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EunHee Lee (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) Session 28Pluperfects in Korean & English discourseMany researchers have pointed out that the pluperfect form is required in order to signal a reversed order configuration only innarrative text types and have reported that it is seldom used in English news reports since the simple past can supplant it. The Koreanpluperfect -essess, by contrast, is freely used in both text types. In spoken discourse or isolated sentences, it signals discontinuity ofthe effect of a prior situation. In narratives, it triggers a flashback effect, like the English pluperfects. I claim that -essess has thesingle meaning of an event preceding the reference time and lacks the aspectual meaning while the English pluperfect is ambiguousbetween preterit and aspectual meanings. I further argue that the difference between the two languages can be explained by observingthe fundamental processing differences between narrative and nonnarrative text types. The semantics of the pluperfect in bothlanguages is represented by discourse representation theory.Russell Lee-Goldman (University of California, Berkeley) Session 13Michael Ellsworth (International Computer Science Institute)As--two constructions, not single prepositionWe show that the as illustrated below is best analyzed as a relativizer (contra Potts 2002), semantically filling the (gapped) predicaterole in the relative clause. A subconstruction licenses quasi-subject-auxiliary inversion (1b), which constrains the matrix clause to (1)have a positive epistemic stance (*If only you exercised, as do I...) and (2) appear before as. Noninverted as lacks these constraints,but we demonstrate its compatibility with a correlative relative analysis, covering also problematic examples like 2.(1) a. I enjoy spinach, as most people do__.b. ... as do__ most people.(2) As __ often happens, he fell.Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (Swarthmore College) Session 33Janneke ter Beek (University of Groningen)A-movement out of control clauses: Evidence for VO Order in Dutch & GermanRestructuring in German and Dutch may result in a discontinuous control clause, with an argument of the infinitive to the left of thematrix verb, while the rest of the complement clause is to the right of it. Standard tests demonstrate that the argument is in an A-position, and the distribution of NPIs licensed by adversative verbs shows it is in the matrix clause. Examination of possesor dativeraising shows that the complement clause is not a CP, which makes an extraposition account of the postverbal position of the infinitiveproblematic. The facts follow if the base order is VO rather than OV.Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier (University at Buffalo-SUNY) Session 55My cue is not your cue: A cross-linguistic study of perceptual cues to vowel quantityA contrast in vowel quantity is commonly realized as durational difference. However, other cues, such as a difference in vowelquality or F0 contour may co-occur with the durational difference and may influence the way listeners perceive vowel quantity. Iinvestigated the universal vs language-specific nature of perceptual cues to vowel quantity by comparing the use of vowel duration,quality and F0 by native speakers of three languages with phonemic vowel quantity contrast (Thai, Japanese, and German) and of onelanguage without quantity contrast (Spanish). While all listeners used vowel quality, the use of F0 was language specific.Wesley Y. Leonard (University of California, Berkeley) Session 99Ideology as a factor & a predictor of ‘success’ in language reclamationAlthough many practical issues figure into the viability of language revitalization or reclamation--for example the quality and quantityof documentation, access to financial and human resources, and the type of language policies in effect--language ideology is afundamental factor. The case of Miami language reclamation (from a situation with no speakers) exemplifies how ideological beliefscan guide both the details of the reclamation process and also the issue of what constitutes ‘success’. I present and analyze one Miamifamily's language ideology and argue that it is the key factor to their successful reclamation of myaamia.Philip LeSourd (Indiana University) Session 102‘Raising’ & long-distance agreement in Maliseet-PassamaquoddyMaliseet-Passamaquoddy employs both a ‘raising’ construction, involving apparent raising to object position out of a finitesubordinate clause, and a long-distance agreement construction, in which a verb appears to agree across a clause boundary. I argue142