Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Keynote Speaker 1
Chair: Chung-hye Han

Jiwon Yun (Stony Brook). Wh-intonation in Korean

Talk Session: Phonology/Phonetics
Chair: Sylvia Cho

John Whitman (Cornell U). Japanese and Korean Harmonic Vocalism Reconsidered

Yu Tanaka (Doshisha U). Vowel coalescence in colloquial Japanese: Phonological and non-phonological factors

Chuyu Huang (Nagoya Gakuin U). Foot-level shortening and boundary lengthening driven by morphological complexity in Japanese

Talk Session: Syntax/Semantics
Chair: Kaori Miura

Myeong Hyeon Kim (Kindai U), Chae Eun Lee (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and James Yoon (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). The structure and interpretation of two types of nominal coordinations in Korean

Yuto Hirayama (Kansai Gaidai U) and Kenta Mizutani (Aichi Prefectural U). On the Interpretation of Verb-Modifying Measure Phrases in Japanese

Yuya Noguchi (UConn). On the directive interpretation of non-past sentences in Japanese

Talk Session: Corpus/Usage based/Discourse Analysis
Chair: Nicole Chan

EunHee Lee (U at Buffalo). Crosslinguistic and crosscultural similarities and differences in rhetorical structure of narratives: A comparative study of English and Korean oral narratives

Ebru Turker (Arizona State U) and Jae Hyun Park (Sangmyung U). Multimodal metaphoric creativity in education discourse: College advertisements in South Korea

Carey Benom (Nagasaki U) and Youngmin Oh (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific U). “Keepwords”, the Limits of Creativity, and the Notion of the “Core” of an Idiom

Talk Session: Syntax/Psycholinguistics
Chair: Yusuke Kubota

Masaya Yoshida (Northwestern U) and Kaori Miura (Kyushu Sangyo U). Nominal Adjectives in Japanese

Nozomi Tanaka (Indiana U Bloomington). Reexamining island sensitivity in Japanese complex NP islands with argument wh-in-situ

Myung Hye Yoo (National U of Singapore) and So Young Lee (Miami U). The processing of multiple filler-gap dependencies in Korean: the case of double relative clauses

Talk Session: Syntax/Semantics
Chair: Masaya Yoshida

Kenta Mizutani (Aichi Prefectural U). Polarity Sensitivity Induced by the Contrastive Topic Marker wa in Japanese

Eri Tanaka (Osaka U), Masako Maeda (Kyushu U) and Yoichi Miyamoto (Osaka U). On negative island effects and exhaustification with adjunct nani-o in Japanese

Yuto Hirayama (Kansai Gaidai U). Predicates of Personal Tastes with Epistemic Modals/Evidentials in Japanese

Keynote Speaker 2
Chair: Dennis Storoshenko

Shin Fukuda (U of Hawaiʻi). How Many Islands Are There? An Experimental Reassessment of Island Effects with NP-Scrambling in Japanese

Poster Session 1

1. Ryoichiro Kobayashi (Tokyo U of Agriculture). Verbs stay in-situ in Japanese: A case study of VP-fronting

2. Changguk Yim (Chung-Ang U). *<φ, φ> Constraint on Korean Vocatives

3. Morine Kondo (U of Tokyo), Takane Ito (U of Tokyo) and Yohei Oseki (U of Tokyo). Morphological Structures of Japanese Adjectival Compounds

4. Young-Hoon Kim (Cornell U). Argument Ellipsis via C-Probing in Japanese and Korean

5. Youngin Lee (U of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa). The role of complementizer in Korean subject and object control constructions

6. Sanae Matsui (Sophia U), Ai Mizoguchi (Maebashi Institute of Technology, NINJAL), Ayako Hashimoto (Tokyo Kasei Gakuin U), Chuyu Huang (Nagoya Gakuin U), Naoya Watabe (U of Tokyo), Hiroto Noguchi (Tokyo Medical and Dental U) and Mafuyu Kitahara (Sophia U). An interaction of mutually bleeding processes: Voicing of intervocalic plosives and vowel devoicing in Tohoku Japanese

7. Brian Agbayani (California State U, Fresno) and Toru Ishii (Meiji U). Multiple Topicalization in Japanese

8. Masako Maeda (Kyushu U) and Yoichi Miyamoto (Osaka U). Scope Properties of Parasitic Gaps in Adjunct Control in Japanese

9. John Bundschuh (Swarthmore College). The Semantic Scope of -aku Nominalization in Early-Heian Japanese Kundoku Discourse

10. Yosho Miyata (UMass Amherst). NCI XP-shika as Adjunct, NOT Argument and its D-Link Property in Japanese

11. Amaya Madden (U of Kansas) and Utako Minai (U of Kansas). Acquisition of Japanese negative polarity item licensing by English-speaking second language learners

12. Motomi Kajitani (U of New Mexico). On the Focusing Functions of the Japanese Exemplification Construction X toka

13. David Yoshikazu Oshima (Nagoya U). The Japanese verb itasu 'do' and its kin: Dishonorifics (kenjōgo II) vs. courtesy honorifics (teichōgo)

14. Jiyeon Park (Jilin International Studies U). The syntactic and semantic features of Korean and Japanese ideophones in online newspapers

15. Nozomi Moritake (Kyushu U). Nominative Case Assignment in Apparently Tenseless Clauses in Japanese

16. Mitsuko Izutsu (Fuji Women’s U), Yongtaek Kim (Georgia Tech) and Katsunobu Izutsu (Hokkaido U of Education). “Naked” or “dressed up”? A contrastive analysis of response cries between Korean and Japanese

17. Kensuke Takita (Doshisha U). Flexible Theta-Marking and (Anti-)Labeling

18. Kaori Miura (Kyushu Sangyo U). The syntax of the psychological adverb constructions

19. Kyoko Yamakoshi (Ochanomizu U), Hiroyuki Shimada (Hokuriku U) and Mutsumi Daicho (Ochanomizu U). Children’s Acquisition of Exhaustivity in Clefts and Right Dislocations in Japanese

20. Takayuki Akimoto (Kogakuin U). On the domains of Japanese verbal compounds: su-insertion, sequential voicing and compound ellipsis

Talk Session: Historical
Chair: Ivan Fong

Akitaka Yamada (Osaka U). A historical and morphosyntactic analysis of Japanese epistemic markers (dearoo/daroo and -oo)

Qiushi Chen (UConn). Deriving Mizenkei in Old Japanese Verbal Morphology

Talk Session: Grammaticalization/Historical
Chair: Eunhee Lee

Eunhye Kim Hess (Oklahoma State U). Diachronic Change of -key and -tolok to DO-Causatives: A Usage-based Construction Grammar Approach

Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji U). On the role of writing systems in the process of grammaticalization: The case of ya-ina-ya in Modern through Present Day Japanese

Alexander Zapryagaev (National Research U Higher School of Economics). On the makura-kotoba yasumisisi (Cancelled)

Keynote Speaker 3
Chair: Min-Joo Kim

Suwon Yoon (U of Seoul). Sentiment Analysis in Korean: From semantics to big data-based approaches

Poster Session 2

1. Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama City U). On the Absence of Minimality Effect with Japanese Cleft

2. Subin Park (Seoul National U). The ambiguity of tasi 'again' in Korean: a structural approach

3. Maude Bouvier (U du Québec à Montréal). Double allomorphy in Korean nominative pronouns? Additional evidence from demonstrative and interrogative proforms for a floating segment analysis and derivation by phase.

4. Heesun Yeom (Seoul National U). Revisit to locative alternation

5. Jason Ginsburg (Osaka Kyoiku U), Sandiway Fong (U of Arizona), Hiroshi Terada (Osaka Kyoiku U) and Masumi Matsumoto (Osaka Kyoiku U). The Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT): Form Copy (FC) and the Serial Verb Construction (SVC)

6. Norimasa Hayashi (Nanzan U). M-Gap Analysis of the Highest Clause Sensitivity in Japanese Relative Clauses

7. Koji Shimamura (Kanazawa Gakuin U, Kobe City U of Foreign Studies) and Takayuki Akimoto (Kogakuin U). Accusative Case without Agree

8. Soo-Hwan Lee (NYU). Introducing arguments in and out of the thematic domain

9. Florence Yukun Zhang (NYU). On the Extraction of Adjectives in East Asian Languages

10. HwanHee Kim (Harvard U). Dynamic Identity Shifts through Code-switching Strategies in Multilayered Online Interactions of Korean

11. Yusuke Yagi (UConn) and Yuta Tatsumi (Meikai U). Crossover Effects with Set indices: Evidence from Japanese Scrambling

12. Asako Matsuda (Wayo Women’s U). What Japanese -(y)oo and -tai suffixes tell us about de se

13. Toshiko Oda (Tokyo Keizai U) and Alexander Wimmer (Eberhard Karls U Tübingen). Japanese if-adversatives

14. Mitsuko Takahashi (Nagaoka U of Technology). Historical Changes of the Old Japanese Adverb “Kamahete”

15. Frank Sode (Goethe U Frankfurt) and Ayaka Sugawara (Waseda U). Nouniness, factivity and implicative readings: The case of Japanese wasureru (‘forget’)

16. Hiroyuki Tanaka (Kwansei Gakuin U). A Bottom-Up View of Nominative-Genitive Conversion in Japanese

17. Takashi Ikeda (Aichi Prefectural U). What Triggers Movement of the Head Nominal in the Relative Clause?

18. Gwendolyn Hildebrandt (UPenn). Diagnosing passive/unaccusative alternations in two Korean ‘passive’ constructions

19. Yongtaek Kim (Georgia Tech). Inverse construction as a solution to the mismatch between perception and cognition

20. Dennis Ryan Storoshenko (U of Calgary). The Role of Word Order on Binding Constraints: Comparing Persian and Korean

Keynote Speaker 4
Chair: Shin Fukuda

Yusuke Kubota (NINJAL). Toward 'parasitic scope' parsing: A case study on comparatives in Japanese

Talk Session: Discourse Analysis
Chair: Suwon Yoon

Sue Yoon (U of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa). A Comprehensive Analysis of Response Tokens in Korean: Resources for Managing Turns, Sequences, and Stances in Talk-in-Interaction

Ho Ching Poon (U of Queensland). An analysis of the impacts of Konglish on the Korean governmental public communication (Cancelled)

Kerry Sluchinski (U of Alberta). Shifting Semantics of Grandmother in Digital Japanese-Korean Comfort Women Discourses

Talk Session: Semantics/Pragmatics
Chair: Jiwon Yun

Min-Joo Kim (Texas Tech U) and EunHee Lee (U at Buffalo). Bare vs. Demonstrative Anaphoric Definites in Korean and Their Cross-linguistic Implications

Linmin Zhang (NYU Shanghai). Focus intervention effects revisited: a semantics-pragmatics approach