Panel TA: Narrative Analysis
Chair: Kittye Robbins-Herring, Mississippi State University
Dumas, Bethany, The University of Tennessee, dumasb@utk.edu
-- and Susan G. North, University of Tennessee
Shared Narratives as Text Type
Wetzell, Brett, North Carolina State University, wbwetzel@unity.ncsu.edu
Discourse Structure in Emergent Narratives
Butters, Ronald R., Duke University, RonButters@aol.com
Conversational Anomalies in Eliciting Danger-of-Death Narratives
Sprenkle, Melissa, Florida Atlantic University, msprenkl@fau.edu
Recounting Tellable but Unspeakable Events: The Narrative Syntax of Murder Stories
Panel TB: Stress and Prosody
Chair: Lucy Pickering, University of Alabama
Lee, Yongsung, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, yslee@taejo.pufs.ac.kr
Noun-Verb Asymmetry in English Stress
Eddington, David, Mississippi State University, davee@ra.msstate.edu
Spanish Stress Assignment within the Analogical Modeling of Language
Kim, Hyo-Young, University of Michigan, hyk@umich.edu
Constraint-Based Account for Flexibility in English Stress
Kim, Chang-Kyum, University of South Carolina, changkyum@hotmail.com
-- and Bruce L. Pearson, University of South Carolina
Prosodic Information in Phonological Levels
Panel TC: Words and Clauses
Chair: William Davies, University of Iowa
Huang, Xiaozhao, University of North Dakota, xhuang@badlands.nodak.edu
Intensifying Modifiers for Chinese Verbs
St. John, Julia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, stjohn@email.unc.edu
Subjects and Verbal Modifiers
Grieve-Smith, Angus, University of New Mexico, grvsmth@unm.edu
Topicalization and Word Order in Conversational French
Panel TD: History and Linguistics
Chair: T.J. Ray, University of Mississippi, tjray@olemiss.edu
Thiede, Ralf, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, rthiede@email.uncc.edu
Cartesian Linguistics vs. da Vincian Linguistics
Pagniello, Frederick James, University of Georgia, fpagniel@arches.uga.edu
The Past-Iterative: A Homeric Curiosity
Kaunisto, Mark, University of Tampere, mk50424@uta.fi
Historical Aspects in the Variation between Adjectives in -ic and -ical
King, Lisa, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, lesliesyk@aol.com
The Semantic Extensions of Apple from c. 885 to the Present
Panel TE: Why SignWriting?
Moreton, Rebecca Larche, University of Mississippi, mlrlm@olemiss.edu
Video and Discussion of SignWriting
Panel discussion focusing on African-American English dialects and the Ebonics controversy, featuring invited speakers John Rickford of Stanford University, John McWhorter of the University of California, Berkeley, and David Sutcliffe david.sutcliffe@trad.upf.es of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. It is expected that the first two speakers will respond to a talk given by the third, entitled "Voices from the African-American Past: A Review of the Evidence for Earlier, More Basilectal Levels of Ancestral African-American Speech."
7:30 AM -- Continental Breakfast for registrants in Yerby
Panel FA: Dialects
Chair: Crawford Feagin, University of Zurich
Gantt, Amy, North Carolina State University, agantt@ipass.net
Explaining Selective Differentiation in Peripheral Dialect Areas
Wolfram, Walt, North Carolina State University, wolfram@social.chass.ncsu.edu
On Defining "Historically Isolated" Dialect
Klingler, Tom, Tulane University, klingler@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
-- and Sheri Abel, Tulane University,
-- and Juliette Montorial-Utard, Tulane University, autard@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Language Variation and the Continuum Model in Francophone Louisiana
Panel FB: Semantics
Chair: William Lawhead, University of Mississippi, wlawhead@olemiss.edu
Endrey-Walder, Eva, University of Sydney, evaew@hotmail.com
Comparison Classes and Specificity
Mills, Carl, University of Cincinnati, carl.mill@uc.edu
Participant Roles as Markers of Style in Language Use
Honegger, Mark, Western Carolina University, honegger@wcu.edu
Time and Space in English and Malay: A Question of Prototypes
Matsuzaki, Toru, University of Florida, toru@ufl.edu
Progressive and Perfect in Japanese
Panel FC: Phonetics and Phonology
Chair: David Eddington, Mississippi State University
Pickering, Lucy, University of Alabama, lpickeri@english.as.ua.edu
Building a Prosodic Profile of Nonnative Varieties of English: Nativization and L1 Influence
Jenkins, Devin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, devin.jenkins@vt.edu
Vowel Quantity in Spanish Hiatus Clusters
Russell Webb, Eric, University of Texas at Austin, ericrus@mail.utexas.edu
Coarticulation: One or Two Channels? A Comparison of English and French Speech Data
Chtavera, Anguelina, University of Memphis, achtarev@memphis.edu
Another Study on the Universality of Sound Symbolism
Panel FD: Literature and Linguistics
Chair: Mary Brown Zeigler, Georgia State University
Antieau, Lamont, University of Georgia, antieau@arches.uga.edu
An Analysis of the FOR-TO Construction with Evidence from LAGS and Huckleberry Finn
Cohen, Lisa, University of Georgia, lisaco@arches.uga.edu
Jim's Language and the Issue of Race in Huckleberry Finn
Barry, Betsy, University of Georgia, bbarry@arches.uga.edu
"It's hard fuh me to understand what you mean, de way you tell it": Representing Dialects in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Panel FE: Sentential Syntax and Semantics
Chair: Teresa Arrington, University of Mississippi, tarringt@olemiss.edu
Davies, William, University of Iowa, wdavies@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
-- and Stanley Dubinsky, University of South Carolina
Why Sentential Subjects Do So Exist
Koo, Hyung Jung, Sang Myung University, hyunjkoo@smuc.sangmyung.ac.kr
-- and Seongha Rhee, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, srhee@maincc.hufs.ac.kr
Grammaticalization of A Sentential End Marker from a Conditional Marker
Smirnov, Igor, State Linguistic Institute of Pyatigorsk, Russia, zeherd@hotmail.com
Integrating, Not Dividing: New Insights into the Functional Sentence Perspective of Russian and English
10:30 AM-12:10 PM -- SESSION III
Panel FF: Southern American English
Chair: Michael Picone, University of Alabama
Feagin, Crawford, University of Zurich, feagin@erols.com
What's Happened to the Southern Shift?
Ocumpaugh, Jaclyn, North Carolina State University, jlocumpa@unity.ncsu.edu
-- and Caroline Fleming, carolinefleming@hotmail.com
-- and Jeffrey Reaser, cliffyr@iname.com
Reconfiguring the Southern Standard: Evidence from the Incipient Bedroom Community
Burkette, Allison, University of Georgia, apb@arches.uga.edu
An Examination of Language Variation in a Small Blue Ridge Community
Moreton, Elliott, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, elliott@linguist.umass.edu
A Production Study of the Mississippi [a:] / [aI] Alternation: Evidence for Real Rules
Panel FG: Syntax
Chair: Jo Tyler, Mary Washington University, jtyler@mwc.edu
Hirakawa, Yahiro, Tokyo Institute of Technology, hirakawa@ryu.titech.ac.jp
Functor Predicates in Japanese
Muller, Ana Lucia, University of Sao Paulo, anamuler@usp.br
Anaphora with Generic Antecedents in Brazilian Portuguese
Kaiser, Elsi, University of Pennsylvania, ekaiser@babel.ling.upenn.edu
Referring to (Non)salient Entitites: Pronouns and Demonstratives in Finnish
Panel FH: Language Acquisition
Chair: Esim Erdim, University of Mississippi, eerdim@olemiss.edu
Griffin, William, University of Texas at Austin, wgriffin@mail.utexas.edu
Subject Position Errors in Early Child Language: A Problem for Learnability Theory?
Major, Susan, University of Mississippi, smajor@olemiss.edu
Ordinal Numbers in Chinese and English: A Study of Name and Concept Acquisition
Kim, Duk-Young, University of Florida, dukyung@ufl.edu
Korean Speakers' Acquisition of L2 Pragmatic Competence in the Speech Act of Apology
Trammell, Robert, Florida Atlantic University, trammell@fau.edu
-- and Nannetta Durnell
The Acquisition of Standard English as D1 or D2 in African American Communities: A Survey
Panel FI: Language and Gender
Chair: Deborah Barker, University of Mississippi, egkamps@olemiss.edu
Brown, Suzanne, University of Memphis, suzhbrown@aol.com
"When You Nod and Say 'Right,' You Mean I'M Right, Right?": A Conversational Analysis
Beckett, Dan, North Carolina State University, drbecket@unity.ncsu.edu
Localized Gender and 'Symbolic Capital'
DiGregorio, Sonia, University of Memphis, SDigre3990@aol.com
Petruchio and Katherina in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Robbins-Herring, Kittye, Mississippi State University, herrings@stargtr.net
My Body, My Text: Gendered Discourse in Three Examples of French on the Internet
Panel FJ: Computer-Mediated Communication: Language and Community
Chair: Sherri Condon, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, condo@louisiana.edu
Buchanan, Lindal, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, ljb9601@louisiana.edu
Extending the Search for Male and Female Electronic Message Variants
Butler, Paul, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, pgb2217@louisiana.edu
Community Formation in Cyberspace: The Case of an Academic Listserv
Condon, Sherri, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, condo@louisiana.edu
Strategies for Talk about Talk in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Interaction
Panel FL: Southern Sociolinguistics
Chair: Robin Sabino, Auburn University, sabinro@mail.auburn.edu
Montgomery, Michael, University of South Carolina, n270053@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu
Inchoative Verbs in Appalachian English
Sanders, David, University of Memphis, laughedat@yahoo.com
Checking as White Slang
Bernstein, Cynthia, University of Memphis, cbernstn@memphis.edu
-- and Dax Torrey, University of Memphis
The Misrepresentation of Southern Dialect: Some Results for Y'all
Panel FM: Morphological Structure
Chair: Angus Grieve-Smith, University of New Mexico
Saravanan, Bhavani, University of Utah, viggu@attglobal.net
-- and Dirk Elzinga, University of Utah
Respecting Morphological Structure
Tsai, Chi-Hung, University of Mississippi, ctsai1@olemiss.edu
'Only'-Language Movements in Taiwan and Their Sociolinguistic Implications
Iverson, Gregory K., University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, iverson@uwm.edu and
-- Eckman, Fred R., University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Derived Environment Effects in Interlanguage Phonology
Panel FN: Creole and Creoloid Research
Chair: Rebecca Larche Moreton, Tulane University, mlrlm@olemiss.edu
Hazen, Kirk, West Virginia University, khazen2@wvu.edu
-- and Ilana Anderson, West Virginia University
The Speech of African-American Appalachians
Sommer, Elisabeth, University of Central Florida, sommer@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
Syntactic Subtleties in African-American English
Winkler, Elizabeth, Columbus State University, winkler_elizabeth@colstate.edu
Limonese Creole: A Rose by Any Name
Panel FO: Pragmatics
Chair: TBA
de Give, Hillary, University of Memphis, Keads@aol.com
The Pragmatics of Discourse: Interpretation of Utterance in Jerzy Kozinski's Being There
Ching, Marvin, University of Memphis, mching@memphis.edu
You (Plural)/Y'all Variation by a Court Judge: An Explanation by Chaos Theory
Davis, Boyd, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, bdavis@email.uncc.edu
Intensely Yours: Credibility and Inclusiveness in Online Question Patterns
Ciscel, Matthew, University of South Carolina at Columbia, mhciscel@engr.sc.edu
Car Talk: Face and Humor in Technical Discourse
Iwata, Yuka, University of Memphis, yuka_iwata@hotmail.com
"Directness" in Japanese-American Business Communication: A Linguistic Perspective
7:30 AM -- Continental Breakfast for registrants in Yerby
Panel SA: Sociolinguistics
Chair: Ronald Butters, Duke University
Sabino, Robin, Auburn University, sabinro@mail.auburn.edu
Reconstructing Sociolinguistic Context: Escaped Slave Advertisements
Picone, Michael, University of Alabama, mpicone@bama.ua.edu
Codemixing in 19th-Century Louisiana: The Example of Adrien Rouquette
Nagle, Stephen, Coastal Carolina University, nagle@coastal.edu
Exploring the Origins of ever + -wh-Compounds, Everwhat They May Be
Panel SB: Issues in Language Acquisition
Chair, Susan Major, University of Mississippi, smajor@olemiss.edu
Bloomquist, Jennifer, SUNY at Buffalo, jb4@acsu.buffalo.edu
Semantic Acquisition: Evidence from Over-Extension in Child Language
Morozova, Elena, Kharkiv National University, Ukraine morozov@U.Arizona.edu
On Conceptualizations of Lying in English and Russian
Ushchyna, Valentyna, Volyn State University, Ukraine ushchyna@olemiss.edu
Language and Power in Ethnic Relations
Kim, Ji Young, University of Mississippi jykim@olemiss.edu
Overgeneralization Errors: Korean-Speaking Learners of English
Panel SC: Language Teaching and Strategies
Chair: Ludmila Dutkova-Cope, University of Mississippi, ldutkova@olemiss.edu
Gross, Steven, University of South Carolina at Columbia, shgross@sc.edu
Interrogative Variation in the Classroom and the Face of Power
Stakhnevich, Julia, University of Mississippi, jstakhne@yahoo.com
The World Wide Web and Foreign Language Instruction: Rationale, Goals, Approaches, and Strategies
Rose, Keiko, University of Mississippi, knrose@olemiss.edu
The Linguistic Pragmatics of Bowing and the Teaching of Nonverbal Communication in the Japanese Language
Panel SD: Syntax
Chair: Cynthia Bernstein, University of Memphis
Coles, Felice, University of Mississippi, fcoles@olemiss.edu
Bleached Clitics and Number Agreement
Dubinsky, Stanley, University of South Carolina at Columbia, dubinsky@sc.edu
My Favorite Analysis of Degree Phrases
Masagbor, Grace E., Universite du Quebec Montreal, c2620aer@uqam.ca
Demonstrative Asymmetries in Yekhee
Panel SE: Endangered Languages
Chair: Felice Coles, University of Mississippi, fcoles@olemiss.edu
Rojas, David, Louisiana State University, david@rojasweb.net
Procedural Problems and Linguistic Ability: The Dynamics of a Cajun French Interview
Kilroe, Patricia, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, pak4201@louisiana.edu
The State of Cajun French: Reports from the Field
Dutkova-Cope, Lida, University of Mississippi, ldutkova@olemiss.edu
The Future of Czech in Texas: "How Can You Learn Something If It's Not Offered to You?"
Lestrade, Patricia, Mississippi State University, pml1@ra.msstate.edu
-- and Michael Picone, University of Alabama, mpicone@bama.ua.edu
-- and Yolanda Rivera-Castillo, University of Alabama, rivera@bama.ua.edu
The Contribution of Rememberers to Linguistic Studies: The Isle–os of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Panel SF: Pragmatics
Chair: Marvin Ching, University of Memphis
Beckers, Astrid, Middle Georgia College, abeckers@warrior.mgc.peachnet.edu
Excuses, Excuses, Excuses
Dorrill, Masako, Dillard University, mdorrill@dillard.edu
Disagreement Cases in a Japanese Company
Rhee, Seongha, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, srhee@maincc.hufs.ac.kr
Frame of Focus in Grammaticalization
Panel SG: The Three F's
Chair: Michael Montgomery, University of South Carolina
Hazen, Kirk, West Virginia University, khazen2@wvu.edu
The Family as a Sociolinguistic Unit
Eble, Connie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, cceble@email.unc.edu
Fashion as a Linguistic Variable
Johnson, Ellen, University of Georgia, ellenj@us.english.uga.edu
Food for Thought: Words, Food, and Cultural Change
Panel SH: Some Vernacular Englishes
Chair: Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State, wolfram@social.chass.ncsu.edu
Dannenberg, Clare, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, cjdannen@vt.edu
Selective Retention and Ethnic Configuration: Perfective be in Lumbee American Indian English
Torbert, Benjamin, North Carolina State University, bct1@duke.edu
Consonant Cluster Reduction in Native American Englishes: A Comparative Study
Childs, Becky, North Carolina State University, rlchilds@unity.ncsu.edu
The Role of Contact in Isolated Transplant Communities: The Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction in the Bahamas
Sabino, Robin, Auburn University, sabinro@mail.auburn.edu
-- and Mary Stephens Diamond, Auburn University
How Much Scots Do They Speak in the Bahamas?