Winkler Susanne, Featherston Sam (Editors). The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 2: Product

Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. — vi, 265 pages. — (Studies in Generative Grammar). — ISBN: 978-3-11-021347-8.The volumes of The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics: Process and Product contain the proceedings of this most recent conference. In the call for papers we announced that, while work from all branches of linguistics were welcome, there would be a special session on experimental methods in syntax and semantics, since these are the areas of linguistics where the paradigm shift towards a more empirical but nevertheless theoretically informed research model is most apparent (and perhaps most necessary). This specification had perhaps more effect than it was intended to; the vast majority of abstracts received would have been immediately appropriate for this ‘special session’. There was therefore no separate session with this thematic focus, rather the entire conference was strongly orientated in this direction. It would appear that there is a wider feeling among linguists that this field is seeing innovation and is therefore interesting.German verb - first conditionals as unintegrated clauses: A case study in converging synchronic and diachronic evidence
Optionality in verb cluster formation
Clitic placement in Serbian: Corpus and experimental evidence
Explorations in ellipsis: The grammar and processing of silence
Comparatives and types of þonne in Old English:
Towards an integrated analysis of the data types in comparatives derivations
Context effects in the formation of adjectival resultatives
New data on an old issue: Subject/object asymmetries in long extractions in German
Parallelism and information structure: Across-the-board-extraction from coordinate ellipsis
An empirical perspective on positive polarity items in German
First-mention definites: More than exceptional cases
Partial agreement in German: A processing issue?