Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley

Printed edition: $645.00

— Volume 1 —

Preface
Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz Sanchez, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley
ix (abstract or complete paper)

Gender Assignment Is Local: On Assignment and Inalienable Possessors
Luke James Adamson
1-10 (abstract or complete paper)

Interpretability and Gender Features in Coordination: Evidence from Greek
Luke James Adamson and Elena Anagnostopoulou
11-20 (abstract or complete paper)

Systematic 'Stray' Focus Stress in English? ApparentLY!
Byron Ahn, Sunwoo Jeong, and Craig Sailor
21-31 (abstract or complete paper)

ECM Constructions as Complex Predicates: A Neo-constructivist Approach
Aliaksei Akimenka
32-41 (abstract or complete paper)

C and T Are Distinct Probes
Faruk Akkuş
42-51 (abstract or complete paper)

Indivisible Portmanteaux and the Timing of Ellipsis
Neil Banerjee
52-60 (abstract or complete paper)

When the Grammar Doesn't Mind Which Merge It Chooses
Andreas Blümel, Nobu Goto, and Yushi Sugimoto
61-70 (abstract or complete paper)

The Comp-Trace Effect and Contextuality of the EPP
Željko Bošković
71-81 (abstract or complete paper)

Paradigm Uniformity Is Probabilistic: Evidence from Velar Nasalization in Japanese
Canaan Breiss, Hironori Katsuda, and Shigeto Kawahara
82-90 (abstract or complete paper)

A Layering Theory of the A/Ā-Distinction
Justin Colley
91-101 (abstract or complete paper)

Exceptives and Exhaustification
Luka Crnič
102-112 (abstract or complete paper)

Laryngeal Feet in A'ingae: Implications for Metrical Theory
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
113-123 (abstract or complete paper)

Source and Content DPs: Belief-Verbs as Optionally Ditransitive Hintikkan Attitudes
Kajsa Djärv
124-134 (abstract or complete paper)

<v,t>-type Complementation in Kipsigis
Imke Driemel and Maria Kouneli
135-145 (abstract or complete paper)

A Causal Decomposition for Associated Motion Events in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec
John Duff
146-155 (abstract or complete paper)

Rethinking Best Match Using Movement
Andrew A. Hedding
156-165 (abstract or complete paper)

Presuppositionality and Syntactic Nominalization in Finite Clausal Complements
Rebecca Jarvis
166-175 (abstract or complete paper)

Affected-Agent Verbs in Turkish
Greg Key
176-185 (abstract or complete paper)

Tracking Down (C)overt Movement with Adverbial Distributive Numerals in Mandarin Chinese
Filipe Hisao Kobayashi and Sherry Yong Chen
186-195 (abstract or complete paper)

(Not) Shifting Together: An Experimental Investigation of Korean Anaphors and Subjective Predicates
Sarah Hye-yeon Lee and Elsi Kaiser
196-205 (abstract or complete paper)

Having Space to Sprout: Failed Sprouting in Sub-clausal Ellipses
Jason Overfelt
206-215 (abstract or complete paper)

First Conjunct Clitic Doubling: Evidence for Agree-Based Approaches
Lefteris Paparounas and Martin Salzmann
216-225 (abstract or complete paper)

On Disjoint Reference Effects in Short Passives
Florian Schäfer, Onur Özsoy, and Daniil Bondarenko
226-235 (abstract or complete paper)

Embedded Additive Presuppositions under Control: An Operator-Variable Account
Ryan Walter Smith
236-242 (abstract or complete paper)

Contrastive Vowel Length in Romance: How Layered Feet and Uneven Trochees Interact
Francesc Torres-Tamarit
243-252 (abstract or complete paper)

Single: Exhaustivity, Scalarity, and Nonlocal Adjectives
Rose Underhill and Marcin Morzycki
253-262 (abstract or complete paper)

— Volume 2 —

Alleviating Authenticity Concerns in Tunica Language Reclamation
Andrew Abdalian
263-268 (abstract or complete paper)

Probing the Nature of Roots through Language Contact
Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal
269-275 (abstract or complete paper)

What's the Meaning of a Nominal Root? Insights from Experiments into Denominals and Similarity
Adina Camelia Bleotu and Jelke Bloem
276-283 (abstract or complete paper)

Using Every Tool in the Box: Case Studies Highlighting the Mutual Support of Practical Learning and Formal Linguistics in the Ojibwe Language
Zoe Brown, Aandeg Muldrew, and Mskwaankwad Rice
284-293 (abstract or complete paper)

The Representation of Tone in San Juan Piñas Mixtec (Tò'ōn Ndá'ví): Phonological and Orthographic Implications
Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Juárez Chávez, and Michelle Yuan
294-302 (abstract or complete paper)

Going Radical in Salish
Henry Davis
303-312 (abstract or complete paper)

Distributing Theme Vowels across Roots, Verbalizers, and Voice in Western Armenian Verbs
Peter Guekguezian and Hossep Dolatian
313-321 (abstract or complete paper)

The Distribution of Nominal Quantifiers in a Digitized Corpus of St. Lawrence Island Yupik
Benjamin Hunt and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner
322-329 (abstract or complete paper)

Roots, Naming, and Locality: The Structure of Name Predicates
Samuel Jambrović
330-337 (abstract or complete paper)

Verbal Morphology in Aphasia and Developmental Language Impairments: Theoretical Implications
Yuval Katz and Naama Friedmann
338-345 (abstract or complete paper)

Reduplicative Morphemes and Their Non-reduplicative Allomorphs in Stratal OT: Stem-Level and Word-Level Reduplication in Hul'q'umi'num'
Gloria Mellesmoen
346-351 (abstract or complete paper)

Introducing the Melodic Transcription (MeT) Scale for Language Documentation and Application
Mizuki Miyashita, James Randall, Min Chen, and Naatosi Fish
352-361 (abstract or complete paper)

Using Phasal Syntax to Make Generalizations in Manchu Vowel Harmony
Jack Isaac Rabinovitch and Baoqing Qian
362-370 (abstract or complete paper)

Uncovering the Scale: On the Interaction between the Semantics of Roots and Functional Structure
Malka Rappaport Hovav
371-381 (abstract or complete paper)

A Re-evaluation of Arad's Argument for Roots
Ezer Rasin, Omer Preminger, and David Pesetsky
382-392 (abstract or complete paper)

One Root to Build Them All: Roots in Sign Language Classifiers
Hande Sevgi
393-400 (abstract or complete paper)

On the Taxonomy of Root Suppletion
Daniel Siddiqi
401-410 (abstract or complete paper)

Decomposing Degree Achievements: Evidence from Measure Phrases and Sub-lexical Modifiers
Ryan Walter Smith and Jianrong Yu
411-418 (abstract or complete paper)

Roots Are Syntactic: Evidence from Nishnaabemwin
Sigwan Thivierge
419-426 (abstract or complete paper)

Verb Stranding and Argument Ellipsis in Chukchansi Yokuts
Brian Agbayani and John P. Boyle
427-431 (abstract or complete paper)

Against Obligatory Wide Scope for any
Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Esmail Moghiseh, and Jonathan Palucci
432-440 (abstract or complete paper)

Covert Relative Non-future Tense in Gitksan
Yurika Aonuki
441-449 (abstract or complete paper)

Locality in Malayalam Anaphor Binding
Athulya Aravind
450-458 (abstract or complete paper)

Parasitic Gaps in Ditransitives and Antilocality
Karlos Arregi and Andrew Murphy
459-467 (abstract or complete paper)

Constraints All the Way Down: DM in a Representational Model of Grammar
Ash Asudeh, Paul B. Melchin, and Daniel Siddiqi
468-476 (abstract or complete paper)

Ergative Anaphors and High Absolutive Syntax
Dan Brodkin and Justin Royer
477-485 (abstract or complete paper)

A Minimalist Account of Balinese Binding
Shannon Bryant and Deniz Satık
486-494 (abstract or complete paper)

Reconciling Causal and Modal Representations for Two Salish Out of Control Forms
Bridget Copley
495-503 (abstract or complete paper)

Clitics and Coordination in Two Salish Languages
Henry Davis and Marianne Huijsmans
504-511 (abstract or complete paper)

A-bar Head Movement: The Case Study of Kawahíva
Wesley dos Santos
512-518 (abstract or complete paper)

What I Will Tell You about "Matrix" Wh-"Exclamatives"!
Maria Esipova
519-527 (abstract or complete paper)

Control the Sentence, Subordinate the Pronoun: On the Status of Controlled versus Non-controlled Complement Clauses in O'dam
Michael Everdell and Paul B. Melchin
528-533 (abstract or complete paper)

Unexpected Adjectival Passives
Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo and Rafael Marín
534-541 (abstract or complete paper)

Transderivational Faithfulness but Not Cyclic Architectures Can Generate Transparent Countercyclic Effects
Daniel Gleim and Ezer Rasin
542-549 (abstract or complete paper)

Inverse Scope in Scrambling Languages: The Case of Bangla
Ishani Guha, Swarnendu Moitra, and Paul Marty
550-558 (abstract or complete paper)

Positions of Mandarin Classifiers in and out of Compounds: Implications for Distinctness, Selection, and Projection
Brian Hsu and Yiwen Peng
559-566 (abstract or complete paper)

(Bound) Pronouns in Competition: Evidence from Romanian Comprehension
Rodica Ivan, Brian Dillon, and Kyle Johnson
567-575 (abstract or complete paper)

Mass-to-Count Shifts and Number Morphology
Olga Kagan
576-583 (abstract or complete paper)

On Russian Comparative Morphology, Nanosyntax, and Pointers
Anton Kukhto
584-591 (abstract or complete paper)

Agreement-Drop in Singlish: Subject to Topichood
Si Kai Lee
592-599 (abstract or complete paper)

Low Nominative Agreement in Uab Meto
Tyler Lemon
600-608 (abstract or complete paper)

Manner/Result and (In)transitivity Alternations
M. Eugenia M. Rasia
609-616 (abstract or complete paper)

Telicity, Teleological Modality, and (Non-)culmination
Prerna Nadathur and Hana Filip
617-625 (abstract or complete paper)

Morphosyntactic Correlates of Force and Grammatical Mood in Unangam Tunuu
Christina Laree Newhall
626-629 (abstract or complete paper)

Estonian and Finnish Show That Hybrid Agreement Is Structural
Mark Norris
630-637 (abstract or complete paper)

Anti-locality Allows a Unified Analysis of Spanish Failed Operator Movement
Erika Petersen
638-645 (abstract or complete paper)

Negation, Irreality and the Djambarrpuyŋu Inflectional Paradigm
Josh Phillips
646-653 (abstract or complete paper)

Towards an Understanding of the Derivational Timing of Resumption
Ivy Sichel
654-661 (abstract or complete paper)

Nominal Intervention and the Extended PERSON Domain
Ivy Sichel and Maziar Toosarvandani
662-669 (abstract or complete paper)

Agency and Middles in Ibero-Romance: A Case for i*
Imanol Suárez-Palma
670-677 (abstract or complete paper)

Input beyond the Threshold: Explaining Auxiliary Initial Assertions in a British English Early Talker
Rebecca Woods, Johannes Heim, and Joel Wallenberg
678-686 (abstract or complete paper)

Two Types of Temporal Adverbial Clauses in Cantonese
Ka-Fai Yip
687-694 (abstract or complete paper)

Restrictions on the Generic Interpretation of Dedicated Impersonal Pronouns
Sarah Zobel
695-702 (abstract or complete paper)