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A collection of articles written by the presenters at the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL18). 

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ISBN 1-57473-023-1

 

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Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Raising without infinitives and the nature of agreement, Alexiadou, Artemis and Elena Anagnostopoulou

2. Where and why do CVC syllables count as heavy?, Ahn, Mee-Jin

3. Structural markedness and Minimalist checking theory, Bejar, Susana

4. How to get a free ride: additional scrambling effect and the principle of minimal compliance, Boeckx, Cedric and Koji Sugisaki5. 

5. A multiplanar account of consonant-tone interaction, Bradshaw, Mary M.

6. Verbal classifiers as heads of functional projections: evidence from American Sign Language, Brentari, Diane and Elena Benedicto

7. Diminutive reduplication in Thompson River Salish, Coelho, Gail

8. Inflection is syntactic: evidence from Salish possessives, Davis, Henry and Martina Wiltschko

9. A syntactic derivation of Semitic verbs, Doron, Edit

10. Properties as arguments, Engelhardt, Miriam

11. Extraposition and scope: a case for overt QR, Fox, Danny and Jon Nissenbaum

12. Stripping and sluicing in Japanese and some implications,Fukaya, Teruhiko and Hajime Hoji

13. Phrase-linking meets Minimalist syntax, Gärtner, Hans-Martin

14. At-will spoonerisms and vowel length in Finnish, Harrikari, Heli

15. Subject and adjunct asymmetries: evidence from syntactic satiation, Hiramatsu, Kazuko

16. Dynamic quantification at a distance, Honcoop, Martin

17. Consonant clusters in Tsou and their theoretical implications, Hsin, Tien-Hsin

18. Cyclic spell-out and That-t effects, Ishii, Toru

19. The phonetic basis of coronal phonotactics, Kang, Yoonjung

20. Interaction of tone and stress in Seoul and Chonnam Korean, Ko, Eon-suk

21. Manner in dative alternation, Krifka, Manfred

22. A comprehensive of three Hungarian particles, Laczkó, Tibor

23. Psych-adjectives and semantic selection, Landau, Idan

24. Temporal adjectives and the structure of possessive DPs, Larson, Richard and Sungeun Cho

25. On multiple wh-questions: weak crossover, D-linking, and the third wh-phrase effect, Lewis, John D.

26. The morphosemantics of object case in Kannada, Lidz, Jeffrey

27. Two views of Polish reflexives, Lubowicz, Anna

28. A reconsideration of unaccusativity in ergative alternations, Matsuoka, Mikinari

29. Evidence for feature-driven A-scrambling, McGinnis, Martha

30. Subject and object coordination in Ndebele: and HPSG analysis, Moosally, Michelle J.

31. A unified mora account of Chuukese, Muller, Jennifer S.

32. Successive cyclicity phenomena in wh-movement constructions, Noonan, Máire B.

33. Durative adverbials for result states, Piñón, Christopher

34. Long-distance agreement in Tsez, Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky

35. On base-reduplicant identity, Pylkkänen, Liina

36. Quantificational mapping of nonlogical If, Quer, Josep

37. Absolute constructions: on the distribution of predicative idioms, Riehemann, Susanne Z. and Emily Bender

38. Object assymetries and their morphophonological reflexes,Seidl, Amanda

39. Typology of consonantal weaking in a constraint-based approach, Shin, Seung-hoon

40. Noun faithfulness and accent in Fukuoka Japanese, Smith, Jennifer L.

41. Compensatory lengthening as coalescence: analysis and implications, Sumner, Meghan

42. Indexical pronouns as bound variables, Tsoulas, George and Murat Kural 

43. Binding Theory and Minimalist Features, Van Gelderen, Elly

44. Predicative and non-predicative verb particle constructions, Vinka, Mikael

45. Right-node raising and the LCA, Wilder, Chris

46. Modal verbs must be raising verbs, Wurmbrand, Susi

47. The unified semantics of Mosts, Yabushita, Katsuhiko

48. Case features and case particles, Yang, Dong-Whee