These two volumes contain forty-seven papers in theoretical linguistics that were presented at NELS 37, which was hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October, 2006. The collection covers a wide range of topics in phonology, syntax, and semantics, and includes papers from the special sessions on the Phonology and Morphology of Pidgins and Creoles and on Syntactic Theory and Psycholinguistics. These volumes will interest scholars and students in any sub-field of theoretical linguistics.

Contents

Volume one includes papers from the special sessions on the Phonology and Morphology of Pidgins and Creoles and on Syntactic Theory and Psycholinguistics, as well as 18 papers from the main session. Volume two contains 23 papers from the main session.

Volume 1

A Constraint-based Analysis of Coda Consonant Reflexes in Haitian Creole / Sharon Gerlach. Verb Allomorphy in French-related Creoles / Tonjes Veenstra. On the Structuring Role of Grammaticalized Morpho-syntactic Features / Viviane Deprez. Small Antecedents: Syntax or Pragmatics? / Keir Moulton. Structural and Thematic Information in Sentence Production / Christina Kim. The Real-time Interpretation of Pronouns and Reflexives: Structural and Nonstructural Information / Elsi Kaiser, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus. Japanese Superlative Constructions: Evidence for ‘est’-movement / Masahiko Aihara. What will you have, DP or NP? / Željko Bošković. Only Finally / Jonathan Brennan. Wh-Fronting is a By-Product of Q-Movement: Evidence from Tlingit / Seth Cable. Italian Null Objects and Resultative/Depictive Predication / Andrea Cattaneo. An ATB Account of Chinese Bare Conditionals / Candice Cheung Chi Hang. Argument Cluster Coordination and Constituency Test (Non-)Conflicts / Youngju Choi & James Yoon. Durative Adverbs: Peculiarities and Implications / Aniko Csirmaz. Syntactic Evidence for Tense Heads in Mandarin Chinese (Beijing Dialect) / Xuan Di. Constraints on Quantificational Domains: Generic Plural ‘des’-indefinites in French / Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin & Alda Mari. The Projection of Telicity in Vietnamese / Shin Fukuda. Phases and Ellipsis / Kirsten Gengel. Contrastive Focus: Licensor for Right Node Raising / Seungwan Ha. Learning Unbounded Stress Systems Via Local Inference / Jeffrey Heinz. If vs. when, wenn vs. als: Microvariation in the Semantics of Conditional and Temporal Complementizers in English and German / Stefan Hinterwimmer. An Argument from Gapping for a Hamblin Semantics for Disjunction / Sarah Hulsey. Future in a Supposedly Tenseless Language / Krisín Jóhannsdóttir & Lisa Matthewson. Licensing and Noniterative Harmony in Lango / Aaron F. Kaplan.

See separate announcement for contents of Volume 2.