BLS 39: General Session and Special Session on Space and Directionality

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Front Matter
Matthew Faytak
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Articles

The Definite Marker in Arabic: Morphological realization of the syntactic head D or a [DEF] feature
Ahmad Alqassas
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2-15
A Frame-Semantic Approach to Verb-Verb Compound Verbs in Japanese: A Case Study of V-toru
Yi-Ting Chen
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16-30
An Optimal Construction Morphology Approach to Augment Consonants in Kannada
Oana David
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31-44
Binding as Co-indexing vs. Binding as Movement: Evidence from Personal Datives
Youssef A. Haddad
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45-60
Do Sighs Matter? Interactional Perspectives on Sighing
Elliott Hoey
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61-74
Testing the Learnability of Writing Systems
Sharon Inkelas, Keith Johnson, Charles Lee, Emil Minas, George Mulcaire, Gek Yong Keng, Tomomi Yuasa
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75-89
Quantifier Float, Focus, and Scope in Thai
Peter Jenks
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90-107
Discourse Marker Sequencing and Grammaticalization
Christian Koops, Arne Lohmann
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108-122
Elucidating Nominal Structure in Articleless Languages: A Case Study of Tatar
Ekaterina Lyutikova, Asya Pereltsvaig
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123-136
The Topic-Comment Structure in Copular Sentences: Evidence from Wolof
Martina Martinović
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137-151
Language Change as a Social Process: Diffusion Patterns of Lexical Innovations in Twitter
Rebecca Maybaum
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152-166
Roadblocks in the Grammaticalization Highway: When Phonology Gets in the Way
Bradley McDonnell
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167-181
Large-scale Vocabulary Surveys as a Tool for Linguistic Stratigraphy: A California Case Study
Yoram Meroz
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182-194
The Curious Case of Archi’s FATHER
Beata Moskal
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195-211
Re-thinking Compositionality in Persian Complex Predicates
Pollet Samvelian, Pegah Faghiri
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212-226
On the Cross-Linguistic Rarity of Endoclisis
Peter W. Smith
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227-244
Measuring Linguistic Distance in Athapaskan
Conor Snoek, Christopher Cox
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245-258
The Phylogenetic Status of Pacific Coast Athabaskan: A Computational Assessment
Justin Spence
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259-272
Automatic Extraction of Linguistic Data from Digitized Documents
Terrence Szymanski
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273-286
Clitics and Voicing in Dutch
Jos Tellings
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287-301
Possession as Non-Verbal Predication
Shiao Wei Tham
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302-316
Exhaustifying Focus Intervention Effects: A Crosslinguistic Study
Zhiguo Xie
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317-332
Anchored to what? An anaphoric approach to frames of reference
Jefferson Barlew
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334-348
Here and Now: Mapping Space and Time in a Four-Part Frame of Reference Typology
Eve Danziger
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349-363
The Expression of Motion Events: A Quantitative Study of Six Typologically Varied Languages
Benjamin Fagard, Jordan Zlatev, Anetta Kopecka, Massimo Cerruti, Johan Blomberg
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364-379
Mapping Worlds: Frames of Reference in MalakMalak
Dorothea Hoffmann
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380-395
Morpheme Order Constraints Upside Down: Verticality and Other Directions
Caroline Imbert
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396-411
The Forefinger/Thumb Alternation in Arapaho Pointing: Participation Space as a Frame of Reference
Richard A. Sandoval
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412-424
Ways of Going ‘Back’: A Case Study in Spatial Direction
Joost Zwarts
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425-443