Events

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Monthly Reading Seminar

Each month, the project organizes a reading seminar related to language productivity. Interested UGent affiliates can find more information on the seminar’s Ufora course.

Past readings:

  • Goldberg (2019), Explain Me This
  • Barðdal (2008), Productivity: Evidence from Case & Argument Structure in Icelandic
  • Barðdal & Gildea (2015), “Diachronic construction grammar: Epistemological context, basic assumptions, and historical implications”
  • Baayen (2009), “Corpus linguistics in morphology: morphological productivity”
  • Zeldes (2012), Productivity in Argument Selection: From Morphology to Syntax
  • Heylen et al. (2015), “Monitoring polysemy: Word space models as a tool for large-scale lexical semantic analysis”
  • Perek (2016), “Using distributional semantics to study syntactic productivity in diachrony: A case study”
  • Hilpert & Perek (2015), “Meaning change in a petri dish: Constructions, semantic vector spaces, and motion charts” &
    Perek (2016), “Recent change in the productivity and schematicity of the way-construction: A distributional semantic analysis”
  • Perek & Hilpert (2017), “A distributional semantic approach to the periodisation of change in the productivity of constructions” &
    Levshina & Heylen (2014), “A radically data-driven Construction Grammar: Experiments with Dutch causative constructions”
  • Pijpops (ms), “Incorporating the multi-level nature of the construction into corpus research”
  • Hilpert (2015), “From hand-carved to computer-based : Noun-participle compounding and the upward strengthening hypothesis”
  • De Smet (2020), “What predicts productivity? From theory to individuals”
  • Bybee (2006), “From usage to grammar: The mind’s response to repetition”
  • Desagulier (2016), “A lesson from associative learning: Asymmetry and productivity in multiple-slot constructions”
  • Gries (2013), “50-something years of work on collocations: What is or should be next…”
  • Schütze (2011), “Linguistic evidence and grammatical theory”
  • Divjak (2017), “The Role of Lexical Frequency in the Acceptability of Syntactic Variants: Evidence From that-Clauses in Polish”
  • Flach (2020), “Schemas and the frequency/acceptability mismatch: Corpus distribution predicts sentence judgments”
  • Gries&Wulf (2009), “Psycholinguistic and corpus-linguistic evidence for L2 constructions”
  • Ungerer (2021), “Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other”
  • Chen & Hartsuiker (2021), “Do particle verbs share a representation with their root verbs? Evidence from structural priming”
  • Rayner (1998), “Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research”
  • Keating & Jegerski (2015), “Experimental designs in sentence processing research”
  • Hennecke & Baayen (2020), “Romance N prep N constructions in visual word recognition. An eye-tracking study of French, Spanish and Portuguese”
  • Kaan (2007), “Event-related potentials and language processing: a brief overview”
  • Thornhill & Van Petten (2012), “Lexical versus conceptual anticipation during sentence processing: Frontal positivity and N400 ERP components”