Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1.

This issue includes the following articles: "Assimilation to the Unmarked" (Eric Bakovic); "On the Non-Universality of Functional Projections and the Effects on Parametrized Variation: Evidence from Creoles" (Marlyse Baptista); "What Turkish Acquisition Tells Us about Underlying Word Order and Scrambling" (Natalie Batman-Ratyosyan, Karin Stromswold); "Constituting Context: Null Objects in English Recipes Revisited" (Emily Bender); "Decomposing French Questions" (Cedric Boeckx); "A Conspiracy Argument for Optimality Theory: Emakhuwa Dialectology" (Farida Cassimjee, Charles W, Kisseberth); "Light-Headed Relatives" (Barbara Citko); "Semantically Charged Syntax and the Construction of Meaning" (Kristin M. Eide and Tor A. Afarli); "'Punctuality' and Verb Semantics" (Stefan Engelberg);"Acquisition of Default Inflectional Suffixes: Japanese Adjectives" (Miho Fujiwara); "Possessor Extraction in Child English: A Minimalist Account" (Elena Gavruseva, Rosalind Thornton); "The Long Distance Anaphora Conspiracy: The Case of Korean" (Kook-Hee Gill); "Topic, Focus, and the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface" (Jeanette K. Gundel); "Two Ways of Describing Distributive Readings" (J.R. Hayashishita); "The Reduplicative Nature of the Bulgarian Definite Article" (Ben Hermans); "The Origin of the Pre-Ossetic Oblique Case Suffix and Its Implications" (Ronald Kim); "A Hierarchy of Phonetic Constraints on Palatality in Russian" (Alexei Kochetov); "Japanese Floating Classifiers" (William McClure); "A-Scrambling Exists!" (Martha McGinnis); "Perception and Production of American English Tense and Lax Vowels by Japanese Speakers" (Michelle Minnick Fox, Kazuaki Maeda); "The Syntax of Adjunct Wh-NPs" (Masao Ochi, Tien-Hsin Hsin); "Reflexives and Constraints on the Borrowing of Discourse Function: Creoles and Tahitian French" (Kieran Snyder); and "Two Types of Verb Particle Constructions" (Mikael Vinka). References are appended to each article. (KFT)