HERSETEC(ENG)

1. August 22, 2009
   
   Added information about the venue to the Travel page.
2. August 12, 2009
   
   Some modifications were made to the program.

   Invited Speakers

   • Junko Ito & Armin Mester (UC Santa Cruz)
   • Beth Levin (Stanford University)
   • Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)
   • James Yoon (University of Illinois)
   • Special Panel on Acquisition organized by Keiko Murasugi

   September 4, 2009  Friday

   8:15—	REGISTRATION
   9:00—9:15	Opening Remarks
   	1st Session    (9:15—10:15)
   9:15—9:45	Serkan Sener (University of Connecticut) and Daiko Takahashi (Tohoku University)   Argument Ellipsis in Japanese and Turkish
   9:45—10:15	Chizuru Nakao (University of Maryland)   ATB-Movement and Resumption: The Case of Japanese Left Node Raising
   10:15—10:30	BREAK
   	2nd Session    (10:30—12:00)
   10:30—11:00	Hideki Maki (Gifu University), Lina Bao (Gifu University), Qing-Yu Wu (Gifu University), Wurigumula Bao (Gifu University), Asako Uchibori (Nihon University), Fumikazu Niinuma (Kochi Gakuen College) and Kenichi Goto (Gifu University)   The Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Modern Mongolian
   11:00—11:30	Hisako Takahashi (Stony Brook University)   Adverbial Clauses and Nominative/Genitive Conversion in Japanese
   11:30—12:00	Dolgor Guntsetseg (University of Stuttgart)   The Function of Accusative Case in Mongolian
   12:00—14:00	LUNCH BREAK
   	3rd Session    (14:00—15:00)
   14:00—14:30	Kazutaka Kurisu (Kobe College)   Japanese Light Verb Voicing as Connective Morpheme
   14:30—15:00	Junri Shimada (MIT)   A Linking Morpheme Analysis of Japanese Compound Accentuation
   15:00—15:15	BREAK
   	4th Session    (15:15—16:15)
   15:15—15:45	Masahiro Yamada (University of Delaware)   Pluraction and Plural Predication of the Verbal Suffix -Aw- in Japanese
   16:45—16:15	Daeho Chung (Hanyang University)   Do Not Target a Predicate: It Is Not a Constituent
   16:15—16:30	BREAK
   	Invited Talk     (16:30—17:30)
   16:30—17:30	Beth Levin (Stanford University)   Verb Sensitivity in Altaic Ditransitive Sentences

   September 5, 2009  Saturday

   8:30—	REGISTRATION
   	1st Session     (9:00—10:00)
   9:00—9:30	Seongyeon Ko (Cornell University)   A Contrastivist View of the Evolution of the Korean Vowel Systems
   9:30—10:00	Seunghun Lee (Central Connecticut State University) and Jeremy Perkins (Rutgers University)   Korean Affricates and Consonant-Tone Interaction
   	2nd Session     (10:00—11:00)
   10:00—10:30	Jiwon Yun (Cornell University)   Disjunction and Alternative Conditionals in Korean
   10:30—11:00	Seiki Ayano (Mie University)   Revisiting Beautiful Dancers and Complete Fools in Japanese
   11:00—11:15	BREAK
   	Invited Talk     (11:15—12:15)
   11:15—12:15	James Yoon (University of Illinois)   The Architecture of Right Dislocation in Korean and Japanese
   12:15—14:00	LUNCH BREAK
   	Acquisition Panel    (14:00—16:10) Organizer and Chair: Keiko Murasugi
   14:10—14:40	Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University)   The Onset of Complex NPs in Child Production
   14:40—15:10	Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)   Children's Knowledge of the Structural Difference between Relative Clauses and Wh-Questions in Japanese
   15:10—15:40	Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University), Gaby Hermon (University of Delaware) and Ozge Ozturk (Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen)   Asymmetries in the First-Language Acquisition of Subject and Non-Subject Head-Final Relative Clauses in Turkish
   15:40—16:10	John Whitman (Cornell University)   The Syntax of Overmarking in Child Korean
   16:10—16:30	BREAK
   	Invited Talk     (16:30—17:30)
   16:30—17:30	Junko Ito (UC Santa Cruz) and Armin Mester (UC Santa Cruz)   Input Approximation vs. Output Optimization in Japanese Loanwords
   18:00—	RECEPTION

   September 6, 2009  Sunday

   8:30—	REGISTRATION
   	Invited Talk     (9:00—10:00)
   9:00—10:00	Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)   A Comparative Syntax of Ellipsis in Japanese and Korean   (co-authored with Duk-Ho An (Kyungpook National University))
   10:00—10:15	BREAK
   	1st Session    (10:15—11:45)
   10:15—10:45	Satoshi Tomioka (University of Delaware)   Japanese Embedded Questions Are Nominal: Evidence from QVE
   10:45—11:15	Barış Kahraman (Hiroshima University), Atsushi Sato (Hiroshima University), Hajime Ono (Kansai Gaidai University) and Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University)   Relative Clauses Processing before the Head Noun: Evidence for Strong Forward Prediction in Turkish
   11:15—11:45	Brent de Chene (Waseda University)   Description and Explanation in Inflectional Morphology: Japanese Verbs, Korean Nouns
   11:45—13:45	LUNCH BREAK
   	2nd Session    (13:45—15:15)
   13:45—14:15	Minjeong Son (University of Tromsø)   Korean Resultatives Revisited: Complementation versus Adjunction
   14:15—14:45	Yosuke Sato (National University of Singapore)   Coordination, Dependency, and Gapping in Japanese
   14:45—15:15	Sachie Kotani (Tezukayama University)   Focus Particles and Suru-Support in Japanese
   15:15—	Concluding Comments

   August 29, 2009  Saturday

   13:45—14:00	Welcome Address
   	Special Panel    (14:00—15:30) "Aspects of Japanese Grammar and Its Theories"
   14:00—14:30	Eunju Kim (Nagoya University)   Predicates with a Genitive Subject in Old Japanese: Description of Their Morphological and Semantic Features
   14:30—15:00	Motoko Kawabata (Aichi Institute of Technology)   The Adverbs Ato, Mou, and Ima as Modifiers of Temporal Expressions
   15:00—15:30	Toru Kuginuki (Nagoya University)   Japanese Traditional Language Study and Modernization of Japanese Linguistics
   15:30—16:00	BREAK
   	1st Session    (16:00—17:00)
   16:00—16:30	Seda Kan (Boğaziçi University)   The Intonational Phrase in Turkish and Its Implications for Syntax-Prosody Mapping
   16:30—17:00	Öner Özçelik (McGill University) and Miho Nagai (CUNY)   Possible Syntactic Subject Positions in Turkish: Evidence from Phonology

3. July 23, 2009
   
   Registration page was updated.
4. July 17, 2009
   
   The revised program (for the main meeting) was uploaded. There were also some changes in the list of the invited speakers.
5. May 12, 2009
   
   WAFL6 was decided to be postponed to September 4-6 due to the outbreak of the H1N1 influenza. [announcement]
6. April 30, 2009
   
   Travel page was updated. Added a link to Nagoya Information Navi.
7. April 23, 2009
   
   Accommodation page was updated. "Shokuin Club" is booked up now.
8. April 14, 2009
   
   Accommodation page was updated. "Shokuin Club" is almost booked up.
9. April 6, 2009
   
   Accommodation page was uploaded.
10. March 30, 2009
    
    The registration form was uploaded to the Registration page.
11. March 27, 2009
    
    Travel page was updated. Added sightseeing information and some links.
12. March 16, 2009
    
    The program and the list of accepted papers and alternates were uploaded to the site.

General Information

1. The Sixth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6) will be held at
   Nagoya University, Japan, May 22–24, 2009 ⇒ September 4–6, 2009.
3. Invited Speakers:
   Beth Levin (Stanford University)
   Junko Ito and Armin Mester (UC Sanata Cruz)
   Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)
   James Yoon (University of Illinois)
5. Special Session:
   Acquisition in Altaic, organized by Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University)
7. WAFL6 Organizing Committee: (wafl6@gcoe.lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
   Hiroki Maezawa (Nagoya University)
   Azusa Yokogoshi (Nagoya Institute of Technology)