Abstracts of the LAUD-Symposium 1998 on Humboldt and Whorf Revisited: Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis Compiled by Cornelia Daheim Susanne Feld Series A: General & Theoretical Papers ISSN 1435-6473 Essen: LAUD 1998 (2., unveränderte Auflage 2006) Paper No. 448 Universität Duisburg-Essen Abstracts of the LAUD-Symposium 1998 on Humboldt and Whorf Revisited: Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis Compiled by Cornelia Daheim & Susanne Feld Working paper in preparation for the LAUD Symposium Copyright by the authors Reproduced by LAUD 1998 (2., unveränderte Auflage 2006) Linguistic Agency Series A University of Duisburg-Essen General and Theoretical FBGeisteswissenschaften Paper No. 448 D-41117 Essen Order LAUD-papers online: http://www.linse.uni-due.de/linse/laud/index.html Or contact: [email protected] Contents PAGE Angeliki Athanasiadou ................................................................................................. 4 From Temporality to Causality: A Universal or a Culture-Specific Process? .............. 4 Balthasar Bickel ............................................................................................................ 5 Grammar and Social Practice: On the Role of ‘Culture’ in Linguistic Relativity......... 5 Ocke-Schwen Bohn ....................................................................................................... 6 Linguistic Relativity in Speech Perception: An Overview of the Influence of Language Experience on the Perception of Speech Sounds from Infancy to Adulthood ............... 6 Wallace Chafe................................................................................................................ 7 Constrained Diversity in Thought and Language........................................................... 7 Zhiyuan Chen................................................................................................................ 8 Lexical Cognition, Argument Structure and Culture. A Comparative Approach of Relocation Predication in Spanish, Chinese and English ............................................... 8 Rebekka Ehret............................................................................................................. 10 Language and Culture in a Creole Environment .......................................................... 10 Cliff Goddard .............................................................................................................. 11 Universal Semantic Primes of Space - a Lost Cause? .................................................. 11 Gábor Györi ................................................................................................................ 12 Semantic Change, Semantic Theory and Linguistic Relativity.................................... 12 Bruce W. Hawkins ...................................................................................................... 13 Linguistic Relativity as a Function of Ideological Deixis ............................................ 13 Paul R. Hays ................................................................................................................ 14 From the Jurassic Dark: Linguistic Relativity as Evolutionary Necessity .................. 14 Rusandre Hendrikse ................................................................................................... 15 Language as an Indexical Code to Phyletic, Cultural and Experiential Information in the Brain........................................................................................................................ 15 Paul J. Hopper............................................................................................................. 16 Verbs and Their Whorfian Ways: The View from Discourse ...................................... 16 Juliane House .............................................................................................................. 17 Linguistic Relativity and Translation ........................................................................... 17 1 Contents PAGE Carlos Inchaurralde.................................................................................................... 18 Is It in the Mind or Is It in the Language? Mental Modalities and Linguistic Expression..................................................................................................................... 18 Olaf Jäkel..................................................................................................................... 19 Linguistic Relativity Starts at Home: Denotational Incongruencies ............................ 19 Kristine Jensen de Lopez & Chris Sinha.................................................................. 20 Corn Stomach Basket: Spatial Language Comprehension by Danish and Zapotec Acquiring Children ....................................................................................................... 20 John E. Joseph............................................................................................................. 22 Two Strands in Whorfian Thought and Their Neo-Whorfian Implications ................ 22 Demetra Katis & Michael Maratsos ......................................................................... 23 University of Thessaloniki, Greece & University of Minnesota, U.S.A ................. 23 Grammatical Structure and Conceptual Understandings of Experiencer-Agency Relations ....................................................................................................................... 23 E.F.K. Koerner............................................................................................................ 24 Towards a 'Full Pedigree' of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis': From Locke to Lucy....... 24 David B. Kronenfeld ................................................................................................... 25 Language and Thought: The Nature of the Animal...................................................... 25 Sydney M. Lamb ......................................................................................................... 26 Neuro-Cognitive Structures in the Interplay of Language and Thought ..................... 26 Penny Lee..................................................................................................................... 27 The Operation of Linguistic Relativity in the Cognitive Domain ................................ 27 John A. Lucy................................................................................................................ 28 Recent Research on Linguistic Relativity: A Typology and Critical Evaluation........ 28 Robert MacLaury ....................................................................................................... 29 Linguistic Relativity and the Plasticity of Categorization: Universalism in a New Key ....................................................................................................................................... 29 Susanne Niemeier........................................................................................................ 30 University of Bremen, Germany................................................................................ 30 Relativity in Language and Culture - a New Target in Foreign Language Teaching . 30 2 Contents PAGE Gary B. Palmer............................................................................................................ 31 Ontological Classifiers as Heuristic Systems, as Seen in Shona Class 3 Nouns......... 31 “S`engager” vs “to Remain Noncommittal”: a Study of Two Culture-specific Values ....................................................................................................................................... 32 Günter Radden............................................................................................................ 33 Time is Space................................................................................................................ 33 Richard A. Rhodes...................................................................................................... 35 (Micro-)Categorization, Semantic Change, and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis............ 35 Jan Schroten................................................................................................................ 36 Equivalence and Mismatch of Semantic Features: Collocations in English, Spanish, and Dutch...................................................................................................................... 36 Gunter Senft ................................................................................................................ 37 Frames of Spatial Reference in Kilivila - Studies in Language, Cognition and the Conceptualization of Space .......................................................................................... 37 Dan I. Slobin................................................................................................................ 38 Verbalized Events: A Dynamic Approach to Linguistic Relativity and Determinism 38 Elzbieta Tabakowska.................................................................................................. 39 Grammar and Ontology: A Case Study of Polish Religious Discourse ...................... 39 Robin Taylor................................................................................................................ 40 Linguistic Relativity Theory in the Pacific..................................................................