Rice-U.T. Workshop on Language in Use - schedule

[Suzanne Kemmer]

The first Rice University and UT Austin

WORKSHOP ON
LANGUAGE IN USE

CULTURE, SOCIETY, CHANGE

sponsored by the Center for the Study of Cultures at Rice

Saturday and Sunday, Oct.  23-24, 2004
Rice Humanities Building
Talks in Humanities 117
Refreshments in foyer, lunch in Humanities Courtyard

Schedule – as of 10-18-2004

			Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004
13.00-13.45
WELCOME RECEPTION / LUNCH
Humanities Building Lobby

13.45-14.00 Opening Remarks
Masayoshi Shibatani
14.00-14.30 The Middle Voice in Romanian: A Cognitive Approach.
Anne-Marie Hartenstein
14.30-15.00 The Silent Majority - The Importance of H Speakers'
Language Attitudes in Diglossic Speech Communities
Heiko Wiggers
15.00-15.30 What can a WAN Morphological Causative tell us about
   Causative Constructions?
Gu-Jing Lin

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00-16.30 Emergent Subordination:
   The Grammaticalization of  to where
Chris Taylor
16.30-17.00 Posture Verb Auxiliation: A Cross-Linguistic, Corpus-Based
Approach
Chris Koops & Martin Hilpert
17.00-17.30 Semantic Frames for Multilingual Lexical Databases
Hans C. Boas
17.30-18.30 Asking the Big Question: How?
Sydney Lamb

18.30-whenever : BBQ
Graduate Student Lounge, Herring Hall

Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004

9.30-10.00 Usage and Frequency:  Corpus Evidence and Grammatical 
Knowledge
Michael Barlow & Suzanne Kemmer
10.00-10.30 The Suffix -ei in German Plural Formation
Guido Halder
10.30-11.00 title tba
Monica Sanaphre Villanueva

11.00-11.15 COFFEE BREAK

11.15-11.45 Lyrics that Kill - Metaphors and the Frame of Killing in
Hip Hop Texts
Jana Thompson
11.45-12.15 Use of Fine-Grained Phonetic Detail in the Processing of
Onset-Embedded Words
Katherine Crosswhite

12.15-13.30 LUNCH

13.30-14.00 Discontinuous Nominal Phrases in Iquito
Mark Brown
14.00-14.30 A Cherokee ”Focus Marker” Reconsidered
Dave Katten
14.30-15.00 Cosubordinate Converbs in Japanese
Christopher K. Schmidt

15.00-15.15 COFFEE BREAK

15.15-15.45 Contesting andEstablishing Authority through
Entextualization and Dialogicality: An Analysis of the Use of Prior
Text in Popular Spirituality Literature
Pumsup Shim
15.45-16.15 Documenting Endangered Dialects: The Texas German Dialect
Project
Hans C. Boas
16.15-17.00 Problems with the Pronominal Argument Hypothesis
Claire Bowern

17.00 CLOSING RECEPTION

(for further information on the workshop contact Martin Hilpert,
hilpert at rice.edu)