News and upcoming events ... The paper "Collostructional nativisation in New Englishes: verb-construction associations in the International Corpus of English" written with Joybrato Mukherjee has been accepted for publication in English World-Wide ... The new AAUP 2007-08 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession shows one of the worst aspects of working in academe ... I was appointed an associate editor of Cognitive Linguistics ... As of 2009, I will be on the founding editorial board of Constructions and Frames ... Scooby's website has just been updated to now contain a new 14th and 15th page! ... The paper "The identification of stages in diachronic data: variability-based neighbor clustering" written with Martin Hilpert has been accepted for publication in Corpora ... The paper "Finding developmental groups in acquisition data: variability-based neighbor clustering" written with Sabine Stoll has been accepted for publication in Journal of Quantitative Linguistics ...