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Here at the launch symposium for the new London-Lund Corpus 2, looking forward to a great day of talks! 
The programme for the day:
Introduction to the LLC-2 from its lead compiler @NelePoldvere (I love her slide background!)
According to @NelePoldvere the LLC-2 will be released shortly for free and open access, alongside the original audio recordings
Next up is Bas Aarts tracing the history of the collaboration between the @UCLEnglishUsage and @lunduniversity
Bas Aarts using the @UCLEnglishUsage corpora to track the rise of the progressive over the last several decades
Up next, Gunnel Tottie, who begins by saying “I’ve been going for so long now that I feel like a dinosaur in corpus linguistics” 🦖
From Gunnel’s findings on negation variation, we have Karin Aijmer on newly emerging intensifiers (in the Spoken @BNC_2014). Sadly Karin tells me there will be no ‘fucking’ in this talk.
‘proper’ as an adverb is much older than I thought! “I am proper glad you agree with me” (1838)
However, this usage (intensifier before an adjective) has recently become much more common - 82% of users in Spoken @BNC_2014 between 19-29 y.o.
It’s really delightful to hear Karin Aijmer say “proper bollocksed up”
Up next (after lunch) was me! Talking about representativeness in corpus design with some comparisons between the Spoken BNC2014 and the LLC-2
And now @susanreichelt1 talking about using the two Spoken BNCs for sociolinguistic research
Comparing the age of birth of speakers in the Spoken BNC 1994 and 2014. @susanreichelt1 says the area of overlap is exciting as there are equivalent generations in both corpora!
Tracking the rise of ‘kind of’ in recent spoken British English
I think @susanreichelt1 is the first to utter the words “BNC2034”. Ah! Scary! 😦
Up next is @j_culpeper (here being introduced by Carita Paradis) to talk about change in spoken English over a much longer time period!
.@j_culpeper tracking the pragmatic development of English interjections over time
And a look at genre development in plays - from presentational to interactional (modern plays more likely to mimic natural conversation)
And finally our keynote speaker is Herbert Clark on “the uses and misuses of language corpora”. We’re also joined by corpus pioneer Jan Svartvik who will soon provide some closing remarks
Herbert Clark on what is missing from most corpora
Clark makes the point that “you can’t study deictic expressions from a corpus alone”
Herbert Clark’s conclusions
And now closing remarks by Jan Svartvik. He pays tribute to the other three members of the ‘gang of four’, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Randolph Quirk
Of the LLC-2 project, Svartvik congratulates the team, saying that “many projects start, but not all of them complete, and complete you have”
Jan Svartvik gives a very entertaining and enlightening history of the early days of corpus work and the development of the original London Lund Corpus.
That's it! Slides from my talk today are available here: robbielovelinguist.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/love_l…
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