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Han Lamers (Leiden University) Session 75The etymological procedures of Janus Lascaris (1493)This paper uses Janus Lascaris’ etymological excursus in his Florentine Oration (1493) as a starting point to explore the curiousconvergence of two (“Latin” and “Byzantine”) etymological traditions in the 15th century. Its main goal is to demonstrate in whatway the (post-)Byzantine humanist scholar used both Latin and Byzantine intralinguistic techniques of derivatio in aninterlinguistic manner, and transformed literary or exegetical devices into a method to recover interlinguistic affinities betweenGreek and Latin. In this context, this paper will also assess the place of Janus Lascaris’ etymological excursus in the generalcontext of 15th-century etymology.Bradley Larson (University of Maryland) Session 17Dan Parker (University of Maryland)‘Across the board movement’ is actually asymmetricalWe argue that ATB constructions actually only involve extraction from the first conjunct. The second conjunct receives its fullinterpretation semantically. In virtue of having moved in the first conjunct, the wh-phrase restricts the event variable scoping overboth conjuncts such that the moved element is interpreted in both. We present judgment data showing that ATB wh-questions aresensitive to island constraints in the first conjunct, but not the second. This militates against current approaches in which there ismovement in one form or another from both conjuncts.EunHee Lee (University at Buffalo) Session 8Discourse binding of the long-distance reflexive caki ‘self’ in KoreanNon-subject binding for the Korean long distance reflexive caki ‘self’, which is not predicted by the cyclic movement analysis inGB (Cole et al. 1990, Cole and Sung 1994), is possible where discourse factors, such as “source of communication,”“consciousness,” and “point of view” (Sells 1987), are relevant. The lack of c-command relation between caki and its antecedent,which can occur in preceding sentences in discourse, poses a problem to semantic analyses that claim that caki is a bound variable(Kang 1988, Han and Storoshenko 2009). I propose a discourse-level analysis of caki based on naturally occurring corpusexamples. Close examination of narrative data containing caki reveals that it almost always refers to a familiar individual whosethoughts/speech, or mental state/feelings are represented. In order to formally analyze intersentencial binding relations andexplain the fact that caki refers to a familiar topic individual whose thoughts/speech are represented, I employ a shiftableindexical approach (Schlenker 2004, Sharvit 2008) in the framework of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT, Kamp and Reyle1993, Kamp, van Genabith, and Reyle 2005).Hanjung Lee (Sungkyunkwan University) Session 3Nayoun Kim (Sungkyunkwan University)On the source of subject-object asymmetries in Korean case ellipsis: an experimental investigationThe dispreference for subject case ellipsis in OSV sentences has been analyzed as resulting from a violation of a structuralrequirement on the position of bare subject NPs (Ahn and Cho 2006a, 2006b, 2007). In this study, we present evidence from anacceptability rating experiment demonstrating that OSV sentences containing a case-ellipsed subject exhibit acceptability patternsdifferent from ungrammatical sentences violating a core syntactic principle on case assignment and that these sentences are judgedacceptable when the subject refers to expected, predictable information in context. We argue that this evidence supports theconclusion that the dispreference for subject case ellipsis in OSV sentences is due to violations of probabilistic constraints that favorcase marking for rare types of subjects and such violations can be remedied by non-syntactic information.Hyunjung Lee (University of Kansas) Session 17Jie Zhang (University of Kansas)Allard Jongman (University of Kansas)Evidence for sound change in the phonology of lexical pitch accent in Kyungsang KoreanThe phonology of the Kyungsang dialect of Korean is distinct from that of the standard Seoul dialect with regard to its lexicalpitch. However, whether this distinction is maintained in younger Kyungsang generations is questionable due to the increasedcontact with Seoul speakers and the prevailing linguistic ideology that has lent Seoul Korean a strong normative bias. We provideacoustic evidence for sound change in Kyungsang Korean by showing generational variations in its lexical pitch accent.Comparing the phonetic data across Kyungsang and Seoul Korean, we also indicate how Seoul Korean has influenced the prosodyof Kyungsang.174