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The Sixth High Desert Linguistics Conference

University of New Mexico

Student Union Building

November 4-6, 2004

 

 

 friday, november 5, 2004

9:00-9:30

 

coffee and pastries (refreshments served)

 

9:30-10:00

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Lobo Room

 

james macfarlane & joseph hill

cross language semantic priming: new evidence from asl/english bilinguals

david r. margolin

what “saving” an endangered language might mean: tawahka and miskitu in honduras

damián vergara wilson

seÑor, yo tengo que hazer. suplícole no me detenga: the development of tener que + infinitive as a modal expression of obligation

 

10:00-10:30

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Lobo Room

 

trevor johnston &

adam schembri

grammaticization and iconicity in auslan

regina pustet

discourse frequency and the collapse of the adposition vs. case affix distinction in lakota

earl brown

the syntactic roles of adjectives in spanish: a cross-linguistic pattern?

10:30-11:00

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Lobo Room

 

jorge a. toro

automated 3d animation system to inflect agreement verbs

hartwell francis

universal transitivity: evidence from arapaho

fleur van der houwen

a corpus-based study of relative pronouns in spanish essays between the 17th and 19th centuries

11:00-11:30

 

coffee and pastries (refreshments served)

 

11:30-12:00

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Lobo Room

 

jill morford, james Macfarlane, & angus grieve-smith

the role of early language experience on the perception of american sign language

chris koops

topological and Projective Spatial  relations in cherokee

scott lamanna

a historical study of variation in clitic climbing with the verb poder in spanish spiritual prose

 

12:00-12:30

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Lobo Room

 

mika ishino

so, do you think metaphoric gestures are like linguistic elements?

david katten

a cherokee “focus marker” reconsidered

erik willis

tonal levels and boundary tones of broad declaratives, absolute interrogatives, and pronominal interrogatives in puebla mexico spanish

12:30-1:30

 

lunch break

 

1:30 -3:00

SUB Ballroom

keynote speaker: david mcneill, University of Chicago

 

3:15-3:45

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Lobo Room

 

michaela poss

Implementing the Dutch way-construction

 

 


Carla Chuang  &  Loren Billings The geometry of Place in spoken and signed phonology

fei ren

temporal interpretation of before- and after- clauses in mandarin chinese

3:45-4:15

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Lobo Room

 

liliya knyshevytska

Golden rain of colors: metaphors of color in a cultural context

 

cheng-fu chen

the interaction between nominalization and voice in rukai

j. clancy clements

salience effects of initial (and final) position in clauses, phrases, and words

4:15-4:45

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Lobo Room

 

 

to

be

announced

pamela munro & John Foreman

reconstructing a typologically marked strategy for zapotec relative clauses

chun-mei chen

prosodic features of regional accent in mandarin chinese

4:45-5:15

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Lobo Room

 

claire bowern

bardi complex predicates as a heterogeneous construction

kirill shklovsky cliticization

versus inflection in petalcingo tzeltal

doina l. kovalik

metaphor is a cultural journey

5:15-5:45

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Lobo Room

 

kareen gervasi

a pragmatic approach to the use of spanish impersonal pronouns in a bilingual community

evan ashworth


Verb conjugation in Nambé Tewa: The interaction of frequency and verbal semantics

armik mirzayan

intonation in lakhota discourse

saturday, november 6, 2004

9:00-10:00

 

coffee and pastries (refreshments served)

 

10:00-10:30

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Fiesta Room

 

christopher shank

a cognitive approach to polysemous extension in verbs of tactile perception: exploring a “touch is comprehension and understanding” idealized cognitive model

edward l. blansitt, jr. & martha c. pursley

semantic-syntactic hierarchical divergence

daniel olsher

a mental spaces approach to discourse analysis: the cognitive functions of ‘what’

10:30-11:00

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Fiesta Room

 

masanori deguchi

consonant cluster alternations in pawnee

susan windisch brown

by the by: grammaticalization of english proximal prepositions

susan buescher

the distribution and function of american english quotatives: like, go, and say

11:00-11:30

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Fiesta Room

 

michele bishop & sherry hicks

an analysis of code blending in native asl/english bilinguals

makiko irie

aspect, backward event-sequencing and event granularity in when- sentences

barbara f. kelly

the emergence of constructions across modalities

11:30-12:00

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Fiesta Room

 

christopher miller

the bases of lsq syntax: constituency, order, and information structure

reijirou shibasaki

pronominalization and the second person pronoun omae in japanese

james j. mischler, iii

evaluation, historical present tense and narrative structure: investigating the relationship

12:00-12:30

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Fiesta Room

 

louise de beuzeville & trevor johnston

the role of visual representation in a signed language: evidence from native signing deaf children acquiring auslan

masahiko mutsukawa

how can japanese people tell the gender of their given names?

jerry t. ball

double r model

12:30-2:00

 

Lunch Break

 

2:00-2:30

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Fiesta Room

 

barbara shaffer & terry janzen

The Discourse Basis for Contextualizations in ASL/English Interpretation

 

natsuko tsujimura

multiple stages in the acquisition of mimetics in japanese

Norma Mendoza Denton & Stefanie Jannedy

Semiotic Layering in Gesture and Intonation

 

2:30-3:00

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Fiesta Room

 

Martin Hilpert

Swedish Future Modals: A Usage Based Approach

Zac Westbrook

He never said HE knew: The Avoidance of responsibilty in English as a Function of Lexically Encoded Epistemicity.

tuyuan cheng

the role of phonological working memory in children sentence comprehension

3:00-3:30

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Fiesta Room

 

cinzia russi

semantic change and pragmatic inference in the grammaticalization of italian la

ferdinand de haan & Sheila Dooley

A Semantic Map for Epistemic Modality

carol lynn moder

compositionality, constructions, and context in metaphorical combinations

3:30-4:00

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Fiesta Room

 

Li-chiung Yang

Integrating Prosodic and Contextual Cues in the Interpretation of Discourse Markers: the Analysis of Oh

 

natalya stukova

the role of formulaicity in the construction of grammar

frank landsbergen

towards a usage-based simulation of language change

4:00-4:30

Acoma Room

Santa Ana

Fiesta Room

 

gu-jing lin

what can a wan morphological causative tell us about causative constructions?

vsevolod kapatsinski

frequency effects in priming and associative learning: towards a single-mechanism account

lisa hogan

maturing temporal bones as non-neural sites for transforming the speech signal during language development

4:30-5:00

 

break

 

5:00-6:00

SUB Ballroom

Keynote Speaker: Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico