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Proceedings of the thirty-ninth Western Conference On Linguistics Volume twenty WECOL 2010 Edited by Dina Bailey Victoria Teliga Department of Linguistics California State University, Fresno Fresno, CA 93740 Copyright © 2011 by the Department of Linguistics California State University, Fresno “Copular Sentences and Coordinate “L2 wh-movement: that-trace and Island Structures” Copyright © 2011 by Yuko Effects” Copyright © 2011 by Boyoung Asada and Takaomi Kato Kim “Revisiting the Partitive Constraint: An “Sluicing as Simple as Possible” Alternative Account” Copyright © 2011 by Copyright © 2011 by Lan Kim Lindsey Chen “Postnuclear Glides and Coda Nasals” “Phasehood in Applicatives” Copyright © 2011 by Yufu Chien Copyright © 2011 by Pei-Jung Kuo “Quantifier Scope and Anaphoric Links” “NP Ellipsis and the Presence of Definite Copyright © 2011 by So-Woo Chung and Determiners with Possessors in Portuguese” Jungmin Lee Copyright © 2011 by Ananda Lima “Phonetic Realization of Focus Particles “Investigating the Evolution of Agreement always and only in Korean: Theoretical Systems Using an Artificial Language Implications of Association with Focus” Learning Paradigm” Copyright © 2011 by Copyright © 2011 by Satoshi Nambu and Jennifer Culbertson and Geradline Legendre Yong-cheol Lee “Processing Factor in Negative Island “Right Node Raising, Plurality, and Multiple Contexts” Copyright © 2011 by Simone Dominance” Copyright © 2011 by Koichi Gieselman, Robert Kluender and Ivano Otaki Caponigro “An Experimental Investigation of Semantic “Which-Phrases Reconstruct? A Syntactic and Syntactic Effects on Idiom Recognition” Investigation of D-Linked Wh-Movement” Copyright © 2011 by Ed Holsinger and Elsi Copyright © 2011 by Dan Parker Kaiser “Scandinavian Object Shift from the “The use of Magnitude Estimation to Intonational Perspective” Copyright © 2011 Understand the Behavior of Reflexive by Mayumi Hosono Pronouns” Copyright © 2011 by Sara Schmelzer Loss “AAB and ABB Reduplication in Taiwan “Clefts and Free Relatives in Japanese” Southern Min” Copyright © 2011 by Ching- Copyright © 2011 by Tohru Seraku Han Hsu “On Multiple Reflexives in Japanese” “ATB Application of Case Operations and Copyright © 2011 by Toru Ishii Genitive Subjects in Japanese” Copyright © 2011 by Shigeki Taguchi and Shin'ya Uchishiba “The Progressive and Locative zai in Mandarin Chinese” Copyright © 2011 by I- Hao Woo “Alignment and Adjacency in Mandarin Quadrasyllabic Onomatopoeia” Copyright © 2011 by Wenchi Yeh “Pronoun-Antecedent Relations from Last Resort Movement” Copyright © 2011 by Jason Ginsburg and Sandiway Fong ISBN 1-879890-20-3 Contents Copular Sentences and Coordinate Structures..........................................................1 Yuko Asada and Takaomi Kato Revisiting the Partitive Constraint: An Alternative Account..................................12 Lindsey Chen Postnuclear Glides and Coda Nasals.......................................................................20 Yufu Chien Quantifier Scope and Anaphoric Links...................................................................34 So-Woo Chung and Jungmin Lee Investigating the Evolution of Agreement Systems Using an Artificial Language Learning Paradigm..................................................................................................46 Jennifer Culbertson and Geradline Legendre Processing Factor in Negative Island Contexts.......................................................59 Simone Gieselman, Robert Kluender and Ivano Caponigro An Experimental Investigation of Semantic and Syntactic Effects on Idiom Recognition..............................................................................................................71 Ed Holsinger and Elsi Kaiser Scandinavian Object Shift from the Intonational Perspective.................................84 Mayumi Hosono AAB and ABB Reduplication in Taiwan Southern Min.........................................97 Ching-Han Hsu On Multiple Reflexives in Japanese......................................................................105 Toru Ishii L2 wh-movement: that-trace and Island Effects...................................................118 Boyoung Kim Sluicing as Simple as Possible..............................................................................131 Lan Kim Phasehood in Applicatives....................................................................................144 Pei-Jung Kuo NP Ellipsis and the Presence of Definite Determiners with Possessors in Portuguese.............................................................................................................156 Ananda Lima Phonetic Realization of Focus Particles always and only in Korean: Theoretical Implications of Association with Focus................................................................169 Satoshi Nambu and Yong-cheol Lee The use of Magnitude Estimation to Understand the Behavior of Reflexive Pronouns................................................................................................................181 Sara Schmelzer Loss Right Node Raising, Plurality, and Multiple Dominance......................................192 Koichi Otaki Which-Phrases Reconstruct? A Syntactic Investigation of D-Linked Wh- Movement..............................................................................................................207 Dan Parker Clefts and Free Relatives in Japanese...................................................................221 Tohru Seraku ATB Application of Case Operations and Genitive Subjects in Japanese............240 Shigeki Taguchi and Shin'ya Uchishiba The Progressive and Locative zai in Mandarin Chinese.......................................252 I-Hao Woo Alignment and Adjacency in Mandarin Quadrasyllabic Onomatopoeia...............265 Wenchi Yeh Pronoun-Antecedent Relations from Last Resort Movement...............................277 Jason Ginsburg and Sandiway Fong 1 Copular Sentences and Coordinate ∗ Structures Yuko Asada† and Takaomi Kato‡ †Sophia University, ‡Tokyo University of Science 1. Introduction The traditional taxonomy of copular sentences classifies examples like (1), in which the pre-copular and post-copular DPs are interpreted as referring to the same entity, as equative copular sentences (cf., for example, Declerck 1988, Higgins 1979, Rapoport 1987).1 (1.) Equative copular sentences a. Your opinion of Edinburgh is my opinion of Philadelphia. (Heycock and Kroch 1996: 8, (28b); 1999: 373, (28b)) b. Your grade in Syntax II is my grade in Phonology I. In this type of copular sentences, a wh-phrase cannot be extracted from the pre- or post-copular DP, as shown in (2)–(3). (2.) Extraction from pre-copular DPs a. *Which cityi is your opinion of ti my opinion of Philadelphia? (Heycock and Kroch 1999: 378, footnote 9) b. *Which classi is your grade in ti my grade in Phonology I? (3.) Extraction from post-copular DPs a. *Which cityi is your opinion of Edinburgh my opinion of ti? (ibid.) b. *Which classi is your grade in Syntax II my grade in ti? In (2), a wh-phrase is extracted from the pre-copular DP, and in (3), extraction occurs out of the post-copular DP. In both cases, the examples are ungrammatical. Based on this observation, one might suggest that there is a constraint which prohibits extraction from pre- or post-copular DPs. Let us refer to this putative constraint as the CopDP Constraint. (4.) CopDP Constraint In a copular sentence, no element contained in the pre- or post-copular DP may be moved out of that DP. What is interesting is that the CopDP Constraint can be violated when extraction occurs from both the pre-copular DP and the post-copular DP at 2 the same time. This is shown in (5). (5.) Across-the-board (ATB) extraction in copular sentences a. Which cityi is your opinion of ti my opinion of ti? (ibid.) b. Which classi is your grade in ti my grade in ti? In these examples, a wh-phrase is extracted out of both the pre- and post-copular DPs, and the result is grammatical. To the best of our knowledge, so far no explanation has been given to the data in (2)–(3) and (5) (see Den Dikken 2005, 2006 and Heycock and Kroch 1996, 1999 for related discussions). As Heycock and Kroch (1999: 378, note 9) point out, the pattern of grammaticality seen in the above examples is reminiscent of the well-known pattern of grammaticality exhibited by extraction from coordination. Just as extraction from one of the two DPs linked by a copular verb is disallowed, extraction from one of the two conjuncts linked by a conjunction is disallowed, as shown by the example in (6). (6.) Extraction from a conjunct *What did Mary [send t on Monday] and [receive the parcel on Wednesday]? Since Ross 1967, the ungrammaticality of examples like this has been attributed to the Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC). (7.) Coordinate Structure Constraint (cf. Ross 1967) In a coordinate structure, no element contained in a conjunct may be moved out of that conjunct.2 Crucially, just as CopDP Constraint effects are not observed when extraction occurs from both the pre-copular DP and the post-copular DP at the same time, CSC effects are not observed when extraction occurs from both conjuncts of a coordinate structure at the same time, as illustrated by the example in (8). (8.) ATB extraction from coordination What did Mary [send t on Monday] and [receive t on Wednesday]? With this background, the aim of this paper is to offer a unified analysis of CopDP Constraint effects and CSC effects. It is argued below that these two types of effects are both derived