Full Description
These conference proceedings examine various aspects of formal linguistics. Individual topics covered include: sequences of tense, intentionality and scope; empty consonants and direct prosody; syllable weight and quantity in Dutch; finite control on modern Persian; and copular sentences.
Contents
1. Sequences of tense, intensionality and scope Dorit Abusch; 2. Type-shifting and variable-introducing disjunction in English and Japanese Chinatsu Anoe; 3. Minimal disjointness Joseph Aoun and Yen-hui Audrey Li; 4. Korean assimilation Young-mee Yu Cho; 5. On extraction from adjuncts in VP Peter Coopmans; 6. Empty consonants and direct prosody Megan Crowhurst; 7. The syntax of Wh-in-Situ Robert Fiengo, C. T. James Huang, Howard Lasnik and Tanya Reinhart; 8. Passives, verb raising, and the affectedness condition Nobuko Hasegawa; 9. Finite control on modern Persian Peggy Hashemipour; 10. A unified approach to copular sentences Lorie Heggie; 11. Affricates are not contour segments Jose Ignacio Hualde; 12. Liberation and inversion in GPSG Thomas E. Hukari and Robert D. Levine; 13. LF-binding of anaphors Fusa Katada; 14. Non-canonical argument identification Judy Kegl and Christiance Fellbaum; 15. On inherent case-marking Paula Kempchinsky; 16. Syllable weight and quantity in Dutch Aditi Lahiri and Jacques Koreman; 17. Subtractive morphology as dissocation Jack Martin; 18. On the parallelism between IP and DP M. A. Mohammad; 19. Ascription of responsibility in propositional attitudes M. G. Moser; 20. (In)definiteness in the absence of articles Leslie Porterfield and Veneeta Srivastav; 21. The representation of prenasalized consonants Sam Rosenthall; 22. Thematic and Grammatical hierarchies Peter Sells; 23. The expletive verb be Tineke Scholten; 24. Bare-consonant reduplication: implications for a prosodic theory of reduplication Kelly Sloan; 25. On the university of x-bar theory Koichi Tateishi; 26. Tone contours as melodic units Moira Yip; 27. Argument drop and pro Shi Zhang; 28. Prosodic constraints on syntax Sharon Inkelas.
