LINGUIST List 25.1050
Mon
Mar 03 2014
Confs: English, Applied
Linguistics/UK
Editor for this issue:
Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org>
Date: 03-Mar-2014
From: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van
Ostade <i.m.tieken
hum.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Cambridge English
Usage (Guides) Symposium
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Cambridge English Usage (Guides) Symposium
Date: 26-Jun-2014 - 27-Jun-2014
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Contact: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Contact Email:
< click here to access email >
Meeting URL:
http://bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2014/03/03/cambridge-english-usage-guides-symposium-registration-now-open/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English
Meeting Description:
On 26 and 27 June 2014, Henriette Hendriks
(Department of Theoretical and Applied
Linguistics and co-chair of the Language
Sciences Initiative), Robin Straaijer and
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (both from the
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) are
organising a symposium at the English Faculty
of the University of Cambridge on English usage
guides and usage problems. Speakers will
include John Allen, Deborah Cameron, David
Crystal, Mignon Fogarty, Rebecca Gowers, Robert
Ilson, Pam Peters, Geoff Pullum, Caroline
Taggart and others, including the members of
the Leiden Bridging the Unbridgeable project.
In addition, the HUGE database of usage guides
and usage problems will be launched, a research
tool developed by Robin Straaijer. All those
interested will be welcome.
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