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Peter Wilson (Nepean High School, Ottawa, ON) Session 104Prayers in Kwakwala: translation and discourseNumerous texts and concepts collected on the Pacific Northwest Coast indigenous languages have been mistranslated andmisrepresented, perhaps the most infamous being the translation and representation of the Cannibal Society. A comparisonbetween the original Kwakwala texts known as “prayers” in the works of Boas and Hunt and their English translations, as well asa comparison of the Kwakwala used in prayers published by the Anglican Church and the Kwakwala in traditional prayers,demonstrate that the translations reflect a Western European discourse, not a Kwakiutl one.Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University) Session 58Hayley Heaton (University of Michigan)Amanda Eads (North Carolina State University)Lebanese English in the American South: dialect accommodation and the recession of substrateA cohesive Lebanese community has existed in North Carolina for over a century, raising issues about the role of substratefeatures and the accommodation of Southern English. The acoustic analysis of vowel systems, syllable timing, and voice-onsettiming (VOT) along with the analysis of selected morphosyntactic analyses demonstrates that Lebanese born in North Carolina donot maintain substrate influence. Selected aspects of Southern vowels are accommodated, but accommodation avoids sociallystigmatized grammatical features. The pattern, which contrasts with other Southern ethnolinguistic repertoires, is explained interms of community values that underscore upward mobility and educational and social status achievement.Jim Wood (Yale University) Session 34Einar Freyr Sigurðssons (University of Pennsylvania)Get-passives as get-anticausatives: evidence from IcelandicHaegeman (1985) proposed that English get-causatives (John got Mary arrested) provide the derivational source for get-passives(Mary i got t i arrested). We present Icelandic data that supports this analysis, but only when supplemented with Alexiadou’s(2012) claim that English get-passives are ambiguous between “middles” and passives. Support for the “anticausative” analysiscomes from: (i) anticausative morphology on ‘get’ and (ii) preservation of oblique case on the derived subject (which isdiagnostic of verbal passives). Thematic restrictions on the result, however, suggest that this derivation cannot be the only sourcefor get-passives in English, supporting the view that English get-passives are ambiguous.Xuehua Xiang (University of Illinois at Chicago) Session 70The domain names of Fortune-500 corporations in the US and China: a cross-linguistic study.This study presents a comparative analysis of the domain names of Fortune-500 corporations (2011 ranking) in the US vs. China,focusing on the degree/types of correspondence between corporate names and companies domain names. The discussionillustrates that US domain names are largely semantic, alphabetic, intuitive and recognizable, maintaining existing corporatebrands as perceived by the public. Chinese domain names manifest diversification/irregularity due to a multitude of choices tomeet the Roman-alphabet bias of the technology of domain names technology. Further, geographical identifications form anessential component of Chinese domain names while such identifications are rare in the U.S. data.Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania) Session 11Kyle Gorman (University of Pennsylvania)Jennifer Preys (University of Pennsylvania)Margaret Borowczyk (University of Pennsylvania)Productivity and paradigmatic gapsParadigmatic gaps arise when productivity fails (Halle 1973). The learning model of Yang (2005) provides a precise condition onproductivity: a rule/process applicable to N items is productive if and only if the number of exceptions does not exceed N/ln(N).The existence of gaps can be predicted entirely on numerical ground, as we illustrate with case studies of English past tense,Polish masculine genitives, Spanish third conjugation indicatives, and the celebrated Russian 1st person singular non-past (Halle1973)217