UTASCIL 2005 Schedule

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UTA University Center, Rio Grande Ballroom

Thursday, October 27, 2005 

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration

 

 

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

 

Dr. Beth Wright, Dean of Liberal Arts, UTA
Dr. David J. Silva, Chair, Dept. of Linguistics and TESOL, UTA
 

9:20 - 9:50 a.m.

Heidi Anderson

GIAL

Absolutive as a Solution to an Enigma in Iraqw

9:55 - 10:25 a.m.

Jianyuan Wang

Univ. of Arizona

Resumptive Pronouns Are Not Optional: Evidence from Chinese Syntax

10:25 - 10:40 a.m.

BREAK

 

 

10:45 - 11:15 a.m.

Sven Strobel

Univ. of Stuttgart

The Unergative-Unaccusative Dichotomy as a Construct of Modern Grammar Theory

11:20 - 11:50 a.m.

Hui-Chun Hsieh

UTA

Chinese compound words: structure, interpretation, and visibility in syntactic and phonological processes

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

LUNCH

 

 

1:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Joyelle Payne

UTSA

Linguistic Attitudes of Pre-Service Teachers toward African American English (AAE)

1:35 - 2:05 p.m.

Zuzana Tomkova

Univ. of Chicago

Progress vs. Decay: Ideological Portraits of "endangered" varieties of vital languages and their place in the language endangerment discourse

2:10 - 2:40 p.m.

Jill Riepe

UTA

Biblical Hebrew Morphology: Infinitives & Participles

2:40 - 2:55 p.m.

BREAK

 

 

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Rushika Patel

UNT

Linguistic Imperialism or Empowerment? Avoiding Hegemonic Practices in the ESL Classroom

3:35 - 4:05 p.m.

Kevin Gee

UTA

Detecting Linguistic Style

4:10 - 4:40 p.m.

Yoon-kyoung Grace Choe

UTA

Why Do They Apologize? The Difference of Repair Initiation between Korean and English

4:40 - 5:30 p.m.

TBA

 

 

5:30 p.m. - ???

Welcome Party

 

LOCATION: University Center, Rio Grande B

 

 

Friday, October 28, 2005

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration

 

 

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

 

Natalie Raun Sears, UTASCIL Coordinator and LINGUA President

9:20 - 9:50 a.m.

Coleen Anderson

UTA

The Practical Application of Linguistic Theory and Phonetic Software to a Linguistic “Problem”: The Case of Limbum

9:55 - 10:25 a.m.

Cecile Padayodi

UTA

Tone Aspects in Kabiye Possessive Constructions

10:25 - 10:40 a.m.

BREAK

 

 

10:45 - 12:00 p.m.

Dr. Larry Hyman

UC Berkeley

Tone, Stress, and Accent: Or, Why Is It So Hard to Do Prosodic Typology?

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

LUNCH

 

 

1:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Becky Butler Thompson

GIAL

The Pharyngeal Hierarchy: A Solution to the Blocking of Emphasis Spread in Arabic

1:35 - 2:05 p.m.

Ken Zuercher

UTA

Azerbaijani-Russian Code-Switching in Conversation: Structures and Purposes

2:10 - 2:40 p.m.

Caleb Redfield

GIAL

Cognitive Linguistic Phenomena in Newspaper Comics

2:40 - 2:55 p.m.

BREAK

 

 

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Sarah May Fauzi

UTA

Signs of the Times: Lexical Choices in Daily Horoscopes

3:35 - 4:05 p.m.

Kevin Gee

UTA

The Satirical, Self-Critical Twain:  A Case Study in Stylistic Profiling

4:10 - 4:40 p.m.

TBA

 

 

4:45 p.m.

Awards

 

 

7:00 p.m. - ???

Winin' and Dinin'

 

 LOCATION:  Trail Dust Steak House 
                      2300 E. Lamar Avenue;  Arlington, TX 76006
                       www.traildust.com 
  www.traildust.com/Locations.htm

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