THE SLAVIC COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION (SCLA)

THE 2009 SLAVIC COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE
(SCLC-2009)
October 15-17, 2009


The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) held the SCLC-2009 annual conference in co-operation with the Department of Czech Language and Theory of Communication of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, October 15-17, 2009. The book of abstracts may be downloaded here and the schedule appears below. We will add handouts, slides, and other materials as they are submitted as an archive of the conference and the proceedings.

Special thanks to our organizing committee in Prague (Mgr. Jan Chromý, doc. PhDr. Ivana Bozděchová, CSc.
Veronika Čurdová, PhDr. Jasňa Pacovská, CSc., doc. PhDr. Irena Vaňková, CSc.) for such an excellent conference and venue this year!

Archived Materials (see individual names and presentations below for available handouts, slides, and other materials):

The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2009)

of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA)

Thursday-Saturday 15-17 October 2009

Hosted by the Department of Czech Language and Theory of Communication of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/sclc/sclc_eng.htm

http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/sclc/sclc.htm

NOTE: All conference events will be located in the Filozofická fakulta, nám. Jana Palacha 2, Praha 1.

Thursday 15 October 2009

Time

Event

8:30-9:00

Early Welcome to SCLC-2009

9:00-12:30

pre-conference theme session:

Cognitive and construction-based approaches to syntactic evolution

Filozofická fakulta, Room 18

9:00-9:20

Oblique Subjects in Slavic: From Common Slavic to Contemporary Russian

Steven Clancy

University of Chicago

9:20-9:40

Language change and population change. Are they related?

Christer Johansson

University of Bergen

9:40-10:00

When Subjects Become Objects

Nurit Melnik

Oranim Academic College

10:00-10:30

Discussion

10:30-11:00

BREAK

11:00-11:20

The history of existential there – an evolutionary usage-based perspective

Gard Jenset

University of Bergen

11:20-12:00

Discussion

12:00-2:00

LUNCH

2:00-5:00

pre-conference workshop:

Introduction to Corpus Linguistics for Slavic Linguists

Filozofická fakulta, Room 18

2:00-3:00

corpus workshop: Session I

Slides in (PDF).

3:00-3:30

BREAK

3:30-4:00

corpus workshop: Session 2

4:00-4:30

corpus workshop: Session 3

4:30-5:00

corpus workshop: Session 4

5:00-6:00

conference begins:

Registration

Opening Reception

Welcome to SCLC-2009

Filozofická fakulta, Room 18

6:00-7:00

plenary lecture (in Czech):

Irena Vaňková, Charles University

Věc ve světě, slovo v jazyce

(Fenomenologická východiska a pojetí významu v kognitivní lingvistice a etnolingvistice. Předběžné poznámky)

Thing in the world, word in the language (Phenomenological starting points and the concept of meaning in cognitive linguistics and ethnolinguistics)

Filozofická fakulta, Room 18

7:00-9:00

Conference Dinner

Moravský archiv vín (http://www.moravskyarchivvin.cz/)

Navrátilova 11

Friday 16 October 2009

Time

Event

8:30-9:00

Registration

Filozofická fakulta, Room 104

9:00-10:30

Panel 1a

Filozofická fakulta, Room 1

Panel 1b

Filozofická fakulta, Room 104

9:00-9:30

Syntactic reduction in sentence production: An analysis of Russian speech errors

Svetlana Gorokhova

St. Petersburg State University

Frequency versus iconicity revisited: Differential object marking and the length of aspect forms in Russian

Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon

University of Klagenfurt

9:30-10:00

Word order and case marking in the acquisition of Czech: the role of natural event structure

Filip Smolík, Institute of Psychology,  Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Jiří Lukavský, Institute of Psychology,  Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Verbal aspect and yes-no-questions in Russian

Hans Robert Mehlig

Christian-Albrechts-Universität

10:00-10:30

This and …this. On the emphatic function of demonstratives in Polish

Magdalena Rybarczyk

University of Warsaw

Subjectification and the East-West Aspect Division

Stephen Dickey

University of Kansas

10:30-11:00

BREAK

11:00-12:30

Panel 2a

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 1

Panel 2b

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 18

Panel 2c

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 104

11:00-11:30

Dimensional adjectives in Croatian: the interplay of semantic, cognitive and structural factors

Mateusz-Milan Stanojević, University of Zagreb

Nina Tuđman Vuković, University of Zagreb

Culturally Specific versus Universal References to Emotion in Polish and English

Paul Wilson, University of Łódź

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Łódź

Aspect of the imperative in Russian and Slovene

Heleen Pluimgraaff, Leiden University

Egbert Fortuin, Leiden University

11:30-12:00

Statistical profiling as a measure of idiomaticity

Julia Kuznetsova

University of Tromsø

The conceptualisation of zadowolenie (satisfaction/being glad, pleasure) in Polish

Agnieszka Mikołajczuk

University of Warsaw

Functional Types of Aspectual Triplets in Contemporary Russian

Irina Mikaelian, Pennsylvania State University

Anna A. Zalizniak, Russian Academy of Sciences

12:00-12:30

Yet Another Look at the Category of Animacy

Marija Stefanovic

University of Novi Sad

Smile and Laughter in Russian Culture and Language

Alexei Shmelev

Moscow Pedagogical State University

Semantic Analyzability of Idioms and the Structure of Underlying Metaphor: Russian Phraseology from a Cognitive Perspective

Dmitrij Dobrovolskij

Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

12:30-1:00

Subject-Predicate Inversion and its Cognitive Sources

Elena Paducheva

V.V. Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Filozofická fakulta, Room 104

1:00-2:30

LUNCH

2:30-3:30

plenary lecture (in English):

Laura Janda, University of Tromsø

Building words via metonymy: A comparison of Czech and Russian

Filozofická fakulta, Room 104

3:30-4:00

BREAK

4:00-5:30

Panel 3a

4:00-5:30

Panel 3a

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 1

Panel 3b

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 18

Panel 3c

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 104

4:00-4:30

The Mythologized Concept of Enemy as a New Russian National Construal of Reality

Anna Pleshakova

University of Oxford

Pejorative Patterns: Negative Word Formation in Russian and Norwegian

Tore Nesset

University of Tromsø

Subject, Subjecthood and Subjectivity

Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen

University of Turku

4:30-5:00

Russian Causative Connectives: потому что vs. поскольку vs. потому как

Alina Israeli

American University

The role of lexical stereotype and prototype in lexical pragmatics

Karoly Bibok

University of Szeged

Framing politics – metaphors in Serbian political discourse

Nadežda Silaški, University of Belgrade

Tatjana Đurović, University of Belgrade

5:00-5:30

Conditional use of the perfective present in Russian

Egbert Fortuin

Leiden University

A semantic functional analysis of the dative in New Czech

Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio

Univerzita Palackého

5:30-6:00

SCLA Business Meeting

Filozofická fakulta, Room 104

Saturday 17 October 2009

Time

Event

8:30-10:00

Panel 4a

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 1

Panel 4b

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 18

Panel 4c

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 104

8:30-9:00

Terminologisation and determinologisation in structural and cognitive linguistics

Ivana Bozděchová

Charles University

Za- prefixation in the Russian verbs of motion

Vitaly Nikolaev, Georgetown University

Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University

Describing Motion Events in Czech

Luděk Knittl

University of Sheffield

9:00-9:30

Linguistic resources for sharing responsibilities: English, Polish, and ‘mixed’ couples dealing with everyday chores

Jörg Zinken, University of Portsmouth

Eva Ogiermann, University of Portsmouth

Central meaning of the verbal prefix vy- in Russian

Maria Botvinnik

Moscow Municipal Pedagogical University

Crawling forward:  A multidimensional scaling analysis of path and manner

Michele I. Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Steven J. Clancy, University of Chicago

9:30-10:00

The nature and function of the stereotype in transdisciplinary context

Jasňa Pacovská

Charles University

On the Relation between Ingressivity and Decausativity: The Russian Verbal Prefixes ZA- and PO

Svetlana Sokolova

University of Tromsø

Intratypological contrasts: Serbian and English through a cognitive linguistics prism

Luna Filipović

University of Cambridge

10:00-10:30

BREAK

10:30-12:00

Panel 5a

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 1

Panel 5b

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 18

Panel 5c

Filozofická fakulta, Rm. 104

10:30-11:00

Onomatopoeia’s migration to the inflectional system in Czech: Suffix selection and its relationship to sound iconicity

Masako Fidler

Brown University

По + Dative and Other Constructions with the Meaning ‘Field of Purposeful Activity’ in Russian

Martina Björklund

Åbo Akademi University

The Lexis, Culture and Concept of FATE (SUD’BA). A Usage-Based and contrastive study in Russian and Ukrainian

Dylan Glynn, University of Lund

Julian Antonenko, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

11:00-11:30

Mind/Body Dualism, and Havel’s Genres

David Danaher

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Pseudo-coordinative construction (jít)V1aV2 in the syntax of contemporary Czech

Svatava Škodová

University of Liberec

THINK and BELIEVE in Polish: A search for semantic motivation in construction patterns

Iwona Kokorniak

Malgorzata Fabiszak

Anna Hebda

Adam Mickiewicz University


11:30-12:00

“Love” and “Truth” in Czech, English, French and German: Humboldt’s challenge to Cognitive Linguistics

James W. Underhill

Université Stendhal

Event structure of Czech verbs with the suffix -nou-: Jackendoff’s perspective

Eva Lehečková

Charles University

Near-synonymy or the art of expressing roughly the same meaning

Dagmar Divjak, University of Sheffield

Antti Aarpe, University of Helsinki

12:00-1:30

LUNCH

1:30-2:30

plenary lecture (in Polish):

Jerzy Bartmiński, University of Lublin

Językowy obraz świata jako problem etnolingwistyki kognitywnej

Linguistic worldview as a problem of cognitive ethnolinguistics

Filozofická fakulta, Room 104

2:30-3:00

Conference Closing

Filozofická fakulta, Room 104