Invited talks
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2019. Laporte Samantha. Corpus Linguistics and Construction Grammar: A match made in heaven? Invited talk at the Department of Applied Linguistics of Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA, 19 November 2019.
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2018. Laporte Samantha. Constrained communication in EFL and ESL contexts: Disentangling the competing constraints of norm-orientation and proficiency. Invited guest lecture at the Louvain School of Translation, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 19 December 2018.
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2016a. Laporte, Samantha. Construction Grammar meets Corpus Pattern Analysis: the construction network of high frequency verbs. Invited talk at the Centre for Research on Lexicography, Collocation and Valency, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, 26 January 2016.
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2016b. Laporte, Samantha. An introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Invited guest lecture, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, 25 January 2016.
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2016c. Laporte, Samantha. The lexis-grammar interface as breeding ground for innovations: verb-complementation in second language varieties of English. Invited talk at the Symposium on clause combining, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 23 August 2016.
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2015. Laporte, Samantha. What corpora can do for you: An introduction to corpus methods and corpus tools. Invited three-hour workshop at the Methods and Linguistic Theories Symposium, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany, 27-28 November 2015.
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Conference presentations
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2020a. Accepted. Laporte, Samantha. Light verb constructions in New Englishes: A Construction Grammar approach to nativization. International Conference of Construction Grammar 11, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 19-22 August 2020.
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2020b. Accepted. Laporte, Samantha. Degree of bilingualism and constructional productivity in World Englishes. Georgetown University Roundtable 2020 – Multilingualism: Global North and Global South perspectives, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA, 13-15 mars 2020.
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2020c. Laporte, Samantha & Tove Larsson. Testing the Principle of No Synonymy across levels of abstraction: A constructional account of subject extraposition. Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America 2020 annual meeting, New Orleans, USA, 2-5 January 2020.
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2017a. Laporte, Samantha. Making the most of Construction Grammar: accounting for nativization in second language varieties of English. Poster presentation at the conference ‘Construction Grammar: new advances in theoretical and applied linguistics’, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 12 May 2017.
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2017b. Laporte, Samantha. Light verb constructions in second-language varieties of English: a corpus-based investigation of nativization in Hong Kong English. Light Verb Constructions in Germanic Languages, Université Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium, 17-18 November 2017.
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2017c. Gilquin, Gaëtanelle & Samantha Laporte. Giving students’ writing skills a boost: towards a self-learning platform for an optimized use of online resources. BAAHE conference 2017: Let’s inter-act! Innovative teaching practices in English Studies, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium, 1 December 2017.
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2016. Laporte, Samantha. The schematic to substantive patterning of make in New Englishes: a Construction Grammar approach. ICAME37: Corpus linguistics across cultures, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 25–29 May 2016.
2015a. Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz & Samantha Laporte. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Innovations in Non-native Englishes: a thematic Introduction. ICAME36: Words, words, words, Trier University, Trier, Germany, 27-31 May 2015.
2015b. Laporte, Samantha. Deriving constructions bottom-up: a case for lexically bound mini-constructions. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 13, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 20-25 July 2015.
2013a. Laporte, Samantha & Alison Edwards. World and Learner Englishes: re-evaluating the norm-orientation continuum. ICAME34: English corpus linguistics on the move: applications and implications, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 22-26 May 2013.
2013b. Laporte, Samantha. Innovations in ESL verb-complementation: valency- or construction-based? Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy, Université Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium, 8-9 November 2013.
2013c. Laporte, Samantha. Approaching verb complementation in New Englishes: setting the scene. International Society for the Linguistics of English Spring School 2013, Freiburg, Germany, 15-19 April 2013.
2013d. Laporte, Samantha. Verb complementation patterns across New Englishes. Poster presented at the International Society for the Linguistics of English Spring School 2013, Freiburg, Germany, 15-19 April 2013.
2011a. Laporte, Samantha. Mind the Gap: bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the Making, Learner Corpus Research 2011, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 15-17 September 2011.
2011b. Laporte, Samantha. High-frequency Verbs across World and Learner Englishes, International Association of World Englishes Conference 17, Melbourne, Australia, 23-25 November 2011.
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Workshop convenor
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Co-organizer of the pre-conference workshop Corpus linguistics and linguistic innovations in non-native English varieties at the ICAME 36 conference, Trier, Germany, 27 May 2015, with Sandra C. Deshors and Sandra Götz.