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    Preface 

    Olsen, Rachel Miller; Sesterhenn, Karen (The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2016)
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    Language as a Biological Construct: On the Intrinsic Variability and Selection of Language 

    Menon, Ashwathi Puravankara (The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2016)
    Language is a biological entity; a genetically transmitted trait; an innate capacity that every human is born with. Assuming that this Chomskian view of a "genetic" Language is true, through this working paper, I hope to ...
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    Census Mining in Old Mines, Missouri: Reconstructing a French Community 

    Olsen, Michael L. (The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2016)
    The existence of an isolated community of French speakers in the Ozarks of Missouri is documented in the works of Miller (1930), Carrière (1937), and Dorrance (1935). Although the Old Mines French (OMF) language had largely ...
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    Secondary Agents in Get-Passives: Syntax or Pragmatics? 

    Gotowski, Megan K. (The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2016)
    The following paper addresses the apparent "responsibility reading" that is often associated with the get-passive (e.g. interpreting Maria got caught' as Maria got (herself) caught'). This interpretation is first explored ...
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    Pacific Northwest English: Historical Overview and Current Directions 

    Stanley, Joseph A. (The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2016)
    Relative to many varieties of English spoken in North America, there is little research on Pacific Northwest English (PNWE). Early work largely documents the lexicon of various groups within the region, or the region as a ...
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    An Emergent, Usage-Based Grammar Approach on Overlaps 

    Valentina, Concu (The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2016)
    Selting (2000) describes the dynamics in turn interaction as an "interplay of syntax and prosody in their semantic, pragmatic, and sequential context. In the same way, Ford (2004), putting "contingency" at a central feature ...
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    Predictions for the Acquisition of American English Vowels by Native Russian Speakers 

    Ivanova, Sofia A. (The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2016)
    The purpose of this paper is to hypothesize the difficulties native speakers of Russian will have in the acquisition of American English monophthong vowels based on the predictions generated by the Speech Learning Model ...
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    Resultativity in Gothic: The Resultative as a Model for Periphrastic Distribution in the Passive Voice 

    Katz, Moses (The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2016)
    The Gothic language is unique among Germanic languages in several regards. It is the only one to retain a synthetic passive, an inheritance of the Indo-European medio-passive. It is also the only Germanic language to ...
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    Effable Slash: An Interactive Coordinator in English and its Behavior Slash Properties 

    Woo, Brent (The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2016)
    This paper presents an analysis of the synchronic distribution and syntactic behavior of the English expression slash, as in These are my cats slash best friends. First, slash is a new type of coordinator: in nominal cases ...
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    Cognizer Verbs and the First-Person Pronoun Yo in Contact: A Corpus Study 

    Jacobson, Stacey M. (2016)
    Recent research has investigated the optionality of first-person singular subject pronoun usage in pro-drop languages, where the morphology of the language encodes enough information to allow speakers to choose to include ...

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    AuthorGotowski, Megan K. (1)Ivanova, Sofia A. (1)Jacobson, Stacey M. (1)Katz, Moses (1)Menon, Ashwathi Puravankara (1)Olsen, Michael L. (1)Olsen, Rachel Miller (1)Sesterhenn, Karen (1)Stanley, Joseph A. (1)Valentina, Concu (1)... View MoreDate Issued
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