Program Day 1

Registration: 509 Entrance Hall

Hang Cheng and Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng
(Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and Leiden University)

Bundling light verbs
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Yang Liu, Chen Yang Gao, Peng Wang, Liping Feng, Angela D. Friederici, Emiliano Zaccarella and Luyao Chen
(Max Planck Partner Group, Beijing Normal University, University of Chinese Academy of Social Science, University of Greifswald, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)

Exploring the neurobiology of Merge at a basic level: Insights from a novel artificial grammar paradigm
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Masao Ochi
(Osaka University)

Plurality in Japanese and (anti-)labeling
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Yu Tanaka
(Doshisha University)

Japanese /ei/ is actually resurrected in certain loans
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Poster presented on site:

1. Pei-Jung Kuo
   (National Chiayi University)
   On purposive LAI in Mandarin Chinese
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2. Michael Donovan and Yuki Seo
   (Swarthmore College and University of Delaware)
   Question imperatives in Japanese
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3. Colin Hirschberg and Jess H.-K. Law
   (University of California, Santa Cruz)
   Affectedness in passives
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4. Miao-Ling Hsieh
   (National Taiwan Normal University)
   Distinguishing two kinds of why-like interpretations in Taiwanese Southern Min
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5. Yu-Chuan Lucy Chiang
   (University of Michigan)
   Light verb syntax of English-Mandarin bilinguals
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6. Ting-Wu Lee and Shiaohui Chan
   (National Taiwan Normal University)
   The role of the right prefrontal regions in processing sentences with gaps
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7. Viet Cao
   (National Tsing Hua University)
   Interpreting two types of cũng-constructions in Vietnamese
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8. Chen-An Chang
   (University of Konstanz)
   Taiwanese daodi-questions: Empirical studies of triggering emotive agreements
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9. Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai
   (University of Macau)
   Free choice, discourse structure, and Mandarin dou
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Posters published online:

1. Qiongpeng Luo
   (Nanjing University)
   Semantic incorporation and non-canonical object constructions in Mandarin
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2. Dawei Jin and Jun Chen
   (SUNY Buffalo and University of Stuttgart)
   Complex NP island effects are stronger in why-questions: An experimental study
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3. Huiting Yang
   (Tianjin University)
   The constraints of the overt/covert form of the subjects and inter-clausal anaphor in Chinese and the hierarchy of causality of psych verbs
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Rint Sybesma
(Leiden University)

Resultatives, again
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Michael Kenstowicz
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Phonetic correlates of the qù and rù tones in Èzhōu (Húběi) Mandarin
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Shiao Wei Tham
(National University of Singapore)

Completion and attainment: Telicity with phase complements in Mandarin Chinese
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Yenan Sun
(Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Main clause phenomena and discourse moves: Mandarin incompleteness
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Coffee Break

Waltraud Paul and Gillian Ramchand
(CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS-INALCO, University of Tromsø)

Anchoring and stativity in English and Mandarin Chinese
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Wei-wen Roger Liao
(Academia Sinica)

On the syntax-semantics of perception verbs in Chinese
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Noriko Yoshimura, Atsushi Fujimori and Mineharu Nakayama
(University of Shizuoka and the Ohio State University)

Japanese grammatical knowledge is a way of nullifying intervention effects in L2 English
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