Proceedings of SULA 5: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas

This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages of the Americas, held at Harvard/MIT, 15-17 May, 2009. Contents: Non-Interrogative Questions in Yukatek Maya (Scott Anderbois) Perfective Aspect and Circumstantial Modality: A Cross-linguistic Approach (Henry Davis, Meagan Louie, Lisa Matthewson, Ileana Paul, Tyle Peterson, and Amelia Reis Silva) Reported Speech in Matses: Obligatory Perspective Shift with Syntactic Transparency (David Fleck, Rainer Ludwig, Robert Munro, Uli Sauerland) The Structure of Gradable Adjectives in Brazilian Portuguese (Ana Paula Gomes) Evidently, a dilemma (Elisabeth Krawczyk) Quantifier Constructions in Ojibwe (Bethany Lochbihler) Revisiting Split Ergativity in Q'anjob'al (Pedro Mateo) On Distributivity in Karitiana (Ana Müller and Esmeralda Negrão) Evidentials and Questions in Cheyenne (Sarah Murray) Dire N'IMPORTE-Q: Identifying a polarity item in Quebec Sign Language (Nassira Nicola) The Perspectival Basis of Fluid-S Case-Marking in Northern Pomo (Cathy O'Connor and Amy Rose Deal) Wishing it were: podia and the implicature of desire in Brazilian Portuguese (Ana Pessoto and Roberta Pires) Copular Constructions in Karitiana: A Case Against Case Movement (Luciana Storto) Is Paraguayan Guaraní a Tenseless Language? (Judith Tonhauser) Possibility Modality in Saamáka (Marleen van de Vate) Case Marking and Semantic Incorporation in Tarascan (Violeta Vasquez Rojas)