HDLS 2006 Conference Schedule

November 9th - 11th, 2006

 

 

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Thursday  -   November 9th, 2006

11:00 -1:00

Registration – Table located  outside  Student Union Building Ballroom 

1:00 - 1:20

Welcome and opening remarks - Student Union Building Ballroom 

1:30 - 1:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo A

Lobo B

 

 

Observations of Personal Pronouns with Respect to Person Hierarchy: A Frequency-based Approach

 
Shibasaki Reijirou
Okinawa International University, 
Japan

 

 

The Discourse Function of det: A Determiner in Roper River Kriol

 

 

 

Sophie Nicholls

University of New England, Australia

 

 

“You Can’t Teach Kids from a Book”: Seasonal Camps at the Jicarilla Apache Nation

 

 

Mariann Skahan

University of New Mexico

 

 

Typologies of Events and Typologies of Morphemes

  

 

 

Eunsuk Lee

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:00 - 2:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo A

Lobo B

 

 

Frequency and Cohesion: Evidence from Repair

 

 

Vsevolod Kapatsinski

Indiana University

 

 

The Agent-Focus in Ixil, Maya Discourse

 

 

William Blunk-Fernández

The University of Texas

 

Frequency Effects, Specialization of Forms, and Subject Expression in Brazilian Portuguese

 

Agripino S. Silveira

University of New Mexico

 

Predicting the Ditransitive: An Experimental study

 

 

David Katten

Rice University

2:30 - 2:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo A

Lobo B

 

 

 

Open

 

Topicality Parameters in Selection of the Umatilla Sahaptin Inverse Voice

 

 

Jesse Blackburn Morrow

 University of Oregon

 

After the Fact: Mood Choice in Spain and Mexico in Past Temporal Adverbial Clauses después de que

 

Carolyn Dunlap

Gulf Coast Community College

 

Multiword Expressions and Constructions Facilitate, Not Hinder, Understanding

 

Jerry Ball

Air Force Research Laboratory

3:00 – 3:25

Break – Coffee and Refreshments served

3:30 - 3:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo A

Lobo B

 

 

Propositional Metonymy and Logical Consequence

 

 

Andrew LaVelle

University of New Mexico

 

The Benefactive Voice  in Tsou

 

 

 

Shuanfan Huang &

Hueiju Huang

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

 

Two Flavors of Mass in Spanish

 

 

 

Lindsey N. Chen

University of Southern California

 

 

Metonymy in Word Formation: Agent Nouns and Denominal Verbs

 

Margarida Basilio

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

4:00 - 4:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo A

Lobo B

 

 

Phonological Typology and Areal Features of Indigenous Languages of the Americas

 

 

Ian Maddieson

University of New Mexico & University of California, Berkeley

 

 

Choice between Global and Local Varieties: Codeswitching in Synchronous Chat

 

 

Anupam Das

Indiana University, Bloomington

 

 

Prosodic Cues that Lead to Back-Channel Feedback in Northern Mexican Spanish

 

 

Anais G. Rivera &

 Nigel Ward

University of Texas at El Paso

 

 

Acquisition of Navajo Verbs

 

 

 

Melvatha Chee

University of New Mexico

 

4:30 – 4:55

Break

5:00 – 6:30

Student Union Ballroom B

Keynote Speaker:   William Croft, University of New Mexico

A Radical Construction Grammar analysis of noun phrase structure

7:00- 10:00

Kellys Brew Pub

(informal social get-together at local micro brewery / restaurant - transportation provided)

 

   

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Friday  -   November 10th, 2006

9:00 -9:25

Registration – Table located  outside  Student Union Building Ballroom

Coffee and Refreshments served

9:30 - 9:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

 

The Role of Identity in Second Language Acquisition

 

Michael Schwartz

University of New Mexico

 

 

Accentual Assimilation of Borrowed Suffixes in the English Language

 

Yuliya Chornogor

Smolensk State University, Russia

 

Grammaticalization of Illocutionary Verbs: Two Directions of Shift

 

Mikhail Kissine

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

10:00 - 10:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

 

The elusive Navajo demonstrative ’éí

Jalon Begay
University Of New Mexico

 

Defaults and Indeterminacy in Temporal Grammaticalization

 

 

 

Scott Schwenter

& Rena Torres Cacoullos

The Ohio State University & University of New Mexico

 

The Copula Construction in Old and Middle  English: On the Interaction Between Constructions and Lexicon

 

 

Peter Petre &

Hubert Cuyckens
 
Leuven, Belgium

10:30 - 10:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Union Trail / Spirit

 

 

Cross linguistic Study of Syntactic Ppersistence in Korean-English bilinguals

 

 

 

Boonjoo Park

University of Arizona

 

 

 

Grammaticalization and Extension of the Usage of the Catalan Marker sisplau

 

 

 

Núria Alturo & Marianna Chodorowska-Pilch
 
University of Barcelona (UB), Spain, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) / University of Southern California (USC)

 

How Natural is Intersubjectification? – “Internal” and “External” Factors in the Development of the Japanese Grammaticalized Marker -te-shimau

 

Sayaka Abe

University at Buffalo

11:00 – 11:25

Break – Coffee and Refreshments served

11:30 – 11:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

 

Spanish Reported Speech in Journalistic Discourse

 

Kareen Gervasi

California State University San Bernardino

 

 

 

Investigating a Possible Subjectification Trajectory: The Case of Italian volerci

 

Cinzia Russi

The University of Texas at Austin

 

 

From Positive to Negative

 

Chongwon Park &

 Sook-kyung Lee
 University of Minnesota Duluth &  Korea University, Korea

 

12:00 - 12:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

 

Grounding Lexical Representation in a Functional-cognitive Theory of Sentence Meaning

 

 

Ricardo Mairal & Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza

 National University of Distance Education, Madrid & University of La Rioja, Spain        

                

 

Mapping the Human (Language) Genome: Multidimensional Scaling and Slavic Case Semantics

 

 

Steven Clancy

University of Chicago

 

 

“El Futuro en El Español: Variación y Unicidad. Un Estudio Textual"

 

 

 

Elvia Vega Llamas

Universidad de Guadalajara México,Mexico

 

12:30 – 1:30

Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:00

 Student Union Ballroom A

Keynote SpeakerElizabeth Traugott, Stanford University

"GRAMMATICALIZATION, EMERGENT CONSTRUCTIONS, AND THE NOTION OF “NEWNESS

 

3:15 – 3:40

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

 

Expressing Emotion, Necessity, and Possession in Spanish and Korean: A Construction Grammar Approach

 

Jiyoung Yoon
University of North Texas

 

 

Interactions of Verbal Ability and Morphological Processing in the English Mental Lexicon

 

Lewis S. Notestine &

Melissa A. Redford

University of Oregon

 

 

Phonological Evidence of Exemplar Connections: An analysis of Spanish / English Cognates

           

Esther Brown &

David Harper

 University of Colorado at Boulder

 

3:45 – 4:10

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

 

Cognitive Constraints in Meaning Construction

 

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza & Ricardo Mairal

University of La Rioja & National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain

 

 

Where it’s at

 

 

Michele I. Feist

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

 

 

Del Quijote a UNM:

Una Historia de Diez Refranes

 

 Félix Manuel Burgos

University of New Mexico

 

4:15 – 4:40

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

 

The Verbal Suffix –ke in Warihío and Its Relation with Voice

 

Rolando Félix Armendáriz

Universidad de Sonora, Mexico

 

 

The Role of Sound-symbolic Forms in Motion Event Descriptions

 

Kiyoko Toratani

 York University

 

 

Transitivity in El Reino de Este Mundo ‘The Kingdom of This World’

 

Sonia Balasch

 University of New Mexico

 

4:45 – 5:10

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

 

Capitalistic versus Militaristic: Paradigm Uniformity and Analogy

 

David Eddington

Brigham Young University

 

 

An Empirical Study on Beijing Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi in Terms of Lexical Frequency

 

Liu Linjun

University of Manitoba, Canada

 

 

 

From ‘Remaining’ to ‘Becoming’ in Spanish: A diachronic usage-based approach

 

Damián Vergara Wilson

University of New Mexico

5:15 – 6:15

 

Shuttle service back to hotels

7:00 – 9:00

 

 

Shuttle service from hotels to Sadie's starting at 6:30

 

Dinner at Sadie's of New Mexico restaurant

(Please register in advance)

 

Information available on the conference website under ‘registration’ link and during the conference at the registration desk.

 

 

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Saturday - November 11th, 2006

9:00 – 9:55

Coffee and Refreshments served

10:00 – 10:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

 

The Expression of aktionsart as a Systematic Function of Analytical Verbal Constructions in the Romance Languages

 

 
 
Carolin Patzelt
University of Siegen, Germany

 

 

 

Marked What Role Does Frequency Play in SLA? A Case Study of Gerunds and Infinitives among Native Speakers of Spanish Learning English as a Second Language

 

 

Michael Schwartz &

Pei-ni Lin Causarano

 University of New Mexico

 

 

Marked Topics and a Topicality Hierarchy in ASL

 

 

 

 

Terry Janzen

University of Manitoba, Canada

 

10:30 - 10:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

 Interdisciplinary Interactions between Cognitive Grammar and Sociolinguistic Variation: A Preliminary Case Study on Variable Subject Presence

 

Miako Villanueva

Gallaudet University

 

On the Triggering Effect of Negation in the Acquisition of Finiteness in German L1 and L2: A Quantitative Analysis

 

Steffi Winkler

Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

 

 

 

SELF: Does It Behave as a Reflexive Pronoun in American Sign Language?

 

Erin Wilkinson

University of New Mexico

 

 

11:00 - 11:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

 

On the Surface Unaccusative Frame of Resultatives

 

Chao Li
Yale University

 

 

Realization of Lexical Stress by Spanish Speakers of English as a Second Language

 

Paul Edmunds

University of New Mexico

 

 

Indicating Verbs in Auslan: How Are They Actually Used by Native Signers?

 

Trevor Johnston1 Louise de Beuzeville1 Adam Schembri2 Della Goswell1

1Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

2Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London, UK

 

11:30 – 11:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

 

Mandarin Nasal Place Variability - Assimilation or Markedness – Within an  OT Framework

 

Hsiu-Ling Hsu

National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan

 

 

The Language of Humor

 

 

 

Ruth E. Cisneros, Jalon Begay, Megan Goldberg, & Joey Alexanian

University of New Mexico

 

 

A Discourse Analysis of Evidentials in American Sign Language 

 

 

Barbara Shaffer

University of New Mexico

 

 

 

 

12:00 - 12:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

 

Vowels in Japanese Given Names

 

 
Masahiko Mutsukawa
Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan
 

 

Tone and Intonation in Navajo:  A Study of Transitional Continuity in a Tone Language

 

Jeanie Castillo
University of California, Santa Barbara

 

 

Constructing Dialogue and Action Through Blends

 

Miako Villanueva

Gallaudet University

 

12:30 – 1:55

Lunch Break

2:00 – 2:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

 

Why "Scramble" When You Are Happy Right Where You Are?

 

Masanori Deguchi

Western Washington University

 

 

New Evidence for Mutsun Verbal Infixation

 

 

Lynnika Butler, Natasha Warner, & Heather van Volkinburg

University of Arizona

Quirina Luna-Costillas

Amah Mutsun Tribal Band

 

 

The Structure of Personal Narratives in ASL

 

 

Kristin Mulrooney

Gallaudet University

 

2:30 – 2:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

 

The Semantics of Connective Morpheme –eta in Korean Serial Verb Construction

 

 
Soyeon Yoon
Rice University
 

 

Mixtec Pronominal Clitics

 

 

 

Char Peery

University of New Mexico

 

 

 

 

Learning Foreign, Linguistically-Related Sign Languages: What Are The Benefits to ASL/Deaf Studies Instructors?

 

Arkady Belozovsky

Brown University

 

3:00 – 3:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

 

Measuring Compositionality in Corpus Data

 

 

Stefanie Wulff

University of California at Santa Barbara

 

 

 

Sensation and Cognition -

The Verb Feel in Discourse

 

 

 

Christopher Shank

University of New Mexico

 

Gesture to Prosody to Grammar in Signed Languages

 

 

Sherman Wilcox

 University of New Mexico

 

 

 

3:30 – 3:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

 

Argument and Event Structure Variation in English GIVE: A Corpus Study

 

 

Ross Krekoski
University of Alberta, Canada

 

 

Kurtoep Case in the Tibeto-Burman Context

 

 

 

Gwendolyn Lowes

University of Oregon

 

 

The (Un)lucky Number Three: Three-fingered Handshapes Within and Across Sign Languages

 

Petra Eccarius

Purdue University

 

4:00 – 4:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

 

Corpus-based Behavioral Profiles as a Means of Semantic Analysis

 

Dagmar Divjak

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Stefan Th. Gries

University of California, Santa Barbara

 

 

The Role of Frequency in L2 Spanish Speakers’ Processing of Input

 

 Mary Copple &

 Jenny Dumont

University of New Mexico

 

 

Ikiganza Muri Amarenga y’Ikinyarwanda: Hand Configurations in Rwandan Sign Language

 

Cecily Whitworth

Gallaudet University

 

4:30 – 4:55

 

 BREAK

5:00 – 6:30

 

UNM Student Union Ballroom B

Keynote Speaker:  Sally Rice, University of Alberta.

 

"Radical Construction Grammar meets the Dene verb"

7:00 - 11:00

Party

@ Bonnie & Karen’s House

Hosted by Dept. of Linguistics