18.524, Confs: Altaic Lang, General Ling/USA

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Subject: 18.524, Confs: Altaic Lang, General Ling/USA

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Date: 15-Feb-2007
From: Suleyman Ulutas < wafl at fas.harvard.edu >
Subject: 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics 

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:41:35
From: Suleyman Ulutas < wafl at fas.harvard.edu >
Subject:  4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics 

4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics 
Short Title: WAFL4 

Date: 18-May-2007 - 20-May-2007 
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA 
Contact: Cedric Boeckx 
Contact Email: wafl at fas.harvard.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingdept/events.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Altaic 
Meeting Description: 

The Department of Linguistics at Harvard University is pleased to announce the
Fourth Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL4) to be held in Cambridge,
MA on May 18-20, 2007. 

Invited Speakers: 
C.-T. James Huang (Harvard University)
Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)
Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)
Donca Steriade (MIT)
James H.-S. Yoon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 

-Anyone interested in attending is encouraged to send a pre-registration e-mail
at  wafl at fas.harvard.edu 

Program

May 18th, Friday			

8:30-9:00 	Registration		
9:00-9:15	Opening Remarks		
9:15-10:15	Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)	
TBA

10:15-10:30	Break		

10:30-11:00	Balkiz Ozturk	 (Bogazici University)	
Relativization Strategies in Turkish

11:00-11:30	Hasan Mesut Meral     (Bogazici University)	
A Resumption Analysis of Null Objects

11:30-12:00	Masashi Nomura	      (Chukyo University)	
Unaccusativity, restructuring infinitives, and Japanese V-te ar- constructions   

12:00-1:30	Lunch Break		

1:30-2:00	Cem Keskin            (Utrecht University)	
Trimming down the Phase-Head Inventory

2:00-2:30	Kensuke Takita	      (Nanzan University)	
An Argument for the Derivational Reformulation of the Proper Binding Condition

2:30-3:00	Seungwan Ha	      (Boston University)	
On the ATB scrambling and the Coordinate Structure Constraint

3:00-3:15	Break		

3:15-3:45	Hirohisa Kiguch       (Miyagi Gakuin Woman's University)	
On cyclic agree and the PCC in Japanese

3:45-4:15	Atakan Ince	      (University of Maryland)	
On Default Agreement in Turkish

4:15-4:30	Break		

4:30-5:30	Shigeru Miyagawa      (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	
                TBA

May 19th, Saturday			

9:00-10:00	James H.-S. Joon     (University of Illionis, Urbana-Champaign) 	 
	        TBA

10:00-10:15	Break		

10:15-10:45	Asli Goksel	      (SOAS / Bogazici University)	
Meltem Kelepir	      (Bogazici University)	
Asli Untak-Tarhan     (Bogazici University)
Hani-clauses in Turkish: wh-intonation without wh-words	

10:45-11:15	Yasuyuki Fukutomi     (Fukushima University)	
The Internal Structure of Japanese Wh-Phrases

11:15-11:30	Break		

11:30-12:00	Nobuko Hasegawa	  (Kanda University of International Studies)	
Wh-movement in Japanese: Matrix Sluicing is different from Embedded Sluicing   

12:00-12:30	Youngju Choi	   (University of Illionis, Urbana-Champaign)	   Why
are multiple fragment answers prevalent in Korean, Japanese and Turkish?

12:30-2:00	Lunch Break		

2:00-2:30	Kaori Furuya	   (CUNY, Graduate Center)	
Japanese bare noun phrases as DPs

2:30-3:00	Young-ran An   (The State University of New York, Stony Brook)	
Korean 'tul' and English 'all'	

3:00-3:15	Break		

3:15-3:45	Soyoung Park	   (University of Southern California)	
Nominal functional projections in Korean: syntax of numeral classifiers

3:45-4:15	Soo-Yeon Jeong	       (Harvard University)	
(Pseudo)partitives and Numeral Classifier Constructions in Korean and Japanese

4:15-4:30	Break		

4:30-5:30	C.-T. James Huang       (Harvard University)	
                TBA

May 20th, Sunday			

9:00-9:30	Iljoo Ha	        (University of Wisconsin-Madison)	
Pseudo Noun Incorporation In Korean Verbal Possessive Constructions

9:30-10:00	Yosuke Sato	        (University of Arizona)	
Japanese Obligatory Control as Switch Reference: An AGREE-based account

10:00-10:30	Tomohiro Fujii	        (Nanzan University)	
A 'Non-obligatory Control Complement' Puzzle

10:30-10:45	Break		

10:45-11:15	Mitsue Motomura	        (Osaka University of Economics)	
Against the arguments against the Japanese particle -TO as a postposition 

11:15-11:45	Pavel Grashchenkov      (Moscow State University)	
Synchronous Navigation or What Turkic and Mongolian can tell us about QF

11:45-2:00	Noon Business Meeting		
        	Lunch Break		

2:00-2:30	Shin-Sook Kim	        (University of Frankfurt)	
                Peter Sells	        (Standford University)	
Universal NPIs and the Generalized Immediate Scope Constraint

2:30-3:00	Yasutada Sato	        (University of Tokyo)	
An E-type analysis of tokoro-relatives

3:00-3:30	Nihan Ketrez	        (Yale University)	
Cardinal Reading in Children's Indefinite Objects: Is it Really Wide Scope?	

3:30-3:45	Break		

3:45-4:15	Sang-Cheol Ahn	        (Kyung Hee University)	
On the ambivalence of the Korean liquid

4:15-5:15	Donca Steriade	        (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
                TBA

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