Publications and talks

Publications

Würschinger, Q., Prokic, J., Kerremans, D. and Schmid, H.-J. (2018). The dynamics of lexical innovation. Data, methods, models. In Pragmatics and Cognition (25/1). 1--7. [URL]

Kerremans, D., Prokic, J., Würschinger, Q. and Schmid, H.-J. (2018). Using data-mining to identify and study patterns in lexical innovation on the web. In Pragmatics and Cognition (25/1). 174--200. [URL]

Würschinger, Q. and Kerremans, D. and Prokic, J. and Schmid, H.-J. (2017). NeoCrawler: Erkennen und Beobachten lexikalischer Innovationen im Web. Tagung 'Wortschätze: Dynamik, Muster, Komplexität'. 53. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS). Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim. [PDF]

Würschinger, Q., Elahi, F., Zhekova, D. and Schmid, H.-J. (2016). Using the web and social media as corpora for monitoring the spread of neologisms. The case of ‘rapefugee’, ‘rapeugee’, and ‘rapugee’. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 10th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-X). Humboldt University, Berlin. 35--43. [URL]

Talks

2019/06. Würschinger, Q. Social network analysis of lexical diffusion. Investigating the spread of new words on Twitter. ICAME. Université de Neuchâtel. [PDF]

2019/06. Würschinger, Q. Social network analysis of lexical diffusion. Invited talk for the course 'Linguistic Analysis of Social Media'. LMU Munich.

2019/05. Würschinger, Q. NeoCrawler. A tool to investigate the diffusion of lexical innovations on the World Wide Web. Two invited talks for the lecture series 'Digital Humanities'. LMU Munich.

2019/01. Würschinger, Q. Conventionalization of lexical innovations. Zooming in on the social diffusion of English neologisms. English Linguistics Colloquium. LMU Munich.

2018/09. Würschinger, Q. Diffusion of lexical innovations. Investigating the spread of English neologisms on the web and on Twitter. Forum Junge Englische Sprachwissenschaft (FJUEL). LMU Munich. [PDF]

2018/12. Würschinger, Q. Language and meaning: Word-formation and semantics. Talk for the lecture series 'Topics and methods in linguistics'. LMU Munich.

2018/01. Würschinger, Q. Conventionalization of lexical innovations. Investigating English neologisms on the web. English Linguistics Colloquium. LMU Munich.

2017/06. Prokic, J., Kerremans, D., Würschinger, Q. and Schmid, H.-J. The NeoCrawler: When 'frugalista' meets 'bankster'. Workshop 'The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation. Data, Methods, Models'. LMU Munich.

2017/03. Würschinger, Q. and Kerremans, D. and Prokic, J. and Schmid, H.-J. NeoCrawler: Erkennen und Beobachten lexikalischer Innovationen im Web. Tagug 'Wortschätze: Dynamik, Muster, Komplexität'. 53. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS). Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim.

2016/11. Kerremans, D. and Würschinger, Q. Modelling and researching the dynamic lexicon. A unified sociocognitive perspective and a web-based methodology. Workshop 'Expanding the lexicon -- Linguistic Innovation, Morphological Productivity, and the Role of Discourse-Related Factors'. Trier University, Trier.

2016/10. Würschinger, Q., Elahi, F., Kerremans, D., and Schmid, H.-J. Do lexical innovations spread as predicted by the S-curve? 7th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL/GCLA). University of Duisburg-Essen.

2016/09. Elahi, F., Würschinger, Q., Kerremans, D., Zhekova, D., and Schmid, H.-J. Recent advances in the web-based investigation of lexical innovations. 4th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE). Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.

2016/08. Würschinger, Q., Elahi, F., Zhekova, D. and Schmid, H.-J. Using the web and social media as corpora for monitoring the spread of neologisms. The case of ‘rapefugee’, ‘rapeugee’, and ‘rapugee’. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 10th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-X). Humboldt University, Berlin. [PDF]

2016/05. Ko, E. and Würschinger, Q. Addressing the Actuation Problem of the Icelandic New Impersonal Transitive. Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 22. University of Iceland, Rejkavík.