Clitics, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, discourse particles, auxiliary/light verbs, prepositions, and other small words took center stage at the March 2007 sitting of the annual Georgetown University Round Table of Languages and Linguistics. So many aspects were being investigated that only a few were accepted. The 20 here discuss such topics as the morphological reduction and phonological compensation in Old Leonese contractions, motivating floating quantifiers, the complementizer the, predicting argument realization from oblique marker semantics, greetings and closings in institutional e-mails, and the role of pedagogical tasks and focus on form in the acquisition of discourse markers by advanced language learners. They are not indexed. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)