Dr Andreas Buerki

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2026

• Buerki, A. 2026. Corpus analysis of phraseology. In: Chapelle, C. A. ed. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2nd ed). Wiley(10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20509)

2025

• Buerki, A. 2025. Reflections on Working in Academia during a Genocide. Presented at: Protecting Education from Wales to Palestine Swansea, UK 15 October 2025.
• Buerki, A. 2025. A Word Association Data Processor to facilitate robust and consistent categorisation and analysis of word associations. Journal of Open Research Software 13 (1) 2. (10.5334/jors.399)
• Buerki, A. 2025. ‘Going forward’ – the development of a new phraseological expression. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2025 Aarhus, Denmark 19-22 May 2025.

2024

• Buerki, A. 2024. Word-Association Data Processor (WADP). Zenodo(10.5281/zenodo.593662)
• Buerki, A. 2024. A phraseological grammar. Presented at: Lexical Studies Conference 2024 Swansea, Wales, UK 15 January 2024.

2023

• Buerki, A. 2023. Sonja Poulsen, Collocations as a language resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology (Human Cognitive Processing 71). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xvi + 348. ISBN 9789027210838. [Book Review]. English Language and Linguistics 27 (4), pp.871-878. (10.1017/S1360674323000138)
• Buerki, A. 2023. Inheritance as a useful notion in a usage-based constructicon. Presented at: 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Düsseldorf, Germany 7-11 August 2023.
• Buerki, A. 2023. Phraseological expressions as substantive constructions: Lessons arising from difficulties with their inter-subjective identification. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2023: New Trends in Phraseology: Languages and Cultures in Comparison Milano, Italy 29 May - 1 June 2023.

2022

• Buerki, A. 2022. Towards progressive-reflective digital practices in Higher Education. Presented at: TechHighEd Pakistan 2022 Islamabad, Pakistan 23 - 24 February 2022.

2021

• Buerki, A. 2021. Reading discourses through their phraseology: The case of Brexit. In: Trklja, A. and Grabowski, Ł. eds. Formulaic Language: Theories and Methods. Berlin: Language Science Press. , pp.141-170. (10.5281/zenodo.4727671)
• Buerki, A. 2021. Pro-tem phraseology: what is it and what does it mean for phraseological theory?. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2021 Virtual 6-9 September 2021.
• Buerki, A. 2021. What genre is Wikipedia?. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2021 (CL2021) Limerick, Ireland 13-16 July 2021.

2020

• Buerki, A. 2020. How Brexit Changed the English language. The Conversation 2020 30 Dec.
• Spasic, I. , Williams, L. and Buerki, A. 2020. Idiom–based features in sentiment analysis: cutting the Gordian knot. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 11 (2)(10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2777842)
• Buerki, A. 2020. Formulaic language and linguistic change: A data-led approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (10.1017/9781108769976)
• Buerki, A. 2020. (How) is formulaic language universal? Insights from Korean, German and English. In: Piirainen, E. et al., Formulaic Language and New Data: Theoretical and Methodological Implications. Formulaic Language Vol. 2.Berlin: De Gruyter. , pp.103-134. (10.1515/9783110669824-005)

2019

• Buerki, A. 2019. Furiously fast: on the speed of change in formulaic language. Yearbook of Phraseology 10 (1), pp.5-38. (10.1515/phras-2019-0003)
• Buerki, A. 2019. Formulaic sequences: a drop in the ocean of constructions or something more significant?. In: MacKenzie, I. and Kayman, M. eds. Formulaicity and creativity in language and literature. London: Routledge. , pp.15-36.
• Buerki, A. 2019. Brexit phraseology. Presented at: CL2019: International Corpus Linguistics Conference Cardiff, Wales 22-26 July 2019.

2018

• Buerki, A. 2018. Rate of change in phraseological expressions. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2018 Białystok, Poland 10-12 September 2018.
• Spasic, I. et al. 2018. Head to head: Semantic similarity of multi-word terms. IEEE Access 6 , pp.20545-20557. (10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2826224)

2017

• Buerki, A. 2017. Using big diachronic language data to feel the pulse of cultural change. Presented at: Digital Cultures Network Symposium on Investigating (with) Big Data Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 24 May 2017.
• Buerki, A. 2017. Statistical computing: descriptive statistics with R. Presented at: CLCR Software Training Workshops Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 29 March 2017.
• Buerki, A. 2017. Measuring and matching corpus size cross-linguistically. Presented at: Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Annual Symposium Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 4 March 2017.
• Buerki, A. 2017. Computational workshop: N-Gram processor. Presented at: Research Symposium on Methods and Applications of Computational (and other) Identification of Formulaicity Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 27 February 2017.
• Buerki, A. 2017. Methods and applications of computational identification of formulaicity – an overview. Presented at: Research Symposium on Methods and Applications of Computational (and other) Identification of Formulaicity Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 27 February 2017.
• Buerki, A. 2017. Frequency consolidation among word N-grams: a practical procedure. In: Mitkov, R. ed. Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology. Lecture notes in Computer Science Vol. 10596.Cham: Springer. , pp.432-446. (10.1007/978-3-319-69805-2)
• Buerki, A. 2017. Frequency consolidation among word N-grams: A practical procedure. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2017: Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology London, UK 13-14 November 2017.

2016

• Buerki, A. , Wray, A. and Fitzpatrick, T. 2016. Linguistic markers and risk of Alzheimer's Disease. Presented at: BRACE Annual Celebration 2016 Filton, UK 6 June 2016.
• Buerki, A. 2016. Feeling the pulse of cultural change using common phraseology. Presented at: HiSoN Conference on Historical Sociolinguistics and Socio-Cultural Change Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland 9 - 11 March 2016.
• Buerki, A. 2016. Automatic identification of formulaic sequences in (fairly) big data: practical introduction to a procedure. Presented at: Advances in Identifying Formulaic Sequences:A Methodological Workshop Swansea University, Swansea, UK 22 January 2016.
• Buerki, A. 2016. Formulaic sequences: a drop in the ocean of constructions or something more significant?. European Journal of English Studies 20 (1), pp.15-34. (10.1080/13825577.2015.1136158)
• Buerki, A. 2016. Formal and functional equivalence across typological diversity: insights from formulaic sequences in Korean, German and English. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2016 Trier, Germany 1 August 2016.

2015

• Buerki, A. 2015. Phraseological fingerprints: using habitual wordings to aid authorship attribution. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics in the South (CLS) 10: Corpus approaches to public and professional discourse Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 28 November 2015.
• Buerki, A. 2015. An introduction to R. Presented at: CLCR Software Training Workshops Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 25 November 2015.
• Buerki, A. 2015. Mein Diplom und unser Diplom [on individual and societal aspects of a university degree]. Presented at: Graduation Ceremony of the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Basel Basel University, Basel, Switzerland 28 March 2015.
• Buerki, A. 2015. Word Association Data Processor. GitHub

2014

• Buerki, A. 2014. Approaches to formulaic language as a universal phenomenon. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2014 Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris, France 10 September 2014.
• Buerki, A. 2014. Motivation in recent and ongoing language change: it’s not all in the system. Presented at: 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference Lancaster University, UK 29 July 2014.
• Buerki, A. 2014. Formulaic sequences: a drop in the ocean of constructions or something more significant?. Presented at: FLaRN 2014 Swansea University, Swansea, UK 14 July 2014.
• Buerki, A. 2014. Good and bad reasons for using and not using quantitative methods in linguistic research: a personal view. Presented at: CLCR Postgraduate Conference Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 29 May 2014.
• Buerki, A. 2014. Language shaped by culture (and culture by language) – one way to get a handle on it. Presented at: CLCR Research Seminar Cardiff University 19 March 2014.

2013

• Buerki, A. 2013. Towards a cross-linguistic concept of formulaic language: Introduction to a project. Presented at: Formulaic Language Research Seminar Cardiff 5 December 2013.
• Buerki, A. 2013. Multiword expressions – (how) are they universal?. Presented at: Korpuslinguistik Kolloquium Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 24 April 2013.
• Buerki, A. 2013. Automatically identifying instances of change in diachronic corpus data. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2013 Lancaster University, UK 22 - 26 July 2013.
• Buerki, A. 2013. N-Gram Processor. GitHub(10.5281/zenodo.18064)

2012

• Buerki, A. 2012. Identifying relevant change in diachronic corpora: a perspective from research into formulaic language. Presented at: Korpuslinguistik Kolloquium Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2 May 2012.
• Buerki, A. 2012. Great or small, fast or slow: assessing extent and speed of change in multiword sequences. Presented at: FLaRN 2012 Tilburg 30 March 2012.
• Buerki, A. 2012. Korpusgeleitete Extraktion von Mehrwortsequenzen aus (diachronen) Korpora: Vorgehenswege für deutschsprachige Daten [‘Corpus-led extraction of multiword sequences from (diachronic) corpora: procedures for work on German-language data’]. In: Aspekte der historischen Phraseologie und Phraseographie. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter

2011

• Buerki, A. 2011. Ausmass des Sprachwandels quantitativ messen: zur Veränderung von Mehrwortsequenzen im Schweizer Text Korpus’ [Measuring the extent of language change quantitatively: on change in multi-word sequences in the Swiss Text Corpus]. Presented at: Korpuslinguistik Kolloquium Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 23 November 2011.
• Buerki, A. 2011. Substring reduction and frequency consolidation among word N-Grams: suggestion for a procedure. Presented at: 6th International Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics Newcastle 7 April 2011.
• Buerki, A. 2011. Sociocultural change and multi-word sequences: perspectives from the Swiss Text Corpus. Presented at: Language as a Social and Cultural Practice Basel 8 -10 June 2011.
• Buerki, A. 2011. SubString. GitHub(10.5281/zenodo.18164)

2010

• Buerki, A. 2010. Lexis that rings a bell: on the influence of auditory support in vocabulary acquisition. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 20 (2), pp.206-231. (10.1111/j.1473-4192.2009.00246.x)
• Buerki, A. 2010. All sorts of change: a preliminary typology of change in multi-word sequences in the Swiss Text Corpus. Presented at: FLaRN 2010 Paderborn, Germany 26 March 2010.
• Buerki, A. 2010. (How) Are Multi-word Sequences Universal? On the nature and degree of universality of multi-word sequences from the perspective of Korean, German and English. Presented at: Seoul International Conference on Linguistics Korea 23 - 25 June 2010.
• Buerki, A. 2010. Korpus-geleitete Extraktion von Mehrworteinheiten – Probleme und Lösungen aus dem Umgang mit Deutschen Daten [Corpus-led extraction of multi-word units – problems and solutions in working with German data]. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2010 Universidad de Granada 30 June -2 July 2010.
• Buerki, A. 2010. Using corpora in ELT. In: KOTESOL Proceedings 2006. Seoul: Myeongjinsa. , pp.37-48.

2009

• Buerki, A. 2009. Multi-word sequences in motion. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2009 Liverpool 22 July 2009.

2007

• Buerki, A. 2007. Fostering learner independence in the area of lexico-grammar. Presented at: Departmental seminar, Institute of Foreign Language Studies (IFLS) Korea 31 October 2007.

2006

• Buerki, A. 2006. Using Corpora in ELT: A few ideas. Presented at: 14th Annual KOTESOL International Conference Korea University, Seoul, South Korea 28-29 October 2006. , pp.37-48.
• Buerki, A. 2006. Review of Gavioli, Laura 'Exploring corpora for ESP Learning'. English Teaching Professional 47 , pp.40-41.

2004

• Buerki, A. 2004. English hearts and what they tell us about language and mind. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 13 , pp.247-267.