This website was made possible by the efforts of William Allendorfer, a doctoral candidate in Second Language Studies at Indiana University. Will designed the site and developed it in WordPress. He then worked patiently to teach me how to maintain it, add material to it, and make edits. I owe him a great debt of gratitude!

Will is currently writing his dissertation on the knowledge of first and second language speakers of English concerning the form and use of Situation Bound Utterances (SBUs), conventional expressions which are strongly associated with particular situations of use and with the social roles of particular speakers. An example is “Welcome aboard!” This is appropriately uttered by a ship’s captain or other ship’s personnel in greeting arriving passengers–or by the colleagues or new boss of an employee starting a new job. His research adds significant insights both to the lexicography of conventional expressions and to our knowledge of their pragmatic properties.