The 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics University of Washington, Seattle September 15-17, 2006 ABSTRACTS The 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics University of Washington, Seattle September 15-17, 2006 ABSTRACTS Host: Department of Asian Languages & Literature Principal Organizer: Zev Handel Sponsors: China Studies Program, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, Department of Linguistics, The Graduate School Fund for Excellence & Innovation, Office of the Dean of Humanities, East Asia Center, Southeast Asia Center, South Asia Center ii Table of Contents Edith ALDRIDGE...........................................................................1 Mark ALVES.................................................................................2 David Prager BRANNER.................................................................3 Warren BREWER ..........................................................................4 Robbins BURLING.........................................................................6 Nancy CAPLOW ............................................................................7 Marjorie K.M. CHAN......................................................................8 Jung-Im CHANG...........................................................................9 Rinchen Angmo CHANGCHUNG .................................................... 10 Yawen CHEN.............................................................................. 11 CHEN Yi-Hsiu............................................................................. 12 Ying CHENG, Yawen CHEN........................................................... 13 Hsiao-feng CHENG ..................................................................... 14 Min-hua CHIANG........................................................................ 15 Richard S. COOK........................................................................ 16 Alec COUPE ............................................................................... 17 DAI Qingxia............................................................................... 18 ZhaoMing DAI............................................................................ 19 Keith DEDE................................................................................ 20 Scott DELANCEY ........................................................................ 21 Jakob DEMPSEY ......................................................................... 22 DENG Lin .................................................................................. 23 Rikker DOCKUM ......................................................................... 24 Christopher DOTY....................................................................... 25 Jonathan EVANS and Chenglong HUANG ....................................... 26 Kaneez FATIMA.......................................................................... 27 FENG Ying ................................................................................. 28 Michel FERLUS ........................................................................... 30 Jingqi FU................................................................................... 31 Maciej GACA.............................................................................. 32 William GAGE ............................................................................ 33 GONG Hwang-cherng.................................................................. 34 iii Inga-Lill HANSSON ..................................................................... 35 John HARTMANN ........................................................................ 36 Muhammad HASNAIN ................................................................. 37 HAYASHI Norihiko ...................................................................... 38 Suying HSIAO............................................................................ 39 Yuchau E. HSIAO and Kai-lin SUNG .............................................. 40 Fu-mei HSU............................................................................... 41 HU Suhua.................................................................................. 42 HUANG Chenglong ..................................................................... 43 HUZIWARA Keisuke .................................................................... 44 IKEDA Takumi ........................................................................... 45 JEDDY Cecelia C. Sangluaii.......................................................... 46 JEON Kwang Jin ......................................................................... 47 JIANG Ping ................................................................................ 48 Atsuhiko KATO........................................................................... 49 Wilaiwan KHANITTANAN.............................................................. 50 Kazuyuki KIRYU ......................................................................... 51 LAMA Ziwo ................................................................................ 52 Randy LAPOLLA ......................................................................... 53 Liberty LIDZ .............................................................................. 54 LIN I Chen .............................................................................. 55 You-Jing LIN.............................................................................. 56 Hsiao-Chien LIU ......................................................................... 57 Gwendolyn LOWES ..................................................................... 59 LU Mingchang ............................................................................ 60 Jiapeng LUO .............................................................................. 61 LUO Yongxian ............................................................................ 63 Kamal Prakash MALLA................................................................. 64 James A. MATISOFF ................................................................... 65 Martine MAZAUDON and Alexis MICHAUD...................................... 66 Boyd MICHAILOVSKY.................................................................. 67 Jerry NORMAN ........................................................................... 68 Jamin PELKEY ............................................................................ 69 David A. PETERSON.................................................................... 70 iv PHUA Chiew Pheng..................................................................... 71 Heleen PLAISIER........................................................................ 72 Priyankoo SARMAH and Caroline WILTSHIRE ................................. 73 SAWADA Hideo .......................................................................... 74 SHAKSPO Nawang Tsering Shakspo.............................................. 75 Hong SHEN ............................................................................... 76 SHIRAI Satoko........................................................................... 77 David B SOLNIT ......................................................................... 78 Hongkai SUN ............................................................................. 79 Kai-lin SUNG ............................................................................. 80 Kuo-ming SUNG......................................................................... 81 Yoshihisa TAGUCHI..................................................................... 82 TANG Chihsia............................................................................. 83 Liangjun TU............................................................................... 84 Apiluck TUMTAVITIKUL and Kanlayarat THITIKANNARA................... 85 TUNG Chung-szu........................................................................ 86 Halina WASILEWSKA .................................................................. 89 Justin WATKINS ......................................................................... 90 Christina WILLIS ........................................................................ 91 WU Anqi.................................................................................... 92 Chinwei WU............................................................................... 93 Janet XING................................................................................ 94 XU Shixuan ............................................................................... 95 YANG Liujin ............................................................................... 96 Chiou-Shing YEH........................................................................ 97 Jui-chuan YEH............................................................................ 98 Dominic YU ............................................................................... 99 Kun YUE.................................................................................. 100 ZHANG Linsheng ...................................................................... 101 v vi The Emergence of Wh-indefinites in Chinese Edith Aldridge, Northwestern University [email protected] Modern Chinese is a wh-in situ language, as shown in (1a). Wh-words in modern Chinese are also commonly known not to be quantificational but rather to function as variables, obtaining their quantificational force from some other element