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Forthcoming. "Quite new methods for a rather old issue: visualizing the constructional idiosyncrasies of quite and rather in the BNC with multivariate statistics". ICAME 33, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May 30-June 3, 2012.
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2012. (keynote lecture) "The Vagaries of Frequency". Sorbonne Nouvelle University Graduate Linguistics Symposium (SNUGLS 2012). Paris 3 University - Sorbonne Nouvelle, May 5th, 2012.
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2011. (click on the link to download the handout). "Quantitative measures of cognitive synonymy: a corpus study of English moderators (rather, quite, pretty, and fairly)". Workshop "Empirical approaches to social cognition and emergent language structure" (convenors: D. Glynn et K. Krawczak). 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño (Spain). 8-11 September 2011.
- 2011. "Quantifying (im)politeness in directives: a multifactorial analysis of hedges in American English". Linguistic Impoliteness & Rudeness in Communication and Society. University of Lyons 3, May, 26, 27, 28, 2011.
2011. "Les adverbes de degré rather, quite, pretty et fairly: approche qualitative et quantitative". 51st SAES conference. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 & Université Denis-Diderot-Paris 7, May 20-22 2011.
- 2010. "Intégration conceptuelle, représentation et performativité". AFLiCo Workshop - "What type of cognition for Cognitive Linguistics?". Université of Bordeaux, 4 & 5 juin 2010.
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2009. "Arguments pour une socio-pragmatique des constructions". Plenary talk at PHITECO : « Cognition, communauté(s) et technique : l'émergence et l'institution de normes ». Université Technologique de Compiègne, January 22, 2009. mp3 (in French).
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2008b. "Leaving politeness aside: Construction Grammar and socio-pragmatics as an alternative to Face Theory". 8th Conference of the French Society of Japanese Studies. University Charles de Gaulle – Lille 3.
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2008a. "Constructions, mental representations, and identities: the case of pseudo-directive constructions". International conference Language, Communication and Cognition, August 4-7 2008, Brighton, UK. Handout
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2007. "A cognitive perspective on the indirect framing of directive constructions." 2nd International AFLiCo Conference, Lille, May 9-11, 2007. Handout & PPT
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2006. “Towards a cognitive model of variation and language change centered on constructional fuzziness”. 2nd Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science (Cogsci 2006), 9-13 June, 2006, St. Petersburg, Russia. (St Petersburg State University et Dvortsoviy Most)
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2005. “What does it mean for a construction to be constructed? Cognitive arguments for a 'fuzzy construction grammar'”. First International AFLiCo Conference, Du fait grammatical au fait cognitif (From Gram to Mind), Bordeaux, France, May 19-21, 2005. Handout + powerpoint presentation.
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2004. “Linear versus compositional aspects of form/function reanalysis in the description of intermediate situation types of grammaticalizing constructions”. International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG3), July 7-10, 2004, Marseilles, France.
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2003a. “Want to/wanna: Verbal Polysemy versus Constructional Compositionality”. The 29th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 14-17, 2003, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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2003b. “Emerging Modals : an Integrative Approach”. 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. July 20-25, 2003, University of la Rioja, Logroño, Spain.
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2003c. (Invited speaker). “Grammatical blending and the conceptualization of complex cases of interpretational overlap: the case of want to/wanna”. International Conference in Cognitive Linguistics, Modelling Thought and Constructing Meaning: Cognitive Models in Interaction, November 20-21, 2003, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy.
