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Below is a list of papers currently scheduled to be presented at the 4th Conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. The conference takes place from July 16-21 on the campus of the University of New Mexico, during the LSA Linguistic Institute. In addition to the plenary speakers and papers listed below, special plenary sessions will be conducted in the evenings by George Lakoff, Ronald Langacker, and Len Talmy. For a complete schedule with times and session numbers (we will hold four concurrent sessions) and a registration packet, contact: Sherman Wilcox Dept. of Linguistics University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 wilcoxMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuemail.unm.edu ---------------------------------- SUNDAY JULY 16 REGISTRATION (1:00-4:30 PM) PLENARY SPEAKER: ANTONIO DAMASIO (5:00-6:15 PM) RECEPTION: 6:15- PM MONDAY JULY 17 PLENARY SPEAKER: GLLES FAUCONNIER (12:00-1:15 PM) Kaoru Horie Markedness, iconicity, and the choice of nominalization strategy in Modern Japanese Ronald Geluykens Referential distance as a cognitive constraint on information flow Kenneth Holmqvist, Jana Hols=E1nov=E1 Towards an implementable model of discourse comprehension Petra Campe, B. Rudzka-Ostyn Cases in competition for semantic space Soteria Svorou Iconicity in the Grammaticalization of Locative Constructions Margaret Freeman Reflexives, emphatics, and deixis: Does Dickinson violate the -self? Brynja Svane, Erling Wande Creativity in associative meaning Harry Howard Spanish datives: Cognitive schema vs. dynamic event semantics Michael Smith Iconicity, German es, and the notion of conceptual distance Barbara Dancygier Reflexive markers in Polish: Participants, metaphors, and constructions L. W. Barsalou, K. L. Olseth and L. Wu Perceptual representations in conceptual tasks Erling Wande The propositional/visual dichotomy - or is there more to it? Geoff Nathan Conflicting desires in cognitive phonology Karen van Hoek Reflexives from a subjective point of view Margaret Kimberly Kellogg Conceptualization and the substitution of nouns and verbs in aphasia Rene Dirven The conceptual space between conditionals and concessives Sherman Wilcox, J. Scheibman In Any Event: The Conceptual Organization of Phonological Structure in American Sign Language Linda Manney Reflexive strategies in modern Greek and the variable construal of 'self' David L. Kemmerer Neuropsychological evidence against Wierzbicka's theory of the meanings of basic color terms Alan Cienki Properties of image schemas as a category/properties of categories as image schemas David R. Bailey Getting a grip: Body-based acquisition of verb semantics for hand actions Michael Barlow Instances and intuitions: Reflexives revisited Jos=E9 Sanders Mental spaces and attribution: On readers' representation of perspective in discourse Alexander Francis, R. Celis I see what you're saying: Investigating the role of conceptual knowledge in speech perception Karen Emmorey Interactions between processing spatial information in linguistic and nonlinguistic domains Hidemitsu Takahashi Indirect anaphors: A cognitive account Eric Pederson Defeasibility in event realization Brian Bowdle, G. Ward Generic demonstratives Ning Yu Spatial conceptualization of time in Chinese Hsin-I Hsieh Thematic constraints on image compression Maria Polinsky A discourse view of locative inversion Michael Israel On the varieties of polarity sensitivity Michelle Emanatian So far as we know: Explorations in the spatiality of thought Kenneth Cook The Samoan transitive suffix as an inverse marker Ted Sanders, Wilbert Spoorer The structure of discourse: Integrating intentions and relations Johannes Helmbrecht The typology of 1st person marking and its cognitive background Alan Conway, Tony Veale Building signs: Representing space and structure in automatic sign synthesis Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyka Dynamic events - A contrastive perspective Frank Brisard, H. Cuyckens, S. Frisson, D. Sandra, M. Vanrespaille Cognitive links in cognitive linguistics: An experimental study of lexical learning Richard Hirsch Semantic content and depth of intention: A study in cognitive semantics Larry Gorbet Structuralism meets prototype theory and discovers reciprocal affection Seiko Fujii Additive and scalar operators in the context of concessive conditionals TUESDAY JULY 18 PLENARY SPEAKER: GISELA REDEKER (12:00-1:15 PM) Louis Goosens The English modals as grounding predications: A synchronic-dynamic view Laura Janda Implementation of the figure-ground distinction in Polish Hubert Cuyckens, L. Cornelis Getting through to Dutch 'door' Mava Jo Powell Characteristic properties of British informal noun phrase idioms W.J. Botha Category features of the Afrikaans verbs doen/maak and wees/het. Naoko Hayase The role of figure, ground, and shifting perspective in aspectual phenomena Marjolijn Verspoor Causing complements Greg Lessard Linguistic and cognitive underpinnings of verbal humour Peter Harder Co-predicativity, telicity and subjective direction: The content syntax of Danish spatial adverbs Mary Carroll, C. v. Stutterheim The role of viewpoint in the representation of path in English, German and Italian David Tuggy Function becomes meaning: The case of Nawatl tla- Bruce Hawkins The social dimension of a cognitive grammar Zoltan K=F6vecses Events and emotions John Newman The history of the German es gibt construction Stefan Grondelaers Instantiation and existential-like phenomena in modern Dutch Wolf-Andreas Liebert Principles of expansion and adaption in metaphorical reasoning: A model of source-target and target-source dynamics in creative thinking Donald Grushkin Metaphorical expressions of anger in ASL as a window on the culture of the American Deaf community Margaret Winters Explaining language change: Diachronic cognitive grammar Louise Cornelis Subjectification and the Dutch passive Gabor Gy=F6ri >From plural to abstract: A cognitive-naturalist approach to diachronic morphology Ad Foolen Cognitive semantics and emotions Bernd Heine, T. Kouteva The proximative Frederike van der Leek Alternation and verb meaning in English Leon de Stadler The instrument as a semantic role category in Afrikaans Jennie Singleton, S. Goldin-Meadow, D. McNeill Do Signers Gesture?: A discussion of the relationship between gesticulation and sign Paul Deane Polysemy as the consequence of join patterns in a system of distributed conceptual prepresentations Mary Ellen Ryder Why you can truck chickens but you can't chicken trucks G. Lampert Is there an experientially-based cognitive model of NEGATION? Sally Rice, D. Sandra, M. Vanrespaille Prepositional semantics and the fragile link between space and time Lena Ekberg Image-schematic transformations and cross-linguistic polysemy. How to go from 'up' to 'out', or from 'above' to 'behind' Caitlin Hines Foxy chicks and Playboy bunnies: A case study in metaphorical lexicalizati= on M. Lampert What is 'scalar' about CAUSATIVITY? Kevin Moore A case study in semantic extension Theo A.J.M. Janssen Monosemy versus polysemy Debra J. Occhi Women, foxes, and badgerlike things: The Japanese schematic categories Kitsune-gao and Tanuki-goa Richard Epstein Cognitive components of definiteness Carlo Serra Borneto Two-ways prepositions in German: Image and constraints Victoria Muehleisen, M. Imai Transitivity and incorporation of ground information in Japanese path verbs Rick Floyd Observations on Wanka Quechua conjectures and subjectification August Fenk Representation and iconicity Robert Dewell Internal and external perspectives on containers: Imperfective and perfective views of paths Tuomas Huumo A scoping hierarchy of locative, possessive and temporal space-builders WEDNESDAY JULY 19 PLENARY SPEAKER: CLAUDIA BRUGMAN (8:30-9:45 AM) PLENARY SPEAKER: ARIE VERHAGEN (4:00-5:15 PM) Ronnie Wilbur A prosodic/pragmatic explanation for word order variation in ASL with typological implications Gijsbert Stoet, Hans Strohner Two types of feature availability in conceptual combination Eve Sweetser Coalignment in metaphorical systems Linda Thornburg, K. Panther Speech act metonymies Tony Veale, Diarmuid O'Donoghue Mark Keane Epistomological issues in metaphor comprehension: A comparative analysis of three models of metaphor interpretation Nili Mandelblit Formal and conceptual blending in Hebrew causitives Adele Goldberg Possible relations between verbs and constructions Timothy Clausner The entrenchment of subjective and objective spatial construals Christine Poulin Shifting frames and points of reference in ASL Tim Rohrer Conceptual blending on the information highway: How do metaphorical inferences work? Paul Werth An enhanced pragmatics for construction grammar Adrienne Lehrer >From blends to combining forms: Productive word formation and semantic reanalysis Seana Coulson Meaning construction in computer virus jokes: The role of blended spaces Patick Duffey Problems in conceptual analysis of the modal auxiliaries in English Tiina Onikki Tendencies of polysemy in the light of locative case expression designating postures and facial expressions in Finnish Haj Ross Syntax: The source of defective noun phrases Mark Turner Blending and metaphor William Morris Subjecthood in Kapampangan Jordan Zlaten 'Holistic' spatial semantics: A cross-linguistic study Ronald Sheffer Noun phrase word order: Ramifications of conceptual dependence Christopher Johnson Metaphor vs. conflation in the acquisition of polysemy: The case of see Kestin Meints Typicality effects in the acquisition of the English passive Gary Palmer The domain of ancestral spirits in Bantu noun classification Hans-J=F6rg Schmid Cognitive functions of referring abstract noun phrases in texts Frank Boers Metaphor in cognitive semantics: A few metaphorical models in economic disco= urse Toshiyuki Kumashiro On the so-called neutral description and the exhaustive-listing ga in Japane= se Yo Matsumoto Semantic Constraints on Grammaticalization: Implications from Deverbal Complex Postpositions in Japanese Jarno Raukko Intersubjective methods in cognitive-semantic research of polysemy Masako K. Hiraga Deference as distance: Metaphorical base of honorific verb construction in Japanese Wataru Nakamura A cognitive approach to English adverbs THURSDAY JULY 20 Kerry Kilborn, S. Frisson Polysemy and the mind: A neurolinguistic investigation Hanna Pishwa Schemas as starting points in language learners' narratives Yoko Fujii Story of "break": Cognitive categories of objects and the system of verbs Edward Robinson Coherence in discourse: A distributed perspective Phyllis Wilcox Metaphor, metonym, and synecdoche in American Sign Language: A cognitive intertropic relationship Chris Sinha, Mariko Hayashi Lis A. Thorseng Comparative Spatial Semantics and Language Acquistion More Evidence from Danish, English and Japanese Kaori Kabata, S. Rice Japanese ni: The particulars of a somewhat contradictory particle Dirk Speelman, D. Geeraerts Abundantia verborum: A tool for lexical semantics G=FCnther Radden, Z. K=F6vecses Towards a new theory of metonymy Michael Tomasello One child's early talk about possession Satoko Suzuki The degree of internalization of information and complementizers in Japanese Johanna Rubba On morphological relevance Masuhiro Nomura Language as fluid: The conduit metaphor in Japanese Sjoukje van der Wal, Charlotte Koster Early knowledge of negative polarity items: Cross-linguistic evidence Anthony Aristar Cases and the grammaticalization of types Joost Schilperoord, Ted Sanders The role of hierarchical discourse structure in incremental production Fons Maes Abstract-object anaphors and markedness Mutsumu Imai Development of a bias toward language-specific categories Isao Higashimori EVEN, SAE/SURA/MO as constraints on contextual assumptions Frank Brisard The English tense-system as an epistemic category: The case of futurity Anneli Kauppinen Acquisition of Finnish conditional verb forms in formulaic utterances Mary Theresa Seig Categorization of Japanese nouns, verbs, and adjectives FRIDAY JULY 21 PLENARY SPEAKER: SYDNEY LAMB (12:00-1:15 PM) Ricardo Maldonado Close and distal datives in Spanish Maria Josep Cuenca Form-use mappings for tag questions Kurt Feyaerts The pervasiveness of reference-point constructions in a domain: Expressing people's stupidity in German Nicole Delbecque The Spanish copulas SER and ESTAR Friedrich Ungerer How newspaper headlines trigger emotions: An excercise in cognitive pragmati= cs Maher Awad On the role of complementizers: Data from Arabic Vicent Salvador Concessivity and processes of grammatizication: The case of the Catalan conective encara que Carlee Arnett German impersonal passives Monika Pawtowska Towards a cognitive account of clause linking Karen Bowe Conceptual metaphors in peninsular Spanish Balthasar Bickel When North is West: Haugen effects and the semantics-cognition interface Yasushiro Shirai On the internal structure of the Japanese imperfective marker: An experimental study Juan Pablo Mora Guti=E9rrez Fixed-order word coordination in English and Spanish Manuel Perez Saldanya Romance go-past constructions Holger Diessel V-first constructions in German Kathleen Carey Possessive constructions and the conceptualization of events: Evidence from Spanish, Guarani, and Javanese Klaus-Uwe Panther Implicit control in German and English Michael Achard Finite/infinitival complements in French CONFERENCE ENDS AT 1:15 PM