QITL3 Poster introductions

How word order frequencies reveal cognitive schemes: a Romance case study Renata Enghels University of Ghent

GOAL Explain WORD ORDER in Spanish, French and Portuguese INFINITIVE COMPLEMENTS with PERCEPTION (1) & CAUSATIVE (2) verbs: e.g. [Il [laisse] CV / [voit] PV [(pousser)I nf (ses cheveux) NP2 ] InfC. CORPUS 5732 factitive constructions OBSERVATIONS 1. differencesPREV PTG > FR > SP 2. similarities PREV AUD > VIS perception NEG > POS causation HYPOTHESIS Cross-linguistic tendencies reveal different cognitive schemes => DYNAMICITY CONFIGURATIONS

Constructional near-synonymy, individual variation, and grammaticality judgments Stefan Grondelaers, Dirk Speelman and Roeland van Hout Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Leuven Can careful design and participant ignorance overcome the ill reputation of questionnaires?

Constructional near-synonymy, individual variation, and grammaticality judgments Individual variation is a diffuse notion: what is the proportion of motivated subjectivity and unmotivated “noise”? Corpus materials unsuitable for reliable investigation, questionnaire data unreliable and unstable Can a carefully designed rating experiment overcome these disadvantages so that we can measure the proportion of motivated and unmotivated individual variation in our data?

The influence of the word connection type of the facilitation effect in the lexical decision task Milena Jakić, Aleksandar Kostić, and Dušica Filipović Đurđević University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad

Is there a facilitation effect that derives from the type of word relation over and above the effect of associative connection?Is there a facilitation effect that derives from the type of word relation over and above the effect of associative connection? YES Is there a theory of lexical meaning that can explain differences in facilitation among relation types?Is there a theory of lexical meaning that can explain differences in facilitation among relation types? COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS Is the facilitation effect between the associatively and semanticaly connected words symmetrical?Is the facilitation effect between the associatively and semanticaly connected words symmetrical? NO

Looking past the pronoun Elsi Kaiser University of Southern California

Elsi Kaiser: “Looking past the pronoun” ……She…… Information available before the pronoun or at the pronoun Information not available until after the pronoun Do the referential properties of the remainder of the pronoun-containing clause influence pronoun interpretation? Yes. Possible consequences of processing load

Exploring competing patterns of verb complementation: Prevent in the British National Corpus Elina Sellgren University of Tampere

Prevent me from going vs Prevent me going Will me going supersede me from going? Verb forms – cognitive complexity?!

Some thoughts on the semantics of non-straight paths Liliana Martínez Norwegian University for Science and Technology

The semantics of non-straight paths an explorative corpus study of Path specification in Bulgarian motion verbs Previous work on motion encoding in language – currently on the semantics of Path in verbs of motion The interest to this topic arose from a pilot experiment on motion naming in Bulgarian, English and Norwegian (part of ‘The Linguistic encoding of Motion’ project, Nordic Research Council 3-year grant NOS-H 10088) All three of these languages are grouped in Talmy’s typology as Satellite-framed (i.e., they express path of motion through prepositions/ adverbs/ prefixes), yet they exhibited an interesting asymmetry in the naming of scenes of circular motion.  Bulgarian has a richer verb vocabulary for expressing turning and circular motions => what are the underlying semantic properties In my poster I want to show how the 2 semantic properties, Directedness and Distribution of Paths in Bulgarian turning verbs are revealed through studying the context in which these verbs appear.

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