Degrees

Current position (2011 - ):
PhD student and teaching assistant in English language and linguistics

PhD project: Verb Complementation Patterns across New Englishes (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin )

Academic Year 2011-2012 - teaching assistant on the following courses:

• LGERM1121: English language: listening and speaking skills
• LGERM1323: Introduction to English linguistics: phonology and morphology
• LGERM1502: English advanced productive skills II (contrastive analysis and translation)
• LGERM2829: English linguistics: Corpus Linguistics

Phd project: 'Verb Complementation Patterns across New Englishes: a Corpus-based Approach' (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin)

   My Phd project aims at investigating verb complementation patterns across four varieties of New Englishes (Hong Kong, Indian, Jamaican and Singapore
   English) and has 3 main objectives:
     1. Descriptive: what are the innovative features of New in Englishes in verb complementation and to what extent are these innovations shared by the
         varieties under study?
     2. Methodological: which method(s) (Construction Grammar, Pattern Grammar, Corpus Pattern Analysis) allow(s) for the best identification of innovations?
     3. Explanatory: how can cross-varietal similarities best be explained?

My research interests are:

• New Englishes and 'Angloversals', i.e. their shared innovative features 
• New Englishes and Learner Englishes, the creativity they display and how they relate to each other
• Second Language Acquisition, in particular the interplay between intra- and interlingual factors
• Corpus linguistics and the use of corpora in SLA theory
• Construction Grammar and its explanatory power in terms of language variation and change
• Lexico-grammar, with particular emphasis on verb complementation
• The link between the following approaches: Construction Grammar, Pattern Grammar and Corpus Pattern Analysis

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2011 Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) Laporte, Samantha (2011). High-frequency Verbs across World and Learner Englishes. 17th annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE), Monash University, Melbourne, Australie du 23/11/2011 au 25/11/2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/110142. Laporte, Samantha (2011). Mind the Gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the Making. Learner Corpus Research 2011, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique du 15/09/2011 au 17/09/2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/110143.

Awards:

• BAAHE Thesis Award 2011
  Biannual award of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education for best MA thesis in 'Linguistics and Translation Studies'.
  Title of thesis: Mind the Gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the Making. A comparative study of the high-frequency verb make across ESL and EFL (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin )

Biography

Degrees

Current position (2011 - ):
PhD student and teaching assistant in English language and linguistics

PhD project: Verb Complementation Patterns across New Englishes (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin )

Teaching

Academic Year 2011-2012 - teaching assistant on the following courses:

• LGERM1121: English language: listening and speaking skills
• LGERM1323: Introduction to English linguistics: phonology and morphology
• LGERM1502: English advanced productive skills II (contrastive analysis and translation)
• LGERM2829: English linguistics: Corpus Linguistics

Research

Phd project: 'Verb Complementation Patterns across New Englishes: a Corpus-based Approach' (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin)

   My Phd project aims at investigating verb complementation patterns across four varieties of New Englishes (Hong Kong, Indian, Jamaican and Singapore
   English) and has 3 main objectives:
     1. Descriptive: what are the innovative features of New in Englishes in verb complementation and to what extent are these innovations shared by the
         varieties under study?
     2. Methodological: which method(s) (Construction Grammar, Pattern Grammar, Corpus Pattern Analysis) allow(s) for the best identification of innovations?
     3. Explanatory: how can cross-varietal similarities best be explained?

My research interests are:

• New Englishes and 'Angloversals', i.e. their shared innovative features 
• New Englishes and Learner Englishes, the creativity they display and how they relate to each other
• Second Language Acquisition, in particular the interplay between intra- and interlingual factors
• Corpus linguistics and the use of corpora in SLA theory
• Construction Grammar and its explanatory power in terms of language variation and change
• Lexico-grammar, with particular emphasis on verb complementation
• The link between the following approaches: Construction Grammar, Pattern Grammar and Corpus Pattern Analysis

Other

Awards:

• BAAHE Thesis Award 2011
  Biannual award of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education for best MA thesis in 'Linguistics and Translation Studies'.
  Title of thesis: Mind the Gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the Making. A comparative study of the high-frequency verb make across ESL and EFL (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin )

Publications

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2011 Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) Laporte, Samantha (2011). High-frequency Verbs across World and Learner Englishes. 17th annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE), Monash University, Melbourne, Australie du 23/11/2011 au 25/11/2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/110142. Laporte, Samantha (2011). Mind the Gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the Making. Learner Corpus Research 2011, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique du 15/09/2011 au 17/09/2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/110143.