Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Ronal P. Leow, Héctor Campos, Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University
  • Part I: History
  • From "two" to "both" : historical changes in the syntax and meaning of Oba in Slavic / Agnieszka Lazorczyk, Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California
  • When small words collide : morphological reduction and phonological compensation in Old Leonese contractions / Minta Elsman, D. Eric Holt, University of South Carolina
  • Part II: Phonology
  • Distinguishing function words from content words in children's oral reading / Carol Lord, Robert Berdan, Michael Fender, California State University, Long Beach
  • Motivating floating quantifiers / Lisa Rochman, Ben Gruion University
  • Part III: Syntax
  • Applicative phrases hosting accusative clitics / Luis Śez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • The little DE of degree constructions / Remus Gergel, Universität Tübingen
  • The complementizer the / Heather Lee Taylor, University of Maryland
  • What is there when little words are not there? Possible implications for evolutionary studies / Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University
  • Spanish personal a and the antidative / Omar Velázquez-Mendoza, Raúl Aranovich, University of California, Davis
  • Part IV: Semantics
  • Predicting argument realization from oblique marker semantics / John Beavers, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Aspect selectors, scales, and contextual operators : an analysis of temporal adjuncts / Michael F. Thomas, Laura A. Michaelis, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Distributive effects of the plural marker -tul in Korean / Jong Un Park, Georgetown University
  • Part V: Pragmatics
  • The pragmatics of the French discouse markers donc and alors / Stéphanie Pellet, Wake Forest University
  • "Little words" in small talk: some considerations on the use of the pragmatic markers man in English and macho/tío in peninsular Spanish / Laura Alba-Juez, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
  • Little words that could impact one's impression on others: greetings and closings in institutional e-mails / Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas, Georgetown University
  • Part VI: Acquistion
  • Instructed L2 acquisition of differential object marking in Spanish / Melissa Bowles, Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • The role of pedagogical tasks and focus on form in acquisition of discourse markers advanced language learners / Maria José de la Fuente, George Washington University
  • Article acquisition in English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish / Tanja Kupish, University of Calgary, Merete Anderssen, University of Tromsoø, Ute Bohnacker, Uppsala University, Neil Snape, Hokkaido University
  • A continuum in French children's surface realization of auxiliaries / Christina D. Dye, Georgetown University.