Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Shweta Akolkar, Amber Galvano, Akil Ismael, Kang Franco Liu, and Line Mikkelsen

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Preface
Shweta Akolkar, Amber Galvano, Akil Ismael, Kang Franco Liu, and Line Mikkelsen
vii (abstract or complete paper)

Quantification into Non-Truth-Denoting Objects
Yimei Xiang
1-19 (abstract or complete paper)

On Multiple Right Dislocation in Japanese and the Uniqueness Parameter
Brian Agbayani and Toru Ishii
20-27 (abstract or complete paper)

Decomposing 'Minimum-Standard Gradable Adjectives' in Japanese as Verbal ‑tei‑ Predicates
Yurika Aonuki
28-35 (abstract or complete paper)

Towards a Propositional Concord Approach for Exclusives in Kasem
Daniel Aremu
36-45 (abstract or complete paper)

Eastern Khanty "Ergative" Is Topic Demotion, Not Dependent Case
András Bárány and Nikolett F. Gulyás
46-55 (abstract or complete paper)

Does Relevance Without Explicit Alternatives Boost Exclusivity Implicatures of Disjunction?
Adina Camelia Bleotu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, and Lyn Tieu
56-65 (abstract or complete paper)

Base-Specificity in Lexical Conservatism
Canaan Breiss
66-73 (abstract or complete paper)

Generalized Composite Probing in Mandarin
Fulang Chen
74-83 (abstract or complete paper)

The Hidden Conjoint/Disjoint Alternation in Chichewa
Qiūshí Chén
84-93 (abstract or complete paper)

The Pragmatics of Optional Plural in Tiwa
Virginia Dawson and Royce Gibson
94-103 (abstract or complete paper)

Strategies for PPs in Ainu
Éva Dékány
104-111 (abstract or complete paper)

Contextual Markedness in Brazilian Portuguese Size Morphology
Tarcisio Dias
112-119 (abstract or complete paper)

Super-Extended Ergativity in Mam
Noah Elkins, Justin Royer, and Tessa Scott
120-129 (abstract or complete paper)

Precedence-Sensitive A-Movement in Locative Inversion
Zachary Feldcamp
130-137 (abstract or complete paper)

Across-the-Board Constructions in Japanese
Yoshiki Fujiwara
138-145 (abstract or complete paper)

Formal and Semantic Markedness Alignment in Ersu Degree Constructions
Ying Gong
146-153 (abstract or complete paper)

Probabilistic Syllable Structure
Emiyare Ikwut-Ukwa, Kushal Thaman, Annalisa Welinder, Arto Anttila, and Giorgio Magri
154-163 (abstract or complete paper)

Pronominal Structure and the Third-Person Gap in Spanish
Samuel Jambrović
164-173 (abstract or complete paper)

Decomposing Path: Deprepositional Verbs in White Hmong
William Johnston
174-181 (abstract or complete paper)

A Novel Account of Mixed Concord: The View from Punjabi Honorifics
Gurmeet Kaur and Yash Sinha
182-191 (abstract or complete paper)

Just in case
Caleb Kendrick and Jéssica Mendes
192-200 (abstract or complete paper)

Truly Long-Distance Agreement with Internal Possessors in Maithili
Elango Kumaran, Samir Alam, and Yogendra P. Yadava
201-208 (abstract or complete paper)

Types of Statistical Knowledge in Alternation Learning: Insights from Artificial Grammar Learning
Jennifer Kuo
209-216 (abstract or complete paper)

How High Can You Get? On Japanese Nominative Object Construction
Zixi Liu
217-223 (abstract or complete paper)

Between Topics and Subjects: An A/A' Typology of Austronesian Pivots
Magdalena Lohninger and Yiannis Katochoritis
224-231 (abstract or complete paper)

The Implications of Hayes and Zuraw's Shifted Sigmoids Generalization for MaxEnt Phonology
Giorgio Magri
232-239 (abstract or complete paper)

Improper Verb Doubling in Mandarin Chinese and the Williams Cycle
Tom Meadows and Qiuhao Charles Yan
240-249 (abstract or complete paper)

(Im)possible Idioms in a Minimalist Theory of Argument Structure: Insights from Spanish
Enrique Merino Hernández
250-257 (abstract or complete paper)

A Constraint on the Prosodic Realization of Wh-Prosody
Hitomi Minamida
258-265 (abstract or complete paper)

Speaker Attitudes Predict Epistemic Biases in Polar Questions: Evidence from Farsi
Maryam Mohammadi and Todor Koev
266-273 (abstract or complete paper)

Optionality and the Phonetics-Phonology Interface
Scott Nelson
274-283 (abstract or complete paper)

Causatives Without Causation: Involvee Causatives in Turkish
Eva Neu and Faruk Akkuş
284-293 (abstract or complete paper)

The Durativity and Polarity of Two Boundary Adverbials in Vietnamese
Nhu-Anh Nguyen
294-301 (abstract or complete paper)

The Subject Extraction Asymmetry in Uyghur Relative Clauses
Madelaine O'Reilly-Brown
302-311 (abstract or complete paper)

Malayalam Doesn't Need Adpositions: The Case of vP-Adjunction
Gautam Ottur
312-319 (abstract or complete paper)

Two Domains for Irish Stem-Initial Consonant Changes
Jack Pruett
320-329 (abstract or complete paper)

German 'noch genau wissen': Uniform Semantics, Distinct Effects
Emil Eva Rosina and Kristina Liefke
330-337 (abstract or complete paper)

Interspeaker Variation in Particle Stranding Ellipsis in the Two-Grammar Model for Japanese
Yosuke Sato and Hiromune Oda
338-345 (abstract or complete paper)

Deletion of Higher Copies Voids Island Effects: Evidence from Valdôtain Patois
Luisa Seguin
346-355 (abstract or complete paper)

Wh-Island Effects and D-Linking Effects Across Languages
Zheng Shen and Beth Chan
356-363 (abstract or complete paper)

Recoverability and Identity Are Dissociable in Double Ellipsis
Richard Stockwell
364-373 (abstract or complete paper)

Condition C, Pronoun Strength, and the Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses
Richard Stockwell, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, and Dominique Sportiche
374-381 (abstract or complete paper)

Why Is then Incompatible with the Present?
Anastasia Tsilia and Zhuoye Zhao
382-391 (abstract or complete paper)

Nontransparent Stressed Syllables in Vowel Harmony: A Gestural Account
Rachel Walker
392-401 (abstract or complete paper)

Covert Wh-Verb Movement in Mandarin Chinese
Lian Wang
402-411 (abstract or complete paper)

Demonstratives but Not Verbs Cause Non-Culmination in Mandarin Incremental-Theme Predicates: Evidence from Children and Adults
Jingying Xu and Cristina Schmitt
412-419 (abstract or complete paper)

Some Reconstructions Are by Default Semantic
Yusuke Yagi
420-429 (abstract or complete paper)

Long Distance Negative Concord as Successive Cyclic Movement of Negation in African American English
Anissa Zaitsu
430-439 (abstract or complete paper)

— WCCFL 39 Papers —

How Do We Explain That CPs Have Two Readings with Some Verbs of Speech?
Tatiana Bondarenko
440-449 (abstract or complete paper)

Taking a Strong Position on Strictly Read Reflexives
Isabelle Charnavel and Dominique Sportiche
450-459 (abstract or complete paper)

Evidence for Case Containment from the Interaction of Case Morphology and Possessive Marking in Balkar
Colin P. B. Davis
460-467 (abstract or complete paper)

Maintaining Syntactic Identity Under Sluicing: Pseudoclefts and Voice (Mis)matches
Emily Drummond
468-477 (abstract or complete paper)

Collaborative Corpus Creation: A Ch'ol Case Study
Carol Rose Little, Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez, Jessica Coon, Nicolás Arcos López, and Morelia Vázquez Martínez
478-487 (abstract or complete paper)