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Proceedings of the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Nikolas Webster, Yağmur Kiper, Richard Wang, and Sichen Larry Lyu
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Contents

Preface
Nikolas Webster, Yağmur Kiper, Richard Wang, and Sichen Larry Lyu
vii (abstract or complete paper)

Definite Expressions with and without Deixis
Dorothy Ahn
1-17 (abstract or complete paper)

Cooperation at the Morpho-phonology Interface: An Argument for Phonological Locality
Eva Zimmermann
18-38 (abstract or complete paper)

Two Ways of Licensing Subjects in Lobi: Evidence from Switch Reference and Wh/Focus Fronting
Shweta Akolkar, Sansan Claude Hien, and Kang Franco Liu
39-48 (abstract or complete paper)

On the Syntactic Status of Implicit Arguments: Greek as a Case Study
Nikos Angelopoulos, Chris Collins, Dimitris Michelioudakis, and Arhonto Terzi
49-58 (abstract or complete paper)

Egocentric Questions in Bangla
Arka Banerjee, Kousani Banerjee, and Rajesh Bhatt
59-66 (abstract or complete paper)

A Pronoun without Competition: The Source of Principles A and B
Noa Bassel and Maayan Keshev
67-76 (abstract or complete paper)

Person and Licensing in Georgian: Puzzles for Cyclic Agree
Susana Bejar and Milan Rezac
77-86 (abstract or complete paper)

Two Types of 'say'-Complementation in Kipsigis
Madeline Bossi
87-96 (abstract or complete paper)

Two Probes, Two Hierarchy Effects: Agreement and Incorporation Restrictions in Southern Tiwa
Joe Class
97-104 (abstract or complete paper)

Unifying Differential Argument Marking through Interpretable Features
Penelope Daniel
105-112 (abstract or complete paper)

Anti-locality Explains the Restricted Interaction of Subjects and Parasitic Gaps
Colin P. B. Davis
113-120 (abstract or complete paper)

Doubling by Movement within and from PP in Lustenau Alemannic
Colin P. B. Davis and David Diem
121-128 (abstract or complete paper)

Alemannic Verb Doubling Is the Overt Realization of a Head Movement Chain
David Diem
129-136 (abstract or complete paper)

Interpretive Contrasts in the Kifuliiru Copular System
Aron Finholt
137-144 (abstract or complete paper)

A Q/Cue-Theoretic Approach to Cross-dialect Spanish Production
Amber Galvano
145-154 (abstract or complete paper)

A-bar Clefts in Kirundi and Elsewhere
Terrance Gatchalian
155-162 (abstract or complete paper)

Two Types of Anaphoric Relations in Pronouns: Consequences for Their Syntactic Analysis
Ion Giurgea and Rodica Ivan
163-170 (abstract or complete paper)

Weak Drop in Shanghai Sign Language: Comparing Signers and Non-signers
Shengyun Gu
171-178 (abstract or complete paper)

English Bare Plurals and Distributivity
Janek Guerrini
179-183 (abstract or complete paper)

Phase Unlocking and the Derivation of Verb-Initiality in San Martín Peras Mixtec
Andrew A. Hedding and Michelle Yuan
184-193 (abstract or complete paper)

Cross(over) My Heart and Hope to Bind
Matthew Hewett
194-203 (abstract or complete paper)

What about about to? A Proposal for Proximate Future Reference
Angelica Hill
204-211 (abstract or complete paper)

Disjunction as Question: Disjunction Is Not a PPI in Japanese
Ken Hiraiwa and Kimiko Nakanishi
212-221 (abstract or complete paper)

Discourse only
Michela Ippolito, Angelika Kiss, and Will Williams
222-231 (abstract or complete paper)

Subject Movement in Atchan Relative Clauses: A Two-Probe, Mixed A/A'-account
Rebecca Jarvis
232-241 (abstract or complete paper)

Timing the Escape: Verbal Identity in Uyghur Verb-Stranding Ellipsis
Robin Jenkins
242-251 (abstract or complete paper)

The Guarani Inverse as Double Agree
Hunter Johnson
252-261 (abstract or complete paper)

Culmination Entailments in V and P: Evidence from White Hmong
William Johnston
262-269 (abstract or complete paper)

Names and Pronouns with and without Gender Features: A Production Study of Singular they
Elsi Kaiser and Claire Benét Post
270-277 (abstract or complete paper)

Trial Cancellation in NHG
Aaron Kaplan
278-284 (abstract or complete paper)

Revisiting Basque (xe-)Comparatives
Daniar Kasenov
285-291 (abstract or complete paper)

Two φ-Feature Sets on Honorific Nouns
Gurmeet Kaur
292-299 (abstract or complete paper)

Immobile Remnants of Japanese why-Stripping
Hiroko Kimura and Hiroki Narita
300-307 (abstract or complete paper)

Substitutive why-Stripping: A Case of Japanese
Hiroko Kimura and Hiroki Narita
308-315 (abstract or complete paper)

Arguments Against Reanalyses of Pair-MERGE as Set-MERGE
Ryoichiro Kobayashi and Tomoya Tanabe
316-322 (abstract or complete paper)

Similative Plurals in Persian: Alternatives, Homogeneity, or Strongest Meanings?
Manfred Krifka and Fereshteh Modarresi
323-332 (abstract or complete paper)

Allocutive and Object Agreement Complementarity: The FinP in Maithili
Preeti Kumari, Miok Pak, and Pritha Chandra
333-342 (abstract or complete paper)

Cross-linguistic Variation in Nominal Licensing: DOM in Kodava Takk
Catherine Lee and Saurov Syed
343-349 (abstract or complete paper)

"Tell usSG about it!": A Deficient Indexical in British English
Beccy Lewis
350-359 (abstract or complete paper)

Mandarin Clausal Comparatives Involve Standard Embedding
Haoming Li and Zhouyi Sun
360-369 (abstract or complete paper)

Overt Deixis and Covert Anaphor in Uyghur Attitude Reports
Xiang Li and Paul Portner
370-379 (abstract or complete paper)

At-Issue Variability with Evidentials: A Case Study from Korean
Dongsik Lim, Semoon Hoe, and Yugyeong Park
380-389 (abstract or complete paper)

Nominalisations without DP: Dissociating Genitive Case Assignment and Possessor Agreement
Jun Jie Lim
390-399 (abstract or complete paper)

Parsimonious Evaluation of Quantity-Sensitive Footing in Harmonic Serialism
Kuo-Chiao Lin
400-404 (abstract or complete paper)

On Locative Inversion
Zixi Liu
405-410 (abstract or complete paper)

Semantic Incorporation and Non-canonical Object Constructions in Chinese
Qiongpeng Luo
411-418 (abstract or complete paper)

Contextual Causee Interpretations: Lessons from Teochew kə-Causative
Zhuosi Luo
419-426 (abstract or complete paper)

The Syntax and Post-syntax of Verb Doubling in Mandarin Chinese
Tom Meadows and Qiuhao Charles Yan
427-434 (abstract or complete paper)

Monomoraic Syllables with Non-moraic Vowels in Salish: The Structure of a Monomoraic Syllable in Comox-Sliammon Reduplication
Gloria Mellesmoen
435-441 (abstract or complete paper)

The "soler" + INF Periphrasis in Spanish
Jon Ander Mendia
442-447 (abstract or complete paper)

Choice Functions and Binder Roof Constraint
Zahra Mirrazi
448-455 (abstract or complete paper)

Modal Past Is Past: Evidence from Non-SOT Languages
Zahra Mirrazi and Michela Ippolito
456-465 (abstract or complete paper)

Truth-Value Gaps with Integrative Predicates
Mathieu Paillé
466-475 (abstract or complete paper)

Explaining Sour Grapes Harmony's Unattestedness with Agent-Based Modeling
Brandon Prickett
476-483 (abstract or complete paper)

Case and Connectivity in Moksha Relative Clauses
Mariia Privizentseva
484-493 (abstract or complete paper)

How Context and Focus Modulate Form-Meaning Mismatches in Speech Reports
Ciyang Qing, Deniz Özyıldız, Floris Roelofsen, Maribel Romero, and Wataru Uegaki
494-500 (abstract or complete paper)

GSR and Suppletion in Bolognese Clitics
Edward Rubin and Aaron Kaplan
501-510 (abstract or complete paper)

Subject Pseudo-incorporation in Laz
Yağmur Sağ, Ömer Demirok, and Muhammet Bal
511-518 (abstract or complete paper)

Reference to Kinds: The Perspective from Bangla
Ankana Saha
519-529 (abstract or complete paper)

A Modal Analysis of Propositional how
Starr Sandoval and Marcin Morzycki
530-537 (abstract or complete paper)

Parasitic Ellipsis and Higher-Order Structures
Johannes Schneider
538-547 (abstract or complete paper)

Neuter Gender in Maceratese: Two Notions of Uncountability
Aviv Schoenfeld and Giada Palmieri
548-555 (abstract or complete paper)

A Syntax-Semantics Interface Account of Kannada Bare Existential Singulars
Sadhwi Srinivas
556-565 (abstract or complete paper)

Implicit Arguments in Bùlì
Abdul-Razak Sulemana
566-573 (abstract or complete paper)

CiV Lengthening: Productivity and the Emergence of the Unmarked
Adeline Tan
574-583 (abstract or complete paper)

Free Choice, Discourse Structure, and Mandarin dou
Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai
584-591 (abstract or complete paper)

Morphosyntax-Prosody Mismatch in Beijing Mandarin: Evidence from Retroflex Lenition
Richard Wang
592-599 (abstract or complete paper)

Weakening the Trivalent Semantics of Quantifiers: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
Yaxuan Wang and Brian Buccola
600-607 (abstract or complete paper)

The Interplay of θ-Marked (and φ-Restricted) Subjects and IAs: New Insights from Participial Imperatives
Dennis Wegner
608-615 (abstract or complete paper)

Agreeing with 'only'
Ka-Fai Yip
616-626 (abstract or complete paper)