18.3505, Confs: General Linguistics/Hong Kong

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-3505. Fri Nov 23 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.3505, Confs: General Linguistics/Hong Kong

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Date: 22-Nov-2007
From: Sze-Wing Tang < teal4workshop at gmail.com >
Subject: International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics

 

	
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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:38:30
From: Sze-Wing Tang [teal4workshop at gmail.com]
Subject: International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 
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International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 
Short Title: TEAL-4 

Date: 30-Dec-2007 - 30-Dec-2007 
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Contact: Sze-Wing Tang 
Contact Email: teal4workshop at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.teal.cbs.polyu.edu.hk/ 

Meeting Description: 

The 4th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-4)
will be held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on December 30, 2007, as
one of the core celebration activities and the finale for the University's 70th
anniversary. 

8:15-9:00 
Registration
	
9:00-9:15 
Opening
	
9:15-9:45
 Mark Volpe (Kyushu University) ''Phonological and Semantic Asymmetries in
Japanese Nominalizations: Implications for the Single Engine Hypothesis and the
Decomposition of Roots''
	
9:45-10:15 
Mamori Sugita (CUNY Graduate Center) ''The Semantics of Japanese Experiential
-te iru''
	
10:15-10:45 
Yicheng Wu (The University of Hong Kong) ''Common Verbs Are Uncommon: A Dynamic
Account of Verbal Underspecification''
	
10:45-11:00 
Break

11:00-11:30 
Chao Zhang (Shanghai Maritime University) ''Subject-resultative V-V Compounds in
Mandarin and Japanese: Comparing with VP Serial Constructions''
	
11:30-12:00 
Chi-Ming Louis Liu (National Tsing Hua University) ''Degree Modification of
Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese''
	
12:00-12:30 
Nai Fai Wong (Leiden University) ''Event Quantification, Maximality and the
First Phase Syntax''
	
12:30-2:00 
Lunch

2:00-2:30 
I-Pan Wan (National Chengchi University) ''Connectionism: Comparing Speech Error
Patterns in Normals and Aphasics in Mandarin''
	
2:30-3:00 
Hongyong Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) ''Free and Not-So-Free
Demonstratives in Jingpo''
	
3:00-3:30 
Chen-Sheng Liu (National Chiao Tung University) ''Dimension-denoting Classifiers
in Taiwanese Compound Adjectives''
	
3:30-3:45 
Break

3:45-4:15 
Lawrence Cheung (University of California, Los Angeles) ''Negation and
Presupposition in Negative Wh-construction''
	
4:15-4:45 
Satoshi Tomioka (University of Delaware) ''Intervention Effects in 'Why'
Questions: A Presuppositional Account''
	
4:45-5:15 
Gabriela Soare (University of Geneva) ''Cross-linguistic Typology of Question
Formation and the Antisymmetry Hypothesis''
	
5:15-5:30 
Break

5:30-6:00 
C.-T. James Huang (Harvard University) ''Closing Remarks''


Registration is now open for participants of TEAL-4. Please register by
downloading the registration form from http://www.teal.cbs.polyu.edu.hk/ and
email the completed form to teal4workshop at gmail.com by November 30, 2007.






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