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**********Www************************** Best Copy Amu DOCUMENT RESUME ED 33.7, 49 FL 019 248 AUTHOR No, Yongkyoon, Ed.; ..ibucha, Mark, Ed. TITLE ESCOL '90: Proceedings of the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (7th, Columbus, Ohio, September 21-23, 1990). INSTITUTION Ohio State Univ., Columbus. REPORT NJ ISBN-1-878594-07-9 PUB DATE 91 NOTE 372p AVAILABLE FROM ESCOL Publications Committee, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 204 Cunz Hall, Columbus, OH 43210-1229 ($10.00). PUB TYPE Collected Works - Conference Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE KF01/PC15 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS American Sign Language; Case Studies; Chine3e; Evaluation Methods; French; German; Greek; Intonation; Italian; Javanese; Korean; Language Research; Morphology (Languages); Negative Forms (Language); Phonology; Spanish; *Structural Analysis (Linguistics); *Syntax; Tone Languages; Uncommonly Taught Languages; *Verbs; Vowels IDENTIFIERS *Discourse; Dyirbal; Markedness; Wh Questions ABSTRACT Papers inc.Lude: "Len7th and Structure Effects in Syntactic Processing"; Nartong Tone Sandhi and Tonal Feature Geometry"; "Event Reference and Property Theory"; "Function-Argument Structure, Category Raising and Bracketing Paradoxes"; "At the Phonetics-Phonology Interface: (Re)Syllabification and English Stop Allophony"; "Interpreting Reflexives in Coordinate NPs"; "Resultative 'de' as an Inflectional Morpheme in Chinese"; "Against an Ergative Analysis of Eastern Javanese"; "What Determines Anatipassive in Dyirbal?"; "In Defense of plus or minus FOC "; "The Bermuda Triangle of Syntax, Rhythm and Tone"; "Complement Structure of 'Tough' Constructions"; "Frequency, Markedness, and Morphological Change: On Predicting the Spread of Noun-Plural '-S' in Modern High German--and West Germanic"; "Discourse-Linking and the Wh-Island Extraction Asymmetry"; "One Word's Strength is Another Word's Weakness"; "Two Analyses of Korean Verb Inflections"; "Is INFL Universal? A Case Study of Korean"; "Vowel Underspecification in Jiyuan Chinese"; "Italian Pay:al Verbs in a Theory of Predication"; "Thematic Roles and French Dative Clitics: 'Lui' vs. 'Y'"; "Focus and the Discourse Dimension in Autolexical Theory"; "Aspectual Content of Compound Verbs"; "Thematic Structure and Verb Preferences"; "A-bar Movement in Spanish: Wh-ques:ions, Focalizations, and Relative Clauses"; "Role of Plasticity in the Asscciation of Focus and Prominence"; "A Unified Explanation of Deponent Verbs in Ancient Greek"; "Intonation and Focus in American Sign Language"; "'Any': Its Context Sensitivity and Meaning"; and "Negation and Aspect." 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All rights Reserved. ESCOL Proceedings Available ESCOL '84: Procedings of the First Eastern States Conferenceon Lin- guistics.Held at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September 28-30, 1984. Papers from: The General Session The Special Session on Agreement Invited papers by: Eve Clark, Bernard Comrie, Geoffrey Pullum, James McCawley ESCOL '85:Proceedings of the Second Eastern Stater Conferenceon Linguistics. Held at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, October 3-5, 1985. Papers from: The General Session The Special Session on the Parameters in Universal Syntax Invited Papers by: Joan Bresnan, Joan Bybee, Paul Hopper, David McNeill, Gillian Sankoff, Michael Silverstein, Carlota Smith ESCOL '86: Proceedings of the Third Eastern States Conferenceon Lin- guistics. Held at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon Univer- sity, October 10-12, 1986. Papers from: The General Session The Special Session on Linguistics at Work Invited Papers by: Charles Fillmore, Lily Wong Fillmore, Martin Kay, George Miller ESCOL '87:Proceedings of the Fourth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics. Held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, CO-do, October 2-4, 1987. Papers from: The General Session The Special Session on Variation and the Theory of Grammar Invited Papers by: Nina Hyams, Larry Hyman 5 ESCOL '88: Proceedings of the Fifth Eaters States Conference on Lin- guistics. Held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 30-October 2, 1988. Papers from: The General Session Invited Papers by: Mark A.onoff, Laurence Horn, Barbara Partee, Michael Tanenhaus ESCOL '89: Proceedings of the Sivas Easter* States Conference on guistics. Held at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, October 6-8, 1989. Papers from: The General Session Invited Papers by: Stephen R. Anderson, Bernard Comrie ESCOL '90: Proceedings of the Seventh Eastern States Conference on Linguistics. Cost per volume:Individuals: $ 10.00 Institutions: $ 12.00 Please mail requests to: ESCOL Publications Committee Department of Linguistics The Ohio State University 404 Cunz Hall Columbus, Ohio, 43210-1229, USA Checks or money orders should be made payable to: The Ohio State Uni versity. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This volume rontains papers presented at the seventh annual meeting of the Eastern States Conferenceon Linguistics (ESCOL), September 21-23, 1990. The conference was sponsored by the Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University. The conference was made possible through generous donations of time by the faculty, students, and staff of the OSU Department of Linguistics. Spe- cial thanks go to members of the Program Committee, by whose hands the sessions were planned and papers were selected: Hee-Rahk Chae, Younghet, Chung, Michelle Jackson, Donald Winford, and Arnold Zwicky. The other aspects of the conference were taken care of by the organizer Brian Joseph, whose efforts we appreciate. The conference was funded by the Center for Cognitive Science, the Col- lege of Humanities, and the Office for Research and Graduate Studies of the Ohio State University. The ccnference organizers greatly appreciate the help of these organizations. There were 34 papers presented at the conference, 27 of whichare con- tained in this volume. Robert Ladd's One Word's Strength is another Word's Weakness was an invited talk for the Parasession, Focus: Its Phonology and Syntax. In Defense of 1-0./- foe] by Thorsteir. Fretheim and Radi Al..... Nilsen was not presented at the conference but is included here. We thank 01 au- thors for facilitating publication of this volume by submittiig camera-ruady copy. Finally, we appreciate the aid of the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University in making this publication possible. Yongkyoon No Mark Libucha Editors a TABLE OF CONTENTS Antonisse, Peggy Length and Structure Effects in Syntactic Processing 1 Ao, Benjamin Nantong Tone Sandhi and Tonal Feature Geometry 8 Bayer, Sam Event Reference and Property Theory 16 Chae, Hee-Rahk Function-Argument Structure, Category Raising and Bracketing Paradoxes 23 Churma, Donald At the Phonetics-Phonology Interface: (Re)syllalsiji,Asson and English Stop Allophony 40 Cowart, Wayne Interpreting Reflexives in Coordinate NI's 55 Dai, John The Rests native de as an Inflectional Morpheme in Chinese 67 Davies, William Against an Ergative Analysis of Eastern Javanese 79 Dryer, Matthew What Determines Antipassive in Dyir6al9 90 Fretheim, Thorstein and Randi Alice Nilsen In Defense of ti-/- foe] 102 Hsiao, Yuchau The Bermuda Triangle of Syntax, Rhythm and Tone 112 Hukari, Thomas and Robert Levine The Complement Structure of tough Constructions 124 Janda, Richard D. Piequency, Markedness, and Morphological Change: On Predicting the Spread of Noun-Plural-5 in Modern High German-and West Germanic 136 Kraskow, Tina E. Discourse-linking and the Wh-Island Extraction Asymmetry 154 Ladd, Robert One Word's Strength is another Word's Weakness 166 Lapointe, Steven Two Analyses of Korean Verb Inflections 1871 Lee, Young-Suk Is INFL Universal? A Case Study of Korean 204 Lin, Yen-Hwei Vowel Underspecification in Jiyuan Chinese 215 Rubin, Edward ftaluPsych Verbs in a Theory of Predication 227 Sachs, Hilary Thematic Roles and French Dative Clitice: Luivs. y 240 Schiller, Eric Focus and the Discourse Dimension in Auto lexical Theory 249 Singh, Mona The Aspectual Content of Compound Verbs 260 Stowe, Laurie Thematic Structure and Verb Preferences 272 Toribio, A. Jacqueline A-bar Movemenl :a Spanish: WA-guestions, Focalizations, and Relative Clauses 286 Vanduvi, Enric The Role of Plasticity in the Association of Focus and Promine..ce 295 Whaley, Lindsay A Unified Explanation of Deponent Verbs in Ancient Greek 307 Wilbur, Ronnie B. Intonation and Focus in American Sign Language 320 V/ Zhou, Minglang Any: Its Context Sensitivity and Meaning 332-#7 Zucchi, Alessandro Negation and Aspect 344 9 ESCOL' 90 1-7 LENGTH
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