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ESCOL '99

Held at University of Connecticut - Storrs
November 19-21, 1999

Edited by Rebecca Daly and Anastasia Riehl
283 pages

Contents

1. Susana Bejar and Daniel Currie Hall: Marking Markedness: The Underlying Order of Diagonal Syncretisms
2. Christine Brisson: Floating Quantifiers as Adverbs
3. Young-Sik Choi: Negation, Its Scope and NPI Licensing in Korean
4. Wayne Cowart: Memory for Coordination
5. William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky: Functional Structure and a Parameterized Account of Subject Properties
6. Victor Eskenazi: Licensing Aruguments of N without Inherent Case
7. Steven Franks and Donald F. Reindl: How Metrics Usually Wins
8. Naomi Harada: A Parametric Approach to Intransitive Verbs
9. Hidehito Hoshi: The Phrase Structure of Japanese and Scrambling
10. Tien-Hsin Hsin: Rhythmic Vowel Deletions in Tsou
11. Michaela M. Ippolito: The Syntax of Tense and Temporal Operators
12. Sun-Hoi Kim: Tone, Prominence and Simplified Footing
13. Kazumi Matsouka: The Lexical Verb Sandwich in American Sign Language and the Hybrid Feature
14. Fumikazu Niinuma: Nominative Objects and Overt A-Movement in Japanese
15. Miae Park: Evidence for Phonological Derivations: Cyclicity and Opacity in Klamuth
16. Barbara H. Partee and Vladimir Borscev: Possessives, Favorite, and Coercion
17. Eric Raimy: Strong Syllable Reduplication in Mokilese
18. Jennifer L. Smith: Positional Faithfulness and Learnability in Optimality Theory
19. Penka Stateva: In Defense of the Movement Theory of Superlatives
20. Chioko Takahashi: Demarcating the Left Edge of VP in Japanese
21. Almeida Jaqueline Toribio: Positional Licensing of Subjects
22. Yuko Yanagida: The ECP Effects Without the ECP
23. Rong Yang: Indefinite Readings of Preverbal Bare NPs in Mandarin Chinese
24. Kazuko Yatsushiro: Secondary Predicates in Japanese Revisited

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ESCOL '97

Held at Yale University
November 21-23, 1997

Edited by Jennifer Austin and Aaron Lawson
236 pages

Contents

1. Tonia Bleam: Deriving Kayne's Generalization in Spanish
2. Virginia M. Brennan: Conversational Backgrounds and Topics
3. Katy Carlson: Reduplication and Sonority in Nakanai and Nuxalk
4. Berthold Crysmann: The Conspiracy of Quantification and Linear Precedence in European Portuguese Proclisis
5. Colleen M. Fitzgerald: Destressing in the Clitic Group
6. Thorstein Fretheim: A Relevance-Theoretic Account of 'if' and 'in case'
7. Christopher Kennedy: On the Quantificational Force of the Comparative Clause
8. Jeong-Seok Kim: A Minimalist Theory of S-Structure Saving Effects in Japanese and Korean
9. Satoshi Stanley Koike: Prenominal and Postnominal Possessives, Discourse Familiarity and Bridging
10. Seth Kulick: Generalized Transformations and Restructuring in Romance
11. Joo-Kyeong Lee: A Phonetic Examination of C/V Place Assimilation in OT
12. Julie Anne Legate and Carolyn Smallwood: Eliminating Procrastinate
13. Géraldine Legendre: Second Position Clitics in a Verb-Second Language: Conflict Resolution in Macedonian
14. Alan Munn: ATB Movement without Identity
15. Ljiljana Progovac: Clitic Clusters and Coordination: The Case of Serbo-Croatian
16. Laura Siegel: Gerundive Nominals and the Role of Aspect
17. Jennifer L. Smith: Noun Faithfulness and Word Stress in Tuyuca
18. Sandra Stjepanovic: VP Ellipsis in a Verb Raising Language: Implications for Verbal Morphology
19. Elisabeth Villalta and Gilles Boy: How many- Questions: The Case of Combien- Split in French
20. Caroline Wiltshire and Louis Goldstein: Tongue Tip Orientation and Coronal Consonants
21. Kazuko Yatsushiro: Japanese Ditransitive Revisited

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ESCOL '96

Held at the University of New Brunswick--Saint John
August 31-September 2, 1996

Edited by Anthony Green and Virginia Motapanyane
354 pages

Contents

1. Julie Auger: Variation Data and Linguistic Theory: Subject Doubling in Québec Colloquial French
2. Mark C. Baker: Unaccusativity and the Adjective/Verb Distinction: English and Mohawk Evidence
3. David Basilico: Quantification and Predicate Phrases
4. Rachel Channon Crain: Representing a Sign as a Single Segment in American Sign Language
5. Laurent Dekydtspotter: Fine-grained Logical Form
6. Hamida Demirdache: A Cross-linguistic Asymmetry in the Temporal Interpretation of DPs
7. Stanley Dubinsky: Infinitival Relative Clauses in English: An Antisymmetric Approach to Discontinuous Constituency
8. Nigel Duffield and Philippe Prévost: The Psycholinguistics of French Clitic Placement
9. Carrie Dyck: Deriving Final Syllable Strength in Cayuga
10. Diana Gierling: Further Parallels between Clitic Doubling and Scrambling
11. Chung-hye Han: Comparing English and Korean Counterfactuals: The Role of Verbal Morphology and Lexical Aspect in Counterfactual Interpretation
12. Youngjun Jang: Locative Inversion and the EPP
13. Brian D. Joseph: How General are our Generalizations? What Speakers Actually Know and What They Actually Do
14. Marit Julien: An Incorporation Analysis of Causatives
15. Lizanne Kaiser: Ainu: Evidence against the Polysynthesis Parameter
16. No-Ju Kim: Tone in North Kyungsang Korean Phrases
17. Mika Kizu: A Goal Phrase and Unaccusativity
18. Murat Kural: Predicative and Argumental Bare Measure Phrases
19. Juan Martín: q-theory and the Interpretation of Noun Phrases in Romance
20. Ayumi Matsuo: Tense Ambiguity and Specificity
21. Lisa Matthewson: Salish Evidence on DP-Internal Quantification
22. David Michaels and Heeheon Park: Government Switching in Phonology
23. Regina Pallat Moorcroft: The Meaning of Accusative Case in Turkish
24. Takashi Nakajima: Derivational Linear Precedence Principle
25. Satoshi Oku: Perfective Participle Paradox in English VP-Fronting
26. Patricia Schneider-Zioga: An Argument in Favor of Agreement Phrase
27. Hidekazu Tanaka: LF Movement of Wh-in-Situ
28. L. M. Tovena: Negative Concord, Events and Negative Chains
29. George Tsoulas: Independent Reference and the Identification of Pronouns
30. Kazuko Yatsushiro: A Mismatch between Scope and Binding: Evidence for Feature Movement
31. R. Zuber: Two Semantic Components of Noun Phrases

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ESCOL '95

Held at Dartmouth College
November 3-5, 1995

Edited by Marek Przezdziecki and Lindsay Whaley
398 pages

Contents

1. David Basilico: Asymmetric Object Positions
2. Zeljko Boskovic: Null Case and Certain Differences between French and English
3. Donald G. Churma and Yili Shi: Glottal Consonants and the 'Sonority' Hierarchy
4. William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky: Licensing Conditions for Sentential Subjects: Implications for a Theory of Lexical Insertion
5. Samira Farwaneh: The Interaction of Stress and Epenthesis in Arabic
6. Steven Gross: Underspecification and Parametric Variation in Fon Vowel Harmony
7. Eric Haeberli: On Crossing A-Dependencies
8. Koji Hoshi: On the Necessity of a "Cooperian" Treatment of E-Type Pronouns: Evidence from the Head-Internal Relative Clause in Japanese
9. Roumyana Izvorski: (Non-) Matching Effects in Free Relatives and pro-Drop
10. Christopher Kennedy: An Indexical Account of Certain Ambiguities
11. Jeong-Seok Kim: Feature Geometry, Spread Coronal, and Economy of Derivation
12. Robert Knippen: Implicature as Cognition
13. Fumiko Kumashiro: On Phonotactic Interactions: Loss of Directionality in Sanskrit
14. Eun-Joo Kwak: The Ambiguity of Plurals and Distributivity
15. Kwangho Lee: Korean A-Chains and the Chain Condition
16. Sechang Lee: Neutralization and Strengthening Processes in Korean
17. Barbara Luka: Have We Found English Yet? Investigating Linguistic Experience and Introspection
18. James D. McCawley: An Overview of "Appositive" Constructions in English
19. Naomi Nagy and Donna Jo Napoli: An OT Account of Italian Codas
20. Lynn Nichols: A Constraint on A-Positions and the Projection Principle
21. Shuichi Nobe: On the Relationships between Spontaneous Gestures and Acoustic Aspects of Speech
22. Mari Broman Olsen: All Oppositions Are Not Equipollent: Privative Aspect Features
23. Sandeep Prasada: Knowledge of the Count/Mass Noun Distinction: The Relation of Syntactic, Semantic and Conceptual Structure
24. Milagrosa Ramos-Santacruz: On the Derivation and Interpretation of Sluicing
25. Deborah Schlindwein Schmidt: Absolute Neutralization and Underspecification in Hungarian Vowel Harmony
26. Keun-Won Sohn: On the Existence of Overt QR
27. Grace Song: Causation, Adicity and Lexical Aspect
28. Chang-Kook Suh: Variation as Optimality in Marshallese Word-initial Geminates
29. Josef Taglicht: Syntactic Constraints on Intonational Phrasing
30. Ellen Thompson: The Discourse Representation of Temporal then
31. Hiroyuki Ura: Copy-Raising in Igbo and a Theory of Feature Checking
32. Lindsay J. Whaley: Kinyarwanda Topics and Object-Subject Reversal
33. Maarten de Wind: Inverted Subjects in French, Nominative Case-checking and Expletive Pro in Antisymmetric Minimalism
34. Mary Wu: NP-Internal Focus and Contextually Relevant Sets
35. Ed Zoerner: Replacing the CSC

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ESCOL '94

Held at the University of South Carolina
September 30-October 2, 1994

Edited by Janet Fuller, Ho Han and David Parkinson
341 pages

Contents

1. Rakesh Mohan Bhatt: Code-Switching and the Functional Head Constraint
2. Young-Hyung Cho: Interaction of Lexical Tone and Non-Lexical Tone in the KyungNam Dialect of Korean
3. Eve V. Clark: Thematic Roles in Acquisition: The Case of SOURCE
4. Stephen Crain, Laura Conway, and Rosalind Thornton D-Quantification in Child Language
5. Piroska Csúri: Indefinites and Events
6. William D. Davies: Resuscitating the Relational Succession Law in Kinyarwanda
7. Marie C. Egan and A. René Schmauder: Determining Preferences for Verb Complements
8. Jason Eisner: (existential quantifier)-less in Wonderland
9. David Embick and Roumanya Izvorski: On Long Head Movement in Bulgarian
10. Patrick Farrell: Backward Control in Brazilian Portugese
11. Astrid Ferdinand: Semantic Verb Types and the Acquisition of Verb Movement in French
12. Robert Hamilton: Double Object Dative and the Possession Condition in L2 English Relativization: A Proto-Role Entailment Analysis
13. Ho Han and Myung-Kwan Park: The Syntax of Negation in Korean and its Development in Child Language
14. Rebecca Herman: The Structure of Affricates in Kuvi (A Constraint-Based Account)
15. Gregory K. Iverson and Shinsook Lee: Variation as Optimality in Korean Cluster Reduction
16. Luis López: The Hierarchy of Negation and Tense: The Case of English
17. Hideki Maki: Anti-anti-Superiority
18. Yoichi Miyamoto: Locative Adverbial Clauses in Japanese
19. Alan Munn: Modificational Possession
20. Seungho Nam: Argument Orientations of Locative PPs in English
21. Elizabeth J. Pyatt: Optimality and the Structure of Welsh Voiceless Sonorants
22. Hotze Rullmann: The Ambiguity of Comparatives with less
23. Uli Sauerland: The Representation of Reciprocals in Grammar
24. Cristina Schmitt: Types, Tokens, AgrO and Aspect
25. Carson T. Schütze: A Minimalist Account of Choctaw Verbal Morphology as Quirky Case
26. Rosalind Thornton: Children's Negative Questions: A Production/Comprehension Asymmetry
27. Rachel Walker: Hierarchical Opacity Effects in Nasal Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Account
28. Gert Webelhuth and Farrell Ackerman: On the Universal and Language-Particular Components of the German Passive

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ESCOL '93

Held at the Ohio State University
August 6-8, 1993

Edited by Andreas Kathol and Michael Bernstein
392 pages

Contents

1. Jun Abe: The Economy Condition on Dependency
2. Mark Balhorn: Structural Case in NPs
3. Isabella Barbier: The Structure of IP in German and Dutch:: Arguments from First Language Acquisition
4. Strang C. Burton: Double Object Verbs With Just One Object
5. Chan Chung: Scrambling in Korean and its Effect on Anaphor Binding: An Alternative to Movement Approaches
6. G.N. Clements: Underspecification or Nonspecification?
7. Ali Darzi: Raising in Persian
8. Michael Dukes: Austronesian Evidence Against Raising as Function Composition
9. Paul D. Fallon: Liquid Dissimilation in Georgian
10. Nancy Green and Sandra Carberry: A Discourse-Plan-Based Approach to a Class of Particularized Conversational Implicature
11. Philip Hamilton: On the Internal Structure of the Coronal Node
12. Sung-Hoon Hong: On the TReaetment of "Semi-Parasitic" Harmony
13. Janne Bondi Johannessen: Coordinate-Alpha and Unbalanced Coordination
14. Michael Johnston: 'Because' Clauses and Negative Polarity Licensing
15. YoungEun Yoon Kang: The Weak and Strong Interpretations of Proportional Readings in Donkey Sentences
16. No-Ju Kim: Default H-Tone Class in the North Kyungsang Dialect of Korean
17. Steven G. Lapointe: Dual Lexical Categories and the Syntax of Mixed Category Phrases
18. Shinsook Lee: On the Representation of Front Vowels in Korean
19. Paola Monachesi: On 'si' Constructions in Italian HPSG Grammar
20. Jairo Nunes and Ellen Thompson: Tense Restrictions and Interclausal Quantifier-Binding
21. Almerindo E. Ojeda: New Evidence for a More General Theory of Singularity
22. Frederick Parkinson: The Problem of Guttural Transparency
23. Janet Pierrehumbert: Alignment and Prosodic Heads
24. Robert Poletto: The Root Node and Labio-Velar Hardening in Wichita
25. Carl Pollard: On Formal Grammars and Empirical Linguistics
26. Hilary Sachs: The Dative "Orphan-Preposition" Construction in French
27. Steven Schaufele: I Know My Words and My Words Know Me: Liberation, Unification, and Constituenthood in LFG
28. Hisako Takano: Japanese Topic NPs as Designated Generalized Quantifiers
29. Leon Verschuur: Semantic Agreement of Anaphors and Extended Type Theory
30. Akira Watanabe: The Role of Equidistance in Restructuring Verbs: Italian vs. French
31. Ping Xue: Subject-Object Assymetries and Linear Precedence Relations
32. Eun Jung Yoo: Temporal Interpretation of Korean Without Tense Rules

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ESCOL '92

Held at SUNY Buffalo
November 13-15, 1992

Edited by Michael Bernstein
293 pages

Contents

1. Richard A. Beinert and Bruce L. Derwing: Segment, Rime, Syllable, Tier or Root? Evidence from Global Sound Similarity Judgements in Arabic
2. Barbara A. Brunson: English Topicalization: Evidence for a Topic Phrase
3. Elizabeth A. Cowper: Syntactic Morphology: A Third Option
4. Paul D. Deane: Polysemy as the consequence of internal conceptual complexity: The case of over
5. Dan Devitt: Which Way Did They Go?: The question of directionality in the grammaticization of copulas and auxiliaries
6. Daniel Dor: Towards a Semantic Account of Concealed Questions
7. Lisa Ferro: On "Self" as a Focus Marker
8. Hana Filip: Aspect and the Semantics of Quantity of Nominal and Verbal Expressions
9. Naoya Fujita: Floating Quantifiers as Operators-in-Situ
10. Spike Gildea: On the Evolution of a Counter-Universal Pattern of Split Ergativity
11. Nancy Hedberg: Referential Expletives and the Extraposition Analysis of Clefts
12. Beth Ann Hockey: Prosody and the role of 'okay' and 'uh-huh' in discourse
13. Alan Juffs: The Syntax and Semantics of Locative Verbs in Chinese
14. David Kemmerer: A Critical Evaluation of Grodzinsky, Pierce, and Marakovitz's Neuropsychological Argument for a Transformational Analysis of Verbal Passive
15. Jean-Pierre Koenig: From frame semantics to constructional syntax: the case of scalar predicates
16. Marc Light: Rehashing 'Re-'
17. Cheng Luo: The Accessibility Hierarchy and Clefting
18. M. Lynne Murphy: Gradable Adjectives as Directions: Toward a Unified Treatment
19. Sally A. Rice: Far Afield in Lexical Fields: The English Prepositions
20. Edward J. Rubin: The Category of Modifiers
21. Mitsuaki Shimojo: 'Complement' and 'Default' Numeral Classifier Functions of 'Tsu' and 'Ko' in Japanese
22. Christina M. Tortora: Stop Voicing and the Phonological Word in Dakota
23. Noriko Watanabe: Introductory Prologue and Well-rehearsed Oral Narrative in Japanese
24. Steven H. Weinberger: The Ins and Outs of Empty Vowels: Deletion and Insertion in Mandarin
25. Darrell Williams: English Comparative Compounds with OVER, UNDER, and OUT
26. Byong-seon Yang: Clause and Information Structure of Korean Relative Clauses in Role and Reference Grammar

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ESCOL '91

Held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
October 11-13, 1991

Edited by German Westphal, Benjamin Ao, and Hee-Rahk Chae
404 pages

Contents

1. Luigi Burzio: On The Metrical Unity of Latinate Affixes
2. Anna Cardinaletti and Maria Teresa Guasti: Epistemic Small Clauses and Null Subjects
3. Jai-Hyoung Cho: Scrambling as Non-Operator A'-Movement: Variable vs. Null Epithet
4. Peter W. Culicover: Polarity, Inversion, and Focus in English
5. George Fowler: Phrasal Input to Derivational Morphology in Slavic
6. Robert Frank: Formal Grammar and the Acquisition of Complex Sentences
7. J.W. Gair and L. Sumangala: What to Focus in Sinhala
8. Alessandro Giorgi and Fabio Pianesi: Syntactic Constraints on Temporal Representations: Evidence from Italian and Latin
9. Daniel Hardt: Towards a Discourse Level Account of VP Ellipsis
10. Sara Inclan: Temporal Adverbs and the Structure of Reference and Event Points
11. Ray Jackendoff: What Does Conceptual Structure Have to Do with Syntactic Theory?
12. Richard Janda and Brian Joseph: Meta-Templates and the Underlying (Dis-)Unity of Sanskrit Reduplication
13. Charles Jones: 'Anti-Internalization': Suppression and Projection of External Theta-Roles
14. Seok Keun Kang: Compensatory Lengthening in Korean Revisited
15. Tami Kaplan: A Classification of VSO Languages
16. Dave Kathman: Stress and Accent in Abkhaz
17. Deborah Mandelbaum: When Nominals Are Predicates
18. Alec Marantz: Case and Licensing
19. Paola Merlo: Information Structure, Parameters, and Word Order
20. Alan Munn: Claual Adjuncts and Temporal Ambiguity
21. Rolf Noyer: Tone and Stress in the San Mateo Dialect of Huave
22. Brian Potter: Dative Compounding and the Prominence Theory of Theta Assignment
23. Bernhard Rohrbacher: Crossing Coreference: No Evidence for Pronominalization
24. Sigridur Sigurjonsdottir and Nina Hyams: The Subset Principle and the Acquisition of the "Long Distance" Reflexive sig in Icelandic
25. Beverly Spejewski and Greg N. Carlson: Reference Time Relations
26. Karin Stromswold: Learnability and the Acquisition of Auxiliary and Copula be
27. Sungki Suh: Constituent Structure Processing in Korean
28. Arhonto Terzi: Governed PRO and Finiteness
29. Caroline R. Wiltshire: Appendices, Structure Preservation and the Strong Domain Hypothesis
30. Martha Wright: Lexical Functional Distinctions in Mohawk Verb Agreement Morphology
31. C. Jan-Wouter Zwart: Expletive Raising and Expletive Replacement in Dutch

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ESCOL '90

Held at the Ohio State University
September 21-23, 1990

Edited by Yongkyoon No and Mark Libucha
363 pages

Contents

1. Paggy Antonisse: Length and Structure Effects in Syntactic Processing
2. Benjamin Ao: Nantong Tone Sandhi and Tonal Feature Geometry
3. Sam Bayer: Event Reference and Property Theory
4. Hee-Rahk Chae: Function-Argument Structure, Category Raising and Bracketing Paradoxes
5. Donald Churma: At the Phonetics-Phonology Interface: (Re)syllabification and English Stop Allophony
6. Wayne Cowart: Interpreting Reflexives in Coordinate NPs
7. John Dai: The Resultative de as an Inflectional Morpheme in Chinese
8. William Davies: Against an Ergative Analysis of Eastern Javanese
9. Matthew Dryer: What Determines Antipassive in Dyirbal?
10. Thorstein Fretheim and Randi Alice Nilsen: In Defense of [+/-foc]
11. Yuchau Hsiao: The Bermuda Triangle of Syntax, Rhythm and Tone
12. Thomas Hukari and Robert Levine: The Complement Structure of tough Constructions
13. Richard D. Janda: Frequency, Markedness, and Morphological Change: On Predicting the Spread of Noun-Plural -S in Modern High German and West Germanic
14. Tina E. Kraskow: Discourse-linking and the Wh-Island Extraction Assymetry
15. Robert Ladd: One Word's Strength is another Word's Weakness
16. Steven Lapointe: Two Analyses of Korean Verb Inflections
17. Young-Suk Lee: Is INFL Universal? A Case Study of Korean
18. Yen-Hwei Lin: Vowel Underspecification in Jiyuan Chinese
19. Edward Rubin: Italian Psych Verbs in a Theory of Predication
20. Hilary Sachs: Thematic Roles and French Dative Clitics: Lui vs. y
21. Eric Schiller: Focus and the Discourse Dimension in Autolexical Theory
22. Mona Singh: The Aspectual Content of Compound Verbs
23. Laurie Stowe: Thematic Structure and Verb Preferences
24. A. Jacqueline Toribio: A-bar Movement in Spanish: Wh-questions, Focalizations, and Relative Clauses
25. Enric Vallduvi: The Role of Plasticity in the Association of Focus and Prominence
26. Lindsay Whaley: A Unified Explanation of Deponent Verbs in Ancient Greek
27. Ronnie B. Wilbur: Intonation and Focus in American Sign Language
28. Minglang Zhou: Any: Its Context Sensitivity and Meaning
29. Alessandro Zucchi: Negation and Aspect

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ESCOL '89

Held at the University of Delaware
October 6-8, 1989

Edited by Kenneth de Jong and Yongkyoon No
325 pages

Contents

1. Stephen R. Anderson: On Looking into Words
2. Ellen L. Barton: ADVPs and DEGPs in Theories of Extended Phrase Structure
3. Barbara Brunson: Thematic Dependencies and Government
4. Young Hee Chung: Compensatory Lengthening in Karok and CV Phonology
5. J. Clancy Clements: Lexical Category Hierarchy and Syntactic Headedness in Compounds
6. Bernard Comrie: Hierarchies and Universals
7. David P. Corina and Elizabeth Sagey: Are Phonological Hierarchies Universal? Evidence from American Sign Language
8. Stuart Davis: Stress, Syllable Weight Hierarchies, and Moraic Phonology
9. Christiane Fellbaum and Judy Kegl: Taxonomic Structures and Cross-Category Linking in the Lexicon
10. Peter Gordon: Level Ordering and Lexical Acquisition
11. Gerald R. Greenberg and Jaklin Kornfilt: The Hierarchy from +TENSE to -TENSE
12. Shoko Hamano: Thematic Role Assignment of the Single Argument of (De)verbal Nouns
13. Wayne Harbert: Case Attraction and the Hierarchization of Case
14. Yasuo Ishii: Reciprocal Predicates in Japanese
15. Michel T. Jackson: Articulatory Modeling of Back Consonants
16. Howard S. Kurtzman: Extraction of Inidrect-Objects
17. Yen-Hwei Lin: The Retroflex as a Complex Segment
18. Marlys A. Macken: Local Feature Changing Harmony
19. Richard McGinn: The Animacy Hierarchy and Western Austronesian Languages
20. Dominique Rodier: Prosodic Affixation in Kwakiutl
21. Hilary Sachs: French Indirect Object Cliticization and the Thematic Role Hierarchy
22. Dingxu Shi: Definiteness Effect and the Hierarchy of NP Positions
23. Erin Tinker, Richard Beckwith, and Ray Dougherty: Markedness and the Acquisition of Psych Verbs
24. Natsuko Tsujimura: Unaccusative Mismatches in Japanese
25. Martha Wright: Verb Agreement Parameters
26. Adam Zachary Wyner: Adverbs and Argument Structure
27. Katsuhiko Yabushita: The Semantics of Plurality Quantification: Proportion Problem is a Pseudo-Problem
28. James H. Yoon: Word Order and Thematic Structure in Mandarin

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ESCOL '88

Held at the University of Pennsylvania
September 30-October 2, 1988

Edited by Joyce Powers and Kenneth de Jong
558 pages

Contents

1. Sung-Ho Ahn: Korean Reciprocals and LF-Movement
2. Mark Aronoff: Two Senses of Lexical
3. Kathleen M. Bishop: PRO-Control in a Lexicalized Tree-Adjunction Grammar
4. William G. Bohrer: The Well-Formedness Condition: Bounded versus Unbounded Association
5. Walter Breen: Grammatical Linking in Multiple Object Languages
6. Joseph DeChicchis: Mayan Verb Complex Anaphors
7. Viviane Deprez: Stylistic Inversion and Verb Movement
8. Bruce L. Derwing, Maureen L. Dow and Terrance M. Neary: Experimenting with Syllable Structure
9. David Dowty and Pauline Jacobson: Agreement as a Semantic Phenomenon
10. Thomas Ernst: Specifiers, Adverbs, and Word Order Typology
11. Frederic Evans: Binding into Anaphoric Verb Phrases
12. Sarah M.B. Fagan: Constraints on Middle Formation
13. Cynthia Fisher: Experimental Evidence for Syntax/Semantics Mappings in the Verb Lexicon
14. Steven Franks: On Theta-Theory and Case Assignment
15. Michael L. Geis: A New Theory of Speech Acts
16. Paul Gorrell and Qiming Chen: Minimal Commitment Parsing: Two Examples from Mandarin
17. Gerald R. Greenberg: Relativization and Subjacency in Russian
18. Caroline Heycock: The Syntax of the Japanese Causative
19. Laurence R. Horn: Morphology, Pragmatics, and the Un-Verb
20. Yasuo Ishii: Head-Internal Relative Clauses in Japanese
21. Richard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph: In Further Defense of a Non-Phonological Account for Sanskrit Root-Initial Aspiration Alternations
22. Omar Ka: Wolof Syllable Structure: Evidence from a Secret Code
23. Judy Kegl and Christiane Fellbaum: An Analysis of Obligatory Adjuncts: Evidence from the Class of Measure Verbs
24. Hakan Kuh: On Liberation Mechanisms in GPSG
25. Geraldine Legendre: On the Issue of Multiple Syntactic Levels: Evidence from French Control
26. Marlys A. Macken: Preaspiration and Class Node Delinking
27. Louise McNally: Prosody and Morphology in German Compounding
28. Paola Merlo: Secondary Predicates in Italian and English
29. John Moore: Raising to Subject in Turkish
30. Elise E. Morse-Gagne: The Adoption of Scandinavian Pronouns into English
31. Chiyo Nishida: Functional Composition and Spanish Pronominal Clitic Clusters
32. Barbara H. Partee: Many Quantifiers
33. Ellen F. Prince: Yiddish Wh-Clauses, Subject-Preposing, and Topicalization
34. Ann M. Reed: Discourse Groups and Semantic Groups
35. Eric Schiller: The Parametrics of INFL
36. Ramesh Subrahmanyam: Semantic Interpretation in Tree Adjoining Grammar
37. Uma Subramanian and Ying-yu Sheu: NP --> S' and Endocentricity Goes to the Dogs
38. Ann Taylor: The Use of Clitics as a Diagnostic of Phrase Structure
39. Alice ter Meulen: The Semantic Properties of English Aspectual Verbs
40. Natsuko Tsujimura and Stuart Davis: The Mophophonemics of Japanese Verbbal Conjugation: An Autosegmental Account
41. Riitta Valimaa-Blum: Finnish Word Order as a Set of Syntactic Constructions
42. Gregory Ward and Julia Hirschberg: Intonation and Propositional Attitude: The Pragmatics of L*+H L H%
43. Katsuhiko Yabushita: 'Cart-Sentence' Anaphora: Is Kamp/Heim's Treatment of Pronouns Really a Unified One?
44. Raffaella Zanuttini: Two Strategies for Negation: Evidence from Romance
45. Arnold M. Zwicky: Idioms and Constructions

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ESCOL '87

Held at the Ohio State University
October 2-4, 1987

Edited by Ann Miller and Joyce Powers
334 pages

Papers from the Special Session on Variation and the Theory of Grammar

1. H.D. Adamson: The Role of Variable Rules in Language Acquisition
2. Wayne Cowart: Subject Variation in the Syntactic System
3. Marianna Di Paolo: Double Modals as Single Lexical Items
4. Roy C. Major: Variation in Second Language Phonology

Papers from the General Sessions

1. Joseph Clancy Clements: Determination Relations and Levels of Representation in Morphology
2. Stuart Davis: Italian Onset Structure and the Distribution of il and lo
3. Thomas Ernst: Specifiers and Phrase Structure Theory: Evidence from Chinese and English
4. Edward Gibson: Garden-Path Effects in a Parser with Parallel Architecture
5. Joack Hoeksema: The Logic of Exception
6. Chu-Ren Huang: Is Head-Wrap Necessary? Mandarin Possessive Objects in GPSG and HPSG
7. Nina Hyams: The Core/Periphery Distinction in Language Acquisition
8. Larry M. Hyman: Direct vs. Indirect Syntactic Conditioning of Phonological Rules
9. Beom-mo Kang: Constraining Category Lifting in Categorial Morphology
10. Nancy S. Levin: A Pragmatic Concomitant of Gapping
11. Maryellen C. MacDonald: Processing Binding in Passive Sentences
12. Shigeru Miyagawa: Unaccusative Verbs in Japanese
13. Chiyo Nishida: Interplay between Syntax and Morphology: A Lexical Analysis of Inflection and Cliticization in Spanish
14. Eric H. Nyberg, 3rd: Parsing and the Acquisition of Word Order
15. David Odden: Dissimilation as Deletion in Chukchi
16. Joyce Powers: On the Government of Mutation in Welsh
17. Geoffrey K. Pullum: Implications of English Extraposed Irrealis Clauses
18. John F. Richardson: A Non-Constraint on Tough-Movement
19. Roman Taraban and James L. McClelland: Thematic Roles in On-Line Sentence Processing
20. Sarah G. Thomason: Double Marking in Morphological Change
21. Yuko Yanagida: Predictability, Importance, and Case Marking in Japanese
22. Arnold M. Zwicky: Morphological Rules, Operation, and Operation Types

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ESCOL '86

Held at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University
October 10-12, 1986

Edited by Fred Marshall, Ann Miller, and Zheng-sheng Zhang
543 pages

Contents

1. Richmond H. Thomason: Foreward: Linguistics at Work
2. Yukiko Sasaki Alam: Event Types, the Properties and Lexical Entry for the Japanese Aspectual Auxiliary Verb ir-
3. Peggy M. Andersen: Restructuring in Italian: an LFG Analysis
4. Kutz Arrieta, Brian D. Joseph and Jane Smirniotopoulos: How Ergative is Basque?
5. David Barnwell: Who Is to Judge How Well Others Speak?
6. Merrie Bergmann: Parsing Conjunctions with a Categorial Grammar
7. Mark A. Brown: Quantifiers, Connectives, and Relative Clauses
8. Robert Chametzky: Syntax without the S
9. Stuart Davis: Autosegmental Spreading and Phoneme Copying in Reduplicative Processes
10. David Dowty: Collective Predicates, Distributive Predicates, and ALL
11. Walter F. Edwards: Vernacular Language Use and Social Networking in Eastside Detriot
12. William H. Eilfort: On Some Metalinguistic Expressions in English
13. Thomas Ernst: Control and Predication in Mandarin Chinese
14. David A. Evans and Sandra Katz: A Practical Lexicon for Contrained NLP
15. Charles J. Fillmore: Varieties of Conditional Sentences
16. Lily Wong Fillmore: Language and Education
17. Edwin D. Floyd: Divergences from Standard Attic Greek
18. Janet Dean Fodor and Charles Jones: Connectedness, C-Command, and GPSG
19. Michael Gasser: Memory Organization in the Bilingual/Second Language Learner
20. Michael Gies and Zheng-Sheng Zhang: Conditional Sentences in Speech Act Theory
21. Ann Grafstein: Configurationality and Parameter-Setting in Universal Grammar
22. Jaakko Hintikka: Is Scope a Viable Concept in Semantics?
23. Thomas N. Huckin and Zhendong Jin: Inferring Word-Meaning from Context
24. Martin Kay: Monotonicity in Linguistics
25. Itziar Laka and Juan Uriagereka: Barriers on Basque WH-Movement
26. Peter Lasersohn: The Semantics of Appositive and Pseudo-Appositive NP's
27. Lori Levin and Glynda Hull: Punctuation from Novice to Expert
28. Naicong Li and David Zubin: Anaphor Resolution in Mandarin
29. Brian MacWhinney: Toward a Psycholinguistically Plausible Parser
30. Abdelgawad T. Mahmoud: Passivization: Lexical vs. Syntactic Treatment
31. Michael L. Mauldin: Retrieving Information with a Text Skimming Parser
32. Ann M. Miller: Morphological Idiosyncracies in Classical Arabic
33. George A. Miller: How School Children Learn Words
34. David Odden: Anti-Antigemination
35. Charles A. Perfetti, Sylvia Beverly, Lisa Didonato, and Linda Pertsch: Rumors about Linguists Growing Ugly
36. Jesse Pinkham: A Grammar of English for a Machine Translation System
37. Tariq Samad: A Connectionist Network that Learns to Process Some (Very) Simple Sentences
38. Larry Selinker and Dan Douglas: The Problem of Comparing Episodes in Discourse Domains in Interlanguage Studies
39. Lawrence Solan: The Judge as Linguist
40. Andrea Tyler and William Nagy: Syntactic, Semantic and Distributional Properties of Suffixes
41. Diane Ringer Uber: A Particle Analysis of Vocalic Processes in Cuban Spanish
42. Riitta Valimaa-Blum: Finnish Vowel Harmony as a Prescriptive and Descriptive Rule
43. Arnold M. Zwicky: Phonological and Morphological Rule Interactions in Highly Modular Grammars
44. David Evans and Dana Scott: Concepts as Procedures

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ESCOL '85

Held at SUNY Buffalo
October 3-5, 1985

Edited by Choi, Devitt, Janis, McCoy, and Zhang
361 pages

Papers from the General Session

1. Peter Christian Bjarkman: Velar Nasals and Explanatory Phonological Accounts of Caribbean Spanish
2. Joan L. Bybee: On the Nature of Grammatical Categories: a Diachronic Perspective
3. Soonja Choi and David Zubin: Learning to Answer Yes/No Questions: Universal Stages
4. Ileana Comorovski: Control and Obviation in Romanian
5. William H. Eilfort: Complementizers from Introducers of Reported Speech
6. Michael L. Geis: On the Superiority of Monostratal to Multistratal Accounts of Adverb Preposing
7. Nora Gonzalez: Interaction of Inversion and Clause Reduction in Spanish
8. Paul Gorrell and Juan Uriagereka: Interpreting Indices
9. Richard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph: One Rule of Many? Sanskrit Reduplication as Fragmented Affixation
10. John Earl Joseph: Isomorphism and Value Correlations: Evidence from the Latin and French Verb Phrase
11. Sue Ann Kendall et al.: Disambiguating Information and the Processing of Garden-Path Sentences
12. Ziyu Lin: Some Advancement Phenomena in Mandarin Chinese: the Enlightenment from Relational Grammar
13. David McNeill: Gestures During Narrative Discourse
14. Carol Lynn Moder: Productivity and Frequency in Morphological Classes
15. Joel A. Nevis: A Syntactic Account of Second Position Clisis
16. Evelyn N. Ransom: Higher Sentence Negation and Complement Meaning
17. Carlota S. Smith: The Parameter of Aspect
18. Alan M. Stevens: Reduplication in Madurese
19. Sarah G. Thomason: On Establishing External Causes of Language Change
20. Marica de Vincenzi: Recognition of Words in Sentences and a Parallel with Recognition of Objects in Scenes
21. German A. Westphal: On the Expansion of S in Spanish

Papers from the Special Session on Parameters in Universal Syntax

1. Joan Bresnan and Sam A. Mchombo: On Topic, Pronoun, and Agreement in Chichewa
2. Lori S. Levin: Identifying Non-Nominative Subjects in LFG
3. Mahmud Husein Salih: Raising in Universal Grammar
4. Michael Silverstein: Noun Phrase Categorial Markedness and Syntactic Parametricization

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ESCOL '84

Held at The Ohio State University September 28-30, 1984

Edited by Gloria Alvarez, Belinda Brodie, and Terry McCoy
332 pages

Papers from the Special Session on Agreement

1. Judith L. Aissen: Surrogate Agreement in Tzotzil
2. Bernard Comrie: Agreement as a Research Tool
3. Georgia M. Green: Why Agreement Must be Stipulated for There-Insertion
4. Katherine Hall: Slit-Ergativity in the De'kwana (Carib) Pronominal Agreement System
5. Steven G. Lapointe: Cooccurrence and Agreement in Norwegian Noun Phrases
6. Alec Marantz: Predicting Ergative Agreement with Transitive Auxiliaries
7. Jerry L. Morgan: Some Problems of Determination in English Number Agreement
8. Geoffrey K. Pullum: How Complex Could an Agreement System be?
9. Wallis Reid: Verb Agreement as a Case of Semantic Redundancy
10. Robert A. Russell: Historical Aspects of Subject-Verb Agreement in Arabic
11. Leslie Saxon: Control and Agreement in Dogrib
12. Kevin Tuite: Case Attraction and Case Agreement
13. Laurie Zaring: Person/Number Inflection in S, NP and PP: A Parametric Approach

Papers from the General Session

1. Robert Chametzky: Coordination and Predication: A 3-D View
2. Eve V. Clark: Acquiring Compounds
3. Stephen Crain and Janet Dean Fodor: On the Innateness of Subjacency
4. Alan Ford and Rajendra Singh: Remarks on the Directionality of Word Formation Processes
5. Georgia M. Green: Subcategorization and the Account of Inversions
6. Richard D. Janda and Esmerelda Manandise: Zero Really is Nothing: Basque Evidence Against "0-Morphemes" (And also against "Morphologically-Conditioned Phonological Rules")
7. Keith Johnson: Prosody and Ambiguous Gerund Phrases
8. Barbara Johnstone Koch: Repeating Yourself: Discourse Paraphrase and the Generation of Language
9. James D. McCawley: Speech Acts and Goffman's Participant Rule
10. John F. Richardson: On Some Tough Source-Goal Assymmetries
11. Gregory C. Richter: Lexical Borrowing in Modern Icelandic and Syllabic Structure Constraints
12. Deborah Schaffer: "Felicity's Condition" and Private References
13. Annie Zaenen and Lauri Kartunnen: Morphological Non-Distinctiveness and Coordination
14. Arnold M. Zwicky: On Appealing to Discourse Interpretation

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