ELSJ International Spring Forum 2011
日本英語学会国際春季フォーラム2011開催
The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ)
4th International Spring Forum 2011
ELSJ 4th International Spring Forum 2011
Dates: Saturday April 23 – Sunday April 24, 2011
Venue: Faculty of Informatics, Bld. 2
Shizuoka University (Hamamatsu campus)
3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu City,
Shizuoka Prefecture 432-8011, JAPAN.
Transportation Guide http://www.shizuoka.ac.jp/english/access/index.html
http://www.shizuoka.ac.jp/access/map_hamamatsu.html
Contact: KJ Nabeshima: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
Registration (on-site only):
ELSJ members: 2000 yen,
Non-members: 5000 yen,
Non-member students: 3000 yen
Click on the titles to see the abstracts(PDF).
The scheduled presentations by Nobu Goto (Session 1), Shu-pei Hsiao and I-wen Su Lily (Session 6) and Hitomi Onuma (Session 10) have been cancelled.
Saturday, April 23rd
Registration (13:15 – )[1st Floor]
Opening Ceremony (13:45 – 14:05)[Room 2106]
Guest Lecture (14:05 – 15:05)Michio Hosaka (Nihon University)[Chair: Hiroyuki Nawata] [Room 2106]
Paper Presentations [Session 1] (15:20 – 16:20)[Chair: Akira Kikuchi] [Room 2210]
- Norio Suzuki (Kobe Shinwa Women’s University):Modification as Reprojection
- Nobu Goto (Tohoku Gakuin University):A Probe-Goal Analysis of Null Arguments
Paper Presentations [Session 2] (15:20 – 16:20)[Chair: Kuniyoshi Kataoka] [Room 2202]
- Lala Uchida (Tokyo Denki University):
Allo-repetition in English Narratives: Functional Distribution and Collaboration between Storytellers and Story-recipients - Chester Chen-Yu Hsieh (National Taiwan University):
Meaning in interaction: The use of abstract nouns and the co-construction of stance in conversation
Paper Presentations [Session 3] (16:30 – 17:30)[Chair: Hiroyuki Nawata] [Room 2210]
- Yohei Oseki (Hokkaido University): Negation and CP cartography
- Masatoshi Honda (Kanda University of International Studies):
The Syntactic Structure of Wh-Exclamatives and Negation
Paper Presentations [Session 4] (16:30 – 17:30)[Chair: Toshio Ohori] [Room 2202]
- Takeshi Usuki (Fukuoka University):
When Talmy’s Typology Meets Peculiar Mimetics in Japanese - Kazuhiro Imanishi (University of Tokyo):
Typology of case marking in the embedded clause of causatives
Guest Lecture (17:45 – 18:45)
[Chair: Toshio Ohori] [Room 2106]
- Wesley M. Jacobsen (Harvard University)
At the crossroads of language theory and practice: the case of argument structure in Japanese
Reception (19:00 – 20:00) (Fee: 1,000 yen)[2241]
Sunday, April 24th
Registration (9:00 – )[1st Floor]
Paper Presentations [Session 5] (9:30 – 10:30)[Chair: Tadanori Okuno] [Room2210]
- Hideki Maki and Hasebe Megumi (Gifu University, Yokohama National University)
An A/A’-Asymmetry in Genitive Subject Licensing in Modern Japanese - Toru Ishi, Brian Agbayani, and Golston Chris (Meiji University, California State
University Fresno):Multiple Scrambling in Japanese
Paper Presentations [Session 6] (9:30 – 10:30)[Chair: Kentaro Nakatani] [Room2202]
- Shu-pei Hsiao and I-wen Su Lily (National Taiwan University, Taiwan):
A Perspectival Exploration of the Complex Emotion ENVY: Comparing Mandarin XIANMU “Admiration/ENVY” and English ENVY - Ping-Yu Huang (Ching-kuo Institute of Management and Health, Taiwan):
EFL Learners’ Mental Processing of Multi-word Units
Paper Presentations [Session 7] (10:40 – 11:10)[Chair: Tadanori Okuno] [Room2210]
- Shun’ichiro Inada (University of Tokyo):
On Binding of DP-internal Amount/Degree Variables
Paper Presentations [Session 8] (10:40 – 11:40)[Chair: Yoko Fujii] [Room2202]
- Lily I-wen Su, Ben Pin-Yun Wang and Chia-Hung Li Jarvis (National Taiwan University):
Nominalization as Rhetorical Organization: A Discipline-specific Study of Academic Discourse - Saeko Machi (Kawamura Gakuen Women’s University):
How repetition operates in Japanese and English: Introducing different cultural orientations towards conversation
Lunch Break (11:40 – 13:00)
Paper Presentations [Session 9] (13:00 – 14:00)[Chair: Kensei Sugayama] [Room2210]
- Reijiro Shibasaki (Okinawa International University):
Negator vs. copula contractions in the history of American English - Hiroki Shinohara (Osaka University):
-ly Adverbs and the Acceptability in the it-Cleft Construction
Paper Presentations [Session 10] (13:00 – 14:00)[Chair: Mariko Sugahara] [Room2202]
- Kanako Tomaru (Sophia University):
Perception of allophonic contrast of Japanese high vowel /u/ by Japanese Tokyo dialect speaking listeners - Hitomi Onuma (Tohoku Gakuin University):
The phonetic interpretation of empty categories in phonology
Paper Presentations [Session 11] (14:10 – 15:10)[Chair: Koji Fujita] [Room2210]
- Wei Song (Nagoya University):
An Agree-Based Analysis of the Relationships between Conjunctions, Focus, and NPIs - Masako Maeda (Kyushu University):
The Fine Structure of the vP Periphery and Heavy NP Shift/Locative Inversion
Paper Presentations [Session 12] (14:10 – 15:10)[Chair: KJ Nabeshima] [Room2202]
- Akiko Honda (Shigakkan University):
Particle Placement of Idiomatic Verb-Particle Constructions in English
Guest Lecture (15:25 – 16:25)[Chair: Nobuko Hasegawa] [Room2106]
- Yuji Takano (Kinjo Gakuin University)
Movement Effects in Binding
Poster Session (11:00 – 13:00) [Room2241]
- Akiko Kobayashi (Shimane University):
Fake past and a case marking constraint in Japanese potential constructions - Sumiyo Nishiguchi (University of Tokushima):
Discourse-Initial Too and Epistemic Modality - Hideharu Tanaka (Osaka University):Negation, Focus and Inverse Scope
- Megumi Hasebe, Hideki Maki and Niinuma Fumikazu (Yokohama National University,
Gifu University, MoriokaUniversity):
On the “Surprising” That-trace Effect and an Issue on Data Treatment - He Ane (Hong Kong Institute of Education):
Acts of brokering in a community of practice - Olga Vaysman (CASTL, University of Troms∅):
Strata Optimization in Allomorphy: A Case Study - Fuminori Nakamura (Keio University):
A Corpus-based Approach to the English Middle Construction - Chigusa Morita (University of Tokyo):
Some Adjectives are Nouns, Some Nouns are Adjectives - Hajime Kataoka and Nakatani Kentaro (Konan University):
The Effects of a Pragmatic Factor in the Processing of Japanese Benefactive Constructions - Yoshihito Izawa (Keio University):
Retro-Sequence in Human Interaction - Tetsuo Nishihara (Miyagi University of Education) and Jeroen van de Weijer (Shanghai International Studies University):
On the Role of Adjacency in Morphological Stress Shift
See ELSJ Homepage (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/elsj/elforumhtml) for update information.
*The 3rd International Spring Forum was concluded successfully. We heartly appreciate all who participated in and contributed to the Forum.
Forum Dates: Saturday April 24 － Sunday April 25, 2010
Location: Aoyama Gakuin University (Aoyama campus)
4-4-25, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8366, Japan.
Registration Fee:
ELSJ members: 2000 yen
Non-members: 5000 yen
Non-member students: 3000 yen
Program and Abstracts Click on the titles to see the abstracts.
Invited Speakers:
Special Lecture
Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University) Abstract
Tutorial Lectures
Eric. S. McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) Abstract
Yoshihiko Ikegami (Showa Women’s University) Abstract
Seizi Iwata (Osaka City University) Abstract
Organizing Committee: Hirohisa Kiguchi (Chair), Mitsuaki Yoneyama,
Naohiro Takizawa, Satoshi Ohta, Kayono Shiobara, Kentaro Nakatani
Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
*The 2nd International Spring Forum was concluded successfully. We heartly appreciate all who participated in and contributed to the Forum.
Date: April 25 (Saturday) – 26 (Sunday), 2009
Place: Nara Women’s University
Bungakubu North Wing
Nara Women’s University
Kitauoyahigashi, Nara 630-8506, Japan
URL: http://www.nara-wu.ac.jp/
Program (PDF) here
*The 1st International Spring Forum was concluded successfully. We are cordially grateful to all who participated in and contributed to the Forum.
Date: April 26 (Saturday) – 27 (Sunday), 2008
Place: Research and Lecture Building (The Faculty of Foreign Studies)
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534 Japan
URL: http://www.tufs.ac.jp/
Program (PDF) here