CLS 56 Digital Repository Program
The 56th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society∗
Organizers: Matthew Hewett, Corinne Kasper, Sanghee Kim, Naomi Kurtz, James Waller
How to navigate: Click on ‘Abstract’ or a paper’s title to be redirected to its page.

Special Session: H ERITAGE L ANGUAGE L INGUISTICS
Abel Cruz Flores (Georgetown University)

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Linguistic cues evoked in representing gender systems in heritage grammars

Yourdanis Sedarous (University of Michigan)

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Codeswitching and the Egyptian Arabic
Construct State: Investigations into thewordhood status of a complex syntactic unit

Johannes Hein & Doreen Georgi (Universität Potsdam)

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On the interaction of extraction and argument marking in Asante Twi

Kenta Kakenami (Aoyama Gakuin University)

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On the extraction of predicative phrases inEnglish non-restrictive relative clauses

Hans-Martin Gärtner (MTA Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest)

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On the Utility of Commissive Signals andthe “Promissive Gap”

Beáta Gyuris (MTA Research Institute forLinguistics, Budapest)

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Putting Hungarian rise-fall declaratives on
the conversational scoreboard

Robert Henderson & Jian Gang Ngui(University of Arizona)

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Proposing to ignore discourse updates inColloquial Singaporean English

Aitor Lizardi Ituarte (Euskal HerrikoUnibertsitatea [University of the BasqueCountry], UPV/EHU)

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Different scope relations between discourse
particles and intonation: The case ofBasque ba

Special Session: R ESUMPTIVITY

Special Session: S PEECH ACTS∗

Papers are organized alphabetically by first author’s last name.

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General Session Talks
Irina Burukina & Alexandra Kubatieva(RIL HAS, ELTE & RSUH)

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Control in event nominals revealed by antipassive

Chaoyi Chen (Rutgers University)

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Presupposition licenses limited ellipsis:
Evidence from the non-verbal wh-questionin Mandarin

Koji Kawahara (Nagoya University ofForeign Studies)

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Introducing iconicity: The semantics ofideophones and the quotative particle

Qiongpeng Luo & Anqi Zhang (NanjingUniversity)

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The architecture of the perfective viewpoint
aspect in Mandarin

Jian Gang Ngui (University of Arizona)

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A unified analysis of Mandarin long andshort bei-passives

Jason Overfelt (Oakland University)

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Nipped in the bud: Failed sprouting in notat-issue content

Brian Agbayani & Toru Ishii (California
State University, Fresno & Meiji University)

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Multiple sluicing constructions in Japanese

Aliaksei Akimenka (University of Michigan)

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A neo-constructivist approach to Exceptional Case Marking constructions

Dan Cameron Burgdorf (Cornell University)

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Burmese moraic structure

Irina Burukina (Eötvös Loránd University, MTA Research Institute for Linguistics)

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Introducing an Addressee: When embedded C0 projects an argument

Duk-Ho Jung & Grant Goodall (University of California San Diego)

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Sprouting is not sensitive to islands

Demet Kayabaşı & Kadir Gökgöz(Boğaziçi University)

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The causative-inchoative alternation inTurkish Sign Language and the age of acquisition effects on complex clauses

Okgi Kim (University of WisconsinMilwaukee)

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Reformulative multiple accusative constructions as vacuous reformulative appositions

Elango Kumaran (University of SouthernCalifornia)

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Two types of external argument in Karuk

Posters2

Rebecca Lee (University of ColoradoBoulder)

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Ideology, frame semantics, and variation:
A cognitive sociolinguistic study of the English lexeme racist

Ora Matushansky (SFL (CNRS / Université Paris-8 / SFL) / UiL OTS / Utrecht University)

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The dual nature of the Romanian neuter

Andrew McInnerneyMichigan)

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Reevaluating the reanalysis analysis ofprepositional passives [Handout, Presentation]

Rachel Rudolph & Alexander Kocurek(Auburn University & Cornell University)

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Comparing conventions

Yuta Sakamoto (Meiji University)

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NEG-raising via Proform

Luis Miguel Toquero-Pérez (University ofSouthern California)

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The syntax and semantics of Spanish comparatives: A uniform account(University3