Thirtieth LACUS Forum

University of Victoria, July 29 – August 2, 2003

Conference Theme: Language, Thought, and Reality


All presentations of papers take place in the David Strong Building (DSB), in Room C 103 or Room C 112. The initial Registration on Tuesday afternoon takes place in "Caddy's", Cadboro Commons Building, but on subsequent days there will be a Registration/Information table in the foyer of DSB, outside Room C 103. (For a printable campus map, go to http://www.uvic.ca ). There will be a book exhibit in Room B 145 of the Cornett Building.

Tuesday 29 July

1:00 Board of Directors Meeting Henderson Room, Cadboro Commons Building
3:00 – 5:00 Conference Registration "Caddy's", Cadboro Commons Building
3:30 – 5:30 Reception "Caddy's", Cadboro Commons Building

Opening Session C103 (DSB)
7:30 Welcoming Remarks
7:45 Inaugural Lecture

Penny Lee, University of Western Australia
"Calibration of Agreement in the Landscape of Mental Predicates"


Wednesday 30 July

8:30 David Kemmerer (Purdue University)
"A Neuropsychological Dissociation between the Spatial and Temporal Meanings of Prepositions"

Session A (9:00 – 10:00)
Cognitive Perspectives on Thought and Language

9:00 Jessica de Villiers (University of British Columbia)
"The Organization of Message in Autism"

9:20 Elissa Asp (St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
"Language, Thought and Alzheimer's Disease"

9:40 Vladimir Lazarev & Lioudmila Pravikova (Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University)
"Language, Thought and Reality: a Frame Interpretation"

Session B (9:00 – 10:00) Analogy and Metaphor

9:00 Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young University)
"Modeling Stress in Salish Languages"

9:20 Maciej Gaca (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
"The Cognitive Aspect of the Sign 'eyes' in the Pictographic Script of the Naxi (Southern China)"

9:40 Siaw Fong Chung (National Taiwan University)
"Dalam in Malay: Image Schemata Take a Look"

10:00 – 10:30 Break

10:30 Sebastian Shaumyan (Yale University)
"Redefining Sapir's Typology of Meanings"

Session A (11:00 – 12:00)
Grammaticalization

11:00 Lilly Chen (Rice University)
"What Can One Do? Grammaticalization of the Numeral One in Chinese"

11:20 Seongha Rhee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul)
"From Discourse to Grammar: Grammaticalization and Lexicalization of Rhetorical Questions in Korean"

11:40 Robin Melrose (University of Portsmouth)
"The Role of like in the Language of Teenagers and Young People: A Systemic-Functional and Neurological Approach"

Session B (11:00 – 12:00)
Second Language Acquisition and Use

11:00 Yuh-huey Lin (Chung-Hua University, Taiwan)
"Intelligibility and Involvement – Gender Differences in Chinese EFL Communication"

11:20 Xia Zhang (Arizona State University)
"A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Anaphor Use in Discourse"

11:40 Wendan Li (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"Teaching Grammar and its Discourse Ramifications at Beginner Level: from the Perspective of L2 Chinese"

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break

Wednesday Afternoon
Neurocognitive Perspectives

1:30 Stephen Straight (Binghamton University, SUNY)
"Psycholinguistic Aspects of Maya Root Polyvalence"

2:00 Peter Reich & Blake Richards (University of Toronto)
"Explaining Reaction-Time Data with a Modified Relational Network Theory"

2:20 Luke van Buuren (Linguavox, Bloemendaal)
"Rhythm and Intonation considered from a Neuro-Cognitive Point of View"

2:40 Andreas Kyriacou, Anjali Raja, Kirsten I. Taylor and Peter Brugger (Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital, Zürich)
"Is Right-Hemisphere Processing Linked to Fuzzier Concept Representations and a Preference for Divergent over Convergent Thinking?"

3:00 – 3:30 Break

3:30 Sydney Lamb (Rice University)
"Neurocognitive Mechanisms for the Influence of Language on Thought"

4:00 Invited Lecture

Gary Libben, University of Alberta
"Ecological Validity in Experimental Psycholinguistic Research"


Thursday 31 July

8:30 Dominique Vellard (University of Nantes)
"Language, Thought and Reality: Learning Calculation in Two Languages (an oral one and a written one)"

Session A (9:00 – 10:00)
Linguistic Relativity

9:00 Kurt Jankowsky (Georgetown University)
"On the Use and Misuse of Language and Thought: the case of Max Stirner's (1806-1856) Der Einzige und sein Eigentum"

9:20 Stéphanie Pourcel (University of Durham (U.K.))
"Whorf in Motion: a Comparative Experiment"

9:40 Craig Winter (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
"Secondary Sources and Professional Responsibility"

Session B (9:00 – 10:00)
Language Acquisition

9:00 Tajudeen Surakat (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria)
"Motivations and Strategies for Code-Mixing: the case of a Bilingual African Child"

9:20 Suzanne Quay (International Christian University, Tokyo)
"Caregiver Input and Language Development"

9:40 Martha Nyikos and Katalin Nyikos (Indiana University; Georgetown University)
"Bilingual Language Acquisition: Some Contributing Factors"

10:00 – 10:30 Break

10:30 ShinJa Hwang (Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington)
"Negatives in Hortatory Discourse"

Session A (11:00 – 12:00)
The Real-World Use of Language

11:00 Lynne Young & Claire Harrison (Carleton University)
"Leadership Discourse in Action: a Comparison of Two Related Communication Events in the Canadian Government"

11:20 Hui Yin (University of Alberta)
"Similarities and Differences in English Broadcast News and Newspaper News"

11:40 Hyun Jung Koo (Sang Myung University, South Korea)
"Force Dynamics in Reality and Grammar: Developments of Force-Infliction Verbs in Korean"

Session B (11:00 – 12:00)
Discourse

11:00 Laura Matzen (Rice University)
"Discourse Markers and Prosody: a Case Study of 'so'"

11:20 Kyong-Sook Song (Dongeui University, South Korea)
"Empowered Gender in Computer-Mediated Communication"

11:40 Helen Chau Hu (California State University)
"Dialogue, Characters, and Reality in Wuthering Heights"

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break

Thursday Afternoon

1:30 Michael Cummings (York University)
"Towards a Statistical Interpretation of Systemic-Functional Theme/Rheme"

2:00 Lois Stanford (University of Alberta)
"Keep Counting: Quantitative Analysis of Sociolinguistic Interaction"

2:20 John Hogan (University of Alberta)
"Affixing Preferences and Working Memory"

2:40 William Sullivan (Uniwersytet Wroclawski and Uniwersytet im. Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej)
"Is the Cognitive Lexicon THE Cognitive Lexicon?"

3:00 – 3:30 Break

Linguistic Relativity (3:30 – 5:00)

3:30 Patricia Sutcliffe (University of Würzburg)
"The Missing Link? Parallels between Dismissed Linguist Friedrich Max Müller and Benjamin Whorf"

4:00 Kristine Jensen de López, Mariko Hayashi & Chris Sinha (University of Aalborg, University of Aarhus, & Portsmouth University)
"Early Shaping of Spatial Meanings in Three Languages and Cultures: Linguistic or Cultural Relativity?"

4:30 Elsa Gomez-Imbert (CNRS & Université Toulouse 2, France)
"Seeing and Hearing: Sources of Knowledge and Grammatical Encoding in an Amazonian Language"


Friday 1 August

8:30 Linda Stump Rashidi (Mansfield University)
"Language and Identity: Oral Narrative in a Berber Village"

Session A (9:00 – 10:00)
Language and Culture

9:00 Olga Yokoyama (UCLA)
"The Semiotic Structure of Russian Bodily Omens"

9:20 Stephen Moore (Macquarie University, Sydney)
"The Economist's Cambodia: Whose Voice? Whose Reality?"

9:40 Tomiko Kodama (Kyoto Yakka University)
"What is 'Truly Feminine' in the Japanese Sentence Final Particle Wa?"

Session B (9:00 – 10:00)

9:00 Michael Manookin & Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young University)
"Resolving Automatic Prepositional Phrase Attachments by Non-Statistical Means"

9:20 Hans Nelson (Brigham Young University)
"Lexicostatistics Applied to the Historical Development of Three Languages in the Philippines"

9:40 Clint Tustison (Brigham Young University)
"Automatically Extracting Predicate-Argument Structures from Natural-Language Texts"

10:00 – 10:30 Break

Session A (10:30 – 12:00)

10:30 Jonathan Webster (City University of Hong Kong )
"The Automatic Integration of Dictionary Data from Multiple Sources"

11:00 – 12:00 Cognitive and Neurocognitive Perspectives

11:00 Linda Bellahsčne (CNRS, Université de Rouen)
"The Semantics of Projective Sentences: a Cross-Linguistic Study"

11:20 Robin Allott (Independent scholar)
"Language as a Mirror of the World: Reconciling Picture Theory and Language Games"

11:40 Blake Richards (University of Toronto)
"Testing Relational Network Grammars"

Session B (10:30 – 11:40)

10:30 Carolyn Hartnett (College of the Mainland)
"How does Science Express Uncertainty?"

11:00 – 11:40 Semantics of Grammatical Forms

11:00 Leon Serafim and Rumiko Shinzato (University of Hawai'i at Manoa; Georgia Institute of Technology)
"On the Old Japanese kakari (Focus) Particle koso: its Origin and Structure"

11:20 Jarren Bodily (Brigham Young University)
"Locative and Benefactive Voice Constructions in Cebuano: a Look at Preposition Incorporation"

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break

Friday Afternoon

Historical Perspectives (1:30 – 3:00)

1:30 Toby Griffen (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)
"Toward a Decipherment of Jela 1 and 2"

2:00 Roy Hagman (Trent University)
"The Historical Reconstruction of Cognitive Models: 'Amor' in Bernart de Ventadorn"

2:20 Saul Levin (SUNY – Binghamton University)
"From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century: the Climax of Comparative Linguistics?"

2:40 Robert Orr (Ottawa)
"Family Trees in Historical Linguistics and Evolutionary Biology"

3:00 – 3:30 Break

3:30 Inga Dolinina (McMaster University)
"Relativity in Grammatical Categorization: the case of Event Quantification"

4:00 Invited Lecture

Keren Rice, University of Toronto
"On the Loss of a Language: Aboriginal Languages in Canada"


Saturday 2 August

8:50 Julius Nyikos (Washington and Jefferson College)
"Continuing Where Sapir Left Off"

Session A (9:20 – 10:00)
Metaphor

9:20 Ming-Ming Pu (University of Maine at Farmington)
"The Role of Body in Emotion Metaphors"

9:40 Marc Ettlinger (UC Berkeley)
"Metaphor of the Ancient Hebrews"

Session B (9:20 – 10:00)
Language and Culture

9:20 Jenny Wang (United States Naval Academy, Language Studies Department)
"Cultural Notes in Mandarin Structural Words and the Related Speech Acts"

9:40 Sarah Tsiang (Eastern Kentucky University)
"New Linguistic Perspectives in a Post-September 11th World"

10:00 – 10:30 Break

Real-World Use of Language

10:30 Douglas Coleman (University of Toledo)
"Linguistic Meaning in the Physical Domain"

Session A (11:00 – 12:00)
Real-World Use of Language (cont'd)

11:00 Alexandre Sévigny (McMaster University)
"Coordination from a Procedural, Time-Linear Perspective"

11:20 Aleksandra Piasecka-Till (Regional University of Blumenau, FURB, Brazil)
"The Representation of Political Correctness and Gender Relations in British Newspapers: A Study in Critical Discourse Analysis"

11:40 Gbenga Ibileye (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria)
"A Pragmatic Perspective on the Interpretation of Modal Verbs in Constitutional Documents"

Session B (11:00 – 12:00)

11:00 Ping Jiang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"Positional Asymmetries: Reduplication in Two Chinese Dialects"

11:20 Matthias Schirmeier & Bruce Derwing (University of Alberta)
"Some Psycholinguistic Tests for Morpheme Recognition"

11:40 Baoning Fu and Xiaoyan Qiu (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and Institute of Vocational Education, Hong Kong)
"Postvocalic /t/ and /d/ in Hong Kong English"


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:

Angela Della Volpe, California State University, Fullerton
"On Latin companion: An Excursus in Historical Linguistics Methodology"