ELSJ 11th International Spring Forum 2018
May 12-13, 2018
Hokkaido University, Conference Hall

Saturday, May 12
12:30

Registration [Foyer] (ELSJ members: 2,000 yen, Non-members: 5,000 yen, Non-member students: 3,000 yen)

13:00-13:15

Opening Ceremony [1F Auditorium]

13:15-14:00

Guest Lecture 1 [1F Auditorium] (Chair: Hiroki Narita, Tokai University)
Nobuhiro Miyoshi (Asahikawa Medical University)Time
14:15-14:45

14:50-15:20

Anti-reconstruction effects and object shift in Japanese
Room 3
Room 2
1F Auditorium
Session 1Session 2
Workshop 1 (14:15-16:35)
Takuto Watanabe (KumamotoGakuen University)

Mari Sakaguchi (Notre DameSeishin University)

Organizer: Hisatsugu Kitahara(Keio University)

Be on the point of -ing and its
variant forms in Early ModernEnglish

The role of the past tense
morpheme in Japanese epistemic
conditionals

Clarifying the concept workspace,revising Merge to MERGE, andidentifying consequences(Chair: Taro Ishiguro, MeijiUniversity)(Chair: Kairi Igarashi, Ryukoku
University)

Yuichi Ono (University ofTsukuba)

Sumiyo Nishiguchi (TokyoUniversity of Science)

The verbal noun use of English
borrowed prepositions inJapanese recipe names

A monster in English(Chair: Masako Tsuzuki, ChukyoUniversity)(Chair: Yusuke Kubota, University ofTsukuba)

Speakers:
Yoshihito Dobashi (NiigataUniversity)
Toru Ishii (Meiji University)
Nobu Goto (Toyo University)
Takanori Nakashima (TohokuUniversity)

Session 3
15:35-16:05

Changguk Yim (Chung-AngUniversity)
A split analysis of categorization(Chair: Ichiro Yuhara, Tokyo
Metropolitan University)

16:10-16:40

Hee-Cheol Yoon (Duksung
Women's University; Guest
Speaker from the English
Linguistic Society of Korea)
Adnominal adjectives and definite
marking in Old English(Chair: Madoka Murakami, Jissen
Women's University)

16:55-17:40

Guest Lecture 2 [1F Auditorium] (Chair: Kiyoko Yoneyama, Daito Bunka University)
Eiji Yamada (Fukuoka University)
Theoretical shortcomings: Counterexamples to word stress treatments in English

18:00-19:00

Conference Reception [Room 1] (Fee: 2,000 yen)

Sunday, May 13Time
9:30-10:00

Room 1Session 4
Masatoshi Honda (University ofTsukuba)
Copy raising, evidentiality andisland effects(Chair: Hiroki Narita, TokaiUniversity)

10:05-10:35

Siyang Xia (Nagoya University)

On the historical development offloating quantifiers in English(Chair: Madoka Murakami, Jissen
Women's University)

Session 6
10:45-11:15

11:20-11:50

Room 3Session 5

1F Auditorium
Workshop 2 (9:30-11:50)

Takayuki Konishi and Mariko Organizer: Yusuke Kubota
Kondo (Waseda University)(University of Tsukuba)
Orthographic influence on L2
vowel quality; The case of English Using treebanks for linguistic
reduced vowels by native speakers researchof Japanese(Chair: Kiyoko Yoneyama, Daito
Bunka University)

Speakers:
Misato Ido (National Institute forClay Williams (Akita
Japanese Language andInternational University)
Linguistics)
Correlations between proficiency
Ayaka Suzuki (National Instituteand masked priming facilitation infor Japanese Language andJapanese learners of EnglishLinguistics)
Nobuyoshi Miyoshi (University(Chair: Masako Tsuzuki, ChukyoUniversity)of Tsukuba)
Session 7

Shin-ichi Tanigawa (NagasakiUniversity)

Hiroko Shikano (Jichi MedicalUniversity) and Miki Sugisaki(Japan Women's University)

Eliminating string-vacuous
movement: C-deletion andphasehood inheritance

How speakers use "nanka" inquasi-internal monologues during
interactional discourses(Chair: Taichi Nakamura, Universityof Fukui)(Chair: Tomoko Endo, SeikeiUniversity)

Jun Omune (Kansai GaidaiUniversity)

Akitaka Yamada (GeorgetownUniversity)

Labeling and feature sharing in
wh-in-situ questions

Expressiveness from a Bayesianperspective(Chair: Norimi Kimura, Hirosaki
University)(Chair: Kaori Hata, Osaka University)

11:55-13:05

Poster Session [Foyer]

13:10-13:55

Guest Lesture 3 [1F Auditorium] (Chair: Toru Suzuki, Yamagata University)
Naoyuki Ono (Tohoku University)
Lexical creativity: Contrastive focus reduplication and constructional
reduplication

Time
14:10-14:40

Room 1
Session 8

Room 3Session 9

Norimasa Hayashi (KyushuUniversity)

1F Auditorium

Masaki Yasuhara (IbarakiUniversity)

The structure of free relatives and Break a branch off a tree: An
decomposition of wh operators
account based on furtherspecification

14:45-15:15

15:30-16:15(Chair: Taichi Nakamura, Universityof Fukui)(Chair: Kairi Igarashi, Ryukoku
University)

Katsuya Sugiura (Aichi GakuinUniversity)

Hsiao-hung Iris Wu (NationalTaiwan Normal University)

A generative analysis of reduced
relative clauses in English

Some comparative notes on
ditransitive verbs and argument
structure(Chair: Norimi Kimura, Hirosaki
University)(Chair: Mikinari Matsuoka, Universityof Yamanashi)

Guest Lesture 4 [1F Auditorium] (Chair: Yusuke Kubota, University of Tsukuba)
Robert Levine (Ohio State University)`Biolinguistics’: Some foundational problems

Posters (in alphabetical order)
1. Eriko Hirasaki (Kwansei Gakuin University):
Movement and its restriction in terms of argumenthood
2. Reika Sakurada (Japan Women's University):
How the speakers create the common ground with audience in TED Talks?
3. Norio Suzuki (Kobe Shinwa Women’s University):
What to do with PGs in Japanese: An anti-lexicalist approach
4. Chyan-an Arthur Wang (Chung Yuan Christian University):
A hybrid analysis of multiple sluicing in Mandarin Chinese
5. Takaya Yamaguchi (Kobe University):
Reconsidering subject raising in Japanese -From a perspective of agentivity6. Shuto Yamamura (University of Tsukuba):
Focus-based licensing analysis of NP-ellipsis in English
7. Yusuke Yoda (Toyo Gakuen University):
A spanning approach to quantifier in classifier languages

Map of Sapporo Station and Hokkaido University Conference Hall

Subway Namboku Line
Kita 12-jo Station

Conference Hall

Main Gate
Kita 8-jo Street

JR Sapporo Station
Subway Sapporo Station

Hokkaido University Conference Hall – First Floor

Room 2

Room 1
1F
AuditoriumFoyer

Room 3