University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Penn Linguistics Conference
Working Papers
Preface
Nari Rhee and Ryan Budnick
Agent entailments in the semantics of roots
Josep Ausensi
Direct Causation: A New Approach to an Old Question
Rebekah Baglini and Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal
Word Order Rules: Parsing Sentences in a “Free” Word Order Language
Natalie Batmanian and Karin Stromswold
Mobile Affixes Across Western Armenian: Conflicts Across Modules
Nikita Bezrukov and Hossep Dolatian
Rhythmic Syncope in Subregular Phonology
Dustin Bowers and Yiding Hao
‘School’ Versus ‘Home’: California-based Korean Americans’ Context-dependent Production of /u/ and /oU/
Andrew Cheng
Finite-State Locality in Semitic Root-and-Pattern Morphology
Hossep Dolatian and Jonathan Rawski
Sprouting: A Key to Unifying Japanese Sluicing
Yoshiki Fujiwara
Perceptual Confusion of Mandarin Tone 3 and Tone 4
Chao Han, Irene Vogel, Yue Yuan, and Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Wh-agreement Across Three Domains in Indonesian
Helen Jeoung
The Complexity of Optimizing Over Strictly Local Constraints
Nate Koser and Adam Jardine
Diagnosing Movement via the Absence of C-command Relations
Sabine Laszakovits and Thomas Graf
Logophoricity and Mandarin Exempt Reflexives
Yingtong Liu
The Syntax of Concessive Clauses: Evidence from Exempt Anaphora
Gunnar Lund and Isabelle Charnavel
Children (and Some Adults) Overgeneralize Negative Concord: the Case of Fragment Answers to Negative Questions in Italian
Vincenzo Moscati
Implicit Causality: A Comparison of English and Vietnamese Verbs
Binh Ngo and Elsi Kaiser
Using Genetic Data to Make Linguistic Arguments: Are Clicks Evidence of Late Externalization?
Remo Nitschke
Obligatory Overt Movement of WH-phrases in Japanese
Takeshi Oguro
An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Uniqueness and Familiarity in Interpreting Definite Descriptions
Sadhwi Srinivas and Kyle Rawlins