10.1997, Confs: Language, Culture, and Cognition

[LINGUIST Network]

LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1997. Wed Dec 22 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1997, Confs: Language, Culture, and Cognition

Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>
            Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org>

Associate Editors:  Martin Jacobsen <marty at linguistlist.org>
                    Ljuba Veselinova <ljuba at linguistlist.org>
		    Scott Fults <scott at linguistlist.org>
		    Jody Huellmantel <jody at linguistlist.org>
		    Karen Milligan <karen at linguistlist.org>

Assistant Editors:  Lydia Grebenyova <lydia at linguistlist.org>
		    Naomi Ogasawara <naomi at linguistlist.org>
		    James Yuells <james at linguistlist.org>

Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers at emunix.emich.edu>
                      Sudheendra Adiga <sudhi at linguistlist.org>
                      Qian Liao <qian at linguistlist.org>

Home Page:  http://linguistlist.org/


Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karen at linguistlist.org>
 ==========================================================================
Please keep conferences announcement as short as you can; LINGUIST
will not post conference announcements which in our opinion are
excessively long.


=================================Directory=================================

1)
Date:  Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:00:17 +100
From:  "Jeroen van de Weijer" <vdweijer at letmail.let.LeidenUniv.nl>
Subject:  "Language, Culture, and Cognition"

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:00:17 +100
From:  "Jeroen van de Weijer" <vdweijer at letmail.let.LeidenUniv.nl>
Subject:  "Language, Culture, and Cognition"

A N N O U N C E M E N T

Conference: "Language, Culture and Cognition"
Leiden, The Netherlands
22-23 March, 2000

Further information and registration info:
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/confs/lcc/

Preliminary programme:
March 22, building 1170, room 004
9:00 - 9:10    Opening by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts,
Frits van Oostrom
9:10 - 9:50    Peter Harder (Copenhagen University)
Cognitive Linguistics and syntax
9:50 - 10:30   Matthias Hu"ning (University of Vienna)
Word formation from a contrastive perspective
10:30 - 11:00  coffee break
11:00 - 11:40  Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University/Meertens
Institute) Scalar focus particles and the syntactic determination
of lexical meaning
11:40 - 12:20  Robert Kirsner (University of California at Los
Angeles) What it takes to understand a related language: the
collusion of language, culture, and cognition in the deployment
of Dutch utterance-final pragmatic particles
12:20- 14:00  Lunch at Camino Real, Doelensteeg 8
14:00 - 14:40  Cliff Goddard (University of New England,
Australia) "Cultural scripts" and communicative style (with
special reference to Malay)
14:40 -15:20  Christine van Baalen (University of Vienna) Dutch
in business; How do they talk?
15:20 - 15:50  tea break
15:50 -16:30  Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) and Gavin
Huntley-Fenner (UC Irvine) How do native Chinese speakers treat
count-mass in English?
16:30 - 17:10  June Luchjenbroers (University of Wales at
Bangor) Cognitive strategies for Mutual Ground construction
17:20 - 18:00 Suzanne Kemmer (Rice University, Houston, Texas)
Lexical Blends and Schemas
18:00 - Drinks and dinner at the Faculty Club, Rapenburg 6

March 23, building 1170, room 004
9:00 - 9:40    Ariane van Santen (Leiden University)
How feminine is a linguist? --on the meaning of
non-feminine personal names
9:40 - 10:20   Michael Israel (Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
Systematic Idiomaticity in the acquisition of
English "Get" constructions
10:20 - 10:50   coffee break
10:50 - 11:30   Liesbeth Degand (University of Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve)
Causal connectives in Dutch and French: The
case of _puisque_ and _aangezien_ on the Speaker
Involvement scale
11:30 - 12:10   Eliza Kitis (Aristotle University,
Thessaloniki)
Connectives and rhetorical structure
12:10 - 12:20   short break
12:20 - 13:00   Dan Slobin (University of California at
Berkeley) Saturation of a semantic domain: The case of
motion events
13:00 - 13:10   closing remarks

***************************************************

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-10-1997