JSPS International Meeting Series: The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference August 17-19, 2006 Osaka, Japan |
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Program Place: Osaka University Nakanoshima Center (10th floor: Saji Keizo Memorial Hall) 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, 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 at 9th floor: SALON DE L'AMICAL 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: Kazuko Yatsushiro) 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) 15:20-16:00 The Japanese Internally Headed Relative Clause is NOT an E-type Pronoun Yusuke Kubota and E. Allyn Smith (The Ohio State University) 16:00 Closing Remarks Alternates 1 A New Type of Nominal Ellipsis in Japanese: Further Evidence for the LF Copy Analysis Yosuke Sato and Jason Ginsburg (University of Arizona, Tucson) 2 Japanese Passivization Revisited Tomoko Ishizuka (University of California, Los Angeles) |