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Volume 19, Spring 2003

Edited by Anastasia Riehl and Thess Savella

Contents

1. Niken Adisasmito-Smith: Medial Nasal + Stop Clusters in Indonesian and Javanese: A Preliminary Acoustic Account
2. Loren Billings and Abigail Konopasky: Reassessing the Role of Syntax Inside the Morphological Word: Verb-Adjacent Clitics in Tagalog and Bulgarian
3. Peter Cole, Yurie Hara and Ngee-thai Yap: Fronting and the Distribution of Auxiliaries in Javanese
4. Jill Heather Flegg and Ileana Paul: On the Difference Between Raising and Control
5. David Gil: Intonation Does Not Differentiate Thematic Roles in Riau Indonesian
6. Yury A. Lander: Possessive Constructions in Languages of West Indonesia: NP Incorporation vs. DP Separation
7. Diane Massam: Questions and the Left Periphery in Niuean
8. Kunio Nishiyama: Post-Syntactic Passivization and the Abstract Clitic Position in Indonesian
9. Yuko Otsuka: VOS in Tongan: Passive or Scrambling?
10. Ileana Paul: Multiple Topics: Evidence from Malagasy
11. Andrew Pawley: Grammatical Categories and Grammaticisation in the Oceanic Verb Complex
12. Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam: Control in Malagasy
13. Whitney Anne Postman: What the Indonesian Morphological Causative Can Tell Us About Aphasic Comprehension
14. Andrea Rackowski: The Case of Voice of Tagalog
15. Norvin Richards: Tagalog Ellipsis
16. Yassir Tjung, Chang-Yong Sim and Chonghyuck Kim: ECM and RTO: Two Competing Analyses in Indonesian
17. John U. Wolff: The Role of Canonical Shapes in the Reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian Phonology

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Volume 18, Spring 2001

Edited by Arthur Bell and Paul Washburn

Contents

1. Chris Collins: The Internal Structure of Verbs in Ju|'hoan and +Hoan
2. Paul Washburn: A Minimalist Approach to Khoekhoe Declaratives
3. Yoshihito Dobashi: Agreement and Word Order in Sandawe
4. Chris Collins: Multiple Verb Movement in +Hoan
5. Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen: Contrastive Vowel-Length and Variable Weight Reduplicative Templates in Ju|'hoansi
6. Chris Collins and Arthur Bell: +Hoan and the Typology of Click Accompaniments in Khoisan
7. Arthur Bell: Origins of Negative Concord in Afrikaans
8. Carla Luijks: The Khoekhoe and/or the San: Gathering the Afrikaans Substrate Languages
9. Bonnie Sands: Borrowing & Diffusion as a source of lexical similarities in Khoesan
10. Rachel Hastings: Evidence for the Genetic Unity of Southern Khoesan

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Volume 17, Fall 1999

Papers in Romance Philology

Edited by Kirsten A. Fudeman, Aaron D. Lawson, Carol G. Rosen, and Devon L. Strolovitch

Contents

1. Meredith Doran: A Life of Saint John in Old French
2. Catherine Fountain: From a Catalan Bestiary: De la natura de la cerena
3. Kirsten Fudeman: The Einsiedeln Interlinear Version
4. Kirsten Fudeman: Commencement de sapience: Hebrew Astrology in French
5. Ben Gelman: An excerpt from the Judeo-Italian Alfabetin
6. Devon Strolovitch: Passover in Medieval Iberia I: Seder Instructions in a Spanish Mahzor
7. Devon Strolovitch: Passover in Medieval Iberia II: Two Portugese Mahzorim
8. Jenna Torres: A 12th Century Castilian Disputa del alma y el cuerpo
9. Jenna Torres: Excerpts from a Libro de los buenos proverbios
10. Three Excerpts from Richard de Fournival's Bestiare d'amours
    • Josep Alba-Salas: The Mole
    • Meredith Doran: The Wolf
    • Irene Mittelberg: The Blackbird
11. Aaron Lawson: "Song 1" of Guillaume IX Duke of Acquitaine (1071-1127)
12. James G. Mitchell: Dolce coninciamento: A Lyric from 13th Century Sicily
13. James G. Mitchell: A Trobadour Lyric: The Power of Love
14. Molly Warsh: Razon de amor: A 13th Century Spanish Poem
15. Josep Alba-Salas: Excerpts from a Castilian Translation of Brunetto Latini's Li livres dou tresor
16. De Proprietatibus Rerum in a Northern Italian Vernacular
    • Cristina Dye: Del caval
    • Carol Rosen: Dei oxey e de le colse chi vola
17. Catherine Fountain: A Galician Cantiga: Don Fagundo's Cow
18. Irene Mittelberg: An Excerpt from El libro de los caballos, 13th Century Translation of the Practica Equorum
19. Molly Warsh: "Monosceros" from the Bestiary of Phillipe de Taun
20. Catherine Fountain: A Galician Will from the 13th Century
21. Aaron Lawson: Two Documents in the 14th Century Dalmatian
22. Irene Shifman: A Gascon Bill of Sale
23. Cristina Dye: A 13th Century Beauty Treatment:
24. Irene Shifman: Medicinal Recipes in Anglo-Norman French
25. Devon Strolovitch: Selections from a Portugese Treatise in Hebrew Script: Livro de como se fazen as cores

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Volume 16, Spring 1998

Papers in Syntactic Theory

Edited by Tobey Doeleman and Niken Adisasmito-Smith

Contents

1. Niken Adisasmito-Smith: Sentence Structure and Adverbs in Indonesian
2. Eun Cho: Local Economy and Optional Scrambling in Japanese
3. Chris Collins: A Note on Extraction from Conditionals
4. Tobey Doeleman: Quotative Inversion in French
5. Kirsten Fudeman: Context-Specific Cliticization Patterns in Modern Greek Noun Phrases
6. Teresa Galloway: The 'Filled C' Requirement: A Look at Wh-Movement in ASL
7. Luis López and Jennifer Austin: Nominative, Absolutive and Dative Languages
8. David Parkinson: Furniture and Equipment
9. Eun-Young Yi: Adjunction, Coordination and their Theoretical Consequences

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Volume 15, Summer 1997

Papers on Language Acquisition

Edited by Shamitha Somashekar, Kyoko Yamakoshi, Maria Blume, and Claire Foley

Contents

1. Foley, Nunez del Prado, Barbier, and Lust: Operator-Variable Binding in the Initial State: An Argument from English VP Ellipsis
2. Guo, Foley, Chien, Chiang, and Lust: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Chinese and English Children's First Language Acquisition of VP Ellipsis Structure
3. Postman, Foley, Pactovis, Rothenstein, Kaye, Lowe, and Lust: Children's Knowledge of Verbal Inflection and LF Raising: New Evidence from Elicited Production of VP Ellipsis Structures
4. Shomashekar, Lust, Gair, Bhatia, Sharma. and Khare: Principles of Pronominal Interpretation in Hindi 'Jab' Clauses: Experimental Test of Children's Comprehension
5. Oshima and Lust: Remarks on Anaphora in Japanese Adverbial Clauses
6. Gair, Flynn, and Brown: Why Japanese Object to L2 Objects
7. Yamakoshi: A Note on the Acquisition of Scrambling in Japanese
8. Nieddu: The Object-Agreement Rule in 'Passato Prossimo' of Young Italian Children
9. Nunez del Prado, Foley, Proman, and Lust: Subordinate CP and pro-drop: Evidence for Degree-n Learnability from an Experimental Study of Spanish and English
10. Austin, Blume, Parkinson, Nunez del Prado, and Lust: The Acquisition of Spanish Null and Overt Pronouns: Pragmatic and Syntactic Factors
11. Boser: A New Null Auxiliary Proposal for Strong Continuity in Early Child German: Converging Evidence from Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Data
12. Brill and Kapur: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Parameter Setting
13. Santelmann: Wh-less Questions in Early Swedish: An Argument for Continuity in Language Development
14. Lachter: Cognate Effects in English-Spanish Bilingual Lexical Access
15. Nunez del Prado: Spanish Accusative Clitics as Strong Determiners
16. Parkinson: The Acquisition of Phonology in an Optimality Theoretic Framework

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Volume 14, Summer 1996

Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism

Edited by Aneta Pavlenko and Rafael Salaberry

Contents

1. Howard Grabois: Distributed Cognition and Participation in Second Language Discourse
2. Gloria Valeva: On the Notion of Conceptual Fluency in a Second Language
3. Aneta Pavlenko: Bilingualism and Cognition: Concepts in the Mental Lexicon
4. Howard Grabois: Word-Association Methodology in a Cross-Linguistic Study of Lexicon
5. Steve McCafferty: The Use of Nonverbal Forms of Expression in Relation to L2 Private Speech
6. Rafael Salaberry: The Pedagogical value of Simplified Written Input in L2 Acquisition

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Volume 13, Spring 1995

Edited by N. Diaz-Insense and L. Lopez

Contents

1. Theresa Antes, Christine Moritz, and Regina Roebuck: Input and Parameter Resetting in Second Language Acquisition
2. Barbara I. Avila-Jimenez: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of a Change in Progress: Pronominal Overtness in Puerto Rican Spanish
3. Yafei Li and Chioko Takahashi: On the Logophoric AND Syntactic Nature of Reflexivization
4. Kunio Nishiyama: Sluicing without Wh-Movement
5. Zelmira Nunez del Prado: On Predicate-Chains and Binding of DP-Contained Pronouns
6. David Parkinson: Iterated Subject Agreement in Standard Arabic
7. Emily E. Scida: Intransitive Verbs and the Retroherent Feature in Old Italian and Old Spanish Texts

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Volume 12, Spring 1994

Papers on Negation

Edited by Howard Grabois, David Parkinson, and Deborah Yeager

Contents

1. Michael Bernstein: Some Notes on Infinitives and Negation in English
2. Claire Foley: Negation and the Tense-Agreement Relationship in French and English
3. Regina Hauptmann: Sentential Negation in German: Evidence for NegP
4. Luis Lopez: The Hierarchy of Tense and Negation in English
5. Erika Mitchell: On the Position of NegP in English and the Status of 'not'
6. Zelmira Nunez del Prado and James Gair: The Position of Negation in Bengali: An Account of Synchronic and Diachronic Variation
7. Lynn Santelmann: Evidence for NegP in German and Object Shift
8. Margarita Suner: Negation and the Features of Comp
9. Eun-Young Yi: NegP in Korean

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Volume 11, Fall 1993

Edited by Edward Rubin and Michael Bernstein

Contents

1. Isabella Barbier: On the Syntax of Dutch er
2. Laurent P. Dekydtspotter: Ne que and the Theory of Focus
3. Natalia Diaz-Insense: Extraction from DP in Catalan and Strong Crossover
4. Ruriko Kawashima: The Structure of Noun Phrases: Arguments for Quantifier Phrase and Number Phrase
5. Ignazio M. Mirto: Ergativity in Malagasy
6. Erika Mitchell: VP-fronting, Do-Support and Extended IP in English
7. Takashi Nakajima: Syntactic Analysis of the Light Verb Construction
8. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio: Lexical Subjects in Finite and Non-Finite Clauses
9. Deborah Yeager: The Position of Quantifiers in Old English Nominals

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Volume 10, Fall 1991

Proceedings of the First Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT I)

Edited by Steven Moore and Adam Wyner

Contents

1. John Bowers: The Syntax and Semantics of Nominals
2. Rose-Marie Dechaine: Bare Sentences
3. Edit Doron: Point of View as a Factor of Content
4. Jan van Eijck and Fer-Jan de Vries: Dynamic Interpretation and Hoare Deduction: Extended Abstract
5. Kai von Fintel: Exceptive Constructions
6. Janet Hitzeman: Aspect and Adverbials
7. Manfred Krifka: A Compositional Semantics for Multiple Focus Constructions
8. Barbara H. Partee: Topic, Focus and Quantification. Paul Portner, Gerunds and Types of Events
9. Craige Roberts: Distributivity and Reciprocal Distributivity
10. Veneeta Srivastav: Uniqueness and Bijection in WH Constructions

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Volume 9, Fall 1991

Non-canonical Case-assignment

Edited by Almeida Toribio and Wayne Harbert

Contents

1. Leonard H. Babby: Noncanonical Configurational Case Assignment Strategies
2. John F. Bailyn: The Configurationality of Case Assignment in Russian
3. John F. Bailyn and Edward J. Rubin: The Unification of Instrumental Case Assignment in Russian
4. Wayne E. Harbert and Almeida J. Toribio: Nominative Objects
5. Erika Mitchell: Case and the Finnish Object
6. Lelwala Sumangala: "Inner" and "Outer" Subjects in Sinhala
7. Tomoyuki Yoshida: Case-Marking and Verb Movement in Japanese

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Volume 8, Fall 1988

Papers on South Asian Linguistics

Edited by Veneeta Srivastav, James Gair, and Kashi Wali

Contents

1. P. Christdas: Do Dravidian Languages Have VP-Nodes?
2. A. Davison: The Case Filter as Motivation for Move-Alpha
3. J. Gair and J. Paolillo: Sinhala Non-Verbal Sentences and Argument Structure
4. W. Harbert and V. Srivastav: A Complement/Adjunct Binding Assymetry in Hindi and Other Languages
5. B. Lust, T. Bhatia, J. Gair, V. Sharma, and J. Khare: A Parameter Setting Paradox: Children's Acquisition of Hindi Anaphora
6. V. Srivastav: Relative Clauses in Hindi and Learnability
7. K. Wali: A Note on WH Questions in Marathi and Kashmiri
8. K.S. Yadurajan: Binding Theory and Reflexives in Dravidian

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Volume 7, Fall 1985

Contents

1. I. Aleman: The Position of Clitics in Old Spanish
2. L. Babby: Departicipial Adverbs in Russian
3. G.N. Clements: The Problem of Transfer in Nonlinear Morphology
4. W. Davies: Nominative Nonsubjects in Choctaw
5. S. Dubinsky: A Union Analysis for Japanese 'Adversative Passives'
6. S. Fagan: Geminates in Intensive and Iterative Germanic Class II Weak Verbs
7. C.-R. Huang: On Pseudo-Possessive NPs in Mandarin Chinese
8. J. Maling and A. Zaenen: Preposition Stranding and Oblique Case
9. J. Mascaro: Catalan Nominal Markers and Vowel Insertion
10. J. Noblitt: Compensatory Articulation and Lan-guage Learning
11. M. Suner and J. Padilla-Rivera: On Obviation and Subjunctive Clauses

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Volume 6, Spring 1984

Papers from the Second Cornell Conference on Government and Binding Theory

Contents

1. L. Babby: Case Conflicts and Their Resolution: A Contribution to EST Case Theory
   J. Bowers: On the Autonomy of Inflectional Morphology
2. S. Condon: Government of the Subject: A Solution to the Problem of Nonconfigurational Languages
3. L. Davis: Entailments of the CED
4. R. Friedin and L. Babby: On the Interaction of Lexical and Syntactic Properties: Case Structure in Russian
5. W. Harbert: The SSC and Empty Categories
6. A. Hurtado: On the Properties of LF'
7. B. Lust, L. Mangione and Y-C. Chien: The Determination of Empty Categories in First Language Acquisition of Chinese
8. T. Seely: V-Chain Accessibility

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Volume 5, Spring 1984

Edited by Carol Rosen and Laurie Zaring

Contents

1. Ava Berinstein: Absolutive Extractions: Evidence for Clause-Internal Multiattachment in K'ekchi
2. Edgar Cyrus: Japanese Constructions Marked by -rare
3. William D. Davies: Demotion and Ambiguity in Choctaw
4. Stanley Dubinsky: Oblique to Direct Object Advancement with Japanese Motion Verbs
5. Sarah M.B. Fagan: The Impersonal Extraposition Construction in German: Evidence for the Demotion Analysis of Impersonal Passives
6. Margaret Milliken: Quechua Person Reference
7. Carol Rosen: Chomeur Causees and the Universals of Causative Union
8. Annie Zaenen: Double Objects in Kikuyu?
9. Stanley Dubinsky and Carol Rosen: A Bibliography on Relational Grammar through April 1983 with Selected Titles on Lexical Functional Grammar

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Volume 4, Spring 1983

Papers from the First Cornell Conference on Government and Binding Theory

Edited by Wayne Harbert

Contents

1. John S. Bowers: Parasitic Gaps
2. Robin Clark: Clitics as A'-Binders
3. Steven Franks: Case and Control in Polish
4. Isabelle Haïk: Indirect Binding and Referential Circularity
5. Randall Hendrick: Corroboration for the ECP
6. James Higginbotham: Some Remarks on Binding Theory and Logical Form
7. C.T. James Huang: LF, ECP and Non-vacuous Quantification
8. John Jensen, Latin Passive Without NP Movement
9. Juliette Levin: Free Relatives and the Null Head Parameter
10. Judith McA'Nulty: A'-Binding
11. Carlos Piera: Spanish Comparatives, Deletion Operations and the ECP
12. Gilbert Rappaport: On Anaphora and Control in Russian
13. Margarita Suner: Free Relatives and the pro-head Hypothesis

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Volume 3, Spring 1982

Papers on Romance Languages

Edited by Julia Herschensohn and Carol Rosen

Contents

1. John S. Bowers: The Classical Alexandrine
2. Mary Jane Ellis: Past Tenses in Early Old French: A Jakobsonian Analysis
3. Carlos Piera: Spanish Plurals: A Further Look at the 'Nonconcatenative' Solution
4. Carol Rosen: Romance Derivational Suffixes from Greek -izein
5. Anchen Schulz: On the Spanish Passive
6. Margarita Suner: Impersonal Haber in Nonstandard Spanish

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Volume 2, Spring 1981

Edited by Wayne Harbert and Julia Herschensohn

Contents

1. Leonard H. Babby: A Compositional Analysis of Voice in Turkish: Passive, Derived Intransitive, Impersonal, and Causative
2. Susan R. Kesner Bland: Topic/Comment Sentences in English
3. Suzanne Flynn: Effects of the Reversal of Principal Branching Direction (from L1 to L2) in L2 Acquisition
4. Steven Franks: Resyllabification
5. Robert D. Hoberman: Subjects, Objects, and Verb Morphology in Modern Aramaic
6. Richard C. House: Genitive Initial Sentences and Quanitification in Russian
7. Susan McCormick: A Metrical Analysis of Umlaut
8. Margarita Suner: On Null Subjects
9. F. van Coetsem, R. Hendricks and P. Siegel: On the Role of Function in Sound Change
10. Linda R. Waugh: Possibilities and Limitations of Verbal Communication: Language and Reality
11. Dana Wheeler: Subject Clitic Inversion in French

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Volume 1, Spring 1980

Contents

1. Leonard Babby: The Syntax of Surface Case Marking
2. Suzanne Flynn and Barbara Lust: Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Developmental Changes in their Heads
3. Gerald Greenberg: Nicto and Nicego are both 'Nothing' Subjects
4. Wayne Harbert: In Defense of Tense
   
5. Julia Herschensohn: Genericness and Intensionality
6. Susan Hertz: Linguistic Rules for Speech Synthesis
7. Robert Howell: On the Syntax of Passives in German
8. Cornelius Kubler: Language Contact in Taiwan
9. Rose Maclaran: On Two Asymmetrical Uses of the Demonstrative Determiners
10. Margaret See Gebauer: Modifiers in Cooperation--Negation, Aspect, Focus and Modality in Chinese
11. Elizabeth Ungar, Generative Phonology versus Akkadian

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