ELSJ 15th International Spring Forum 2022
May 14-15, 2022
online (via Zoom)*For more details and the latest update, see our website: http://elsj.jp/sf_top/

Saturday, May 14
1:00 PM 〜 1:15 PM

Opening Ceremony

1:25 PM 〜 2:10 PM

10 minute break
Guest Lecture 1 (Chair: Sumiyo Nishiguchi, Otaru University of Commerce)
Kiyomi Kusumoto (Kwansei Gakuin University) [G-1]
Relative Tense or Tenseless: The Case of Japanese Present Tense

Time

2:25 PM 〜 2:55 PM

3:05 PM 〜 3:35 PM

3:50 PM 〜 4:20 PM

4:30 PM 〜 5:00 PM

5:15 PM 〜 6:00 PM15 minute break
Room 1Room 2
Session 1
Session 2(Chair: Yohei Oseki, The University of (Chair: Hironobu Kasai, Aoyama GakuinTokyo)
University)
Nirnoy Dutta, Srija Deb, Meghna
Masako Maeda (Seinan Gakuin
Majumder, Bratati Dhar, andUniversity) [2-1]
NiladriSekhar Dash (Indian StatisticalInstitute Kolkata) [1-1]Augmentation and Upgradation of theGa/No-Nominative Conversion and AExisting Bengali Wordnet with Newand A'-movement
Features and Contents
10 minute break
Hiromune Oda (The University ofNozomi Moritake (Kyushu University)
Tokyo) [1-2][2-2]Generative Typological Investigation of Default Case and Chain Interpretation
Indefinite Pronouns
15 minute break
Session 3Session 4(Chair: Toshiko Oda, Tokyo Keizai(Chair:)
University)
Yoko Mizuta (International ChristianUniversity) [3-1]
The Contribution of Either in Either ...orConstructions
10 minute break
Yuta Tatsumi (Meikai University) [3-2]
Reduplication and Different
Interpretations of “Different”
15 minute break
Guest Lecture 2 (Chair: Mina Sugimura, Ritsumeikan University)
Yoichi Miyamoto (Osaka University) [G-2]
On the Nature of Control in Japanese1

Sunday, May 15
Room 1Session 5(Chair: Yusuke Imanishi, Kwansei
Gakuin University)
10:00 AM 〜 10:30 AM Kaori Furuya (University of NorthTexas) [5-1]
TimeThe Right Sides of Japanese Sentences

Room 2Session 6(Chair: Shinya Hirasawa, KeioUniversity)
Shione Takahama, Haruka Shimura,and Takuto Kimura (University ofTsukuba) [6-1]On the Spatial Meaning of by: A
Semantic Network Analysis Based on
Schema and Predominance10 minute break
Session Special Presentation:
Urushibara (Qiannan Normal University Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University)
for Nationalities, Gifu University, and[6-2] Session Invited Speaker (TheThe University of Kitakyushu) [5-2]English Linguistics Society of Korea)
What Do Mongolian Case-MarkedPseudogapping in English: Move-andClauses Suggest?
Delete or Direct Licensing?

10:40 AM 〜 11:10 AM Lina Bao, Hideki Maki, and Saeko

11:25 AM 〜 12:10 PM

15 minute break
Guest Lecture 3 (Chair: Naoki Otani, The Tokyo Univesity of Foreign Studies)
Leonard Talmy (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) [G-3]
Targeting in Language: Unifying Deixis and Anaphora

12:10 PM 〜 1:30 PMLunch Time2

1:30 PM 〜 2:30 PM

Poster Session(Chair: Seishiro Ibaraki, Kwansei Gakuin University; Shuto Yamamura, Universityof Tsukuba)

15 minute break
2:45 PM 〜 3:30 PM

Guest Lecture 4 (Chair: Akira Machida, Hiroshima University)
Yoshikata Shibuya (Kanazawa University) [G-4]
Usage-based Construction Grammar and the Study of Language Variation andChangePosters
1

Daiki Matsumoto (Kyoto University/JSPS) [P-1]
Explaining the Typology of Narrow Focus Alignment: A Contiguity TheoreticApproach2

Hiromichi Sakaba (Osaka University) [P-2]
Worry about vs. be worried about – The Difference in the Conceptualization ofthe Triggering Event –3

Katsuya Sugiura (Aichi Gakuin University) [P-3]
Dative and Nominative Absolute Constructions in Old English

4

Xiaoshi Qiu and Jianyao Liu (Osaka University) [P-4]
Qi ( 其 ): New Evidence for the Existence of Genitive Subjects in Chinese

5

Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (Toyo University and Meiji University) [P-5]
Dissociating Merge from Minimal Search and Associating Search to Resource
Restriction

3