LACUS XXIX

TOLEDO, OHIO

July 30 – August 3, 2002

 

Conference Theme: Linguistics and the Real World

 

Program

 

Unless otherwise specified in the program, all sessions will meet in the Law Center Auditorium.

 

Note: A workshop on “Hard-Science Linguistics” will be presented by Victor Yngve on Monday and Tuesday, July 29-30, in University Hall 5080. For information see http://coarts_faculty.utoledo.edu/dcoleman/lacus02/hsl_tutorial.html

 

During the LACUS meetings, a book exhibit and screenings of the LSA Video Archive Project will be available in the Law Center 1008.

 

Tuesday 30 July

 

1:00 Board of Directors Meeting, University Hall 5080

3:00-5:00 Conference Registration, Student Union 2592

3:30-5:30 Reception, Student Union 2592

 

Opening Session, Law Center Auditorium

            7:30 Welcoming Remarks             Douglas W. Coleman

                                                                 Sydney Lamb

            7:45 Inaugural Address

Adele Goldberg, University of Illinois

Constructing Meaning:  Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Support

for a Constructional Approach to Grammar

 

 

 

Wednesday 31 July

                                                                                    Chair:  David Bennett

 

8:30 Linda Thornburg & Klaus Panther (Universität Hamburg)

The role of conceptual metonymy in coding lexical aspect:  A corpus-based study of English and French

 

9:00 – 10:00 Real-World Use of Language

 

9:00 Timothy Face (University of Minnesota)

Consonant strength innovations across the Spanish-speaking world:  Evidence and implications for a usage-based model of phonology

 

9:20  Shawn M. Clankie (Hokkaido University)

Linguistics and the commoditization of language:  Evidence from trademark law

 

9:40     Mary S. MacKeracher (University of Toronto)

The lexical semantics of self-report dialect survey answers

 

10:00 – 10:30 Break

 

10:30 William Stone (Northeastern Illinois University)

The A.A.V.E. continuum in Chicago

 

 

Session A (11:00 – 12:00)                                      Law Center 1011

Intercultural Communication                                  Chair:  Michael Cummings

 

11:00 Susan Meredith Burt (Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois)

Politeness strategies in White Hmong requests

 

11:20 Liwei Gao (University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign)

Identity construction in bilingual advertising as a strategy of persuasion

           

11:40 Sooho Song (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Cross-cultural analysis of interlanguage politeness in the selection of request strategies

                                                                                               

 

Session B (11:00 – 12:00)                                      Law Center 1012

Real-World Use of Language                                Chair: John Hogan

 

11:00 Yili Shi (Southwest Missouri State University)

Zero anaphora and referential salience in Chinese discourse

 

11:20 Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas & Donald Weasenforth

(American University and George Washington University)

Real world language use:  Can elicited data tell the story?

 

11:40 Kyong-Sook Song (Dong-eui University, Korea)

Deictic expressions in English and Korean cyber communication

 

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break

                                                                                    Chair:  David Lockwood

 

1:30 W.J. Sullivan & David R. Bogdan (Uniwersytet Wroclawski and Matsuyama University)

Unpacking Polish narrative

 

2:00 – 3:00 Real World Use of Language

 

2:00 Toby D. Griffen (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville )

Letters, numbers, and the dating of Ogam

 

2:20 Carl Mills (University of Cincinnati)

Participant roles, cases, and style in Present-day English

 

2:40 Connie Eble (University of North Carolina)

The expanding world of English slang

 

3:00 – 3:30  Break

 

3:30 David Maurier and Sydney Lamb (Rice University)

Schizophrenic thought disorders and relational networks

 

4:00 – 5:00 Invited Lecture                                               Chair:  Sydney Lamb

 

Carrie Cameron, Cultural Communication

Language, Culture, and Reality:  How to Do Things with Linguistics

 

 

Thursday 1 August

                                                                   Chair:  Douglas Coleman

 

8:30 John T. Hogan  (University of Alberta)

Linguistic traits of the New Guinea pidgin, Tok Pisin, from the perspective of error-control coding

 

9:00 – 10:00 Language in the Real World

 

9:00 AbdulRahman Congreve (University of Toledo)

The effect of real-world knowledge on understanding persuasive language

 

9:20 Caleb Everett  (Rice University)

The hedging of financial advisors

 

9:40 Sarah Tsiang  (Eastern Kentucky University)

Linguistic lessons from the war in Afghanistan

 

10:00 – 10:30 Break

 

10:30 Alan K. Melby (Brigham Young University)

Listening comprehension, laws, and video

 

 

Session A (11:00 – 12:00)                                      Chair:  Connie Eble

Semantics and Grammar                                            Law Center 1011

 

11:00 Insun Yang (Rice University)

A new perspective on Korean conjunctions ‘ese’ and ‘nikka’

 

11:20 June C.C. Sun            (Providence University, Taiwan)

The grammaticalization and lexicalization of the verbal phrase gĕi wo in Mandarin

 

11:40 Nancy Stern (Hofstra University)

The grammar of English reflexives:  A new view

 

Session B (11:00 – 12:20)                                      Law Center 1012

Pragmatics and Literature                                                Chair:  Inga Dolinina

 

11:00 Noriko Watanabe (Baruch College CUNY)

Dialogue in monologue:  Japanese storytelling art

 

11:20 Luciane Corrêa Ferreira (PUCRS, Brazil)

The translation of irony in the light of relevance theory

 

11:40 Helen Chau Hu (California State University, Long Beach)

Use of modal verbs by Brontë’s Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

 

12:20 – 1:30 Lunch Break

 

1:30 – 3:00  Historical Linguistics                              Chair:  Toby Griffen

 

1:30 Saul Levin (SUNY Binghamton)

The phonology of ancient written languages and of their reconstructed prehistoric sources

 

2:00 Tim Pulju (Dartmouth College)

An alternative etymology for Latin ferus

 

2:20 Katalin  Nyikos            (Georgetown University)

Alphabet change and emergent reading in Azerbaijan

 

2:40 Robert Orr (Ottawa)

Eddies in language and biology

 

3:00 – 3:30 Break

 

3:30 Giancarlo Buoiano, Mario Betti, & Paolo Bongioanni (University of Pisa)

Reality without language:  A case report

 

4:00 – 5:00 Invited Lecture                                               Chair:  Sydney Lamb

 

George Heidorn, Microsoft Research

The Crooked Path of Progress from a Stratificational Grammar Course

to the Microsoft Grammar Checker

 

 

Friday 2 August

                                                                                    Chair:  Lois Stanford

 

8:30 David Bennett (SOAS, University of London)

Generative, OT and neurocognitive representations of clitic phenomena

 

9:00 Michael Cummings (York University)

Iterative and lexical densities within genres

 

9:20 Masahiko Komatsu & Takayuki Arai (Sophia University, Japan, and University of Alberta)

Acoustic realization of prosodic types:  Constructing average syllables

 

9:40 Sheri Wells-Jensen (Bowling Green State University)

Advantages of parallel text elicitation:  The parallel impromptu narrations corpus

 

10:00 – 10:30 Break

 

10:30 Vladimir Lazarev & Lioudmila Pravikova (Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University, Russia)

The discourse of parliamentary debates on the international terrorism:  Epistemic argumentative features

 

Session A (11:00 – 12:00)                                      Law Center 1011

Psycholinguistics                                                        Chair:  Bill Spruiell

 

11:00 Jason Wells-Jensen & Sheri Wells-Jensen (Bowling Green State University)

Clustering of speech errors

 

11:20 Hui Yin            (University of Alberta)

Cognitive strategies in relative clause processing in English and Chinese

 

11:40 Manuel Sinor (University of Alberta)

The role of consonant duration in the disambiguation of resyllabified phrases

 

Session B (11:00 – 12:00)                                      Law Center 1012

Computational Linguistics                                        Chair:  Alan Melby

 

11:00 Gerald Penn (University of Toronto)

Towards linguistically plausible language modeling in real-world applications

 

11:20 Jonathan Dehdari (Brigham Young University)

Two-level Persian morphology engine

 

11:40 Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young University)

An analogical model of Vedic cantillation

 

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break

                                                                                    Chair:  Bill Sullivan

 

1:30 Julius Nyikos (Washington and Jefferson College)

Vocalic iconicity in two unrelated language families

 

2:00 – 3:00 Discourse

 

2:00 Inga Dolinina (McMaster University)

Politeness in imperatives:  Grammatical encoding

 

2:20 Stacy Krainz (The University of Buffalo, SUNY)

Repetition in American news discussions as a tool of image projection

 

2:40 William C. Spruiell (Central Michigan University)

Stance and “abstance”

 

3:00 – 3:30 Break

                                                                                    Chair:  John Hogan

 

3:30 – 5:10 Hard-Science Linguistics

 

3:30 Victor Yngve (University of Chicago)

An outline of hard science phonetics-phonology

 

4:00 Douglas W. Coleman (University of Toledo)

A human linguistics view of “metaphorical language”

 

4:30 Lara Burazer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

A human linguistic analysis of a newspaper headline

 

4:50 Janelle Metzger (University of Toledo)

Social stratification of [fIfti] in midwestern (Toledo) department stores

 

 

Saturday 3 August

                                                                   Chair:  Angela Della Volpe

 

8:30 Earl Herrick (Texas A&M University, Kingsville)

On the place of writing in the glossematic/stratificational model

 

9:00 David Cahill (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Lookup and input methods for Chinese characters:  Electronic versus paper media

 

9:20 Robert Longacre  (University of Texas at Arlington)

A theory of complementarity:  Verb/clause types and discourse types in the Hebrew Bible

 

9:40  Vivien Ler Soon Lay (National University of Singapore)

Marine communication by means of flags

 

10:00 - 10:30 Break

 

10:30 Georgette Jabbour (New York Institute of Technology)

Corpus linguistics, language teaching, and the way forward

 

 

Session A (11:00 – 12:00)                                      Law Center 1011

Language Maintenance and Revitalization            Chair:  Connie Eble

 

11:00 Simo Määttä (University of California, Berkeley)

Problems of promoting regional or minority languages in the European Union: Conflicting ideologies of language

 

11:20 Monica Ward (Dublin City University)

Language maintenance and revitalization – how CALL can help:  The case of Nawat

 

11:40 Bevin Taylor (Miami University, Ohio)

A new framework for language maintenance and revivial

 

Session B (11:00 – 12:20)                                      Law Center 1012

Lexis                                                                           Chair:  Lilly Chen

 

11:00 Sasiwimol Klaykleung (National University of Singapore)

Lexis in Thai language teaching

 

11:20 Aya Katz (Inverted-A, Inc.)

The effects of literacy in lexicality

 

11:40  Carolyn Hartnett (College of the Mainland)

A corpus comparison of versions of the untranslatable Koran/Qur’an

 

12:00 Matthias K. Schirmeier (University of Alberta)

Distributional properties of German prefix verbs:  Implications for morphological processing

 

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12:30 LACUS Past Presidents’ Luncheon, University Hall 5080

 

2:30  Publications Committee Meeting, University Hall 5080

 

 

6:30 Annual Banquet

            The Phonecia

            Students Union

 

6:30 Dinner

 

7:45 Awarding of Presidents’ Prizes and Commendations

 

8:00 Presidential Address:

Adam Makkai, University of Illinois, Chicago

The mystery of translation and the history of linguistics

 

9:00 Entertainment