University of Colorado at Boulder
Publications

Sikos, Les, Susan W. Brown, Albert E. Kim, Laura A. Michaelis and Martha Palmer. forthcoming. Figurative Language: Meaning is often more than just a Sum of the Parts. Papers from the 2008 AAAI Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures: AAAI Technical Report FS-08-04. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Kay, Paul and Laura A. Michaelis. forthcoming. Constructional Meaning and Compositionality. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger and P. Portner (eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Thomas, Michael and Laura A. Michaelis. in press. Aspect Selectors and Contextual Operators: An Analysis of by Temporal Adjuncts. In M. Camblor-Portilla and R. Leow, eds., GURT 2007: Proceedings of the Georgetown University Roundtable in Linguistics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Michaelis, Laura A. forthcoming. Complementation by Construction. In M. Hauser et al., (eds.), The Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Parasession on Theoretical Approaches to Argument Structure. Berkeley: BLS, Inc.

Michaelis, Laura A. and Hartwell S. Francis. 2007. Lexical Subjects and the Conflation Strategy. In N. Hedberg and R. Zacharski, (eds.), Topics in the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface: Papers in Honor of Jeanette K. Gundel. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 19-48.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2006. Construction Grammar. In K. Brown (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second edition, volume 3, 73-84. Oxford: Elsevier.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2006. Time and Tense. In B. Aarts and A. MacMahon, (eds.), The Handbook of English Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 220-234.

Brenier, Jason M. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2005. Optimization via Syntactic Amalgam: Syntax-Prosody Mismatch and Copula Doubling. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1: 45-88.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2005. Entity and Event Coercion in a Symbolic Theory of Syntax. In J.-O. Oestman and M. Fried, (eds.), Construction Grammar(s): Cognitive Grounding and Theoretical Extensions. Constructional Approaches to Language, Volume 3. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 45-87.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2004. Type Shifting in Construction Grammar: An Integrated Approach to Aspectual Coercion. Cognitive Linguistics 15: 1-67.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2003. Headless Constructions and Coercion by Construction. In E.J. Francis and L.A. Michaelis, (eds.), Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 259-310.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2003. Word Meaning, Sentence Meaning and Constructional Meaning. In H. Cuyckens, R. Dirven and J. Taylor, (eds.), Cognitive Perspectives on Lexical Semantics. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter. 163-210.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2003. A Unification-Based Model of Aspectual Type-Shifting. Ms.

Gregory, Michelle L. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2001. Topicalization and Left Dislocation: A Functional Opposition Revisited. Journal of Pragmatics 33: 1665-1706.

Michaelis, Laura A. and Josef Ruppenhofer. 2001. Valence Creation and the German Applicative: The Inherent Semantics of Linking Patterns. Journal of Semantics 17: 335-395.

More publications

University of Colorado at Boulder Search A to Z Campus Map