LREC-2008, Marrakech.
• 30 May: Kris Heylen, Yves Peirsman & Dirk Speelman - Modelling Word Similarity. An Evaluation of Automatic Synonymy Extraction Algorithms. LREC-2008, Marrakech.
• 22 May: Tom Ruette - Automatische Tekstcategorizatie. Hoe kan de taalkunde helpen? (Automatic Text Categorization: linguistics to the rescue?). Studentencongres, Berlin.
• 16 May: Ann Bertels - Monosémie et corpus technique : une remise en question quantitative. Workshop 'Do terms make sense? Terminology and Cognition', Erasmushogeschool, Brussel.
• 14 May: Eline Zenner & Dirk Geeraerts - Mense van mijne leeftijd. Generatiegebonden tussentaalgebruik in Expeditie Robinson. Colloquium 'Jong Nederlands', Antwerpen.
• 13 May: Dirk Geeraerts - Deliteralization and metaphorical reclassification. Workshop “Organizing the world of Knowledge", Orientalisches Institut, Vienna.

 

April 2008

 

• 4 April: Leen Impe - Mutual intelligibility of Dutch language varieties: linguistic and extra-linguistic determinants. Sociolinguistics Symposium, Amsterdam.
• 26 April: Leen Impe - Babel in Vlaanderen? Een experimenteel onderzoek naar onderlinge verstaanbaarheid tussen Vlamingen. Annual Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Brussels.
• 26 April: Kris Heylen, Yves Peirsman & Dirk Geeraerts - Corpusonderzoek van betekenis: Over de relatie tussen lexicale semantiek en context. Annual Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Brussels.
• 26 April: Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman - Tussentaal in 'Expeditie Robinson': contextgerichte of sprekergerichte variatie?. Annual Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Brussels.

 

March 2008

 

• 19 March: Yves Peirsman & Kris Heylen - Dutch Word Space Models: Context Selection and Evaluation Methods. Guest lecture at the Colloquium Series of the Department of Language and Speech, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.[zip]
• 14 March: Ann Bertels - Sémantique quantitative et corpus technique : des analyses statistiques aux interprétations linguistiques. Presentation at JADT 2008, Lyon, France.
• 12 March: Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen & Dirk Speelman - Putting things in order: First and second order context models for the calculation of semantic similarity. Presentation at JADT 2008, Lyon, France. [zip]

 

February 2008

 

• 26 February: Kris Heylen & Yves Peirsman - Hoe je betekenis uit context afleidt: Corpusgebaseerde modellen van lexicale semantiek. Guest lecture at the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (INL), Leiden, The Netherlands.
• 22 February: Dirk Geeraerts & Eline Zenner - The social pragmatics of identity and informality. EPICS III, Seville.

 

January 2008

 

2007

 

December 2007

 

• 14 December: Dirk Geeraerts - Collocations and Clines. Questions for a Quantitative, Corpus-based Approach to Multiword Expressions. Keynote lecture at the workshop Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Extended Lexical Units, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• 7 December: Kris Heylen & Yves Peirsman - Automatic Thesaurus Extraction: Comparing context models. Presentation at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007 (CLIN 2007). [zip]
• 4 December: Yves Peirsman, Eline Zenner & Kris Heylen - Het Sem·metrixproject: Een stand van zaken. (INTERNAL QLVL MEETING)

 

November 2007

 

• 27 November: Eline Zenner - Tussentaal: identiteit en informaliteit: Een spannende thriller. (INTERNAL QLVL MEETING)
• 8 November: Dirk Geeraerts, Kris Heylen & Yves Peirsman - Congresverslag ICLC 10 in Kraków. (INTERNAL QLVL MEETING)

 

October 2007

 

• 26 October: Gert De Sutter & Dirk Geeraerts - Methodologische, descriptieve en theoretische aspecten van een taalgebruiksgebaseerde grammatica. Lecture at the 1e Dag van de Nederlandse Zinsbouw, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• 2 October: Dirk Geeraerts - The birth of emotion. Lecture for the Research Seminar on Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Leuven.

 

September 2007

 

• 13-15 September: Ann Bertels - Etude sémantique du vocabulaire spécifique dans quatre sous-corpus techniques. Presentation at the 5th Journées de Linguistique de Corpus 2007 (JLC), Lorient, France.
• 1 September: Dirk Geeraerts - Belgisch Nederlands en Nederlands Nederlands. Guest lecture for the Nederlandse Taalunie Seminarium Nederlands als Tweede Taal.

 

August 2007

• 30 August: Dirk Geeraerts, Michele Goyens & Annelies Bloem - The birth of emotion. 2nd Conference of the UK-Cognitive Linguistics Association.
• 21 August: Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Speelman - Finding semantically related words in Dutch. Co-occurrences versus syntactic contexts. Presentation at the CoSMo workshop, held in conjunction with Context-07, Roskilde, Denmark.
• 18 August: Leen Impe - Flemings and Dutchmen: what did they say? Presentation during the HISON Summerschool (16-23 August), Metochi, Lesbos.

 

July 2007

• 27-30 July: Yves Peirsman and Kris Heylen - The sem·metrix Project: Towards the large-scale measurement of lexical variation. Presentation at the Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL-07), Birmingham, UK. [zip]
• 15-20 July: Dirk Geeraerts - Contextualization and methodology. Thirty years of Cognitive Linguistics (and beyond). Plenary lecture. 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference.
• 15-20 July: Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman - Heterodox concept features and lexical heterogeneity in dialects. Presentation at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference.
• 15-20 July: Dirk Geeraerts -Cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics: Discussion. Invited discussion at theWorkshop Historical Linguitsics, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference.
• 15-20 July: Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen and Yves Peirsman - The state of the art in Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Achievements and challenges. Presentation at the Cognitive Sociolinguistics Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.
• 15-20 July: Dylan Glynn & Kerstin Fischer - Usage-Based Cognitive Semantics: A Quantitative Approach. Theme Session at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.
• 15-20 July: Dylan Glynn - Testing the hypothesis. Confirmatory statistical techniques for multifactorial data in Cognitive Semantics. Presentation at the Usage-Based Cognitive Semantics Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.
• 15-20 July: Dylan Glynn - The semantics of extralinguistic variation. A quantitative study of the effects of dialect on polysemy. Presentation at the Cognitive Sociolinguistics Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.
• 15-20 July: Dylan Glynn - Perception and Grammatical Profiling. The complex interaction between linguistic structure and iconic motivation in Cognitive Grammar. Presentation at the Motivation in Language Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.
• 15-20 July: Kris Heylen - Analyzing constructional pragmatics: a usage-based study of German word order constructions. Presentation at the Usage-Based Cognitive Semantics Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.[zip]
• 15-20 July: Yves Peirsman and Dirk Geeraerts - Facets, zones and prototype-based metonymy. Presentation at the Theme Session 'What do we want to call a metonymy', 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.
• 15-20 July: Yves Peirsman and Kris Heylen - The sem·metrix project. An automation of the profile-based approach to onomasiological variation. Presentation at the Cognitive Sociolinguistics Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.
• 8-13 July: Koen Plevoets - In-between spoken and standard language: Colloquial Belgian Dutch. Presentation at the 10th IPrA Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden.

 

June 2007

• 17-19 June: Kris Heylen and Yves Peirsman - The sem·metrix Project: Scaling up the profile-based measurement of lexical variation. Presentation at the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE-4).[zip]
• 17-19 June: Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts - The effect of concept features on regional lexical variation. Presentation at the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE-4).
• 17-19 June: Leen Impe - An attitudinal mixed-guise study on interlanguage in Flanders. Presentation at the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE-4).

 

May 2007

• 15 May: Dirk Geeraerts - The Logic of Language Models: Rationalist and Romantic Ideologies and their Avatars. Invited lecture. Hongkong University, Department of English.
• 11 May: Dirk Geeraerts - Methodology and lectal variation in Cognitive Linguistics. Plenary lecture. Changsha (China), 2nd Conference of the China Cognitive Linguistics Association.
• 11 May: Dirk Geeraerts - Multidimensional models of lexical polysemy. Workshop. Changsha (China), 2nd Conference of the China Cognitive Linguistics Association.
• 10-12 May: Dylan Glynn - Usage-Based Polysemy. Corpus-Driven Techniques for the study of semantic structure. Presentation at Typology, Gesture, and Sign. Second International AFLiCo Conference Lille, France.
• 5 May: Leen Impe - Vlamingen en hun (tussen)taal - een attitudineel mixed-guise onderzoek. Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Ghent, Belgium.
• 5 May: Kris Heylen and Yves Peirsman - Het sem·metrix-project: de profielgebaseerde meting van lexicale variatie op een grotere schaal. Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Ghent, Belgium. [zip]
• 5 May: Yves Peirsman - De berekening van semantische gelijkenis op basis van euroWordNet en Wikipedia. Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Ghent, Belgium.

 

March 2007

• 23 March: Leen Impe - Mutual intelligibility of language varieties in the Low Countries: linguistic and attitudinal determinants. Presentation at the BVTL Conference, Leuven.
• 24 March: Leen Impe - An attitudinal mixed-guise study on interlanguage in Flanders. Presentation at the KZM Conference, Brussels.
• 26 February - 1 March: Dirk Geeraerts - Prototype semantics in practice. Lecture series. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Department of English Language and Linguistics.

 

January 2007

• 10 January: Kris Heylen and Yves Peirsman. The sem·metrix project. Scaling up the profile-based measurement of lexical variation. Presentation at the sem·metrix kick-off workshop, Leuven, Belgium.

 

2006

 

December 2006

• 14-16 December: Dirk Geeraerts presents a plenary lecture at the 30th AEDEAN conference in Huelva, Spain.

 

November 2006

• 9-12 November: Koen Plevoets - Colloquial Belgian Dutch: the case of the "tussentaal". Presentation at NWAV 35: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language Variation. Columbus, Ohio, USA.

 

October 2006

• 12-13 October: Dylan Glynn - Clusters, Correspondences, and Polysemy. A comparative study of two exploratory statistical techniques for the description of semantic variation. Semantik i Fokus. University of Lund, Sweden.
• 5-7 October: Dylan Glynn - Frames, Fields, and Parasynonymy. Developing usage-based methodology for Cognitive Semantic. Presentation at the theme session "Cognitive-linguistic approaches: what can we gain by computational treatment of data?". Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Muenchen, Germany.
• 5-7 October: Dirk Geeraerts - On the importance of incorporating lectal factors in usage-based linguistics. A corpus analysis of make and let causatives in Dutch. Presentation at the Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Muenchen, Germany.

 

September 2006

• 26-28 September: Dylan Glynn - Semasiology, Methodology, And Variation. Integrating the social element into cognitive linguistics. Presentation at the Third Russian Cognitive Linguistics Congress, Tambov, Russia.
• 8-10 September: Dagmar Divjak - An Experimental Approach to Complex Events in Slavic. Oral presentation at the Slavic Linguistic Society Conference, Bloomington IN, USA.

 

August 2006

• 20-25 August: Dirk Geeraerts lectures at the Intercultural Pragmatics Summer School in Shanghai.

 

July 2006

• 19 July: Dirk Geeraerts - Prototypes, stereotypes, and semantic norms. Conference “Language, Culture, and Mind”. Paris, France.
• 6-8 July: Stefania Marzo, Koen Plevoets and Gert De Sutter present papers at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 16 in Limerick.

 

June 2006

• 20 June: Dirk Geeraerts - Towards a multifactorial grammar. Invited lecture series. PhD course “Lexicon and Grammar”. Bergen, Norway.
• 15-17 June: Kris Heylen - Word order variants as pragmatic constructions: a corpus-based study of German. Presentation at the the International Conference and Constituting Meeting of the Swedish Cognitive Linguistics Association (SweCLA) in Umeå (Sweden).[zip]
• 15-17 June: Dylan Glynn - Fields, Constructions and Metaphors. The complex place of metaphors between lexical and syntactic semantics. Presentation at the the International Conference and Constituting Meeting of the Swedish Cognitive Linguistics Association.
• 9-13 June: Dagmar Divjak and Laura A. Janda - How to Avoid Assigning Agency in Russian: An Experiment. Oral presentation at the Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 9-13 June: Dagmar Divjak and Stefan Th. Gries - Ways of Trying in Russian. Clustering Behavioral Profiles. Poster presentation at the Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 10 June: Dirk Geeraerts - Lectal factors and the multivariate nature of linguistic phenomena. 2nd Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science. St Petersburg, Russia.
• 2 June: Yves Peirsman - Quantitative approaches to metonymy. Presentation at Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2, Osnabrück, Germany.
• 2 June: Gert De Sutter - Descriptive, methodological and theoretical issues in syntactic variation research: A multivariate corpus analysis of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters. Presentation at Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2, Osnabrück, Germany. [zip]

 

May 2006

• 20 May: Kris Heylen - Word order variants as pragmatic constructions: A corpus-based case study of German. Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Leuven, Belgium.
• 20 May: Gert De Sutter - Groene vs. rode woordvolgorde: een poging tot verklaring. Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Leuven, Belgium.
• 20 May: Yves Peirsman - Liever lui dan moe. Economische benaderingen in automatische metonymieherkenning. Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Leuven, Belgium.
• 17 May: Dirk Geeraerts - Lectal factors and the multivariate nature of linguistic phenomena. Invited lecture. Workshop “Cognitive Patterns in Language”. Odense, Denmark.
• 5 May: Dirk Geeraerts - Over de verklaring van de Vlaamse tussentaal. Invited lecture. Karoly Gaspar University, Department of Dutch. Budapest, Hungary.
• 5 May: Dirk Geeraerts - Convergentie en divergentie tussen Belgisch en Nederlands Nederlands. Invited lecture. Karoly Gaspar University, Department of Dutch. Budapest, Hungary.
• 5 May: Dirk Geeraerts - Cognitive Linguistics and the recontextualizing tendencies in contemporary linguistics. Invited lecture. Karoly Gaspar University, Department of English. Budapest, Hungary.

 

April 2006

• 19-21 April: Sofie Van Gijsel presents a paper at the JADT Conference in Besançon.
• 12 April: Ann Bertels - Analyse quantitative et statistique de la sémantique dans un corpus technique. Presentation at the Conference Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN-2006), Leuven, Belgium.
• 11 April: Yves Peirsman - (Un)supervised approaches to metonymy recognition. Presentation at the Rencontre des Etudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL-2006), Leuven, Belgium. [zip]
• 6 April: Yves Peirsman - Example-based metonymy recognition for proper nouns. Presentation at the student session of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (EACL-2006), Trento, Italy.
• 4 April: Yves Peirsman - What's in a name? Computational approaches to metonymical location names. Presentation at the Workshop Making Sense of Sense, held in conjunction with the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (EACL-2006), Trento, Italy.
• 2 April: Kris Heylen - Word order variants in the German Mittelfeld as pragmatic constructions: a corpus-based study. Presentation at the 3rd Construction Grammar Network Meeting, Language variation and change in Construction Grammar, Düsseldorf, Germany. [zip]
• 1 April: Gert De Sutter - A usage-based approach to constructional ambiguity. Presentation at the 3rd Construction Grammar Network Meeting, Language variation and change in Construction Grammar, Düsseldorf, Germany. [zip]

 

March 2006

• 28 March: Dirk Geeraerts & Gitte Kristiansen - On usage-based intercultural pragmatics and methodological procedure. Keynote lecture. LAUD conference “Intercultural Pragmatics”, Landau, Germany.
• 3 March: Dirk Geeraerts - Looking back at anger. Keynote lecture. Workshop ‘Translating Emotion’. Maynooth, Ireland.
• 2 March: Dirk Geeraerts - Measuring lectal convergence and divergence. Invited lecture. Irish Association for Applied Linguistics. Dublin, Ireland.

 

February 2006

• 22 February: Kris Heylen - The Order of Nominal Subject and Pronominal Object in the Mittelfeld: A Case of Free Syntactic Variation?. Presentation at the workshop (AG 7) Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar at the DGfS-Tagung, Bielefeld, Germany. [zip]
• 22 February: Gert De Sutter - A multivariate approach to the description and modelling of word order variation. Presentation at the workshop (AG 7) Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar at the DGfS-Tagung, Bielefeld, Germany. [zip]