LACUS Forum 26 (1999) articles

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LACUS Forum 26 was published in 2000

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I. Special Lectures

Invited Lecture: Verbs and their Objects and the One New Idea Hypothesis
Wallace Chafe
Presidential Address: Discourse Analysis and Psycholinguistics: Breaking Down Barriers
Gary D. Prideaux
Presidents’ Pre-Doctoral Prize: Cohesion as a Measure in Generic Analysis
Maite Taboada

II. Theoretical Perspectives on the Lexicon

Rule Vs. Rote in Japanese Verb Inflection
Eleanor Olds Batchelder & Atsuko Ohta
Lexicon À La Mode
Connie Eble
An Empirical Test of Analogical Modeling: the/k/~ø Alternation
C. Anton Rytting
The Functional Definition of the Word and Word-Based Syntax
Sebastian Shaumyan
Copular Constructions, Participant Roles, and the Lexicon
William C. Spruiell
Semantic and Grammatical Superposition in English
Bernard Paul Sypniewski

III. The Multilingual Lexicon

Word-Type Effects in the Lexical Processing of Different-Script Bilinguals
Marina Blekher
Error Patterns in the Storytelling of a Trilingual Child
Daniela Gatto & Lois M. Stanford
Right Hemisphere Involvement in the Processing of Figurative Meaning in Bilinguals
Ekaterini Klepousniotou
How Polyglots Enlarge the Lexicon of their Primary Language
Saul Levin
The Role of Explicit Memory in Supporting the Bilingual Lexicon
Jennifer Mortimer
Differential Localization of L1 and L2 Words in the Bilingual Brain: A Metatheoretic Study
Lara Riente
An Interlingual Priming Task for English-German Bilinguals
Matthias K. Schirmeier

IV. Lexical Acquisition

The Developing Lexicon: Morphosyntactic Knowledge in Fifth-Grade Children
Martha Smith & Elena Nicoladis
Mastering English Prepositions in Phrasal Verbs
Thully Thibeau
Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Evidence from the Acquisition of Early Verbs in Hebrew
Sigal Uziel-Karl

V. Lexical Semantics & Categorization

Lexical Devices and the Construction of Objects: A Comparison Between Sensory Modes
Sophie David & Danièle Dubois & Catherine Rouby
Denominations of Colors in Practices
Danièle Dubois & Colette Grinevald
Meaning Change and Truth-Value-Based Semantics
Regine Eckardt
Post-Doctoral Commendation: Verb Meaning as Event Structure
Stefan Engelberg
Tensions within and around a Lexical Category: Earth and Related Items
Adam Głaz
Lexical Anaphoric and/or Cataphoric Assessors
Michael P. Jordan
Verb Meaning and Construction Sets: the Case of Caused NP-PrepP Relations
An Laffut & Kristin Davidse
Post-Doctoral Commendation: Icelandic Auxiliaries Hafa and Vera: A Semantic Account
Toshiko Yamaguchi
First Names as Meaningful Units: Support for a Usage-Based View of Language
Hilary Young

VI. Lexicography & Other Applications of Lexical Theory

Dream of the Rood: An Internal Analysis
Janet Duthie Collins
A Cognitive-Spatial Model for Lexical Semantics
Michael Cummings
Metaphor and Misery: Enhancing Psychotherapeutic Communication with Spanish-Speaking Clients
Angela Della Volpe & Marlene Dobkin-De Rios
Cluster Analysis and Stylistic Patterns in a Popular Genre
Carl Mills
Lexical Meanings: Between Grammar and the Conceptual Model
Serge Sharoff
Semantic Variation in Nonstandard Forms of the Lexicon: a Cognitive Linguistic Case Study
Danko Šipka

VII. Language-Specific Lexical Studies

Directionals Versus Associated Motions in Cavineña
Antoine Guillaume
The Role of Handshape in ASL Verbs
Terry Janzen
The Preservation of Paucal: An Early Grammatical Split in Slavic
William J. Sullivan
Passives with Shod-An in Persian: a Lexical and Syntactic Analysis
M-Mehdi Vahedi-L

VIII. Studies of Specific Lexical Items

Deverbal Nouns with Postmodifying Prepositional Phrases
Minoji Akimoto
Linguistic Data and Its Uses: the Problem of Conflating ‘Data’ and ‘Examples’
Douglas W. Coleman
Multiple Functions of When-Clauses in Discourse
Shin Ja J. Hwang
Speakers’ Judgements about the Lexical Complexity of Ni
Kaori Kabata
Cognitive Analysis of Zai in Mandarin Chinese and Its Use Through Time
Wendan Li
Event Integration, the Semantics of the Particle Le and ‘Implicit’ Resultatives in Chinese
Ren Zhang

IX. Other Lexical Studies

Idioms: Variants, Modifications and Errors
Elizabeth Dawes
Processing of Sarcastic Irony
Albert N. Katz
The Serial Interactive Debate: Word Blend Evidence
Ann Stuart Laubstein
Evidence for the Shared Representation of Part-Of-Speech Information
Alissa Melinger & Jean-Pierre Koenig
Connotation as a Factor in Lexical Choice in Media Coverage of the Yugoslavian Civil War
Sarah Tsiang-Starcevic


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