Preface Joey Stanley and Conni Covington Ich haute aufs Land ab, melkte eine Kuh, und backte einen Kuchen: Regularization of strong verbs in modern German Conni Covington The Impact of EFL Teacher Motivational Strategies on Student Motivation to Learn English in Costa Rica Madeline Jones The Development of Proto-Oceanic *R in Kaiwa (Iwal) Trey Lackey Syntax from above: Towards a top-down, phase-theoretic model of sentence generation Doug Merchant Phonological patterns in BEG-raising Joseph A. Stanley