Fifth Workshop on Formal Altaic Linguistics (WAFL5)
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
Date: 23 May 2008Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 25 May 2008Time: 4:30 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Brunei Gallery & Khalili Lecture Theatres
Type of Event: Conference
Turkish Studies – Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East and the Department of Linguistics of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London takes great pleasure in welcoming you for the fifth international Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics to be held at SOAS, University of London on 23-24-25 May 2008. You will find the details of the programme below. For further information about the WAFL5 please e-mail us at wafl5@soas.ac.uk . You can also contact members of the WAFL5 Organizing Committee directly.
WAFL5 Organizing Committee
Monik Charette (SOAS, University of London) mc@soas.ac.uk
Bengi Rona (SOAS, University of London) br2@soas.ac.uk
Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University) kornfilt@syr.edu
The conference venues in SOAS are the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre on Friday, 23rd May and the Khalili Lecture Theatre on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th May.
Registration for the full three days of the conference is £15 (pounds sterling) to include all refreshments (not including lunch) and the reception at 7pm on Saturday 25th May in the Brunei Gallery Suite. Registration for one day only is £8. You can pre-register for WAFL5 by e-mailing Dr Monik Charette at mc@soas.ac.uk with your name and contact details. Please indicate Pre-registration as the subject of your mail.
You are invited to the WAFL5 Reception on Saturday 24th May at 7pm to 8.30pm in the Brunei Gallery Suite, where there will be a performance of Korean dance by Dr. Lee Chul-Jin, who specializes in traditional repertoires. There will also be a performance of Turkish music by Cahit Baylav and his friends.
Please check this site for any changes to the programme.
Programme
May 23rd, Friday
| 9.00-9.45 | REGISTRATION |
| 9.45-10.00 | Opening Remarks |
| 10.00-10.30 | Reference-Set Computation and Information Structure: A Case of Ellipsis in Japanese Satoshi Oku (Hokkaido University) |
| 10.30-11.00 | On Right Node Raising Atakan Ince (University of Maryland) |
| 11.00-11.15 | BREAK |
| 11.15-11.45 | Comparative Deletion in Japanese Yasutada Sudo (MIT) |
| 11.45-12.15 | Standards of Comparison in Japanese Koji Kawahara (University of York) |
| 12.15-12.45 | Identity Avoidance in Korean and Turkish Young-ran An (SUNY Stony Brook) |
| 12.45-2.00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 2.00-2.30 | Causativization and Aspectual Composition. Sergei Tatevosov and Mikhail Ivanov (Moscow State University) |
| 2.30-3.00 | Two Types of Resultatives in Japanese Kaori Takamine (University of Tromsø / CASTL) |
| 3.00-3.30 | On Accusative Wh-Adjuncts in Japanese Chizuru Nakao (University of Maryland) |
| 3.30-3.45 | BREAK |
| 3.45-4.15 | Non-simultaneous Transfers, Case Domain Fusion and the Light Verb Construction Toru Ishii (Meiji University) |
| 4.15-4.45 | Object/Event-denoting Verbal Nouns in the Light Verb Construction in Japanese Kaori Takamine, Naoyuki Yamato (University of Tromsø / CASTL) |
| 4.45-5.00 | BREAK |
| 5.00-6.00 | The effects of utterance level stress on bound morpheme sequences: Implications for word structure Aslı Göksel (Boğaziçi University & SOAS), Invited Speaker |
May 24th, Saturday
| 9.00-11.40 | COMPARATIVE ALTAIC PANEL |
| 9.00-9.40 | Adnominal Clauses of the Orient Peter Sells (SOAS) |
| 9.40-10.20 | The Comparative Syntax of Double Object Constructions in Japanese, Korean, and Turkish Andrew Simpson, Heeju Hwang, and Canan Ipek (USC) |
| 10.20-11.00 | Specificity and Partitivity in some Altaic languages Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University & MPI-EVA) and Klaus v. Heusinger (University of Stuttgart) |
| 11.00-11.40 | Datives in Japanese Richard Larson (SUNY, Stony Brook) and Naomi Harada (St. Margaret's (Rikkyo Jogakuin) Junior College) |
| 11.40-1.30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 1.30-2.00 | Preference For Scrambling: An On-line Study of Dependency Formation in Turkish Zeynep Ilkin & Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh) |
| 2.00-2.30 | Children's Comprehension of Postverbal Objects F. Nihan Ketrez (Yale University) |
| 2.30-3.00 | Psycholinguistic Evidence for the VP-internal Subject Position in Japanese Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University), Katsuo Tamaoka (Hiroshima University) |
| 3.00-3.15 | BREAK |
| 3.15-3.45 | To Reconstruct, or Not To Reconstruct: That is the Question Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University) |
| 3.45-4.15 | Subject Raising in Japanese Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University) |
| 4.15-4.45 | Person Restriction on C in Japanese Yukiko Ueda (Akita University) |
| 4.45-5.00 | BREAK |
| 5.00-6.00 | Agreement at the CP Level: Clause Types and 'Person' Restriction on the Subject Nobuko Hasegawa (Kanda University of International Studies), Invited Speaker |
May 25th, Sunday
| 9.00-9.30 | Mood in Abstract Complementizer: Altaic vs. non-Altaic languages Suwon Yoon (University of Chicago) |
| 9.30-10.00 | Hani-Clauses in Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and Balkans Nazmiye Çelebi (Istanbul University) and Costas Canakis (University of the Aegean, Mytilene) |
| 10.00-10.30 | Pragmatic and semantic constrains on -mAlI in Turkish Zeynep Erk Emeksiz (Anadolu University) |
| 10.30-11.00 | Nai is Not a Truth Functional Negation Yukio Furukawa (McGill University) |
| 11.00-11.15 | BREAK |
| 11.15-12.15 | Ellen Kaisse (University of Washington), invited speaker Vowel Harmony in Turkish, Greek, and Spanish |
| 12.15-1.45 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 1.45-2.15 | Topics, Contrast and Contrastive Topics in Japanese Reiko Vermeulen (University College London) |
| 2.15-2.45 | On the Syntax of Conditional Topics in Japanese Masaya Yoshida (University of Edinburgh) |
| 2.45-3.00 | BREAK |
| 3.00-3.30 | Differential Object Marking in Mongolian Dolgor Guntsetseg (University of Stuttgart) |
| 3.30-4.00 | On Definiteness and Specificity in Turkish Emrah Görgülü (Simon Fraser University) |
| 4.00-4.30 | Phases of Incorporation and A Three-way Distinction for Turkish Direct Objects Beste Kamali (Harvard University) |
| 4.30 | CLOSING |
Alternates:
- Zero-Derivation in Altaic: Toward the Unified Analysis
Takashi Nakajima (Toyama Prefectural University) - The Embedded Distributions of Topic, Focus and Exclamatives
in Japanese and the Structure of the Left Periphery
Naoyuki Yamato (University of Tromsø / CASTL) - Subject Positions in Old Japanese
Miyuki Sawada (National Kaohsiung Normal University) - Two Indefinite Articles in Uzbek
Klaus von Heusinger, Udo Klein, Dildora Niyazmetowa (University of Stuttgart)
Organiser: Turkish Studies Section, NME Department
Contact email: wafl5@soas.ac.uk