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WAFL9 Program


All talks will be in Clark Hall, room 700


Friday, August 23 2013

8:30am-9:15am
* Registration & Breakfast *

9:15am-9:30am
Opening Remarks: John Whitman

Session: 1, Chair: Mats Rooth

9:30am-10:30am
Invited Speaker: Susumu Kuno (Harvard University) & Soo-Yeon Kim (Sejong University)
How Much Do Islands Matter in Sluicing?

10:30am-11:00am
Jiwon Yun (Stony Brook University)
The influence of sentence-final intonation and phonological phrasing
on the interpretation of wh


11:00am-11:30am
* Coffee Break *

Session: 2, Chair: John Bowers

11:30am-12:00pm
Changguk Yim (Chung-Ang Universi) & Yoshi Dobashi (Niigata University)
Recursive ι-phrasing and Yo-particle in Korean: A Derivational Approach

12:00pm-12:30pm
Bonnie Krejci (Stanford University) & Lelia Glass (Stanford University)
The Noun/Adjective Distinction in Kazakh

12:30pm-1:00pm
Toru Ishii (Meiji University)
Evidential Markers in the Nominal Right Periphery: The Japanese Hearsay Marker "Tte"

1:00pm-2:30pm
* Lunch *

Session: 3, Chair: Wayne Harbert

2:30pm-3:00pm
Yinji Jin (Yokohama National University)
Nominative-Genitive Conversion in Late Middle Korean

3:00pm-3:30pm
Lina Bao (Osaka University), Megumi Hasebe (Yokohama National University), Wurigumula Bao (Gifu University) & Hideki Maki (Gifu University)
Accusative Subject Licensing in Modern Inner Mongolian

3:30pm-4:00pm
Yoshiyuki Shibata (University of Connecticut)
Object movement and its implication for A-scrambling in Japanese

4:00pm-4:30pm
* Coffee Break *

Session: 4, Chair: Miloje Despic

4:30pm-5:00pm
Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University) & Omer Preminger (Syracuse University)
Nominative as no case at all: An argument from raising-to-accusative

5:00pm-5:30pm
Hanzhi Zhu (Stanford University)
Raising in Kazakh: Case, Agreement, and the EPP

5:30pm-6:00pm
Faruk Akkuş (Boğaziçi University)
Light Verb Constructions in Turkish: A Case for DP Predication and Blocking

6:00pm-6:30pm
Mikhail Knyazev (St. Petersburg State University)
Verbal complementizers in Kalmyk

6:30pm-8:00pm
* Wine & Cheese Reception, Morrill Hall 106 *



Saturday, August 24 2013

9:00am-9:30am
* Breakfast *

Session: 1, Chair: John Whitman

9:30am-10:00am
Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
Exclamatives and Nominalization in Japanese

10:00am-10:30am
Asya Pereltsvaig (Stanford) & Ekaterina Lyutikova (Moscow State University)
Functional Structure in the Nominal Domain: A View from Tatar

10:30am-11:00am
Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka) & Shoichi Iwasaki (UCLA)
Cross-dialectal patterns of focus marking in Japanese cleft constructions

11:00am-11:30am
* Coffee Break *

Session: 2, Chair: Jaklin Kornfilt

11:30am-12:00pm
Nil Tonyalı (Boğaziçi University)
Should Turkish be categorized as a high or low applicative language?

12:00pm-12:30pm
Kyumin Kim (University of Calgary)
Phases and idioms

12:30pm-1:30pm
* Lunch *

1:30pm-3:00pm
Poster Session*

Session: 3, Chair: Abby Cohn

3:00pm-4:00pm
Invited Speaker: Bruce Hayes (UCLA)
How do constraint families interact? A study of variation in Tagalog, French, and Hungarian

4:00pm-4:30pm
Yusuke Imanishi (MIT)
Minimal vs. maximal truncation in the Kansai Japanese hypocoristics

4:30pm-5:00pm
* Coffee Break *

Session: 4, Chair: Draga Zec

5:00pm-5:30pm
Seongyeon Ko (Queens College)
Towards a contrast-driven typology of the ALtaic vowel systems

5:30pm-6:00pm
Samuel R. Bowman (Stanford University) & Benjamin Lokshin (Stanford University)
Idiosyncratic transparency in Kazakh vowel harmony

6:00pm-6:30pm
Yusuke Yoda (Kinki University)
Phrasal or Phasal Coordination?-From the Evidence of Suspended Affixation

7:00-9:00pm
* Dinner at the Statler Hotel *



Sunday, August 25 2013

8:30am-9:00am
* Breakfast *

Session: 1, Chair: Jeff Runner

9:00am-10:00am
Invited Speaker: Guglielmo Cinque (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Word Order Typology: a change of perspective

10:00am-10:30am
Tomoko Ishizuka (Tama University)
Steps towards a minimalist analysis of Japanese no

10:30am-11:00am
Kunio Nishiyama (Ibaraki University)
The development of Japanese no: Grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, or neither?

11:00am-11:30am
* Coffee Break *

Session: 2, Chair: John Whitman

11:30am-12:00pm
Yasuhiro Iida (Osaka University)
On the "What as Why" Phenomenon in Japanese and Turkish

12:00pm-12:30pm
Jaehoon Choi (University of Arizona)
On Jussive Clauses in Korean

12:30pm-1:00pm
Hsu-Te Cheng (University of Connecticut)
Ellipsis in Disguise

1:00pm-1:15pm
* Closing Remarks *



*Posters
The Poster Session will be in Clark Hall, room 701
between 1:30pm and 3:00pm on Saturday, August 24 2013


Bilge Palaz (Boğaziçi University, Yıldız Technical University)
On the Structure of Postpositional Phrases in Turkish

Hyun Kyoung Jung (University of Arizona)
The Double Functions of Korean Benefactive Suffix

Feyza Balakbabalar (Boğaziçi University)
Can non-active morphology be a reliable indicator of external causation in anti-causative structures? Evidence from Turkish

Takashi Nakajima (Toyama Prefectural University)
"Weak" Projection, Conflation and the Lexical Transitivity Alternations

Lan Kim (University of Delaware) & Satoshi Tomioka (University of Delaware)
Decomposing the Give-type Benefactives in Korean and Japanese

Sergei Tatevosov (Moscow State University)
Manner-result dichotomy and light verb constructions in Karachay-Balkar

Sungsoo Ok (Sejong University)
A Predicate Approach to Korean Sluicing-like Constructions

Naoyuki Akaso (Nagoya Gakuin University)
On the Subject Position of Unaccusatives in Japanese: the Kageyama-Kishimoto Puzzle

Takeru Suzuki (Tokyo Gakugei University)
Not so Simple as Ik-Sounds: Verbs of Motion and Purpose Ni in Japanese

Theodore Levin (MIT)
Successive-Cyclic Case Assignment: Korean Case Alternation and Stacking

Kenshi Funakoshi (University of Maryland)
Silent Possessors in Korean

Yuta Sakamoto (University of Connecticut / Tohoku University)
Absence of Case-matching Effects in Mongolian Sluicing

Ayşe Büşra Yakut (Boğaziçi University)
The Logophoric Nature of the Bound Anaphor "kendi" in Turkish

Hiroshi Aoyagi (Nanzan University)
On serialized verbs in Japanese and Korean