BLS 22: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory

Table of Contents

Table of Contents and Preface
BLS Editors
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Articles

Borrowing and Politeness Strategy in Japanese
Shoji Azuma
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3-12
Advice and Soviet: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Speech Acts
Yelena Belyaeva
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13-24
The Covert Syntax of Wh-questions in Plains Cree
Eleanor M. Blain
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25-35
Levels vs. Domains: the case of Kashaya vowel length
Eugene Buckley
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36-45
By Me Bein' Pregnant I Would Stay Sick All the Time: Causal by and from in African American Vernacular English
Kathleen Carey, Patricia Cukor-Avila
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46-57
Easy-Class Adjectives in Old English: A Constructional Approach
Yook-Suk Chung, David Gamon
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58-70
Processing Factors of Pre- and Postposed Adverbial Clauses
Holger Diessel
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71-82
Causativization in Hupa
David Embick
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83-94
Weightless Epenthesis in Malagasy
Sean Erwin
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95-105
The Emphatic Origin of Reflexives
Elly van Gelderen
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106-115
Perception of Alveolar and Velar Allophones of English /l/ in Word- Initial and Word-Final Positions
Sara Gesuato
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116-131
Words by Default: Optimizing Constraints and the Persian Complex Predicate
Adele E. Goldberg
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132-146
NPI Licensing in Adjunct WH-Questions
Chung-hye Han, Laura Siegel
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147-158
Discourse and the Construction of Categories
Paul J. Hopper
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159-170
A Syntactic Study of African-American Vernacular English in "Middletown": Evidence of Convergence
Xiaozhao Huang
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171-182
A Mechanism of Semantic Change in Passive Constructions
Matthew L. Juge
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183-195
Variability in the Deletion of the Palatal Glide y in Seoul Korean: The Variable Process and its Implications
Hyeon-Seok Kang
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196-207
Optimal Stress Feet in Latvian
Krisjanis Karins
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208-219
Coherence and the Coordinate Structure Constraint
Andrew Kehler
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220-231
Licensing Negative pronominals in Georgian
Tracy Holloway King
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232-243
Ordering Restrictions on Aspirated and Ejective Stops in Aymara
Margaret R. MacEachern
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244-254
A Constructional Approach to English Verbal Gerunds
Robert Malouf
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255-266
The Geography of Language Origins
Johanna Nichols
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267-278
How the Length and Pitch of aizuti 'Back Channel Utterances' and the Nature of the Speech Activity Determine Preference Structure in Japanese
Misao Okada
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279-289
indexical meaning, linguistic ideology, and japanese women's speech
Shigeko Okamoto
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290-301
To Will or Not to Will: The Evolution of willy-nilly
Paula Kadose Radetzky
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302-315
The Interaction of Participant Role and Pragmatic Function in the Selection of Question Form
William Raymond, Kristin Homer
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316-327
Pragmatic Inference and Grammaticalization of Serial Verbs of Displacement in Korean
Seongha Rhee
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328-339
Revising Old English Definitions of FRIEND: A Cognitive Account
Manuela Romano
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340-351
Edge Reduplication and Anchoring in Correspondence Theory
Minsu Shim
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352-363
Voiceless Nasals in Auditory Phonology
Daniel Silverman
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364-374
An OT Account of Pidgin Phonolgy: Coda Consonants in Vernacular Liberian English
John Victor Singler
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375-386
The Discourse Function of the Quotation Marker tte in Conversational Japanese
Satoko Suzuki
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387-393
Taiwanese Tone Sandhi as Allomorph Selection
Jane Tsay, James Myers
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395-405
Another Look at Unaccusative Mismatches in Japanese
Natsuko Tsujimura
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406-416
The Distribution and Representation of Laryngeals
Hye-Young Um
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417-428
Sound Change and Grammaticalization in Japanese Verb Morphology
Natasha Warner
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429-439
Intonational Structures of Mandarin Discourse
Li-chiung Yang
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440-451
Argument Structure and Learnability: Is a Solution in Sight?
Melissa Bowerman
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454-468
Learnability in the Acquisition of Multiple Senses: SOURCE Reconsidered
Christopher Johnson
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469-480
Evidence Children Use: Learnability and the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes
Lise Menn
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481-497
Learnability, Hyperlearning, and the Poverty of the Stimulus
Geoffrey K. Pullum
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498-513
'No Negative Evidence': What's the Problem?
Matthew Saxton
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514-524