南山大学

 

Nanzan University Center for Linguistics

Japanese

Colloquia and Workshops

2008.04-2009.03

3rd Workshop of the International Research Project on Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition

Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grant-in-Aid for ‘Strategic Establishment of Centers for Advanced Research in Private Universities’

Date: March 12 (Thu.), 2009, 10:30 ~ 18:30
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • W.-T. Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)
    "EPP as a Topic Feature: Evidence from Chinese Applicatives and Reflexive Adverbials"
  • Daiko Takahashi (Tohoku University)
    "Comparative Syntax of Argument Ellipsis"
  • Yasuki Ueda (Nanzan University)
    "Number in Classifier Languages"
  • R. Amritavalli (EFL University, Hyderabad)
    "Case and Phi-features"
  • Hiroyuki Ura (Kwansei Gakuin University)
    "Some Notes on the Interaction of Case with Subjecthood"
  • K. A. Jayaseelan (EFL University, Hyderabad)
    "Case Hierarchy and Theories of Case"

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2nd Workshop of the International Research Project on Comparative Syntax and language Acquisition

Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grant-in-Aid for ‘Strategic Establishment of Centers for Advanced Research in Private Universities’

Date: January 15 (Thu.), 2009, 15:30 ~ 18:15
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Duk-Ho An (Nanzan University)
    "On the Nature of Genitive Case in Korean: With Reference to Japanese"
  • Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)
    "Distinguishing A and A' Movements without Reference to Case"

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1st Workshop of the International Research Project on Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition

Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grant-in-Aid for ‘Strategic Establishment of Centers for Advanced Research in Private Universities’

Date: November 22 (Sat.) ~ 23 (Sun.), 2008
Location: J101 (22nd) and L910 (23rd), Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

[ November 22, 16:00 ~ 18:00 ]

  • Masashi Nomura (Chukyo University)
    "How is it that nominative case can surface on NPs other than finite subjects?"
  • Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
    "Some issues on the syntax and morphology of arguments"

[ November 23, 10:00 ~ 16:30 ]

  • Hiroshi Aoyagi (Nanzan University)
    "On the left-edge puzzle: How does scrambling interact with semantics and information structure?"
  • Yuji Takano (Kinjo Gakuin University)
    "Scrambling and the theory of movement"
  • Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University)
    "Underspecification of functional heads in language acquisition"
  • Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)
    "Evaluating syntactic analyses with children: The case of swiping and intensional transitives"
  • Yoichi Miyamoto (Osaka University)
    "On ways of measurement and structure of NP"

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Tsinghua-CUHK-Nanzan Joint Workshop on Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition

Date: September 17 (Wed.) ~ 18 (Thu.), 2008
Location: J54 (17th) and L910 (18th), Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

[ September 17, 14:00 ~ 17:00 ]

  • Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)
    "Semantic and Discourse Interpretation of the Japanese Left Periphery"
  • Hui-Yu Huang (National Chiao-Tung University)
    "Ambiguity in the [V u/bo NP] Construction in Taiwanese"
  • Jhao-Ling Li (National Tsing Hua University)
    "The Syntax of Prefix Concord in Saaroa"

[ September 18, 10:00 ~ 17:30 ]

  • T.-H. Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University)
    "Occurrence of Event and Locative Subjects in Mandarin Chinese"
  • Yasuki Ueda (Nanzan University)
    "On Plurality in Japanese"
  • Hui-Chin Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)
    "Modifier Licensing in Chinese Noun Phrase"
  • Chung-Yu Yang (National Tsing Hua University)
    "Intervention Effects as Minimality and Competition Effects"
  • Mayumi Dejima, Tomomi Nakatani, and Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University)
    "The Emergence of Speech Act Phrase: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Two Japanese-speaking Infants"
  • Thomas Hun-Tak Lee and Aijun Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
    "The Count-Mass Distinction in Chinese and the Acquisition of Classifiers"

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3rd Syntax Workshop

Date: August 3 (Sun.), 2008, 12:45 ~ 19:00
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Juan Uriagereka (University of Maryland)
    "Re-examining Sub-Extraction: A Response to Stepanov"
  • Yuji Takano (Kinjo Gakuin University)
    "Scrambling and Control"
  • Daiko Takahashi (Tohoku University)
    "How to Find Antecedents for Argument Ellipsis"
  • Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)
    "'Raising to Object' in Small Clauses and Full Clauses"

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Colloquium #26

Date: July 30 (Sat.), 2008, 16:00 ~ 17:30
Location: J101, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø)
    "On the Timing of Lexical Insertion"

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Colloquium #25

Date: July 19 (Sat.), 2008, 13:00 ~ 18:00
Location: J101, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Roger Martin (Yokohama National University)
    "On the Nature of Chains and Agree"
  • Atsushi Ito (Nanzan University)
    "NP-movement in Resultatives"
  • Yoichi Miyamoto (Osaka University)
    "On the Comparative Operator in Japanese"

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Colloquium #24

Date: June 7 (Sat.), 2008, 13:30 ~ 17:00
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Satoshi Tomioka (University of Delaware)
    "Contrastive Topic as Wide(st)-scope Focus"
  • Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
    "Fitting a Multidominant Model of Movement to Reconstruction"

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