About me
I am Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel. I hold a PhD from Rice University and I did postdoctoral research at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley and at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. I am interested in cognitive linguistics, language change, construction grammar, and corpus linguistics.


Contact
Prof. Dr. Martin Hilpert
Université de Neuchâtel
Institut de langue et littérature anglaises
Espace Tilo Frey 1
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Phone + 41 32 718 19 31
Fax +41 32 718 17 01
martin.hilpert@unine.ch


Education and employment

2015 Professor of English Linguistics, University of Neuchâtel
2012-2015 Assistant Professor of English Linguistics, University of Neuchâtel
2012 Habilitation (Venia Legendi: English Philology), Freiburg University
2008-2012 Junior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
2007 Postdoc, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley (Framenet)
2007 PhD, Rice University, Dept. of Linguistics
2003 MA, Hamburg University, Germany, English Linguistics, Scandinavian Languages


Publications

Pre-publication drafts of most papers can be downloaded from this list. I am happy to send offprints / pdfs from the rest.

2024a. Corpus linguistics meets historical linguistics and construction grammar: how far have we come, and where do we go from here? Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
2024b. With Tanja Säily and Jukka Suomela. New approaches to investigating change in derivational productivity. Gender and internal factors in the development of ‑ity and ‑ness, 1600–1800. In Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer (eds.), Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 8-40.
2024c. Usage-Based Approaches to Germanic Languages. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
2024d. The road ahead for Construction Grammar. Constructions and Frames, 1-23.
2024e. With Qingnan Meng. Measuring the semantic headedness of English blends with token-based semantic vector space modeling: a corpus-based study. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.


2023a. With Ilse Depraetere, Bert Cappelle, et al. (eds.) Models of Modals From Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics to Machine Learning. Berlin: de Gruyter. Read a review here.
2023b. With Susanne Flach and Bert Cappelle. You must/have to choose: Experimenting with choices between near-synonymous modals. In Depraetere et al., Models of Modals From Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics to Machine Learning. Berlin: de Gruyter, 149-176.
2023c. With Susanne Flach. Modals in the network model of Construction Grammar. In Depraetere et al., Models of Modals From Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics to Machine Learning. Berlin: de Gruyter, 254-270.
2023d. With David Correia Saavedra and Jennifer Rains. Meaning differences between English clippings and their source words: A corpus-based study. ICAME journal 47/1. Open Access download.
2023e. With David Correia Saavedra and Jennifer Rains. Investigating English clippings experimentally: How do speakers choose between consonant-final and vowel-final clippings? CogniTextes 24. Open Access download.

2022a. With Florent Perek. You don't get to see that every day: On the development of permissive get. Constructions and Frames 14/1, 14-41.
2022b. With Susanne Flach. A case of constructional contamination in English: Modified noun phrases influence adverb placement in the passive. In Krawczak, Karolina, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel (eds.), Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from cognitive linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2022c. With Susanne Flach (eds.), Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New perspectives on variability and change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Read a review here.

2021a. Information structure. In Bas Aarts, April MacMahon, and Lars Hinrichs (eds.), Handbook of English Linguistics. New York: Wiley, 229-248.
2021b. With Dámian E. Blasi. Fixed-effects regression modeling. In Magali Paquot and Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), A practical handbook of corpus linguistics. Berlin and New York: Springer, 505-534.
2021c. Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar. Leiden: Brill. Open Access download. Read reviews here or here.
2021d. With David Correia Saavedra and Jennifer Rains. A multivariate approach to English clippings. Glossa 6/1. Open Access download.
2021e. With Ilse Depraetere and Bert Cappelle (eds.). Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2020a. Constructional approaches. In Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar Oxford: Oxford University Press, 106-123.
2020b. The great temptation: What diachronic corpus data do and do not reveal about social change. In Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola (eds.), Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 3-28.
2020c. With Samuel Bourgeois. Intersubjectification in constructional change: From confrontation to solidarity in the "Sarcastic much?" construction. Constructions and Frames 12/1, 96120.
2020d. With Susanne Flach. Disentangling modal meanings with distributional semantics. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.

2019a. Lexicalization in morphology. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
2019b. Construction Grammar and its application to English. Second edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
2019c. Higher-order schemas in morphology: What they are, how they work, and where to find them. Word Structure 12/3, 261-273.

2018a. Wie viele Konstruktionen stecken in einem Wortbildungsmuster? Eine Problematisierung des Produktivitätsbegriffs aus konstruktionsgrammatischer Sicht. In Stefan Engelberg, Henning Lobin, Kathrin Steyer, und Sascha Wolfer (eds.), IDS Jahrbuch 2017. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2018b. Three open questions in Diachronic Construction Grammar. In Evie Coussé, Peter Andersson, and Joel Olofsson (eds.), Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 21-39.
2018c. With Margaret Tudeau-Clayton. The Challenge of Change. Swiss Papers in English Language and Linguistics, Vol. 36. Tübingen: Narr.

2017a. With Holger Diessel. Entrenchment in construction grammar. In Hans-Jörg Schmid (ed.), Entrenchment and the psychology of language learning: How we reorganize and adapt linguistic knowledge. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 57-74.
2017b. With David Correia Saavedra. The unidirectionality of semantic changes in grammaticalization: An experimental approach to the asymmetric priming hypothesis. English Language and Linguistics.
2017c. With Christoph Rühlemann. Colloquialization in journalistic writing: Investigating inserts in TIME magazine with a focus on well. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18/1.
2017d. Psycholinguistic perspectives. In Laurel Brinton (ed.) English Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 70-95.
2017e. Frequencies in diachronic corpora and knowledge of language. In Marianne Hundt, Simone Pfenninger, and Sandra Mollin (eds.), The Changing English Language - Psycholinguistic Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 49-68.
2017f. With David Correia Saavedra. Why are grammatical elements more evenly dispersed than lexical elements? Assessing the roles of frequency and semantic generality. Corpora 12/3, 369-392.
2017g. With David Correia Saavedra. Using token-based semantic vector spaces for corpus-linguistic analyses: From practical applications to tests of theoretical claims. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
2017h. Text frequency does not correlate with priming sensitivity. A response to De Smet and Van de Velde. English Language and Linguistics 21/2, 341-347.
2017i. Historical Sociolinguistics and Construction Grammar: From mutual challenges to mutual benefits. In Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin & Anita Auer (eds.) 2017. Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 217-237.
2017j. With Florent Perek. A distributional semantic approach to the periodization of change in the productivity of constructions. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22/4, 490-520.

2016a. With Stefan Th. Gries. Quantitative approaches to diachronic corpus linguistics. In Merja Kytö and Paivi Pahta (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 36-53.
2016b. With Hubert Cuyckens. How do corpus-based techniques advance description and theory in English historical linguistics? An introduction to the special issue. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 12/1, 1-6.
2016c. Change in modal meanings: Another look at the shifting collocates of may. Constructions and Frames 8/1, 66-85.
2016d. With Malgorzata Fabiszak and Karolina Krawczak. Usage-based cognitive-functional linguistics: From theory to method and back again. Folia Linguistica 50/2, 345-354.
2016e. With Karolina Krawczak and Malgorzata Fabiszak. A corpus-based, cross-linguistic approach to mental predicates and their complementation: Performativity and descriptivity vis-à-vis boundedness and picturability. Folia Linguistica 50/2, 475-506.
2016f. With Holger Diessel. Frequency effects in grammar. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.

2015a. From hand-carved to computer-based: Noun-participle compounding and the upward-strengthening hypothesis. Cognitive Linguistics 26/1, 1-36.
2015b. Kollaborative Insubordination in gesprochenem Englisch: Konstruktion oder Umgang mit Konstruktionen? In Lasch, Alexander and Alexander Ziem (eds.), Konstruktionsgrammatik IV. Konstruktionen und Konventionen als kognitive Routinen. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 25-40.
2015c. Hilpert, Martin, Jan-Ola Ostman, Christine Mertzlufft, Michael Rießler and Janet Duke (eds.), New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2015d. With Jan-Ola Ostman, Christine Mertzlufft, Michael Rießler and Janet Duke. Introducing new trends in Nordic linguistic research. In Hilpert, Martin, Jan-Ola Ostman, Christine Mertzlufft, Michael Rießler and Janet Duke (eds.) New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2015e. Historical Linguistics. In Ewa Dabrowska and Dagmar Divjak (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
2015f. With Christian Mair. Grammatical change. In Douglas Biber and Randi Reppen (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 180-200.
2015g. With Florent Perek. Meaning change in a petri dish: constructions, semantic vector spaces, and motion charts. Linguistics Vanguard.

2014a. Construction Grammar and its application to English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Read reviews here, here, here, here, or here.
2014b. Collostructional Analysis: Measuring associations between constructions and lexical elements. In Dylan Glynn and Justyna Robinson (eds.), Polysemy and Synonymy. Corpus Methods and Applications in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 391-404.
2014c. Susanne Flach and Martin Hilpert (eds.), Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Vol. 2. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2014d. With Jan-Ola Ostman (eds.) Constructions and Frames 6/2. Special issue on Constructions across Grammars.
2014e. With Jan-Ola Ostman. Introduction: Reflections on Constructions across Grammars. Constructions and Frames 6/2, 137-142.
2014f. With Florent Perek. Constructional tolerance: Are argument structure constructions equally powerful across languages? Constructions and Frames 6/2, 266-304.

2013a Constructional Change in English: Developments in Allomorphy, Word Formation, and Syntax. [Studies in English Language] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Read reviews here, here, here, here, here, or, if you speak Russian, here.
2013b Corpus-based approaches to constructional change. In Graeme Trousdale & Thomas Hoffmann (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 458-477.
2013c. Adrian Sprenger, Sebastian Weber, Mostafa Zarei, Rudolf Engelke, Juliana M. Nascimento, Christine Gretzmeier, Martin Hilpert, Melanie Boerries, Cristina Has, Hauke Busch, Leena Bruckner-Tuderman and Jörn Dengjel. Consistency of the proteome in primary human keratinocytes with respect to gender, age, and skin localization. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.
2013d. Satz und Text. In Peter Auer et al., Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft, Stuttgart: Metzler.
2013e. Auer, Peter, Martin Hilpert, Anja Stukenbrock & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds.) Space in language and linguistics: geographical, interactional, and cognitive perspectives [Linguae et Litterae] Berlin: de Gruyter.
2013f. With Peter Auer, Anja Stukenbrock & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. Integrating the perspectives on language and space. In Auer, Peter, Martin Hilpert, Anja Stukenbrock & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds.) Space in language and linguistics: geographical, interactional, and cognitive perspectives [Linguae et Litterae] Berlin: de Gruyter.

2012a. Diachronic collostructional analysis. How to use it, and how to deal with confounding factors. In J. Robynson and K. Allan (eds.), Current Methods in Historical Semantics, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 133-160.
2012b. With Stefan Th. Gries. Variability-based neighbor clustering: a bottom-up approach to periodization in historical linguistics. In Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (eds.), The Oxford handbook of the history of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 134-144.
2012c. Diachronic collostructional analysis meets the noun phrase. Studying many a noun in COHA. In Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (eds.), The Oxford handbook of the history of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 233-244.
2012d. Die englischen Modalverben im Daumenkino: Zur dynamischen Visualisierung von Phänomenen des Sprachwandels. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 42. Jg., 169, 67-82.

2011a. Was ist Konstruktionswandel? In Alexander Ziem and Alexander Lasch (eds.), Konstruktionsgrammatik III: Aktuelle Fragen und Lösungsansätze., Tübingen: Stauffenberg, 59-76.
2011b. Grammaticalization in Germanic Languages. In Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticatization. Oxford: OUP, 708-718.
2011c. A cognitive linguistic perspective on counterfactuality. In M. Butter, D. Birke, and T. Köppe (eds.), Counterfactual thinking / counterfactual writing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 95-111.
2011d. Dynamic visualizations of language change: Motion charts on the basis of bivariate and multivariate data from diachronic corpora. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16/4, 435-461.

2010a. What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis? Verb-first conditionals in written German and Swedish. In E.C. Traugott and G. Trousdale (eds.), Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
2010b. An empirical approach to the use and comprehension of mixed metaphors. Review of Cognitive Linguistics. 8/1, 66-92.
2010c. With A. Arppe, G. Gilquin, D. Glynn and A. Zeschel. Cognitive Corpus Linguistics: Five points of debate on current theory and methodology. Corpora 5/2, 1-27.
2010d. With Stefan Th. Gries. Modeling diachronic change in the third person singular: a multifactorial, verb- and author-specific exploratory approach. English Language and Linguistics 14/3, 293-320.
2010e. The force dynamics of English complement clauses: A usage-based account. In K. Fischer and D. Glynn (eds.), Quantitative methods in cognitive semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 155-178.
2010f. Comparing Comparatives. A corpus-based study of comparative constructions in English and Swedish. In H. Boas (ed.), Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 21-42.
2010g. Chained Metonymies, In J. Newman and S.A. Rice (eds), Experimental and Empirical Methods in Cognitive Functional Research. Stanford: CSLI, 181-194.
2010h. Danish ville and English will: Two futures with a similar past, but a different present. In Hans Goetzsche (ed.), Memory, Mind, and Lanugage Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 179-192.

2009a. The German mit-predicative construction. Constructions and Frames 1/1, 29-55.
2009b. With Chris Koops. The co-evolution of syntactic and pragmatic complexity: diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudoclefts. In Talmy Givon and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), Syntactic Complexity, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 215-238.
2009c. With Stefan Th. Gries. Assessing frequency changes in multi-stage diachronic corpora: Applications for historical corpus linguistics and the study of language acquisition. Literary and Linguistic Computing 24/4, 385-401.

2008a. Germanic Future Constructions A Usage-based Approach to Language Change. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Read reviews here, here, here, or here.
2008b. New evidence against the modularity of grammar: Constructions, collocations, and speech perception. Cognitive Linguistics 19/3, 391-411.
2008c. Where did this future come from? The constructional grammaticalization of Swedish komma att V. In A. Bergs and G. Diewald (eds.), Constructions and Language Change. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 105-129.
2008d. With Chris Koops. A quantitative approach to the development of complex predicates: The case of Swedish Pseudo-Coordination with sitta 'sit'. Diachronica 25/2, 242-261. Republished 2009 in Talmy Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.),Syntactic Complexity, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 145-162.
2008e. The English comparative - language structure and language use. English Language and Linguistics 12/3, 395-417.
2008f. With Stefan Th. Gries. The identification of stages in diachronic data: variability-based neighbor clustering. Corpora 3/1, 59-81.

2007a. Chained metonymies in lexicon and grammar. A cross-linguistic perspective on body part terms. In G. Radden et al. (eds.), Aspects of Meaning Construction. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 77-98.
2007b. Just because it's new doesn't mean people will notice it. English Today 23, 29-33.

2006a. Keeping an eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns, In Anatol Stefanowitsch and Stefan Thomas Gries (eds), Corpus-based Approches to Metaphor and Metonymy. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 123-52.
2006b. The lexical category auxiliary in colloquial Sinhala. UCSB working papers in linguistics. Santa Barbara: UCSB.
2006c. Distinctive collexeme analysis and diachrony. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2/2, 243-57.
2006d. A synchronic perspective on the grammaticalization of Swedish future constructions. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 29/2, 151-73.
2006e. Auxiliaries in spoken Sinhala. Functions of Language 13/2, 229-55.
2006f. On Swedish Future Constructions, Proceedings of the 6th High Desert Linguistics Society meeting. Albuquerque: HDLS.

2005a. A diachronic perspective on concessive constructions with just because, In Adam Makkai, William J. Sullivan, and Arle R. Lommel (eds), LACUS Forum XXXI: Interconnections. Houston: LACUS, 67-81.
2005b. From Causality to Concessivity: The Story of just because, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 11.1, Proceedings of the 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia: PWPL, 85-99.


Reviews

2022. Book review of Laporte, Samantha. (2021). Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes. A Constructional and Variationist Approach to Verb Patterning. Research in Corpus Linguistics.
2020. Book review of Bisang, Walter and Andrej Malchukov (eds.) (2019). Unity and diversity in grammaticalization scenarios. Diachronica 37/1, 127-132.
2019. Book review of Goldberg, Adele (2019). Explain me this. Lamicus.
2017. Book review of Roberts, Ian (2017). The Wonders of Language. Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft.
2016. Book review of Moisl, Hermann (2015). Cluster analysis for corpus linguistics. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21/4.
2015a. Book review of Butler, Christopher S. & Francisco Gonzálvez-García (2014) Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space. Folia Linguistica.
2015b. Book review of Hendrik de Smet (2013) Spreading Patterns. Diffusional change in the English system of complementation. English Text Construction.
2014a. Book review of John R. Taylor (2012) The Mental Corpus. Functions of Language 21/1, 119-126.
2014b. Book review of Stefan Thim (2012) Phrasal Verbs. The English Verb-Particle Construction and its History. Anglia 132/2, 374-379.
2014c. Book review of Laura A. Janda (ed.) (2013) Cognitive Linguistics: The Quantitative Turn. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik.
2013a. Book review of B. Aarts et al. (2012) The Verb Phrase in English. Cercles.
2013b. Book review of Steffen Höder (2010) Sprachausbau im Sprachkontakt. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 70, 240-244
2010. Review of The Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English (2007) UCL Survey of English Usage. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 6/1, 105-124.
2008a. Book notice on F.J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibañez (ed.) (2005) Annual review of cognitive linguistics. Vol. 3. eLanguage.
2008b. Book notice on Nick Riemer (2005) The semantics of polysemy: Reading meaning in English and Warlpiri. eLanguage.
2008c. Book review of Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.) (2007) Connectives in the History of English. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
2007a. Book review of Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Ostman (eds.) (2004) Construction Grammar in Cross-Language Perspective. Studies in Language.
2007b. Book notice of Anna Vogel (2004) Swedish dimensional adjectives. Language. 83/3, 692-693.
2006a. Book review of Gregory D.S. Anderson (2006) Auxiliary verb constructions. cognitivelinguistics.org
2006b. Book review of Hans Lindquist and Christian Mair (eds.) (2004) Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English. Studies in Language 30/1, 225-229.
2006c. Book review of Adele E. Goldberg (2006) Constructions at work. The nature of generalization in language. cognitivelinguistics.org
2006d. Book review of Sabine Krämer (2006) Synchrone Analyse als Fenster zur Diachronie. Die Grammatikalisierung von Werden und Infinitiv. Linguist List.


Peer review

 Australian Journal of Linguistics
Belgian Journal of Linguistics
The Blackwell Language and Linguistics Compass
Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Cognitextes
Cognitive Linguistics
Constructions and Frames
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
Diachronica
English Language and Linguistics
Folia Linguistica
Folia Linguistica Historica
French Journal of English Linguistics
Glossa
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
Journal of Historical Linguistics
Journal of English Linguistics
Language
Language Variation and Change
Linguistics
Literary and Linguistic Computing
Multilingua
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
PLoS One
Spatial Cognition and Computation
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies
Studies in Language
Translation, Cognition and Behavior
Word Structure

Oxford University Press
Mouton de Gruyter
John Benjamins
Brill Publishers

SNF (Fonds National Suisse, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds)
ERC (European Research Council)
DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
FWF (Osterreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds)
The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation
The Academy of Finland
National Science Center Poland
Hcéres
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
The KU Leuven Research Council
Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Hercules Stichting
Leibniz Stiftung
Deutsche Studienstiftung



Plenary lectures

October 2024. Investing connectivity change in the constructional network. 5th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai.
June 2024. Contrasting clippings in English and French: A constructional perspective. 4th international VariaR conference, Montpellier.

October 2023. What can Construction Grammar offer to contrastive linguistics? 15th National Conference of Comparative Studies between English and Chinese in China, Chongqing.
January 2023. Do clippings differ semantically from their source words? A corpus-based intro/introduction. Modeling 23, Vigo, Spain.

May 2022. Life is too short for long words. Studying English clippings in usage and in the laboratory. ISTAL 25, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Dec 2021. Constructional change and distributional semantics. Keynote at the Young Scholar Symposium of the Linguistic Society of Korea.
Oct 2021. Sarcastic much? How to lose friends and alienate people. Keynote at the VI Jornada internacional de lingüística, Universidade del Quindío, Colombia.
Sep 2021. The road ahead for Construction Grammar: Connections, controversies, and collaborations. Keynote at the 2021 meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association.

Oct 2020. Short and sweet: What we can learn from 2400 English clippings. Keynote at the 2020 International Conference on English Linguistics, Seoul, Korea.
May 2020. Constructions and their collocates. Keynote at the 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, May 28 2020. Watch it on YouTube.

Nov 2019. Constructions across grammars. 1st International Conference for Young Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics (YRCL), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Nov 2019. Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar. Beihang University, China.
Aug 2019. Causation, Culture, and Constructional Change. 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Nishinomiya, Japan.

Jul 2018. Intersubjectification in constructional change: From confrontation to solidarity in the 'sarcastic much?' construction. International Conference on Construction Grammar-10, Paris.
June 2018. The great temptation. What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change. ICAME 39, Tampere University.
Jan 2018. La grammaticalisation et l'amorçage asymétrique. Colloque de la société internationale de diachronie du français. Université de Neuchâtel.

Sep 2017. The asymmetric priming hypothesis revisited. 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. Vigo University.
Sep 2017. How many constructions are there in a word formation process? Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2017. Rzeszow University.
Sep 2017. Re-thinking productivity: A constructional perspective. SLE 50, Zurich University.
Jul 2017. The asymmetric priming hypothesis revisited. The 3rd usage-based linguistics conference. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Tel Aviv University.
Mar 2017. Wieviele Konstruktionen stecken in einem Wortbildungsmuster? Eine Problematisierung des Produktivitätsbegriffs aus konstruktionsgrammatischer Sicht. IDS Jahrestagung, Mannheim.

Oct 2016. Three open questions in diachronic construction grammar. International Conference on Construction Grammar-9, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.

Oct 2015. Approaching grammaticalization from a constructional perspective: The upward-strengthening hypothesis. Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar. Göteborg University.


Presentations (since 2013)

 November 2024. Contrasting clippings in English and French: A constructional perspective. Kiel University.
October 2024. Contrasting clippings in English and French: A constructional perspective. City University Hong Kong.
August 2024. A new perspective on connectivity change in a network of constructions. ICCG13, Gothenburg.

September 2023. Why are grammatical elements more evenly dispersed than lexical elements? A reanalysis with a new dispersion measure. Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier.
August 2023. With David Correia Saavedra and Jennifer Rains. English clippings and their source words: A constructional perspective. ICLC 16, University of Düsseldorf, Germany.
July 2023. With David Correia Saavedra and Jennifer Rains. Quantifying meaning differences between English clippings and their source words. QUALICO 2023, Université de Lausanne.
June 2023. Do clippings differ semantically from their source words? A corpus-based intro/introduction. CLASS Advanced Methods School, City University, Hong Kong.
Feb 2023. With Tanja Säily and Jukka Suomela. The Decline of -ment: Was Gender a Factor? Symposium: Historical English Word-Formation, LMU Munich, Germany.

Dec 2022. Does 'fridge' mean the same thing as 'refrigerator'? Distributional semantics and the meaning of English clippings. Linguistic Colloquium, LMU Munich, Germany.
April 2022. Life is too short for long words. Studying English clippings in usage and in the laboratory. Charles University Prague.

Dec 2021. Networks all the way down? Reflections on constructions and the links between them. Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Nov 2021. Behind the words. On the new cognitive science of language. Poznan University.
Oct 2021. What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change. Moscow State Linguistic University.
Oct 2021. Language change. University of Kragujevac, Serbia.
Aug 2021. With Tanja Säily and Jukka Suomela. New approaches to investigating change in derivational productivity. ICAME 42, Dortmund, Germany.
Aug 2021. With David Correia Saavedra and Jennifer Rains. English back-clippings and fore-clippings: What can we learn from corpus data that the dictionaries don't tell us? ICAME 42, Dortmund, Germany.
June 2021. With Susanne Flach. Modals in the network model of Construction Grammar. ISLE 6, Joensuu, Finland.

May 2020. Diachronic Corpora, Culture, and Constructional Change. Abralin ao vivo. Watch it on YouTube.

Nov 2019. Five lectures on cognitive corpus linguistics. Henan University, China.
Oct 2019. Variability-based neighbor clustering with historical corpus data: Results, new applications and future directions. Maynooth University.
Oct 2019. Variabile adverb placement in the English passive. With Susanne Flach. Potsdam University.
May 2019. Doing unruly things together: Collaborative insubordination. With Susanne Flach. Basel University.
Mar 2019. Using token-based semantic vector spaces for corpus-linguistic analyses. With Susanne Flach. Potsdam University.

Sep 2018. Kognitive Semantik, diachrone Korpora, und sozialer Wandel. LMU München.
Sep 2018. With Florent Perek. You don't get to see that every day. On the rise of permissive 'get' in American English. SLE 51, Tallinn University.
June 2018. With Florent Perek. On the history of permissive 'get' in American English: New quantitative evidence. ICAME 39, Tampere University.
April 2018. Sarcastic much? LUCL Colloquium, Leiden University.
Feb 2018. The asymmetric priming hypothesis revisited. The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen.

Nov 2017. Sarcastic much? Workshop on Gradience and constructional change, Edinburgh University.
Jun 2017. Neue digitale Methoden in der Sprachwissenschaft: Distributionelle Semantik und was man damit machen kann. Universität Mainz.
Feb 2017. Studying meaning change with diachronic corpora: Another look at the English Modals. Freie Universität Berlin.
Jan 2017. Offene Fragen in der (diachronen) Konstruktionsgrammatik. Universität Mainz.

Nov 2016. Wortbildungswandel aus konstruktionsgrammatischer Sicht: Wie sich Netzwerke aus sprachlichen Mustern verändern. Workshop on Wortbildungswandel, Universität Münster.
Oct 2016. Collostructional Analysis. CUSO Ecole doctorale: Linguistique de corpus - regards en synchronie et en diachronie. Les Diablerets.
Sep 2016. Approaches to productivity from a constructional perspective. Ghent University.
Sep 2016. Tracking constructional change with diachronic corpora. Workshop on Morphosyntactic Change Through Corpora in German and Beyond. Cambridge University.
Sep 2016. With David Correia Saavedra. Does go prime be going to but not vice versa? Am empirical approach to the asymmetric priming hypothesis. ISLE, Poznan.
Sep 2016. With David Correia Saavedra. Does go prime be going to but not vice versa? Am empirical approach to the asymmetric priming hypothesis. SLE, Naples.
Jun 2016. Studying meaning change with diachronic corpora: Another look at the English Modals. Workshop on Historical Corpus Linguistics: Methods and Applications. Saarbrücken University.
Jun 2016. Asymmetric priming as a mechanism of grammatical development. Workshop on mechanisms of grammatical change, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Feb 2016. Auf dem Weg zu einem konstruktionsgrammatischen Verständnis von Grammatikalisierung: Die Hypothese der Aufwärts-Aktivierung. Historische Konstruktionsgrammatik: Konvergenzen und Divergenzen im Sprach- und Konstruktionswandel. Düsseldorf.
Jan 2016. Analyzing language change with motion charts. Winter School: ALPES.

Dec 2015. Meaning change in a petri dish: Constructions, semantic vector spaces, and motion charts. Language in Contrast, Paris-8.
Nov 2015. Visualizing language change. Pratiques des Humanités digitales. Université de Lausanne.
Nov 2015. How to blend MALT. MALT symposium - Methods and Linguistic Theories. Universität Bamberg.
Oct 2015. Grammaticalization as change in a constructional network: Saliency, frequency, and the upward-strengthening hypothesis. Frequency effects in Construction Grammar. Freiburg University.
Sep 2015. Meaning change in a petri dish: Constructions, semantic vector spaces, and motion charts. Uppsala University.
Aug 2015. Logistische Regression. Sommerschule des Deutschen Romanistenverbandes, Uni Mainz.
Feb 2015. More about motion charts. Third International Winter School in Finno-Ugric Studies, Munich.

Nov 2014. Meaning change in a petri dish: Constructions, semantic vector spaces, and motion charts. Visuelle Linguistik: Theorie und Anwendung von Visualisierungen in der Sprachwissenschaft, Hannover.
Oct 2014. Constructional change in noun-participle compounding. DGKL 6, Erlangen.
Oct 2014. With Malgorzata Fabiszak and Karolina Krawczak. A corpus-based quantitative approach to mental predicates and their complementation: A cross-linguistic perspective. DGKL 6, Erlangen.
Oct 2014. 30 years of Cognitive Linguistics - an attempt at an overview. Universität Zürich.
Oct 2014. Can asymmetric priming explain semantic change in grammaticalization? Université de Caen.
Sep 2014. More flying bubbles. Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics, Universität Tübingen.
Sep 2014. The big to-do-list. Challenges for 21st century linguistics. SLE, Poznan.
Sep 2014. The development of English noun-participle compounding: a corpus-based and theory-informed study. SLE, Poznan.
Sep 2014. Constructional change in noun-participle compounding. ICCG 8, Osnabrück.
Aug 2014. Frequency changes in diachronic corpora and changes in speakers' knowledge of language. ISLE, Zürich.
Aug 2014. Recent change in modal meanings: Evidence from collocational shifts. ISLE, Zürich.
July 2014. Relating language change to language processing: A second look at asymmetric priming. ICEHL, KU Leuven.
May 2014. Grammatische Konstruktionen und ihre Kollokate: Eine Perspektive auf zehn Jahre Kollostruktionsanalyse. Universität Basel.
April 2014. It's not rocket surgery! A linguistic look at mixed metaphors. SAUTE meeting, Universität Bern.
Mar 2014. From poverty-stricken to government-funded. On the diachrony of English noun-participle compounding. Die Rolle von Kombinationsbeschränkungen im Sprachwandel: Diachronie von Passivkonstruktionen, Universität Hannover.
Feb 2014. What do misunderstanding and consensus formation have to do with language change? Workshop on the Emergence of Consensus and Misunderstanding, La Sapienza, Rome.

Nov 2013. Rocket surgery: More on mixed metaphors. Séminaire STL, Université Lille-3.
Nov 2013. L'analyse du changement linguistique: de nouvelle méthodes, de nouvelles perspectives. Inaugural lecture, Université de Neuchâtel.
Oct 2013. Developing a constructional perspective on language change. Research seminar in linguistics, University of Geneva.
Sept 2013. Modelling constructional change. International Summer School on Agent-based Computational Models of Creativity, Cortona Italy.
Sept 2013. Using motion charts for hypothesis-testing and the exploration of language change. Humboldt-Universität Berlin.
June 2013. Practical Workshop on Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research. IWoDA 2013, University of Santiago de Compostela.
May 2013. Change in tense constructions: what can we learn from diachronic corpora? Gothenburg University.
May 2013. Applying Construction Grammar to the analysis of language change: Why? How? With what results? Gothenburg University.
May 2013. Cognition, corpora, and language change: How the study of diachronic variation fits into the cognitive linguistic enterprise. Plenary lecture at the AFLICO conference, Université Lille-3.
April 2013. Practical Workshop on Linguistic Data Analysis. ISLE spring school at the English department of Freiburg University.
April 2013. Language variation and change by the numbers. Plenary lecture at the ISLE spring school at the English department of Freiburg University.
Mar 2013. What constructions are good for: reflections on functionality in language. KU Leuven.
Feb 2013. A new look at asymmetric priming and its role in language change. SWELL meeting, Zurich.


Grants

2024 SNF Grant 10.001.062 (Detecting connectivity changes inductively in a network of constructions)
2019 SNF Grant 100015_188788 ("Clipping in a cross-linguistic perspective")
2016 SNF Grant 100012L/169490/1 ("Re-thinking English Modal Constructions: From feature-based paradigms to usage-based probabilistic representations")
2014 Cogito Foundation Grant 14-132-R ("Opinion profile construction from social media. A case of study of restaurant reviews") [Co-PI with Prof. Hatem Ghorbel, HE-ARC Neuchâtel]
2013 SNF Grant 100015_149176/1 ("Why is there regularity in grammatical semantic change? Reassessing the explanatory power of asymmetric priming")
2013 Sciex Grant 12.237 (Postdoctoral fellowship to Dr. Karolina Krawczak)
2012 DFG Grant HI 1090/4-1 ("Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik")
2012 DFG Grant AU 72/25-1 ("International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics")[co-applicant, PI: Prof. Peter Auer]
2011 DFG Grant HI 1090/3-1 ("Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics - A short intensive spring school with a highly interactive format")


Teaching (since 2013)

2024 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2024 Undergraduate seminar: Introduction to bilingualism, Université de Neuchâtel.
2024 Undergraduate lecture: Englishes around the World, Université de Neuchâtel.
2024 Master seminar: Methodological foundations, Université de Neuchâtel.


2023 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2023 Undergraduate seminar: Second Language Acquisition, Université de Neuchâtel.
2023 Undergraduate lecture: Corpus Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2023 Master seminar: Methodological foundations, Université de Neuchâtel.


2022 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2022 Undergraduate seminar: Sociolinguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2022 Undergraduate lecture: Psycholinguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2022 Undergraduate seminar: First Language Acquisition, Université de Neuchâtel.
2021 Master seminar: Methodological foundations, Université de Neuchâtel.

2021 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2021 Master seminar: Methodological foundations, Université de Neuchâtel.
2021 Undergraduate seminar: Bilingualism, Université de Neuchâtel.
2021 Undergraduate seminar: Cognitive Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.

2020 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2020 Master seminar: Methodological foundations, Université de Neuchâtel.
2020 Master seminar: Research methods, Université de Neuchâtel.
2020 Undergraduate seminar: Corpus Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2020 Undergraduate seminar: Englishes around the World, Université de Neuchâtel.
2020 Undergraduate seminar: First Language Acquisition, Université de Neuchâtel.

2019 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2019 Master seminar: Corpus Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2019 Undergraduate seminar: Psycholinguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2019 Undergraduate seminar: Psycholinguistics, Université de Lausanne.
2019 Master seminar: Construction Grammar, Université de Neuchâtel.
2019 Undergraduate seminar: Sociolinguistics, Université de Lausanne.
2019 Undergraduate seminar: Second Language Acquisition, Université de Neuchâtel.

2018 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2018 Master seminar: Research Methods, Université de Neuchâtel.
2018 Undergraduate seminar: Bilingualism, Université de Neuchâtel.
2018 Undergraduate seminar: Contrastive Linguistics: English-French, Université de Neuchâtel.
2018 Undergraduate seminar: Grammaticalization and Language Change, Universität Basel.
2018 Undergraduate seminar: Cognitive Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2018 Undergraduate seminar: Human language and animal communication, Université de Neuchâtel.
2018 Master seminar: Grammaticalization and Language Change, Université de Neuchâtel.

2017 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2017 Master seminar: Language Variation, Université de Neuchâtel.
2017 Undergraduate seminar: Sociolinguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2017 Undergraduate seminar: Second Language Acquisition, Université de Neuchâtel.
2017 Master seminar: Controversies in Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2017 Undergraduate seminar: Conversation Analysis, Université de Neuchâtel.
2017 Undergraduate seminar: First Language Acquisition, Université de Neuchâtel.

2016 Lecture: Varieties of English, Université de Neuchâtel.
2016 Master seminar: Construction Grammar, Université de Neuchâtel.
2016 Undergraduate seminar: Psycholinguistics, Université de Lausanne.
2016 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2016 Lecture: Language Contact, Université de Neuchâtel.
2016 Undergraduate seminar: Psycholinguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2016 Master seminar: Research methods in psycholinguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.

2015 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2015 Lecture: Cognitive Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2015 Lecture: Cognitive Linguistics, Universität Zürich
2015 Undergraduate seminar: First language acquisition, Université de Neuchâtel.
2015 Undergraduate seminar: Bilingualism, Université de Neuchâtel.
2015 Master seminar: Linguistic data analysis with corpora, Université de Neuchâtel.
2015 Doctoral seminar: Historical Linguistics, LOT summer school

2014 Undergraduate seminar: Advanced Language Study, Université de Neuchâtel.
2014 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2014 Undergraduate seminar: Sociolinguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2014 Lecture: Second Language Acquisition, Université de Neuchâtel.

2013 Graduate semiar: Construction Grammar, Université Lille-3.
2013 Lecture: Varieties of English, Université de Neuchâtel.
2013 Undergraduate seminar: Advanced Language Study, Université de Neuchâtel.
2013 Lecture: Introduction to English Linguistics, Université de Neuchâtel.
2013 Graduate seminar: First language acquisition, Université de Neuchâtel.




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