Preface
1. IntroductionRonald P. Leow, Héctor Campos, and Donna Lardiere
Part I: History
2. From "Two" to "Both": Historical Changes in the Syntax and Meaning of Oba in SlavicAgnieszka Łazorczyk and Roumyana Pancheva
3. When Small Worlds Collide: Morphological Reduction and Phonological Compensation in Old Leonese ContractionsMinta Elsman and D. Eric Holt
Part II: Phonology
4. Distinguishing Function Words from Content Words in Children's Oral ReadingCarol Lord, Robert Berdan, and Michael Fender
5. Motivating Floating QuantifiersLisa Rochman
Part III: Syntax
6. Applicative Phrases Hosting Accusative CliticsLuis Sáez
7.The Little DE of Degree ConstructionsRemus Gergel
8. The Complementizer TheHeather Lee Taylor
9. What is There When Little Words Are Not There?: Possible Implications for Evolutionary StudiesLjiljana Progovac
10. Spanish Personal a and the AntidativeOmar Velázquez-Mendoza and Raúl Aranovich
Part IV: Semantics
11.Predicting Argument Realization from Oblique Marker SemanticsJohn Beavers
12. Aspect Selectors, Scales, and Contextual Operators: An Analysis of by Temporal AdjunctsMichael F. Thomas and Laura A. Michaelis
13. Distributive Effects of the Plural Marker -tul in KoreanJong Un Park
Part V: Pragmatics
14. The Pragmatics of the French Discourse Markers donc and alorsStéphanie Pellet
15. "Little Words" in Small Talk: Some Considerations on the Use of the Pragmatic Markers man in English and macho/tío in Peninsular SpanishLaura Alba-Juez
16. Little Words that Could Impact One's Impression on Others: Greetings and Closings in Institutional EmailsSigrun Biesenbach-Lucas
Part VI: Acquisition
17. Instructed L2 Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in SpanishMelissa Bowles and Silvina Montrul
18. The Role of Pedagogical Tasks and Focus on Form in Acquisition of Discourse Markers by Advanced Language LearnersMaria José de la Fuente
19. Article Acquisition in English, German, Norwegian, and SwedishTanja Kupisch, Merete Anderssen, Ute Bohnacker, and Neal Snape
20. A Continuum in French Children's Surface Realization of AuxiliariesChristina D. Dye