Global COE Program Hermeneutic Study and Education of Textual Configuration 7th International Conference WAFL 6 Sixth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics August 29 / September 4–6, 2009 Integrated Research Building Conference Hall / Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University, Japan

8/29 [Sat] Integrated Research Building Conference Hall 13:45- Welcome Address 14:00-15:30 Special Panel Eunju Kim (Nagoya University) Motoko Kawabata (Aichi Institute of Technology) Ato, Mou, and Ima as Modifiers of Temporal Expressions” Toru Kuginuki (Nagoya University) “Japanese Traditional Language Study and Modernization of Japanese Linguistics” 16:00-17:00 Seda Kan (Boğaziçi University) Prosody Mapping” Öner Özçelik (McGill University) and Miho Nagai (CUNY) “Possible Syntactic Subject Positions in Turkish: Evidence from Phonology” 9/4 [Fri] Noyori Conference Hall 9:00- 9:15 Opening Remarks 9:15-10:15 Serkan Sener (University of Connecticut) and Daiko Takahashi (Tohoku University) “Argument Ellipsis in Japanese and Turkish” Chizuru Nakao (University of Maryland) 10:30-12:00 Hideki Maki (Gifu University), Lina Bao (Gifu University), QingYu Wu (Gifu University), Wurigumula Bao (Gifu University), Asako Uchibori (Nihon University), Fumikazu Niinuma (Kochi Gakuen College) and Kenichi Goto (Gifu University)

Hisako Takahashi (Stony Brook University) “Adverbial Clauses and Nominative/Genitive Conversion in Japanese” Dolgor Guntsetseg (University of Stuttgart) 14:00-15:00 Kazutaka Kurisu (Kobe College) “Japanese Light Verb Voicing as Connective Morpheme” Junri Shimada (MIT) “A Linking Morpheme Analysis of Japanese Compound Accentuation” 15:15-16:15 Masahiro Yamada (University of Delaware) “Pluraction and Plural Predication of the Verbal Suffix –Aw – in Japanese” Daeho Chung (Hanyang University) “Do Not Target a Predicate: It Is Not a Constituent” 16:30-17:30 Beth Levin (Stanford University) 9/5 [Sat] Noyori Conference Hall 9:00-10:00 Seongyeon Ko (Cornell University) “A Contrastivist View of the Evolution of the Korean Vowel Systems” Seunghun Lee (Central Connecticut State University) and Jeremy Perkins (Rutgers University) “Korean Affricates and ConsonantTone Interaction” 10:00-11:00 Jiwon Yun (Cornell University) “Disjunction and Alternative Conditionals in Korean” Seiki Ayano (Mie University) “Revisiting Beautiful Dancers and Complete Fools in Japanese” 11:15-12:15 James Yoon (University of Illinois) 14:00-16:10 Acquisition Panel (organized and chaired by Keiko Murasugi) Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University) Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) “Children’s Knowledge of the Structural Difference between Relative Clauses and WhQuestions in Japanese” Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University), Gaby Hermon (University of Delaware) and Ozge Ozturk (Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen) “Asymmetries in the FirstLanguage Acquisition of Subject and NonSubject HeadFinal Relative Clauses in Turkish” John Whitman (Cornell University) 16:30-17:30 Junko Ito (UC Santa Cruz) and Armin Mester (UC Santa Cruz) 9/6 [Sun] Noyori Conference Hall 9:00-10:00 Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University) 10:15-11:45 Satoshi Tomioka (University of Delaware) “Japanese Embedded Questions Are Nominal: Evidence from QVE” Barış Kahraman (Hiroshima University), Atsushi Sato (Hiroshima University), Hajime Ono (Kansai Gaidai University) and Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University) “Relative Clauses Processing before the Head Noun: Evidence for Strong Forward Prediction in Turkish” Brent de Chene (Waseda University) “Description and Explanation in Inflectional Morphology: Japanese Verbs, Korean Nouns” 13:45-15:15 Minjeong Son (University of Tromsø) “Korean Resultatives Revisited: Complementation versus Adjunction” Yosuke Sato (National University of Singapore) “Coordination, Dependency, and Gapping in Japanese” Sachie Kotani (Tezukayama University) “Focus Particles and Suru-Support in Japanese” for Fujigaoka 15:15- Concluding Comments Motoyama Sta. Subway Higashiyama Line

for Nagoya Subway Meijo Line N WAFL 6 Organizing Committee Nagoya University, Graduate School of Letters To Nagoya University Higashiyama Campus From Nagoya Station: Take the Subway Nagoya Daigaku Sta. Higashiyama Line to Motoyama Sta. (15 minutes), Language: English (no translation) then transfer to the Subway Meijo Line to Nagoya Nagoya Contact: Hiroki Maezawa (Global COE Program) Daigaku Sta. (Higashiyama Campus is just off the University subway exit.). phone: 052–587–1710 fax: 052–587–1709 From Centrair (Central Japan International Airport): Noyori Conference Hall wafl[email protected]u.ac.jp Take the Meitetsu Line to Kanayama Sta. (30 min.), then transfer to the Subway Meijyo Line to Nagoya http://www.gcoe.lit.nagoyau.ac.jp/~wafl6/ Daigaku Sta. (21 min.). Integrated Research Building for Yagoto (Arts and Humanities)