6th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Opening morning refreshments/registration, Keynote Lectures, and Post-Keynote breaks will be in Farnsworth Pavilion in the Ley Student Center which is part of the Rice Memorial Center (RMC).

Parallel Sessions will be in the Humanities Building: Left-hand session (on schedule below) in Huma 117, Right-hand session in Huma 119.

The Book Exhibit will be in Huma 118.

Between Sessions breaks will be in the Humanities Foyer.

Box lunches (po-boy sandwiches) are included in registration and will be distributed in Farnsworth Pavilion on Saturday and Monday. On Sunday, lunch can be obtained in local restaurants. Campus eating facilities are closed due to Fall Break.

Friday October 11, 2002

8:30-10:30

Conference Reception and Registration
at Crowne Plaza Hotel

 

Saturday October 12, 2002

8:20-8:45

Coffee and pastries, Registration
in Farnsworth Pavilion

8:45-9:00

Welcome and announcements

9:00-10:00

Plenary: John Lucy: Language, Culture, and Mind

10:00-10:20

Break

10:20-10:45

Eve Sweetser

Metaphor and metonymy working together in context

Regina Pustet

Discourse frequency and language change

10:45-11:10

Michael Israel, Jennifer Riddle Harding, Vera Tobin

Figurative Likenesses: Simile, Metaphor and Conceptual Integration

Barbara F. Kelly & Christine A. Halverson

Development of community in computer mediated conversation: A social network analysis

11:10-11:35

Seyda Ozcaliskan

When ideas run through your mind, is it still in your mind? On learning to think and talk metaphorically about the mind

Andrej A. Kibrik

Discourse types, genre schemata, and rhetorical relations

11:35-12:00

Benjamin K. Bergen

To awaken a sleeping giant: Blending and metaphor in editorial cartoons after September 11

Masatsugu Yamazaki

From PERSON marker to AFFECT marker: The grammaticization of the Japanese 2nd person singular pronoun omae in conflict talk

12:00-1:30

Lunch
in Farnsworth Pavilion

1:30-1:55

Arie Verhagen

The discourse function of Verb-final constructions in Dutch  

Johan Pedersen

The Spanish impersonal se-construction: Voice and case

1:55-2:20

 Liesbet Heyvaert

A cognitive-functional analysis of the structure and semantics of -ing nominalizations

Ricardo Maldonado and Enrique Nava

Basic Middle Voice Patterns in Tarascan

2:20-2:45

Ritva Laury

The prominent oblique: Human mentions in oblique cases in Finnish conversation

Nilson Gabas Junior and Johan van der Auwera

Ideophones in Karo (Tupi, Brazil)

2:45-3:10

Joanne Scheibman

Inclusive and Exclusive Patterning of the English First Person Plural: Evidence from Conversation

Verónica Vázquez

Clause structure and focus types in Cora (Uto-Aztecan)

3:10-3:30

Break

3:30-3:55

Sally Rice and John Newman

Aspect in the making: A corpus analysis of English aspect-marking prepositions

Liesbeth Degand

Causal connectives in crosslinguistic contrast on the Speaker Involvement Scale

3:55-4:20

Margaret Lubbers-Quesada

Viewpoint aspect, situation type and tense/aspect marking in Spanish narrative discourse

Ad Foolen and Frederike van der Leek

Dutch connectives of causality: Domains, Subjectivity, and Perspectives

4:20-4:45

Todd McDaniels

Aspect as a cue for represented perception

Ninke Stukker and Ted Sanders

Conceptual models in causality markers: evidence from language use(rs)

4:45-5:05

Break

5:05-5:30

Tiffany L. Kershner

Remoteness Distinctions in Chisukwa

Phillip Wolff and Grace Song

Causal events: how perceptual properties are linked to linguistic expressions

5:30-5:55

Stefan Th. Gries

Isn't that fantabulous? How similarity motivates intentional morphological blends in English

Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul and Ninke Stukker

Subjectification in the use of causal connectives? The diachronic development of daarom, dus, want and omdat

5:55-6:20

Liang Tao

Usage, Automaticity and Fusion in Language Production and Processes

Martin Trautwein

The Spatiotemporal Window of Sortal Descriptions

 

Sunday October 13, 2002

8:40-9:00

Coffee and pastries

9:00-10:00

Plenary: Susanna Cumming: Virtual Communities, Virtual Worlds, Virtual Semantics: Emergent Lexicon in Computer Game Web Forums

10:05-10:30

Michael B. Smith

Conceptual distance vs. conceptual overlap: Motivating morphosyntactic polysemy in two English verb complement constructions

Kevin Ezra Moore

Sequence-based and now-based frames of reference in space/time metaphors

10:30-10:55

Anatol Stefanowitsch and Stefan Th. Gries

Collostructions: on the interaction of verbs and constructions

Benjamin Bergen, Kim Binsted

The cognitive linguistics of scalar humor

10:55-11:20

Tuomas Huumo

'I saw the parade into my garden' - Directionality in expressions of visual perception in Finnish

Carol Lynn Moder

Ice box moms and soccer dads: Context and the mapping of N-N metaphorical expressions

11:20-11:45

Mustafa Mughazy

On the Periphery of Syntax: The N-P-N constructions in  Egyptian Arabic

Yoshihiro Matsunaka

Time Metaphor and Experiential Correlation in Japanese Conjunctive Particle

11:45-1:15

Lunch
in local Rice Village restaurants

1:15-1:40

Andrea Tyler and Mari Takada

The Role of Lexical Semantics, Context, and Inference in Semantic Extension: The Case of Japanese Rare Constructions

Kristen Davidse

Definite and Indefinite Grounding as a Function of the interaction between the ‘Determining’ and ‘Type Specification’ end of the Nominal

1:40-2:05

Marjolijn Verspoor

Blue, Blauw, Blau, Blĺ, Kék and Sini

Barbara Dancygier

Identity and Perspective: The Jekyll-and-Hyde Effect in Narrative Discourse

2:05-2:30

Michele I. Feist

Geometry, function, and the use of in and on

Kaoru Horie and Emi Kondo

Subjectification and Synchronic Variation: Two Negation Forms in the Kansai dialect of Japanese

2:30-2:55

Song Jiang

A Semantic Study of the Classifier Dao

Kaori Kabata and Jeong-Hwa Lee

On the Distribution of Spatial Grams in Japanese and Korean: A Comparative Study

2:55-3:15

Break

3:15-3:40

George Lakoff

The Cog Hypothesis

Christopher Shank, Vera John-Steiner and Teresa Meehan

Narrative Co-consturction of Collaborative Experience

3:40-4:05

Morana Alac and Seana Coulson

The man, the key, or the car: Who or what is parked out back?

Hidematsu Miura

Another look at antilocality: Active zone constraint in Japanese

4:05-4:30

Christopher Johnson

The grounding of embedded WH-clauses in scenes of visual perception

Fay Wouk

The syntax of repair in Indonesian

4:30-4:50

Break

4:50-5:15

Paul Deane

Zipf's Law and the Analogical Induction of Lexical Properties

Shibasaki, Reijirou

Visual Iconicity and Blending: A Case Study of Homographic Compounds in Japanese and Korean

5:15-5:40

Tim Adamson

The Cognitive Unconscious: A Challenge to Lakoff and Johnson

Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul and Ted Sanders

Acquiring (Dutch) causal connectives: content, epistemic or speech act use first?

5:40-6:05

Stephanie Pourcel

'Thinking for Speaking' Revisited

Scott Liddell

Buoys in American Sign Language

 

Monday October 14, 2002

8:40-9:00

Coffee and pastries

9:00-10:00

Plenary: Ronald W. Langacker: Aspects of the Grammar of Finite Clauses

10:00-10:20

Break

10:20-10:45

Paula Bramante

Schema Clusters as one Source of Lexical Sense Extension in Verbs of Physical Movement

Marshall Lewis

Transducive vs. "Ancillary" Voice: Medial-Object Diatheses, the Cause-Effect Watershed, and Event Structure in Gen Verb Serialization

10:45-11:10

Michael Tanangkingsing

The Study of Motion Events in SaySiyat and Cebuano

Hans C. Boas

When you wanna look for alternatives to generative accounts you wanna consider a constructional approach towards wanna-contraction

11:10-11:35

Teenie Matlock

The psychology of subjectively experienced motion

Loretta O'Connor

Translocative derivation and remote inflection in Lowland Chontal: Motion through space, evolution through time

11:35-12:00

Seana Coulson and Morana Alac

Nested Locatives: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study

Lily I-wen Su

A Cognitive Exploration of the Evidentiality System of Tsou

12:00-1:30

Lunch
in Farnsworth Pavilion

1:30-1:55

Anatol Stefanowitsch

Words and their metaphors: a corpus-based approach

Sabine Bergler and Christine Gerard

The Role of Reported Speech in Newspaper Articles

1:55-2:20

Carolyn G. Hartnett

A Corpus Comparison of Three Versions of the Untranslatable Koran/Qur'an

Helena Halmari

Conceptualizing the code of commands: On the directionality of language switching

2:20-2:45

Dawn Nordquist

Elicited Data vs. Corpora:  What the (Mis)Match Reveals about the Lexicon

Melinda Y. Chen

Affect in Language Interpretation

2:45-3:10

Mark Honegger

Linguistic Tests for Categorizing Integration Networks

Mark Lee

Reasoning about Metaphorical Counterfactuals

For locations of the various activities in the schedule, see the top of this page.

 

 


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