Plenary Speakers
Thursday, 26th September, 9.30-10.30: Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
The UK, Europe and the path to Brexit - the long view: Europe in two centuries of British newspapers.
Thursday, 26th September, 14.00-15.00: Carita Paradis (Lund University)
The new London-Lund Corpus (LLC-2): A window into natural speech in the 21st century
Friday, 27th September, 9.30-10.30: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (Catholic University of Leuven)
Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English
Friday, 27th September, 14.00-15.00: Anne O‘Keeffe (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
Using corpus linguistics to explore learner English
Saturday, 28th September, 9.30-10.30: Javier Pérez-Guerra and Elena Seoane (University of Vigo)
Comparative variation in World Englishes: New, (more) newer determinants?