All presentations will be held at Noyori Conference Hall on the Higashiyama campus of Nagoya University. Information about the access to Nagoya University is available on the "Travel" page of this site.
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 |
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| 1st Session |
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| 9:15—9:45 | Daiko Takahashi Argument Ellipsis in Japanese and Turkish |
| 9:45—10:15 | ATB-Movement and Resumption: The Case of Japanese Left Node Raising |
| 10:15—10:30 | BREAK |
| 2nd Session |
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| 10:30—11:00 | Lina Bao Qing-Yu Wu Wurigumula Bao Asako Uchibori Fumikazu Niinuma Kenichi Goto The Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Modern Mongolian |
| 11:00—11:30 | Adverbial Clauses and Nominative/Genitive Conversion in Japanese |
| 11:30—12:00 | The Function of Accusative Case in Mongolian |
| 12:00—14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 3rd Session |
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| 14:00—14:30 | Japanese Light Verb Voicing as Connective Morpheme |
| 14:30—15:00 | A Linking Morpheme Analysis of Japanese Compound Accentuation |
| 15:00—15:15 | BREAK |
| 4th Session |
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| 15:15—15:45 | Pluraction and Plural Predication of the Verbal Suffix -Aw- in Japanese |
| 15:45—16:15 | Do Not Target a Predicate: It Is Not a Constituent |
| 16:15—16:30 | BREAK |
| Invited Talk |
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| 16:30—17:30 | Verb Sensitivity in Altaic Ditransitive Sentences |
September 5, 2009 Saturday
| 8:30— | REGISTRATION |
| 1st Session |
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| 9:00—9:30 | A Contrastivist View of the Evolution of the Korean Vowel Systems |
| 9:30—10:00 | Jeremy Perkins Korean Affricates and Consonant-Tone Interaction |
| 2nd Session |
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| 10:00—10:30 | Disjunction and Alternative Conditionals in Korean |
| 10:30—11:00 | Revisiting Beautiful Dancers and Complete Fools in Japanese |
| 11:00—11:15 | BREAK |
| Invited Talk |
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| 11:15—12:15 | The Architecture of Right Dislocation in Korean and Japanese |
| 12:15—14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| Acquisition Panel Organizer and Chair: Keiko Murasugi |
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| 14:10—14:40 | The Onset of Complex NPs in Child Production |
| 14:40—15:10 | Children's Knowledge of the Structural Difference between Relative Clauses and Wh-Questions in Japanese |
| 15:10—15:40 | Gaby Hermon Ozge Ozturk Asymmetries in the First-Language Acquisition of Subject and Non-Subject Head-Final Relative Clauses in Turkish |
| 15:40—16:10 | The Syntax of Overmarking in Child Korean |
| 16:10—16:30 | BREAK |
| Invited Talk |
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| 16:30—17:30 | Armin Mester Input Approximation vs. Output Optimization in Japanese Loanwords |
| 18:00— | RECEPTION |
September 6, 2009 Sunday
| 8:30— | REGISTRATION |
| Invited Talk |
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| 9:00—10:00 | 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 |
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| 10:15—10:45 | Japanese Embedded Questions Are Nominal: Evidence from QVE |
| 10:45—11:15 | Atsushi Sato Hajime Ono Hiromu Sakai Relative Clauses Processing before the Head Noun: Evidence for Strong Forward Prediction in Turkish |
| 11:15—11:45 | Description and Explanation in Inflectional Morphology: Japanese Verbs, Korean Nouns |
| 11:45—13:45 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 2nd Session |
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| 13:45—14:15 | Korean Resultatives Revisited: Complementation versus Adjunction |
| 14:15—14:45 | Coordination, Dependency, and Gapping in Japanese |
| 14:45—15:15 | Focus Particles and Suru-Support in Japanese |
| 15:15— | Concluding Comments |
August 29, 2009 Saturday
| 13:45—14:00 | Welcome Address |
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| Special Panel "Aspects of Japanese Grammar and Its Theories" |
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| 14:00—14:30 | Predicates with a Genitive Subject in Old Japanese: Description of Their Morphological and Semantic Features |
| 14:30—15:00 | The Adverbs Ato, Mou, and Ima as Modifiers of Temporal Expressions |
| 15:00—15:30 | Japanese Traditional Language Study and Modernization of Japanese Linguistics |
| 15:30—16:00 | BREAK |
| 1st Session |
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| 16:00—16:30 | The Intonational Phrase in Turkish and Its Implications for Syntax-Prosody Mapping |
| 16:30—17:00 | Miho Nagai Possible Syntactic Subject Positions in Turkish: Evidence from Phonology |