MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #54
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 2)
ed. M. Kelepir and B. Öztürk, 2007
Foreword....................................................................................iii
Introduction.................................................................................iv
Invited Speakers
Turkish Domains
Monik Charette.............................................................................1
Agr in Turkish as an expression of categorial features
Jaklin Kornfilt..............................................................................21
Unifying Agreement and Agreement-less Languages
Shigeru Miyagawa.........................................................................47
Comparative Altaic Session
On scrambling the absolutive object phrase in Turkic
Marcel Erdal...............................................................................67
Copular Forms in Turkish, Noghay and Turkmen
Meltem Kelepir............................................................................83
Order & Interpretation in Prenominal Relative Clauses
Richard Larson & Naoko Takahashi..................................................101
Topic-Focus Articulation in Old Japanese: So/Zo and Koso
Akira Watanabe............................................................................121
General Session
Specificity and Case Interactions: a View from Turkish Relatives
Ilhan Cagri................................................................................139
Indeterminates+MO is neither an NPI nor an NCI
Yukio Furukawa...........................................................................155
Light n Hypothesis – Evidence from Turkic
Pavel Grashchenkov.....................................................................171
On Focused NPs with Nominative Case Particle –ga in Japanese Sluicing
Constructions
Takako Iseda..............................................................................185
Discontinuous NPs, Word Order and Multiple Case Copy
Yeun-Jin Jung.............................................................................199
Japanese Poetry and Its Implications for Optimality Theory
Takaomi Kato.............................................................................217
A Principles and Parameters Account of the Case Marking Properties of the
Turkish Postposition İçin and its Cognates in Other Turkic Languages
Alan Reed Libert ........................................................................231
Japanese iruis not a copula: Consequences for the progressive
William McClure..........................................................................245
Throwing in & Kicking out
Takashi Munakata.......................................................................259
The Role of Contrast in Locality: Transparent Palatal Glides in Kyrghyz
Andrew Nevins and Bert Vaux..........................................................275
Special Metrical Faithfulness
Cemil Orhan Orgun.....................................................................289
Asymmetry in Double-object Constructions in Turkish
Balkız Öztürk.............................................................................305
Prohibitives in Japanese and Mongolian
Miyuki Sawada...........................................................................317
A Biclausal Analysis of Korean Nominative Object Constructions
Yunju Suh.................................................................................333
Plural vs. Discontinuous Events: Degree Modification in Chuvash
Sergei Tatevosov.........................................................................347
The Nature of Adjectival Inflection in Japanese
Hiroko Yamakido........................................................................365