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Time and Again Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) provides a platform for original monograph studies into synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Studies in LA confront empirical and theoretical problems as these are currently discussed in syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and systematic pragmatics with the aim to establish robust empirical generalizations within a universalistic perspective. General Editors Werner Abraham University of Vienna / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Elly van Gelderen Arizona State University Advisory Editorial Board Cedric Boeckx Christer Platzack Guglielmo Cinque Ian Roberts Günther Grewendorf Lisa deMena Travis Liliane Haegeman Sten Vikner Hubert Haider C. Jan-Wouter Zwart Harvard University University of Venice J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt University of Lille, France University of Salzburg University of Lund Cambridge University McGill University University of Aarhus University of Groningen Volume 135 Time and Again. Theoretical Perspectives on Formal Linguistics Edited by William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley and Scott O. Farrar Time and Again Theoretical Perspectives on Formal Linguistics In honor of D. Terence Langendoen Edited by William D. Lewis Microsoft Research Simin Karimi University of Arizona Heidi Harley University of Arizona Scott O. Farrar University of Washington John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Time and again : theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics in honor of D. Terence Langendoen / edited by William D. Lewis ... [et al.]. p. cm. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, issn 0166-0829 ; v. 135) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Linguistics. I. Lewis, William D., 1963-. P121.T47 2008 410--dc22 isbn 978 90 272 5518 1 (Hb; alk. paper) 2008035987 © 2009 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Acknowledgements Introduction William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Scott O. Farrar and Heidi Harley vii ix Part I Syntax and semantics 1. Inverse reflexives Paul M. Postal and John Robert Ross 2. On the nature of the approximative expression num-odd Sheila Dooley and Ferdinand de Haan 3 37 3. Skating along the syntactic verge: Experimental pragmatics and understood elements of content Merrill Garrett and Robert M. Harnish 55 4. Current challenges to the Lexicalist Hypothesis: An overview and a critique Frederick J. Newmeyer 91 Part II Psycholinguistics 5. O n the homogeneity of syntax: How similar do coordinates and subordinates look to the comprehension system? Wayne Cowart and Tatiana Agupova 6. The effect of case marking on subject-verb agreement errors in English Janet Nicol and Ines Antón-Méndez 7. First language acquisition of coordination: The mud-puddle study and beyond Barbara Lust, Suzanne Flynn, Yuchin Chien and Barbara Krawiec 121 135 151 8. Frequency effects in children’s syntactic and morphological development