LINGUIST List 17.2068

Sun Jul 16 2006

Confs: Syntax;Japanese Lang/Japan

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Message 1: The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference
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)