26.2610, Confs: Altaic, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Typology/UK

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Subject: 26.2610, Confs: Altaic, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Typology/UK

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Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 14:13:27
From: George Tsoulas [george.tsoulas at york.ac.uk]
Subject: 11th Workshop on Altaic Linguistics

11th Workshop on Altaic Linguistics 
Short Title: WAFL11 

Date: 04-Jun-2015 - 06-Jun-2015 
Location: York, United Kingdom 
Contact: George Tsoulas 
Contact Email: yorkwafl11 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://medusa.york.ac.uk/minsyn-g/wafl11/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Typology 

Language Family(ies): Altaic 
Meeting Description: 

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science at The University is proud to host the 11th edition of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics which will take place between 4–6 of June 2015.

This year’s WAFL will feature invited talks by:

Heejeong Ko (Seoul National University)
Eric McReady (Aoyama Gakuin University) 

Programme:

The 11th edition of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics will take place at the University of York, on June 4-6  2015.

Information including the programme, travel and registration can be found on the conference's website: 
http://medusa.york.ac.uk/minsyn-g/wafl11/

Thursday June 4

8.30 - 9.00
Registration

9.00 - 9.30
Jun Abe (Tohoku Gakuin University)
Two Types of Japanese Right Dislocation under the Bi-Clausal Analysis

9.30 - 10.00
Yongsuk Yoo (University of Connecticut)
Highest Edge Effect: Evidence from Korean

10.00 - 10.30
Ryoichiro Kobayashi (Sophia University)
Against V-to-T-to-C Movement in Japanese: A Case Study of Non-Constituent Coordination

10.30 - 11.00
Fumikazu Niinuma (Morioka University)
Ar as a Middle Voice head: Evidence from Kesen

11.00 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 12.00
Ga Young Cha (Seoul National University)
Applicatives and Their Kin in Korean: A Cartographic Approach

12.00 - 12.30
David Yoshikazu Oshima (Nagoya University)
Focus Particle Stacking: How a Contrastive Particle Interacts with ONLY and EVEN

12.30 - 13.00
Asli Gürer (Boğaziçi University)
Information Structural Units in Turkish within Syntax-Semantics Interface

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 15.00
Yusuke Yoda (Toyo Gakuen University)
An Adversity Causative Illusion: Applicatives Revisited

15.00 - 15.30
Bum-Sik Park (Dongguk University) and Sei-Rang Oh(Gyeongsang National University)
What Can Multiple Fragments Tell Us about Left Branch Extraction?

15.30 - 15.45 Break

15.45 - 16.45
Heejeong Ko (Seoul National University)
Invited Talk (Title TBA)

Friday June 5

8.50 - 9.00 Coffee

9.00 - 9.30
Elif Bamyaci (University of Cologne)
Semantic-Pragmatic Constraints on Optional Verb Number Marking

9.30 - 10.00
Mioko Miyama (University of Tokyo/UMass Amherst)
A Choice Function Analysis of the EitherOr Construction in Japanese

10.00 - 10.30 Duk-Ho An (Konkuk University)
Extra Deletion

10.30 - 11.00
Kook-Hee Gil (University of Sheffield) and Heather Marsden (University of York)
L2 Acquisition of Korean wh-existential Quantifiers: Testing the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis

11.00 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 12.00
Yasutada Sudo (University College London)
Mass and Count Nouns in Japanese: Evidence from Proportional Quantifiers

12.00 - 12.30
Ji Young Shim and Tabea Ihsane (University of Geneva)
Complementizer Deletion, Subject Extraction, and Beyond.

12.30 - 13.00
Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama City University)
Recapturing the Free Ride Effect

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 15.00

15.00 - 15.30
Semoon Hoe (Seoul National University)
Lexical Restructuring of Attitude Verbs and Its Hierarchical Restriction

15.30 - 16.00
Nina Radkevich (University of York)
Genitive Case Drop in Korean as Compounding

16.00 - 17.00
Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Invited talk (title TBA)

Saturday June 6

8.50 - 9.00 Coffee

9.00 - 9.30
Greg Key (Binghamton University) and Deniz Tat (Yeditepe University)
Verbal Morphemes Need Not Entail Verbal Structure

9.30 - 10.00
Myung-Kwan Park (Dongguk University), Ui-Jong Shin (Dongguk University) and Jungmin Kang (Washington University in St. Louis)
On Multiple Fragments in Korean

10.00 - 10.30
Deniz Ozyildiz (UMass Amherst)
Move to mI, but Only If You Can

10.30 - 11.00
Shin-Sook Kim (University of York) and Peter Sells (University of York)
Digging Deeper into Noun-Modifying Constructions in Japanese and Korean

11.00 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 12.00
I-Ta Chris Hsieh (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Actuality Entailment via Evidentials

12.00 - 14.30
Lunch and Poster Session

14.30 - 15.00
Sozen Ozkan (UCLA)
Investigating a Restriction in Turkish Sluicing

15.00 - 15.30
Masashi Hashimoto (UMass, Amherst)
A Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of the Experiencer Restriction in Japanese

15.30 - 16.00
Saetbyol Seo (Seoul National University)
Intervention(-like) effects in Jussive Constructions

16.00 - 16.30
Eszter Ótott-Kovács (Szegedi Tudomnyegyetem)
Kazakh -(I)p-Clauses: A Case of Underspecification

16.30 - 16.45
Close

Posters:

Emrah Görgülü (Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University)
On the Structure and Meaning of NPs in Turkish Existentials

Yuta Sakamoto (University of Connecticut)
Japanese Null Arguments as Mixed Anaphora: Evidence for the LF-copy Analysis

Daiho Kitaoka (University of Ottawa) and Sara Mackenzie (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Evidence for the Mora: Analysis of a Japanese Reversing Game

Keiichiro Seki (Kyoto Sangyo University)
The Japanese Adversity Causative Construction Revisited

Koji Kawahara (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)
Manner and Path in the Motion Events of Altaic

Yamaguchi Maiko (Osaka University)
Is Factivity a Real Culprit in Disallowing the Root Transformations in Japanese?

Kensuke Takita (Mie University)
Parallelism and Antecedent-Containment in Clausal Argument Ellipsis

Masahiro Akiyama (Ehime University)
Multi-Phrasal Predicateless Utterances Used as Song Titles in Japanese

Hiroaki Saito (University of Connecticut)
Humble Form and Honorification in Japanese

Yongsuk Yoo (University of Connecticut) and Marcin Dadan (University of Connecticut)
Phrasal and Clausal Temporal Adjuncts in Korean: The Semantic Analysis

Nicolas Royer-Artuso (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
Turkish Stress, Vowel Harmony, Suspended Affixation and Phonological Word: Is Turkish Still Agglutinating?

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