Workshop program

Registration and talks

All days

Lecture Room 11, first floor

Posters

Thursday and Friday

Room 826, eighth floor

Coffee breaks

Thursday and Friday

Room 826, eighth floor

 

Saturday

Room 953, ninth floor

Reception

Thursday

Room 826, eighth floor

Catered lunch

Saturday

Room 953, ninth floor

 

Day 1, September 26

9.30 Registration and coffee
   
10.15 Welcome
   
 
Chair: Sabine Iatridou
10.30
 
Brian Agbayani (California State University), Toru Ishii (Fresno Meiji University)
Japanese Multiple Cleft Constructions
   
11.00
 
Tomoko Ishizuka (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Antisymmetric analysis of non-restrictive relatives in Japanese
   
11.30
 
Eszter Ótott-Kovács (Cornell University)
Genitive-marked subjects in Kazakh relative clauses
   
12.00 Coffee break
   
 
Chair: Sergei Tatevosov
12.30
 
Junghye Baik (Sahmyook University)
On the Rise of Similative-marking Function: A Case of the Korean Nominalizer mankhum ‘amount’
   
13.00
 
Suyoung Bae (University of Maryland)
The syntax of classifier in Korean and cyclic linearization
   
13.30
 
Mia Gong (Cornell University)
A Lowering Analysis of Dagur CASE-POSS Order
   
14.00 Lunch (on your own)
   
15.30 Invited talk
  Sabine Iatridou (MIT)
Title to be announced at end of talk (collaborative work with Kai von Fintel)
   
16.30 Coffee break
   
 
Chair: Jaklin Kornfilt
17.00
 
Alper Kesici (Middle East Technical University)
Hiç mI?: Analysis of negative polarity items in Turkish Yes/No questions
   
17.30 Poster session 1 lightning talks
   
18.00 Poster presentations
   
  Furkan Dikmen (Boğaziçi University)
The semantics of the associative -lAr in Turkish
   
  Semra Özdemir (Boğaziçi University)
An OT-DM Approach to N+N Compounds and Possessive Constructions in Turkish
   
  Sanghee Kim (University of Chicago)
Speech act operators and CALL-BACK function
   
  Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama City University)
Argument Ellipsis Involving Argument with a Focus Particle
   
  Yusuke Yoda (Toyo Gauken University)
Subject Orientation as a result of absence of Phi-feature
   
  Alexander Zapryagaev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
On the Infinitive of the Verb se-
   
19.00 Welcoming reception

 

Day 2, September 27

 
Chair: Ken Hiraiwa
10.00


 
Rika Okada (Ochanomizu University), Hiroyuki Shimada (Hokuriku University), Akari Ohba (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Kyoko Yamakoshi (Ochanomizu University)
Children’s Acquisition of Scope Assignment in Non-Canonical Word Order: (Anti-)Reconstruction Properties in Right Dislocation and Clefts in Japanese
   
10.30
 
David Potter (Morehead State University), Emrah Görgülü (T.C. İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi)
Fragment answers and island insensitivity in Turkish
   
11.00
 
Kanako Ikeda (Ochanomizu University)
The Acquisition of the Island Effect in Japanese Right Dislocation
   
11.30 Coffee break
   
12.00 Invited talk
  Martina Gračanin-Yuksek (Middle East Technical University) 
Complementizer Agreement in Turkish Relative Clauses
   
13.00 Lunch (on your own)
   
 
Chair: Martina Gračanin-Yuksek
14.30
 
Ken Hiraiwa (Meiji Gakuin University), Kimiko Nakanishi (Ochanomizu University)
Bare Indeterminates in Japanese
   
15.00
 
Dmitry Privoznov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Causative, v and Voice in Buryat
   
15.30 Poster session 2 lightning talks
   
16.00 Poster presentations & coffee
   
  Furkan Atmaca (Boğaziçi University)
The Role of Aspect: Dative Ablative Alternation in Turkish
   
  Norimasa Hayashi (Graduate School of Kyushu University)
Selection in Head-Internal Relative Clauses in Japanese: A Labeling Solution
   
  Ahmet Bilal Özdemir (Leipzig University)
The endoskeleton of the predicate in Turkish
   
  Myung-Kwan Park (Dongguk University), Hae-Kyung Wee (Dankook University)
Interpretive WH-scoping determines WH-Q agreement on question-embedding predicates
   
  Hiroyuki Shimada (Hokuriku University), Yuko Masaki (Ochanomizu University), Rika Okada (Ochanomizu University), Akari Ohba (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Kanako Ikeda (Ochanomizu University), Kyoko Yamakoshi (Ochanomizu University)
Children’s Early Acquisition of Right Dislocation in Japanese
   
  Leyla Zidani-Eroglu (Central Connecticut State University)
Diagnosing English style sluicing of wh-in-situ languages
   
19.00 Conference dinner

 

Day 3, September 28

 
Chair: Pavel Grashchenkov
10.30
 
Norio Nasu (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
The Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Cause of Failed Root Transformations
   
11.00
 
Mikhail Knyazev (Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg)
An adjacency requirement on indexical shift in Poshkart Chuvash: a markedness-based account
   
11.30 Coffee break
   
 
Chair: Alexander Podobryaev
12.00
 
Young-Hoon Kim (Seoul National University)
Syntactic Constraints on Argument Ellipsis in Korean
   
12.30
 
Heather Yawney (University of Toronto)
A Derived-Environment Effect in Kazakh: The Voicing Restriction of Velars and Uvulars
   
13.00
 
Ekaterina Lyutikova, Pavel Grashchenkov (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Let’s make this personal: Deriving agreeing inflected quantifiers in Tatar
   
13.30 Lunch (catered)
   
14.30 Invited talk
  Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)
The Question Particle in Japanese and the Nature of Exhaustivity in Wh-questions
   
15.30 Coffee break
   
 
Chair: Shigeru Miyagawa
16.00
 
Gökben Konuk, Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne)
Discourse prominence: The interaction of grammatical function and semantic role
   
16.30
 
Alexander Podobryaev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Interpretable agreement in Uyghur and Buryat
   
17.00 Concluding remarks