Ghent

Lancaster 2019

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The follow-up symposium of the Lancaster-Ghent linguistics partnership on Grammar in Focus took place on Friday 10 May 2019 at Ghent University.

As the program below shows, it covered a variety of talks by Lancaster and Ghent staff members and PhD students and by a visiting scholar from Gothenburg University. The presentations were outstanding and the discussions were stimulating!

We want to thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Internationalisation Fund for the financial support.

Programme

09:30-10:00 – Veronika Koller (Lancaster University), Accounting for conceptual metaphor in transitivity analysis: Broadening the systemic-functional framework

10:00-10:30 – Thomas Belligh (Ghent University), Epistemological challenges in corpus analyses of alternating constructions

10:30-11:00 – Christopher Hart (Lancaster University), Spatial properties of verbs and their ideological implications: Transitive vs reciprocal verbs in discourses of political protest

11:30-12:00 – Peter Lauwers (Ghent University), Language productivity at work: A new GOA-project

12:00-12:30 – Mathew Gillings (Lancaster University), Exploring exclusivers in deceptive communication using corpus methods

13:30-14:00 – Evie Coussé (Gothenbrug University), Swedish funding for Dutch historical linguistics

14:00-14:30 – Isolde van Dorst (Lancaster University), You, thou and thee: A statistical analysis of Shakespeare’s use of pronominal address terms

14:30-15:00 – Jasper Vangaever (Ghent University), Categoriality in language change: the prepositionalization of perception converbs in Old French 

15:30-16:00 – Daniel Van Olmen (Lancaster University), On order and prohibition

16:00-16:30 – Timothy Colleman (Ghent University), On event-related beneficiary datives in the history of Dutch

Second Lancaster-Ghent Symposium: Multilingualism

/ Patrick Rebuschat

The program of the second symposium of the Lancaster-Ghent partnership is now online!

The workshop is taking place on April 18-19, 2017, in Ghent. The topic is “Multilingualism: Language learning and testing”. Day 1 will feature talks by Lancaster and Ghent colleagues, Day 2 consists of a workshop on corpus linguistics. The Lancaster delegation will consist of Vaclav Brezina, Tineke Brunfaut, Aina Casaponsa, Dana Gablasova, Luke Harding, and Diane Potts. The local organizer is Piet van Avermaet (piet.vanavermaet@ugent.be). We are grateful to the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) Internationalization Fund for the financial support.

Multilingualism: Language learning and testing

Please click here to download the abstracts

Day 1: Tuesday, April 18, Faculty Board Room, Blandijnberg 2, Ghent

8.30: Registration

8.45: Welcome

9.00: Vaclav Brezina and Dana Gablasova (Lancaster) : Lancaster corpus-based linguistic research: Advances in corpus tools and corpora  

9:50: Discussion

10:15: Aina Casaponsa (Lancaster): Foreign language comprehension achievement: insights from the cognate facilitation effect

10:40: Ellen Simon and Mieke Van Herreweghe (Ghent): Media-induced Second Language Acquisition

11:05: Discussion

11.30: Coffee break

11:50: Diane Potts, Lancaster University: Multilingualism, plurilingualism, translanguaging: Meaning-making in the field of applied linguistics

12:15: Fauve De Backer, Stef Slembrouck and Piet Van Avermaet (Ghent): Pupils’ perceptions on accommodations in multilingual assessment of science         

12:40: Discussion

13:05: Lunch break

14:15: Tineke Brunfaut and Luke Harding (Lancaster): Methodological and theoretical innovations in language testing

15:15: Frank van Splunder (Antwerp) and Catherine Verguts (Ghent): Language Policy and Language Testing in Flanders              

15:45: Discussion

16:15: Conclusions and futher cooperation

16:45: Reception

Day 2: Wednesday, April 19, 2017, Hiko PC-lab, corner Rozier – Sint-Hubertusstraat, Ghent

8:30: Registration

9:00: Welcome

9:00: Dana Gablasova and Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster): Corpus linguistics workshop

12:00: Lunch break

Impressions from the first Lancaster-Ghent symposium

/ Patrick Rebuschat

Today, we greatly enjoyed hosting a wonderful group of colleagues and students from Ghent University for the inaugural Lancaster-Ghent symposium. The first event focused on “Discourse and Media”. A great thank you to our invited speakers for their excellent presentations and to our delegates for their thoughtful comments and discussion. The symposium clearly indicated many fruitful avenues for future research and teaching collaborations, and it will be exciting to strengthen the links between our institutions over the coming years.

Invited speakers:

  • Gent: Geert Jacobs, Jana Declercq, Eliza Kowal, Sophie Busschop
  • Lancaster: David Barton, Daniela Ibarra Herrera, Elena Semino, Karin Tusting

We look forward to next month’s Lancaster-Ghent symposium in Ghent – the event will take place on April 18-19, 2017, and focus on “Multilingualism: Learning, processing, teaching and testing.” The program will be uploaded shortly.

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the FASS Internationalization Fund.

     

Marije Michel gives invited talk in Ghent: New flavors in SLA!

/ Patrick Rebuschat

Lancaster’s Marije Michel is giving an invited talk in Ghent tomorrow as part of the innovative “New Flavours in Second Languge Acquisition” seminar series. If you’re currently in Ghent, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about cutting-edge research in second language acquisition.

Please see below for more information.

Location: Ghent Linguistics Department, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent.

Date: March 21, 2017, 19.15

Title: FB me 2N8! Taalleerprocessen tijdens geschreven computerchat

Abstract: Sinds de opkomst van sociale media heeft schrijven een nieuwe plaats verovert in ons leven. We smsen en appen veelvuldig en chatten met vrienden en familie over de hele wereld. Veel van deze chatinteracties vinden plaats in een taal die niet de moedertaal is van interactiepartners, bijv. het Engels of Nederlands als tweede taal (T2). In deze lezing zal ik uiteenzetten in hoeverre chatten in een T2 bijdraagt an taalleren. In verschillende experimentele studies heb ik gekeken waar T2-gebruikers hun aandacht op focussen tijdens het chatten, hoe interactiepartners elkaars taal hergebruiken en hoe dit bijdraagt aan het vermeren van hun kennis van de taal die ze leren. Op basis van onder meer eye-tracking data zal ik laten zien hoe wij in het taalonderwijs gebruik kunnen maken van schrijftaken via chat.

  

 

First Lancaster-Ghent Symposium: Discourse and Media

/ Patrick Rebuschat

The first symposium of the Lancaster-Ghent partnership takes place on March 23, 2017, at Lancaster University. The topic is “Discourse and Media”; it will feature talks by Lancaster and Ghent staff and students. Participation is free (and includes lunch and coffee break), but registration via Eventbrite is required. Click here to register.

We are grateful to the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) Internationalization Fund for the financial support. For more information on our partnership and on how to get involved, please email Dr Patrick Rebuschat (p.rebuschat@lancaster.ac.uk).

For more information, including the schedule and abstracts, please click here.

Language testing conference in Lancaster

/ Patrick Rebuschat

This weekend, we welcomed Catherine Verguts from Ghent’s University Language Centre to Lancaster University. Catherine attended the (very successful) language testing conference organized by Tineke Brunfaut and Luke Harding (Lancaster’s Language Testing Research Group). In addition, we used the opportunity to discuss further details of the Lancaster-Ghent initiative over an extended lunch. In the picture: Luke Harding, Patrick Rebuschat, Vaclav Brezina, Marije Michel, Tineke Brunfaut, Catherine Verguts, Dana Gablasova. We look forward to visiting our partners in Ghent!

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