Publications and talks

Publications

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, & Bill Palmer (forthcoming). Contextualising ‘cardinals’: The semantics of geocentric terms in Wik-Mungkan. Australian Journal of Linguistics.

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, & Magnus Pharao Hansen (submitted). Frames of Reference in Nahuan Languages. In Pharao Hansen, Magnus (ed.) Nahuatl space: Diversity of Landscape and Spatial Grammar among Nahuan Languages.

Eleanor Yacopetti, Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, & Tom Ennever (forthcoming). Posture verbs in locative and existential predication across three Australian languages. In Däbritz, Bastille, Budzisch (eds.), Locative and Existential predication - core and perphery.

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput (2021). Sådan skæres kagen: substans og struktur. Mål og Mæle, 42(1), 11-18. (English: How to Cut the Cake: Substance and Structure). PDF

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput (2021). Pragmatisk og syntaktisk indflydelse på pronomenbestemmelse: En psykolingvistisk undersøgelse af possessivpronomeners referencebestemmelse i dansk. Speciale, Københavns Universitet. (Pragmatic and Syntactic Influence on Pronoun Resolution: A Psycholinguistic Study of the Coreference Resolution of Danish Possessive Pronouns. Master’s thesis, University of Copenhagen) PDF GitHub repo

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput (2020). (A)symmetri og gensidighed: Reciprokke konstruktioner i Acazulco otomí, Language Works, 5(2), 88-108. (English: (A)symmetri and reciprocity: Reciprocal Constructions in Acazulco Otomí) PDF

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput (2018). Reciprokke konstruktioner i Acazulco Otomí. BA opgave, Københavns Universitet. (Reciprocal Constructions in Acazulco Otomí. BA Thesis, University of Copenhagen) PDF

Talks

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, Tom Ennever, Jonathon Lum & Eleanor Yacopetti (2024). Re-framing Frames of Reference: 30 years of Man and Tree. 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition. (Università Europea di Roma, Italy)

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput & Bill Palmer (2024). Environmental sensitivity and conceptual representations of geocentric spatial terms in Wik-Mungkan (Australia). 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition. (Università Europea di Roma, Italy)

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput (2024). Language and landscape: anchoring meaning in the environment. Newcastle Social Science and Linguistics Seminar series.

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, & Bill Palmer (2023). Contextualising cardinals: The semantics of geocentric terms in Wik-Mungkan. Presented at the conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. 30 Nov, University of Sydney.

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput (2023). Anchoring semantics in the landscape: Environmental and contextual influences on spatial reference in Wik-Mungkan. Invited talk at University of Southern Denmark, Sep 20.

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, Tom Ennever, & Eleanor Yacopetti (2023). Postural verbs and their roles in locative and existential predication in three Australian languages. Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 29 Aug - 1 Sept, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Ennever, Tom, Laurits Stapput Knudsen, & Eleanor Yacopetti (2023). Finding Common Ground: Frames of Reference and Differential Place Marking in three Australian languages. Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 29 Aug - 1 Sept, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, Tom Ennever, Eleanor Yacopetti, Joe Blythe, Maïa Ponsonnet, Alice Gaby, & Bill Palmer (2023). A Cognitive Discourse Analysis of task participant behaviour in elicitation situations. Presented at the 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. August 7 - 11, HHU Düsseldorf.

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, & Bill Palmer (2022). The structural status of expressions of spatial frames of reference. Presented at the 14th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. 15-17 December, Austin (presented virtually)

Blythe, Joe, Laurits Stapput Knudsen, Eleanor Yacopetti, & Tom Ennever (2022). The Rotating Scene Machine – a topographical testbench for semantic typology. Presented at the conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. 30 Nov - 2 Dec, Melbourne University.

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput (2022). Periphrasis, grammar, and lexicon: a usage-based approach to determine the structural status of spatial expressions. Presented at the conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. 30 Nov - 2 Dec, Melbourne University.

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, & Magnus Pharao Hansen (2021). Patterns of Variation in the use of spatial frames of reference in four Nahuatl varieties. Presented at the National Science Foundation workshop “Environmental Adaptations of Spatial Grammar in Dialects of Nahuatl”. 30 November-2 December. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Abstract

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, & Magnus Pharao Hansen, (2021). The Coding of Motion Events in ten Versions of the Frog Story” from Hueyapan, Morelos. Presented at the National Science Foundation workshop “Environmental Adaptations of Spatial Grammar in Dialects of Nahuatl”. 30 November-2 December. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Abstract

Palmer, Bill, Dorothea Hoffmann, Alice Gaby, Joe Blythe, Maïa Ponsonnet, Margaret Carew, Thomas Ennever, Laurits Stapput Knudsen & Eleanor Yacopetti. 2021. Geocentric spatial systems in Australian languages. Presented at the conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. 6-9 December. Online.

Palmer, Bill, Joe Blythe, Margaret Carew, Thomas Ennever, Alice Gaby, Clair Hill, Dorothea Hoffmann, Laurits Stapput Knudsen, Maïa Ponsonnet & Eleanor Yacopetti (2021). OzSpace: The sociotopography of language, landscape and culture in Australia. Presented at the First Global Australian Languages Workshop (GALW1). 17-21 May. Yale (online).

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, Klara Båstadt, & Gabriela Citlahua Zapahua. (2021). Patterns of Variation in Frames of Reference in Nahuatl of Tequila and Cuaquila. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas. 7-10 January. Online. Abstract

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput, & Ditte Boeg Thomsen (2019). Reciprocity in asymmetry: Cross-domain structuration in Acazulco Otomí. Talk presented at the biannual Meeting of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition. 22-24 May. Aarhus University, Denmark. Abstract

Knudsen, Laurits Stapput (2018). Reciprokke konstruktion i Acazulco Otomí. Student conference for linguistics in Copenhagen (Sprogvidenskabelig Studenterkonference). 4 November. University of Copenhagen, Denmark.