Laura A. Michaelis-Cummings

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.

Michaelis, Laura A. under review. Constructions are Patterns and so are Fixed Expressions. In B. Busse and R. Moehlig, (eds.), Patterns in Language and Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Topics in English Linguistics series)

Michaelis, Laura A. 2017. Meanings of Constructions. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. [Click on the article title for a PDF version of the article; click on the book title to be taken to the online article.]

Kay, Paul and Laura A. Michaelis. to appear. A Few Words to do with Multiword Expressions. In C. Condoravdi and T. Holloway King, (eds.), Festschrift for Lauri Karttunen. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 

Goldberg, Adele E. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2016. One among Many: Anaphoric one and its Relationship to Numeral one. Cognitive Science 41 (S2): 233-258. (This is a special issue in honor of Ray Jackendoff; the version downloadable here is the Wiley Online Library First View version from September 2016.)

Gould, Kevin M. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2016. Transfer Verbs vs. Transfer Constructions: How Verb-Construction
Interactions Modulate Motor Simulation Effects in English. Unpublished ms., IXL Learning, Inc. and University of Colorado Boulder. [under review]

Kay, Paul and Laura A. Michaelis. 2016. Partial Inversion in English. Unpublished ms., Stanford University and University of Colorado Boulder. [under review]

Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2016. When Relative Clause Extraposition is the Right Choice, it's Easier. Language and Cognition. [CUP FirstView version, July 2016]

Ruppenhofer, Josef and Laura A. Michaelis. 2016. Frames, Polarity and Causation. Corpora 11: 259-290 .

Michaelis, Laura A. and Hanbing Feng. 2015. What is this, Sarcastic Syntax? Constructions and Frames 7: 148–180. [special issue on genre]

Michaelis, Laura A. 2015. Constructions License Verb Frames. In J. Rudanko, J. Havu, M. Höglund and P. Rickman, (eds.), Perspectives on Complementation. London: Palgrave MacMillan. 7-33. [ms. version: easier to read on screen]

Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2014. Why Move? How Weight and Discourse Factors Combine to Predict
Relative Clause Extraposition in English. In B. MacWhinney, A. Malchukov, and E. Moravcsik, (eds)., Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 70-87.

Ruppenhofer, Josef and Laura A. Michaelis. 2014. Frames and the Interpretation of Omitted Arguments in English. In S. Katz Bourns and L. Myers, (eds.), Linguistic Perspectives on Structure and Context: Studies in Honor of Knud Lambrecht. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 57-86.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2013. Sign-Based Construction Grammar. In T. Hoffman and G. Trousdale, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 133-152.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2013. Construction Grammar and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. In S. Luraghi and C. Parodi, (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 421-435.

Kay, Paul and Laura A. Michaelis. 2012. Constructional Meaning and Compositionality. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger and P. Portner (eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Vol. 3. Berlin: de Gruyter. 2271-2296.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2012. Making the Case for Construction Grammar. In H. Boas and I. Sag, (eds.), Sign-Based Construction Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 31-69.

Michaelis, Laura A. 2012. 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. [Reprinted in A. Goldberg, (ed.), Cognitive Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. London: Routledge]

Brenier, Jason M., Elizabeth Coppock, Laura S. Staum and Laura A. Michaelis. 2012. 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.

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. Tense in English. In B. Aarts and A. MacMahon, (eds.), The Handbook of English Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 220-243.

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.

Hirschberg, Julia, Stefan Benus, Jason Brenier, Frank Enos, Sarah Friedman, Sarah Gilman, Cynthia Girand, Martin Graciarena, Andreas Kathol, Laura A. Michaelis, Bryan Pellom, Elizabeth Shriberg and Andreas Stolke. 2005. Distinguishing Deceptive from Nondeceptive Speech. Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. Lisbon, Portugal.

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. 2000. 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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