HDLS 2008 Conference Schedule

November 6th - 8th, 2008

 

 

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Thursday  -   November 6th, 2008

11:00 -1:00

Registration – Table located  outside  Student Union Building Ballroom 

Poster Session Setup

1:00 - 1:15

Welcome and opening remarks - Student Union Building Ballroom C

1:20 - 1:45

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

FIESTA

ISLETA

 

Maryam Mazaheri

“Voice in academic writing: A contrastive analysis of voice in English and Persian academic research articles”

Ferdinand de Haan, University of Arizona
Bjoern Hansen, University of Regensburg

“ What’s a modal? - Some preliminary observations on Modals in the Languages of Europe”

Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Indiana University

“Experimental evidence for product-oriented generalizations: Testing the shape of the grammar”

Maria Esther Lemus-Hidalgo
State University of Aguascalientes

“Conceptualizations of the role of education”

1:50 - 2:15

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

FIESTA

ISLETA

 

Valentina N. Temina-Kingsolver
University of New Mexico

“Transitional formulaic sequences: Functional differences in spoken and written registers”

Philippe Bourdin
Université Paris 10 and York University (Toronto)

"On ventive and itive passives in Indo-European languages and beyond"

Mary Dungan, L-3 Communications
Jerry Ball, Air Force Research Laboratory

“Computational Modeling of Reading at the Word Level”

S. Neyooxet Greymorning
University of Montana

“Teaching Meadowlark their songs”

2:20 - 2:45

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

FIESTA

ISLETA

 

Leila Sadeghi
Allame Tabatabayee

“Electronic name address as individual identity

Shakthi Poornima and Robert Painter
SUNY University at Buffalo

“Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Hindi Light Verbs”

Karen Lahousse
University of Leuven , Belgium

“Information structure and epistemic modality in adverbial clauses”

Mia Kalish
Diné College

Talking cancer cells: Expansion to Human Scale”

2:50 – 3:05

Break – Coffee and Refreshments served

3:10 - 3:35

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

FIESTA

ISLETA

 

Stefanie Kuzmack
University of Chicago


“ Mixed-up metaphors: Temporal metaphors for space in written
language”

Cyril Trimaille
Université Stendhal Grenoble III

“Who’s not palatalising? Trying to understand the distribution of palatalised variants of /t/ and /d/ in hexagonal French”

Wendy M. Martelle
University of Pittsburgh


“ Evolution of tense and aspect: A case study in Russian”

Piotr Cap
University of Lodz , Poland

“Proximizing objects, proximizing values: Towards an axiological contribution to the discourse of legitimization”

3:40 - 4:05

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

FIESTA

ISLETA

 

George Ann Gregory
Ho Anumpoli!

“Metaphors of land and sea from interviews with two Maori leaders”

Hyuna B. Kim
University of Southern California

“Temporal adverbials restricted in indirect speech: from a cross-linguistic perspective”

Haowen Jiang
Rice University


“How Can Cognitive Linguistics Help us with Language Learning? —A Case Study of the Russian Motion Verb idti

Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
University of Lodz , Poland

“A cognitive linguistic perspective on context-driven performativity: A study of the deontic shall in normative legal texts”

4:10 – 4:25

Break

4:30 – 6:00

Student Union Ballroom C

Keynote Speaker:   Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico

"Symbol and Symptom: Two Routes from Gesture to Language"

7:15

Hotel Pick-up

7:30 - 10:30 Kelly's Brew Pub

An informal get together at a local brew pub. Transportation available

 

   

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Friday  -   November 7th, 2008

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

 

Marissa Fond and Kerstin Sondermann Georgetown University

“The effects of bilingualism on inhibitory control in young adults: Evidence from Simon and Stroop tasks”

Adrienne Gonzales
University of New Mexico

Lo que in Spanish cleft constructions”

Elizabeth Krawczyk
Georgetown University

“Right evidential, wrong evidence: The case of Central Alaskan Yup’ik”

10:00 - 10:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

Longxing Wei
Montclair Statue University

“Codeswitching as lemmas in contact in the bilingual mental lexicon”

Elvia Vega Llamas
Universidad de Guadalajara

“El futuro en el español: variación y unicidad: Un estudio textual”

Corinne Hutchinson
Georgetown University


“Rethinking the Zuni Syllable”

10:30 - 10:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Union Trail / Spirit

 

 

Io-Kei Joaquim Kuong
University of Macau

“Affixation of the hell and the devil infix question words: A typological perspective”

 

Carolin Patzelt
University of Bochum , Germany

Spanglish – A threat to the creation of a panhispanic language norm”

Ryan Denzer-King
University of Montana

“Stress in Navajo”

11:00 – 11:20

Break – Coffee and Refreshments served

11:25 – 11:50

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

Meghan Sumner
Stanford University

“Gross category adjustment and perceptual learning”

Scott Lamana and J. Clancy Clements
Indiana University

“A unified discourse approach to Spanish subject and object null pronominalization: Accounting for subject/object asymmetries”

Joshua Birchall
University of Montana

“Pronominal gender diffusion in the Upper Madeira ”

11:55 - 12:20

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

Sheila Dooley and Ferdinand de Haan
University of Arizona


“ On the nature of the approximative expression _NUM-odd_”

Jenny Dumont
University of New Mexico

“Free NPs in two genres of Spanish”

Kerry Linfoot
US Air Force Academy

“Politeness and police questioning”

12:25 – 1:25

Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:00

 Student Union Ballroom C

Keynote Speaker: Gilles Fauconnier, University of Californa San Diego

"Alternative Counterfactuals"

 

3:10– 3:35

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

Andrea Olinger
UCLA

“From respect prepositions to register markers: Reclassifying ‘with respect to’ and its kind”

J. Clancy Clements
Indiana University

“Coolie Spanish in 19 th-Century Cuba ”

Asha Tickoo
Dalarna University , Sweden

“On felicitous assertion and free speech”

3:40– 4:05

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

Parviz Parsafar
Yuba Community College

“Syntax, Morphology, and Semantics of Ezafe”

Julie M. Sykes
University of New Mexico

“Multiuser virtual environments and L2 Spanish pragmatics: Do learners really learn?”

Belfarhi Khadija
University of Annaba

“Similarities between divergent languages and dialects: The case of English and Arabic”

4:10– 4:35

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

Shawn Warner, University of Texas
Clay Butler, Baylor University

“What’s so funny? Laughter in coping with disagreement in conversation”

Aarnes Gudmestad
Virginia Tech University

“Moving beyond a sentence-level analysis in the study of variable mood use in Spanish”

Chao Li
College of Staten Island, CUNY

“On the ordering of the two components of resultatives”

4:40– 5:05

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Trail / Spirit

 

Michael S. Gradoville
Indiana Univertsity

“Frequency of Use and the Retention of the Morphological Future in the Educated Spoken Portuguese of Fortaleza , Brazil ”

Antonio E. Naula-Rodríguez
University of New Mexico

“Paradigms of acceptability for second-language learners in English and Spanish”

Ben Sienicki
University of New Mexico

“Tracking the grammaticization of English discourse markers problem is, trouble is, and thing is: As linguistic and social factors collude to produce new outcomes”

5:10 – 5:55 Shuttle service back to hotels

6:45

 Shuttle pick-up

7:00 – 9:00

 

 

Dinner at Little Anita's

Registration information available on the conference form

 

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Saturday - November 8th, 2006

8:45 – 9:55

Coffee and Refreshments served

Poster Session: Student Union Ballroom B

10:00 – 10:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

Michael C. Ewing
University of Melbourne

“Intransitivity in Javanese Conversation”

Susan Buescher
University of New Mexico

“On the discourse functions of Australian English rising intonation”

Louise de Beuzeville
Macquarie University , Sydney

“Pointing and its influence on the modification of indicating verbs”

10:30 - 10:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

Daniel Wood
University of Oregon

“Grammatical functions of Burmese come and go

Hugo Garcia
University of New Mexico, University of Guadalajara

“Conversational actions inside the same turn”

Heidi L. Shaw, Yakima Valley Community College
R. Allen Gardener, University of Nevada, Reno

“Patterns of gaze direction and turn taking in sign language conversations of cross-fostered chimpanzees”

11:00 - 11:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

Chongwon Park
University of Minnesota Duluth

“The spatial scenes of the Korean locative marker and their linking to Construction Grammar”

Julia Scherba de Valenzuela and Susan R. Copeland
University of New Mexico

“Where’s Trig? An analysis of the use of disability in the 2008 Presidential campaign”

Erin Wilkinson, University of New Mexico
Agnes Villwock, University of Hamburg
Richard Bailey, University of New Mexico
Jill Morford, University of New Mexico
Judith Kroll, Penn State University
Pilar Piñar, Gallaudet University

“Word recognition in ASL-English bilinguals: Effects of L2 proficiency on cross-language activation”

11:30 – 11:55

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

Xuexin Liu
Spelman College

“Lexical borrowing through global influence and linguistic transformation”

Cristina Guardiano, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Giuseppe Longobardi, Università di Trieste

“Toward a history and geography of syntax”

Jonathan Udoff, UCSD
Karen Emmorey, San Diego State University

“Put your hands together: Phonological constraints on handshape mapping in ASL”

12:00 - 12:25

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

Sook-kyung Lee
University of New Mexico

“The Grammaticization of completives in Korean”

Ryan Denzer-King
University of Montana

“Diffusion of a word for cat in indigenous languages of North America”

Evgenia Prozorova
University of New Mexico, Moscow State University

“A pointing hesitation gesture in Russian Sign Language”

12:30 – 1:45

Lunch Break

1:50 – 2:15

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

Hung-jin Chen
National Taiwan Normal University

“Discourse anaphora in Mandarin MSN talks: Some unusual cases”

Uma Shrestha
Western Oregon University

“Mind your language, Mr. Vice President: The perceptions of Nepali residents in the United States about their identity and national language”

Traci Weast
Lamar University

“What’s in a Question? New recommendations for American Sign Language Curricula”

2:20 – 2:45

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

Hien Tran
University of New Mexico

“Vietnamese metaphors of anger”

Mia Kalish
Diné College

“Biné shiné naslín”: The CBT Analysis and Representation of the Mathematics of Diné Bizaad"

Daniel Roush
Eastern Kentucky University

“The metaphorical and metonymical roots of (im)politeness-related terms in American Sign Language”

2:50 – 3:15

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

Lo Yu-wen
National Taiwan Normal University

“Grammaticalization of the Mandarin Chinese verb fan

Corinne Hutchinson
Georgetown University

“The Changing Role of the Bilingual Kindergarten at Rock Point Commmunity School”

Petra Eccarius

“Use of optimality theory to explain distributional differences in handshapes”

3:20 – 3:45

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

(TBA)

Phillip Heasley
Oklahoma State University

"Metaphoric Extensions in the Discourse of an L1 Writing Class"

Paul G. Dudis
Gallaudet University

“Conceived time as material anchor in ASL event depictions"

3:50 – 4:15

Acoma Room

Santa Ana Room

Lobo

 

Maria Sotnikova
University of New Mexico


"Russian sound emission verbs: Principles of construal and semantic frame modelling"

(TBA)

Phyllis Perrin Wilcox, University of New Mexico
Keith Cagle, Piedmont College, North Carolina

"Head Nods, Head Shifts and Head Thrusts in American Sign Language"

4:20 – 4:35

 

 BREAK

4:45 – 6:15

 

UNM Student Union Ballroom C

Keynote Speaker: Marianne Mithun, University of Californa Santa Barbara

"Shaping information: Elusive signals and their interrelationships"

 

6:30

Shuttle back to hotel

7:15

Shuttle pick-up

7:30 - 10:30

Party

@Dan's House

Hosted by the Department of Linguistics