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

• Table of Contents and Preface

  BLS Editors

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Articles

• Borrowing and Politeness Strategy in Japanese

  Shoji Azuma

  3-12

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• Advice and Soviet: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Speech Acts

  Yelena Belyaeva

  13-24

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• The Covert Syntax of Wh-questions in Plains Cree

  Eleanor M. Blain

  25-35

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• Levels vs. Domains: the case of Kashaya vowel length

  Eugene Buckley

  36-45

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• 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

  46-57

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• Easy-Class Adjectives in Old English: A Constructional Approach

  Yook-Suk Chung, David Gamon

  58-70

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• Processing Factors of Pre- and Postposed Adverbial Clauses

  Holger Diessel

  71-82

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• Causativization in Hupa

  David Embick

  83-94

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• Weightless Epenthesis in Malagasy

  Sean Erwin

  95-105

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• The Emphatic Origin of Reflexives

  Elly van Gelderen

  106-115

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• Perception of Alveolar and Velar Allophones of English /l/ in Word- Initial and Word-Final Positions

  Sara Gesuato

  116-131

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• Words by Default: Optimizing Constraints and the Persian Complex Predicate

  Adele E. Goldberg

  132-146

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• NPI Licensing in Adjunct WH-Questions

  Chung-hye Han, Laura Siegel

  147-158

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• Discourse and the Construction of Categories

  Paul J. Hopper

  159-170

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• A Syntactic Study of African-American Vernacular English in "Middletown": Evidence of Convergence

  Xiaozhao Huang

  171-182

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• A Mechanism of Semantic Change in Passive Constructions

  Matthew L. Juge

  183-195

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• Variability in the Deletion of the Palatal Glide y in Seoul Korean: The Variable Process and its Implications

  Hyeon-Seok Kang

  196-207

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• Optimal Stress Feet in Latvian

  Krisjanis Karins

  208-219

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• Coherence and the Coordinate Structure Constraint

  Andrew Kehler

  220-231

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• Licensing Negative pronominals in Georgian

  Tracy Holloway King

  232-243

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• Ordering Restrictions on Aspirated and Ejective Stops in Aymara

  Margaret R. MacEachern

  244-254

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• A Constructional Approach to English Verbal Gerunds

  Robert Malouf

  255-266

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• The Geography of Language Origins

  Johanna Nichols

  267-278

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• How the Length and Pitch of aizuti 'Back Channel Utterances' and the Nature of the Speech Activity Determine Preference Structure in Japanese

  Misao Okada

  279-289

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• indexical meaning, linguistic ideology, and japanese women's speech

  Shigeko Okamoto

  290-301

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• To Will or Not to Will: The Evolution of willy-nilly

  Paula Kadose Radetzky

  302-315

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• The Interaction of Participant Role and Pragmatic Function in the Selection of Question Form

  William Raymond, Kristin Homer

  316-327

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• Pragmatic Inference and Grammaticalization of Serial Verbs of Displacement in Korean

  Seongha Rhee

  328-339

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• Revising Old English Definitions of FRIEND: A Cognitive Account

  Manuela Romano

  340-351

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• Edge Reduplication and Anchoring in Correspondence Theory

  Minsu Shim

  352-363

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• Voiceless Nasals in Auditory Phonology

  Daniel Silverman

  364-374

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• An OT Account of Pidgin Phonolgy: Coda Consonants in Vernacular Liberian English

  John Victor Singler

  375-386

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• The Discourse Function of the Quotation Marker tte in Conversational Japanese

  Satoko Suzuki

  387-393

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• Taiwanese Tone Sandhi as Allomorph Selection

  Jane Tsay, James Myers

  395-405

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• Another Look at Unaccusative Mismatches in Japanese

  Natsuko Tsujimura

  406-416

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• The Distribution and Representation of Laryngeals

  Hye-Young Um

  417-428

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• Sound Change and Grammaticalization in Japanese Verb Morphology

  Natasha Warner

  429-439

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• Intonational Structures of Mandarin Discourse

  Li-chiung Yang

  440-451

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• Argument Structure and Learnability: Is a Solution in Sight?

  Melissa Bowerman

  454-468

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• Learnability in the Acquisition of Multiple Senses: SOURCE Reconsidered

  Christopher Johnson

  469-480

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• Evidence Children Use: Learnability and the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes

  Lise Menn

  481-497

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• Learnability, Hyperlearning, and the Poverty of the Stimulus

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  498-513

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• 'No Negative Evidence': What's the Problem?

  Matthew Saxton

  514-524

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