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

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.