(Last update on any part of the website: 16 May 2013)Recent news and upcoming events · · · The second edition of my book on Statistics for linguistics with R: a practical introduction has just come out · · · I have just been invited to give a plenary talk at PACLIC 27 (Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation) to be held at NCCU in Taiwan, 22-24 November 2013 · · · I have just been invited to write the article on "Quantitative linguistics" for the 2nd edition of Elsevier's International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences · · · I have just become a member of the editorial board of the new international peer-reviewed journal Cognitive Linguistic Studies published by John Benjamins · · · I have just been invited to give a plenary talk at the conference 'Cross-linguistic priming: Perspectives and constraints' (September 2013 at Radboud University Nijmegen) · · · I have just been invited to give a keynote lecture and be a discussant in the panel "Corpora and statistical methods" at the 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (July 2014 at Lancaster University) · · · I have just become a member of the editorial board of the international peer-reviewed journal Glottotheory · · · I have become a member (5 year term) in Tony McEnery's ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University · · · In 2013, I will teach at the 2013 LSA Linguistics Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · · · Scooby's website still has only 20 pages · · ·