南山大学

 

Nanzan University Center for Linguistics

Japanese

Colloquia and Workshops

2007.04-2008.03

Siena-Tsinghua-Nanzan Joint Workshop on Linguistics Theory and Language Acquisition

Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grant-in-Aid for ‘Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools’

Date: February 2 (Sat.) ~ 3 (Sun.), 2008
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

[ February 2, 14:00 ~ 18:00 ]

  • T.-H. Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University)
    "Locative Subjects in Mandarin Chinese"
  • Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University)
    "Cyclic Linearization, PBC Effects and Related Issues"
  • Giuliano Bocci (University of Siena)
    "On the Syntax-Prosody Interface: Evidence from Italian"
  • H.-C. Joyce Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)
    "On Gapless Relative Constructions in Chinese, Japanese and Korean"

[ February 3, 10:00 ~ 18:30 ]

  • Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)
    "Argument Ellipsis and (the Absence of) Agreement"
  • Simone Guesser (University of Siena)
    "Embedded Null Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese: Issues Related to Movement to Thematic Positions"
  • Atsushi Ito (Nanzan University)
    "Movement into Theta Positions and Numeral Quantifier Stranding"
  • Eriko Watanabe (Nanzan University)
    "On the Case Errors in Child Japanese"
  • Vincenzo Moscati (University of Siena)
    "Against Isomorphism: Children's Interpretation of Negation and Modality"
  • Tomomi Nakatani-Murai (Nanzan University)
    "On the Properties of Infant Vocalization in the Japanese Preverbal Stage"
  • General Discussion

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Colloquium #23

Date: November 12 (Mon.), 2007, 17:45 ~ 19:15
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Takuya Goro (Tohoku University)
    "The Rise of Logical Connectives in the Development of Japanese"
 

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Colloquium #21

Date: November 9 (Fri.), 2007, 17:15 ~ 18:45
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)
    "Unifying A-movements"
 

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Colloquium #22

Date: October 22 (Mon.), 2007, 15:15 ~ 16:30
Location: J101, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Bjarke Frellesvig (University of Oxford)
    "Case Marking in 8th Century Japanese"
 

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Cambridge-Hyderabad-Nanzan Joint Workshop on Interface Conditions

Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grant-in-Aid for ‘Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools’

Date: September 19 (Sat.) ~ 20 (Sun.), 2007
Location: J101 (19th) and L910 (20th), Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

[ September 19, 13:30 ~ 18:00 ]

  • Tomoko Kawamura (Nanzan University)
    "The Left-peripheral Focus Position: Mapping to Logical Representations and Some Association Phenomena"
  • Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
    "Head Movement"
  • K. A. Jayaseelan (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
    "An Alternative Way of Eliminating Labels"

[ September 20, 9:30 ~ 12:45 ]

  • Paroma Sanyal (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
    "Dislocated Directions to Stable Possessions: The Realization of Case"
  • Edward Wilford (University of Cambridge)
    "The Implications of a Split Lexicon for Grammaticalization"
  • Seichi Sugawa (Nanzan University)
    "Ellipsis and Repair Effects"
  • Vineet Chaturvedi (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
    "Participles: Passives and Adjectives"

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Colloquium #20

Date: September 7 (Fri.), 2007, 17:30 ~ 19:00
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Günther Grewendorf (University of Frankfurt)
    "Wh-movement as Topic Movement"
 

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2nd Syntax Workshop

Date: July 31 (Tue.), 2007, 13:20 ~ 18:30
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Masashi Nomura (Chukyo University)
    "Nominative Case, the EPP, and Restructuring Infinitives in Japanese"
  • Taisuke Nishigauchi (Kobe Shoin Women's University) and Tomohiro Fujii (Nanzan University)
    "Short Answers out of Islands"
  • Masao Ochi (Osaka University)
    "Object Positions in Japanese"
  • Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)
    "Up and Down the Chomsky Hierarchy"

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Tsinghua-Nanzan Joint Workshop

Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grant-in-Aid for ‘Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools’

Date: July 21 (Sat.) ~ 22 (Sun.), 2007
Location: J101 (21st) and L910 (22nd), Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

[ July 21, 13:00 ~ 17:00 ]

  • T.-H. Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University)
    "Finiteness of Clauses and Raising of Arguments in Mandarin Chinese"
  • Liching Livy Chiu (National Tsing Hua University)
    "Licensing Conditions for Island Repair"
  • General Discussion

[ July 22, 10:00 ~ 16:00 ]

  • Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University)
    "Proper Binding Effect as a Consequence of Cyclic Linearization"
  • Barry C.-Y. Yang (National Tsing Hua University)
    "Two Types of Intervention Effects"
  • Tomohiro Fujii (Nanzan University)
    "Multiple Subjects/Objects, External Inalienable Possession, and the Role of Doubling"
  • General Discussion

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Connecticut-Nanzan Joint Workshop on Minimalist Syntax

Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grant-in-Aid for ‘Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools’

Date: June 24 (Sun.), 26 (Tue.), 2007
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

[ June 24, 9:15 ~ 18:00 ]

  • Ana C. P. Bastos (University of Connecticut)
    "The Brazilian Style of the Multiple Subject Constructions"
  • Shigeki Taguchi (University of Connecticut)
    "Against the Null Complementizer Analysis of Japanese Relative Clauses"
  • Chisato Fuji, Tomoko Hashimoto, and Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University)
    "Intermediate Stages in the Acquisition of the Japanese Potential Construction"
  • Natalia Fitzgibbons (University of Connecticut)
    "Freestanding Negative Concord Items in Russian"
  • Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University)
    "Order in Narrow Syntax and PF"
  • Duk-Ho An (University of Connecticut)
    "Lower Copy Pronunciation and Multiple Wh-Fronting in ATB Contexts"
  • General Discussion
    Željko Bošković (University of Connecticut), Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)

[ June 26, 9:15 ~ 13:30 ]

  • Tsuyoshi Sawada (University of Connecticut)
    "Da-Deletion: Classification of Clause-Final Elements in Japanese"
  • Eriko Watanabe (Nanzan University)
    "The Overgeneration of Dative Subjects in Child Japanese"
  • Takuro Tanaka (University of Connecticut)
    "Aspectual Restriction for Floating Quantifiers"
  • General Discussion
    Masatake Arimoto (Nanzan University), Susanne Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut)

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3rd Acquisition Research Workshop

Date: June 16 (Sat.), 2007, 10:00 ~ 17:30
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Thomas Hun-Tak Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
    "Development of Nominals in Chinese-Speaking Children"
  • Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)
    "Structure Dependence in the Acquisition of Japanese Wh-Questions"
  • Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University)
    "Intermediate Stages in Language Acquisition"
  • Thomas Roeper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
    "Singletons, Exhaustivity, and Experimental Variables in the Larger Context of Acquisition Theory"

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Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University

18 Yamazato-cho, Showa-ku
Nagoya, 466-8673, Japan
Phone: +81-52-832-3110 (ext.3547)
FAX :+81-52-832-5688
E-mail: ling-office@ic.nanzan-u.ac.jp
Office: L307 (Bldg.-L / 3rd floor)
[ Open: Mon,Wed,Fri, 10:00~16:00 ]