南山大学

 

Nanzan University Center for Linguistics

Japanese

Colloquia and Workshops

2009.04-2010.03

8th 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 14 (Sun.) ~ 15 (Mon.), 2010
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

[ March 14, 10:00 ~ 18:00 ]

  • Daiko Takahashi (Tohoku University)
    "Argument Ellipsis, Anti-agreement, and Scrambling"
  • Yoichi Miyamoto (Osaka University)
    "On Chinese Relative Clauses and NP-Ellipsis"
  • Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University) and Barry C.-Y. Yang (National United University)
    "Feature Valuation and Antisuperiority"
  • Hiroyuki Ura (Kwansei Gakuin University)
    "Dative Subjects and Impersonals in Null-subject Languages"

[ March 15, 10:00 ~ 13:15 ]

  • Yuji Takano (Kinjo Gakuin University)
    "A Comparative Approach to Japanese Postposing"
  • Hajime Takeuchi (Nanzan University)
    "Exceptional Case Marking in Japanese and Optional Feature Inheritance"

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Special Colloquium

Organized by the Department of British and American Studies
Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grant-in-Aid for Program for Promoting University Education and Student Support

Date: February 22 (Mon.), 2010, 13:30 ~ 17:30
Location: MB1, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

[ Lecture 1 ]

  • Masatake Arimoto (Nanzan University)
    "Introduction: Basics in Binding"
  • Kamil Deen (University of Hawai'i)
    "Binding in Thai: The Case for Nativism"

[ Lecture 2 ]

  • Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University)
    "Introduction to Grammar Acquisition"
  • Bonnie Schwartz (University of Hawai'i)
    "Let's Go on a Hawaiian Tour (of Child L2 Acquisition)"

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7th 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 31 (Sun.), 2010, 10:00 ~ 18:00
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Tomohiro Fujii (Yokohama National University) and Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University)
    "Wh-adverbials in-situ in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese"
  • Rahul Balusu (EFL University)
    "The Semantics of Reduplicative Numerals in Telugu"
  • Naoko Sawada and Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University)
    "'Erroneous' Genitive Subjects in Child Grammar"
  • B. R. Srivatsa (EFL University)
    "Word Order in Sanskrit"
  • Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
    "Dative/Genitive Subjects in Japanese: A Comparative Perspective"
  • K. A. Jayaseelan (EFL University)
    "The Syntax of the Dative Case"

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Colloquium #29

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 9 (Sat.), 2010, 13:30 ~ 17:00
Location: D32, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Nilufer Şener (University of Connecticut)
    "On the Relation between Evidentiality and Free Choice Herhangi bir in Turkish"
  • Serkan Şener (University of Connecticut)
    "Phrases of Nouns in Turkish"

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Colloquium #28

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

Date: December 19 (Sat.), 2009, 15:00 ~ 16:30
Location: D33, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Junri Shimada (Keio University)
    "A New Outlook on Head Movement"

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Special Lectures

Date: December 12 (Sat.), 2009, 13:00 ~ 18:00, 13 (Sun.), 10:00 ~ 11:30
Location: J101, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)
    “Narrow Syntax in Minimalism: Syntactic Operations and Their Applications”

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6th 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: October 28 (Wed.), 2009, 13:00 ~ 18:00
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)
    "Configurational Structure in Child Japanese"
  • Keiko Murasugi, Tomomi Nakatani, and Chisato Fuji (Nanzan University)
    "The Roots of Root Infinitive Analogues: The Surrogate Verb Forms Common in Adult and Child Grammars"
  • Naoko Sawada, Keiko Murasugi, and Chisato Fuji (Nanzan University)
    "A Theoretical Account for the ‘Erroneous’ Genitive Subjects in Child Japanese and the Specification of Tense"
  • Aafke Hulk (University of Amsterdam)
    "The Role of Gender and Number Features in the L1/L2 Acquisition of Determiners and (Pro)nouns: A Cross-linguistic Perspective"

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5th 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: September 13 (Sun.), 2009, 14:00 ~ 18:30
Location: D32, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Yuji Takano (Kinjo Gakuin University)
    "Postposing in Japanese and Turkish"
  • Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University) and Barry C.-Y. Yang (National United University)
    "Feature Valuation and Antisuperiority"
  • Jun Abe (Tohoku Gakuin University)
    "Oblique vs. Remnant Movement: A Case of Japanese Multiple Sluicing"
  • Daiko Takahashi and Hiroko Kimura (Tohoku University)
    "A Wh-in-situ Analysis of Sluicing"

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Colloquium #27

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

Date: September 3 (Thu.), 2009, 16:30 ~ 18:00
Location: L910, Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

  • Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
    "Experiencer Subjects and Transitive Nominals in Japanese"

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4th 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: July 25 (Sat.) ~ 26 (Sun.), 2009
Location: F13 (25th) and JB12 (26th), Nagoya Campus, Nanzan

[ July 25, 15:30 ~ 18:30 ]

  • Lin-Yu Madelaine Chien (National Tsing Hua University)
    "The Acquisition of Transitive Predicates in Mandarin Chinese"
  • Tomohiro Fujii (Yokohama National University)
    "Nominalizing Complementizers and Control/Raising"

[ July 26, 10:00 ~ 17:30 ]

  • Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)
    "Clause Types and the Japanese Right Periphery"
  • Hui-Chin Joyce Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)
    "Remarks on Ordinal Constructions in Mandarin Chinese"
  • Takashi Munakata (Yokohama National University)
    "The Division of C-I and its Consequences"
  • Tzong-Hong Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University)
    "Finiteness of Clauses and QR"

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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
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