Third Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference

University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 7-9, 2000

Friday

All Talks held in Ortega Reading Room, Ortega Hall, 3rd Floor
8:30-9:30Registration and Coffee
9:30-10:00Opening
10:00-10:30What is ëofí about? An idealized cognitive model of ëofí
Chris Larkin, University of New Mexico
10:30-11:00Phonological reduction in frequency-based constituents: the alternation of English ëofí
Anna Vogel Sosa, University of New Mexico
11:00-11:30Chinese neutral tones in lexical items: a frequency-based analysis
Li Hsiang Chang, University of New Mexico
11:30-1:00Lunch
1:00-2:00 Keynote Speaker, John Haiman, Macalester College, "From Doing to Saying"
2:00-2:30Break
3:00-3:30Phonological variation: Yeismo in Arequipa, Peru
Mariella Arredondo, Ohio University
3:30-4:00The role of articulation in ASL formal change
James MacFarlane, University of New Mexico
4:00-4:30Iconicity and timing units in American Sign Language
Rachel Channon, University of Maryland, College Park
6:00pmDinner at Restaurant TBA (self pay), (transport provided)

Saturday Morning

 Session A - Dane Smith Hall, Room 136
9:00-9:30TOPIC-scrambling and FOCUS-scrambling in Japanese
Kimiko Nakanishi, University of Pennsylvania
9:30-10:00The Japanese inferential auxiliary adjectives yooda and rashii as indicators of the level of emphasis on inferential judgments
Hidemi Sugi, University of California at Los Angeles
10:00-10:30 Incorporation, the dative, agreement, and discourse
David Basilico, University of Alabama at Birmingham
10:30-11:00Break
Session ADane Smith Hall, Room 136
11:00-11:30 The ellipsis of Japanese locative postpositions in conversation
Kyoko Masuda, University of Arizona
11:30-12:00 The emergence of indirect reported speech in Korean
Sung-Ock Sohn and Mee-Jeong Park, University of California at Los Angeles
12:00-12:30 Self-mockery in Japanese
Satoko Suzuki, Macalaster College, Minnesota

 Session B - Dane Smith Hall, Room 129
9:00-9:30 An internal reconstruction of the Proto-Tupi-Guarani consonant system
Charles Schleicher, University of Wisconsin at Madison
9:30-10:00 Syntactic variation in old Spanish and resultant Modern Spanish implications
David Gohre, Indiana University
10:00-10:30Ý Reconsidering the interclausal relationship and its grammaticization: a case study of aunque in Spanish: A New cognitive approach to adverbial subordination
Johan Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
10:30-11:00Break
Session BDane Smith Hall, Room 129
11:00-11:30Effects of sentence structure on memory: clausal and phrasal modifiers are the same
Carol Kutryb, Adams State College, Colorado
11:30-12:00Modularity in knowledge elicitation and language processing
Marge McShane and Ron Zacharski, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University
12:00-12:30A Simplicity-based interactive machin translation system for conversational domains
Dan Tappan, New Mexico State University

Saturday Afternoon

All Talks held in Dane Smith Hall, Room 136
12:30-1:30Lunch
1:30-2:30Keynote Speaker, Collette Grinewald, Université de Lyon and CNRS, ìClassifier systems as lexico-grammatical systems: a multidimensional approachî
2:30-3:30Break
3:30-4:00 'Racial discrimination on the basis of language:Ý Two minority language groups in Finland
Deborah Ruusakanen, University of Vaasa and University of Helsinki
4:00-4:30 Toward a functional-cognitive model of second language development: Accounting for patterns in the acquisition of past time form-function mappings
Dean Mellow, Northern Arizona University and Karen Stanley, Central Piedmont Community College, North Carolina
4:30-5:00Acquisition of English comparative forms
Janine Graziano-King, Teachers College, Columbia University
6:00pmPotluck Dinner and Party at the Residence of Catie and Mike Berkenfield (Transport provided)

Sunday

All Talks held in Dane Smith Hall, Room 136
9:00-9:30Temporal and aspectual defects in selected translations from Arabic to English
Mohammed Al-Khawalda, Mutah University, Jordan
9:30-10:00 Least effort in Wh-drop questions in child speech and ASL
Kyoko Yamakoshi, Cornell University
10:00-10:30 When aspect meets syntax: aorist in Wolof and situational dependency
Stephane Robert, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
10:30-11:00Break
11:00-11:30Aspectuality of resultative verb complements in Mandarin Chinese
Yuanzhong Zhang, University of Arizona
11:30-12:00 Dialectal variation in Italian prenominal possessives
Nancy Mae Antrim, University of Texas at El Paso
12:00-1:00Lunch
1:00-1:30Indexical agreement in Tibetan
Edward Garrett, University of California at Los Angeles
1:30-2:00 Deferred evidence as a grammatical category in Western Apache
Willem de Reuse, University of North Texas
2:00-2:30 Modality and aspect: verbs or particles
Joan Rafel, Universitat de Girona