ELSJ International Spring Forum 2008
Dates: April 26−27, 2008
Venue: Research and Lecture Building (The Faculty of Foreign Studies)Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534 Japan
URL: http://www.tufs.ac.jp/
Contact Persons:
Masachiyo Amano: mamano@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Tomoyuki Tanaka: tanakat@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Registration Fee:ELSJ members: 2,000 yen, Non-members: 5,000 yen, Non-member students: 3,000 yen

Saturday, April 26thRegistration (15:00－)
Introductory Lectures (16:00－17:30)
1. Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT): Why Is There Movement in Natural Language?

[Room 227, 2F]

2. Christopher Tancredi (Keio University): Introduction to Formal Semantics[Room 226, 2F]

Special Lecture (17:40－18:40)
Shosuke Haraguchi (Meikai University): Obligatory Contour Principle
Party (18:50－20:00)[very informal and only 1,000 yen]

[Room 227, 2F][Room 112, 1F]

Sunday, April 27thRegistration (9:00－)
Workshops (10:00－12:30)
1. A Future Perspective on Linguistics: The Fusion of Linguistic Research and Neuroimaging Research[Room 227, 2F]
Organizer: Hideki Maki (Gifu University)
Speakers: Chise Kasai (Gifu University), Satoru Yokoyama (Tohoku Univers ity), Kei Takahashi(Tohoku University), Toshimune Kambara (Tohoku University)
2. Semantics of (Types of) Prepositions[Room 115, 1F]

Organizer: (Miki) Kyung Bong (Shinshu University)
Speakers: Jonathan Adams (Shinshu University), Kozo Kato (Shinshu University), Miki Hanazaki(Shinshu University), Kazuo Hanazaki (Shinshu University)
3. Introduction to New Advances in Word Grammar[Room 114, 1F]

Organizer: Kensei Sugayama (Kyoto Prefectural University)
Speakers: Kensei Sugayama (Kyoto Prefectural University), Takahumi Maekawa (Hokusei-GakuenUniv. Junior College), Taiki Yoshimura (Osaka University)
Paper Presentations [Session 1] (10:00－12:10)[Room 226, 2F]

1. Yi-An Lin (University of Cambridge): Against Hegarty’s Feature-based Theory on the Grammar ofEnglish-speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment
2. Saya Ike (University of Melbourne): Japanese English as an Emerging Variety of English: Its
Distinctive Features and Intelligibility
13. Sang-Cheo (Kyung Hee University-Seoul): Pre-liquid Schwa Insertion in English
4. Brent de Chene (Waseda University): Description and Explanation in Inflectional Morphophonology:
The Case of the Japanese Verb
Poster Presentations (12:40－13:30)
1. Takayoshi Kurogi (Kyushu University): Why is the PG Co-indexed with A´-moved Element?
2. Tomomi Toshioka (Kyoto University): Correlation between Specificity of Semantics and That ofSyntax: The Case of Verbs of Paying / Charging
Special Lecture (13:40－14:40)[Room 227, 2F]

Kazuko Inoue (Kanda University of International Studies): The Roles of Japanese Linguistics throughthe Development of the Generative Grammar
Paper Presentations [Session 2] (14:50－17:00)[Room 227, 2F]

1. Jun Sasaki (Hijiyama University): A Feature Visibility Approach to COMP-trace Effects in English
2. Takahiro Honda (Osaka University): On Passive of the Double Object Construction
3. Satoshi Nakagawa (Nagoya University): A Diachronic Analysis of Nominative and Accusative
Absolutes in English
4. Eri Tanaka (Ehime University) and Yusuke Minami (Osaka University): A New Perspective on
Transitive-Unergative Alternation in English
Paper Presentations [Session 3] (14:50－17:00)[Room 226, 2F]

1. Masaru Kanetani (University of Tsukuba): Metalinguistic Reason Constructions: A Constructional
Analys is of Their Bilateral Characteristics
2. Miho Onishi (Nagoya University): Figure-Ground Reversal in Semantic Extension of the Construction[X HAVE Y]
3. Isamu Takaki (Kyoto University): #?There is no Longer “There Contact Clauses” are Regarded asAmalgamated
4. Kensei Sugayama (Kyoto Prefectural University): The Main Determinants of Sentence Meaning:
Verbs or Constructions?
Paper Presentations [Session 4] (14:50－17:00)[Room 114, 1F]

1. Yukio Furukawa (McGill University): A Puzzle of Contrastive Focus by Wa-Particle in Japanese
2. Kaori Takamine (University of Tromsø): Two Types of Resultatives in Japanese
3. Tsuyoshi Sawada (University of Connecticut): A Condition on Pleonastic Morphemes and theSelectional Property of the Pleonastic Verb Aru
4. Naoyuki Yamato (University of Tromsø): The Restriction on Remnant Movement and the Structure ofRelative Clauses in JapanesePaper Presentations [Session 5] (14:50－17:00)[Room 115, 1F]

1. Yasutake Ishii (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): Creation of a Basic Phrasal Verb List: Based on
Major EFL Phrasal Verb Dictionaries and Large Corpora
2. Goro Yamamoto (Kansai Gaidai University): Experimental Study: Contrastive Topic Marking
3. Misa Duffy (Nara Women’s University): An Analysis of the Adverbial Usage of “Though”
4. Naoko Yamamoto (Nara Women’s University): Adverbs in Tautology
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