(Last update on any part of the website: 08 June 2012; click here for the text version of this website.)Recent news and upcoming events · · · I have just been invited onto the editorial board of the new journal Journal of Language Modelling · · · My paper '50-something years of work on collocations: what is or should be next …' has just been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics · · · My paper 'Frequencies, probabilities, association measures in usage-/exemplar-based linguistics: some necessary clarifications' has just been accepted for publication in Studies in Language · · · I have just been invited to give a plenary lecture at the Arizona Linguistics Circle 6 at the University of Arizona, Tucson, in October 2012 · · · My book on Statistics for linguistics with R: a practical introduction will be reviewed (quite favorably) in the June issue of Language · · · In 2013 I will teach at the 2013 LSA Linguistics Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · · · In October 2012 I will teach at the 'Exploring Digital Humanities' workshop at Ghent University · · · In May and June 2012, I will teach 5-day workshops at the University of Barcelona and the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen Scooby's website still has only 20 pages · · ·