ELSJ 10th International Spring Forum 2017(updated: March 8, 2017)
Dates:

Saturday April 22 – Sunday April 23, 2017

Venue:

Meiji Gakuin University, Shirokane Campus (Building 2)
1-2-37, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8636, Japan

Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
Registration (on-site only):
ELSJ members: 2,000 yen, Non-members: 5,000 yen, Non-member students: 3,000 yen
Venue Guide:
Opening Ceremony, Guest Lectures: Room 2401

Book Display: Room 2201

General Sessions: Room 2301 and Room 2302

Headquarters: Room 2202

rdPoster Session: 3 Floor LobbyLounge for Presenters: Room 2101

ndLounge for Participants: Room 2102

Registration: 2 Floor Lobby

Conference Reception: Main Conference Room (10F of the Main Building)[As for the 22nd, the school cafeteria will be open. No lunch service is available in the campus on the 23rd.]
See ELSJ Homepage (http://elsj.jp/spring_forum/) for the update.

Saturday, April 22nd
Registration (12:30 –) [2nd Floor Lobby]
Opening Ceremony (13:00 – 13:15) [Room 2401]

Paper Presentations
Session 1 (13:20 – 14:25) [Room 2301]
1 13:20 – 13:50
Ryoichiro Kobayashi (Sophia University):
Eliminating the Discourse-Based Parameter[Chair: Yusuke Kubota (University of Tsukuba)]

2 13:55 – 14:25
Suguru Mikami (Tohoku University):
The Passivization of the Gesture Expression Construction and the Formulation of Subjects in Terms ofAboutness[Chair: Shinsuke Homma (Niigata University)]

Session 2 (13:55 – 14:25) [Room 2302][cancelled]

Session 3 (14:35 – 15:40) [Room 2301]
1 14:35 – 15:05
Haruki Isono (University of Tsukuba), Hiroko Wakamatsu (University of Tsukuba) and Ryohei Naya
(University of Tsukuba):
Resolving Prefixation into Compounding and Inflection
1[Chair: Hiroki Narita (Tokai University)]

2 15:10 – 15:40
Masatoshi Honda (University of Tsukuba):
The Left Periphery of DP and Information Focus: A Case Study of Double Genitives in English[Chair: Mikinari Matsuoka (University of Yamanashi)]

Session 4 (14:35 – 15:40) [Room 2302]
1 14:35 – 15:05
Yuichiro Ogami (Osaka University):
Specific Features of INTELLIGENCE Metaphors in Terms of EATING Concepts in Japanese and English[Chair: Masako Tsuzuki (Chukyo University)]
2 15:10 – 15:40
Hiroko Shikano (Japan Women's University):
How the Recipient Recognizes the Quasi-Internal Monologue in Dialogues: Cross-Linguistic Study inJapanese and English[Chair: Yuko Horita (Kanazawa University)]

Session 5 (15:50 – 16:55) [Room 2301]
1 15:50 – 16:20
Akiko Nagano (Tohoku University):
How Do Relational Adjectives Change into Qualitative Adjectives?
[Chair: Taichi Nakamura (University of Fukui)]
2 16:25 – 16:55
Kazuya Nishimaki (University of Tsukuba):
Possessional Adjectives as Transposed NPs[Chair: Toru Suzuki (Yamagata University)]

Session 6 (15:50 – 16:55) [Room 2302]
1 15:50 – 16:20
Johannes Scherling (University of Graz) and Niamh Kelly (American University of Beirut):
Soramimi - Reinterpretation of English Song Lyrics by Japanese Speakers[Chair: Chizuru Nakao (Daito Bunka University)]
2 16:25 – 16:55
Akari Ohba (Ochanomizu University):
The Early Acquisition of Clefts in Child Japanese[Chair: Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji University)]

Guest Lecture 1 (17:10 – 17:55) [Room 2401]
Makoto Hayashi (Nagoya University):
Nani-Prefaced Polar Questions in Japanese Conversation and Their English Counterparts[Chair: Kaori Hata (Osaka University)]

Conference Reception (18:15 – 19:15) [Main Conference Room (10F, Main Building)]
Fee: 2,000 yen2Sunday, April 23rdRegistration (9:00 –) [2nd Floor Lobby]

Paper Presentations
Session 7 (9:30 – 10:35) [Room 2301]
1 9:30 – 10:00
Kaori Furuya (University of North Texas):
Japanese Postverbal Elements: Movement vs. No Movement [Chair: Yusuke Kubota (University of Tsukuba)]
2 10:05 – 10:35
Samuel D. Epstein (University of Michigan), Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University) and T. Daniel Seely(Eastern Michigan University):
Successive Cyclic Wh-Movement without Successive Cyclic Crashing[Chair: Masaharu Shimada (University of Tsukuba)]

Session 8 (9:30 – 10:35) [Room 2302]
1 9:30 – 10:00
Yuko Higashiizumi (Tokyo Gakugei University):On the Emergence of Utterance-Initial Discourse-Pragmatic Marker: Ni-shite-mo ‘even if, by the way’ in
Present-Day Japanese[Chair: Etsuko Yoshida (Mie University)]

2 10:05 – 10:35
Masaru Kanetani (University of Tsukuba):
The Because X Construction: Not Constructionalized Yet?

[Chair: Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji University)]

Session 9 (10:45 – 11:50) [Room 2301]
1 10:45 – 11:15
Shun Ihara (Osaka University):
Contrastive Topics and the Dual Character of Imperatives[Chair: Hiroki Narita (Tokai University)]

2 11:20 – 11:50
Chen Wang (Queen Mary University of London):English Perfect Aspect and Mandarin Double Le Construction: A Focus Approach[Chair: Mikinari Matsuoka (University of Yamanashi)]

Session 10 (10:45 – 11:50) [Room 2302]
1 10:45 – 11:15
Takashi Mino (Osaka University):
Pragmatic Constraint on There Speak Construction and Its Peculiarities[Chair: Kiyoko Yoneyama (Daito Bunka University)]
2 11:20 – 11:50
Simone Lechner (University of Hamburg):
Second Language Acquisition of Demonstrative Distance Relations[Chair: Chizuru Nakao (Daito Bunka University)]3

Poster Session (11:55 – 13:05) [3rd Floor Lobby]
1 Shohei Nagata (University of Tsukuba) and Masatoshi Honda (University of Tsukuba):
On the Syntactic Realization of Verum Focus in English: A Case Study of VP Preposing
2 Kento Nagatsugu (Kyushu Kyoritsu University):
On Sentence Fragments of NPIs in Japanese: A Direct Generation Analysis
3 Miki Sugisaki (Japan Women’s University):On the Modality Expressed by the Japanese Particle Nanka in Spoken Discourse

Lunch Break (11:50 – 13:10)** The school cafeteria is closed on Sundays. So please bring your lunch or eat outside.

Guest Lecture 2 (13:10 – 13:55) [Room 2401]
Hidemitsu Takahashi (Hokkaido University):Expressions of Directive Speech Acts Revisited[Chair: Yuko Horita (Kanazawa University)]

Session 11 (14:10 – 15:15) [Room 2301]
1 14:10 – 14:40
Chigchi Bai (Nagoya University):More on the Emergence of Prenominal Unaccusative Past Participles in the History of English[Chair: Madoka Murakami (Jissen Women's University)]
2 14:45 – 15:15
Jason Ginsburg (Osaka Kyoiku University) and Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona):
A Relabeling-Analysis of English Possessives[Chair: Shinsuke Homma (Niigata University)]

Session 12 (14:10 – 15:15) [Room 2302]
1 14:10 – 14:40
Koichi Nishida (Shimonoseki City University):
Oblique-Referential Descriptions and Third-Person Pronouns in English[Chair: Kaori Hata (Osaka University)]
2 14:45 – 15:15
Miyabi Ozawa (Japan Women's University):
Meta-Pragmatic Roles of the First-Person Pronoun in Japanese: A Comparative Study of Japanese and English
Language Use in Interaction[Chair: Masako Tsuzuki (Chukyo University)]

Guest Lecture 3 (15:30 – 16:30) [Room 2401]
Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam):
The Swing of the Pendulum: The Status of Analogy in Linguistic Theory from the Neogrammatici Up to thePresent[Chair: Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji University)]4