LACUS Forum 23 (1996) articles

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LACUS Forum 23 was published in 1997

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I. Special Lectures

1996 Presidential Address: Correctness in Language: Political and Otherwise
Valerie Becker Makkai
Invited Lecture: How the Brain Learns Language
Brian MacWhinney with Heidi Feldman
Invited Lecture: Some Grammatical Evidence for Eurasiatic, Especially Pronominal
Joseph Greenberg
President’s Doctoral Prize: Functional Passive Rethought
Linda Stump Rashidi
President’s Predoctoral Prize: Markedness Effects in Welsh Short Plural Forms
Arle Lommel

II. Neurolingusitics & Psycholinguistics

Semantic Specification/Semantic Emergence: Against the Container Metaphor of Meaning
Colin Harrison
Bidirectional Processing and Expanded Relational Network Notation
Sydney Lamb
Lexical Access and Prototypes in Language Production
Gary D. Prideaux

III. Historical-Comparative Linguistics

Basque and the Other Dene-Caucasic Languages
John D. Bengston
Indo-European *b
Carleton T. Hodge
Complex Nuclei and Morphophonemic Abstraction in Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo
David G. Lockwood
Indo-European ‘Jaw, Cheek, Chin’
Tim Pulju

IV. Linguistic Philosophy

Redefining Language
Christopher Bradford & Alan Melby
’96 Theses
Allan Gleason
Peircean Roots of Pragmatics and Pragmatic Roots of the Human Language Facility
Alan D. Manning
Explorations in Human Linguistics Analysis: An Alzheimer’s Study
Victor H. Yngve & Daniel Brauner

V. Syntactic Studies

The Nature of the Causee in Binding
Fusa Katada
Collective and Distributive Marking, or: Where Unity Meets Multiplicity
Suzanne Kemmer
The Double-Accusative Construction in Tsez
Ramazan Rajabov
On the Semantics of Object Complement Control in English
Juhani Rudanko
A Third Source for Word Order
William J. Sullivan
Functional Superposition
Bernard Paul Sypniewski
External Control in Causatives of English and Japanese
Misato Tokunaga
Grammaticalization in Mayoruna
R. Michael Tugwell

VI. Discourse Studies

On the Tarahumara Particle <pa>: An Optional Mode of Delimiting Information Segments
James E. Copeland
Subtle Signalling of Logical Relations in News Reporting
Michael P. Jordan
The Grammatical Structure of a New Guineau Pidgin Procedural Discourse
Evelyn G. Pike
Comparative Analysis of Spoken and Written Naratives in Korean
Kyong-Sook Song
An Alternative Account of Language Style and Code Choices: Audience Design and Speaker Orientation
Hongguang Ying

VII. Lexical & Semantic Studies

Idiomatic Properties of Eighteenth-Century English
Minoji Akimoto
How ‘Locative’ Is the Locative Case? On the Meaning of the Polish Prepositional Phrases with the Locative
Barbara Bacz
On the Productivity of the Re- Prefix in English
Angela Della Volpe
Problems Concerning the Negation of the Modal Auxiliary Must in English
Patrick J. Duf?ey
Time and Cause in the English Connector As
Lori Morris
An investigation of Lexical Borrowings from French in Quebec English
Pamela Russel
A Lack of Alien Verbs: Coinage in Science Fiction
William C. Spruiell

VIII. Cross-Linguistic Studies

Chiac: The Hybrid Vernacular of Mouncton Acadian teenagers
Rose Mary Babitch
Errors with Inflectional morphemes in the English Compositions of LEP Students
Roberts S. Carlisle, Tom Charmley, Maritza Salgueiro-Carlisle & Kathleen Bennett
Semantic Prototypes and the Pragmatics of Lie across Cultures
Shirley A. N. Cole
Non-Native Perception and Production of English Attitudinal Intonation
Martha Gibson
Purpose Clauses in English and Korean
Shin Ja J. Hwang
Looking and Noticing as Culturally Specific Behavior
Nancy Pine
The Acquisition of Aspect in Past Tense French among L2 Classroom Learners
M. Rafael Salaberry

IX. Literary Studies

The Case of Translation: The Short-cummings of Polish
Michal Pawica

X. General Linguistics

Tagmemic Principles and Music Analysis
Thomas L. Avery
Complex Object-Participle Agreement in Old Catalan
Stanford Carmack
Pragmatics of Analyzing Compounds in Wulfstan’s Sermons
Don Chapman
The Emic-Etic Distinction Applied to Music Analysis
Vida Chenoweth
Pitch Accent, Cynghanedd, and Notionalism
Toby D. Griffen
An Acoustic Phonetic Explanation for Cross-Language Patterns in Labialization
John T. Hogan
Comparison of Direct Objects in Mandarin Chinese
Xiaozhao Huang
Standards to Differentiate Indigenous Words from Loan Words: Japanese vs. Korean
Hiroshi Ishii
Grammar as a Necessary Aid in Language Teaching
Saul Levin
Iconicity and the Re-presentation of Information in Discourse
Carl Mills
‘Edge of the Eye’ phenomenon
John Regan & Zhang Wei-Jiang
The Pragmatics of Non-Adverbial There-Clauses in Scientific Articles
Lilita Rodman
Use and Diffusion of Auxilliary Do in Interrogatives and Negatives in Shakespeare’s English
Lois M. Stanford & Sarah Tsiang-Starcevic
History of Japanese Loanwords in English
Shoko Tsuchihashi
Consonant Cluster or Affricate? The Effects of Syllable Position on Speakers’ Judgements
Grace E. Wiebe


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