Past Events Featuring Constructional Approaches

• Sixth International Construction Grammar Conference (ICCG-6). September 3-5, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic. Organizers: Mirjam Fried (Czech Academy of Sciences), Eva Lehečková (Charles University), Ema Krejčová (Charles University), and Jan Čermák (Charles University). Invited speakers: Stefan Gries, Björn Hansen, Kiki Nikiforidou, Toshio Ohori, Luc Steels, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Gert Webelhuth. Further details can be found at www.constructiongrammar.org/iccg6.

• Tutorial in Fluid Construction Grammar. September 1-2, 2010. The hands-on workshop took take place in Prague, Czech Republic. Organizer: Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels & Sony CSL Paris). Details can be found at the tutorial webpage.

• Embodied language games and construction grammar.  International Summer School, organized by Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels & Sony CSL Paris). August 24 - September 4, 2009, Palazzone di Cortona, Tuscany (Italy). Details can be found at the school webpage.

• Frames and constructions: a conference in honor of Charles J. Fillmore (on the occasion of his 80th birthday).  July 31-Aug 2, 2009. The University of Berkeley.  Invited speakers: Gilles Fauconnier, Mirjam Fried, Paul Kay, George Lakoff, Laura Michaelis, Manfred Pinkal, Dan Slobin. For details see the webpage. 

• Pragmatics in constructions and frames.   Theme session at  the 11th International Pragmatics Association conference. July 12 -17, 2009. Melbourne, Australia. Organizers: Kyoko Hirose Ohara (Keio University) & Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki).

• Framing: from grammar to application.  The 2009 conference of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. 23-24 April 2009. Lessius Antwerp. Invited speakers: Hans Boas, Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Östman, Stef Slembrouck.

• Workshop on Constructions and Variation. October 20-21, 2008. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany. Organized by: Jan-Ola Östman & Peter Auer. Additional details can be found at the workshop's webpage.

• Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar  (ICCG-5). September 26-28, 2008. Austin, Texas. Organized by: Hans C. Boas. Plenary speakers: Johanna Barðdal, Paul Kay, Laura Michaelis, Ivan Sag, Gert Webelhuth.

• Empirical Evidence. Converging approaches to constructional meaning. Workshop at  the 3rd International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. September 25 - 27, 2008. Leipzig, Germany. Organizers: Dylan Glynn (University of Leuven) and Dagmar Divjak (University of Sheffield). Additional details can be found at the workshop's pdf announcement. 

• "Interactional perspectives on Construction Grammar". January 11, 2007. Helsinki, Finland. Organized by Camilla Wide. Invited speakers: Jan Anward, Peter Auer, Mirjam Fried, Per Linell.

• Fourth International Conference on Construction Grammar  (ICCG 4). September 1-3, 2006. Tokyo, Japan. Organized by: Seiko Fujii and Toshio Ohori. Plenary speakers: Collin Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, Adele Goldberg, Yukio Hirose, Knud Lambrecht, Yo Matsumoto, Jan-Ola Östman, Masayoshi Shibatani, Michael Tomasello. For details go to the ICCG 4 homepage.    

• "Constructions and Language Change"", a workshop at the XVIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL; workshop abstracts). Jul 31 – Aug 5,  2005. Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Organized by Gabriele Diewald (Hannover University) and Alexander Bergs (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf).

• "Context in Construction Grammar", a panel session at the 9th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA 9). July 10-15, 2005. Riva del Garda, Italy. Organized by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried.

• Third International Conference on Construction Grammar  (ICCG 3). July  7-10, 2004. Marseille, France. Organized by Henri-José Deulofeu (Delic) and Philippe Blache (CNRS). Plenary speakers: Anne Abeillé, Claire Blanche-Benveniste, Hans C. Boas, Mirjam Fried, Seiko Fujii, Laura Michaelis, Ivan Sag, Michael Tomasello, and Dominique Willems. For details go to the ICCG 3 homepage.

   

• "Constructions", a symposium at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 10, 2004. Boston, MA. Organized by Adele Goldberg. Participants: Joan Bybee, Peter Culicover, Adele Goldberg, Ivan Sag, Mike Tomasello.

• Second International Conference on Construction Grammar  (ICCG 2). September 6-8, 2002. Helsinki, Finland. Organized by Jan-Ola Östman and Jaakko Leino. Plenary speakers: Hans C. Boas, William Croft, Charles J. Fillmore, Mirjam Fried, Adele Goldberg, Paul Kay, Sandra Thompson, and Michael Tomasello. For details, go to the ICCG 2 homepage.

• "Keio Construction Grammar Workshop",  March 18, 2002. Keio University, Japan. For details, go to the workshop's homepage.

• "The Cognitive Organization and Re-organization of Grammatical Constructions", a theme session at the 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 7). July 26, 2001. Santa Barbara, CA. Organized by Jan-Ola Östman and Jaakko Leino. For details, go to the session's homepage.

• "Radical Construction Grammar", a theme session at the 7th International cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 7). July 26, 2001. Santa Barbara, CA. Organized by William Croft.   
  

• "Verbal Constructions in East and Southeast Asian languages: The Interface between Cognitive and Areal Linguistics", a theme session at the 7th International Cognitive Liguistics Conference (ICLC 7). July 26th, 2001. Santa Barbara, CA. Organized by Kaoru Horie, Shoichi Iwasaki, Toshio Ohori, and Kingkarn Thepkanjana. For details, go to the session's homepage.   
  

• First International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG 1). April 6-8, 2001. Berkeley, CA. Organized by Hans Boas and Mirjam Fried. Plenary speakers: Charles J. Fillmore, Seizi Iwata, Paul Kay, George Lakoff, Knud Lambrecht, Ron Langacker, Ivan Sag, and Arnold Zwicky. For details, go to the ICCG 1 homepage.

• Workshop on Construction Grammar. April 5, 2001. A theme session organized by Robert Borsley, Essex University, as part of the Spring 2001 meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. Leeds, Great Britain. Speakers: Farrell Ackerman, Robert Borsley, Peter Culicover, Jasper Holmes, and Andrew Spencer. For details, go to the meeting's homepage.

• "Pragmatic Aspects of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar", a theme session at the 7th International Pragmatics Conference. July 14th, 2000. Budapest, Hungary. Organized by Jan-Ola Östman and Miriam R. L. Petruck. for details, go to the theme's homepage.

• "Studies within Construction Grammar", a workshop at the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics (SCL 18). May 18-20, 2000. Lund, Sweden. Organized by Jóhanna Barðdal and Beatrice Warren.

• "Cognitive and Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Construction Grammar", a theme session at the 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. July 14th, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. Organized by Jan-Ola Östman and Laura Michaelis. For details, go to the theme's homepage.

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