Guillaume Desagulier

Guillaume Desagulier
Contact
Information
Université Paris 8
Département d’Etudes des Pays Anglophones
Bâtiment B, 2 rue de la Liberté 93526 Saint Denis cedex, France
http://www2.univ-paris8.fr/desagulier/home/
voice : +33 1 49 40 68 35
fax : +33 1 49 40 68 48
Lab
UMR 7114 Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
200 avenue de la République Bâtiment A, bureau 403b
92000 Nanterre, France
http://modyco.fr/desagulier
voice : +33 1 40 97 70 68
fax : +33 1 40 97 58 17
Research
Interests
cognitive linguistics, construction grammars, cognitive grammar, corpus linguistics, lexical semantics,
lexicometry, collocations, sociolinguistics, statistics
Education
Université Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux 3), Bordeaux, France
2002 – 2005
Ph.D., English Linguistics
• A cognitive model of linguistic variation and change
applied to emerging constructions in contemporary English.
• Advisor : J.R. Lapaire
• Jury : J.R. Lapaire (Bordeaux 3), R. Langacker (U. of California, San Diego),
W. Rotgé (Sorbonne University), Michel de Fornel (EHESS)
Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), Paris, France
M.A.S., English Linguistics
2002
Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), Paris, France
Civil service competitive examinations
2001
• Agrégation in English
• CAPES in English (ranked 1st nationwide)
Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), Paris, France
M.A., English Linguistics
2000
Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), Paris, France
B.A., English Studies
Professional
Positions
1999
Université Paris 8, Saint Denis, France
Associate Professor
Undergraduate courses in English grammar and linguistics
Graduate courses in English linguistics :
• “English in constructions”
• “Linguistic change and variation in contemporary English”
• “Lexical semantics and lexicometry”
• “Linguistics and the media”
• “Research methods for linguists”
• “Quantitative corpus linguistics in English with R”
A.T.E.R.
Undergraduate courses in English grammar and linguistics
September 2006 – present
September 2002 – August 2006
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Graduate Student Instructor
August 2001 – June 2002
Undergraduate courses in French grammar, literature, and conversation.
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Part-time French assistant
French conversation for undergraduate students
Spring semester 2000
Selected
Publications
To appear. “A lesson from associative learning : asymmetry and productivity in multiple-slot constructions.” Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
To appear. “Forms and meanings of intensification : a multifactorial exploration of quite and rather ”.
Anglophonia.
2015 (online). 2016 (print). (with Antoine Chambaz) “Predicting is not explaining : targeted learning
of the dative alternation.” Journal of Causal Inference.
2015. “Le statut de la fréquence dans les grammaires de constructions : ‘simple comme bonjour’ ?”
Langages.
2014. “Visualizing distances in a set of near synonyms : rather, quite, fairly, and pretty.” In Glynn, D.
& J. Robinson, Polysemy and Synonymy : Corpus Methods and Applications in Cognitive Linguistics.
Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing.
2012. “ ‘C’est de la bombe !’ Qualitative count-to-mass conversion in French copular subject-predicate
constructions”. In M. Bouveret et D. Legallois (eds), Constructions in French. John Benjamins Publishing.
2011. “Le programme socio-pragmatique des grammaires de constructions : bilan et perspectives”.
Intellectica 56.
2011. “Quelles alternatives linguistiques à la théorie des faces ? Le cas du japonais”. Actes du 8e
colloque de la Société Française des Etudes Japonaises. Paris : Philippe Picquier (Coll. Japon Pluriel)
2008. “Cognitive Arguments for a Fuzzy Construction Grammar.” In G. Desagulier, Guignard & J.R.
LapaireFrom Gram to Mind / Du fait grammatical au fait cognitif. Bordeaux : Presses Universitaires
de Bordeaux.
2007. “Figures et forces en linguistique cognitive : pour une redéfinition du concept de représentation
dans une Grammaire de Constructions Floue”. TLE (Théorie, Littérature, Enseignement), n˚24.
Saint Denis : Presses Universitaires de Vincennes.
2005. “Grammatical blending and the conceptualization of complex cases of interpretational overlap :
the case of want to/wanna”. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 3.
2003. “Want to/wanna : Verbal Polysemy versus Constructional Compositionality”. Berkeley Linguistics Society 29.
Edited
Volumes
2008. (with Jean-Rémi Lapaire & Jean-Baptiste Guignard) From Gram to Mind (2 volumes). Bordeaux, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux.
2010. (with Philippe Gréa) Grammars in Construction(s) - AFLiCo 3 special issue. CogniTextes 5.
http://cognitextes.revues.org/314
Editorial
Service
2008-2012. CogniTextes – associate editor
Invited Talks
2015. “Construction Grammar(s) before and after the quantitative turn – What counts as a construction ?” Keynote lecture at the sixth international conference of the French Cognitive Linguistics
Association, Grenoble, France.
2014. “Beyond text mining : a linguist’s viewpoint”. International Symposium on Digital Humanities,
“Digital Humanities and Culture”, 5 December 2014. Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.
2014. “Les grammaires de constructions : une approche théorique à l’épreuve des faits”. Séminaire
CLIMAS "Le corps du texte", Bordeaux 3 University, France.
2014. “L’ordinateur, le linguiste et le locuteur : comment réconcilier trois points de vue sur le statut
empirique des constructions ?” (The computer, the linguist, and the speaker : reconciling three viewpoints on the empirical status of constructions). CeLiSo research seminar, Centre de Linguistique en
Sorbonne, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. http://www.paris-sorbonne.fr/programme-5921
2013. “A lesson from associative learning : asymmetric collostructions.” The Future of Big Data Text-Mining based on Sentiment Word Analysis, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.
2012a. Keynote lecture. “The Vagaries of Frequency”. Sorbonne Nouvelle University Graduate Linguistics Symposium (SNUGLS 2012), Paris 3 University - Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.
2012b. “Visualizing collocation data with correspondence analysis”. Cognitive Approaches to Lan-
guage in France : Data, Theories, and Methods (a dialogue with William Croft), Paris 3 University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.
2009. “Arguments pour une socio-pragmatique des constructions”. Cognition, Communauté(s) et Technique : l’émergence et l’institution de normes. Université Technologique de Compiègne, France.
2003. “Grammatical blending and the conceptualization of complex cases of interpretational overlap :
the case of want to/wanna”. International Conference in Cognitive Linguistics, Modelling Thought
and Constructing Meaning : Cognitive Models in Interaction. Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy.
2015. “Assessing the productivity of multiple-slot constructions with vocabulary growth curves : how
Talks
(conferences,
big should the corpus be ?”. 8-10 April 2015. EngCorpora 2015 (English Linguistics and Corpora),
workshops,
Université Paris Est Créteil, France.
theme sessions)
2013a. With A. Chambaz, “Teasing apart near-synonymous constructions with targeted learning : a
tale of corpus linguistics, causality, and statistics”. 5th international conference of the French Cognitive
Linguistics Association (AFLiCo 5), ‘Empirical approaches to multi-modality and linguistic variation’,
Villeneuve-d’Ascq France.
2013b. “What collostruction asymmetries reveal as to the productivity of constructions”. Journée
ATALA-Labex EFL - Inalco, Paris, France.
2012. “Quite new methods for a rather old issue : visualizing the constructional idiosyncrasies of quite
and rather in the BNC with multivariate statistics”. ICAME 33, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Leuven, Belgium.
2011a. “Quantitative measures of cognitive synonymy : a corpus study of English moderators (rather,
quite, pretty, and fairly)”. Workshop ‘Empirical approaches to social cognition and emergent language
structure’ (convenors : D. Glynn et K. Krawczak). 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica
Europaea, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, Spain.
2011b. “Quantifying (im)politeness in directives : a multifactorial analysis of hedges in American
English”. Linguistic Impoliteness & Rudeness in Communication and Society, University of Lyons 3,
France.
2011c. ‘Les adverbes de degré rather, quite, pretty et fairly : approche qualitative et quantitative”. 51st
SAES conference, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 & Université Denis-Diderot-Paris 7, France.
2008a. “Leaving politeness aside : Construction Grammar and socio-pragmatics as an alternative to
Face Theory”. 8th Conference of the French Society of Japanese Studies, University Charles de Gaulle
– Lille 3, France.
2008b. “Constructions, mental representations, and identities : the case of pseudo-directive constructions”. International conference Language, Communication and Cognition, Brighton, UK.
2006. “Towards a cognitive model of variation and language change centered on constructional fuzziness”. 2nd Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science (Cogsci 2006), St. Petersburg, Russia.
2005. “What does it mean for a construction to be constructed ? Cognitive arguments for a ’fuzzy
construction grammar” ’. First International AFLiCo Conference, ‘Du fait grammatical au fait cognitif
(From Gram to Mind)’, Bordeaux, France.
2004. “Linear versus compositional aspects of form/function reanalysis in the description of intermediate situation types of grammaticalizing constructions”. International Conference on Construction
Grammar (ICCG3), Marseilles, France.
2003a. “Want to/wanna : Verbal Polysemy versus Constructional Compositionality”. The 29th Annual
Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
2003b. “Emerging Modals : an Integrative Approach”. 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, Spain.
Grants
2014a. (PI). PHC STAR 2014. Partners : UMR 7114 MoDyCo (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense,
CNRS), France & Centre de Coopération Francophone, Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
Text Mining : sentiment analysis in French and Korean. Grant number : 32168XF
2013b. PRES 2014-2015. Partnership Université Paris 8 – Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.
Meaning Construction and Interpretation Processes (COnstruction du Sens et Processus d’Interprétation, COSPI2).
2013a. PEPS HuMaIn 2013-2014 : Humanities – Mathematics – Information Sciences. Partners :
Modal’X (EA 3454) & MoDyCo (UMR 7114). Contextual Statistics for Construction Grammar in
Corpus Linguistics.
2013b. PRES 2013-2014. Partnership Université Paris 8 – Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.
Meaning Construction and Interpretation Processes (COnstruction du Sens et Processus d’Interprétation, COSPI1).
Peer Review
Belgian Journal of Linguistics
Cognitive Semiotics
Corela
Histoire Epistémologie Langage
Intellectica
Linx
TAL
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar
Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique
Conference
Organizing
2013. Data session ‘Contextual statistics for Construction Grammar’.
Guest speaker : Adele Goldberg (Princeton University).
2012. (co-organizer, with A. Morgenstern & B. Richet) JET AFLiCo 2012 ‘Multimodality and Corpus’. Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3.
2009. (convenor, with Philippe Gréa) Third Conference of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo 3). Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France. www.modyco.fr/aflico3
2005. (co-organizer) First Conference of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo 1).
University of Bordeaux, France.
Professional
Service
Department of English Studies, Université Paris 8
• Head of the B.A. program in English Studies, 2013-2015
• Co-chair of the M.A. program in English Linguistics, 2008–2010
• Webmaster, 2004–2013
UMR 7114 Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
• member of the board committee, 2011–
Jury
• agrégation externe d’anglais, 2009-2012
Professional
Membership
International Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2003 – 2013
French Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2005 –
President of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2015–2017
Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur, 2002 –
Association des Linguistes Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur, 2011 –