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Joshua Pongan (Temple University) Session 85Linguistic and non-linguistic factors in Chabacano pronominalizationIn the Philippines there exists a group of Spanish-lexified creoles known collectively as “Chabacano” or Philippine CreoleSpanish (PCS). This study examines the pronominal systems of four varieties of Chabacano, focusing on both the etymologicalcomposition of the pronominal paradigms and the presence or not of a distinction between 1st person plural inclusive andexclusive. I show that in addition to linguistic determinants, a confluence of social factors, such as distinct historicaldevelopments, communication practices and substrate homogeneity, offers a comprehensive explanation for the composition ofthe distinct pronominal paradigms of the Chabacano varieties.Covadonga Lamar Prieto (University of California, Riverside) Session 64Bobbie, Deivy, Kate, or how hypocoristics are formalized in the Spanish of the US, according to the Diccionario deAmericanismos (2010)This paper discusses the formation of hypocoristics in the Spanish of the United States, using the data from the “Hipocorísticoshispanoamericanos más usados” included in the Diccionario de americanismos (2010). I examine how the hypocoristics listed asexclusive from the United States receive the influence of English and also how they relate to the concept of Spanish in the UnitedStates as a multidialectal variety of Spanish.Clifton Pye (University of Kansas) Session 93Reconstructing negation in the Greater Tzeltalan Mayan languagesThis presentation outlines a preliminary reconstruction of negation in Greater Tzeltalan Maya. A basic issue that has to beresolved for the Mayan languages is whether to treat negation as an independent, focused cleft phrase followed by a dependentverbal clause, or as a semantic feature that is integrated within the verbal complex in the same clause. Even when negation isintegrated into the verbal complex, it often surfaces in aspectually marked forms that are loosely attached to the verb complex.The Greater Tzeltalan languages allow adverbial clitics to appear between the negation marker and the verbal complex, andexistential negation was extended to mark negation in verbal predicates. The reconstruction suggests that the proto-Mayan *yAb’and *maa’ markers were linked to different contexts of use, and that verbal negation came to be marked in a separate, existentialclause in Ch’ol.Anna Pytlowany (University of Amsterdam) Session 78Left to right and right to left: two Dutch vocabularies of Persian and Hindustani comparedConsidering the long history of Dutch overseas activities, it is remarkable how scarce linguistic documentation on “exoticlanguages” in Dutch actually is. Of the few extant works, two are dedicated to Hindustani: Instruction or Tuition in theHindustani and Persian languages (1698) by J. J. Ketelaar and the anonymous Vocabularium Persico-Belgicum (MS 589, LeidenUniversity Library). In spite of obvious differences (one is written in Perso-Arabic script, from right to left; the other uses onlyDutch phonetic spelling), both texts probably originate in the same time and place. A closer analysis of the lexical structure andcontent of the two manuscripts may give us a unique insight into early linguistic methodology.Conor McDonough Quinn (University of Southern Maine) Session 14Applicative and antipassive: Algonquian transitive "stem-agreement" as differential object markingThe standard Algonquianist model of transitive morphosyntax (Bloomfield 1946) argues for a stem-derivational element that bothcreates a categorically transitive stem and agrees for the primary object argument's (grammatically) [±animate] feature: theseelements are called Transitive Animate (TA) and Transitive Inanimate (TI) Finals. Examining morphological and interpretationalevidence, we propose that transitive "stem-agreement" is actually differential object marking: TA Finals are a head-markingrealization of dative-accusative syncretism (cf. Spanish and Hindi), and TIs are a type of antipassive (cf. Inuktitut and Mayanlanguages). Prima facie agreement may therefore sometimes in fact be feature-sensitive morphosyntactic constructions.Janet Randall (Northeastern University) Session 12Plain English jury instructions for Massachusetts: first stepsYou are a Massachusetts juror. Before deliberating, the jury gets instructions from the judge, including,"Failure of recollection is common. Innocent mis-recollection is not uncommon."But in California, the jury hears, instead,195