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
* * * * *
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