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Dr Andreas Buerki
(he/him)
- Welsh speaking
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Andreas Buerki
Senior Lecturer
Overview
I am a member of the Centre for Language and Communication Research.
I am principally a corpus linguist, looking at how language as used by speakers and writers in authentic contexts works. My work is of a usage-based outlook, employing a constructionist approach to linguistic structure.
My particular specialisms include the various aspects of phraseology and formulaic language (common turns of phrase) and the social and cultural nature of language and how this shows in linguistic structure, language change and in other areas such as public discourses. I also work on computational approaches to linguistic research and am the author of several pieces of software for linguistic research. During my most recent research leave, I have been working on a monograph on Phraseology and Construction Grammar, to appear with Routledge.
I am a former vice-president of EUROPHRAS, the European Society of Phraseology, a founding member of the 'Cardiff Corpus Network' of corpus linguists at Cardiff and part of the Digital Cultures Network at Cardiff. I also currently serve as a member of the editorial board of Cardiff University Press and the editorial board of the Yearbook of Phraseology. I am a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, as well as a member of Cardiff University's Academi Gymraeg and former Subject Director of Postgraduate Research at the Centre for Language and Communication Research and former pathway convenor of the Linguistics Pathway of the Wales Graduate School of the Social Sciences (WGSSS). I am a member of the executive committee of the Cardiff University branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and a former branch vice-president.
Before coming to Cardiff I taught at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, at the University of the West of England, the University of Basel, as well as Korea University and Gwangju University.
Publication
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.
Articles
- 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. 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. 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. 2019. Furiously fast: on the speed of change in formulaic language. Yearbook of Phraseology 10 (1), pp.5-38. (10.1515/phras-2019-0003)
- 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)
- 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. 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. 2006. Review of Gavioli, Laura 'Exploring corpora for ESP Learning'. English Teaching Professional 47 , pp.40-41.
- Buerki, A. 2004. English hearts and what they tell us about language and mind. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 13 , pp.247-267.
Book sections
- Buerki, A. 2026. Corpus analysis of phraseology. In: Chapelle, C. A. ed. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2nd ed). Wiley(10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20509)
- 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. 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)
- 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. 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. 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
- Buerki, A. 2010. Using corpora in ELT. In: KOTESOL Proceedings 2006. Seoul: Myeongjinsa. , pp.37-48.
Books
- Buerki, A. 2020. Formulaic language and linguistic change: A data-led approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (10.1017/9781108769976)
Conferences
- 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. ‘Going forward’ – the development of a new phraseological expression. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2025 Aarhus, Denmark 19-22 May 2025.
- Buerki, A. 2024. A phraseological grammar. Presented at: Lexical Studies Conference 2024 Swansea, Wales, UK 15 January 2024.
- 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.
- Buerki, A. 2022. Towards progressive-reflective digital practices in Higher Education. Presented at: TechHighEd Pakistan 2022 Islamabad, Pakistan 23 - 24 February 2022.
- 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.
- Buerki, A. 2019. Brexit phraseology. Presented at: CL2019: International Corpus Linguistics Conference Cardiff, Wales 22-26 July 2019.
- Buerki, A. 2018. Rate of change in phraseological expressions. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2018 Białystok, Poland 10-12 September 2018.
- 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. Presented at: EUROPHRAS 2017: Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology London, UK 13-14 November 2017.
- 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. 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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. 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. 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. 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. 2009. Multi-word sequences in motion. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2009 Liverpool 22 July 2009.
- 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.
- 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.
Other
- Buerki, A. 2024. Word-Association Data Processor (WADP). Zenodo(10.5281/zenodo.593662)
- Buerki, A. 2015. Word Association Data Processor. GitHub
- Buerki, A. 2013. N-Gram Processor. GitHub(10.5281/zenodo.18064)
- Buerki, A. 2011. SubString. GitHub(10.5281/zenodo.18164)
Research
My primary research interests include:
- constructionist approaches to grammar with special focus on phraseology and formulaic language
- corpus linguistic and quantitative approaches to linguistic research, including computational methods
- recent and ongoing change and motivation in linguistic change
- language, culture and society, particularly social and cultural aspects of linguistic structure
- discourse analysis in particular in relation to phraseology and linguistic relativity
For example, I work on how societal discourses can be read via their phraseology (see interview here), change in linguistic constructions over short periods of time and authorship attribution, among other topics.
My work on social and cultural motivation of language change in the area of Formulaic Language appeared in the monograph 'Formulaic Language and Linguistic Change: A data-led approach', published by Cambridge University Press.
Previously, I was the sole investigator of an SNSF-funded project on the universality of formulaic language. This project looked at how formulaic language manifests itself in languages of morphologically different type using a 30-million word corpus of Wikipedia texts.
Teaching
At undergraduate level, I convene and teach the third year module 'Phraseology in Theory and Application' (SE1421) and/or I convene and teach on the modules 'How Language Works 1' (SE1113) and 'How Language Works 2' (SE1114) which are introductory modules to the study of language, as well as sections of second year modules on linguistic structure and meaning.
At postgraduate level, I taught the MA module on Quantitative Research Methods in linguistics (SET013) for over a decade, as well as occasionally blocks on forensic authorship attribution as part of the Forensic Linguistics modules.
Further, I have taught 'Introduction to UNIX/Linux' at Cardiff University's doctoral academy and the 'Introduction to Statistics Workshop' at the School of English, Commuication and Philosophy.
In the past, I also taught parts of a module on 'Reading and Writing in the Digital Age' (SE1112) as well as modules on Second Language Acquisition and various introductory and advanced linguistics courses on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology, phonetics and phonology as well as workshops on corpus-linguistic, computational linguistic and statistics topics.
Biography
I received my BA from Brunel University and my MA in Linguistics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London). Thereafter, I worked as a lecturer in English Language at Gwangju University and Korea University, both in the Republic of Korea, before starting my PhD research in 2008. I received my PhD in General Linguistics from the University of Basel in 2013. Subsequently, I was a part-time lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at the University of Basel and post-doctoral researcher and part-time lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, later teaching part-time at Cardiff University and the University of the West of England well as being a post-doctoral reseacher at Cardiff University. I was appointed a full-time lecturer at Cardiff University in 2015 and a Senior Lecturer in 2019.
Professional memberships
- member and former vice-president of the European Society of Phraseology (EUROPHRAS)
- Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy
- member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association
Supervisions
I welcome expressions of interest from prospective PhD students who are interested in working in the areas of:
- Construction Grammar
- Phraseology / Formulaic Language
- Language and Culture, incl. linguistic relativity
- Language change
- other corpus linguistic topics, particularly with a quantitative or computational element
I do not supervise work on purely applied topics without an important theoretical aspect, such as work proposing to investigate purely applied issues in language teaching. Because I supervise a number of projects, I may not always be available to take on supervision of new projects even when they are within the areas outlined above.
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- Linguistic structures
- phraseology
- Computational linguistics
- language change
