FRAMES AND CONSTRUCTIONS
July 31-Aug 2, 2009   •   The University of California, Berkeley
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Friday, July 31
9:00 plenary — 370 Dwinelle
Making the Case for Construction Grammar: Foundations, Functionality, Facts, and Fighting Back
Laura A. Michaelis
9:45 break
370 Dwinelle 101 Moffitt
10:00 Frames Predict Null-Complement Interpretations
Josef K Ruppenhofer, Laura A. Michaelis
An Empirical Study on the Effect of Chinese Lexicalization Pattern on English Verb Learning: A Case of State-change Verbs
Shan Wu
10:30 Semantic Frames May Give Rise to Evidential-like Pragmatics
Catherine O’Connor
On the Use of Posture Verbs by French-Speaking Learners of Dutch: A Corpus-based Study
Maarten Lemmens, Julien Perrez
11:00 break
11:15 A Frame-based Approach to Connectives
Satoru Uchida, Seiko Fujii
A Conceptual Approach to Phrasal-Verb Instruction
Benjamin White
11:45 BioFrameNet, a FrameNet Extension to the Domain of Molecular Biology
Andrew Dolbey
Transitivity, Subjectivity and Discourse: A Corpus Analysis of Spanish Argument Structure
José María García-Miguel, Victoria Vázquez Rozas
12:15 lunch break
1:45 plenary — 370 Dwinelle
Frame Semantics for Language Technology
Manfred Pinkal
2:30 break
370 Dwinelle 101 Moffitt
2:45 Towards an Italian Legal FrameNet
Giulia Venturi
(Inter)subjectivity in Neuter Demonstratives: Spanish esto vs. eso
Barbara De Cock
3:15 Spanish FrameNet in Question Answering
Carlos Subirats, Óscar Ferrández, Marc Ortega
Semantic Creativity in Multi-Agent Political Discourse: Bringing Together Intersubjectivity and Discourse Dynamics
Elisabeth Zima, Paul Sambre
3:45 Automatic Induction of FrameNet Lexical Units
Michael Roth, Marco Pennacchiotti, Diego de Cao, Roberto Basili, Danilo Croce
The Discourse Functions of Esphoric NPs as Reference-point Constructions
Peter Willemse
4:15 break
4:30 Italian FrameNet: Verbs of Visual Perception and their Polysemy
Alessandro Lenci, Martina Johnson
Discourse-Level Constructions: The Case of Speech and Thought Representation in English
Lieven Vandelanotte
5:00 Antonymy and Frame Semantics
Yo Matsumoto
The Korean Evidential Marker te- Revisited: Its Semantic Constraints and Distancing Effects in Mental Spaces Theory
Iksoo Kwon
5:30 break
5:40 plenary — 370 Dwinelle
Typology and Usage: Beyond Verb-framed and Satellite-framed
Dan I Slobin
 
Saturday, August 1
9:00 plenary — 370 Dwinelle
If a Canoe Can be Carved from Every Log Why Can't a Log be Carved into Every Canoe?
Paul Kay
9:45 break
370 Dwinelle 219 Dwinelle
10:00 oi na+V in Cypriot Greek: A Speech-act Construction at the Interface of Semantics, Pragmatics and Intonation
Marina Terkourafi
The Dependence of Metaphor Theory on Frame Semantics: Time in the Source and Target Frames of Temporal Metaphors
Kevin Ezra Moore
10:30 A Construction-Theoretic Approach to Possessive Relatives
Farrell Ackerman
‘Conversations’ in Image and Text: Fictive Interaction in Artists’ Statements and Accompanying Artworks
Karen Sullivan
11:00 break
11:15 Framing Causal Events in Japanese and English
Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Charles J. Fillmore
Primary Metaphors as a Tool for Cross-Linguistic Research
Francisco Santibáñez Sáenz, Mª Sandra Peña Cervel
11:45 Causative Event Framing: The Causee Issue
Christoph Haase
Illusions of Simplicity: Frames, Constructions, and Simulation in Concrete Poetry
Mike Borkent
12:15 lunch break
1:45 plenary — 370 Dwinelle
Neural Grammar: Why the Brain Matters for Construction Grammar
George Lakoff
2:30 break
370 Dwinelle 219 Dwinelle
2:45 From Motion Frames to Grammar: A Usage-based Model of Construction Learning
Nancy Chang
Conceptual Metaphor of love in Chinese: Before and After the Reform and Opening-Up
Jie Yang
3:15 From Buds to Flowers: The Blossoming of Frames and Constructions in Child Language
Aliyah Morgenstern
Novel Metaphors of Time, Experiential Grounding and Cultural Models: Evidence from Modern Greek
Anna Piata
3:45 Construction Grammar, Frame Semantics, and Spoken Interaction
Kerstin Fischer
Metaphorical and Metonymic Motivation of Transitivization and Intransitivization
Mª Sandra Peña Cervel, Francisco Santibáñez Sáenz
4:15 break
4:30 Spoken Language Syntax and Two Kinds of Frames
Jaakko Leino
Corpus-based Approach to Emotion Metaphors and Metonymies in Chinese: A Case Study of Anger
Lingyan Zheng
5:00 Revisiting Word Classes: The Case of Hebrew Adverbs
Ruth A. Berman, Bracha Nir
Active Zones Revisited and Revised
Boguslaw Bierwiaczonek
5:30 break
5:40 plenary — 370 Dwinelle
Constructions and Compression
Gilles Fauconnier
 
Sunday, August 2
9:00 plenary — 370 Dwinelle
Gradualness of Linguistic Change: Can Construction Grammar Meet the Challenge?
Mirjam Fried
9:45 break
370 Dwinelle 219 Dwinelle
10:00 The Emergence of Dative Sickness in 19th Century Icelandic
Jóhanna Barðdal
Evaluating Frame Semantics as a Methodology to Describe How New Words Replace Old Words
Anna Vogel
10:30 Towards a Dialogic Construction Grammar: A Corpus-based Approach to Interactional Grounding Strategies and Ad Hoc Routines
Geert Brône
Cases, Semantic Roles and Markedness
Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi, Minna Sääskilahti
11:00 break
11:15 Size Noun Expressions as Non-Canonical Quantifiers: A Diachronic Constructional Approach
Lieselotte Brems
Framing Instrumental Roles in Titles of Medical Abstracts: A Combined Conceptual and Modelling uml Approach
Paul Sambre, Cornelia Wermuth
11:45 Integration of Frames: The Case of Japanese Noun-Modifying Constructions
Yoshiko Matsumoto
How Politeness is Embodied through Image Schemas
Fuyin Li
12:15 lunch break
370 Dwinelle 219 Dwinelle
1:45 Lexicon Meets Constructicon: A FrameNet Approach to to-marked Quotative Constructions in Japanese
Seiko Fujii
A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and English sadness: A Conceptual Metaphor Based Approach
Ya'nan Hu
2:15 From Frame to Multiframes: The Case of break in English and its Near Synonyms
Myriam Bouveret, Eve Sweetser
Metaphors of Envy and Jealousy in Chinese
Liqin Xiong
2:45 break
3:00 Corpus-based Analysis and Annotation of Constructions
Russell Lee-Goldman, Russell Rhodes
Deictic Verbs in Second Language Acquisition
Alberto Hijazo-Gascón, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
3:30 Why is This Day Different from All Others?
Miriam R. L. Petruck
4:00 plenary — 370 Dwinelle
Frames and Constructions: Putting Them Together
Charles J. Fillmore
 
Frames and Constructions has been made possible through the support of
The Dean of the Division of Social Sciences (UCB)
The Department of Linguistics (UCB)
The International Computer Science Institute
The Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences (UCB)
The Center for Japanese Studies (UCB)
John Benjamins Publishing Company