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• The syntax, pragmatics, and prosody of parenthetical whatAn earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1st International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English at the University of Edinburgh in June 2005. We would like to thank the audience there for the lively discussion. Parts of this paper were also presented at the University of Konstanz in May 2005 and the University of Göttingen in July 2005 by Nicole Dehé. We are grateful to the audiences there for discussion and comments. Furthermore, we would like to thank the following people who have contributed in various ways to the work presented here: Bas Aarts, Carolyn Biraben, Diane Blakemore, Dirk Bury, Ray Jackendoff, Ad Neeleman, Rosa Vega-Moreno, and Anne Wichmann, as well as one anonymous reviewer for ELL. The present work was supported by DFG grant DE 876/1-1 to Nicole Dehé, as well as an ORS grant and a Stern scholarship from the University of London to Yordanka Kavalova.

  DEHÉ, NICOLE; KAVALOVA, YORDANKA; DEHÉ NICOLE; Freie Universität Berlin; KAVALOVA YORDANKA; University College London (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• Against extrasyllabic consonants in German and EnglishI would like to thank Laura Downing, Antony Green, David Holsinger, Renate Raffelsiefen and Marzena Rochoń for discussion on the material presented below as well as for written comments on earlier incarnations of the present article. The quality of the final version has benefited tremendously from the comments made by three anonymous referees and by an anonymous associate editor of Phonology. Some of the ideas in the present study were presented at the University of Leipzig in November 1998 and at the Workshop on Contemporary Phonological Theory in Tromsø, Norway in June 2001. Thanks are due to the respective audiences for important feedback.

  Hall, T. A.; Hall T. A.; University of Leipzig (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• Case and word order in LithuanianAn early version of this paper was presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages as ‘Case marking on objects of infinitives in Lithuanian’. Later instantiations were presented at the following universities, in chronological order: Indiana, Groningen, Venice, Ljubljana, Maryland, Connecticut, MIT, Pennsylvania, and Princeton; we appreciate the helpful comments of these audiences. Some of the nominative object material is also treated in Lavine & Franks (2005). We wish to thank William Schmalstieg for discussion of these data and for supplying numerous examples, Axel Holvoet of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language in Vilnius and Virginija Vasiliauskienė of Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas) for, respectively, obtaining and providing many useful judgments, and offering valuable suggestions on how to approach these judgments, and Dalia Cidzikaitė, Evelina Gužauskytė, Teresė Gužauskienė, and Jolanta Mickutė for checking our examples and providing needed additional discussion. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge two anonymous JL referees and Bob Borsley for comments leading to many improvements in the present version of the paper. All errors in the interpretation and analysis of these data and comments remain our own.

  FRANKS, STEVEN; LAVINE, JAMES E.; FRANKS STEVEN; Indiana University; Indiana University; LAVINE JAMES E.; Bucknell University; Bucknell University (Cambridge University Press, 2006)