QITL3Poster introductions

How word order frequencies reveal cognitive schemes: a Romance case studyRenata EnghelsUniversity 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)Inf (ses cheveux)NP2]InfC . CORPUS 5732 factitive constructionsOBSERVATIONS1. differencesPREV PTG > FR > SP2. similarities PREV AUD > VIS perceptionNEG > POS causationHYPOTHESIS Cross-linguistic tendencies reveal different cognitive schemes=> DYNAMICITY CONFIGURATIONS

Constructional near-synonymy, individual variation, and grammaticality judgmentsStefan Grondelaers, Dirk Speelman and Roeland van HoutRadboud University Nijmegen, University of LeuvenCan careful design and participant ignorance overcomethe ill reputation of questionnaires?

Constructional near-synonymy, individual variation, and grammaticality judgmentsIndividual 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 unstableCan 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 taskMilena Jaki, Aleksandar Kosti, and Duica Filipovi ureviUniversity 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? YESIs there a theory of lexical meaning that can explain differences in facilitation among relation types? COMPONENTIAL ANALYSISIs the facilitation effect between the associatively and semanticaly connected words symmetrical? NO

Looking past the pronounElsi KaiserUniversity of Southern California

Elsi Kaiser: Looking past the pronounSheInformation available before the pronoun or at the pronounInformation not available until after the pronounDo 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 CorpusElina SellgrenUniversity 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 ofnon-straight pathsLiliana MartnezNorwegian University for Science and Technology

The semantics of non-straight pathsan explorative corpus study of Path specification in Bulgarian motion verbsPrevious work on motion encoding in language currently on the semantics of Path in verbs of motionThe 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 Talmys 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 propertiesIn 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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