Thirty-first LACUS Forum
University of Illinois at Chicago, July 27 – 31, 2004
Conference Theme: Interconnections
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This theme is intended to encourage linguists to think seriously about interconnections
not only among all aspects of linguistic structure but also, and especially,
between language and everything else in human experience, including art and
music and ritual and all cognitive processes. Also included are the use of
linguistic tools in other disciplines, and the use of tools such as computers
and brain-imaging machines in linguistics, both pure and applied.
Tuesday 27 July
1:00 Board of Directors Meeting
3:00 – 5:00 Conference Registration
3:30 – 5:30 Reception
Opening Session
7:30 Welcoming Remarks
7:45 Inaugural Lecture:
Klaus-Uwe Panther (University of Hamburg)
“Metonymic Reasoning Inside and Outside Language”
Wednesday 28 July
8:30 Jonathan Webster (City University of Hong Kong)
“The Rhetoric of 9/11: A Text Linguistic Case Study”
Session A (9:00 – 10:00)
Discourse Structure; Pragmatics
9:00 Viktoria Jovanovic-Krstic (York University)
“Evaluating the Discourse of War”
9:20 Jiun-Shiung Hunter Wu (National Chiayi University, Taiwan)
“Aspectual Influence on Temporal Relations: Evidence from the Perfective Marker le in Mandarin Chinese”
9:40 Rennie Gonsalves (Brooklyn College)
“Promises and Predictions: A Revised Model Theoretic Approach”
Session B (9:00 – 10:00)
Psycholinguistics
9:00 Matthias Schirmeier, Bruce Derwing and Gary Libben (University of Alberta)
“Non-homogeneity among German Verbs in ver-: One Size does not Fit All9:20 Ellen Thompson (Florida International University)
“Speech Errors in Main and Auxiliary Verbs: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis”9:40 Marina Blekher (University of Alberta)
“Interconnections in the Bilingual Lexicon: Does Morphology Play a Role in Translation Recognition?”
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 John Hogan (University of Alberta)
“An Exploratory Cross-Language Study of Phonological Differences between Monomorphemic Nominal and Verbal Elements”
Session A (11:00 – 12:00)
Syntax and Semantics
11:00 John Boyle (University of Chicago)
“Hidatsa NP Coordination”11:20 Martin Hilpert (Rice University)
“From Causality to Concessivity: The Case of just because”
11:40 Man-ni Chu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
“The Lexicalization Patterns of Verbs of Hitting in Taiwanese Southern Min”Session B (11:00 – 11:40)
Sociolinguistics
11:00 Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson and Sumiko Iida (University of New South Wales)
“Gendered Language in Japanese: Definition, Perception and Reality”11:20 Kyong-Sook Song (Dongeui University, South Korea)
“Politeness in Computer-Mediated Communication”12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break
Wednesday Afternoon
1:30 Victor Yngve (University of Chicago)
“Linguistics without Signs?”Second Language Acquisition (2:00 – 4:00)
2:00 Douglas Coleman (University of Toledo)
“The Nature of Language Learning Input”
2.30 Stephen Straight (Binghamton University – SUNY)
“Linguistics and Foreign Language Learning: The Lessons of ‘Processing Instruction’ for Linguistics”
3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 Martha Nyikos (Indiana University)
“Retrieval Networks: Tapping into the Interaction of Cognitive Styles and Learning Strategies”
4:00 Invited Lecture:
William Benzon (author of Beethoven’s Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture)
“Music, the Social Mind, and Language”
Thursday 29 July
8:30 William Sullivan (Uniwersytet Wroclawski and UMCS Lublin)
“The Persistence of a Fiction”
Session A (9:00 – 10:00)
Philosophy of Linguistics; Phonology-Semantics Interface
9:00 John Colarusso (McMaster University)
“Chomskyan Linguistics as a Science”9:20 Julius Nyikos (Washington and Jefferson College)
“Continuing Where Sapir Left Off”9:40 Kuniyoshi Ishikawa (Yale University/Meiji University)
“Focus-Affected Readings of Weak NPs and Information Updating”Session B (9:00 – 9:40)
Cognitive Linguistics
9:00 Carol Lombard (University of South Africa)
“Metaphors in Computer Networking Terminology: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective”
9:20 Francisco Santibáñez Sáenz (University of La Rioja)
“The Metonymic Component of Verbs of Existence”10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 Carter Cheney and Arle Lommel (Indiana University)
“Writing Social Change: Orthography Reform in Central/Inner Asia”Session A (11:00 – 12:00)
Sociolinguistics
11:00 Roy Hagman (Trent University)
“The Troubled Interface of Writing and Speech”11:20 Barbra Novak (Rice University)
“The Northern Cities Shift of Ballston Spa, New York”11:40 Saul Levin (State University of New York at Binghamton)
“Fashions in the Naming of Children”Session B (11:00 – 12:00)
History of Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics
11:00 Casey Sutcliffe (Colgate University)
“Connecting William Dwight Whitney with the Neogrammarians: Maria Whitney’s Trip to Leipzig 1880-1882”
11:20 Nannette Brenner (University of Maryland at College Park)
“Metaphors of Success and Failure in Conventional Warfare and Peacekeeping Operations”
11:40 Nuria Alfaro Martínez (University of La Rioja)
“The Balance of the Mind: Image-Schemas and Cognition”
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break
Thursday Afternoon
Clinical Linguistics Workshop (1:30 – 4:00)
1:30 Review: Neurolinguistic Tests, Neurocognitive Tests, and Neuroimaging
(Elissa Asp, Jessica de Villiers, Jodi Tommerdahl)
2:10 Jessica de Villiers (University of British Columbia) and Peter Szatmari
(McMaster University)
“Experientially-Based Narration in PDD: A Case Study”2:25 Jodi Tommerdahl (La Sorbonne, Paris IV), Roger Gil (University Hospital of Poitiers), and Georges Molinié (La Sorbonne, Paris IV).
“New Evidence of Distinct Brain Mechanisms in Human Reasoning: Examining the Deductive/Probabilistic Divide”
2:40 Elissa Asp (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS), Jennifer Klages (Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS), and Kenneth Rockwood
(Dalhousie University, Halifax. NS)
“Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease: Two Case Studies of Language and Memory Systems as Evidenced in Discourse and Neuroimaging”
2.55 Initial Discussion
3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 Clinical Linguistics Panel Discussion
(Elissa Asp, Jessica de Villiers, Jodi Tommerdahl)
4:00 Invited lecture:
Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)
“Cultural Knowledge, Discourse Poetics,
and the Performance of Social Relations”
Thursday Evening
Workshop on the use of Ontology-Engineering Tools in Linguistic Research (7:00 – 9:00)
7:00 Teach-in on Ontology-Modeling of Network Representations using Frame
Logic
(Jonathan Webster)
8:30 Panel Discussion of Ontology-Modeling in Relation to Other Forms of Network
Representation
(Jonathan Webster, Sydney Lamb, Peter Reich)
Friday 30 July
8:50
Shin Ja Hwang (Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and SIL)
“Hortatory and Persuasive Discourse: A Prototypical Approach”
Session A (9:20 – 10:00)
Discourse Structure
9:20 Sarah Tsiang (Eastern Kentucky University)
“Patterns of verb Usage for Perspective-Switching in Sanskrit Narrative”9:40 Midori Shimizu (Kobe Women’s University)
“Repetition and Regularity in the Language of Fiction”Session B (9:20 – 10:00)
Language and Thought
9:20 Jenny Yi-chun Kuo (National Chiayi University, Taiwan)
“Representation of Shape by English and Chinese Speakers”9:40 Kenneth Turner (University of Brighton, UK)
“Interconnecting Semantics and Pragmatics”10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 Robert Longacre (University of Texas at Arlington)
“Discourse Templates, ‘Circular Reasoning’, and Conversational Assumptions”Session A (11:00 – 11:40)
Syntax and Semantics
11:00 Barbara Bacz (Laval University)
“For the Unity of Meaning of the Polish Verbal Prefix za-”11:20 Oren Sadeh Leicht (Utrecht University)
“Parsing Performance Reflects Grammatical Competence”Session B (11:00 – 11:40)
Phonology; Register Variation
11:00 Marika Butskhrikidze (Leiden University)
“On the Status of the mb Sequence in Albanian”11:20 Alice Yin-Wa Chan (City University of Hong Kong)
“Investigating Cantonese ESL Learners’ Acquisition of English Final Consonants”
11:40 – 1:30 Lunch Break
Friday Afternoon
1:30 Luke van Buuren (Linguavox, Bloemendaal, Netherlands)
“On the Theory, Description and Teaching of Timing in Language”Neurocognitive Perspectives; Multimodality (2:00 – 3:00)
2:00 Peter Reich (University of Toronto)
“POCs and Clichés and Oddball Constructions, Oh my!”2:20 William Spruiell (Central Michigan University)
“Intermodal Congruence and Early Transliteracy”2:40 Nancy Pine (Mount St. Mary’s College)
“Children’s Visual Information-Seeking Behavior in Two Cultures”3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 Inga Dolinina (McMaster University)
“The Conceptual Duality of Distributivity”4:00 Invited Lecture:
John Lucy (University of Chicago)
“The Impact of Language Diversity on Thought”
Saturday 31 July
8:50 David Lockwood (Michigan State University)
“Hierarchical Accent: Description and Typology”Session A (9:20 – 10:00)
Phonology and Morphology
9:20 Aya Katz (Inverted-A, Inc.)
“Cycles in Phonology and Morphology”9:40 Jeanine Ntihirageza (Northeastern Illinois University)
“Morphophonological Adaptations of English and French Words into Kirundi”Session B (9:20 – 10:00)
Generative Grammar
9:20 Gulsat Aygen (Reed College)
“Finiteness at the Syntax-Semantics Interface”9:40 Michael Putnam and María del Carmen Parafita Couto (University
of Kansas)
“Phasal Elasticity”10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 Sebastian Shaumyan (Yale University)
“Semiotic Analysis of the Concept ‘Class’ and its Implications for Linguistic Theory”
Historical Perspectives (11:00 – 12:00)
11:00 Toby Griffen (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)
“From Art to Writing: The Megalithic Impetus for Ogam Script”11:20 Arthur Tegelaar (Independent scholar)
“Some Thoughts on the Interrelationship between the Etruscan and Pelasgic Language(s), Exemplified by the ‘Name’ of Jason”
11:40 Robert Orr (Ottawa)
“Family Trees in Historical Linguistics and Evolutionary Biology”
12:30 Past Presidents’ Luncheon
2:30 Publications Committee Meeting
6:30 Annual Banquet
6:30 Dinner
7:45 Presidents’ Prizes
8:00 Presidential Address:
Connie Eble (University of North Carolina)
“Slang and Interconnections”