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Keynote speeches Harald Baayen Naive discriminative learning and usage-based models of grammar Ewa Dabrowska Unruly grammars Mirjam Fried The role of constructions in modeling grammatical change Kaoru Horie What can Cognitive Typology reveal about East Asian Languages? A Look at Cross-linguistic and Applied Linguistic Data Ronald Langacker Elliptic Coordination Elliptic Coordination (Handouts) John Lucy Language Diversity and the Development of Mind: Converging Lines of Evidence Jiaxuan Shen Nouns and Verbs in Chinese: In Cognitive，Philosophical, and Typological Perspectives Leonard Talmy How Language Aims at a Target: The Cognitive System Underlying Deixis and Anaphora Concurrent Session Presentations Concurrent Sessions Authors Presentation Documents  Blending Antonio Barcelona Blending effects in bahuvrihi compounds Dan Chen & Deliang Wang A Conceptual Blending Account of the Construction ''V+qilai''  CL & Iconicity Hongxiao Wang Systematic_Study_at_GeometricConstrual Lichang Zhang A phonosemantic study into the Chinese entering tone Masako Ueda Fidler Holistic vs. hierarchical Emerging patterns of typological differences in Czech onomatopoeia in contrast to Japanese mimetic expressions  CL & Lexicon Deliang Wang & Dan Chen The cognitive mechanism of synonymy: A case study of “look” Nataliya Panasenko Stages of a man's cognitive activity in phytonymic lexicon Steve Pepper Mental access strategies in nominal compounding Data from Africa  CL & Lg Learning Kyoko Masuda & Angela Labarca A cognitive approach to the teaching of Japanese case particles Sarah Berthaud & Stanislava Antonijevic Animacy, a cons-training factor in second language acquisition of verbs of motion and syntactic frames in English and French CL & Pragmatics Klaus-Uwe Panther A cognitive-pragmatic approach to English imperative tag questions Yancheng Yang A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach to White Lies—Analysis from the RT-ICM Mode Cog. Approach Jia Chen On the conceptual semantic constraints on verbs in Chinese static existential constructions Cog. Psycholing Nian Liu The effect of naming systems on the acquisition of time concepts Nian Liu & Benjamin Bergen The role of grammatical aspects in spatial simulation Yoshimi Kawabata Nominalization of verb stem in naming action pictures  Cognitive  Grammar Chunmei Hu & Rong Chen Chinese serial verb construction A cognitive grammar analysis Fang Peng Interpretation of the  patient-subject construction in Mandarin Chinese in a force-dynamic framework Juanjuan Wang A cognitive study of English verbal nominalization Laura A. Janda Linguistic theory in the information age: The case of allomorphy Cognitive Semantics Liisa Vilkki A cross-linguistic comparison of inferential meanings Loïc-Michel Perrin State verbs versus action verbs A cognitive and typological approach  Construal Chiharu Nakashima The cognitive verb know, referring expressions, and intersubjectivity Yoshimi Kawabata A cognitive study on possessive expressions: Clausal possessives vs. their nominalizations in Japanese  Construction Noriko Matsumoto Go as a marker of evaluative modality Roger Pérez i Brufau Image schemas and imagistic representation to explain verb argument constructions in Catalan Xianwu Zhou A Frame-based Study of Connecting Devices Within English N+N Compounds Yoichiro Hasebe A corpus-based approach to English ditransitive construction: The causal relation of two events  Construction Grammar Julia Kuznetsova & Olga Lyashevskaya How do constructions interact? Olga Lyashevskaya & Julia Kuznetsova Constructions and Alternations: Can two constructions mean the same thing? Weihua  Xu On hierarchy, polysemy and idiosyncrasy of constructions Taking resultative construction as an example Corpus Linguistics Zhen Tian An empirical research of association degree of Chinese Diachronic CL Augusto Soares da Silva Subjectification and polysemy: An autonomous mechanism of semantic change?  Embodiment Lin He, Chunmei Hu and Jingjing Li The temperature metaphor network in Mandarin Chinese Takahiro Teranishi Metaphorical extensions based on disembodiment From CROOKED to DISHONEST  Gesture & Sign Lg Adam Schembri Towards a usage-based grammar of signed languages Evidence from Australian Sign Language Cormier Smith The role of embodiment in the representation of actions in British Sign Language Evidence from deaf children Image Schema Rainer Schulze Aspects of Seriality Ulf  Magnusson A Balanced life. Mental and social aspects of the BALANCE schema Langacker’s CG Kazuko Inoue What triggers the difference between externally and internally caused eventualities Siva Kalyan Salience A psychological perspective Xinmin Wu & Wenqing Liang A study of denominal verbs in the framework of cognitive grammar Lg. Evolution Arie Verhagen Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics Met. & Genre August Fenk & Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon Mental models and spatial metaphors in diagrammatic representation Jianbo Hou Sino-U.S. Currency Dispute Discourse Jie Song Economy metaphors of the conservative party in the 2010 British election campaign Min Chen A Diachronic Study of Metaphors in Chinese Economic Discourse Xiaoye Li A corpus-based contrastive study on WAR metaphors in English and Chinese sports news  Met. in Comparison Kohei Suzuki Liquid metaphors empirically re-examined A comparison between English and Japanese Lixia Wei & Bee Eng Wong A corpus-based study on LION metaphorical expressions in Mandarin Chinese and British English Zhi Lu A_Corpus-based Contrastive Study of “up” of English and “shang” of Chinese from A Cognitive Perspective Met. in Grammar Tore Nesset The metaphorical shape of actions Verbal classifiers in Russian Rong Chen & Dafu Yang Metaphors unheard (of): A study of the Chinese radical Metaphor Qing Lei Metaphor interpretation and production: A study based on denotation-connotation inheritance Xin Tao A Cognitive Approach to the Euphemisms of Death in Chinese Tao Xin BFSU Metonymy Aijing He Metonymically-motivated thinking in N-V conversion: From the perspective of inheritance theory Vladimir Glebkin Metonymy and complex thinking  Motion Typology Birgitta Meex Patterns of path encoding in German Ikuko Matsuse Motion expressions in Newar: deixis prominence Xue Li A contrastive study of PATH lexicalization patterns in Chinese and English motion events Spatial Cognition in Talmy's Cognitive Semantics Guenther Lampert Recruiting (virtual) motion, force dynamics, and attention to integrate: A cognitive semantics account of the way-construction Martina Lampert Linking up three schematic systems The keep [VP]-ing construction .pdf Sabine De Knop & Françoise Gallez Manner of motion: A privileged dimension of German expressions .pdf Synesthesia Wangqi Jiang & Paul Van den Hoven Integrated processing in multimodal argumentation.doc   Poster Session Display Baobing Wang Applying the Image-schema Theory in the Transformation of the Structure of Double Objects Lingjuan Cao 英汉概念隐喻的认知比较及文化诠释