Proceedings of the Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (21st, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22-23, 1997). University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 4, Number 2.

This issue contains the following articles: "The Pragmatics of Wh-Question Intonation in English" (Christine Bartels); "The Nature of Object Agreement in Hungarian" (Huba Bartos); "Voah Mei Daett Sei Deitsh: Developments in the Vowel System of Pennsylvania German" (David Bowie); "Event Time Properties" (Gerhard Brugger); "Polarity in Spanish, French, and English" (Dee Cain, Renee J. O'Brien); "Chanting Intonation in French" (Zsuzsanna Fagyal); "Sui Generis Genericity" (Hana Filip, Greg Carlson); "South Slavic Clitic Placement Is Still Syntactic" (Steven Franks); "Permission Sentences in Dynamic Semantics" (Javier Gutierrez-Rexach); "Do I Sound 'Asian' to You? Linguistic Markers of Asian American Identity" (David B. Hanna); "Subcategorization Semantics and the Naturalness of Verb-Frame Pairings" (Edward Kako); "Extraction, Gradedness, and Optimality" (Frank Keller); "A Non-Scalar Account of Apparent Gradience: Evidence from Yo and Ne" (Yuriko Suzuki Kose); "No Escape from Syntax: Don't Try Morphological Analysis in the Privacy of Your Own Lexicon" (Alec Marantz); "What Does the Copula Do?" (Kunio Nishiyama); "Disyllabic Requirement in Swahili Morphology" (Jae-Ick Park); "Aspectual Shifting in the Perfect and Progressive" (Laura Wagner); "A Model-Theoretic Approach to A-Not-A Questions" (Jianxin Wu); and "Against Overt Particle Incorporation" (Jochen Zeller). Diagrams, tables, and references appear throughout the articles. (KFT)