The Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle (WPLC) is an academic
journal published annually by the Linguistic Circle of the University of
Victoria. It represents the current research activities of both faculty and
graduate students in the field of linguistics at the University of Victoria.
Begun in 1981, WPLC has been a means for graduate students to gain experience
in all aspects of an academic journal: submitting papers, editing, and publishing
and distributing the final product. It also facilitates a wide exchange of
ideas, as WPLC participates in a working papers exchange with departments
in other universities around the world.
Clicking on a volume title will display the contents. Some documents may be available for download.
Chris Bodenbender
A Case of Was-w in Hessian: New Evidence against Scope-Marking
Man Gao
Chinese Ba Construction in HPSG
An OT Analysis of Chinese Abbreviatory Compounds
Barbara P. Harris
Dialects in a Dead Pidgin: A Preliminary Exploration of
Variation in Chinook Jargon
Aliki Marinakis
Dogrib Co-occurrence Restrictions: The Disappearance of [u]
Heather Steel
The Role of Narrative in Dispute Resolution
Mihoko Teshigawara
Vowel Devoicing in Tokyo Japanese
Ryan Waldie
The subject Agreement Clitic in Heiltsuk
John H. Esling
Pharyngeal Approximations, Fricatives, Trills and Stops
Lynn M. Heap
Acoustic Analysis of Pharyngeal Approximants, Fricatives, Trills and Stops
Manami Iwata
Depictions of the Gender Roles in Elementary Language Arts and Mathematics Textbooks in 1940s ~ 1950s and the Present
Sandra Patricia Kirkham
Three Perspectives of Determiner Agreement in German
Lili Ma
Mandarin Diminutive Formation: An Optimality Analysis
Tadao Miyamoto and Joseph F. Kess
Psycholinguistic Dimensions of the Mental Dictionary in Chinese vs. Japanese
Shahrzad Saif
Interactional/Ability Authenticity and the Development of a Criterion-Referenced
Performance Test for Evaluating the Oral Proficiency of Teaching Assistants
Mavis Smith
A Discussion of Rosen's (1989) Lexical Analysis of Noun Incorporation
Yang Wei
On the Control Structure of the Chinese Verb Daying
Ed Zoerner
Unifying Gapping, Right-Node Raising, and Vº-Coordination
Proceedings of the Eleventh Northwest Linguistics Conference
Jumah Albayaty
The X-Bar Status of Neg
David Beck
Transitivity and Causation in Lushootseed Morphology
Susan Fitzgerald
Historical Aspects of Coeur d'Alene Harmony
Baoning Fu
Tone Space and Tone Features
Michael Gamon
Can Minimalism Meet Binding Theory
Paul Hopkins
Kashubian: Language or Dialect?
Ping Jiang-King
Distributivity in Chinese Reciprocal Constructions
Wei Li
Esperanto Inflection and Its Interface in HPSG
James Lyle
Adjunction and Antecedent-Contained Deletion
Dave McKercher
Where's the Embedded Agent in French Faire-Infinitive Constructions?
Tadao Miyamoto and Joseph F. Kess
Kana vs. Kanji Processing in the Right vs. Left Hemisphere
Mark Newson
The Syntax of Negation and Optimality Theory
Monica Sanchez
Language Breakdown: Implications for the Theory of Functional Categories
Murray Schellenberg
Shifts in Taboo Loading
Takashi Suzuki
Reference Time in Discourse
Marie Louise Willet
Some Patterns of wa in Nxa?amxci'n (Moses-Columbian Salish)
Yang Wei
The Yin and Yang Aspects of Language
Tadao Miyamoto and Joseph F. Kess
Sentence Processing Limitations in Japanese Aphasics
Yang Wei
Aspects of Speech Errors in Chinese
Nuttathida Chakshuraksha
Prosodic Structure and Reduplication in Thai
Yoshinobu Muta
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Gender Speaking Fundamental Frequency Study: Japanese and English
Sandra Patricia Kirkham
The Power Quest Theme
Paul Agbedor
Negation in Ewe
Deirdre Black
Subject Raising from Tensed Clauses: Evidence from Bella Coola Complex ?ay Constructions
Paul Hopkins
The Scope of the Verbal Suffix of Aspect in Athapaskan
Suying Yang
The Distribution of Chinese Reflexives
Joseph F. Kess, Tadao Miyamoto, and Chiharu Uda
The Historical Develepment of Japanese Psycholinguistics
Yang Wei
Innate Language Capacity and the Language Environment: A Case Study of Adult-Child Conversation
Norman Bendle
Metalinguistic Development and Bilingual Acquisition
Chris Whitney
Nigeria and Language Change: A Study in Historical Patterns
Karen Woodman
The Goddess and the Sea People: The Origins of the Languages of the Minoan Scripts
Hua Lin
The Register Tonal Feature and the Neutral Tone in Mandarin
Paul Agbedor
Verb Serialization in Ewe
Tadao Miyamoto and Joseph F. Kess
On Processing Empty Categories in English and Japanese
Ping Xue
The Distribution of Chinese Reflexives
Hyong-Joong Kim
A Negative Particle ANI in Korean
Brenda Orser
'Fir' Digital Filter Modelling of Linguistic Pharyngeals Transmission: Short-Time
Amplitude in Low Frequency Rapid Spectrum Change
Chen Shu-Chen
Some Aspectws of Australian Comparative Linguistics