BLS 38: General Session and Thematic Session on Language Contact

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Front Matter
Oana A. David
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i-vii

Articles

Register-Specific Morphophonological Constructions in Japanese
Kimi Akita
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3-17
Reanalyzing Definiteness in Bangla
Priyanka Biswas
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19-29
Color Categories in Language Contact: 'Pygmy' Hunter-Gatherers and Bantu Farmers
Nadine Grimm
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31-46
Bilingual Complex Verbs: So what's new about them?
Tridha Chatterjee
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47-61
Verbal Reduplication and Grammaticalization: A Study of Mandarin VV-kan and V-kankan Constructions
Yi-Yang Cheng
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63-77
Multiple Relative Marking in 19th Century West Rumelian Turkish
Andrew Dombrowski
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79-90
Studying Contact without Detailed Studies of the Languages Involved: A Non-Philological Approach to Language Contact
Mark Donohue
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92-119
The Articulatory Function of the Larynx and the Origins of Speech
John H. Esling
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121-149
Compiling sonority scales with obstruent vowels
Matthew Faytak
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151-161
Languages are Wealth: The Sprachbund as Linguistic Capital
Victor A. Friedman
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163-177
Relative importance of phonation cues in White Hmong tone perception
Marc Garellek, Patricia Keating, Christina M. Esposito
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179-188
Are dislocated direct objects clause-external? Evidence from differential object marking
Giorgio Iemmolo
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190-204
Additive Focus and Additional Functions of Karbi (Tibeto-Burman) =tā
Linda Konnerth
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206-221
Opacity in Crimean Tatar: The Interaction of Vowel Harmony and Syncope
Darya Kavitskaya
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223-237
Differential Object Marking in Turkic and Persian as a Contact Phenomenon
Greg Key
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239-254
Reconstruction of Proto-Kampa Verbal Morphology
Aimee Lawrence
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256-270
The Representation of Contour Tones in Cantonese
Jackson L. Lee
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272-286
Multiple Interpretations and Constraints of Causative Serial Verb Constructions in Korean
Juwon Lee
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288-305
Lexical Effects in Phonemic Neutralization in Taiwan Mandarin
Ying-Shing Li
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307-326
How Semantics is Embodied through Visual Representation: Image Schemas in the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
Tiffany Ying-Yu Lin, I-Hsuan Chen
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328-336
The Many Ways to Find the "Right" and the "Left": On dynamic projection models in the encoding of spatial relations
Tatiana Nikitina
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338-353
Iconicity, Implicature, and the Manner Interpretation of Coordination Structure: Through Comparison of English and French
David Y. Oshima
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355-369
Constructional Paradigm in Constraint-based Morphosyntax: A Case of Japanese Verb Inflection
Ryo Otoguro
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371-385
Future Reference in Hungarian
Nicole Palffy-Muhoray
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386-399
Logical Complexity in Morphological Learning: effects of structure and null/overt affixation on learning paradigms
Katya Pertsova
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401-413
Tense and Modality in two creoles: Capeverdean and Saamáka
Fernanda Pratas, Marleen van de Vate
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415-430
From Demonstrative to Nominalizer: The Suffix -gai in Northern Tepehuan
Stefanie Ramos Bierge
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432-446
Code Switching and Mixed Language Genesis in Tiwi
Justin Spence
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448-463
Cross-linguistic Analysis of Metaphorical Conceptions of душа/dusza/duša ('soul') in Slavic Languages (Russian, Polish, and Croatian)
Kristina Štrakalj Despot, Inna Skrynnikova, Julia Ostanina Olszewska
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465-480
Perceiving pitch accent in the absence of F0
Yukiko Sugiyama
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482-492
Epistemicity and Deixis: Perspectives from Central Alaskan Yup'ik
Yuki-Shige Tamura
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494-505
Weak Generic Sentences: Partitioning and Comparison
Zhiguo Xie
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507-521
The Cluster-internal Ordering of Clitics in Kavalan (East Formosan, Austronesian)
Doris Ching-jung Yen, Loren Billings
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523-537
Prosody-Based Word Recognition for L2 Speakers
Gwanhi Yun
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539-553
Templates as affixation of segment-sized units: the case of Southern Sierra Miwok
Eva Zimmermann
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555-569