ELSJ 9th International Spring Forum 2016(updated: March 16, 2016)
Dates:

Saturday April 23 – Sunday April 24, 2016

Venue:

Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
9-1 Gakuen Higashimachi, Nishi-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo 651-2187, 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:
Academic Building 2
General sessions: 501 and 502, Poster session and Book display: Student Commons (1F),
Lounge for participants: Career Salon (1F)
Main Hall

Registration (Foyer), Opening ceremony, Guest lectures

Research Center 2
Miki Memorial Hall

Headquarters: Conference Room 1, Lounge for presenters: Seminar Room 701-703
Conference reception[As for the 23rd, a cafeteria in the Univ. Co-op will be open. No lunch service is available in the campus on the 24th.]
See ELSJ Homepage (http://elsj.jp/spring_forum/) for the update.

Saturday, April 23rd
Registration (12:30 – ) [Main Hall Foyer]
Opening Ceremony (13:00 – 13:15) [Main Hall]

Guest Lecture 1 (13:15 – 14:00) [Main Hall]
Masao Ochi (Osaka University):
Numeral Classifiers in Japanese and Movement to the Nominal Periphery[Chair: Chizuru Nakao (Daito Bunka University)]

Paper Presentations
Session 1 (14:15 – 15:20) [Room 501 (Academic Building 2)]
1 14:15 – 14:45
Masaki Yasuhara (Teikyo University):
Two Types of External Causes[Chair: Yuko Horita (Kanazawa University)]

2 14:50 – 15:20
Miyabi Ozawa (Japan Women's University):
An Analysis of the Use of the First-Person Pronoun in Japanese and English Interaction[Chair: Kaori Hata (Osaka University)]1Session 2 (14:15 – 15:20) [Room 502 (Academic Building 2)]
1 14:15 – 14:45
Sha Liu (Fukuoka University):
Canadian Raising: Evidence for or against Rule Ordering [Chair: Takeshi Yamamoto (Kinki University)]
2 14:50 – 15:20
Yookang Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; guest speaker from The English Linguistic Society ofKorea):
A Morphological Template and Old English Derivational Morphology[Chair: Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji University)]

Session 3 (15:35 – 16:40) [Room 501 (Academic Building 2)]
1 15:35 – 16:05
Asako Matsuda (Ochanomizu University):
Shifted Indexicals in Partial Control[Chair: Shinsuke Homma (Niigata University)]

2 16:10 – 16:40
Norio Suzuki (Kobe Shinwa Women's University):
Labeling, Gross Minimality, and Embedded Imperatives[Chair: Chizuru Nakao (Daito Bunka University)]

Session 4 (15:35 – 16:40) [Room 502 (Academic Building 2)]
1 15:35 – 16:05
Hiroko Shikano (Japan Women's University):
The Use of Distal Demonstratives in Quasi-Internal Monologues in Japanese and American English[Chair: Etsuko Yoshida (Mie University)]
2 16:10 – 16:40
Yuzo Morishita (Kobe University):
A Constructional Approach to the Complex Motion Predicate Construction in English[Chair: Toru Suzuki (Yamagata University)]

Guest Lecture 2 (16:55– 17:40) [Main Hall]
Jacques Durand (University of Toulouse Jean-Jaures):R-sandhi in English: Models and Corpora[Chair: Takeshi Yamamoto (Kinki University)]

Conference Reception (18:00 – 19:00) [Miki Memorial Hall]
Fee: 2,000 yen

2Sunday, April 24thRegistration (9:00 – ) [Main Hall Foyer]

Paper Presentations
Session 5 (9:20 – 10:25) [Room 501 (Academic Building 2)]
1 9:20 – 9:50
Takashi Kayashima (Kyushu University):
Labeling and Voice Alternation with φ-feature and θ-feature[Chair: Yoshiki Ogawa (Tohoku University)]
2 9:55 – 10:25
Maiko Yamaguchi (Osaka University):
Head Movement and Its Consequences in the Right Periphery[Chair: Shinsuke Homma (Niigata University)]

Session 6 (9:20 – 10:25) [Room 502 (Academic Building 2)]
1 9:20 – 9:50
Ryohei Naya (University of Tsukuba):
Competition in Word-Formation: Deverbal Nominalization by -ment vs. Conversion[Chair: Junya Morita (Kinjo Gakuin University)]
2 9:55 – 10:25
Yusuke Yoda (Toyo Gakuen University):
Locality in Phonological Operation[Chair: Masaharu Shimada (University of Tsukuba)]

Session 7 (10:35 – 11:40) [Room 501 (Academic Building 2)]
1 10:35 – 11:05
Robert Joel Deacon (Nagoya University):
Little p_ in English and Japanese[Chair: Masaharu Shimada (University of Tsukuba)]

2 11:10 – 11:40
Masashi Yamaguchi (Osaka University):
Maintaining the Direct Object Restriction[Chair: Masako Tsuzuki (Chukyo University)]

Session 8 (10:35 – 11:40) [Room 502 (Academic Building 2)]
1 10:35 – 11:05
Yuto Hirayama (Osaka University):
Evidentials and Presupposition Resolution[Chair: Etsuko Yoshida (Mie University)]

2 11:10 – 11:40[cancelled]3

Poster Session (11:45 – 13:40) [Student Commons (1F, Academic Building 2)]
1 [cancelled]

2 Takashi Ikeda (Aichi Prefectural University):That-Relatives and Contrastive-Focus
3 Fuminori Nakamura (Kitasato University):
A Constructional Approach to Synonyms: A Case Study of Apparently and Seemingly
4 Tetsuo Nishihara (Miyagi University of Education)
On the Existence of Multi-Phonological Words: From the Viewpoint of Stress Movement in Prefixes
5 Shin-ichi Tanigawa (Fukuoka University):
Elaboration on Labeling Algorithm: Agreement for Feature Sharing

Lunch Break (12:30 – 13:40)** The school cafeteria is closed on Sundays. So please bring your lunch or eat outside.

Guest Lecture 3 (13:40– 14:25) [Main Hall]
Christopher Davis (University of the Ryukyus):
Tense, Aspect, and Evidentiality in Okinawan[Chair: Etsuko Yoshida (Mie University)]4