Publications

Bibliographic note. While I use my married surname (Michaelis-Cummings) as my official name at the University of Colorado, I continue to use the unhyphenated version (Michaelis) as my author name.

Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. forthcoming. Why Move? How Weight and Discourse Factors Combine to Predict
Relative Clause Extraposition in English. In E. Moravcsik and A. Malchukov, (eds.), Competing Motivations. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Michaelis, Laura A. forthcoming. Sign-Based Construction Grammar. In T. Hoffman and G. Trousdale, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Michaelis, Laura A. forthcoming. Construction Grammar and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. In S. Luraghi and C. Parodi, (eds.), A Companion to Syntax. London: Continuum Books.

Michaelis, Laura A. forthcoming. Making the Case for Construction Grammar. In H. Boas and I. Sag, (eds.), Sign-Based Construction Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

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.

Michaelis, Laura A. forthcoming. Complementation by Construction. In M.J. 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. [Also to appear in A. Goldberg, (ed.), Cognitive Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. London: Routledge]

Brenier, Jason M., Elizabeth Coppock, Laura S. Staum and Laura A. Michaelis. forthcoming. ISIS: It's not Disfluent, but how do we Know that? In M.J. Hauser et al.,( eds.), The Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: BLS, Inc.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2011. Knowledge Ascription by Grammatical Construction. In J. Bengson and M. Moffett, (eds.), Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 261-279.

Duffield, Cecily Jill and Laura A. Michaelis. 2011. Why Subject Relatives Prevail: Constraints versus Constructional Licensing. Language and Cognition 3: 171-208.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2011. Stative by Construction. Linguistics 49: 1359-1400.

Ruppenhofer, Josef and Laura A. Michaelis. 2011. Frames Predict the Interpretation of Lexical Omissions. Currently under revision.

Duffield, Cecily Jill, Jena D. Hwang and Laura A. Michaelis. 2010. Identifying Assertions in Text and Discourse: The Presentational Relative Clause Construction. Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions in Computational Linguistics. Los Angeles: Association for Computational Linguistics. 17-24.

Ruppenhofer, Josef and Laura A. Michaelis. 2010. A Constructional Account of Genre-Based Argument Omissions. Constructions and Frames 2: 158-184.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2009. Sign-Based Construction Grammar. In B. Heine and H. Narrog, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 155-176.

Thomas, Michael and Laura A. Michaelis. 2009. Aspect Selectors and Contextual Operators: An Analysis of by Temporal Adjuncts. In R. Leow, H. Campos and D. Lardiere, (eds.), Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Acquisition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 131-141.

Sikos, Les, Susan W. Brown, Albert E. Kim, Laura A. Michaelis and Martha Palmer. 2008. 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.

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.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2006. What is an Action-Based Theory of Interpretation? Theoretical Linguistics 32: 65-71.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2006. Review of Croft, William and D.A. Cruse, Cognitive Grammar (2004). Language 82: 898-901.

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. Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Cognitive-Functional Models of Grammar. Theoretical Linguistics 29: 275–281

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

Francis, Elaine J. & Laura A. Michaelis (eds.). 2003. Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

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.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2001. Exclamative Constructions. In M. Haspelmath, E. König, W. Österreicher and W. Raible, eds., Language Universals and Language Typology: An International Handbook. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 1038-1050.

Michaelis, Laura A. & Josef Ruppenhofer. 2001. Beyond Alternations: A Constructional Account of the Applicative Pattern in German. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

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