Proceedings of the 40th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Jiayi Lu, Erika Petersen, Anissa Zaitsu, and Boris Harizanov

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Preface
Jiayi Lu, Erika Petersen, Anissa Zaitsu, and Boris Harizanov
v (abstract or complete paper)

Obligatory de se Logophors in Ewe, Yoruba, and Igbo: Variation and Competition
Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Itai Bassi, and Silvia Silleresi
1-10 (abstract or complete paper)

Labeling Theory and the Nominal Phrase
Andreas Blümel
11-21 (abstract or complete paper)

Binding and Agreement in Distributed Coordinations
Željko Bošković
22-31 (abstract or complete paper)

A Result Nominalization Analysis of the Kaqchikel Periphrastic Perfect
Irina Burukina
32-41 (abstract or complete paper)

The Superlative Clause Hypothesis
Isabelle Charnavel
42-51 (abstract or complete paper)

An Experimental Investigation of the Clausemate Condition in German Multiple Sluicing
Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez and James Griffiths
52-61 (abstract or complete paper)

Demonic Negation, Responsive Ellipsis, and Negative Fragment Answers in Modern Irish
Nicola D'Antuono
62-71 (abstract or complete paper)

The Significance of Parasitic Gap Licensing by Pronominal Cliticization in Spanish
Colin P. B. Davis and Luis Miguel Toquero-Pérez
72-82 (abstract or complete paper)

Argument Extraction Restrictions Do Not Constrain Sluicing
Emily Drummond
83-92 (abstract or complete paper)

Pseudo Noun Incorporation in Mandinka
Ari Goertzel
93-99 (abstract or complete paper)

On the Prosody of Contrastive Topic and Contrastive Focus in Mandarin Chinese
Hailin Hao, Jeannette Schaeffer, and Marijn van 't Veer
100-110 (abstract or complete paper)

The Height of let alone in English: Evidence from Inversion and Contrastive Topics
Jesse A. Harris
111-121 (abstract or complete paper)

Errors of Multiple Exponence in Child Language
Johannes Hein, Imke Driemel, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, and Artemis Alexiadou
122-131 (abstract or complete paper)

Marked Unergatives in Samoan Nominalizations
Jens Hopperdietzel and Artemis Alexiadou
132-141 (abstract or complete paper)

Nominal Tense as Modifiers of Resource Situations
Kimberly Johnson
142-151 (abstract or complete paper)

In Defense of Referential Theories of VP-Ellipsis
Andrew Kehler
152-161 (abstract or complete paper)

Pre-exhaustification Creates Multifunctionality: Evidence from Tuvan -daa
Ian L. Kirby
162-172 (abstract or complete paper)

Syntactic Limits on Phonological Dominance
Maria Kouneli, Paula Fenger, and Jonathan David Bobaljik
173-181 (abstract or complete paper)

PIMPing Up Implicit Control
Iva Kovač
182-191 (abstract or complete paper)

Licensing VP Movement and Ellipsis in Mandarin and Cantonese
Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee and Victor Junnan Pan
192-201 (abstract or complete paper)

British English do-Ellipsis Is Full Phase Ellipsis
Beccy Lewis
202-212 (abstract or complete paper)

'Again' Skipping in Mandarin Chinese: A Syntactic Approach
Yuyang Liu
213-222 (abstract or complete paper)

Right Node Raising and Flexible Cyclic Linearization
Aidan Malanoski
223-232 (abstract or complete paper)

[-Person] and [+Person] Resumption in Igala
Martina Martinović
233-243 (abstract or complete paper)

A Compositional Semantics for Spatial Perspective-Shifting Adjuncts
Karl Mulligan and Kyle Rawlins
244-253 (abstract or complete paper)

Modeling Progress: Causal Models, Event Types, and the Imperfective Paradox
Prerna Nadathur and Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal
254-264 (abstract or complete paper)

Typological Asymmetries in Underapplication Opacity: A Gestural Account
Charlie O'Hara and Caitlin Smith
265-274 (abstract or complete paper)

Negative Concord, Fragments, and (Downward) Agree
Petr Rossyaykin
275-285 (abstract or complete paper)

The Definite DP Island in Wh-questions and Relative Clauses
Zheng Shen and Meghan Lim
286-294 (abstract or complete paper)

In Search of Phonetic Evidence for Prosodically-Motivated Aspiration
McKinley Sprinkle and Anya Hogoboom
295-305 (abstract or complete paper)

Floating Quantifiers in English and Their Semantic Composition
Hideharu Tanaka
306-315 (abstract or complete paper)

Syntactic Alternative Projection
Michael Wagner
316-326 (abstract or complete paper)

Scoping out of Mandarin Relative Clauses
Huilei Wang
327-337 (abstract or complete paper)

A Pseudo-relative in Inuit
Michelle Yuan
338-346 (abstract or complete paper)