Book Description

NELS 37, the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, was hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on October 13-15, 2006. These two volumes of conference proceedings, edited by Emily Elfner and Martin Walkow and published by the Graduate Linguistic Student Association of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, contain the forty-seven presented papers that were submitted for publication. Volume 1 (this volume) contains papers from the special sessions on the Phonology and Morphology of Pidgins and Creoles and Syntactic Theory and Psycholinguistics as well eighteen papers from the main session.