Program
WAFL 16 Program
All times in EDT (GMT-4)
Friday, Sep 30
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM Welcome
Acquisition
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Kyoko Yamakoshi, Hiroyuki Shimada, Nao Sakuma
Children's incorrect association of the focus particle dake 'only' is blocked by negation hierarchically in Japanese
[Abstract]
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Tetsuya Sano
On the overgeneration of the particle 'no' in prenominal modification in child Japanese: A hybrid hypothesis
[Abstract]
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Break
Invited talk
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM Sergei Tatevosov, Moscow State University
Sociative causation, event structure and incrementality [Abstract]
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Lunch/Dinner Break
Negation
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Tetsu Nomaguchi
A Narrow-scope Existential Analysis for mo-NPIs in Japanese [Abstract]
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Beste Kamali and Hedde Zeijlstra
Existential Positive Polarity Items and their universal counterparts: the case of Turkish [Abstract]
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Beste Kamali and Daiki Matsumoto
How negative concord fails or succeeds in polar questions [Abstract]
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM Break
Case
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM Masanobu Sorida
Japanese Morphological case in Labeling Theory [Abstract]
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM Colin Davis
Oblique Cases Contain Accusative: Evidence from Balkar Possession [Abstract]
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM Christine Soh Yue
A Case-by-Agree account for ACC in Sakha adjunct clause constructions [Abstract]
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Jun Jie Lim
Dissociating genitive case from possessor agreement: Evidence from Khalkha Mongolian nominalised clauses [Abstract]
Saturday, Oct 1
Zoom starting 8:45
Invited talk
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Heejeong Ko, Seoul National University
Two types of Late Merge: Evidence from Adjunct Stranding and Extraposition [Abstract]
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Break
Semantics
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM Yuta Tatsumi
Silent nominals and approximative constructions [Abstract]
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM Koji Shimamura and Hideharu Tanaka
Eliminating Scrambling from Japanese via Neo-Davidsonian Event Semantics [Abstract]
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Dongsik Lim, Semoon Hoe and Yugyeong Park
Two possible main points of Korean direct evidential -ney [Abstract]
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM Lunch/Dinner Break
Syntax I
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee
Last but not least: right dislocation in Mongolian [Abstract]
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Myung-Kwan Park, Wonil Chung and Daeho Chung
Intervention effects in WHY questions as a presupposition violation: Evidence from an ERP study [Abstract]
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Éva Dékány
The syntax of odd decimals in Southern Hokkaido Ainu [Abstract]
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Break
Syntax II
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM Melek Çelik
The syntactic representation of quantificational subjects in Turkish [Abstract]
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM Kutay Serova
Right Edge Restriction is non-uniform in Turkish [Abstract]
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Metehan Oğuz
Perspective Shift and Accusative Subject Clauses (ASCs) in Turkish: an argument for the proleptic analysis of ASCs [Abstract]
Sunday, Oct 2
Zoom starting at 8:45
Ellipsis
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Xue Bai
A comparative study on Chakhar Mongolian and Japanese matrix sluicing [Abstract]
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Tomoya Tanabe and Ryoichiro Kobayashi
Null Adjuncts are not a Hallmark of Head-stranding Ellipsis in Japanese [Abstract]
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Masako Maeda and Yoichi Miyamoto
Stripping with Wh-indeterminate Remnants in Japanese [Abstract]
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Break
Invited talk
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM Donca Steriade, MIT
Why Vowel Harmony is myopic while the phonological component is not [Abstract]
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM Lunch/Dinner Break
Morphology & Phonology
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Yu Tanaka
Vowels in Sino-Japanese roots: Revisited through the lens of Ural-Altaic vowel harmony [Abstract]
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Umit Atlamaz and Furkan Dikmen
Adjectival Diminutives in Turkish [Abstract]
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Muhammed İleri
A Ban on Adjacency in Turkish [Abstract]
2:00 PM Closing remarks
Alternative talk: Hiroaki Saito
On linguistic manifestations of saying in Japanese [Abstract]