Synopses & Reviews
This is a compilation of papers presented at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, held February 20-22, 1998 in Vancouver, Canada, hosted by the University of British Columbia Department of Linguistics. The conference drew a large number of participants from around the world. The fifty papers in this volume address theoretical issues in Syntax, Phonology, the Syntax-Semantics and Syntax-Phonology interfaces, and Language Acquisition, and provide an exciting view of current theory in these areas.
Synopsis
'The papers address theoretical issues in Syntax, Phonology, the Syntax-Semantics and Syntax-Phonology interfaces, and Language Acquisition.'
Table of Contents
'Part I. Phonology: 1. Segment doubling and integrity violations; 2. Minimizing RED: nasal copy in Mbe; 3. The role of perceptibility in consonant/consonant metathesis; 4. Vowel dynamics and vowel phonology; 5. Contiguity, metathesis, and infixation; 6. Sonority constraints on tonal distributions across Chinese dialects; 7. The process specific nature of weight: the case of contour tone restrictions; 8. Faithfulness and contrast: the problem of coalescence; 9. Derived environment effects in OT; 10. Robust interpretive parsing in metrical stress theory; 11. Debuccalization with preservation of secondary articulation; Part II. Syntax-Phonology Interface: 12. Morphological and prosodic alignment at work: the case of South-Slavic clitics; 13. Phonological cohesion as a reflex of morphosyntactic feature chains; Part III. Syntax: 14. Cross-linguistic variation in the compatibility of negation and imperatives; 15. Two classes of cognate objects; 16. Resultatives and zero morphology; 17. Predicable participles; 18. Projection and bounding in possessor raising; 19. A restrictive/non-restrictive dstinction in possessive nominals; 20. Temporal and locative WH-phrases and the Null P incorporation; 21. The double access reading and complementizer deletion in Italian; 22. The syntactic locality of temporal interpretation; 23. Tense and aspect parallelism in antecedent contained deletions; 24. E-type \'A\'-traces under sluicing; 25. Some instructions for the worldly; 26. Group indefinites; 27. Focus without variables: a multi-modal analysis; 28. Sublexical modality and linking theory; 29. Ability modals and their actuality entailments: object drop and discourse accessibility; 30. Transparent free relatives; 31. Local dependencies in comparative deletion; 32. Specificational psueudoclefts as lists; Chinese-type questions in English; 33. Derived predicates and the interpretation of parasitic gaps; 34. In defense of the T-model; 35. Syntax of negative inversion in non-standard English; 36. The argument-predicate distinction and the non-optionality of DO clitic doubling and scrambling; 37. Island insensitivity of focus and Wh-phrase; 38. Scope reconstruction without reconstruction; 39. ECM constructions and binding: unexpected new evidence; 40. Transitive expletive constructions; 41. On the interpretation of there in existentials; Part IV. Syntax-Semantics Interface: 42. Free relatives as indefinites; 43. Ellipsis resolution in comparatives and the right periphery of DP; 44. Reconstruction in dislocation constructions and the syntax/semantics interface; 45. Quantification over individuals and events and the syntax-semantics interface: the case of existential constructions; Part V. Language Acquisition: 46. Rejection and innovation of the acquisition of an artificial language; 47. Wherefore lost English V-raising; 48. How children cope with scope.\n
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