Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Director Emeritus, Center for Cognitive Science
Affiliate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Visiting Scholar
University of California, Berkeley
Website: https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/˜talmy/talmy.html (includes most of my written work)
Ph.D.
3/72, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
B.A.
6/63, Linguistics, University of California,
Berkeley Upper Division Undergraduate
9/61 - 6/63, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Lower Division Undergraduate
9/59-6/61, Mathematics, University of Chicago
8/01 - 12/05
Professor, Department of Linguistics
9/90 - 8/04
Director, Center for Cognitive Science
12/98 - 12/05
Affiliate Professor, Department of Philosophy
9/90 - 8/01
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
Administrative
1984 - 1990
Academic Coordinator, Program in Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1/84-8/90
Teaching
Spring 1990
Fulbright Scholar in USSR, Moscow Research Institute of Languages
Fall 1988
Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley
1980 - 1986
Lecturer in Historical Linguistics and Yiddish Linguistics/Language/ Cultural Context, German Department, University of California, Berkeley, 9/80-12/86
Summer 1985
Professor, Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute, Georgetown University
1976 - 1977
Assistant Professor (Dozent) in Linguistics, University of Hamburg, 10/76-7/77
Spring 1975
Fulbright Scholar in Italy, University of Rome
Research
Summer 1986
Invited Researcher in Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Summer 1984
Consultant on language and its representation of space. Project on computer representation of commonsense reasoning. SRI, International. Jerry Hobbs, project director.
1978 - 1980
Post-doctoral Fellow in Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, Center for Human Information Processing, (with Donald Norman, David Rumelhart, Jay McClelland),
9/78-9/80
1977 - 1978
Clinical Linguistics Fellow, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles (research / evaluation / therapy of language-impaired children), 9/77-8/98
1975 - 1976
Child Communication / Socialization Videotape Project, Institute of Human Learning (Ervin-Tripp), University of California, Berkeley, 9/75-5/76
1972 - 1975
Language Universals Project Member, Stanford University (with Joseph Greenberg, Charles Ferguson), 9/72-2/75
1969 Child Language Acquisition Researcher, Language Behavior Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, (with Paul Kay), 5/69-12/69
Summer 1966
Computer Linguistics Researcher, General Electric "TEMPO" Research Facility, Santa Barbara
1987 - 1990
Mandarin (with native speaker in Berkeley)
Summer 1983
Tzotzil (brief stint in the field)
Summer 1979
Huichol (brief stint in the field)
Summers: 1964,
Atsugewi (in the field) 1965, 1970,
1972, 1989
1962 - 1963
Kikuyu (with native speaker in Berkeley)
2014 - present
Advanced Academic Adviser. Research Center for Language and Cognition. Shenzhen University, China.
2010 - present
Consultant, Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes-Gutenberg University. Overall project: "Determinants of linguistic variation", coordinated by Britta Mondorf and Damaris Nuebling. Specific project: "Linking cognitive systems in language", headed by Guenther Lampert and Martina Lampert.
2010 - present
Consultant, University of Zurich. Project: "Conceptual and neural structure of mental time". Kurt Stocker, principal investigator, University of Zurich. Project start/end: Jan. 2010 - Feb. 2012.
2006 - present
Consultant, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Project: "Spatial Language: Developmental and Neural Studies". Anjan Chatterjee, principal investigator, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania. Project start/end: 2006-2012.
1991 Cognitive Science Organizing Committee, University of Michigan 1981 - 1986
Advisor on the expression of motion. Project on American Sign Language structure. Elissa Newport & Ted Suppala, directors, University of Illinois, 9/81-6/86
1979 - 1980
Advisor on pragmatics. Project on preschool language impairment and its outcome. Paula Tallal, principal investigator, University of California, San Diego, 9/79-9/80
Editorial Board Member
2016 - 2018
moral cognition and Communication. An interdisciplinary journal. John Benjamins.
2015 - present
Cognitive Semantics. Journal publisher: Brill.
2014 - present
Cognitive Studies of Language. Series of the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Tambov State University.
2009 - 2015
International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics. the journal of the China International Forum of Cognitive Linguistics.
2002 - present
Journal of Discourse and Cognition, Journal of the Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea
1991 - present
Cognitive Linguistics Journal
1988 - 1996
Cognitive Science Journal Editorial Advisory Board Member
2013 - present
Cognitive Linguistic Studies. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Advisory Board Member.
2008 - present
CORELA - Cognition, Representation, Language. Online journal of the Cercle Linguistique du Centre et de l’Ouest, France. Member of the International Scientific Board.
2008 - present
China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics (CIFCL), a journal issued jointly by six Beijing Universities. Li Fuyin, editor. Science Press, publisher. Member of the Board of Consulting Editors
2007 - present
Cognitive Semiotics, a journal issued by The Center for Cognition and Culture, Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University. Peter Lang Verlag, publisher
2005 - present
Grammaire et Cognition series of volumes. Editions l’Harmattan publishers. Paris, France
2002 - present
Journal of Cognitive Science, a journal of the Cognitive Science Society of Korea
2002 - 2009
English Linguistics, a journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan
2001 - present
Journal of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. Kluwer Academic Publishers
Governing Board Member
2019
Scientific committee member, New perspectives on qualitative methods in the cognitive and functional study of language The Linguistic Association of Finland, University of Turku,
2018 - 2019
Scientific committee member, Twelfth International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL12). Lund University, Sweden.
2007 - 2008
Scientific Committee for conference inaugurating Research Center in Language, Communication, and Cognition, University of Brighton, England. Vyvyan Evans & Stephanie Pourcel, organizers
1994 - 2009
Bolzano International Schools in Cognitive Analysis (BISCA), Bolzano, Italy
1990 - 1997
International Cognitive Linguistics Association
Corresponding Member
2000 - present
Center for Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA). Paris, France
Associate Member
2002 - present
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS): "Austerlitz" laboratory. Paris, France
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- present Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (founding member, 2000) |
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- present International Cognitive Linguistics Association |
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- present Cognitive Science Society (founding member, 1979) |
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- present Linguistic Society of America |
1996 Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language II, 1996, SUNY, Buffalo. Co-director with Jean-Pierre Koenig, 4/12-14/96
1994 First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, SUNY, Buffalo. Co-director with Barry Smith & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., 7/7-31/94
1992 Conference on Cognition and Representation, SUNY, Buffalo. Co-organizer with John Kearns, William Rapaport & Erwin Segal. Invited speakers: Charles Fillmore, Jerry Fodor, Whitman Richards, Paul Smolensky & John Sowa, 4/3-5/92
1979 Conference on Conceptual Structure, University of California San Diego. Sponsored by Program in Cognitive Science, 12/7-9/79
1994 Invited Leader: Workshop on Space and Time in Language, SUNY Buffalo, 12/6-10/94
1985 Co-leader with Deborah Tannen: Workshop on the Louds Family Tapes "Analysis of Discourse in Family Interaction." Georgetown University
2019/2020/2021
The first, second, and third Talmyan Semantics Conferences, held in Beijing and Kaifeng, China
2015 My work as the basis of two theme sessions, with some 20 presenters in all. 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Newcastle, England. 7/24/15.
2013 My work as the basis of two theme sessions, with some 20 presenters in all. 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Edmonton, Canada. 6/24/13 and 6/28/13.
2012 The recipient of the Gutenberg Research Award for 2012. The award and 10,000 Euro prize were conferred by the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, for outstanding contributions to research in the area of linguistics. 5/21/12.
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2011 |
My work as the basis of a 3-day theme session on "Spatial cognition in Talmy’s cognitive semantics", with 18 presenters, at the 11th meeting of the International cognitive Linguistics Association, Xian, China, July 2011. |
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2007 |
Honored as one of the three "Founding Fathers" of cognitive linguistics at the 10th Biannual Conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association |
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2002 |
Elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society in its inaugural naming of Fellows |
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1999 |
Inclusion in: Outstanding people of the 20th century, International Biographical Center, Cambridge England |
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1998 |
Inclusion in: International who’s who of intellectuals, 13th edn., International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England |
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1996 |
- 1997 Recipient, National Science Foundation grant for sabbatical book completion |
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1996 |
- 1997 Recipient, American Council of Learned Societies grant for sabbatical book completion |
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1995 |
Elected Invitee, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA |
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Fulbright Scholar in Moscow |
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Fulbright Scholar in Rome |
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Phi Beta Kappa |
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Outstanding Graduating Senior, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley |
In press for 2025 publication
A taxonomy of cognitive semantics. Mini-monograph series. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill.
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2024 |
Translation into Japanese of Toward a Cognitive Semantics, volumes I and II. Seizi Iwata, Chiharu Kikuta, Atsuko Nishiyama (eds). Tokyo: Kaitakusha press |
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2019 |
Translation into Chinese of Toward a Cognitive Semantics, volume II. Peking University Press. translators: Li Fuyin, Ren Longbo, and Zhang weiwei |
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2018 |
The targeting system of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. |
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2018 |
Ten lectures on cognitive semantics. In the Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics" Series. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill. |
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2018 |
Translation into Chinese of Toward a Cognitive Semantics, volume I. Peking University Press. translators: Li Fuyin, Ding yan, and Ren Longbo |
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2017 |
Basic Works in Cognitive Semantics in the "Cognitive Linguistics Classic Papers" series. Series editor: Dingfang Shu Shanghhai Foreign Language Education Press, 2017. |
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2012 |
Republication of Toward a cognitive semantics, volumes I and II, with a Chinese guide by Fuyin Li. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. |
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2010 |
Ten lectures on cognitive semantics. In the "Eminent Linguists Lecture Series", Fuyin Li and Yuan Gao (eds.). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. |
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2000 |
Toward a cognitive semantics. Volume I: Concept structuring systems, i-viii, 1-565. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. |
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Toward a cognitive semantics. Volume II: Typology and process in concept structuring, i-viii, 1-495. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. |
2023 Relations across cognitive faculties. In: Cognitive Semantics, volume 9, number 1, pages 1-17. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
2021 Structure within morphemic meaning. In: Cognitive Semantics, volume 7, number 2. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
2020 Targeting in Language: Unifying Deixis and Anaphora. Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 1-14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02016.
2020 Semantic unilocality. In: Cognitive Semantics, volume 5, number 2. Leiden-Boston: Brill. 2018 Combinance in the evolution of language: overcoming limitations. In: Cognitive Semantics, volume 4, number 2. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
2016 Properties of main verbs. In: Cognitive Semantics, volume 2, number 2: 133-163. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
2015 Relating language to other cognitive systems: an overview. In: Cognitive Semantics, volume 1, number 1: 1-44. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
2014 Relating language to other cognitive systems -- an abridged account. In Sean O Nuallain(ed) Foundations of Mind: cognition and consciousness. Proceedings of the 2014 conference at UC Berkeley. Cosmos and History, the journal of natural and social philosophy. June 2014: http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal
2013 Deixis and Anaphora Unified as "Targeting". International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics 4(2) .
2013 How Language Aims at a Target: the cognitive system underlying deixis and anaphora. Journal of Foreign Languages, 2013, vol. 2.
2012 Main Verb Properties. International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics, V3(N1): 1-24, Nova Science Publishers, Inc, New York.
2003 The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: a neural model. Journal of Language and Linguistics, special issue on semantics and cognition, vol. 4, issue 2, April 2003, 207-250. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
1995 The cognitive culture system. The Monist 78:80-116.
1988 Force dynamics in language and cognition. Cognitive Science 12:49-100.
2023 Foreword: A taxonomy of cognitive semantics. In Thomas Li (ed,). Handbook of cognitive semantics. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill.
2017 Foreword: Past, present, and future of motion research. (Neglected aspects of Motion representation) In Ibarretxe-Antuqano, Iraide (ed.), Motion and space across languages: Theory and applications. HCP (Human Cognitive Processing) Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2007 Foreword [Comparing introspection with other methodologies]. In M. Gonzalez-Marquez, I. Mittelberg, S. Coulson & M. Spivey (eds.), Methods in cognitive linguistics: Ithaca. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2023 Targeting in Language: Unifying Deixis and Anaphora. In Thomas Li (ed,).).
Handbook of cognitive semantics. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill.
2016 The relation of grammar to cognition. In Masa-aki Yamanashi (ed.), Cognitive Linguistics.
SAGE Publications.
2016 Kul’turnaja kognicija (Cultural cognition). Kognitivnye issledovanija jazyka. 2016. Vyp.
XXIV. S. 647-657.
2015 Main verb properties. In Y. Ji (Ed.), Representing Motion in Language and Cognition (pp.
15-50). Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
2010 How spoken and signed language structure space differently. In Vyvyan Evans & Paul Chilton (eds.), Language, cognition, and space: The state of the art and new directions. London: Equinox Publishing Co.
2009 Answers to Five Questions. In Peer F. Bundgaard & Frederik Sterjnfelt (eds), Signs and Meaning: Five Questions. Automatic Press/VIP.
2008 Aspects of attention in language. In Peter Robinson and Nick C. Ellis, (eds.), Handbook of cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2008 Main verb properties and equipollent framing. In Jian-Sheng Guo, et al (eds.), Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
2007 Force dynamics in language and cognition; How language structures space; and The relation of grammar to cognition. In Vyvyan Evans, Benjamin K. Bergen & Jörg Zinken (eds.), The cognitive linguistics reader. London: Equinox Publishing Co.
2007 Attention phenomena. In Dirk Geeraerts & Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), Oxford handbook of cognitive linguistics, 264-293. Oxford University Press.
2007 Lexical typologies. In Timothy Shopen (ed.), Language typology and syntactic description, Volume III: Grammatical categories and the lexicon, Second edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2007 The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: a neural model. In Andrea Schalley & Dietmar Zaeffer (eds.), Ontolinguistics. How ontological status shapes the linguistic coding of concepts’. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2006 Grammatical construal: The relation of grammar to cognition. In Dirk Geeraerts (ed.), Cognitive linguistics: Basic readings. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2006 The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language. In Maya Hickmann & Stephane Robert (eds.), Space in languages: Linguistic systems and cognitive categories, 207-238. TSL Series, Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2005 The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language. In Beate Hampe (ed.), From perception to meaning: Image schemas in cognitive linguistics, 199-234. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. In its Cognitive Linguistics Research Series, John Taylor, Rene Dirven & Ronald Langacker (eds.).
2004 The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language. In Augusto Soares da Silva (ed.), Linguagem, Cultura e Cognição: Estudos de Lingu´istica Cognitiva Coimbra: Livraria Almedina (Portugal). 2004
2003 The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language. In Karen Emmorey (ed.), Perspectives on classifier constructions in sign language, 169-195. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2003 Concept structuring systems in language. In Michael Tomasello (ed.) The new psychology of language: Cognitive and functional approaches to language structure, volume 2, 15-46. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2000 Grammar from the perspective of cognitive semantics. In M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest (ed.),
Grammaticalisation areal et semantique cognitive: Le langues fenniques et sames, 17-25. Tallinn, Estonia: Foundation of the Estonian Language.
1996 Fictive motion in language and "ception". In Paul Bloom, Mary Peterson, Lynn Nadel & Merrill Garrett (eds.), Language and space, 307-384. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
1996 The windowing of attention in language. In Masayoshi Shibatani & Sandra Thompson (eds.), Grammatical constructions: Their form and meaning, 235-287. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1995 Narrative structure in a cognitive framework. In Gail Bruder, Judy Duchan & Lynne Hewitt (eds.), Deixis in narrative: A cognitive science perspective, 421-461. Hillsboro, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
1988 The relation of grammar to cognition. In Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn (ed.), Topics in cognitive linguistics, 165-205. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1985 Lexicalization patterns: Semantic structure in lexical forms. In Timothy Shopen (ed.), Language typology and syntactic description, vol. 3: Grammatical categories and the lexicon, 57-149. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1983 How language structures space. In Herbert L. Pick, Jr. & Linda P. Acredolo (eds.), Spatial orientation: Theory, research, and application, 225-282. New York: Plenum Press.
1978 Relations between subordination and coordination. In Joseph H. Greenberg (ed.), Universals of human language, vol. 4: Syntax, 487-513. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
1978 Figure and ground in complex sentences. In Joseph H. Greenberg (ed.), Universals of human language, vol. 4: Syntax, 625-649. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
1976 Semantic causative types. In Masayoshi Shibatani (ed.), Syntax and semantics, vol. 6: The grammar of causative constructions, 43-116. New York: Academic Press.
1975 Semantics and syntax of motion. In John P. Kimball (ed.), Syntax and semantics, vol. 4, 181-238. New York: Academic Press.
2011 Cognitive semantics: An overview. In: Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, & Paul Portner, (eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (HSK series), chapter 27, p. 622-642.
2011 Universals of semantics. In Patrick Hogan (ed,). Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences., 754-757. Cambridge University Press.
2005 Cognitive linguistics. In Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd edn. Oxford & Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
2003 Noun. In William Frawley (ed.), International encyclopedia of linguistics, vol. 3, 2nd edn.,
201. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1992 Noun. In William Bright (ed.), International encyclopedia of linguistics, vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2016 Interview: Leonard Talmy. Written interview conducted by Helen de Andrade Abreu. In: Revista Linguistica, vol. 12, n. 1, pp. 17-20, Jan. 2016. Brazil.
2010 Interview: Leonard Talmy. The mind and the strangest of languages. ("A Mente e A Mais Estranha das Linguas). Written interview on my work conducted by Konrad Szczesniak. In: Ciencia Hoje (Science Today), vol. 46, n. . 275, pp. 88-10, Oct. 2010. Brazil.
2006 Interview: Leonard Talmy. A windowing onto conceptual structure and language Part 2: Language and cognition: Past and future. Second interview by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano. In Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Volume 4, Number 1, edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, 253-268.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2005 Interview: Leonard Talmy. A windowing onto conceptual structure and language. Part 1: Lexicalization and typology. [First Written interview on my work conducted by] Ibarretxe-Antuqano, Iraide. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 3, 325-347. John Benjamins.
2010 The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language. In Marotta, Giovanna, Lenci, Alessandro, Meini, Linda and Rovai Francesco (eds.). Space in Language. Proceedings of the International Conference, October 8-10 2009", Pisa: ETS.
2007 Recombinance in the evolution of language. In Jonathon E. Cihlar, David Kaiser, Irene Kimbara & Amy Franklin (eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: The Panels, vol. 39-2, 26-60 Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
2006 Spatial structuring in spoken and signed language. In Charles Chang, Michael J. Houser, Yuni Kim, David Mortensen, Mischa Park-Doob, & Maziar Toosarvandani (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 277-300. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
2001 How spoken language and signed language structure space differently. In Daniel R. Montello (ed.), Spatial information theory: Foundation of geographic information science: Proceedings of COSIT 2001, 247-262. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
2001 Differences between spoken and signed language in schematizing space. In Carlota S. Smith (ed.), Proceedings from the Third Workshop on Spoken and Written Texts. Austin, TX: Texas Linguistic Forum.
1991 Path to realization: a typology of event conflation. In Laurel A. Sutton, Christopher Johnson & Ruth Shields (eds.), Papers of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 480-520. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
1985 Force dynamics in language and thought. In William H. Eikfont, Paul D. Kroeber & Karen L. Peterson (eds.), Papers from the Parasession on causatives and agentivity at the Twenty-First Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 293-337. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
1985 Force dynamics as a generalization over `causative’. In Deborah Tannen & James E. Atlatis (eds.), Proceedings of the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, 67-85. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
1982 Borrowing semantic space: Yiddish verb prefixes between Germanic and Slavic. In Monica Macaulay et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 231-250. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
1978 The relation of grammar to cognition -- a synopsis. In David Waltz (ed.), Proceedings of TINLAP-2 Conference [Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing] , 14-24. New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
1977 Rubber-sheet cognition in language. In Woodforth A. Beach, Samuel E. Fox & Shulamith Philosoph (eds.), Proceedings from the Thirteenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 612-628. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
1975 Figure and ground in language. In Cathy Cogan et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 419-430. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
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Path to realization: a typology of event integration. In Center for Cognitive Science Technical Report, 92-01. University at Buffalo. |
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1987 |
Lexicalization patterns: typologies and universals. Berkeley Cognitive Science Report, Nr. 47. |
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1978 |
Autodescriptives. Lingua Pranca, 2. Indiana University Linguistics Club. |
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1976 |
Communicative aims and means -- a synopsis. Working Papers on Language Universals 20:153-85. Stanford University. |
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1973 |
The basis for a crosslinguistic typology of motion/location: part 2. Working Papers on Language Universals, Nr. 11. Stanford University. |
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1972 |
The basis for a crosslinguistic typology of motion/location: part 1. Working Papers on Language Universals 9:41-116. Stanford University. |
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1970 |
Semantic componentry and Samoan acquisition. Working Paper Nr. 37. Language Behavior Research Laboratory. University of California, Berkeley. |
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An analysis of English quantification and its representation in the data base. Technical Report, General Electric TEMPO Research. |
2019 Translation into Chinese of Toward a Cognitive Semantics, volume II. Peking University Press. translators: Li Fuyin, Ren Longbo, and Zhang weiwei
2018 Translation into Chinese of Toward a Cognitive Semantics, volume I. Peking University Press. translators: Li Fuyin, Ding yan, and Ren Longbo
2016 Kul’turnaja kognicija (Cultural cognition). Kognitivnye issledovanija jazyka. 2016. Vyp.
XXIV. S. 647-657.
2011 Comment le language structure les concepts(How language structures concepts). Translated by Hélène and Jean Chuquet. In: Le language et ses niveaux d’analyse. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, France.
2006 Fenomeny bnimaniya (phenomena of attention). Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki (Issues in Cognitive Linguistics), vol. 2, 2006 Tambov, Russia.
2001 Grammatikkens forhold til kognitionen (The relation of grammar to cognition). Kognitiv Semiotik o Sprog, Kognition, Ontologi (Cognitive Semiotics of Language Cognition, Ontology).
Peer F. Bundgaard, Jesper Egholm & Martin Skov (eds). Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
2001 Kraftdynamik i sprog og kognition (Force dynamics in language and cognition). Kognitiv Semiotik o Sprog, Kognition, Ontologi (Cognitive Semiotics of Language Cognition, Ontology). Peer F. Bundgaard, Jesper Egholm & Martin Skov (eds.). Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
2000 A typology of event integration, trans. by Takayuki Takao. Ninti Gengogaku no Tenkai (Advances in Cognitive Linguistics), Shigeru Sakahara (ed.). Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.
1998 The relation of grammar to cognition. Vestnik MGU Filologia (Moscow State University Review. Philology). Nr. 5.
1992 Les relations entre grammaire et cognition (The relation of grammar to cognition), trans. by Jeanne-Marie Barberis & Francoise Madray Lesigne. Langage, Cognition, Experience Pratique. Nr. 18.
1972 Semantic Structures in English and Atsugewi, University of California, Berkeley
Atsugewi field notes, file-slip dictionaries, and sound recordings.
Available online at the California Language Archive Go to the main page, http://cla.berkeley.edu Then enter "Leonard Talmy" in the search window. 57 items in 2 collections: Leonard Talmy Papers on the Atsugewi Language and The Leonard Talmy collection of Atsugewi sound recordings.
2019 Two talks about gestures and targeting, plus consultation with research group on motion and space. "Gestures as cues to a target", "The targeting system: unifying deixis and anaphora". The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). . March 20-23, 2019. Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan. IP 2018 Three talks about space and targeting: "Neglected aspects of Motion representation", "Gestures as cues to a target",. "The targeting system of language", Preceding and within AELCO 11 -- the 11th conference of the Spanish Association for Cognitive Linguistics. Cordoba, Spain, 15-19 Oct. 2018.
2017 Four talks about space and targeting: "Primitives of motion in space", "Extending fictive motion", "The targeting system of language", "Neglected aspects of Motion representation".
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France. May 15-19, 2017.
2012 Two-day engagement, speaking on: "How spoken and signed language structure space differently", "Relating language to other cognitive systems". National Taiwan University. 5-6 May, 2012
2011 Two-day engagement, speaking on "How language aims at a target". China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics (CIFCL). Beihung University, Beijing, China. 6-7 July, 2011.
2009 One-week lecture series on attention and force dynamics. 10/12-16/09. Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes-Gutenberg University. Mainz, Germany
2009 One-week course on cognitive semantics. 4/20-24/09. Centre de Lingüística Teórica, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, spain.
2007 Ten 2-hour talks on ten different areas of cognitive semantics. Five talks at Beihang University, the host institution. Five more, one each at Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Peking University, and Tsinghua University. China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics (CIFCL), Prof. Li Fuyin, organizer. Beijing, China. 10/12-18/07
2006 Three 2-hour talks on cognitive semantics. Sponsored by the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas (Philosophical Research Institute) of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) Mexico City, Mexico. 10/24-26/06
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Two hour-and-a-half talks on spatial semantics. Sponsored by the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Kyoto University of Education, Kyoto, Japan. 9/22/06 |
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Four 2-hour talks on "Typologies and universals of lexical semantics" to help launch new Ph.D. program in theory of language. Sponsored by the German Linguistic International Promotional Program, University of Munich. 2/24-25/03 |
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2001 |
Main public presentation at Ecole Normale Supérieure on "How Spoken and Signed Language Structure Space" and three 2-hour presentation-discussions on spatial cognition sponsored by the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) research group on "Language Diversity and Cognition". Paris, France. 1/25-27/01 |
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1999 |
Bolzano International Schools in Cognitive Analysis (BISCA), Bolzano, Italy. One-week series of presentations on cognitive semantics. 9/6-10/99 |
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1998 |
"Relating Language to Other Cognitive Systems" and "How Language Structures Concepts". University of Aarhus, Denmark. Three 6-hour talks + two 4-hour talks presenting recent work. 9/22-30/98 |
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1995 |
Fifth Summer School of the German Linguistic Society, Saarbruecken, Germany. One-week course on cognitive semantics. 9/3-7/95 |
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1995 |
University of Wisconsin, Madison. University Lecturer & two-day presentation of selected work. 4/20-21/95 |
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1995 |
"How Language Structures Concepts" and "A Typology for Event Integration" University of Pennsylvania. Two-day presentation of selected work. 2/9-10/95 |
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1994 |
Summer School on Cognitive Linguistics, Bolzano, Italy. One-week series of presentations on cognitive semantics. 10/17-21/94 |
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1994 |
University of Kobe, Japan. Four-day presentation of selected work. 9/27-30/94 |
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1994 |
First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, SUNY, Buffalo. Three-week course on cognitive linguistics. 7/5-21/94 |
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1994 |
University of Oregon, Eugene. Three-day presentation of selected work. 2/15-17/94 |
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1992 |
University of Colorado, Boulder. Two-day presentation of selected work. 10/1-2/92 |
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1992 |
Institut des Sciences Sociales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France. Two-day presentation of selected work. 5/25-26/92 |
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1992 |
University of Aarhus, Denmark. Two-week presentation of selected work. 5/11-22/92 |
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1990 |
University of San Marino, Italy. All-day presentation of selected work. 12/10/90 |
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1987 |
University Center, Hasselt, Belgium. Two-day, eight-talk presentation of selected work to registering European linguists. 5/7-8/87 |
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1986 |
Linguistics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Five-day visit with four presentations and informal discussions on linguistic typologies and universals. 10/20-25/86 |
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1984 |
Linguistics Department, SUNY Buffalo. Four-day visit with three presentations and informal discussions on space and time in language. 12/6-10/84 |
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Keynote or Plenary Presentation at Conference |
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2024 |
Basic parameters of analysis. Online talk to the Sixth Cognitive Semantics Conference. Sponsored by the Cognitive Semantics journal. June 1 - 2, 2024 in Tianjin, China. |
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2023 |
Semantic combination. Online talk to the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Semantics. Organized by the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beihang University, |
China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. 15, July, 2023. Beijing, China.
2022 The targeting system of language". Zoom talk to the 15th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ). May 14, 2022.
2022 The targeting system of language.
2022 "New and neglected aspects of event structure". Talk to "The Big Event", a zoom-based workshop at King’s College, London, England
2019 Two talks at the China International forum on cognitive Linguistics (CIFCL) 19. "The targeting system of language" and "Gestures as cues to a target". Beihang University, Beijing, China. 11/4/19 and 11/5/19.
2019 "The targeting system of language: unifying deixis and anaphora".. Conference on Deictic Communication: culminating event of a 4-year pan-European research grant sponsored by the EU Commission. University of East Anglia. Norwich, England. 8-9 July 2019.
2018 "The targeting system of language". AELCO 11 -- the 11th conference of the Spanish Association for Cognitive Linguistics. Cordoba, Spain, 17-19 Oct. 2018.
2017 "Neglected aspects of Motion representation". Third text-only web conference on cognitive linguistics. Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association and the University of Wroclaw, Poland. 12/3/17.
2017 "Neglected aspects of Motion representation". Workshop on: Neglected aspects of Motion event representation. Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France. May 19-20, 2017.
2016 "How spoken and signed language structure space differently". Second text-only web conference on cognitive linguistics. Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association and the University of Wroclaw, Poland. 12/3/16.
2016 "Gestures as cues to a target". Sixth United Kingdom Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UK-CLC 6).. Bangor University, Wales, UK. 7/21/16.
2016 "Gestures as cues to a target". Guest of Honor at: Seventh Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: "Gesture - Creativity - Multimodality" Sorbonne Nouvelle University. 7/19/16
2015 "The relation of language to other cognitive systems". First text-only web conference on cognitive linguistics. Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association and the University of Wroclaw, Poland. 12/3/15.
2014 "The targeting system of language". Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association. "Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2014" conference. Jan Dlugosz University of Czestochowa, Poland, 9/15/14.
2012 "How language directs attention to a target". 6th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 2012). National Taiwan University. Taipei. 5/6/12.
2011 "Force dynamics in language and cognition". International conference on "The cultural constitution of causal cognition". ZiF: Zentrum fuer Interdisziplinaere Forschung (Center for Interdisciplinary Research). Biehlefeld, Germany. 10/13/11.
2011 "How spoken and signed language structure space differently". The 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Conference theme: Expanding the space of Cognitive Science. Co-chairs: Laura Carlson, Christophe Hoelscher, Thomas Shipley. Boston, MA. 7/23/11.
2011 "How language aims at a target: the cognitive system underlying deixis and anaphora". 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Xian, China. 7/14/11
2010 "How language structures concepts". Annual conference of the Triple Nine Society. Berkeley CA. 9/5/10.
2009 Inaugural address: "Relating language to other cognitive systems", plus keynote talk: "How language structures concepts". International conference on "Language an cognition: state of the art". Centre for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Allahabad University. Allahabad, India. 12/6-9/09.
2009 "Spatial primitives in language". Conference on "Space in Language". University of Pisa.
Pisa, Italy. 10/8/09.
2009 "How language structures concepts". The 17th annual meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Central European University. Budapest, Hungary. 8/28/09.
2008 "Introspection in language and linguistics". International Conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Poitiers. Poitiers, France. 10/2/08,
2008 "Introspection in language and linguistics". 2nd Brussels Workshop on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models. University of Brussels, 7/20/08. Jointly sponsored by the "Theory of Language and Mind" doctoral school, University of Brussels, and the "Concepts and Languages" doctoral school of the University of Paris 4, Sorbonne.
2008 "How spoken and signed language represent space differently". Conference on language and perception. Sponsored by the Program in Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Washington University, St. Louis. 2/29/08.
2007 "Introspection as a methodology in linguistics". 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Krakow, Poland. 7/16/07
2006 First talk: "More on fictivity"; Second talk: "How language structures concepts". First International Cognitive Semantics Conference jointly sponsored by the Cognitive Linguistics Research Association of China and the Foreign Studies College of Hunan Normal University.
Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China. 12/16/06
2006 "How language structures concepts". International conference on cognitive linguistics. Sponsored by the Russian Cognitive Linguistics Association, Tambov State University, Tambov, Russia. 9/26/06
2006 "How language structures concepts". 7th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Kyoto University of Education, Kyoto, Japan. 9/24/06
2006 "Recombinance in the evolution of language". Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science. University of St. Petersburg, Russia. Sponsored by University of St. Petersburg, Moscow State University, Academy of Sciences of Russia. 6/11/06
2006 "How language structures concepts". 15th Annual Linguistics Symposium, Linguistics Student Association, California State University, Fullerton. 4/17/06
2006 "Recombinance in the evolution of language". 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Rome, Italy. 4/12/06
2005 "Recombinance in the evolution of language". 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Seoul, Korea. 7/18/05
2005 "The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language". 21st Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
6/2/05
2003 "How language directs attention". 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain. 7/24/03
2003 "How spoken and signed language represent space differently". International Conference on Language, Cognition, and Culture, Catholic University, Braga, Portugal. 7/17/03
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2003 |
"How spoken and signed language structure space differently: a neural model". Chicago Linguistics Society Conference, University of Chicago. 4/11/03 |
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2002 |
"The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: a neural model". Conference of the Korean Linguistics Society, National University, Seoul, Korea. 8/1/02 |
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2002 |
"The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language". First Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Taiwan, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. 1/13/02 |
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2001 |
"The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language". Sixth World Congress of the International Association for Visual Semiotics, Laval University, Quebec City. 10/17/01 |
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2001 |
"Spatial structuring in spoken and signed language". The Conference On Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), Morrow Bay, California. 9/22/01 |
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2001 |
"Spatial structuring in spoken and signed language". International Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara. 7/24/01 |
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2001 |
"Spatial structuring in spoken vs. signed language". Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley. 2/16-18/01 |
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2000 |
"How language structures concepts". North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), jointly held with the Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP) Conference, Seattle. 5/2/00 |
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1999 |
"Language structure and consciousness". Conference on The Metaphysics of Consciousness: The Views of David Chalmers in Historical and Contemporary Perspective, Buffalo. 11/6/99 |
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1999 |
"Spatial schematization in language". National Science Foundation sponsored Conference on Spatial Cognition, University of California, Berkeley. 4/30/99 |
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1999 |
"Cognitive semantics: Typology and the conceptual organization of language" Sorbonne Conference of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France. 4/9-10/99 |
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1998 |
"Comparing linguistic structure with visual structure". Berkeley Linguistics Society. 2/98 |
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1997 |
"Spatial structure in language and vision". Biannual Meeting of PRESCOT: the cognitive science research network, Toulouse, France. 9/22/97 |
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1997 |
"Relating language to other cognitive systems". Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference, Amsterdam. 7/14-19/97 |
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1996 |
"Fictivity and Ception". Conference on Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Representations, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. 11/8-9/96 |
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1996 |
"How language structures concepts -- an outline". Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on the Lexicon, University of California, Santa Cruz. 6/28/96 |
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1996 |
"Culture and consciousness". Conference honoring 50th year of the Fulbright Program, Sofia, Bulgaria. 5/96 (keynote speaker together with Zhelyu Zhelev, President of Bulgaria) |
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1996 |
"Attention and focus". Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language, II, University at Buffalo. 4/12/96 |
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1995 |
"Topology in language and other cognitive systems". Conference on Topology and Dynamics in Cognition, University of San Marino, Italy. 12/11/95 |
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1995 |
"Conceptual structure in language and other cognitive systems". Fourth International Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. 7/95 |
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1993 |
"Foundations of cognitive semantics". Institut Universitaire Kurt Boesch, Sion, Switzerland, Summer Institute on Linguistics and Cognitive Models. 9/93 |
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1993 |
"How grammar structures concepts". 16th International Wittgenstein Symposium on Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences, Kirchberg, Austria. 8/93 |
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1993 |
"The windowing of attention in language and cognition". International Cognitive Linguistics |
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Association, Biannual Conference, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium. 7/93 |
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1992 |
"The windowing of attention in language". Belgian Linguistics Society, University of Belgium, Antwerp. 11/92 |
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1992 |
"Fictive motion as a challenge to the metaphor theory of Lakoff and Johnson". Conference on the Structure of Metaphor, University of Roskilde, Denmark. 5/23-24/92 |
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1991 |
"Fictive motion and change in language and cognition". International Cognitive Linguistics Association, University of California, Santa Cruz. 7/91 |
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1991 |
"Path to realization -- via aspect and result". Berkeley Linguistics Society, Parasession on Event Structure, University of California, Berkeley. 2/91 |
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1990 |
Workshop on the non-arbitrary aspects of language. Conference on the Semantics of Grammar, University of San Marino, Italy. 12/90 |
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1990 |
"Fictive motion and change". Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Barcelona, Spain. 7/90 |
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1990 |
"Survey of cognitive linguistics". Soviet Young Linguists’ Society Conference, Zvenigorod, Russia. 5/90 |
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1989 |
"Fictive motion in language and perception". Conference on Meaning and Perception, French Canadian Association for the Advancement of Science. 5/89 |
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1989 |
"How language structures geographic space". Conference on Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space, University of California, Santa Barbara. 1/89 |
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1987 |
"Decoupling in the semantics of attention and perspective". Pacific Linguistics Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene. 11/87 |
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1987 |
"Linguistic determiners of perspective and attention". Berkeley Linguistics Society, Parasession on Semantic Typology, University of California, Berkeley. 2/86 |
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1985 |
"Force dynamics in language and thought". Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) Parasession on Causatives and Agentivity, University of Chicago. 4/85 |
2015 "Conceptual structuring in language". Foundations of Mind series. University of California, Berkeley. 8/13/15
2014 "Aspects of language differ in their accessibility to consciousness". Institute for English Studies, University of Warsaw. Warsaw, Poland. 9/18/14.
2014 "Aspects of language differ in their accessibility to consciousness". Foundations of Mind series. University of California, Berkeley. 6/27/14.
2012 "How language targets". Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes-Gutenberg University. Mainz, Germany. 7/17/12.
2012 "Gestures as cues to a target". Natural Media gesture lab, Human Technology Centre (HumTec). RWTH Aachen University. Aachen, Germany. 5/23/12. Viewable at: http://tinyurl.com/6rj46gx
2010 "How spoken language and signed language represent space differently". Interdisciplinary Workshop on Language and Cognition. Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Stanford University, Stanford California. 3/1/10.
2008 "The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language". The Neural Theory of Language group at the International Computer Science Institute. Berkeley, California. 4/11/08.
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2007 |
"How languages represent motion events: typologies and universals". Department of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Pennsylvania State University. 4/28/07 |
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2006 |
"The attention system of language -- work in progress". Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. 2/3/06 |
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2005 |
"The attention system of language". Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. 4/20/05 |
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2004 |
"The attention system of language". Ecole Normale Supérieure (Husserl Archive) and Center for Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA) Paris, France. 12/11/04 |
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2004 |
Interactive discussion on paper "Recombinance in the evolution of language", read in advance. ParisTech Telecom, laboratory on the evolution of semantics, Paris, France. 12/8/04 |
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2004 |
"How spoken and signed language structure space differently". Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS), University of Pennsylvania. 11/12/04 |
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2004 |
"How spoken and signed language structure space differently". University lecture, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. 4/29/04 |
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2004 |
"How language directs attention". Linguistics Department, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 4/29/04 |
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2004 |
"How language structures concepts". Linguistics Department and Interpreting Department, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. 4/29/04 |
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2003 |
"A typology of event integration in language". Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University. 5/22/03 |
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2003 |
"How language structures concepts". Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University. 5/22/03 |
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2002 |
"How language structures concepts". Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. 11/21/02 |
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2002 |
"A typology of event integration". Linguistics Department, University of Arizona, Tucson. 10/25/02 |
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2002 |
"The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: a neural model". Master Seminar, Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, Tucson. 10/24/02 |
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2002 |
"How language structures concepts". Department of Cognitive Science, National University, Seoul, Korea. 7/31/02 |
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2002 |
"The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: a neural model". Linguistics Department, Stanford University. 2/14/02 |
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2002 |
"How language structures concepts". Graduate Linguistics Program, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. 1/14/02 |
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2001 |
"How language structures concepts". Department of Linguistics, University of Oslo, Norway. 5/31/01 |
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2001 |
"How spoken and signed language represent spatial structure". Linguistics Department and Cognitive Science Program, Syracuse University. 3/30/01 |
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2001 |
"Relating linguistic structuring to visual structuring". Linguistics Department and National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) research group on "Dynamics of Language", University of Lyons, Lyons, France. 1/22/01 |
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2000 |
"Spatial structuring in spoken and signed language". Linguistics Department, McGill University, Montreal. 11/3/00 |
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2000 |
"The conceptual structure of language and its relation to visual structure". Department of Computer Science, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). 11/2/00 |
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1999 |
Interactive discussion on paper "Fictive motion in language and `ception’", read in advance. |
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Linguistics Department, Emory University, Atlanta. 5/22/99 |
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1999 |
"Event integration in language". School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology. 5/21/99 |
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1999 |
"Applying cognitive semantics to field research". National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the LACITO laboratory, Paris, France. 4/13/99 |
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1998 |
"Relating language to other cognitive systems". University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 9/25/98 |
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1996 |
"How language structures concepts". New University of Bulgaria, Sofia. 5/16/96 |
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1994 |
"Fictive motion in language and `ception’". University of Tokyo. 10/3/94 |
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1994 |
"Fictive motion in language and ’ception’", plenary talk. First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, SUNY Buffalo. 7/8/94 |
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1993 |
"The windowing of attention in language". McGill University, Montreal. 10/7/93 |
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1993 |
"How language structures its concepts". Georgia Tech, Atlanta. 4/23/93 |
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1993 |
"Conceptual structure in language and in other cognitive systems". University of Rochester. 2/12/93 |
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1993 |
"Introspection as a methodology in cognitive science". Institute of Psychological Studies, Berkeley. 11/5/93 |
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1992 |
"The cognitive structure of language". University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 5/15/92 |
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1991 |
"Spatial cognition". Research Group on Language and Culture, University of Chicago. 10/91 |
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1991 |
"Fictive motion in language and cognition". Cognitive Science Group, University of Michigan. 10/91 |
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1990 |
"Cognitive linguistics in the United States". Moscow Linguistics Association, Moscow, USSR. 5/90 |
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1990 |
"Foundations of cognitive semantics" (talk series). Linguistics Department, Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR. 4/90 |
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1988 |
"How language structures its concepts". Artificial Intelligence Division, BBN Inc., Cambridge, MA. 4/88 |
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1988 |
"The place of linguistics within cognitive science". Cognitive Science Program, California State University, Fresno. 3/88 |
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1987 |
"The relation of grammar to cognition". General Linguistics Department, Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. 5/87 |
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1987 |
"Non-reductionist properties of language". Linguistics Group, University of Vienna, Austria. 5/87 |
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1986 |
"How language structures its concepts". English Department, University of Duisburg, West Germany. 6/86 |
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1986 |
"Decoupling in the semantics of perspective and attention". Linguistics Department, University of Leuven, Belgium. 6/86 |
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1986 |
"Further developments in the theory of force dynamics". Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 6/86 |
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1986 |
"Force dynamics in language and thought". Linguistics Department, University of Konstanz, West Germany. 6/86 |
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1986 |
"Germanic vs. romance patterns for expressing motion". Linguistics Department, University of Perugia, Italy. 5/86 |
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1986 |
"Properties of polysynthesis in typological perspective". Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley. 4/86 |
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1985 |
"The representation of force and space in language". Program in Cognitive Science, SUNY, Buffalo. 11/85 |
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1985 |
"Force dynamics in language and thought". Linguistics Department, University of California, San Diego. 10/85 |
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1985 |
"Force dynamics in language and thought". Cognitive Science Program, University of California, Berkeley. 9/85 |
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1985 |
"Basics of force dynamics". Georgetown University Round Table, Washington, D.C. 7/85 |
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1985 |
"Force dynamics in language and thought". Linguistics Colloquium Series, Stanford University. 5/85 |
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1985 |
"Morphology and semantics". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Work Group on Morphology (Dowty, Gazdar, Sadock, organizers). 1/85 |
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1984 |
"How Romance differs from other Indo-European language families". Linguistics Seminar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France. 5/84 |
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1984 |
"How language structures its concepts". Group in Language, Perception, and Cognition, Stanford. 4/84 |
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1983 |
"The semantics of grammar". Linguistics Group, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 7/83 |
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1983 |
"The non-reductionist properties of language". Program in Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley, 3-talk Sequence. 5/83 |
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1983 |
"How language structures space". SRI International, Artificial Intelligence Division, Menlo Park, CA. 3/83 |
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1982 |
"Force dynamics". Program in Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley. 2/82 |
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1980 |
"What kind of information system is language?" Center for Human Information Processing, University of California, San Diego. 8/80 |
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1980 |
"Closed class elements as structurers of meaning". Linguistics Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 3/80 |
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1980 |
"Perspective point and attention in spoken and signed languages". Sign Language Laboratory, Salk Institute, San Diego. 1/80 |
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1979 |
"Conceptual framework of language". Linguistics Group, University of California, Berkeley. 4/79 |
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1976 |
"The semantics of motion". Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen, Denmark. 12/76 |
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1986 |
"Motion/location systems from the universal to the particular". Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, SUNY Oswego. 8/76 |
2015 "Relating language to other cognitive systems: an excerpt". Theme session on the empirical study of Talmyan theory. 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Newcastle, England. 7/24/15.
2014 "Relating language to other cognitive systems -- an abridged account". Conference on "Foundations of Mind". University of California, Berkeley. 3/6/14.
2013 "The development of cognitive linguistics from its beginnings to the present". Panel on "Looking back". 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Edmonton, Canada. 6/24/13.
2013 "Gestures as cues to a target" Theme session on: Consolidating a Map of Talmyan Cognitive Semantics: Looking within, across, and beyond Each Schematic System. 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Edmonton, Canada. 6/24/13.
2012 "The attention system of language". Symposium on attention (with three presenters). Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes-Gutenberg University. Mainz, Germany. 7/16/12.
2011 "Corporal cues to a deictic target". Theme session on: Spatial cognition in Talmy’s cognitive semantics". 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Xian, China. 7/15/11
2009 "Spatial primitives in language". Panel on "linguistic and cognitive representations of space". The 17th annual meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Central European University. Budapest, Hungary. 8/29/09.
2008 "The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language". Panel on "Discovering conceptual primitives". Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 12/5/08 organizer: Jerry Feldman; other panelists: Marco Iacoboni, Terry Regier, Fei Xu
2008 "How language structures concepts". Panel on "Language and Cognition". Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Poitiers. Poitiers, France. 10/1/08,
2008 "The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language". Panel on "Discovering conceptual primitives". 30th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C.
7/24/08
2006 Leader of Round Table Discussion on cognitive linguistics. Sponsored by the Russian Cognitive Linguistics Association, Tambov State University, Tambov, Russia. 9/27/06
2006 Discussant for student and faculty presentations on motion verbs. Linguistics Department, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. 9/21/06
2006 "Introspection as a methodology in linguistics". Symposium: the notion of evidence in science and philosophy. Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark. 1/19-20/06
2003 "More on fictivity". Workshop on fictive and metaphorical motion, 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain. 7/22/03
2003 "How Language structures concepts". Lead speaker in panel on Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Arlington, VA. 3/24/03
2003 "The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: a neural model".
Keynote talk in workshop on Ontological Knowledge and Linguistic Coding, 25th annual conference of the German Linguistic Association (DGfS) University of Munich. 2/26/03
2002 "How language structures concepts" and "The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: a neural model". A three-speaker symposium on cognitive linguistics, Department of English Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. 11/22/02
2002 "Concept structuring in language". Conference of the Korean Linguistics Society, National University, Seoul, Korea. 8/3/02
2001 "Relating language to other cognitive systems" - parts 1 and 2. Workshop on abstraction in cognitive science. The cognitive science program of France (Cognitique) Gif-sur-Yvette, France. 9/11-12/01
2001 "How spoken language and signed language structure space". Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, Norway. 5/30/01
2000 "Spatial structuring in spoken language and its relation to that in signed language". Workshop on text structure, University of Texas, Austin. 10/13-15/00
2000 "Relating sign language semantics to spoken language semantics" --workshop’s concluding summary, workshop on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages, University of California, San Diego. 4/14-16/00
1997 "A typology of event integration". Workshop on Verbs and Situations: Verb semantics in Linguistics and Connected Disciplines, Bielefeld, Germany. 10/20-22/97
1997 "Fitting schemas into scenes". Panel on Language and Space Conceptual Structures, Discourse and Language 3, University of Colorado, Boulder. 5/23-25/97
1997 "Language and visual perception". National Science Foundation Workshop on Visual Cognition and Decision-Making in the Spatial Domain, Washington, D.C. 5/15-17/97
1997 "Plasticity in language and other cognitive systems". Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association -- Symposium on Space and Phenomenology in Cognitive Science, Berkeley. 3/26-29/97
1994 "Fictive motion as spatial cognition". Workshop on Spatial Cognition, University of Arizona, Tucson. 3/17-20/94
1993 "The force dynamics of barriers and access". Fyssen Foundation workshop on Causal Understandings in Cognition and Culture, Paris, France. 1/7-10/93
1992 "Human performance in the complex workplace: Implications for basic research in cognitive science". National Science Foundation workshop on The Future Directions of Cognitive Science, Washington, D.C. 9/11-12/92
1991 "Semantic typologies and universals". Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop on Cultural and Linguistic Relativity, Jamaica. 5/91
1991 "Lexicalization of the macro-event". Three-Speaker Workshop on Lexical Semantics, University of Toronto. 4/91
1989 "Syntactic reflexes of lexicalization patterns". Workshop on Syntactic Reflexes of Semantic Concepts and Processes, University of Arizona, Tucson. 2/89
1988 "Cognitive parameters of spatial reference in language". Workshop on Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space, SUNY Buffalo. 6/88
1988 "The lexicalization of aspect, result, and realization typologically parallels that of path".
Workshop on Lexical Semantics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. 4/88
1988 "Cognitive linguistics within cognitive science". Gordon Research Conference on Cybernetics, Oxnard, CA. 1/88
1987 "Verb satellite systems compared across languages". Symposium on Lexical Semantics, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Stanford. 8/87
1987 "An overview of cognitive linguistics". Symposium on Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Science Conference, Seattle. 7/87
1987 "Verb satellite systems compared across languages". Workshop on Verbal Dependents, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford. 5/87
1987 "How language structures its concepts: the role of grammar". Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics, University of California, San Diego. 5/87
1986 "Lexical semantics". Workshop on Automating the Lexicon, Grosseto, Italy. 5/86
1985 "Figure and ground as thematic roles". Symposium on Thematic Relations, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle. 12/85
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1981 |
"Space-time homology in language". Spatial Cognition Workshop, University of California, Irvine. 5/81 |
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1981 |
"Perspective point as a form of evidentiality". Evidentials Symposium, University of California, Berkeley. 5/81 |
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1981 |
"Language’s four imaging systems". Conference on Language and Mental Imagery, University of California, Berkeley. 5/81 |
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1980 |
"Spatial representation in language". Spatial Orientation Conference, University of Minnesota. 7/80 |
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1978 |
"Relation of grammar to cognition". TINLAP-2 Conference [Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing] University of Illinois, Urbana. 7/78 |
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1978 |
"Toward a pragmatics profile for language-impaired children". American Association of Mental Deficiency, Annual Meeting, Denver. 5/78 |
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Conference Presentations |
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1982 |
"Borrowing semantic space: Yiddish verb prefixes between Germanic and Slavic". Berkeley Linguistics Society Conference, University of California, Berkeley. 2/82 |
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1982 |
"The extensive German resultative construction". Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Stanford. 11/81 |
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1979 |
"Linguistic determiners of perspective point and attention". Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles. 12/79 |
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1977 |
"Adjectives implying a topological frame: Rubber sheet cognition". Chicago Linguistic Society Conference, University of Chicago. 4/77 |
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1974 |
"Semantic causative types". Causative Festival, University of Southern California. 5/74 |
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1973 |
"Clause conflation". California Linguistics Association Conference, Stanford. 5/73 |
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1970 |
"A comparison of Atsugewi and English". Hokan Conference, University of California, San Diego. 6/70 |
2017 Four talks given at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France May 15-19, 2017. "Primitives of motion in space", "Extending fictive motion", "The targeting system of language", "Neglected aspects of Motion representation". http://savoirs.ens.fr/conferencier.php?id=2748
2012 "Gestures as cues to a target". Natural Media gesture lab, Human Technology Centre (HumTec). RWTH Aachen University. Aachen, Germany. 5/23/12.
URL: http://tinyurl.com/6rj46gx
2012 Interview on receiving Gutenberg Research Award Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. 5/21/12.
URL: http://tinyurl.com/9sprsf5
2011 "How spoken and signed language structure space differently". The 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA. 7/23/11.
URL: http://tinyurl.com/86p5nlm
2009 Interview about cognitive semantics. Centre de Lingüística Teórica, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, spain. 4/20/09
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFUEO45WnE
2010 Ten lectures on cognitive semantics. In the "Eminent Linguists Lecture Series", Fuyin Li and Yuan Gao (eds.). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. DVD included.