The ELSJ holds the International Spring Forum every spring.
Those who wish to submit abstracts for oral presentations, poster presentations and proposals for workshops, please see this page for the following information:
- Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
- Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts and Workshop Proposals for the ELSJ International Spring Forum
- Visa Applications for Participants from Abroad
For the upcoming and the past Forums, please see this page.
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 - GUEST SPEAKERS
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”