Program Day 2

Daiko Takahashi
(Tohoku University)

On antecedent-contained argument ellipsis in Japanese
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Kaori Furuya
(University of North Texas)

On the identification of the null category in Japanese right dislocation
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Xuhui Hu
(Peking University)

A study of cross-dialectal variation of directional constructions in Chinese
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Takayuki Akimoto
(Kogakuin University)

Deriving atransitivity and agentivity in Japanese V-V compounds
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Zhuosi Luo and Xing Kang
(Georgetown University and University of Geneva)

A sublexical modal analysis of Mandarin rang-causative
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Poster presented on site:

1. Jui-Yi Chung
   (Xiamen University)
   (Non-)canonical what-how interrogatives in Chinese and its dialects: An operator-probing view
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2. Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee and Xue Bai
   (City University of Hong Kong and Tohoku University)
   Stay alone, move together: Deriving embedded reduced questions in Chakhar Mongolian
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3. Pin-Yu Lu
   (National Taiwan Normal University)
   Acquisition of the evaluative hai hao in Chinese as a second language
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4. Trần Phan and C.-T. Tim Chou
   (National Tsing Hua University and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
   Vietnamese bare reflexive and the blocking effect
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5. Yun Shen
   (National Taiwan Normal University)
   How Mandarin shape-related classifiers influence children and adults' object categorization
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6. Tue Trinh and Viet Cao
   (Leibniz-ZAS and National Tsing Hua University)
   A note on NPI licensing in Vietnamese
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7. Barry C.-Y. Yang
   (National United University)
   Chinese empty subjects: Topic licensing, intervention and beyond
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Posters published online:

1. Linmin Zhang
   (NYU Shanghai)
   Focus-intervention revisited: A semantics-pragmatics approach
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2. Ariela Ye
   (Rutgers University)
   On the nature of say in Mandarin: Postverbal shuo and sentence-initial shuo
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3. Jack Isaac Rabinovitch, Siyu Wang and Baoqing Qian
   (Harvard University, Peking University and Boston University)
   Speaking for the silence: A voice splitting analysis of Mandarin gei
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4. Haoze Li and Jess H.-K. Law
   (University of California, Santa Cruz)
   The role of context in focus intervention effects
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Trang Phan
(Vietnam National University, Hanoi)

Variations in deriving definiteness without definite articles: An examination of silence in Vietnamese nominals
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Min-Joo Kim
(Texas Tech University)

Anaphoric marking in bare noun languages: When and why demonstratives are needed
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Lawrence Y.L. Cheung, Jackie Y.K. Lai and Yenan Sun
(Chinese University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong)

Event progression maximizing le in Mandarin Chinese
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Riichi Yoshimura
(Kyushu University)

Politeness in embedded and subordinate domains
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Coffee Break

Brian Agbayani and Toru Ishii
(California State University, Fresno and Meiji University)

Multiple PP topicalization in Japanese
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Xinran Yan
(Leipzig University)

Information-action alternations in Mandarin: Covert modality in the complement clause
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Dinner Banquet: Shuei Yue Xiang Cantonese Restaurant, B-level, Union Building

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