Conference Programme

Programme

  • The conference will be at Lister Learning and Teaching Centre, The University of Edinburgh.
  • Registered attendees are welcome to attend all talks and poster sessions.
  • Workshops and socials require separate ticket bookings (via links provided).
  • Daily complimentary refreshments (tea, coffee and light snacks) will be available at Lister Café (ground floor) from 9AM until 2PM.

Monday, 6th June, 2022

09:00 - 09:30 Registration Conference goodie bag collection Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
09:30 - 09:35 Welcome Talk Professor Simon Kirby - Head of Linguistics and English Language — University of Edinburgh Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
09:35 - 10:35 [Opening Plenary] Chomsky Must Fall; or, Can linguistics survive decoloniality? [More...] Professor John E. Joseph (JEJ) — University of Edinburgh Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
10:50 - 11:15 Exploring the value of learner corpora in corpus-based EAP writing materials design [More...] Fei Xie — University of Birmingham Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
11:20 - 11:45 (Cancelled) The absence of conclusive evidence causes a gap in Turkish [More...] Muhammed Ileri — Boğaziçi University Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
12:00 - 12:25 Relatedness-based thematic integration [More...] Fani Karageorgou — University of York Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
12:30 - 12:55 Existential generics and information structure [More...] Zhengjie Situ — University of Edinburgh Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 [Plenary] Causatives and their complements: a testing ground for the syntax/semantics interface [More...] Professor Michelle Sheehan — Newcastle University Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
15:05 - 15:30 Grammatical gender as a social index - a sociolinguistic study of Kurukh [More...] Stuti Bhagat — University of York Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
15:45 - 17:00 [Workshop 1] Online experiment technologies: what are the options, and how do I choose? [More...] additional ticket needed [register via the link] Lister Learning and Teaching Centre – 5.3
18:30 - 23:00 Formal Dinner additional ticket needed [sold out] The Scotsman Hotel - The Glenfiddich and Balvenie Suites

Tuesday, 7th June, 2022

09:30 - 10:50 Poster Festival Lister Learning and Teaching Centre – 4.3
11:00 - 11:25 Investigating L2 training effects on the cognitive skills of 4-year-old children [More...] Chrysoula Vassiliu — University of Cambridge Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
11:30 - 11:55 The structural differences of SAY verbs and temporal modification [More...] Qiuhao Charles Yan — Queen Mary University of London Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
12:05 - 12:30 Examining the role of L2 proficiency in eye-movement patterns [More...] Shiyu He — University of Birmingham Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
12:35 - 13:00 Speaker salience affects guesses about upcoming content [More...] Vilde Reksnes — University of Edinburgh Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 [Plenary] Sociosyntactic variation and change [More...] Emeritus Professor Jenny Cheshire — Queen Mary University of London Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
15:05 - 15:30 Anaphora resolution in L1 and L2 English and Chinese: L1 transfer and individual differences [More...] Chenyi Zhang — University of Cambridge Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
15:30 - 17:00 [Workshop 2] Cut the Jargon - Say what you mean! (Register to attend from the following link) [More...] additional ticket needed [register via the link] Lister Learning and Teaching Centre – 5.3
17:30 - 19:30 Walking Tour [More...] additional ticket needed [register via the link] Assemble in front of Dugald Stewart Building

Wednesday, 8th June, 2022

09:30 - 10:30 [Plenary] Language research without ‘monolinguals’ [More...] Professor Antonella Sorace — University of Edinburgh Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
10:40 - 11:05 (Cancelled) The Italian negative system: expletiveness as a consequence of the head status of negation [More...] Matteo Greco — University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
11:10 - 11:35 Becoming the story you tell to yourself: identity development and construction by migrants to the Hebrides [More...] Michael Gray — University of Warwick Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
11:45 - 13:00 [Workshop 3] How to tighten up your writing (Register to attend from the following link) [More...] additional ticket needed [register via the link] Lister Learning and Teaching Centre – 5.3
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:25 Students' strategic management of silence in multicultural group work [More...] Lyu Zhang — University of Warwick Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
14:30 - 14:55 The efficacy of the Single Point Rubric on teaching and learning continuation writing skills in senior high schools in China: an experimental study [More...] Meifang Zhuo — University of Warwick Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:25 A natural order for adpositions [More...] Aja Altenhof — University of Edinburgh Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
15:40 - 16:40 [Closing Plenary] Conversation analysis and language alternation in bilingual conversation [More...] Professor Joseph Gafaranga — University of Edinburgh Lister Learning and Teaching Centre - G.01 Davidson Lecture Theatre
19:00 - 22:00 Ceilidh [More...] additional ticket needed [register via the link] The Counting House