Corpora: Symposium: GRAMMAR & LEXIS

From: G. Nelson (uclegen@ucl.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 17:48:15 MET DST

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    The University of London Institute of English Studies
    and
    The Survey of English Usage, University College London

    present

    GRAMMAR AND LEXIS

    A one-day symposium to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Survey
    of English Usage

    Friday 21 July 2000

    The Survey of English Usage was founded in 1959 by Randolph Quirk as a
    research unit for the study of both written and spoken educated English by
    means of both corpus work and psycholinguistic inquiry. The Survey Corpus
    was one of the world’s first English language corpora. Many books and
    articles have been based on Survey material, principal among them A Grammar
    of Contemporary English (Longman 1972) and A Comprehensive Grammar of the
    English Language (Longman 1985), both by Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and
    Svartvik. In the early 1990s a second corpus was compiled: the British
    component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB). This fully
    tagged and parsed corpus was recently released on CD-ROM, together with
    dedicated search software and audio material (www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage).

    The symposium celebrates forty years of English language research at the
    Survey by addressing two intertwined themes - Grammar and Lexis -
    reflecting the interests of the founder of the Survey. Speakers will
    address one of these themes in relation to empirical linguistics. There
    will be a drinks reception at the end of the day.

    Speakers:
    Randolph Quirk, Geoffrey Leech, David Crystal, Noël Burton-Roberts, Katie
    Wales, Frank Palmer, Robert Ilson and Liliane Haegeman.

    Organiser:
    Bas Aarts
    Director
    Survey of English Usage
    University College London.

    Venue:
    Institute of English Studies
    University of London
    Senate House (3rd floor)
    Malet Street
    London WC1E 7HU

    Enquiries:
    Institute of English Studies
    University of London
    Tel: (+44) (0)20 7862 8675
    Fax: (+44) (0)20 7862 8672.
    Email: ies@sas.ac.uk

    You will need to register for this event. There will be a small charge if
    your institution is not a member of the IES. Registration forms are
    available from the IES, or from www.sas.ac.uk/ies/.

    Although it is normally possible to book a place on the day, it would be
    helpful if bookings could be made at least three weeks in advance, so that
    we can estimate numbers. For up-to-date information on this event,
    including the programme, see:
    http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/events/symposium.htm

    Apologies for multiple postings

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    Dr Gerald Nelson,
    Senior Research Fellow,
    Survey of English Usage,
    University College London,
    Gower St,
    London WC1E 6BT, UK

    Email: g.nelson@ucl.ac.uk
    Tel: 0207-679-3120
    http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/
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