September 4-6, 2012, Mie University
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Program
DAY 1: Tuesday 4 September 2012
| 9:30-10:30 | Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo) Uninterpretable Features and Agreement |
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| 10:45-11:30 | Na Liu (Tianjin Normal University) The Syntactic Structures of Chinese Bei-Passive and the English Be-Passive |
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| 11:30-12:15 | Yoshiki Ogawa & Fumikazu Niinuma (Tohoku University/Morioka University) On the Syntactic Licensing of Locative Expressions in Japanese |
| 13:00-14:00 | Tomoe Arii (University of Tokyo) Children's Absolute Interpretation of Japanese Numeral Classifier Phrase Comparatives |
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| Sihwei Chen (University of British Columbia) The Interaction of Modals and Temporal Marking in Mandarin Chinese |
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| Jui-yi Zoey Chung (National Tsing Hua University) Non‐Canonical Disposal Construction: Investigating the Jiong Construction and the vP Periphery in Hakka |
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| Hajime Ikawa (Aoyama Gakuin University) On the Ineligibility of Wh-phrases for Argument Ellipsis |
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| Yukino Kobayashi (Sophia University) Anti-Licensing Theory of Unmarked Cases and Ga/No Conversion |
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| Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) Wh-Adjuncts and the Left Periphery |
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| Terue Nakato‐Miyashita (Kitasato University) Number Agreement between Possessive Pronouns and Head Nouns: Agree or not? |
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| Masao Ochi (Osaka University) Wh-Adjuncts and the Left Periphery |
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| Yosuke Sato & Yoshihito Dobashi (National University of Singapore/Niigata University) Prosodic Phrasing and That-Trace Effects at the Syntax‐Prosody Interface |
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| Yoshiyuki Shibata (University of Connecticut) Obligatory Wide Scope as Anti‐Reconstruction Effects |
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| Ji Young Shim (CUNY Graduate Center) The Role of Light Verbs in Word Order Variation: Evidence from Code-Switching |
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| Koichi Tateishi (Kobe College) Heavily OCP-Based Inflectional Morphophonology of the So-Called I-Ochi (/i/-Drop) in Japanese |
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| Wen-Hsin Tseng (National Tsing Hua University) Generalize Adjective Reduplication in Mandarin with a Post‐Syntactic Framework |
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| Yuyun Iris Wang & Wei-Wen Roger Liao (University of Southern California/Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Moving to the Left Periphery: Syntax or PF? |
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| Yusuke Yoda (Osaka University) Structure of &P and Contextual Allomorphy |
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| Mengxi Yuan & Yurie Hara (City University of Hong Kong) The Syntax and Semantics of Assertion Modifiers Dique and Zhende in Mandarin |
| 14:00-14:45 | Richard Faure (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis) Know, tell, and the Selection of Wh-Questions in Classical Greek |
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| 14:45-15:30 | Ana Paula Scher (Universidade de Sao Paulo) Concatenative Affixation in Brazilian Portuguese Truncated Forms |
| 15:45-16:30 | Li Haoze (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Association between Focus Particles and Interrogative Wh-Words |
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| 15:40-16:20 | Jooyoung Kim & Satoshi Tomioka (University of Delaware) Interpreting Speaker-Oriented Embedded Questions in Korean and Japanese |
| 16:40-17:20 | Uli Sauerland (Harvard/ZAS) Language Universals in Person Syncretism Patterns: Evidence for Paninian Grammar |
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DAY 2: Wednesday 5 September 2012
| 9:15-10:15 | Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University) The Syntax of Negative Questions and their Answers |
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| 10:30-11:15 | Isabelle Charnavel & Dominique Sportiche (UCLA/ENS/IJN) Binding Domain for Condition A |
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| 10:50-11:30 | Samuel Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara & Daniel Seely (University of Michigan/Keio University/Eastern Michigan University) |
| 12:45-13:45 | Hyunjung Ahn (University of Washington) L2 Acquisition of Case Particles in Korean: A Discrepancy in Syntactic Features and Morphological Features |
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| Michael Barrie (Sogang University) Noun Incorporation and the Person Feature Hierarchy |
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| Michael Barrie & Eric Mathieu (Sogang University/Universite d'Ottawa) Why We Can’t Move Ahead with Noun Incorporation |
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| Priyanka Biswas (University of Southern California) Plurality in a Classifier Language: Two Types of Plurals in Bangla |
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| Tim Chou & Sujeewa Hettiarachchi (University of Michigan, Ann Arnor) Sinhala Case Marking, Modality, and A-Movement |
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| Yuli Feng (City University of Hong Kong) Mei-Dou Co-Occurrence: Division of Labor in Chinese Universal Quantification |
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| Martin Hackl, Ayaka Sugawara, Su Lin Blodgett & Kenneth Wexler (MIT/Wellesley College) Scalar Presupposition and the Generation of Alternatives in the Acquisition of Only |
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| Yurie Hara (City University of Hong Kong) On the Interaction among Sentence Types, Bias, and Intonation: A Rating Study |
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| Jungmin Kang (University of Connecticut) On the Unavailability of Successive-Cyclic Movement via SpecCP in Korean |
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| Jess Hoi-Ki Law (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Parasitic Gaps in Mandarin as True Empty Categories |
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| Masako Maeda (Kyushu University) Scrambling and Intervention Effects under the Derivational Chain Interpretation |
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| Hisashi Morita (Aichi Prefectural University) How the Syntax Knows When to Apply Binding or Movement to Wh-expressions |
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| Masashi Nomura & Yuka Makita (Chukyo University/Chubu University) Defectiveness, Cliticization, and Long-Distance Reflexives in Icelandic |
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| Saurov Syed (University of Southern California) DP-Internal Focus and Topic in Bangla |
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| Chia-Fen Wu (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica) The Experiential Perfect Marker Bat in Taiwanese Southern Min |
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| Kazuko Yatsushiro & Uli Sauerland (Harvard/ZAS) On the Syntax of Question Speech Acts |
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| Likan Zhan, Stephen Crain & Peng Zhou (Macquarie University) The Anticipatory Effects of Focus Operators: A Visual-World Eye-Tracking Experiment |
| 13:45-14:30 | Chizuru Nakao, Masaya Yoshida & Ivan Ortega‐Santos (Daito Bunka University/Northwestern University/The University of Memphis) |
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| 14:30-15:15 | David J. Medeiros (University of Michigan) A Cyclic Linearization Approach to Polynesian VP‐Remnant Movement |
| 15:30-16:15 | Shin‐Ichiro Sano (International Christian University) Patterns in Avoidance of Marked Segmental Configurations in Japanese Loanword Phonology |
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| 16:15-17:00 | Yu Tanaka & Jun Yashima (University of California, Los Angeles) Deliberate Markedness in Japanese Hypocoristics |
| 17:15-18:15 | Junko Ito & Armin Mester (UC Santa Cruz) Recursive Prosody and Match Theory: Evidence from Japanese |
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DAY 3: Thursday 6 September 2012
| 9:30-10:15 | Troy Messick (University of Connecticut) Ellipsis and Reconstruction in Tough Infinitives |
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| 10:15-11:00 | Chieu Nguyen (University of Chicago) Non-Adjacent Licensing in the Vietnamese Universal QuantificationConstruction |
| 11:00-11:45 | Mythili Menon (University of Southern California) The Syntax of the Adjective in Dravidian |
| 13:00-14:00 | Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University) Processing Event in Real‐Time |
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| 14:00-14:45 | Dan Michel & Grant Goodall (University of California, San Diego) Finiteness and the Nature of Island Constraints |
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| 15:00-15:45 | Yanan Sheng & Fuyun Wu (Shanghai International Studies University) Audience Design Affects Classifier Positioning in Chinese Relative Clauses: Evidence from Spoken Corpus and Sentence-Production Data |
| 15:45-16:30 | Ayaka Sugawara, Hadas Kotek, Martin Hackl & Kenneth Wexler (MIT) Long vs. Short QR: Evidence from the Acquisition of ACD |
| 15:00-15:40 | William Snyder (University of Connecticut) Children’s Grammatical Conservatism, and the Nature of Syntactic Knowledge |
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