Corpora: Symposium: GRAMMAR & LEXIS

[G. Nelson]

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 at 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 at ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 0207-679-3120
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/
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