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Directory         1.    Andrew Simpson, 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics Message 1: 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics Date: 26-Jul-2010 From: Andrew Simpson <andrew.simpsonusc.edu> Subject: 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics Short Title: WAFL7 Date: 29-Oct-2010 - 31-Oct-2010 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Contact: Andrew Simpson Contact Email: WAFLsevengmail.com Meeting URL: http://sites.google.com/site/waflvii/home Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax Language Family(ies): Altaic Meeting Description: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, is pleased to announce the Seventh Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL7), to be held on 29-31 October, 2010. The term 'Altaic' is understood to include Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic languages, as well as Korean and Japanese. WAFL7 Program University of Southern California, October 29th-31st Friday 29th October 9:00-9:30 Registration/Opening Remarks 9:30-10:00 Alya Asarina and Jeremy Hartman (MIT): 'Null Nouns and the Locus of Agreement in Uyghur Subordinate Clauses' 10:00-10:30 Nilüfer Gültekin-?ener & Serkan ?ener (University of Connecticut): 'Null Subjects and Indexicality in Turkish and Uyghur' 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-11:45 Invited speaker: Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University) 11:45-12:15 Heeju Hwang and Elsi Kaiser (USC): 'Comparing English and Korean Speakers' Syntactic Choices: Insights from Psycholinguistic Investigation' 12:15-12:45 Koji Kawahara (Fuji Women's University): 'The Semantics of Japanese Gradable Adjectives' 12:45-2:00 Lunch 2:00-3:00 Invited speaker: Sun Ah Jun (UCLA) 3:00-3:30 Rachel Walker (USC): 'Non-local Target Scope in Baiyinna Orochen' 3:30-4:00 Seongyeon Ko (Cornell): 'Vowel Contrast and Vowel Harmony Shift in the Mongolic Languages' 4:00-4:15 Break 4:15-4:45 Vera Gribanova (Stanford): 'Two Types of Reduced Copular Constructions in Uzbek Nominalized Clauses' 4:45-5:15 Deniz Tat (University of Arizona): 'APs as Reduced Relatives: the Case of bir in (some) Varieties of Turkic' 5:15-5:45 Ryosuke Shibagaki (SOAS) and Dolgor Guntsetseg (University of Stuttgart): 'Resultatives in Mongolian - between Japanese and Korean?' Saturday 30th October 9:00-9:30 Reiko Vermeulen (GIST/Ghent University): 'The Syntax of 'topic' and 'contrast': a Comparative Approach to Japanese and Korean' 9:30-10:00 Shin-Sook Kim and Peter Sells (SOAS): 'Reconstruction and Scope of Negation in Korean and (Japanese)' 10:00-10:30 Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University): 'Topicalization and Co-ordination in Japanese' 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-11:45 Invited speaker: Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse) 11:45-12:15 Yusuke Imanishi (MIT) 'Another Missing Link - A View from Right Dislocation in Japanese' 12:15-12:45 Kyung-Ah Kim (UC Berkeley) 'Morphological Detransitivization in Korean' 12:45-2:00 Lunch 2:00-2:30 Marcel den Dikken and Ji Young Shim (CUNY Graduate Center): 'Feature Inheritance and the EPP' 2:30-3:00 Tomoko Ishizuka (Tama University) 'Toward a Unified Analysis of Japanese Passives' 3:00-3:30 Edith Aldridge (University of Washington) 'Hentai kambun and Universal Grammar' 3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-4:30 Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka) 'New Perspectives on Double Accusative O Constructions in Japanese' 4:30-5:00 Umut Özge (Middle East Technical University) 'Toward a Type-theoretic Analysis of the Accusative Case in Turkish' 5:00-5:30 Pavel Grashchenkov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow) and Vita Markman (Disney Internet Media Group, Los Angeles): 'Applicative Serials and the Ditransitive Direct Object Puzzle in Turkic' Sunday 31st October 9:15-9:45 Lucy Kim and Elsi Kaiser (USC) 'Investigating Phonological Representations in L2: Korean Speakers' Processing of the English /l/-/r/ Distinction' 9:45-10:15 Jae Hoon Choi (University of Arizona) 'Disyllabicity of Sino-Korean Nouns: Evidence from ca-compounds' 10:15-10:45 Young-ran An (Stony Brook) 'Maximizing (Dis)similarity in Consonant Insertion' 10:45-11:00 Break 11:00-11:30 Jong-bok Kim (Kyung-hee University) and Peter Sells (SOAS): 'How to Compare: Compositional vs. Contextual Comparison' 11:30-12:00 Junya Nomura (MIT) 'Adpositional Comparatives in Japanese' 12:00-12:30 Emi Mukai (USC) 'Bound Variable Construal with a 'Discontinuous' Binder' 12:30-1:00 Yurie Hara (City University of Hong Kong), Youngju Kim (Hiroshima University), Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University), and Sanae Tamura (Kyoto University): 'A Uniform Function of koto and Semantic Consequences of the Layered TP' Alternate Papers: Hsu-Te Johnny Cheng and Tsuyoshi Sawada (University of Connecticut): 'The Effect of Irrealis Mood in Licensing Ga-No Conversion in Japanese' Kadir Gokgoz (Purdue University) and Engin Arik (Okan University): 'Distributional and Syntactic Characteristics of Non-manual Markers in Turkish Sign Language' Alya Asarina (MIT): 'Case and Meaning in Uyghur Nominalized Clauses' Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 28-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.