The welcome party on Monday 22th of May will be held at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, room 953, 9th floor of the Humanities Building #1.
May 22 |
| 9:00 — 09:45 | Registration |
| 9:45 — 10:00 | Opening remarks |
| Chair | Jaklin Kornfilt |
| 10:00 — 10:30 | Yukiko Asano (Stony Brook University)
Phrasal movement approach to (non-)Restructuring phenomena |
| 10:30 — 11:00 | Natalya Serdobolskaya (Moscow State University)
Against Subject-to-Object Raising analysis of Tuvinian nominalizations |
| 11:00 — 11:30 | Cem Keskin (Utrecht University)
Structural case licensing nouns in Turkish? |
| 11:30 — 12:00 | Coffee break |
| Chair | Hideki Maki |
| 12:00 — 12:30 | Seungwan Ha (Boston University)
A PF-deletion account for Right Node Raising in Korean |
| 12:30 — 13:00 | Emrah Görgülü (Boğaziçi University)
Wh-variables in Turkish |
| 13:00 — 13:30 | Takashi Munakata (International Christian University, Yokohama National University)
Intermediate Agree: Complementizer as a Bridge |
| 13:30 — 15:00 | Lunch |
| Chair | Bert Vaux |
| 15:00 — 15:30 | Kap-Hee Lee (Seoul Theological University), Joung-Ran Kim (Seoul Theological University), Youngjun Jang (Chung-Ang University)
Accusative Case, Specificity, and Clause Structure: Comparing Turkish, Persian, and Korean |
| 15:30 — 16:00 | Yunju Suh (Stony Brook University)
Late insertion and linearization in Korean negation |
| 16:00 — 16:30 | Mark Volpe (Kyushu University)
The Semantics of Nominalizations from Alternating Verbs in Japanese: Theoretical Consequences for Morphology |
| 16:30 — 17:00 | Coffee break |
| Chair | Norvin Richards |
17:00 — 18:00
Invited talk | David Pesetsky (MIT)
Why nouns and verbs build different kinds of phrases (even in Altaic languages) |
| 18:00 — 19:30 | Welcome party |
May 23 |
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| Chair | A. Sumru Özsoy |
| 10:00 — 10:15 | Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT), Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)
Introductory remarks |
| 10:15 — 10:45 | Hideki Maki (Gifu University), Asako Uchibori (Nihon University)
An Integrated Approach to Nominative/Genitive Conversion in Japanese |
| 10:45 — 11:15 | Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona), Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo), Charles Lin (University of Arizona)
On Preferring Displacement: Evidence from Possessive Relative Clauses |
| 11:15 — 11:45 | Coffee break |
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| Chair | David Pesetsky |
| 11:45 — 12:15 | Sumru Özsoy (Boğaziçi University)
Subject Licensing in Agr-(less) Relative Clauses in Turkic |
| 12:15 — 12:45 | Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)
Placement of Agreement and subject licensing in Turkic Relative Clauses |
| 12:45 — 13:15 | Norvin Richards (MIT)
Beyond strength and weakness: Japanese wh-prosody as a model for wh-syntax |
| 13:15 — 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chair | Meltem Kelepir |
| 14:30 — 15:00 | Mark Campana (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
The grammar of backing and the application of meaning |
| 15:00 — 15:30 | Mustafa Aksan, Yeşim Aksan (Mersin University)
Degree modification and event semantics: The role of verbal derivations and postverb constructions in Turkish |
| 15:30 — 16:00 | Coffee break |
| Chair | Yoichi Miyamoto |
| 16:00 — 16:30 | Anna Pazelskaya (Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information)
Aspectual derivation in a complex situation: case for Balkar tur- with causatives |
| 16:30 — 17:00 | So-Young Park (University of Southern California)
Three types of verbal noun constructions: evidence against incorporation |
| 19:00 | Workshop dinner |
May 24 |
| Chair | Sergei Tatevosov |
10:00 — 11:00
Invited talk | Bert Vaux (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Some thoughts on the Altaic Question, with special reference to Harmony, the Comparative Method, Sprachbunds, and Second Language Acquisition |
| 11:00 — 11:30 | Teodor Ajder (Yokohama National University)
Rendaku and the Japanese Goyo Test |
| 11:30 — 12:00 | Coffee break |
| Chair | Aslı Goksel |
| 12:00 — 12:30 | Justin Fitzpatrick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Exhaustivity and the Typology of Floating Quantifiers |
| 12:30 — 13:00 | Pavel Grashchenkov (Moscow State University)
Floating Quantifiers and Possessor Raising: Case Copying Phenomenon in Tatar and Korean |
| 13:00 — 13:30 | Yoichi Miyamoto (Osaka University)
A Subject/Object Asymmetry with Floating Quantifiers in Japanese |
| 13:30 — 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chair | Asako Uchibori |
| 14:30 — 15:00 | Shin Fukuda (University of California at San Diego)
The syntax of Japanese aspectual verbs |
| 15:00 — 15:30 | Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University)
On the EPP Analysis of A-scrambling in Japanese |
| 15:30 — 15:45 | Concluding comments |