1994 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers Table of Contents

VOLUME I

The Form and Content of Derivational Relations
Stephen R. Anderson

Linguistic Awareness of English Emphatic -self
Kathleen Connors and Benoît Ouellette

Infixation in Chinese Dialects: An Optimality Analysis
Jun Da

Stress in the Modern Hebrew Verbal System: The Optimality of a Morphologically Limited Generalization
Lise M. Dobrin

V-Features
Elly van Gelderen

Focus and Multiple CPs in English and Bulgarian
Elly van Gelderen and Lily Grozeva

Fidelity and Infidelity in Kickapoo: The Case of Code Switching and Quoted Material
Jule Gomez de Garcia

MORPHEUS: A Tool for the Lexical Analysis of Corpora for Morpheme Segmentation
Chris Hall, Patrick Juola, and Adam Boggs

The Hierarchical Function of Phonological Contexts on the Weakening of /s/ in Spanish
Fengfang Hwu

Is There a Midland Dialect of American English, Revisited? A Reply to Davis and Houck
Terry Lynn Irons

Data Mining and Marker Words: A
Psycholinguistic Approach to Machine Translation
Patrick Juola

Categorial and Structural Mismatches in the Light Verb Construction in Korean
Kyunghwan Kim

Reanalysis of Korean Causatives: An Argument Structure Account
In Lee

Verb Raising and Case Checking: A Minimalist Approach
Kwangho Lee

Two Types of Existentials in Japanese
Keiko Muromatsu

A Discourse Function of maa 'well' in Japanese Spontaneous Conversation
Misao Okada

Delimitedness and the Locative Alternation in Chinese
Yin-Yin Pao

Making the Cut
Clifton Pye and Yin-Yin Pao

Focus and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items
Eugene G. Rohrbaugh II

Conditions on Appearances of the Japanese Reflexive Pronoun: Pragmatic Approach
Sonoko Sakakibara

O When Are You Rising? How Strong Is Your AGR? 
The Issue of Subject-Agreement and
V-AGR Merger
Steven Schäufele

An Analysis of Topic Information in Parallel 
Written and Spoken Expository Texts in English
Gudrun E. Sherman

On Extraposition and Expletive-Movement
Thomas Stroik

Argument Alternations and Lexical Representations
Noriko Takara

Pragmatic Constraints for Code Switching in African-American Dialect
Mary Louise Willbrand and Gayla Iwata-Reuyl

VOLUME II: CREOLE LANGUAGES

African-American English, Caribbean
English Creoles, 
and North American English: Perspectives on Their Geneses
Salikoko S. Mufwene

On the Nature of pa in Capeverdean Creole and Its Possible Historical Source
Marlyse Baptista-Morey

Creole English in Samaná
Charles E. DeBose

Orthography Development for Belize Creole
Ken Decker

Conversational Involvement: The Teasing Strategy in Limonese Creole
Anita Herzfeld

Discourse Constraints on Past Marking in Trinidadian English
Hyeon-Seok Kang

The Evolution of Null Subjects in Philippine Creole Spanish
John M. Lipski

AFRICAN LANGUAGES

High Tone Sequencing in Baule
Firmin Ahoua and William R. Leben

The Independent Development of Mid-Tone in Suma
Mary M. Bradshaw

Clitic Movement and Relativized Minimality in Wolof
Melynda Dunigan

Inflection and Phonological Form in
Wolof
Fiona Mc Laughlin

An Initial Analysis of Tense Expressions in Emai
Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare

Two Perspectives on a Mixed Word Order Language
H. L. Weber

NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES OF THE SOUTHEAST

Causation and Affectedness in Choctaw
George Aaron Broadwell

Mobilian Jargon in the Language Area of Southeastern North America
Emanuel J. Drechsel

Evidence for a Calusa-Tunica Relationship
Julian Granberry

Covert Number Marking in Choctaw Nouns
Marcia Haag

Topic and Ordering of Causal Sequences in Creek
Donald E. Hardy

The Functions of naho in Alabama Discourse
Heather K. Hardy

Comparative Adjectives in Cherokee
Ruth Bradley Holmes

Positionals in Yuchi/Euchee
Mary S. Linn

Verbs of Wearing in Creek (Muskogee)
Margaret Mauldin and Jack Martin

Caddo Verb Stem Locatives
Lynette Melnar

Marking the Beneficiary in Muskogean, Dakota, and Yuchi
T. Dale Nicklas

Tutelo Verbs of Motion
Giulia R. M. Oliverio

The Structure of Mikasuki Selfhood
Gilbert Prost

Learning to Write in the Cherokee Syllabary
Janine Scancarelli

Syllable Structure and Sonority in Plains Sign Language
Julie Wagner, David Maddux, and Louanna Furbee

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