LACUS Forum 25 (1998) articles

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LACUS Forum 25 was published in 1999

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I. Special Lectures

1998 Presidential Address: English and Human Morphology: ‘Naturalness’ in Counting and Measuring
William J. Sullivan
1997 Presidential Address: Phonetic and Phonemic Change Revisited
David G. Lockwood
Invited Lecture: Virtual Reality
Ronald Langacker
Presidents’ Post-Doctoral Prize: Path Directions in ASL Agreement Verbs Are Predictable on Semantic Grounds
Sarah F. Taub
Presidents’ Pre-Doctoral Prize: Temporal Binding and the Structure of Relations
Colin J. Harrison

II. Phonetics and Phonology

Reanalyzing the Japanese Coda Nasal in Optimality Theory
Katsura Aoyama
Acoustic versus Physiological Lenition: the Revised Motor Theory in Action
Toby D. Griffen
Syllable Reduction and Ghost Syllables in Tiriyó
Sérgio Meira

III. Syntax

Three-Case Prepositions in Polish: the Semantics ofPo
Barbara Bacz
The Function of ‘Subject’ in Locative Inversion Constructions in English
Patrick J. Duffley
External Possession in Hebrew
Aya Katz
On the Bound Variable Interpretation of Pronouns and Anphors
Gunsoo Lee
Topic Prominence and Grammatical Realtions in Korean
Franz Müller-Gotama
The Emergence of So-Called ‘Functional Categories’ in English: a Case Study of Auxiliaries, Modals and Quasi-Modals
Ann M. Peters

IV. Semantics

Functional Sentence Perspective, Focus of Information and Semantic Relations
Michael Cummings
Pre-Doctoral Commendation: Predictable vs. Unpredictable Polysemy
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Monosemic Take
Charles Ruhl
Almost, and Contrafactual Implicatures
Debra Ziegeler

V. Discourse and Pragmatics

Si Quieres as a Grammaticalized Politeness Marker in Peninsular Spanish
Mariana Chodorowska-Pilch
Reduplication in Colloquial Western Armenian
Haig Der-Houssikian
The Forms and Functions of the Passive in Korean
Shin Ja J. Hwang
Is JapaneseGa a ‘Subject Marker’?: Evidence from Conversation
Tsuyoshi Ono, Sandra A. Thompson & Ryoko Suzuki
Pre-Doctoral Commendation: Syntactic Encoding of Informational Distinctions in Nugunu
Frankie Patman
Forensic Aspects of Discourse Analysis
Gary D. Prideaux

VI. Neurolinguistics

History of an Idea: 4-Brainmind Evolution of Language Model
Dan Moonhawk Alford
The Neural Substrate of Perceptual and Recalled Images as Cognitive Topics
Rose Mary Babitch
Local and Distributed Representation in Network Models of Linguistic and Conceptual Structure
Sydney Lamb
Central Aphasia and the Myth of G: Toward a Grammar-Free Linguistics
H. Stephen Straight

VII. Cognitive Linguistics

The Magical Lexicon of Fighters and Lovers: Toward a Critical Cognitive Grammar
Bruce Hawkins
Path Settings, Subjective Motion, and the Finnish Partitive Subject
Tuomas Huumo
On the Agent/Experiencer Continuum: A Cognitive Approach To the Ga/Ni Alternation in Japanese
Kaori Kabata

VIII. Historical Studies

The Idiomatization and Grammaticalization of Complex Prepositions
Minoji Akimoto
A Wee Dram of the Creature: Examining the Semantic Link Between ‘Animal’ and ‘Alcohol’
Angela Della Volpe & Michael McBroom
The Grammar of the 1635 Scottish Metrical Psalter
Janet Duthie Collins
‘Achilles’ Grudge’ and ‘Grovelling Before the Lord’: Some Impediments To an Accurate Translation
Saul Levin
‘For Here Can Non Soche Be Hadde in This Conttré’: Auxiliaries on the Eve of Modern English
Carl Mills
Small Clauses and Indirect Discourse in Latin Prose
C. Anton Rytting

IX. Applied Linguistics and Language Contact

Assumptions, Hypotheses, and Theories in ‘Applied’ vs. ‘Theoretical’ Linguistics
Douglas W. Coleman
The Influence of French on Quebec English: Motivation for Lexical Borrowing and Integration of Loanwords
Pamela Grant-Russell
Applying Linguistics: An Analysis of Grammatical Explanations Given by TESL Undergraduates
Lori Morris


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