Invited talks
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.
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.
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.
2016b. Laporte, Samantha. An introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Invited guest lecture, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, 25 January 2016.
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.
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.
Conference presentations
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Workshop convenor
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.