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sfsu.edu>INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON * * * PRACTICAL LINGUISTICS OF JAPANESE * * * IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR TOSHIKO MISHIMA May 2-3, 1998 San Francisco State University (Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Bldg) (http://www.sfsu.edu/~japanese/Special/Special.html) 8:40 Opening Address Midori Y. McKeon, Conference Chair 9:00 Default Accentuation and Long-Distance Accent Shift in Japanese Loanwords Makiko Asano (Harvard University) 9:35 Politeness and Honorifics: The Pragmatic Function of Syntactic Embedding Junko Baba and Stanley Dubinsky (University of South Carolina) 10:10 Loanword Phonology and the Acquisition of English Words in Japanese by English Speakers Ayako Yamagata (Michigan State University) 10:45 Break 10:55 What Do You Mean by Modality?: Refocusing the Definition of Modality in Japanese Yuki Johnson (University of Michigan) 11:30 On'inron no Nihongo Onsei Kyooiku e no Ooyou Seiichiro Inaba (California State University, Fullerton) 12:05 Lunch Break 1:00 Welcome Speech 1:10 Piano Performance In Memory of Dr. Toshiko Mishima 1:30 * * Keynote Speech * * Susumu Kuno (Harvard University) 2:30 Break 2:40 What is a "Sentence"?: Toward an Understanding of the Nature of the Japanese Sentence and How It Should Be Treated in Japanese Language Teaching Shoichi Iwasaki (University of California at Los Angeles) and Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Arizona) 3:15 Soo janai n janai n desu ka? -- Hanashi Kotoba Kenkyuu niyoru "janai" no Imi Satoshi Uehara, Etsuko Fukushima and Hiroaki Kitano (Tohoku University) 3:50 Is It "Japanese People , Who Work Hard," or "Japanese People Who Work Hard" That Are Hated? Yoko Collier-Sanuki (University of British Columbia) 4:25 Break 4:35 All-Participant Panel Discussion with the Audience ______________________________ Sunday, May 3, 1998 9:00 Hito no Shoyuu o Arawasu Hyoogen nituite - "Hito ga Aru/Iru" to "Hito o Motte iru" no Ryookeishiki no Bunseki kara -- Sumino Niida (Ochanomizu University) 9:35 On Saying "No" in Japanese: Negative Responses in Context Scott Saft and Yumiko Ohara (Hokkaido Tokai University) 10:10 "Mou" to "mada" no Imi -- Bunfukushi toshite no Yakuwari Tomiko Hayashi (University of Vermont) 10:45 Break 10:55 Meishi-ku no Modality toshite no "Koto" - "Meishi no Koto" to Jutusgo no Sookan kara Junko Sasaguri (Kyushu University) 11:30 Japanese Humbling Verbs as Politeness Markers Mutsuko Endo Hudson (Michigan State University) 12:05 Lunch Break 1:00 * * Keynote Speech * * Seiichi Makino (Princeton University) Is the Relationship between Sound and Meaning Not Arbitrary in Japanese? -- A Case of Nasals/Velars and Semantics of Grammatical Forms 2:30 Break 2:40 Lexical Semantic Roles in Stative Verbs Natsuko Tsujimura (Indiana University) 3:15 Nihongo Chooboin no Tanboin-ka Genshoo o Meguru Sho-Yooin no Jikken Onseigaku-teki Kenkyuu to Onsei Kyooiku he no Shisa Yasuhiko Sukegawa and Satoshi Uehara (Tohoku University) and Kikuo Maekawa (National Language Research Institute of Japan) 3:50 Stylistic Choices in Japanese Across Generations Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University) 4:25 Closing Address 4:30 Informal Meeting with the Keynote Speakers __________________________ This Conference is Sponsored by The Center for the Advancement of Teaching of Japanese Language and Culture, SFSU and The Northern California Japanese Teachers Association (1) Aims and Scope This conference is intended to bring together researchers on the cutting edge of Japanese linguistics research and to offer a forum in which linguistics research results can be presented in a form applicable to those who might apply them in practical fields such as teaching of Japanese as a foreign language and in language technology. (2) Conference Language: English/Japanese (3) Registration (a) Registration Fees The registration fee is thirty (30) US dollars till March 20 or fifty (50) US dollars after March 20. The special registration fee for students is fifteen (15) US dollars till March 20 or twenty-five (25) US dollars after March 20. In addition, because there are no easily available eating establishments nearby, we have worked out a meal plan along with a banquet, the prices for which are expected to be paid at the time of pre-registration. Please mark your choices in the brackets of the following form. (Please also note that the conference web site, http://www.sfsu.edu/~japanese/Special/Special.html contains the registration forms, which are superior in legibility.) - - - - - - - - - - - cut here - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ ] Pre-registration: [ ] Regular:$30 $( ) [ ] Student:$15 $( ) [ ] Late Registration: [ ] Regular:$50 $( ) (after March 20) [ ] Student:$25 $( ) [ ] Banquet:$25 Please choose: (Includes Cheese & [ ] Chicken Piccata $( ) Wine Reception) [ ] Grilled Swordfish [ ] Saturday Box Lunch: $15 Marunouchi Bento $( ) (with beverage) [ ] Sunday Box Lunch:$11 Please choose: $( ) (with beverage) [ ] Turkey Sandwitch [ ] Vegetable Sandwitch TOTAL $( ) (b) Registration Form Please fill out this form and return it along with the payment and the above selection sheet to the Program Chair, listed in (6) below. (Please print or type.) Name: __________________________________________________ First (Middle) Last Affiliation: __________________________________________ Address:_______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Telephone: ____________________ E-mail: _______________ Fax (if available): _____________________ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (4) Manner of the payment The payment should be by a personal US bank check or an international money order/bank draft payable to "NCJTA". (5) Accommodation The following hotels are close to the conference site. Days Inn San Francisco (415) 665-9000 rate: $80- Great Highway Motor Inn (415) 731-5309 rate: $84- Ocean Park Motel (415) (415) 566-7020 rate: $69.54- Oceanview Motel (415) 661-2300 rate: $65+Tax- Roberts-at-the-Beach-Motel (415) 564-2610 rate: $66.12- More information about the above hotels, other hotels, transportations and parking is available on the conference website at: http://www.sfsu.edu/ ~japanese/Special/Special.html SFSU is located beside Lake Mercede in the southwest end of San Francisco, six miles from downtown and two miles from the Pacific Ocean. You can get to the campus from downtown by BART and Muni. (6) Correspondence to: Yukiko Sasaki Alam Program Chair, Mishima Conference Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 E-mail: yukikoMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue