[ Lectures ]

• Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
  "Structure and linearization in disharmonic word orders"
• K. A. Jayaseelan (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
  "The left periphery of vP"
• W.-T. Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)
  "Self and Wh"

[ Keynote Address ]

• Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena)
  "Criterial Freezing, EPP and ECP effects"

[ February 20, 9:30 ~ 18:45 ]

• William Snyder (University of Connecticut)
  "Children's grammatical conservatism: Implications for linguistic theory"
• Giuliano Bocci (University of Siena)
  "On the criterial positions in the left edge in Italian: Evidence for the syntactic encoding of Contrastive Focus"
• Tomohiro Fujii and Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University)
  "Wh-adverbials, their island-(in)sensitivity and the role of demonstratives in Wh-in-situ licensing"
• Yoshie Kabuto (Nanzan University)
  "The acquisition of naze 'why' and dooyuu riyuu-de 'for what reason' in Japanese"
• Cristiano Chesi (University of Siena)
  "7(±2) reasons for building phrase structures top-down from left to right"
• Natalia Rakhlin (University of Connecticut)
  "A pragmatic account of q-spreading"
• Adriana Belletti (University of Siena)
  "Pronouns and the edge of the clause"

[ Poster Session I 12:15 ~ 13:30 ] [ Poster Session II 17:45 ~ 18:45 ]

[ Poster Presentation ]

• Mythili Menon (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
  "The possessive dative construction in Malayalam"
• Tasneem Firdaus Ali (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
  "Parametric changes in constraints: A study in Hindi and Angika"
• Elisa Bennati (University of Siena)
  "Pronouns in L2 acquisition: Evidence from L2 near-native Italian"
• Irene Utzeri (University of Siena)
  "The production and the acquisition of subject and object relative clauses in Italian: A comparative experimental study"
• Jeff Bernath (University of Connecticut)
  "Examining impoverished input: Cases of nativization in American deaf children"
• Jean Crawford (University of Connecticut)
  "Questions on the syntax and acquisition of the malefactive construction"
• Lila Daskalaki (University of Cambridge)
  "Free Relatives as complex DPs: Rethinking the head vs. comp account controversy"
• Marios Mavrogiorgos (University of Cambridge)
  "Two factors regulating enclitic patterns in Greek and Romance"
• Ting-Ting Christina Hsu (National Tsing Hua University)
  "Non-tensed languages and linguistic partiality"
• Barry C.-Y. Yang (National Tsing Hua University)
  "Intervention effect in the left periphery"
• Eriko Watanabe, Chisato Fuji, Yoshie Kabuto, and Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University)
  "Parameter setting in the L2 acquisition of reflexive binding"
• Masato Niimura (Nanzan University)
  "A syntactic analysis of copular sentences"

[ February 21, 9:00 ~ 12:00 ]

• Sandra Wood (University of Connecticut)
  "Degrees of resiliency in language development"
• Keiko Yano (Nanzan University)
  "The structure of Japanese potential (r)eru construction: A study in Syntax, Learnability, and Acquisition"
• Discussion and Closing Remarks

[ December 2, 10:00 ~ 18:00 ]

• Tzong-Hong Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University)
  "Multiple Modal Constructions in Mandarin Chinese and their Temporal Properties"
• Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University)
  "NP-internal Honorification and N'-deletion"
• Edward Wilford (University of Cambridge)
  "Categorial Specification and Celtic Verbal-Nouns"
• Glenda Newton (University of Cambridge)
  "Exploring the Nature of the Syntax-Phonology Interface: A Post-syntactic Account of the Old Irish Verbal System"
• Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
  "Issues in the Analysis of Welsh VSO orders"
• General Discussion

[ December 3, 10:00 ~ 17:45 ]

• Chuan-Hui Ally Weng (National Tsing Hua University)
  "Causative, Permissive, and Yielding: The Mandarin Chinese Verb Rang"
• Jhao-Ling Li (National Tsing Hua University)
  "Adverbial Expressions and Pronoun Cliticization in Puyuma"
• Atsushi Ito (Nanzan University)
  "On High and Low Goals in Japanese Ditransitives"
• Yuji Takano (Kinjo Gakuin University and Nanzan University)
  "Ordering Internal Arguments: Scrambling, Base Generation, or Both?"
• General Discussion

[ October 21, 10:00 ~ 17:30 ]

• Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)
  Opening Remarks
• P. Madhavan (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
  "Transitivity Alternation and the Layered VP"
• Hiroshi Aoyagi (Nanzan University)
  "Discourse Effects, Case Marking and Scrambling in OV Languages"
• Vineet Chaturvedi (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
  "Experiencer and Possessor Constructions in Hindi: A Lexical Relational Account"
• General Discussion

[ October 22, 10:00 ~ 18:00 ]

• Paroma Sanyal (Hyderabad)
  "The Experiencer Construction in Bangla"
• Tomohiro Fujii (Nanzan University)
  "Controlling Japanese Experiencer"
• Masumi Aono (Nanzan University)
  "Wh-phrases, Negative Polarity Items, and Anti-Superiority Effects in Japanese"
• K. A. Jayaseelan (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
  "Experiencer as Locative"
• General Discussion

• Shige-Yuki Kuroda (University of California, San Diego)
  "The Status of the Definiteness Effect in UG and the Grammar of Japanese"

[ September 14, 15:20 ~ 17:30 ]

• Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)
  "EPP and the Notion of Subject"
• Xin-Xian Yu (National Tsing Hua University)
  "Evaluative Adverbs in Mandarin Interrogatives"

[ September 15, 9:30 ~ 17:10 ]

• Tatsuya Suzuki (Nanzan University)
  "On Indirect Questions of English Gerunds"
• Barry Yang (National Tsing Hua University)
  "On Wh-nominal/adverb Interaction and Left Periphery"
• Li-Ching Chiu (National Tsing Hua University)
  "A Focus Movement Account on Multiple Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese"
• Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University)
  "Focus and Wh Features in Interrogative C"
• W.-T. Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)
  "T-feature Checking and Temporal Adjuncts in Formosan Languages"
• General Discussion

• Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)
  "A Family of Questions"
• T.-H. Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University), Keiko Murasugi, and Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)
  "N'-Ellipsis and the Structure of Noun Phrase in Chinese and Japanese"
• Michie Shinohara (Nanzan University)
  "On Some Differences between the Major Deletion Phenomena and Japanese Argument Ellipsis"
• Daiko Takahashi (Tohoku University)
  "Null Objects Interpreted as Quantifiers"

• T.-H. Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University)
  "Predicate-level Aspect and Event Structure in Mandarin Chinese"

• Alison Gabriele (University of Kansas)
  "Transfer and learnability in the L2 acquisition of aspect"

• William McClure (City University of New York)
  "Composing the Progressive"

• Mika Kizu and Hidekazu Tanaka (University of York)
  "Island Insensitive Constructions in Japanese"
• Hidekazu Tanaka (University of York)
  "Locality Constraints within Elided VPs in Antecedent Contained Deletion"