1 July 2001
LACUS 2001 Program
Conference Theme: The Nature of Linguistic Evidence
Tuesday 31 July
1:00 pm. Board of Directors meeting in "Salle de Réception", DS2901,
...............(second floor, just above the lecture rooms, accessible by elevator)
3:30 – 5:30 pm Registration
4:00 – 6:00 pm Opening Reception
7:30. Opening Session (Chair: Michel Paradis)
7:30 Welcoming Remarks
7:45 Inaugural Address:Igor Melchuk, Université de Montréal
"A Formal Language for Morphology"
Wednesday 1 August
8:30 – 10:00 Kinds of Evidence I (Chair: Lilly Lee)
8:30 Charles Ruhl, Old Dominion University
The Evidence Problem and Some Ramifications
9:00 Victor Yngve, University of Chicago
Issues in Hard Science Linguistics
9:30 Coleman, Douglas W. University of Toledo
A Corpus Study on the (Non-)Physicality of Linguistic Observation
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Session A: Semantic Factors I (Chair: Bill Spruiell)
10:30 David Nicolas, UCLA & CREA / Ecole Polytechnique, France
Is There Anything Characteristic about the Meaning of a Count Noun?
11:00 Carlos Benavides, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Lexical Conceptual Structure and Spanish Derivation
11:20 Helen Chau Hu, California State University, Long Beach
Linguistics as a Delimiting Factor in Translation Theory
11:40 Toshiko Yamaguchi, & Magnús Pétursson, National University of Singapore & University of Hamburg
Anterior vs. Resultative in Icelandic
10:30 – 12:00 Session B: Semantics and Pragmatics (Chair: Shin Ja Hwang)
10:30 Pierre Larrivee, Aston University, UK
Meaning and Grammatical Functions: The Case of Locative Sentence and Verb Modifiers in French
11:00 Donald Weasenforth, & Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas, George Washington University & American University
Evidential Reliability in Pragmatics: A Comparison of Ethnographic and Elicitation Approaches
11:20 Tomiko Kodama, Kyoto Yakka University, Japan & SUNY Buffalo
What Is "Truly Feminine" in the Japanese Sentence Particle wa?
11:40 Barbara Bacz, Laval University
Pronominal Evidence in Slavic and the Meaning of Cases
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:00 Session A: Discourse I (Chair: Bill Spruiell)
1:30 Robert E. Longacre, University of Texas at Arlington
Proposal: A Discourse Model Grammar of Biblical Hebrew
2:00 Ming-Ming Pu & Qinghong Pu, University of Maine at Farmington & University College of Beijing Polytechnic University
Spoken and Written Narratives
2:20 Sarah Tsiang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ascertaining Discourse Motivations for Grammatical Choices
2:40 Gordon D.Fulton, University of Victoria
Evidence for Register and Register as Evidence in Literary Stylistics
1:30 – 3:00 Session B: Linguistic change (Chair: Ruth Brend)
1:30 Mokoto Hori, Tokai Women's College, Japan
Decaying Hierarchies, Disappearing Honorifics
2:00 Patrick-Andre Mather, McGill University
Using Current L2 Data to Reconstruct the Early Stages of Creole Genesis
2:20 Liwei Gao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Language Shift in Progress: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese / English Codeswitching
2:40 David Bowie, Brigham Young University
The More Things Change: The Limits of Solutions to the Actuation Problem
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30 Brendan Gillon, McGill University (Chair: Connie Eble)
Theory and Evidence in Linguistics:
The Nature of Ambiguity, Underspecification, Deixis and Vagueness
Thursday 2 August
8:30 – 10:00 Kinds of Evidence II (Chair: Syd Lamb)
8:30 Patrick J Duffley, Université Laval
Linguistics as an Empirical Science: The Status of Grammaticality Judgments in Linguistic Theory
9:00 William J. Sullivan, University of Florida and Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Poland
A Plausible Contradiction
9:20 Earl Herrick, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Plato and Aristotle vs. Writing
9:40 Lilly Lee Chen, Rice University
Color Symbolism: Translation between Chinese and English
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Session A: Discourse II (Chair: John Hogan)
10:30 Shin Ja Hwang, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics & UT Arlington
Discourse Structure of Two Parables
11:00 Vivien Ler Soon Lay, National University of Singapore
The Discourse Particle lah in Singapore English: A Cognitive Approach
11:20 Liang Tao, Ohio University
Pronouns and Full NPs: Contextual Dependency of Reference Accessibility
11:40 Darrell Williams, Ottawa
The Cognitive, Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of Preposed Objects, Post-verbal NPs and Discourse Topics
10:30 – 12:00 Session B: Dialectology (Chair: Douglas Coleman)
10:30 Ping Jiang-King, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tonal Asymmetries in Cross-Linguistic Frequency: Evidence in Phonology
11:00 Connie Eble, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Popular Accounts of Louisiana Speech
11:20 Mary S. MacKeracher, University of Toronto
What Language Stability Tells Us about Language Change, and Vice Versa
11:40 Faeqa Alsadeqi, University of Bahrain
Arabic Dialects vs. Classical Arabic: A Comparative Study
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:00 Session A: Neurocognitive Factors (Chair: John Hogan)
1:30 Christian Wabl, & Gernot Supp, Brain Trust, Austria
How Does It Come That a Lamb is Called 'l a m b'
2:00 Rose Mary Babitch, Moncton University
Idiolectal Phrasal Lexemes in a Dialect Atlas: A Neurocognitive Exploration
2:20 Rennie Gonslaves, Brooklyn College
A Stratificational Account of Some Psycholinguistic Evidence Regarding Word Meaning and Conceptual Structure
2:40 Laura Sabourin, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
The Second Language Processing of Grammatical Gender: An ERP Study
1:30 – 3:00 Session B: Kinds of Evidence III (Chair: Douglas Coleman)
1:30 Joybrato Mukherjee, University of Bonn, Germany
The Scope of Corpus Evidence
2:00 Judith Yoel, University of Haifa, Israel
The Attrition of Russian Sign Language: Case Studies
2:20 Rachel Selbach, McGill University
Manufacturing Data: Transcription as the First Stage in Obtaining Linguistic Evidence
2:40 Suzanne Quay, International Christian University, Tokyo
Measuring Up to Expectations: What Constitutes Evidence in Child Language Research?
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 Sydney Lamb, Rice University (Chair: Sheila Embleton)
Types of Evidence for a Realistic Approach to Language
4:00 – 5:00 Charles Boberg, McGill University (Chair: Chair: Sheila Embleton)
Fact or opinion: a sociolinguistic view of native-speaker intuitions
as evidence in linguistics
Friday 3 August
8:30 – 10:00 Morpho-Syntax I (Chair: Victor Yngve)
8:30 David C. Bennett, SOAS, University of London, UK
Towards a Better Understanding of Clitic Systems
9:00 Stefan Th. Gries, Southern Denmark University
Evidence in Linguistics: Three Approaches to Genitives in English
9:30 Boas, Hans C. International Computer Science Institute, UC Berkeley
Where's the Data? Towards a Corpus-Based Syntactic Theory
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Session A: Semantic Factors II (Chair: Angela Della Volpe)
10:30 Svitlana A. Zhabotynska, Cherkasy State University, Ukraine
Lexico-Semantic Field: Schematic Network and Regular Polysemy
11:00 Samuel Navarro, University of Alberta
An Empathic Perspective of Obviation in Cree
11:20 Michal Pawica, Uniwersyet Jagiellonski, Poland & Université Laval
An Inflectional Case and a Literary Text: The Corpus of a Semantic Study
11:40 Serguei Gavenko, Moscow State Linguistic University
Semantics of Argumentation: Valid Evidence in the Words of Sense Perception
10:30 – 12:00 Session B: Phonology I (Chair: Toby Griffen)
10:30 Marika Butskhrikidze, The Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics
Diligent Evidence: A Case of 'Complexity' in Phonology
11:00 Hui-chuan Hsu, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
On the Structure of iu and ui in Taiwanese: Evidence from Phonology and Phonetics
11:20 Roy Hagman, Trent University
On the Superiority of Tonetic Evidence
11:40 Haruko Miyakoda, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Speech Errors: English vs. Japanese
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:00 Session A: Morpho-Syntax II (Chair: Angela Della Volpe)
1:30 Inga Dolinina, McMaster University
Evidence for the Legitimacy of "Mixed" Imperative Paradigms
2:00 Franck Floricic, Équipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Semantique, Université de Toulouse, Le Mirail
Negative Imperative and Clitics in Italian: Syntax or Phonology?
2:20 Michael Kliffer, McMaster University
A Major Areal Shift in Possessor-Marking
2:40 Malcolm A Finney, California State University, Long Beach
Universality of Morphosyntactic Processes: Counterexamples from West African Kwa Languages
1:30 – 3:00 Session B: Communication (Chair: Inga Dolinina)
1:30 Bernard Sypniewski, Rowan College, Camden
Evidence for What?
2:00 Maite Taboada, MindfulEye Systems, Inc., Vancouver
Turn-Taking and Discourse Markers: What's the Relationship?
2:20 Kyong-Sook Song, Dong-eui University, South Korea
Schemata and Frames in Cyber Communication
2:40 Barbara Jacennik, University of Warsaw, Poland
Measuring Children's Assertiveness from Conversational Samples
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:10 Iconicity (Chair: Patrick Duffley)
3:30 Ken-Ichi Kadooka, Ryukoku University, Japan
The Evidence of the Onomatopoeia Markers in Japanese
4:00 Steven Schaefer, Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Organique et Minérale, France
Prosodic Theory and Evidence in Oral Discourse
4:20 John Hogan, University of Alberta
The Sound-Meaning Relationship as Evidence for Error-Control Coding in Language
4:40 – 5:10 Julius Nyikos, Washington and Jefferson College
Multiple Evidencing in Empirical Iconicity Research
Saturday 4 August
8:30 – 10:00 (Chair: Bill Sullivan)
8:30 Toby D. Griffen, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Reconstructing Ogam P
9:00-10:00 Symposium on Evidence in Linguistics
Sydney Lamb, Rice University
Carl Mills, University of Cincinnati
Stephen Straight, SUNY Binghamton
Victor Yngve, University of Chicago
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Session A: Morpho-Syntax III (Chair: Lois Stanford)
10:30 Béatrice Godart-Wendling, Université Paris
What Constitutes Evidence of the Accurateness of Structure Representation?
11:00 Carolyn G. Hartnett, College of the Mainland
Morphological Patterns of Terms in Neuroscience and Quantum Physics
11:20 Fusa Katada, Waseda University, Japan
Weak Transitivity and Experiencer-Theme Inversion
11:40 Rafael Salaberry, Rice University
Using Lexical and Grammatical Aspect Data to Trace Second language Development
10:30 – 12:00 Session B: Phonology II (Chair: John Hogan)
10:30 Hilke Elsen, University of Munich & University of Eichstaett
The Dominance of Prosodic Features over Sounds
11:00 Chang-Kook Suh, Chonan University, Korea
Geminates, NC Clusters, and Word-medial CC Sequences in Ponapean
11:20 Christian Guilbault, University of Alberta
Durational Properties of Syllables as Potential Evidence for Rhythmic Pattern in L2 Acquisition
11:40 Masahiko Komatsu, University of Alberta & Sophia University, Japan
What Constitutes Acoustic Evidence of Prosody? The Use of Linear Predictive Coding Residual Signal in Perceptual Language Identification
6:30 Annual Banquet, Presidential Address, Awards, and Entertainment
6:30 Banquet
7:45 Awarding of Presidents' Prizes and Commendations
8:00 Presidential Address: Sheila Embleton, York University
Bilingualism in Contemporary Finland:
Whither Swedish?
9:00 Entertainment
