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LACUS Forum 37
COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

EDITED BY
Michael D. Kliffer
Alex Sévigny
Patricia Casey Sutcliffe
William J. Sullivan
Daniel S. Mailman


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Preface
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     Michael D. Kliffer & Alexandre Sevigny     Download PDF
 
I.     Featured Lectures
1
     2010 Presidential Address
 
          Discourse Analysis and Grammar:
          Functional Differences in Discourse between
          Head-Initial and Head-Final Languages
               Shin Ja J. Hwang         Download PDF
5
II.     Syntax
21
Progressive and Habitual Aspect in
C'Lela of Northwest Nigeria
     Stephen H. Detweiler    Download PDF
23
An Information Theoretic Account of
Korean Passive Allomorphs
     Tae-Jin Yoon    Download PDF
41
III.  Morphology
51
Prefixation and Loan Verbs in Polish
     Barbara Bacz     Download PDF
53
Total vs. Partial Adjectives:
Evidence from Reduplication
     Mojmir Dočekal & Ivona Kučerová     Download PDF
65
Is Sidaama (Sidamo) a Marked-Nominitive Language?
     Kazuhiro Kawachi     Download PDF
75
IV.  Pragmatics
87
Toward a Logic of Performatives:
The Case for Requestives
     Rennison Gonsalves      Download PDF 
89
V.  Cognitive Linguistics
97
Tactic Pattern Errors and the
Architecture of Stratificational Theory
     William J. Sullivan & Sarah Tsiang     Download PDF
99
VI.  Diglossia & Second Language Acquisition
113
Repetition in Language Learning:
Avoiding Collateral Damage
     Michael Bush, Alan Melby, & Ann Lewis     Download PDF
115
Written Language as a Precursor to Diglossia:
A Case Study of Wu
     Kellen Parker van Dam     Download PDF
131

VII.  Historical Linguistics
141
The Phonologies of Spanish and Portuguese and the
Development of Papiamentu
     Barbara Chettle     Download PDF
143
In the Service of Sound:
Old Occitan Orthography as Phonetic Transcription
     Roy Hagman     Download PDF
153
Historical Linguistics and Climate Change
     Robert Orr     Download PDF
163
VIII.  Text
183
A Study in Text Architecture:
Persig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
     Robert E. Longacre     Download PDF
185
IX.  Meaning & Translation
191
A Hard Science Linguistics View of Translation
     Lara Burazer & Douglas W. Coleman     Download PDF
193
What Can Cognitive Translation Tell Us about
the Relationship between Language and Thought
     Grażyna Drzazga     Download PDF
203
How to Think about Meaning, and about Truth
     Patrick J. Duffley     Download PDF
213
X.  Metatheory
219
Vastness Revisited
     John Colarusso     Download PDF
221
XI.  Political Discourse
233
Question Period Monitoring and Analysis Project:
A Pilot Study
     Alexandre Sévigny, Philip Savage, & Paul Bullock     Download PDF
235
Metaphors and Lies:
A Cognitive Perspective on Populist Political Discourse
     Magda Stroinska & Vittorina Cecchetto     Download PDF
245
XII.  Hard-Science Linguistics
259
Orthoconcepts: How the Properties They Represent Arise
     Douglas W. Coleman & Bernard Sypniewski     Download PDF
261
XIII.  Academic Language
269
Analyse D'un Genre Universitaire: Les Remerciements
Dans Les Mémoires Et Thèses Rédigés En Franais
Par Les Étudiantes-Chercheurs Camerounais
     Bernard Mulo Farenkia     Download PDF
271
XIV.  Paper presented at LACUS 35
287
An Infinite Number of Sentences
     Bernard Sypniewski     Download PDF
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Editorial Board

Barbara Bacz
David C. Bennett
Lucas van Buuren
Douglas W. Coleman
Kara VanDam
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Patrick Duffley
Connie Eble
Sheila Embleton
John Hewson
ShinJa Hwang
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Michael Kliffer
Sydney M. Lamb
Alan K. Melby
Robert Orr
Alex Sévigny
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H. Stephen Straight
William J. Sullivan
Patricia Casey Sutcliffe
Bernard Sypniewski
Sarah Tsiang
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