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 eighteen papers from the main session. Volume two contains twenty-three papers from the main session.

Volume 2

A New Perspective on Japanese Sika-Nai Constructions / Koji Kawahara. Monotonicity at the Lexical Semantics-morphosyntax Interface / Andrew Koontz-Garboden. Weak Derived Environment Effect / Kazutaka Kurisu. Case Marking Signals more than Structure Building: Processing Evidence from Korean Double Nominative Constructions / Nayoung Kwon. Relative Truth, Speaker Commitment, and Control of Implicit Arguments / Peter Lasersohn. A Left Branch Extraction Perspective on Bound Variables and Pronoun Insertion Strategy / Marijana Marelj. The Correlation of Markedness and Frequency: Emergent or Innate? / Andrew Martin. The Syntax of Abstract and Concrete Finals in Ojibwe / Eric Mathieu. How Well Features Match: On the Disappearance of Superiority Effects / Miki Obata. Agreement and the Subjects of Jussive Clauses in Korean / Miok Pak, Paul Portner & Raffaella Zanuttini. Great coffee, that Maxwell House! / Ileana Paul. Split Antecedents in VP Ellipsis / Laura Rimell. A [person] Restriction on the Definiteness Effect in Spanish / Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo. Hungry Experiencers / Oana Savescu Ciucivara. Middles as Voiced Anticausatives / Florian Schäfer. Quantified Noun Phrases in a Head-Final Language / Keun Young Shin. Category and Position as Correlates in Determining Patterns of Default Accentuation in Japanese: Evidence from Nonce Words / Lisa Shiozaki. Creole Phonology: No such discipline, but what a lot you can learn from it! / Norval Smith. Sluicing and Resumption / Chyan-an Arthur Wang. Harmony versus Distance in Phonetic Enhancement / Adam Wayment, Luigi Burzio, Donald Mathis & Robert Frank. wollP: Where Syntax and Semantics Meet / Susi Wurmbrand. Applicative Constructions and the Remerge of a Functional Preposition / Tomoyuki Yabe. Phonologically-conditioned Gestural Overlap / Gwanhi Yun.

See separate announcement for contents of Volume 1.