Fourth Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference

March 30-31, 2001

The University of New Mexico Campus

Friday March 30

8:00-9:00         Registration in the ORTEGA READING ROOM, Ortega Hall, Room #335 (Refreshments Served)

9:00-9:20         Opening Remarks and Credits, President of the High Desert Linguistics Society, K. Aaron Smith and Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of New Mexico, Joan Bybee

Friday, Morning Session

All talks held in the Ortega Reading Room, Ortega Hall Room #335

9:30-10:00       The Politics of Indigenous Languages in Literacy and Education in Malawi, Alfred, J. Matiki, The University of New Mexico

10:00-10:30     A Comparison of the Code Switching Behavior and Knowledge of Adults and Children, Julianne Hammink, The University of Texas at El Paso

10:30-11:00     Break (Refreshments not served)      

11:00-12:00     Keynote Speaker     Ortega Reading Room, Ortega Hall #335

Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa

Variation, Prescription and Praxis in the Evolution of French Grammar

12:00-1:30       Break for Lunch

Friday, Afternoon Session

All talks held in the Ortega Reading Room, Ortega Hall Room #335

1:30-2:00         Sense Extensions of Two Basic English Verbs via Metaphor and Image Schema, Paula Bramante, The University of New Mexico

2:00-2:30         Two Forms of Yes-No Questions in Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Analysis, Li-Hsiang Chang, The University of New Mexico

2:30-3:00         Passive Constructions in Modern Irish, Brian Nolan, Trinity College Dublin and the Institute of Technology at Blanchardstown

3:00-3:30         Break (Light Refreshments Served)

3:30-4:00         An Analysis of Japanese nearly Synonymous Adverbs, Eiko Torii, Wellesley College

4:00-4:30         The Representation of Possession: An Interface between Syntax and Semantics, Nancy Mae Antrim, University of Texas at El Paso

4:30-5:00         Pseudogapping: ATB Movement, not Verb Phrase Ellipsis, Brian Agbayani and Ed Zoerner, University of California at Irvine and California State University, Dominguez Hills

*On Friday Evening, the conference presenters and attendees are invited to join together for dinner at the Monte Vista Fire House at 7 PM (self-pay). Please RSVP with K. Aaron Smith if you plan to attend the dinner. Directions to the Fire House are included in your registration package.

Saturday, March 31

9:00-10:00       Mingle and Breakfast (bagels, pastries, fruit and coffee) Dane Smith Hall, First Floor.

Saturday, Morning Session A (Concurrent Sessions)

All talks held in Dane Smith Hall, Room #233

10:00-10:30     Spanish Diminutive Formation without Rules or Constraints, David Eddington, Mississippi State University

10:30-11:00     Evidentiality and beyond in Cha’palaachi, Enrique Bernárdez, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

11:00-11:30     Aspects of Aspectual Markers in ASL, Robin Thompson, University of San Diego and The Salk Institute

Saturday, Morning Session B (Concurrent Sessions)

All talks held in Dane Smith Hall, Room #234

10:00-10:30     The Middle Finger in Handshape Phonology, Christopher Miller, Université du Québec à Montréal

10:30-11:00     Prosodic versus Morphological Mora Augmentation, Stuart Davis, Indiana University

11:00-11:30     Lexical Frequency and the Plural Marker /s/ in Brazilian Portuguese, Fernanda Ferreira, The University of New Mexico

11:30-1:00       Break for Lunch

1:00-2:00         Keynote Speaker     Dane Smith Hall, Room #233

Sherman Wilcox, The University of New Mexico

Gesture, Icons, and Symbol: What Signed Languages Tell us about Language

2:00-2:30        Break

Saturday, Afternoon Session A (Concurrent Sessions)

All talks held in Dane Smith Hall, #233

2:30-3:00         The Role of Digression in ASL Discourse, Rick Zimmer, The University of Manitoba

3:00-3:30         Perspective Coding and the Use of Space in ASL Verbs, Terry Janzen, The University of Manitoba

3:30-4:00         Break (refreshments not served)

4:00-4:30         A Knowledge-driven, Constraints-based Interface Mechanism for Semantic Analysis of Sentence Structures, Dan Tappan, New Mexico State University

4:30-5:00         Using Translations to Inform Mexican Communities about Health: An in-depth Analysis of the Cultural, Social, and Linguistic Factors Contributing to Miscommunication, Holly E. Jacobson, The University of Arizona

Saturday, Afternoon Session B (Concurrent Sessions)

All talks held in Dane Smith Hall, #234

2:30-3:00         The Chiac Verb Particle Construction, Hilary Young, Rice University

3:00-3:30         The Morphologization of qui in Spoken Swiss French, Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, The University of Arizona

3:30-4:00         Break (refreshments not served)

4:00-4:30         The Jury’s still out: Semantic Distinctions in Legal and Comprehension Issues for Layjurors, Stephanie Burdine, Rice University

4:30-5:00         Metaphors of Collaboration, Christopher Shank, The University of New Mexico

*There will be an end-of-conference party held on Saturday evening. Place and

time TBA.