Plenary speakers

Kate Beeching (University of West of England, UK) Spoken corpora, sociolinguistic variation and semantic change in French

Jenny Cheshire (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) What was it like before like? Discourse-pragmatic variation and discourse style 

Alexandra D’Arcy (University of Victoria, Canada) Counting matters: Corpus and variationist perspectives

Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Discourse markers in the history of English: Corpus evidence