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side effect of a significant independent configurational difference between clauses in Russian involving the presence of a matrix leftperiphery functional category TopicP that is absent in embedded contexts. We provide an account of Russian multiple sluicing,showing it is syntactically parallel to multiple wh-movement. We end with a discussion of a striking (and previously unnoticed)adjunct/argument asymmetry lending support to the purely syntactic account.Nikki Seifert (University of Texas, Austin) Session 59An OT account of stress patterns in African American English: BIN, been, D n, & DOI present an optimality theoretic (OT) analysis of word- and sentence-level stress patterns in African American English (AAE). Ifocus on emphatic DO; stressed BIN, nonstressed been, and unstressed d n; and the interaction of the stresses on these words and beatpatterns of phrasal constituents (following, e.g., Selkirk 1984, 1995). The data show that lexically stressed BIN affects the beatpatterns of a sentence differently than does the pragmatically stressed DO, illustrating the ways in which the AAE lexicon, semantics,and pragmatics interface with phonology.Angelina Serratos (University of Arizona) WITHDRAWN Session 16Chemehuevi causatives: Lexical or syntactic?Angelina Serratos (University of Arizona) Session 95Predication in ChemehueviI discuss predicational properties of nouns, adjectives, and verbs in Chemehuevi, an endangered Southern Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family. The theoretical framework of this work is Baker's (2003) theory of predication, in which nouns and adjectives requirea functional projection Pred to form a predicate, but verbs can form predicates independently. I argue that in Chemehuevi the relevantdistinction is between nouns on the one hand and verbs and adjectives on the other. Following Baker, I demonstrate that Chemehuevihas an overt realization of Pred, the second position clitic copula -uk, which is obligatory only in nominal predicates.Devyani Sharma (King’s College, London) Session 28Ashwini Deo (Yale University)Lexical & sentential aspect in Indian English tense-aspect restructuringThe inherent aspect hypothesis (IAH) proposes that lexical aspect affects the use of grammatical aspect morphology in L1/L2 learningand creoles. Our study of Indian English initially supports this: Past/present marking is restricted to telic/stative VPs respectively.However, two unexplained patterns emerge: (1) Derived habitual/progressive predicates based on telic VPs omit past marking. (2)Lexical states/activities with perfective interpretation license past marking. We argue for a uniform treatment of lexical andgrammatical aspect in terms of model-theoretic notions of events and states. This further accommodates the overextension of presentprogressive to habitual/lexical states, also found in Indian English but unexplained by the IAH.Dwan L. Shipley (Western Washington University) Session 70An analysis of the place names used by Marcel Proust in A la Recherche du Temps PerduProust uses place names in his writing, many of which reflect his growing up in Normandy, France. Proust, however, created some ofthese names out of his own imagination, and they do not reflect the actual names of the area. An examination of Proust's place nameswill reveal his use of the real vs the fictional.Grant W. Smith (Eastern Washington University) Session 74The influence of name sounds in the congressional elections of 2006I retested the analytical model I used in previously published studies of 1996 and 1998 elections to measure the influence of selectedphonetic features in names on the relative success of various political candidates. The model works best when voters are leastmotivated or most confused by issues. In previous studies, the minimum reliability of the model was 65%, and so this study couldshed some light on the reliability of the model over time and/or on the relative importance of issues in this election.Neal Snider (Stanford University) Session 44Evidence from priming for hierarchical representation in syntactic structureSyntactic priming is proving to be a useful technique for experimentally probing the mental representation of syntactic knowledge. I163