ELSJ 12th International Spring Forum 2019
May 11-12, 2019
Fourth Floor, Building 3, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo

Saturday, May 11
12:30

Registration [Room 348] (ELSJ members: 2,000 yen, Non-members: 5,000 yen, Non-member students: 3,000 yen)

13:00-13:15

Opening Ceremony [Room 342]

13:15-14:00

Guest Lecture 1 [Room 342] (Chair: Kiyoko Yoneyama, Daito Bunka University)
Janice Fon (National Taiwan University)

TimeThe effect of Min dialect and speech genre on the realization of retroflex fricatives in Taiwan Mandarin
Room 342
Room 340
Room 343
Session 1Session 2Workshop(Chair: Kairi Igarashi, Ryukoku
University)

14:15-14:45

14:50-15:20(Chair: Norimi Kimura, Hirosaki
University)

Junichi Toyota (Osaka CityUniversity)

Mika Kizu (Notre Dame Seishin Organizer: Jun Omune (KansaiUniversity) and Kazumi Yamada Gaidai University)(Kwansei Gakuin University)

Diachronic changes inexpressions of perception in the
English grammar

Notes on reciprocals in Koreanand Japanese ellipsis

Sonya Chik (The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University)
Lexicogrammatical patterns ofspeech acts in English andJapanese legal discourse

Chigchi Bai (Inner Mongolia
University of Finance andEconomics)The predicate structure of past
participial reduced relatives inEnglish

Session 3Session 4(Chair: Kiyoko Yoneyama, Daito
Bunka University)(Chair: Hiroki Narita, TokaiUniversity)

15:35-16:05

Kenji Kaneko (Kyoto University Takeshi Oguro (Chiba Universityof Advanced Science)of Commerce)
Learner beliefs about English
Negative wh-phrases in Japaneselearning among Japanese
university students

16:10-16:40

Kaori Furuya (University ofMaria Leonora D. Guerrero,North Texas)
Ma. Lourdes D. Guerrero andJohn Xavier B. Nepomuceno(Cavite State University Naic)
Impact of remedial instruction on vP movement in Japanese rightrhyme recognition among Grade 1 dislocation
ESL Students

16:55-17:40(14:15-16:35)

Pair-Merge under MERGE

Speakers:
Masayuki Oishi (Tohoku GakuinUniversity)
Hisatsugu Kitahara (KeioUniversity)
Masashi Nomura (ChukyoUniversity)
Jun Omune (Kansai GaidaiUniversity)

Guest Lecture 2 [Room 342] (Chair: Mikinai Matsuoka, University of Yamanashi)
Makiko Hirakawa (Chuo University)
Acquisition of attributive modification by Japanese learners of English

18:00-19:00

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

Sunday, May 12Time

Room 342
Session 5

Room 340
Session 6(Chair: Atsuko Nishiyama, Wakayama
University)(Chair: Saeko Urushibara, The
University of Kitakyushu)

9:30-10:00

Norio Suzuki (Kobe Shinwa
Women's University)
A case study in monadic
concepts: Comparativeconstruction

10:05-10:35

Akitaka Yamada (GeorgetownUniversity)

Elizaveta Tarasova (IPU NewZealand)Comparisons and speech acts inJapanese exclamatives

Assimilation of words orassimilation of the wordformation pattern? A case study ofanalytical N+N compounds in
RussianSession 7

Session 8(Chair: Hiroko Takanashi, Japan
Women’s University)(Chair: Keisuke Sanada, Sapporo
Gakuin University)

10:45-11:15

11:20-11:50

Hideaki Gen'ey (Saitama Gakuen Midori Tanimura (KyotoUniversity)
University of Foreign Studies),
Koichiro Nakamoto (YamanashiUniversity) and Etsuko Yoshida(Mie University)
Remarks on root removal andplacement verbs

How people understand eachother in interaction using
figurative language: Comparing
Japanese and English task-based
dialogues

Masaki Yasuhara (IbarakiUniversity)

Hideki Tanaka (YokohamaNational University)

Two types of anti-causatives inEnglish: A cross-linguistic
perspective

On part-whole relations expressedby partitive and A out of Bconstructions

11:55-13:05

Poster Session [Room 343]

13:10-13:55

Guest Lesture 3 [Room 342] (Chair: Tomoko Endo, The University of Tokyo)
KJ Nabeshima (Kansai University)
Metaphor is a speech act: In comparison with what you may call “simile”

Time

14:10-14:40

14:45-15:15

15:30-16:15

Room 342
Session 9

Room 340
Session 10(Chair: Katsuya Fujikawa, Universityof Toyama)(Chair: Taichi Nakamura, Universityof Fukui)

Kenta Mizutani (OsakaUniversity)

Nobu Goto (Toyo University)

On the semantics of the Japanese
degree morpheme hoo

When and how does search takeplace?

Takashi Kayashima (SeinanGakuin University)

Jun Omune (Kansai GaidaiUniversity)

Syntactic nature and semantic
effect of dative case in JapaneseFree rule ordering in thereConstructions

Guest Lesture 4 [Room 342] (Chair: Atsuko Nishiyama, Wakayama University)
Takeo Kurafuji (Ritsumeikan University)
Topic in nuclear scope

Posters (in alphabetical order)
1. Daojicao and Hideki Maki (Gifu University):
Embedded topicalization in Tibetan
2. Xiao-Yu Jin (Gifu University) and Hideki Maki (Gifu University):
Relative clauses in Buyi
3. Tomoki Kano (University of Tsukuba):
Issues of image-based instruction: Focusing on errors of Japanese EFL learners
4. Daiki Matsumoto (Kyoto University):
Select as MERGE
5. Kazushige Moriyama (Kobe University/JSPS):
Quantificational reading as implicature
6. Tetsuo Nishihara (Miyagi University of Education):On the role of adjacency in morphophonological changes
7. Neal Snape (Gunma Prefectural Women’s University), Makiko Hirakawa (Chuo University),and John Matthews (Chuo University):
Tense/aspect-agreement violations in Japanese L2 English

Map of Hiroo Station and University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo

Tokyo Metro
Hibiya Subway Line
Hiroo Station (H03)
Exit 2South Gate of theUniversity of theSacred Heart, Tokyo

Hiroo Shopping Street(3-minute walk fromExit 2, Hiroo Station)

Map of South Gate and Building 3(7) Building 3 (Conference Venue)(2) South Gate

(5) Building 1(6) Building 2(8) Marian Hall
(9) Administration Building(11) Library(13) Cafeteria(15) Chapel