ELSJ 8th International Spring Forum 2015
(updated April 3, 2015)
Dates:

Saturday April 18 – Sunday April 19, 2015

Venue:

Building No. 6, Seikei University
3-3-1 Kichijoji-Kitamachi, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8633, Japan

Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
Registration (on-site only): ELSJ members: 2000 yen, Non-members: 5000 yen, Non-member students: 3000 yen
Venue Guide:
Headquarters: North conference room (6F), Lounge for participants: South room (3F),
Lounge for guest speakers: South conference room (6F), Conference reception: Cafeteria (B1)
Book display: Lounge (3F)[As for the 18th, a cafeteria in the Student Union will be open from 11:00 to 14:00. No lunch service is available inthe campus on the 19th.]
See ELSJ Homepage (http://elsj.kaitakusha.co.jp/el.forum.html) for the update.

Saturday, April 18th
Registration (12:30 – ) [Lounge (3F)]
Opening Ceremony (13:00 – 13:15) [Classroom 401 (4F)]

Guest Lecture 1 (13:15 – 14:00) [Classroom 401 (4F)]
Yoshihisa Nakamura (Kanazawa University):
Evolution of Language and Cognition: Recursion in CG[Chair: Miki Hanazaki (Shinshu University)]

Paper Presentations
Session 1 (14:15 – 16:05) [Classroom 301 (3F)]
1 14:15 – 14:45
Hiroko Kimura (Nihon Institute of Medical Science) and Narita Hiroki (Nihon University):
Sluicing with Coordinated Remnants[Chair: Chizuru Nakao (Daito Bunka University)]

2 14:55 – 15:25
Takashi Ikeda (Aichi Prefectural University):
A Syntactic Analysis of That-Relative Clauses[Chair: Yoshiki Ogawa (Tohoku University)]

3 15:35 – 16:05
Samuel D. Epstein (University of Michigan), Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University), and T. Daniel Seely(Eastern Michigan University):
A Selective History of the Scientific Evolution and Importance of Simplest Merge[Chair: Miki Obata (Tokyo University of Science)]1

Session 2 (14:15 – 16:05) [Classroom 501 (5F)]
1 14:15 – 14:45
Hidekazu Tanaka (Okayama University):
How to Say Why to, and Why[Chair: Hidemitsu Takahashi (Hokkaido University)]

2 14:55 – 15:25
Kanako Tomaru (Sophia University):
Effects of Orthography on Loanword Adaptation of English Diphthong /ei/ to Japanese[Chair: Takeshi Yamamoto (Kinki University)]
3 15:35 – 16:05
Takahiro Honda (Kobe Women’s University):
A Syntactic Analysis of Mental Property Adjectives and Its Implication for Pedagogical Grammar[Chair: Shungo Kanazawa (University of Kochi)]Guest Lecture 2 (16:20– 17:05) [Classroom 401 (4F)]
Christopher Tancredi (Keio University):
Newness, Givenness and Focus[Chair: Osamu Sawada (Mie University)]

Conference Reception (17:20 – 18:20) [Cafeteria (B1)]
Fee: 2,000 yen

Sunday, April 19th
Registration (9:00 – ) [Lounge (3F)]

Paper Presentations
Session 3 (9:30 – 10:35) [Classroom 301 (3F)]
1 9:30 – 10:00
Koji Shimamura (University of Connecticut, Storrs/Mie University):
Skepticism on Control in Japanese[Chair: Osamu Sawada (Mie University)]

2 10:05 – 10:35
Masaki Yasuhara (University of Tsukuba):
A Voice-Bundling Parameter Account for Romance Anti-causatives[Chair: Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji University)]2Session 4 (9:30 – 10:35) [Classroom 501 (5F)]
1 9:30 – 10:00
Tatsuhiro Okubo (University of Tsukuba):
A Distributed Morphology Approach to Genitive Compounds in Frisian[Chair: Junya Morita (Kinjo Gakuin University)]
2 10:05 – 10:35
Ryoichiro Kobayashi (Sophia University):
The Repetitive Coordinator-ka and the Syntax of Alternative Questions in Japanese[Chair: Tomohiro Yanagi (Chubu University)]

Session 5 (10:45 – 11:50) [Classroom 301 (3F)]
1 10:45 – 11:15
Hideharu Tanaka (Osaka University):
Japanese EPP Revisited: Negative Polarity and Degree Anaphora[Chair: Shinsuke Homma (Niigata University)]
2 11:20 – 11:50
Rumi Takaki (Kyushu University):
The Lack of Head Movement in Ellipsis Constructions under E-feature Movement[Chair: Hajime Ono (Tsuda College)]

Session 6 (10:45 – 11:50) [Classroom 501 (5F)]
1 10:45 – 11:15
Shiro Takeuchi (University of Tsukuba):
On the English Dative Alternation: Arguing for the Multiple Meaning Approach[Chair: Yuko Horita (Kanazawa University)]
2 11:20 – 11:50
Kazuya Nishimaki (University of Tsukuba):
Cross-Linguistic Variations in Realization Patterns of Speech Act: A Competition-Theoretic Approach[Chair: Etsuko Yoshida (Mie University)]

Lunch Break (11:50 – 13:20)** The school cafeteria is closed on Sundays. So please bring your lunch or eat outside. (You will get a
restaurant map at the registration desk.)

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Guest Lecture 3 (13:20– 14:05) [Classroom 401 (4F)]
Koichi Takezawa (University of Tsukuba):
Syntactic and Semantic Properties of Japanese Nominative Marker ga[Chair: Miki Obata (Tokyo University of Science)]

Poster Session (11:00 – 13:20) [Classroom 502 (5F)]
1 Wenwen Ding, Shotaro Namiki, and Tatsuhiro Okubo (University of Tsukuba):
A Nanosyntactic Approach to the Transitive Use of Vi -Vi Compounds in Chinese
2 Sumiyo Nishiguchi (Tokyo University of Science):
Discourse-Initial Too/Mo and Conventional Implicature
3 Kayono Shiobara (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University):
A Phonological Approach to Interwoven Dependency Constructions
4 Norio Suzuki (Kobe Shinwa Women’s University):
Defective Interveners, Adjuncts, and "Two-Peaked" Structure
5 Yusuke Yoda (Toyo Gakuen University):
Merging Adjunct to Coordination

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