ELSJ International Spring Forum 2013

ELSJ International Spring Forum 2013
日本英語学会国際春季フォーラム2013開催

The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ)
6th International Spring Forum 2013

Dates:  Saturday April 27―Sunday April 28, 2013
Venue:  University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo,
113-8654, JAPAN
Transportation Guide: Access Map 1 Access Map 2

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 27th 

Registration (13:00 – )
Opening Ceremony (13:30–13:40)

Guest Lectures (13:40–15:20) [Lecture Hall 1]
1 Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University):
Imaging Language Processing in the Brain　[Chair: Etsuro Shima]

2 Gwang-Yoon Goh (Yonsei University):
On the Nature of the Meaning Difference between the English Tough-Construction and Its It-Analog Construction　[Chair: Tsutomu Ohna]

Paper Presentations [Session 1] (15:35–17:15) [Room113]
1 Hideki Maki and Dónall P. Ó Baoill (Gifu University and Queen’s University Belfast):
The Cleft Construction in Irish　[Chair: Fumikazu Niinuma]

2 Tomoya Kosuge (Tohoku University):
Japanese Reciprocal Anaphor Otagai with Split Antecedents in Disguise and Multi-Dominant Syntactic Structure　[Chair: Fumikazu Niinuma]

3 Kwang-sup Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies):
Movement and Labeling　[Chair: Tomohiro Yanagi]

Paper Presentations [Session 2] (15:35–17:15) [Room 215]
1 Miyuki Nagatsuji (Nara Women’s University):
Japanese Clausal Coordination and Inferential Processing Units 　[Chair: Kimiko Nakanishi]

2 Toshiyuki Yamada and Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo):
Japanese EFL Learners’ Native-like Parsing of PP Attachment Ambiguity　[Chair: Akira Honda]

3 Shinya Hirasawa (University of Tokyo):
The‘step by slow step’Construction　[Chair: Hidemitsu Takahashi]

Guest Lecture (17:30–18:15) [Room Dai 1]
Artemis Alexiadou (Universität Stuttgart):
The Causative Alternation Revisited: Constraints and Variation　[Chair: Masumi Matsumoto]

After-Conference Reception (18:30–19:30) (Fee: 1,000 yen)

Sunday, April 28th

Registration (9:00 – )

Paper Presentations [Session 3] (9:30–10:35) [Room 113]
1 Mioko Miyama (University of Tokyo):
On the “Long-Distance” Nature of the Polite Form of Japanese Locative Demonstratives　[Chair: Masumi Matsumoto]

2 Lina Bao, Megumi Hasebe and Hideki Maki (Osaka University, Yokohama National University and Gifu University):
The Negation Markers in Modern Inner Mongolian　[Chair: Shungo Kanazawa]

Paper Presentations [Session 4] (9:30–10:35) [Room 215]
1 Terue Nakato-Miyashita and Tom Roeper (Kitasato University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst):
Implicature for Plurals in Child Grammar　[Chair: Hajime Ono]

2 Tomoe Arii (University of Tokyo):
Japanese-Speaking Children’s Absolute Interpretation of Differential Comparatives and Differential Verbal Expressions　[Chair: Hajime Ono]

Paper Presentations [Session 5] (10:45–11:50) [Room 113]
1 Norio Suzuki (Kobe Shinwa Women’s University):
Structure-Building via Merging Economy: The Scope of Indefinites　[Chair: Kimiko Nakanishi]

2 Victor Junnan Pan (University Paris Diderot-Paris 7):
Resumptive Chains: Relativization vs. Left-Dislocation　[Chair: Hajime Ono]

Paper Presentations [Session 6] (10:45–11:50)[Room 215]
1 Hideo Kobayashi (Kwansei Gakuin University):
Schwa Epenthesis and R-sound Lengthening for Emphasis within Optimal Theory　[Chair: Yoshihito Dobashi]

2 Liu Sha (Fukuoka University):
The Motive for Stress Assignment Rule in the Positional Function Theory　[Chair: Yoshihito Dobashi]

Lunch Break (11:50–13:10)

Paper Presentations [Session 7] (13:10–14:50) [Room 113]
1 Wenwen Ding (University of Tsukuba):
Scrambling in Double Complement Constructions in Chinese　[Chair: Shungo Kanazawa]

2 Hisashi Morita (Aichi Prefectural University):
The Derivation of Japanese Relative Clauses with Scrambling and Quantifier Float　[Chair: Fumikazu Niinuma]

3 Pamela Hsiaowen Peng (University of Tokyo):
An Analysis on the English Prefix Un- from a Scalar Semantics Point of View　[Chair: Tadao Maruta]

Paper Presentations [Session 8] (13:10–14:50) [Room 215]
1 Kiyomi Kumazawa (Gakushuin University):
The Semantics of the English Have a Construction　[Chair: Hidemitsu Takahashi]

2 Shawn M. Clankie (Otaru University of Commerce):
The Linguistics of the Brand Name: Creation, Genericization, Obsolescence　[Chair: Kazuyo Murata]

3 Elena Kulikova (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod):
The Role of Modified Language Units in Advertising　[Chair: Miki Hanazaki]

Guest Lecture (15:05–15:50) [Lecture Hall 2]
Timothy J. Vance (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics):
Benjamin Smith Lyman’s Native Variety of English　[Chair: Mariko Sugahara]

Poster Session (11:00–13:00) [Hallway between Lecture Hall 1 and Lecture Hall 2]
1 Akiko Kobayashi (Shimane University):
Subject as a Probe

2 Ryosuke Hattori (University of Tokyo):
A Phrasal Analysis of English, Japanese and Chinese Comparative Constructions

3 Tomonori Otsuka (Kyushu University):
On a Weak-Phases Paradox

4 Masayuki Ishizuka (University of Tokyo):
External Possession and Nominative Subject in Basque

5 Munira Tasnim (Tohoku University):
The Process of Polysemization of English Verb Rise and its Bengali Counterpart Uttha

6 Fuminori Nakamura (Keio University):
The Development and (De-)Subjectification of the English Copulative Perception Verbs with Special Reference to Modern American English

7 Eiki Ono (Takushoku University):
A Functional and Pragmatic Approach to NQ-Scrambling in Japanese