Table of Contents
C ARLOS BALHANA
What does this even mean? Modality, ordering, and focus

1

M AX BANE & JASON R IGGLE
The typological consequences of weighted constraints

13

M ATT BAUER
Sound change and laryngeal height

29

JACQUELINE B UNTING
Comparing quality and quantity in Ewe: A look at the comparativewu

39

M ICHAEL D IERCKS
Subject extraction and (so-called) anti-agreement effects inLubukusu: A Criterial Freezing approach

55

O LGA E REMINA
Ambiguity or unification? A Choice Function approach to –to indefinites in Russian71

M ARC E TTLINGER , A NN R. B RADLOW, AND PATRICK C.M. W ONG
The persistence and obliteration of opaque interactions

79

C ALEB E VERETTUnderstanding the adjacency of nasal oralization and stress in Karitiâna

95

M ATT G ARLEY, B ENJAMIN S LADE , AND M ARINA T ERKOURAFI
Hwæt! LOL! Common formulaic functions in Beowulf and blogs

111

P ETER G RAFF AND T. F LORIAN JAEGER
Locality and feature specificity in OCP effects: Evidence from Aymara, Dutch, and Javanese127

L ENORE A. G RENOBLE
Losing it in Siberia: Assessing the impact of contact

143

JAMES G RUBER
The composition of phonological tone in Burmese

161

M. C ATHERINE G RUBER“I just wanna apologize...": The socio-interactional meanings of‘just’ in defendants’ apologies at sentencing

177

S ILKE H AMANN , D IANA A POUSSIDOU , AND PAUL B OERSMA
Modelling the formation of phonotactic restrictions across the mental lexicon

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J ESSE A. H ARRIS AND C HRISTOPHER P OTTS
Predicting perspectival orientation for appositives

207

V INCENT H OMER
Here and there: The curious case of Samoan possessors

223

V INCENT H OMER AND T OMOKO I SHIZUKA
Only one (s)ase: Looking at Japanese causatives from a French perspective

239

H YUN K YUNG H WANG
The role of prosody and pragmatics on wh-scope assignment in Korean and Japanese255

P ETER J ENKS AND S HARON ROSE
Syllable weight and high tone in Moro

271

K AREN J ESNEY
Licensing in multiple contexts: An argument for Harmonic Grammar

287

J ULIE L I J IANG
Monotonicity and measure phrases in Chinese

303

K AZUHIRO K AWACHI
External possessor constructions in Sidaama (Sidamo)

319

S USANNAH K IRBYChild passives: A-chain maturation or argument mismatches?

335

Y USUKE K UBOTA
More on scale structure and degree modification: The case of kanariin Japanese347

P EI -J UNG K UO
Differential object markers in Mandarin Chinese

359

A SHLEY L OBER AND B RENDA H. B OERGER
Spatial relationships in Natügu: Micro-level directionals

371

J ENNIFER M ACK AND YAEL F UERST
English optional expletives and the pragmatics of judgments

387

D IANA M ARINOVA
Collaborators or underminers of the dispute resolution process?
Disputants’ reactions to mediators’ assessments

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M ICHAEL M AXWELL AND J ONATHON A MITH
Language documentation: Archiving grammars

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K ELLY LYNNE M AYNARD
The aspect marker pe in Samsun Albanian429

K EVIN B. M C G OWAN
Gradient lexical reflexes of the syllable contact law

445

DAN M ICHEL
Positional transparency in c’Lela455

M ARCIN M ORZYCKI
Degree modification of extreme adjectives

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E-C HING N G
Non-plateaus, non-tonal heads: Tone assignment in Colloquial Singaporean English

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H IROKI N OMOTO
More on Austronesian nasal substitution503

K ENNETH S. O LSON , D. W ILLIAM R EIMAN , F ERNANDO S ABIO ,AND F ILIPE A LBERTO DA S ILVA
The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko

519

E UN -H AE PARKDefinite free choice analysis in Korean

531

J EREMY R AFAL
On the structure of associative plurals: A perspective from Hawaiian Creole English

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C HRISTOPHER A. S TRAUGHN
Exceptional case marking in Uzbek complementizer clauses

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R ACHEL S ZEKELY
Existential dependencies: Holes, problems and other flaws in theargument

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K ENSUKE TAKITA‘Genuine’ sluicing in Japanese

577E RIN TAVANO AND E LSI K AISERThe cost of being cooperative: Evidence of effort in the processingof scalar implicature593

M ARINA T ERKOURAFIVariationist methodology in pragmatics: (How) can it be done?

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J OZINA VANDER K LOK
Indirect modification in Javanese: Evidence from attributive comparatives

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O LGA VAYSMANMaïùi rhythmic allomorphy: Theoretical implications

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Z HIGUO X IE
A two-layer analysis of ability modality: A case study of able to655