University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Working Papers
Preface
Jim Alexander, Alexis Dimitriadis, Na-Rae Han, Elsi Kaiser, Michelle Minnick Fox, Christine Moisset, and Alexander Williams
Assimilation to the Unmarked
Eric Bakovic
On the Non-Universality of Functional Projections and the Effects on Parametrized Variation: Evidence from Creoles
Marlyse Baptista
What Turkish Acquisition Tells Us About Underlying Word Order and Scrambling
Natalie Batman-Ratyosyan and Karin Stromswold
Decomposing French Questions
Cedric Boeckx
A Conspiracy Argument for Optimality Theory: Emakhuwa Dialectology
Farida Cassimjee and Charles W. Kisseberth
Light-Headed Relatives
Barbara Citko
Semantically Charged Syntax and the Construction of Meaning
Kristen M. Eide and Tor A. Åfarli
"Punctuality" and Verb Semantics
Stefan Engelberg
Possessor Extraction in Child English: A Minimalist Account
Elena Gavruseva and Rosalind Thorton
Topic, Focus, and the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface
Jeanette K. Gundel
Two Ways of Deriving Distributive Readings
J.R. Hayashishita
A Hierarchy of Phonetic Constraints on Palatality in Russian
Alexei Kochetov
Japanese Floating Classifiers
William McClure
A-Scrambling Exists!
Martha McGinnis
Perception and Production of American English Tense and Lax Vowels by Japanese Speakers
Michelle Minnick Fox and Kazuaki Maeda
The Syntax of Adjunct Wh-NPs
Masao Ochi and Tien-Hsin Hsin
Reflexives and Constraints on the Borrowing of Discourse Function: Creoles and Tahitian French
Kieran Snyder
Two Types of Verb Particle Constructions
Mikael Vinka