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This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages of the Americas, held at Harvard/MIT, 15-17 May, 2009.Contents:Non-Interrogative Questions in Yukatek Maya (Scott Anderbois)Perfective Aspect and Circumstantial Modality: A Cross-linguistic Approach (Henry Davis, Meagan Louie, Lisa Matthewson, Ileana Paul, Tyle Peterson, and Amelia Reis Silva)Reported Speech in Matses: Obligatory Perspective Shift with Syntactic Transparency (David Fleck, Rainer Ludwig, Robert Munro, Uli Sauerland)The Structure of Gradable Adjectives in Brazilian Portuguese (Ana Paula Gomes)Evidently, a dilemma (Elisabeth Krawczyk)Quantifier Constructions in Ojibwe (Bethany Lochbihler)Revisiting Split Ergativity in Q'anjob'al (Pedro Mateo)On Distributivity in Karitiana (Ana Mller and Esmeralda Negro)Evidentials and Questions in Cheyenne (Sarah Murray)Dire N'IMPORTE-Q: Identifying a polarity item in Quebec Sign Language (Nassira Nicola)The Perspectival Basis of Fluid-S Case-Marking in Northern Pomo (Cathy O'Connor and Amy Rose Deal)Wishing it were: podia and the implicature of desire in Brazilian Portuguese (Ana Pessoto and Roberta Pires)Copular Constructions in Karitiana: A Case Against Case Movement (Luciana Storto)Is Paraguayan Guaran a Tenseless Language? (Judith Tonhauser)Possibility Modality in Saamka (Marleen van de Vate)Case Marking and Semantic Incorporation in Tarascan (Violeta Vasquez Rojas)