ELSJ International Spring Forum 2012

ELSJ International Spring Forum 2012
日本英語学会国際春季フォーラム2012開催

The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ)
5th International Spring Forum 2012

Dates: Saturday April 21―Sunday April 22, 2012
Venue: Konan University 　
1-9-8 Okamoto, Higashinada-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
658-8501, JAPAN
Transportation Guide: http://www.konan-u.ac.jp/access/
http://www.konan-u.ac.jp/english/location/index.html

Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
Registration (on-site only):
ELSJ members: 2000 yen, Non-members: 5000 yen,
Non-member students: 3000 yen

Saturday, April 21st

Registration (13:15 – )

Opening Ceremony (13:45 – 14:00)

Guest Lectures (14:05–15:20)　[Room 131]
Pil-Hwan Lee (Keimyung University) [Chair: Etsuro Shima]
On Less and Amount Used with a Plural Count Noun

Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) [Chair: Akira Honda]
The Acquisition of Argument Ellipsis and its Constraints in Japanese

Paper Presentations [Session 1] (15:35–16:35) [Chair: Tadao Maruta] 　[Room333]
1 Shiro Takeuchi (University of Tsukuba):
The (Un)passivizability of Have, Own, and Possess

2 Shinya Hirasawa (University of Tokyo):
The Meaning of By Now

Paper Presentations [Session 2] (15:35–16:35) [Chair: Fumikazu Niinuma] 　[Room334]
1 Kaori Miura (Kyushu Sangyo University):
On the Syntax of Causative Constructions with the Accusative Path in Japanese

2 Natsuno Aoki and Kentaro Nakatani (Konan University):
Process, Telicity and Event Cancellability in Japanese: A Questionnaire Study

Paper Presentations [Session 3] (16:45–17:45) [Chair: Hiroyuki Nawata] 　[Room 333]
1 Masaki Yasuhara (University of Tsukuba):
A Modification of the Unique Path Constraint

2 Kazuya Kudo (Kwansei Gakuin University):
The ‘N after N’ Construction and Its Theoretical Implications

Paper Presentations [Session 4] (16:45–17:45) [Chair: Masumi Matsumoto]　 [Room334]
1 Hisashi Morita (Aichi Prefectural University):
Ultimate Pied-Piping in Japanese

2 Yohei Takahashi (Aoyama Gakuin University):
Some Gapless Relatives in Japanese Ａre Ｎot Ｇapless

Guest Lecture (18:00–18:45) [Chair: Koji Fujita] 　[Room131]
Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University)
The English Binominal NP: A Construciton-Based Perspective

After-Conference Reception (19:00– 20:00) (Fee: 1,000 yen)
[Building 5, 1st Floor, Galerie Pensee]

Sunday, April 22nd

Registration (9:15 – )

Paper Presentations [Session 5] (9:45–10:45) [Chair: Yukiko Ueda]　 [Room333]
1 Hiroko Kimura (North Asia University)
Max Elide and Derivational Economy

2 Rumi Takaki (Kyushu University):
A Syntactic Analysis of Gapping and Multiple Sluicing

Paper Presentations [Session 6] (10:55–11:55) [Chair: Kimiko Nakanishi]　 [Room334]
1 Keisuke Yoshimoto (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies):
Variable Binding and Scrambling out of Control Clauses

2 Yusuke Yoda (Osaka University):
LF Symmetry in Coordination

Paper Presentations [Session 7] (11:25–11:55) [Chair: Kazuyo Murata] 　[Room333]
1 Junichi Toyota (LundUniversity/ University of Belgrade):
Linguistic Supertype and the English Grammar: A Historical Perspective

Lunch Break (11:55 – 13:15)

Paper Presentations [Session 8] (13:15–14:15) [Chair: Mariko Sugahara]　 [Room334]
1 Hafiz Ahmad Bilal (University of Sargodha, Pakistan):
Acoustic Analysis of Central Vowels of Pakistan English

2 Tetyana Sayenko (Nagoya University of Commerce and Business):
Rhythmic Patterns of Voice Register Fluctuations in the Dynamics of an Inspirational Speech

Paper Presentations [Session 9] (13:15–14:15) [Chair: Kuniyoshi Kataoka]　 [Room333]
1 Chihiro Fujimori (Hirosaki University):
Goal-Ｄriven Movement in Japanese: Verb-Verb Compounds

2 Noël Christe (The University of Hong Kong):
“Do you speak global? “ An Enquiry into the Theories of English as an International Language

Paper Presentations [Session 10] (14:25–15:25) [Chair: Tsutomu Ohna]　 [Room334]
1 Toshio Ohori and Shin Haku (University of Tokyo):
Metaphor as Two-way Synecdoche: A Critical Assessment

2 Norio Suzuki (Kobe Shinwa Women’s University):
English Imperatives as a Discourse-Configurational Language

Paper Presentations [Session 11] (14:25–15:25) [Chair: Yoshihito Dobashi]　 {Room333]
1 Kanyu Yeh (National Chengchi University, Taiwan):
The Use of suoyi ‘so’ and jieguo ‘as a result of’ in Mandarin-Speaking Children’s Narrative

2 Jason Ginsburg (University of Aizu):
Qu-morpheme Agreement and Wh-question Interpretations

Guest Lecture (15:40–16:25) [Chair: Toshio Ohori]　 [Room131]
Kaoru Horie (Nagoya University)
A Comparative Typological Study of “Convergent” Grammaticalization Pathways between Japanese and Korean: With English as a Neutral Bystander

Poster Session (11:00–13:00) 　[Lounge]
1 Yuta Tatsumi (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies):
A Smuggling Approach to Japanese Cleft Construction

2 Tomonori Otsuka (Kyushu University):
On the Asymmetric Behavior of Movements

3 Hideki Maki and Amanullah Bhutto (Gifu University and Islamabad College for Boys G-6/3):
Relative Pronoun-Ｌess Relative Clauses in Modern Urdu

4 Mioko Miyama (University of Tokyo):
On the Two Contracted Forms of the Japanese Copula: Da and the Zero Form

5 Lina Bao, Hideki Maki and Megumi Hasebe (Osaka University, Gifu University and Yokohama National University):
Three Case Alternation Mysteries in Modern Mongolian

See ELSJ Homepage for updated information.

The abstracts of four invited speakers in the 5th International Spring Forum are uploaded.
We ELSJ invite two scholars in the English Linguistic Society of Korea (ELSOK).

１ Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University):
The English Binominal NP: A Construciton-Based Perspective

２ Pil-Hwan Lee (Keimyung University)
On Less and Amount Used with a Plural Count Noun

３ Kaoru Horie (Nagoya University):
A Comparative Typological Study of “Convergent” Grammaticalization Pathways between Japanese and Korean: With English as a Neutral Bystander

４ Koji Sugisaki (Mie University):
The Acquisition of Argument Ellipsis and its Constraints in Japanese