......LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
............................THE TWENTY-SIXTH LACUS FORUM
.............................. ...................... Held at
...........................................University of Alberta
....................................Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
...............................................AUGUST 3 - 7, 1999
.......................................................Program
Tuesday, August 3
Registration & Reception, 3-5 p.m. Banquet Room
Tuesday evening, August 3
Welcome to the University of Alberta, 7:30 p.m., Banquet Room -- Dr. Doug Owram (Vice-President, Academic)
Inaugural address, 7:45 p.m., Banquet Room -- Prof. Wallace Chafe, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Low content verbs, Chair: Sydney Lamb
Wednesday Morning, August 4
"A" SESSION, Banquet Room
Lexicon & Syntax
8:30 - 9:00 An Laffut & Kristin Davidse, Leuven University, Verb meaning and construction sets
9:00 - 9:20 Minoji Akimoto, Aoyama Gakuin University, Deverbal nouns with postmodifying prepositional phrases
9:20 - 9:40 Tully J. Thibeau, Univ. of Arizona, Mastering prepositions in English phrasal verbs
9:40 - 10:00 William C. Spruiell, Central Michigan University, Copular constructions, participant roles, and the lexicon
"B" SESSION, Map Room
Diachrony
8:30 - 9:00 Regine Eckhardt, University of Konstanz, From logico-philosophical to cognitive semantics
9:00 - 9:20 Saul Levin, State Univ. of NY at Binghamton, How polyglots enlarge the vocabulary of their primary language
9:20 - 9:40 Guo Wu, Univ. of Western Sydney Nepean, From lexical verb to discourse particle
9:40 - 10:00 Timo Haukioja, Univ. of Turku, Universal grammar & evolution
B R E A K
"A" SESSION, Banquet Room
Lexicon and Grammar
10:30 - 11:00 Regina Pustet, Univ. of Munich & Univ. of Colorado, Split intransitivity in Lakota
11:00 - 11:20 Eleanor Olds Batchelder, Univ. of Tsukuba, Rule vs. role in Japanese verb inflection
11:20 - 11:40 Haig Der Houssikian, Univ. of Florida, The role of conceptual structure in the acquisition of vocabulary in an over-differentiated language
11:40 - 12:00 Antoine Guillaume, Univ. of Oregon, The 'Associated Motion' system in Cavineria
"B" SESSION, Map Room
Diachrony
10:30 - 11:00 Lilly Lee Chen, Rice University, Expressivity as motivation in language change
11:00 - 11:20 Juhani Rudanko, Univ. of Tampere, Into -ing over three centuries
11:20 - 11:40 Wendan Li, Univ. of Alberta, A cognitive analysis of 'Zai' in Chinese and its use through time
11:40 - 12:00 Janet D. Collins, Southern Illinois Univ. at Edwardsville, A Complete description, analysis, & comparison of the two halves of 'Dream of the Rood'
Wednesday Afternoon, August 4
1:00 -1:30 Computer Demonstration, VIP Room, Alan K. Melby, Arle Lommel & Matthew Coulson, Brigham Young Univ., A tool for finding irregular items in translations [Repeated at 1 p.m. Thursday & Friday]
Plenary Session, Banquet Room
1:30 - 2:00 Sydney Lamb & Xiuhong Zhang, Rice Univ., Potency of constituents of lexemes
2:00 - 2:30 Michel Paradis, McGill Univ., Neuroimaging studies of the bilingual brain
2:30 - 3:00 Sophie David, Daniele Dubois & Catherine Rouby, CNRS, Lexical devices and the construction of 'objects'
3:00 - 3:30 Dina Belyayeva, Univ. of Florida, Word frequency effects in word identification
B R E A K
4:00 - 5:00, Banquet Room, Joan Bybee, Univ. of New Mexico, The units of mental representation: Morphemes, words, phrases, constituents. (invited lecture)
Thursday Morning, August 5
"A" SESSION, Banquet Room
The Mental Lexicon
8:30 - 9:00 Ann Stuart Laubstein, Carleton Univ., Word blend evidence for two levels of lexical access
9:00 - 9:20 Britt Erman, Stockholm Univ., Cognitive processes in connection with pauses in the light of ACT theory
9:20 - 9:40 Ian W. Wallace, Univ. of Alberta, The effect of context on priming in the lexical decision task
9:40 - 10:00 Matthias K. Schirmeier, Univ. of Alberta, An interlingual priming task for English-German bilinguals
"B" SESSION, Map Room
Morphological Factors
8:30 - 9:00 Klaus-Uwe Panther, Hamburg Univ. & Linda L. Thornburg, Eotvos Lorand Univ., A Continuum between lexicon and morphology
9:00 - 9:20 Sebastian Shaumyan, Yale Univ., Lexicalization & grammaticalization explained by laws of signs
9:20 - 9:40 Shannon McEwen, Gary Libben & Roberto de Almeida, Univ. of Alberta, Do we really access multiple morphemic representations during word recognition?
9:40 - 10:00 Roberto de Almeida & Gary Libben, Univ. of Alberta, Morphological decomposition
B R E A K
"A" SESSION, Banquet Room
The Mental Lexicon
10:30 - 11:00 M. Lynne Murphy, Baylor Univ., The extralexical nature of lexical relations
11:00 - 11:20 Michael R.Walrod, Canada Institute of Linguistics, The lexicon: inventory or ongoing dialogue
11:20 - 11:40 Beatrice Warren, Lund Univ., An alternative view of stored linguistic knowledge
11:40 - 12:00 Melissa Melinger, J. P. Koenig & Gail Mauner, State Univ. of NY at Buffalo, Evidence for the hierarchical organization of the lexicon
"B" SESSION, Map Room
Semantic Factors
10:30 - 11:00 James E. Copeland, Rice Univ. Making of sematic roles & grammatical relations in Tarahumara
11:00 - 11:20 Oleg Kapanadze, State University (Georgia), A multilingual Russian-English valency lexicon for a website Integrated Language package
11:20 - 11:40 Sarah Tsiang-Starcevic, Mie Univ. & Lois Stanford, Univ. of Alberta, Connotations as a factor in lexical choice in media coverage of the Yugoslavian Civil War
11:40 - 12:05 Alan Manning, Brigham Young Univ., The subatomic cognitive structure of Theta roles
Thursday Afternoon, August 5
1:00-1:30 Computer demonstration, VIP Room [see Wed, 1 p.m.]
"A" SESSION, Banquet Room
The Mental Lexicon
1:30 - 2:00 Kaori Kabata, Univ. of Alberta, Speakers' Judgments about the lexical complexity of Ni
2:00 - 2:20 Aya Katz, Tamsui Oxford Univ. College, The two faces of lexicalization
2:20 - 2:40 Marina Blekher, Univ. of Alberta, Word-type effects in the lexical processing of different-script and same-script bilinguals
2:40 - 3:00 Ming-Ming Pu, Univ. of Maine at Farmington, From 'Tip/slip of the pen' to mental lexicon
"B" SESSION, Map Room
Discourse
1:30 - 2:00 Maite Taboada, Univ. of Alberta, Lexical cohesion as a measure in generic analysis
2:00 - 2:20 Kuniko Tada, Univ. of Oregon, Creating cohesion
2:20 - 2:40 Carl Mills, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cluster analysis and stylistic patterns in a popular genre
2:40 - 3:00 Michael Jordan, Queen's Univ., Lexical anaphoric assessors
B R E A K
Plenary Session, Banquet Room
3:30 - 3:50 Connie Eble, Univ. of North Carolina, Lexicon a la mode
3:50 - 4:10 William J. Sullivan, Univ. of Florida, The resurrection of Paucal
4:10 - 4:30 John T. Hogan, Univ. of Alberta, Phonetic Inventory size and lexicon
4:30 - 4:50 Victor Yngve, Univ. of Chicago, Issues in testing the depth hypothesis
Friday Morning, August 6
"A" SESSION, Banquet Room
Lexical Semantics
8:30 - 9:00 Stefan Engelberg, Bergische Univ., Verb meaning as event structure
9:00 - 9:20 Jeong-Hua Lee, Rice Univ., A cognitive semantic analysis of the motion verb milta
9:20 - 9:40 Danko Sipka, Adam Mickiewicz Univ., Semantic variation in substandard lexicon
9:40 - 10:00 Helen Chau Hu, California State Univ., Long Beach, Lexical and extra-lexical roles of conjunctions in translating
"B" SESSION, Map Room
Acquisition of Lexicon
8:30 - 9:00 Martha Smith & Elena Nicoladis, Univ. of Alberta, The developing lexicon
9:00 - 9:20 Sigal Uziel-Karl, Tel Aviv Univ., Lexicon-syntax interface
9:20 - 9:40 Daniela Gatto & Lois Stanford, Univ. of Alberta, Error patterns in the storytelling of a trilingual child
9:40 - 10:00 Elena Nicoladis, Univ. of Alberta, Where is my brush-teeth?
B R E A K
"A" SESSION, Banquet Room
Lexical Semantics
10:30 - 11:00 Hilary Young, Rice Univ., Conventional semantics of proper nouns
11:00 - 11:20 Adam Glaz, . Mari Curie-Sklodowskiej Univ., Tensions within and around a lexical category
11:20 - 11:40 Serge Sharoff, Russian Research Inst. for Artificial Intelligence, Lexis: Between the grammar and the domain model
11:40 - 12:00 Klaudia Wengorek, Marie Curie Sklodowskiej Univ., Though this be madness, Yet there is method in't
"B" SESSION, Map Room
Syntax
10:30 - 11:00 Ren Zhang, York Univ., A semantic constraint on periphrastic causation
11:00 - 11:20 M. Mehdi-Vahedi, Univ. of Tarbiat Modarres, Passives with Shod-an in Persian
11:20 - 11:40 Satomi Currah, Univ. of Alberta, Formation of Japanese adnominal constructions
11:40 - 12:00 C. Thomas Mason and Sophie S. Morgan, Federal regulators as language planners
Friday Afternoon, August 6
1:00 - 1:30 Computer Demonstration, VIP Room [see Wed, 1 p.m.]
"A" SESSION, Banquet Room
Lexical Semantics
1:30 - 2:00 Michael Cummings, York Univ., A cognitive-spatial model for lexical semantics
2:00 - 2:20 Charles Ruhl, Old Dominion Univ. , The shape of a lexicon
2:20 - 2:40 Bernard Paul Sypniewsky, Rowan Univ., Lexical & grammatical superposition
2:40 - 3:00 Toshiko Yamaguchi, Univ. of Essex, Icelandic auxiliaries Hafa and Vera
"B" SESSION, Map Room
Irony
1:30 - 2:00 Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv Univ., Ironic & literal languages
2:00 - 2:20 Herbert L. Colston, Univ. of Wisconsin-Parkside, Processing ironic contrast
2:20 - 2:40 Albert Katz, Univ. of Western Ontario, Processing of sarcastic irony
2:40 - 3:00 Discussion
B R E A K
Plenary Session, Banquet Room
3:30 - 4:00 Daniele Dubois, CNRS & Colette Grinevald:, Univ. Lumiere-Lyon2, Color naming
4:00 - 4:30 Carita Paradis, Univ. of Lund, Adjectives and boundaries
4:30 - 5:00 Shin Ja J. Hwang, SIL & Univ. of Texas, Arlington, Multiple functions of 'when' clauses
Saturday Morning, August 7
"A" SESSION, Banquet Room
Lexicon in the Cortex
8:30 - 9:00 Rose Mary Babitch, Moncton Univ., The coordination of cognitive topic and Neuroscience
9:00 - 9:20 Ekaterini Klepousniotou, McGill Univ., The cortical representation of lexical information
9:20 - 9:40 Lara Riente, McGill Univ., Differential localization of L1 & L2 words in the bilingual brain
9:40 - 10:00 Jennifer Mortimer, McGill Univ., The role of explicit memory in supporting the bilingual lexicon
"B" SESSION, Map Room
Lexicon and Phonology
8:30 - 9:00 Catie Berkenfield, Univ. of New Mexico, Frequency, grammaticization and phonological reduction of English 'that'
9:00 - 9:20 Katalin Nyikos, Georgetown University, The Relationship between lexical & phonological information
9:20 - 9:40 Lori Buchanan, Chris Westbury & Norman Brown, Univ. of Alberta, Lexical & phonological information
9:40 - 10:00 Julia Peters, Univ. of Alberta, Native speaker awareness of phonological patterns in nouns & verbs
B R E A K
"A" SESSION, Banquet Room
Complex Lexemes
10:30 - 11:00 Elizabeth Dawes, Univ. of Winnipeg, Idioms: Variants, modifications and errors
11:00 - 11:20 Edward L. Blansitt, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, Verbo-Nominal Predicates in the lexicon
11:20 - 11:40 Angela Della Volpe & Marlene de Rios, California State Univ., Fullerton, Metaphor and misery
11:40 - 12:00 Marie-Helene Antoni, Univ. of Poitiers, Lexicalixation and modification of word properties
12:00 - 12:20 Douglas W. Coleman, Univ. of Toledo, Linguistic data and Its uses
"B" SESSION, Map Room
Lexicon and Phonology
10:30 - 11:00 Marika Butskhrikidze, Leiden Univ. Relationships between lexical and morphological information and lexical and phonological information
11:00 - 11:20 Terry Janzen, Univ. of Manitoba, The role of handshape in ASL verbs
11:20 - 11:40 Julius Nyikos, Washington & Jefferson College, Phonological Rrpresentation & lexical immutability
11:40 - 12:00 C. Anton Rytting, Brigham Young Univ., An empirical test of an analytical approach to the k/0 alternation
12:00 -12:30 Steven Frisson & Dominick Sandra, Univ. of Antwerp, The role of word frequency and within-sentence distance in the spelling of regularly inflected verb forms in Dutch
Saturday Evening, August 7
Banquet, Faculty Club
Presidential Address: Gary Prideaux, Univ. of Alberta, Discourse analysis and psycholinguistics
