日本英語学会 THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN

国際春季フォーラム

The English Linguistic Society of Japan 18th International Spring Forum

  • Dates: Saturday May 17―Sunday May 18, 2025
  • Location: Seijo University, Tokyo, 6-1-20 Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo-to, 157-8511, Japan
  • Organizing Committee: Hiroyuki Nawata (Chair)
  • Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
  • Registration Fee:
    ELSJ members: 2,000 yen
    Non-members: 5,000 yen
    Non-member students: 3,000 yen
  • Yo Matsumoto (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) “A Typological Study of Change-of-State Expressions in English and Japanese: a Corpus-Based Comparison”
    Eri Tanaka (Osaka University) “The Semantics of Superlatives in English and Japanese”
    Yosuke Sato (Tsuda University) “A Tale of Two Japaneses: Anti-reconstruction and String-Vacuous Head Movement”

SF18 Program

Oral presentations

Poster presentations

Guest Lectures

 

The English Linguistic Society of Japan 17th International Spring Forum

  • Yukishige Tamura (Osaka University) “Toward a Fuller Symbolic View of Grammar: The Theoretical Orientation of Cognitive Phonology and Its Application to Japanese Prosody”
    Akiko Nagano (University of Shizuoka) “The English Verbal Prefix out– and the Relationship Between Its Spatial and Differential Types”
    Yuki Hirose (The University of Tokyo) “Subject and Object Gaps in Young Learners’ L2 English”

SF17 Program and Map (updated on April, 1st)

Guest lectures 

Oral presentations (updated on April, 1st)

Poster presentations

Handouts (password-protected)
*The password is in the e-mail which confirms your registration and payment.

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Registration:
If you have not registered online, please come to the reception desk at the venue for on-site registration.

Registration Fee:
・ELSJ members  JPY 2,000
・Non-members  JPY 5,000
・Non-member students  JPY 3,000


Fees for the Conference Reception:
・General   JPY 3,000
・Student   JPY 2,000

Please note that payment for the Conference Reception should be made in cash at the conference venue.

 

 

 

 

 

The English Linguistic Society of Japan 16th International Spring Forum

  • Dates: Saturday May 13―Sunday May 14, 2023
  • LocationOnline (via Zoom), Japan (with support from Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, JAPAN)
  • Organizing Committee: Naoki Otani (Chair)
  • Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
  • Registration Fee: TBA

GUEST SPEAKERS

Kaoru Horie (Kansai Gaidai University) “Pragmatics-Grammar Interface and Relational Noun Modifying Clause Constructions:Where and How Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and Armenian Differ”

Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT/University of São Paulo/Seikei University) “In the Treetops: From Proposition to Illocutionary Force”

Akira Watanabe (The University of Tokyo) “Japanese Noun Classes and Numerals”

SF16 Program (updated 07/05/2023)

Guest lectures 

Oral presentations

The ELSJ 15th International Spring Forum

日本英語学会国際春季フォーラム2022開催

The English Linguistic Society of Japan 15th International Spring Forum

  • Dates: Saturday May 14―Sunday May 15, 2022
  • LocationOnline (via Zoom), Japan
  • Organizing Committee: Yuta Sakamoto (Chair)
  • Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
  • Registration Fee: Free

GUEST SPEAKERS

Kiyomi Kusumoto (Kwansei Gakuin University)

Yoichi Miyamoto (Osaka University)

Yoshikata Shibuya (Kanazawa University)

Leonard Talmy (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) [Note: Professor Talmy’s talk is supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#20K00665).]

SF15 Program

Guest lectures 

Oral presentations

Poster presentations 

 

ELSJ International Spring Forum 2021
日本英語学会国際春季フォーラム2021開催

The English Linguistic Society of Japan 14th International Spring Forum

      • Dates: Saturday May 8―Sunday May 9, 2021
      • Location: Online (via Zoom)
      • Organizing Committee: Masako Maeda (Chair)
      • Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
      • Registration Fee: Free

Program

GUEST SPEAKERS

Yusuke Kubota (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)

Koichi Nishida (Yamaguchi Prefectural University)

Yoshiki Nishimura (The University of Tokyo)