Conference Programme

Programme

Tuesday, 4th June, 2019

09:30 - 10:30 Opening Plenary: Mapping Syntactic Variation in Scots [More...] Caroline Heycock — University of Edinburgh
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break DSB 7th Floor
11:00 - 11:25 Nordic Cool: Northern European Borrowed Features and ‘Faux Nordic' in Global Linguistic Landscapes [More...] Janine Strandberg — University of Groningen DSB 3.10
11:50 - 12:15 Does Culture ‘Shape’ Language? Effects of Participant Background on Task Performance [More...] Mandy Dickerman, Yuya Zhou, Jin Zhou and Jasmine Salmon — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
12:15 - 12:40 Creoles, Colonialism and Structures of Power : Towards a Postcolonial Linguistics [More...] Chris Jardine — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
12:40 - 13:05 A Comparative Analysis of Two Quranic English Translations of the Beating Wife Verse 4:34 : A Feminist Perspectives [More...] Zainab Mizyidawi — University of Durham DSB 3.10
13:05 - 13:30 The Representation of Malaysian Indians in Selected News Articles [More...] Miriam Samuel — University of Lancaster DSB 3.10
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch DSB 7th Floor
14:45 - 15:10 Against HON as a grammatical category: Typological considerations [More...] Ruoan Wang — Queen Mary University of London DSB 3.10
15:10 - 15:35 A Quantitative Exploration of Numeral Classifier Constructions in Japanese [More...] Keisuke Kume — University of York DSB 3.10
15:35 - 16:00 If You Float Further, You’re Unique and Maximal [More...] Takanobu Nakamura — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
16:00 - 16:25 Pluralia Tantum: Their Morpho-semantics and What They Tell Us About Plurality [More...] Tom Trigg and Pietro Baggio — Queen Mary University of London DSB 3.10
16:25 - 16:50 Finnish Numeral-Noun Constructions: Plural Marking Gone Haywire? [More...] Pietro Baggio — Queen Mary University of London
17:00 - 18:50 LaTeX Workshop Georges Sakr, Takanobu Nakamura and Thomas Stephen
19:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner Canon's Gait

Wednesday, 5th June, 2019

09:30 - 10:30 Natural Communication in our Great Ape Relatives: Insights Into the Evolution of Language [More...] Zanna Clay — University of Durham DHT Lecture Theatre C
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break DSB 7th Floor
11:00 - 11:25 Perceptual Sensitivity to Tonal Alignment [More...] Louis Hendrix — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
11:25 - 11:50 To Be Faithful or to Be Unmarked? That is the Question. The Case of Positional Dependence in the Analysis of Polish Final Devoicing [More...] Katarzyna Satoła — University of Warsaw
11:50 - 12:15 Subjective Epistemic Markers in French Talk-In-Interaction [More...] Juliette Angot — University of Manchester DSB 3.10
12:15 - 12:40 Presuppositional Aspects in Mandarin Chinese [More...] Ruoying Zhao — University College London DSB 3.10
12:40 - 13:05 Motion Verbs in English and Spanish: a Feature Analysis [More...] Matthew King — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch DSB 7th Floor
14:45 - 15:10 The Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Needs of English for Academic Purposes Practitioners (EAP) who Deliver Academic Literacies to students with Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs) [More...] Tracey Celestin — London South Bank University DSB 3.10
15:10 - 15:35 The Effects of L1 Attrition on Spatial-Temporal Cognition in Mandarin-English Bilinguals? [More...] Winnie Yeh — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
15:35 - 16:00 Does Caregiver Input Influence Children's Acquisition of Modality? [More...] Kimberley Bell — University of Manchester DSB 3.10
16:00 - 16:25 The Role of ESL Teachers' Classroom Interaction In Shaping Learning Opportunities [More...] Salomi Bolleddu — The Open University DSB 3.10
16:25 - 16:50 The Role of Emotional Intensity in the Representation of Abstract Nouns in the Lexicon: Case Study of L2 Speakers [More...] Yasir Almukhaizeem — University of York DSB 3.10
16:50 - 17:15 What Impact Does Minimal Exposure to Welsh Have on English-Speaking Primary School Children with Regards to Their Executive Functioning? [More...] Bethan Collins, Athanasia Papastergiou and Eirini Sanoudaki — Bangor University DSB 3.10
17:30 - 19:30 Edinburgh Walking Tour Meet at DSB
20:00 - 22:00 Pub Quiz The Tron

Thursday, 6th June, 2019

09:30 - 10:30 Creativity and Change in Language and Music Graeme Trousdale — University of Edinburgh DHT Lecture Theatre C
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break DSB 7th Floor
11:00 - 11:25 Abstract Syntactic Representation in a Second Language: An Investigation of Processing wh-movement by Jordanian-Arabic Speakers of English [More...] Alaa Al-Maani — University of York
11:25 - 11:50 The Discursive Construction of a Free Speech Crisis [More...] Jessica Aiston — Lancaster University DSB 3.10
11:50 - 12:15 The Author's Stance In Music Reviews: A Corpus Linguistics Study [More...] Gilberto Giannacchi — Università degli Studi di Milano DSB 3.10
12:15 - 12:40 Why is the Given-Before-New Ordering Functional? A Reply to John A. Hawkins [More...] Patrik Austin — University of Helsinki DSB 3.10
12:40 - 13:05 The Concept of ‘inheritance’ in Grammatical Theory – What Is It and Which Questions Does It Raise? [More...] Tobias Ungerer — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
13:05 - 13:30 Phrasal Verbs in ELT Publications [More...] Elaine Millar and María del Carmen Camus Camus — Universidad de Cantabria DSB 3.10
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch DSB 7th Floor
14:45 - 15:10 Protecting Polish: Language Endangerment Discourse in Poland [More...] Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka — University College London DSB 3.10
15:10 - 15:35 Sounding Chinese Gay - Social Meanings of Fricatives in Chinese Mandarin [More...] Yujing Su — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
15:35 - 16:00 From “Linguicide” to “Linguistic Suicide”: An Examination of the Role of Governmental Language Policy in the Decline of Indigenous Regional Languages in France [More...] Stephen McNulty — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
16:00 - 16:25 A Sociolinguistic Study of Language Attitudes and Identity: The Case of Punjabi [More...] Bushra Sani — University of East Anglia DSB 3.10
16:25 - 16:50 Language Maintenance vs Language Shift: The Chinese Community in Southern Italy [More...] Luca Iezzi — Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" DSB 3.10
17:00 - 18:00 Models of Language Revitalisation: Processes and Outcomes [More...] Julia Sallabank — SOAS, University of London DSB 3.10
19:00 - 22:00 Ceilidh Debating Hall, Teviot

Friday, 7th June, 2019

09:30 - 11:00 Poster Session & Coffee Break G32, 7 George Square
  • Examining the Contribution of Voice Quality to Listener Judgements of Speaker Gender in Scottish English Jo Pearce — University of Glasgow
  • French as a Colonial Tool in Brittany and Guadeloupe Chris Jardine — University of Edinburgh
  • Diachronic Semantics & 17th Century Household Recipe Books Allison Smith — University of Edinburgh
  • When a Foreign Language Interferes With Your Native Language: The Relationship Between L2 Acquisition and L1 Attrition in English-Italian and Italian-English Bilinguals Mattia Zingaretti — University of Edinburgh
  • Agglutinative and Fusional Languages Can Bear Similar Difficulty for Second Language Learners When the Systems Are Small Svenja Wagner — University of Edinburgh
11:25 - 11:50 Information Structure Transfer: Topic-Comment Structures Use in the Interlanguage of L1 Topic-Prominent Mandarin Chinese Advanced Learners of L2 Subject-Prominent English [More...] Tsai-Yun Li — University of Bayreuth DSB 3.10
11:50 - 12:15 The Effects of Information Mapping and Summarization Strategies on Second Language Reading Metacomprehension [More...] Nour Toumi — Lancaster University DSB 3.10
12:40 - 13:05 Multilingualism in Medieval Medical Receptaria: A Case Study of Code-Switching in Ravenna, Biblioteca Classense, ms. 215. [More...] Claudia Lemme — Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara DSB 3.10
13:05 - 13:30 Virtues of a Gangster: Rhetoric and Villainy in the Films of Martin Scorsese [More...] Anthony Aburrow — University of Chichester DSB 3.10
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch DSB 7th Floor
14:45 - 15:10 Exploring Schematisation and Viewpoint Patterns in Discourses of Migration: The Case of the 2015-16 Refugee Crisis from a Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies (CL-CDS) Perspective. [More...] Javier Mármol-Queraltó — Lancaster University DSB 3.10
15:35 - 16:00 The Mind-as-Body Metaphor in Italian Music Terminology: A Diachronic Approach [More...] Phillip Wadley — Bangor University DSB 3.10
16:00 - 16:25 Greek Cypriot Learners' Knowledge of Phrasal Verbs [More...] Lizeta Demetriou — University of Essex DSB 3.10
16:25 - 16:50 A Posthumanist Linguistic Approach to Hard of Hearing Identities [More...] Tsung-Lun Wan — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
17:00 - 18:00 Closing Plenary: maɪ laɪf ɪn lɪŋˈgwɪstɪks Alice Turk — University of Edinburgh DSB 3.10
18:00 - 19:30 Closing Ceremony and Wine Reception DSB 7th Floor