ELSJ 2nd International Spring Forum 2009
Dates:April 25 (Sat) – 26 (Sun), 2009

Venue:N Hall (Faculty of Letters)
Nara Women’s University
Kitauoyahigashi-machi, Nara 630-8506, Japan

Contact: Satoshi Oku: satoshio@ec.hokudai.ac.jp
Registration (on-site only):
ELSJ members: 2000 yen, Non-members: 5000 yen, Non-member students: 3000 yen

Saturday, April 25th
Registration (13:30 - )Opening Ceremony (14:00 – 14:20)[Room N202, 2F]

Tutorial Lectures (14:30 – 16:00)
1. Shuji Chiba (Tsuda College)[Chair: Nobuo Okada][Room N202, 2F]

Combinations of Different Sentence Types: The Case of Imperatives and Questions
2. Shigenori Tanaka (Keio University)[Chair: Shuichi Takeda][Room N302, 3F]

A Cognitive Semantics Approach to the Analysis of Have-Related Constructions:
The Lexical Grammar of HAVE
Paper Presentations [Session 1] (16:15 – 17:45)[Chair: Satoshi Ohta][Room N201, 2F]

1. Tetyana Sayenko (Nagoya University of Commerce and Business): English Discourse Intonationin Stylistic Aspect
2. Goro Yamamoto (Kansai Gaidai University): A Prosodic Analysis of an English Phrase from thePerspective of Emotion Recognition
3. Khalilpour Naftforoush Shahin (ICU): Intelligibility of English Words among Japanese, Iranian,and American Speakers and Listeners
Paper Presentations [Session 2] (16:15 – 17:45)[Chair: Shinobu Mizuguchi][Room N301, 3F]

1. Toshikazu Okawa (University of Adelaide) and Akiko Nagao (Nagoya University of ForeignStudies): A Case Study: How Newcomers Become Experienced Learners through Interactions ina Postgraduate Applied Linguistic Community
2. Siu-lun Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Code-Mixing and Code Switching in Hong Kong
3. Akiko Nagao (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies): A Case Study: How New Comers Become
Experienced Learners through Interactions, in an English as a Second Language, ClassroomCommunity

Paper Presentations [Session 3] (16:15 – 17:15)[Chair: Akira Kikuchi][Room N202, 2F]

1. Daigo Akiba (Sophia University): The Movement Theory of Control and Modal Interpretations
2. Koji Kawahara (University of York): Sprouting the LF-Copy: The Syntax of Attributive
Comparatives

Tutorial Lecture (17:55 – 18:55)[Chair: Asako Uchibori]

Roger Martin (Yokohama National University):[Room N 202, 2F]

The Grammar of Infinitival Clauses
Reception (19:00 – 20:00) (Very informal: 1000 yen)

[Room N101, 1F]

Sunday, April 26thRegistration (9:00 - )Workshops (9:30 – 11:30)
1. Towards an Interface between the Verb and the Construction:[Room N302, 3F]

The Case of English Resultative Constructions
Organizer/Speaker: Kensei Sugayama (Kyoto Prefectural University)
Speakers: Kuniko Shin-ike (Kyoto Prefectural University), Ayako Miyashita (Kyoto PrefecturalUniversity), Yusuke Yoshikawa (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies), Kairi Igarashi (RyukokuUniversity)
2. Minimalist Theories of Control[Room N202, 2F]

Organizer/Speaker: Roger Martin (Yokohama National University)
Speakers: Tomohiro Fujii (Daito Bunka University), Hirohisa Kiguchi (Miyagi Gakuin Women'sUniversity)
Poster Session (11:00 – 13:00)[Room N101, 1F]

1. Isamu Takaki (Kyoto University): A Cognitive Factor Related to the There-Amalgam:“Granularity”
2. Hisao Tokizaki and Yasutomo Kuwana (Sapporo University): Historical Changes in Phonology
and Head-Complement Orders
3. Tomomi Toshioka T. (Kyoto University): Adverbial To-Infinitives and Sentence Patterns: A Case
Study of the Verb “Pay”
4. Jian Liang Fu (Kwansei Gakuin University): Line-Type Situation and the Present Perfect
5. Fuminori Nakamura (Keio University): Copulative Perception Verb Construction and Its
Acceptability
Lunch Break (11:30 – 13:00)
Paper Presentations [Session 4] (13:00 – 14:00)[Chair: Koyono Shiobara][Room N201, 2F]

1. Lu-Chien Lin (National Chengchi University): The Competing Strategies in Forming EnglishBlends
2. Keiichi Eto (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies): The Grammaticalization of Be Supposed To

Paper Presentations [Session 5] (13:00 – 14:00)[Chair: Yoko Fujii][Room N301, 3F]

1. Sumiyo Nishiguchi (Osaka University): One’s Own
2. Junling Mao (Nara Women's University): Cultural Scripting of Body Parts for Emotion: On‘Anger’ in English, Chinese and JapanesePaper Presentations [Session 6] (13:00 – 14:00)[Chair: Hirohisa Kiguchi][Room N202, 2F]

1. Terue Nakato (University of Tokyo): Reconsidering the Typology of Syntactic Reflexive-Markers
and “Reflexive-Marking” Systems
2. Norio Suzuki (Kobe Shinwa Women’s University): The SMT, the CLT, and the Crash-Proof
System: Toward a Theory of UG Residues
Paper Presentations [Session 7] (14:15 – 15:15)[Chair: Kentaro Nakatani][Room N201, 2F]

1. Mayumi Kobayashi (Tsuda College): The Transitive and the Intransitive Structure of the Light
Verb Constructions
2. Kazuko Hiraiwa (Aichi Prefectural University): V-ing Nouns in the Lexicon
Paper Presentations [Session 8] (14:15 – 15:15)[Chair: Kojiro Nabeshima][Room N301, 3F]

1. Risa Goto (University of Salford & Nara Women's University): What are Rhetorical Questions? –Relevance Theoretic Analysis of the Properties and Understanding Process of Rhetorical
Questions
2. Satoru Uchida (University of Tokyo): A Relevance Theoretic Account of Japanese Additive
Markers: A Case of Tada and Tadashi
Paper Presentations [Session 9] (14:15 – 15:15)[Chair: Hisao Tokizaki][Room N202, 2F]

1. Hideki Maki (Gifu University), Kenichi Goto (Gifu University), Mohammed Joynal Abedin(University of Dhaka & Gifu University), and Juri Yoshimura (Gifu University): Properties ofBengali Relative Clauses and Their Theoretical Implications
2. Chigusa Morita (University of Tokyo): A Crosslinguistic Observation on ResultativeConstructions

Special Lecture (15:30 – 16:30)[Chair: Satoshi Oku]

[Room N202, 2F]

John Whitman (Cornell University):
Prosodic Marking of Wh-Scope and Cyclic Spellout (joint work with Hyun-KyungHwang)

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