- Newman, J. 29 September 2021. Child and children in a corpus of American ficiton: Contrasting semantic preferences and their experiential motivations.
Frontiers in Cognitive Semantics. Beihang University, China.
- Rajeg, Gede Primahadi Wijaya, John Newman, and Made Rajeg. 6 September 2019. A multi-methodological study of makan ‘eat’: The challenge of divergent results. The 2019
International Conference on the Austronesian and Papuan Worlds (ICAPaW 2019), Faculty of Arts, Udayana University, Indonesia.
- Newman, J. 9 August 2019. Questioning the lemma in usage-based linguistics. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Nishinomiya, Japan.
- Newman, J. 13 April 2019. Syntactic repetition and rhythm in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. 50th Anniversary Conference, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada.
- Newman, J. 11 September 2018. The individual in the study of language: Pathways to a more human-centred linguistics. Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Seminar, Monash University,
Australia.
- Newman, J. 16 March 2018. Getting published. Plenary talk at the 10th International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
- Newman, J. 14 March 2018. Person-oriented linguistics. Plenary talk at the 10th International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
- Newman, J. 12 March 2018. Inflectional patterns: A usage-based approach. Plenary talk at the 10th International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics, Southwest University, Chongqing,
China.
- Newman, J. 12 March 2018. Experientialist perspectives on language. Plenary talk at the 10th International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
- Newman, J. 14 July 2017. EAT, DRINK, MAN, WOMAN and all that: The linguistics of ordinary human experience. Plenary talk for the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference,
Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia.
- Newman, J. 23 May 2017. Cognitive linguistic perspectives on basic verbs. Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Seminar, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne, Australia.
- Newman, J. & T. Sorenson Duncan. 9 December 2016. Convergence and divergence in empirical Linguistics: subject preferences of English roar. Australian Linguistic
Society, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, Australia.
- Geeraert, K. & J. Newman. 21 September 2016. Variation within Idiomatic Variation: Exploring the Differences between Speakers and Idioms. Experimental Approaches to Perception and
Production of Language Variation 2016 (ExAPP 2016). University of Vienna, Vienna.
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Newman, J. 17 March 2016. Creating and using corpora. Linguistics and Multilingual
Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- Newman, J. 11 September 2015. (Second) thoughts about data in contemporary linguistics. Colloquium for the Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta.
- Newman, J. & T. Sorenson Duncan. 22 July 2015. Convergence and divergence in Cognitive Linguistics: Facing up to alternative realities of linguistic categories. International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference 13, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.
- Geeraerts, K., R. Harald Baayen & J. Newman. 21 July 2015. Accidentally spilled the bag: Investigating the comprehension of idiomatic variation. International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference 13, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.
- Newman, J. & T. Sorenson Duncan. 6 November 2014. Howling wolves and roaring lions: What speakers think and what a corpus tells us. CSDL 12, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA.
- Rice, S. & Newman, J. Newman. 4 November 2014. I mean, look...: A corpus investigation of English cognition and perception verbsand their incipient epistemization. CSDL 12, UCSB,
Santa Barbara, USA.
- Pak Xin Yan, Jingxia Lin & J. Newman. 13 June 2014. A statistical comparison of Singaporean, Mainland, and Taiwanese Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study on sentence final particlesThe
Bloomsbury Round Table: The Third International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse, Birkbeck College, London.
- Newman, J. February 21 2014. Using R for Analyzing Complex Data in Linguistics. University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
- Newman, J. February 20 2014. Eating and Drinking: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective. University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
- Newman, J. February 20 2014. Inflected Forms: Low-level Generalizations in Corpus-based Research. University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
- Newman, J. February 7 2014. Exploring Shanghainese Topic Markers: From Cues to Outcomes. Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- Newman, J. January 17 2014. Eating and Drinking: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective. Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- Newman, J. November 20 2013. Exploring Shanghainese Topic Markers: From Cues to Outcomes. Centre for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
- Newman, J. and Laura Janda. November 19 2013. Getting Published. Centre for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
- Newman, J. November 19 2013. Inflected Forms: Low-Level Generalizations in Corpus-Based Research. Centre for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
- Newman, J. October 25 2013. Pohowa Language Documentation. Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- Newman, J. September-October 2013. 6 R Workshops. Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- Han, W. and J. Newman. June 28 2013. The evolution of a topic marker in Wu (Chinese) dialects. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of Alberta.
- Sorenson-Duncan, T. and J. Newman. June 26 2013. English verbs of “yelling”: A quantitative corpus-based exploration of synonymy. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of
Alberta.
- Newman, J. June 12 2013. An Introduction to R: Part II. Rehabilitation Medicine Research Centre, University of Alberta.
- Newman, J. May 14 2013. Holistic giving: Towards a unified account of GIVE predicates. 25th Conference on Scandanavian Linguistics. University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
- Newman, J. May 8 2013. An Introduction to R. Rehabilitation Medicine Research Centre, University of Alberta.
- Newman, J. & W. Han. January 20 2013. The topic marker zi (是) in contemporary Shanghainese dialect contemporary Shanghainese dialect. American Association of Corpus Linguistics, San Diego
State University, San Diego, USA. Available here.
- Newman, J. November 13 2012. CILLDI: A Canadian response to the plight of endangered, indigenous languages. Graduate Institute of Linguistics Colloquium, National Chengchi University, Taipei,
Taiwan.
- Newman, J. October 30 2012. Pohowa Language Documentation. Graduate Institute of Linguistics Colloquium, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Newman, J. August 13 2012. Collocating body parts. Linguistics Seminar, University of Sydney, Australia.
- Newman, J. and S. Rice. May 18 2012. Collocational patterns in the literal use of body part terms. 11th CSDL Conference, UBC.
- Newman, J. April 4 2012. Linguistic Fieldwork on Manus Island (Papua New Guinea). Undergraduate Linguistics Club, University of Alberta.
- Newman, J. January 27 2012. Pohowa Language Documentation. Presentation to Language Documentation Research Cluster, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta.
- Newman, J. October 22 2011. Our collocating body parts: Recurring images of Self and Other in body part usage. The Body in Language: Lexicon, Metaphor, Grammar, and Culture. University of
Warsaw, Poland. Available here.
- Newman, J. October 8 2011. Collocating body parts. American Association for Corpus Linguistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Newman, J. April 7 2011. How to do linguistics (better). University of Alberta Linguistics Club.
- Abdulrahim, D., J. Newman & S. Rice. 11-12 April 2011. Multifactorial methods for exploring contextual factors in the usage of Modern Standard Arabic COME verbs. Workshop on Arabic Corpus
Linguistics, University of Lancaster, UK.
- Abdulrahim, D., J. Newman, and S. Rice. March 5 2011. COME verbs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based constructionist account of ʔata, ʔaža, qadima and hadara. 25th Arabic
Linguistics Symposium. University of Arizona, Tucson.
- D. Abdulrahim and J. Newman. April 9 2010. How many ways to GO in Arabic? A corpus-based approach to determining polysemy and synonymy of the verbs ðahaba, maḍā, rāḥa, and inṭalaqa. 24th
Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics: "Arabic Linguistics Across Traditions". University of Texas at Austin.
- Newman, J. November 30 2009. Inflected forms: Low-level generalizations in corpus-based research. Plenary talk to The Linguistic Society of New Zealand 18th Biennial Conference. Palmerston
North, New Zealand.
- Columbus, G. and J. Newman. October 21 2009. Education as an over-represented topic in the ICE corpora [Part I]? Workshop on the International Corpus of English, Cebu City, Philippines.
- Newman, J. and G. Columbus. October 22 2009. Education as an over-represented topic in the ICE corpora [Part II]? 15th International Conference of the International Association for World
Englishes (IAWE), Cebu City, Philippines. [available here]
- Newman, J. and G. Columbus. June 18 2009. International Corpus of English -- the Canadian component. Poster presentation for the Fourth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory,
(Mtt'09). Montreal.
- Columbus, G. and J. Newman. March 4 2009. Comparative analysis of discourse topics in the International Corpus of English. Workshop on corpus, colligation, register variation,
Universität Osnabrück, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft 2009.
- Gries, S. Th., J. Newman, C. Shaoul, and P. Dilts. March 6 2009. N-grams and the clustering of genres. Workshop on corpus, colligation, register variation, Universität Osnabrück, Deutsche
Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft 2009.
- Newman, J. November 26 2008. The International Corpus of English (Canada). Poster for Celebration of 30th Anniversary of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,
University of Alberta. Available here.
- Newman, J. October 24 2008. English posture verbs: An experientially grounded account. Conference on Expressions of Posture and Motion in Germanic Languages. Facultés
universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium. Available here.
- Newman, J. May 24 2008. Aiming low in linguistics: Low-level generalizations in corpus-based research. Keynote address to the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and
Linguistics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Available here.
- Newman, J. 19 May 2008. Spoken corpora: Why we need them and how we make them. Invited presentation to the 7th Annual Wenshan International Symposium on Spoken Corpora: Language Documentation
and Applications, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. Available here.
- Rice, S. & J. Newman. March 14 2008. Beyond the lemma: Inflection-specific constructions in English. Presentation to American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2008, Provo, Utah.
Available here.
- Dilts, P. & J. Newman. January 5 2008. Good nouns, bad nouns, and the company they keep . Poster presentation to Linguistic Society of America 2008 Annual Meeting.
- Teddiman, L. & J. Newman. October 3 2007. Subject Ellipsis in English: Construction of and Findings from a Diary Corpus. Presentation to 26th International Conference on Lexis and
Grammar, Bonifacio, Corsica. Available here.
- Dilts, P. and J. Newman. October 21 2006. Quantifying "good" and "bad" prosodies. Alberta Conference on Linguistics.
- Borgwaldt, S. and J. Newman. November 4 2006. In search of possession: From concept to inflection. Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference. University of California at San
Diego. Available here.
- Newman, J. and S. Rice. November 5 2006. English adjectival inflection: A ‘radical' Radical Construction Grammar approach. Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference. University
of California at San Diego.Available here.
- Geeraert, K. and J. Newman. November 9 2006. Documentation and analysis of Dinka narratives: A community-oriented approach. Poster presentation to Visiting Committee, University of Alberta.
- Lin, J. and J. Newman. March 18-20, 2006. The Wenzhou Spoken Corpus (WSC V1.0): Tools for a usage-based approach to Wenzhou lexis and syntax. The Fourth International Conference on Wu
Linguistics. Ningbo, China.
- Newman, J. November 21 2005. The Wenzhou Spoken Corpus at the University of Alberta. Presentation for TAPoR. University of Alberta.
- Newman, J., J. Lin, and D. Aberra. October 3, 2005. XML-based corpus construction of Wenzhou and Amharic. Poster presentation for Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) 2005, University
of Alberta.
- Rice, S. and J. Newman. October 22 2005. Inflectional Islands. Presentation to the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL), Banff. Download here.
- July 19 2005. Rice, S. and J. Newman. Inflectional Islands. 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
- Newman, J. and S. Rice. July 18 2005. Event schemas in Multi-Verb Sequences: A Corpus-Based Approach. 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
- Newman, J. January 24 2005. Using corpus-linguistic tools to investigate syntactic transitivity: EAT and DRINK in the British National Corpus. ICT (Information and Communications Technology)
Forum on "Computing in the Arts", University of Alberta, January 24, 2005. (invited presentation)
- Newman, J. March 4 2005. Conjoining verbs. Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of Alberta.
- Newman, J. September 28, 2003. The quiet revolution: Reflections on Ron Langacker's Fall Quarter Lectures 1977. Plenary talk for Imagery in Language Conference, Lodz ,Poland.
- Newman, J. July 24, 2003. How to sit down and stay down in English: Disentangling actionand state phases of the posture verbs. Presentation to the 8th InternationalCognitive Linguistics
Conference, Logrono, Spain.
- Newman, J. and S. Rice. July 22, 2003. Diathesis alternations and collocational schemas of English EATand DRINK in the BNC. Presentation to theme session Language Between Text andMind: The
Use of Corpora in Linguistics at the 8th International CognitiveLinguistics Conference, Logrono, Spain.
- Newman, J. and S. Rice. November 1, 2003. A corpus-based study of the transitivity of English EAT and DRINK. Presentation to the Linguistic Society of Alberta, Banff.
- Rice, S. and J. Newman. October 2002. Aspectualization of prepositions in the British National corpus. Alberta Conference on Language, Banff.
- Rice, S. and J. Newman. October 2002. Aspect in the making: A corpus analysis of English aspect marking prepositions. 2002 Conceptual Structure in Discourse and Language, Rice University,
Houston.
- November 2001. Creating multidimensionalextensions of the classroom using online resources. Vice-Chancellor's Symposium2001 on Online Learning: Meeting the Challenge. Massey University.
- Newman, J. October 2001. Audio on the web. Presentation for Training Development Unit, Massey University.
- Newman, J. September 2001. Posture verbs and split intransitivity.Linguistic Society of New Zealand Conference. University of Canterbury,Christchurch.
- Newman, J. and S. Rice. July 2001. English SIT, STAND, and LIE: Patterns of usage and theirexperiential motivations. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, SantaBarbara, California.
- Newman, J. July 2001. Posture verbs and split intransitivity. International CognitiveLinguistics Conference, Santa Barbara, California.
- Newman, J. July 2000. Basic verbs: The linguistics of ordinary human experience. Plenary address, Australian Linguistics Institute, Melbourne.
- Newman, J. July 2000. Three-place predicates: A cognitive linguistic perspective. Plenarypaper for Three-place Predicates Workshop, Australian Linguistics Institute,Melbourne.
- Newman, J. April 2000. An experientially grounded typology of posture verbs. International Conference on Cognitive Typology. University of Antwerp, Antwerp.
- Newman, J. August 1999. Motivating the uses of basic verbs: Linguistic and extralinguistic dimensions. Paper presented at the Workshop on Motivation of Grammar, Hamburg University.
- Newman, J. April 1999. The linguistics of sitting, standing, and lying. Seminar, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington,Wellington.
- Newman, J. and C. J. White. June 1998. Metalinguistic awareness amongst New Zealand university students: A pilot study. Language and Society Conference, Victoria University, Wellington.
[Poster]
- Newman, J. November 1997. Eating and drinking as source domains for metaphor. Paper presented at the 12th New Zealand Linguistic Conference, Otago University, Dunedin.
- Newman, J. July 1997. Eating and drinking words: verbs of eating and drinking as a source of metaphors. Poster presentation for the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam.
- Raman A. V, J. D. Patrick, and J. Newman. July 1997. A complexity measure for diachronic Chinese phonology. Association for Computational Linguistics, Madrid, Spain.
- Newman, J. July 1995. The history of the German es gibt construction. Paper presented at the 4th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque.
- Newman, J. May 1995. T-Dropping in Taishan (Chinese). Paper presented at the 11th New Zealand Linguistic Conference, Victoria University, Wellington.
- Newman, J. August 1993. Semantic extensions of `give' verbs. Paper presented at the Tenth New Zealand Linguistics Conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
- Newman, J. July 1993. Figurative giving. Paper presented to the 3rd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Leuven, Belgium.
- Newman, J. August 1991. Verbs of giving. Paper presented to the 9th New Zealand Linguistics Conference, Canterbury University.
- Newman, J. July 1991. The experiential and cognitive basis of GIVE constructions. Paper presented to the 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of California at Santa
Cruz.
- Newman, J. September 1989. Rhetoric and action: Singapore's approach to language policy. Paper presented to the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia conference, Monash University.
- Newman, J. September 1989. A Cognitive Grammar approach to Mandarin gei. Paper presented to the Linguistics Society of Australia, Monash University.
- Newman, J. May 1989. Macintosh and linguists. Workshop given at the New Zealand Linguistics Society Meeting, Auckland University.
- Newman, J. May 1989. The Semantics of Mandarin gei. Paper presented to the New Zealand Linguistics Society Meeting, Auckland University.
- Newman, J. March 1989. The Semantics of giving in Mandarin. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Cognitive Linguistics, Duisburg, West Germany.
- Newman, J. August 1987. Investigating the language of head-trauma patients. Paper presented to the New Zealand Linguistics Society Meeting, Otago University.
- Newman, J. May 1987. Singapore's Speak Mandarin Campaign. Paper presented to the Seventh Annual Conference of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society, Auckland University.