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Confs: Syntax;Japanese Lang/Japan
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1. Masao
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The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference
Message 1: The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference
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Date: 14-Jul-2006
From: Masao Ochi <ochilang.osaka-u.ac.jp>
Subject: The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference
The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference
Short Title: FAJL4
Date: 17-Aug-2006 - 19-Aug-2006
Location: Osaka, Japan
Contact: Masao Ochi
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~fajl4/index.html
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Japanese
Meeting Description:
We are pleased to announce that the 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese linguistics Conference (FAJL4) will be held on August 17-19, 2006 in Osaka, Japan.
Invited Speakers:
Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University)
Junko Ito (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Armin Mester (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Junko Shimoyama (McGill University)
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
9:30 Registration
10:00 Opening Remarks
Session 1 (Chair: Cedric Boeckx)
10:10-10:50
Non-Case-Theoretic Aspects of Nominative-Genitive Conversion
Naomi Harada (St. Margaret's Junior College)
10:50-11:30
Verbal Nouns in Japanese Are So Called for Good Reasons
Seiki Ayano and Masaaki Kamiya (Mie University and Hamilton College)
11:30-13:00 Lunch Break
Session 2 (Chair: Mitsue Motomura)
13:00-13:40
Counter Equi ''NP''-trace Pronunciation
Hiroki Narita (Sophia University)
13:40-14:20
Phase to Phase: Complementizer -to as a Bridge
Takashi Munakata (Yokohama National University)
14:20-14:30 Break
Session 3 (Chair: Junko Ito)
14:30-15:10
The Nature of Japanese Accentuation: Evidence from Nonce Words
Lisa Shiozaki (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
15:10-15:50
Asymmetric Voicing and Relativized Markedness
Kazutaka Kurisu (Kobe College)
15:50-16:00 Break
Special Session I (Chair: Brian Agbayani)
16:00-17:00
Invited Talk: Bare Syntax
Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University)
Friday, August 18th, 2006
Session 4 (Chair: Hiroshi Aoyagi)
9:30-10:10
The Structures and the Derivations of Existential Sentences
with Aru/Iru'Be'
Masahiro Akiyama (Ehime University)
10:10-10:50
The Syntax of Japanese Aspectual Verbs
Shin Fukuda (University of California at San Diego)
10:50-11:00 Break
Session 5 (Chair: Armin Mester)
11:00-11:40
Evidence for Prominence-Lending Rise in Focused NP's in Japanese
James Mesbur (University of Pennsylvania)
11:40-12:20
Psychological Reality of Sub-Lexica in Japanese
Ben Gelbart and Shigeto Kawahara (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
12:20-14:00 Lunch Break
Session 6 (Chair: Masaki Sano)
14:00-14:40
A-scrambling in Japanese and the EPP
Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University)
14:40-15:20
Fquant-Matching Before the EPP Satisfaction
Yukiko Ueda (KUIS, CLS/Meiji-Gakuin Univ./Nihon Univ./YNU)
15:20-15:30 Break
Session 7 (Chair: Hiroshi Mito)
15:30-16:10
The Perfect Marker -teiru in Japanese
Masaru Kiyota (University of British Columbia)
16:10-16:50
Differential Comparative Construction in Japanese
Takuro Tanaka (University of Connecticut)
16:50-17:00 Break
Special Session II (Chair: Haruo Kubozono)
17:00-18:00
Invited Talk: Adjunction in Prosodic Phonology
Junko Ito and Armin Mester (University of California, Santa Cruz)
18:15- Party
Saturday, August 19th, 2006
Session 8 (Chair: Masatoshi Koizumi)
9:30-10:10
Scrambling and EPP: From the Viewpoint of Kumamoto Dialect of Japanese
Sachiko Kato (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:10-10:50
Noun Phrase Ellipsis and Syntactic Parameters: A View from Child Japanese
Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)
10:50-11:00 Break
Session 9 (Chair: Junko Shimoyama)
11:00-11:40
Semantics of Zutsu
Mana Kobuchi-Philip (Utrecht University)
11:40-12:20
Movement of a Shifty Operator
Yurie Hara (University of Delaware/University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
12:20-14:00 Lunch Break
Session 10 (Chair: Hideki Kishimoto)
14:00-14:40
The Double Universal Quantifiers as a Negative Polarity Item in Japanese
Masahiko Aihara (University of Connecticut)
14:40-15:20
Miyagawa's (1989) Exceptions: An Ergative Analysis
Yuko Yanagida (University of Tsukuba)
15:20-15:30 Break
Special Session III (Chair: Kazuko Yatsushiro)
15:30-16:30
Invited Talk: Degree Quantification and the Size of Noun Modifiers
Junko Shimoyama (McGill University)
16:30 Closing Remarks
Alternates:
The Japanese Internally Headed Relative Clause is NOT an E-type Pronoun
Yusuke Kubota and E. Allyn Smith (The Ohio State University)
A New Type of Nominal Ellipsis in Japanese: Further Evidence
for the LF Copy Analysis
Yosuke Sato and Jason Ginsburg (University of Arizona, Tucson)
Japanese Passivization Revisited
Tomoko Ishizuka (University of California, Los Angeles)
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