Proceedings of the 9th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Aaron L. Halpern(Editor)
The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1991
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520 pages
978-0-937073-64-3 (ISBN)
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Most of the papers presented at the 1990 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics are included in this volume. This annual publication, not readily available in the past, makes the latest research in formal linguistics available to a wider audience. Aaron Halpern is a graduate student in linguistics at Stanford University.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
809 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-937073-64-3 (9780937073643)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
1. Locative alternation vs. locative inversion Farrell Ackerman; 2. Null subjects in the DP and inalienable construal in French J.-Marc Authier; 3. Tough movement as function composition Samual Bayer; 4. Attributive postnominal adjectives in a categorial grammar J. Michael Bouldin; 5. The syntax of generics: Japanese evidence for the quantificational model Chris Brockett; 6. Edge-in association and OCP 'Violations' in Tigrinya Eugene Buckley; 7. Gap licensing in tough- and similar constructions Hee-Rahk Chae; 8. Feature geometry of vowels and co-occurrence restrictions in Cantonese Lisa Lai Shen Cheng; 9. External arguments in Basque Lisa Lai Shen Cheng and Hamida Demirdash; 10. A typology of voicing assimilation Young-mee Yu Cho; 11. The minimal word in Bengali Jennifer Fitzpatrick Cole; 12. A formal model of linguistic processing: evidence from Aphasia Thomas L. Cornell, Victoria A. Fromkin and Gail Mauner; 13. Dual-position affixes in Afar: an argument for phonologically-driven morphology S. Lee Fulmer; 14. The 'Faire-Par' construction in Romance and in Germanic Maria Teresa Guasti; 15. Head movement triggered by weak functional heads Girma Halefom; 16. Phonological evidence for the surface nonexistence of empty categories Aaron L. Halpern; 17. Operator movement within NP Randall Hendrick; 18. Against the notion 'Governing Category' Arild Hestvik; 19. Restrictions on existential sentences and object-scrambling: some facts from Dutch Helen de Hoop; 20. Tree generation with context-sensitive rules yields only context-free languages Pauline Jacobson and Mark Johnson; 21. Unacceptable ambiguity in categorial grammar Roger Janeway; 22. Decapitation (of some so-called 'null operator' constructions Charles Jones; 23. Multiplanar reduplication: evidence from Sesotho Louise McNally; 24. English aspectual verbs as generalized qualifiers Alice ter Meulen; 25. The multidimensional part structure of events Friederike Moltmann; 26. Semantics of common noun phrase anaphora John Nerbonne, Masayo Iida and William Ladusaw; 27. A non-transformational analysis of clitic climbing in Spanish Chiyo Nishida; 28. Categorial frameworks, coordination, and extraction Richard T. Oehrle; 29. Coronal or velar placeless consonants? Carole Paradis and Jean-François Prunet; 30. Complex predicate formation in Bangla Gillian Ramchand; 31. Verb-second in mainland Scandinavian: a reanalysis Charlotte Reinholtz; 32. Restructuring verbs are light verbs Sara Thomas Rosen; 33. How many feet per language? Cari Spring; 34. Multiple relatives and polyadic quantification Veneeta Srivastav; 35. Non-C-commanding antecedents of bound anaphora and feature percolation in government and binding theory Li-May Sung and Peter Cole; 36. Specifier-head aggrement in Japanese Almeida Jacqueline Toribio; 37. An argument sharing approach to ditransitive constructions Mireille Tremblay; 38. Korean tensing and contrastive specification Charles H. Ulrich; 39. Non-affixal preposition incorporation and lexical semantic properties of predicates Shi Zhang; Subject index; Language index.