Front Matter

Abstract

We are pleased to present the proceedings of BLS 38, held at the University of California, Berkeley in February 2012. In this volume, the papers presented at the thematic session on language contact are those by Andrew Dombrowski, Mark Donohue, Victor A. Friedman, Nadine Grimm, Greg Key, and Justin Spence. The following authors also presented papers at the conference, though their work does not appear in this volume: Patience Epps, Dominique Sportiche, Sarah Thomason, Rebekah Baglini, David Eddington, Matthew Savage, Donna Gerdts, Harald Hammarström, Vincent Homer, Tomoko Ishizuka, Yong-Cheol Lee, Nate Maddux, Keri Miller, Hiromi Oda, Kuo-Chiao Jason Lin, and Sylvia L. Reed. We would like to thank the contributors to this volume and all those who attended and participated in the conference.