High Desert Linguistics Conference - V                      

University of New Mexico

Conference Schedule  

 
 
Friday, November 1, 2002
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Registration
9:00-9:10 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:10-9:40 a.m. Room 1 Room 2
  Steve Legrand and Pasi Tyrväinen

Connecting Lexical Entries to Distributed Real-World Knowledge

Seongha Rhee

Grammaticalization of Malta 'Stop' in Korean

9:40-10:10 a.m. Room 1 Room 2
  Alla P. Razan

Categorial and Propositional Semantics of the Concept 'Plant' in Poetry

Barbara F. Kelly 

Ought It Be Considered Grammaticization

10:10-10:40 a.m. Room 1 Room 2
  Hyun Jung Koo

On the Semantic Network and Grammaticalization of ‘Giving’ Verbs in Korean

Lisa J. Graham

Renovation in Clause Level Relations in Old High German
 

10:40-11:00 a.m.
Coffee and Pastries (refreshments served)
11:00-11:30 a.m. Room 1 Room 2
  David R. Margolin

The Joy of Tawahka: An Overview of the Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax of a Misumalpan Language

Joel Judd 

The Language of Perceptual Control

11:30-12:00 p.m. Room 1 Room 2
  Loretta M. O'Connor 

Manner-Salience and State Change in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca

Andrew LaVelle 

The Semiotics of Time in Language: Temporal Iconicity in English Irregular Verbs

12:00-12:30 p.m. Room 1 Room 2
  Candace Maher

Theme, Thought, and Theory: Jicarilla Apache Classificatory Verb Stems

Asa M. Stepak

Rationalism Versus Empiricism: A New Perspective

12:30-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Keynote: Ronald Langacker
3:15-3:45 p.m. Room 1 Room 2
  Laurel Smith Stvan

Why and Say: Two Discourse Markers in Depicted Conversation

Catie Berkenfield

Putting Bodies into Embodiment: A Feminist Perspective on Metaphorical Structure

3:45-4:15 p.m. Room 1 Room 2
  Jung-ran Park

Politeness and Solidarity in Korean Address Forms

Samira Farwaneh

Housewives, Harems, and Houris: Asymmetries in Gender Paradigms

4:15-4:45 p.m. Room 1 Room 2
  Winnie W. F. Or

Trading Places: Discourse and Identity in Chinese Local Markets

Tetsuya Sato

Gendered Voicedness: Style Variations in Direct Quotations as Evidence for Gender-Indexing in Japanese Conversational Narratives

4:45-5:15 p.m. Room 1 Room 2
  Lingyun Ji

Language Variation between the Two Registers: Government Press Conferences and Public Conversations

Franca Ferrari

The Perfect Correspondence

*On Friday evening, the conference presenters and attendees are invited to join together for dinner at the Monte Vista Fire Station restaurant at 7 PM (self-pay). More information will be included in the registration packet that you will receive upon arrival.

  
Saturday, November 2, 2002
9:00-9:30 a.m. Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
  Cinzia Russi

The Allomorphy of the Italian Masculine Definite Article: A ‘Language-Use’ Based Account

 

Ana Aurora Medina Murillo

From Compounding to Affixation

Esther L. Brown 

New Mexican Spanish /s/: ¿Qué pa(h)a?

9:30-10:00 a.m. Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
  Milena Petrova

Bulgarian "Some" Indefinites

Kareen Gervas

On the Interaction of Syntax and Discourse in Spanish Relativization

Douglas C. Walker

French Aspirate-h Isn't Aspirate, Isn't <h> and Isn't French

10:00-10:30 a.m. Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
  Silke Lambert

What’s So Special about Instruments?

Gabriela del Carmen Gonzàlez Gonzàlez

Modalidad Epistémica en el Verbo Andar

Eric Russell Webb 

From [R ] to [R] via [z]: rethinking the history of /r/

10:30-10:50 a.m.
Coffee and Pastries (refreshments served)
10:50-11:20 a.m. Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
  Brenda Nicodemus and James MacFarlane

Frequency & Acceptability in ASL Phonotactics

Ysaura Bernal-Enríquez 

Tesoro Perdido: Socio-Historical Conditions in the Loss of the Spanish Language of la Nueva México

Mami Osaki McCraw

Evaluation in Japanese Oral Narrative

11:20-11:50 p.m. Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
  Elisa Maroney

Aspect in American Sign Language: Expression of Signer Perspective

Maria Szasz

Ireland’s Astounding Nineteenth Century Language Shift

Matthew Burdelski 

Reported Speech in Japanese Parent-Child Interaction

11:50-12:20 p.m. Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
  Lorraine Leeson and John I. Saeed

Windowing of Attention in Simultaneous Constructions in Irish Sign Language (ISL)

J.C. Brown and Carlos Fierro 

Reconsidering Language ‘Suicide’

Janet Wilson 

The Present Tense in Kuche Narrative Discourse

12:20-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Keynote: Barbara King 
2:45-3:15 p.m. Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
  Paul Edmunds

Shakespeare, Dickens, and Christie: A Diachronic Study of English Contractions

Zouhair Maalej

An Idealized Cognitive Model Account of Modals

Masumi Kai 

The Double 'Wa' Sentence in Japanese

3:15-3:45 p.m. Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
  Alla Kushniryk

Intensifying Particles in Modern English

 

Patrick Farrell 

The Conceptual Semantics of Cognitive Verbs in Brazilian Portuguese

Mie Hiramoto-Sanders

Variations in the Japanese Lexical Strata

3:45-4:15 p.m. Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
  Francesca Del Gobbo

On the Interpretation of Prenominal Relative Clauses

Dan Tappan

Toward Automated Scene Generation from Textual Descriptions

Carlee Arnett and Kyoko Masuda

Dative Subjects in German and Japanese

4:15-4:45 p.m. Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
  Elisabeth Villalta, Frank Wijnen, and Ted Sanders

The Influence of Discourse Structure on the Processing of Quantifiers

David Eddington

Issues in Modeling Language Processing Analogically

Masanori Deguchi 

The Source of Quantifier Scope

4:50-5:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks