NACCL-15 Conference Program All sessions are held at Wells Hall on the Michigan State University campus. Friday, July 11 8:00 - 8:30 Registration Coffee/Tea/Refreshments Room C301 8:30 - 9:00 Opening Ceremony Room B102 Dr. Wendy Wilkins, Dean, College of Arts and Letters Dr. David Prestel, Chair, Department of Linguistics and Languages 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speech Room B102 Keynote Speaker Chair: Y.-H. Audrey Li 9:00 - C.-T. James Huang Syntactic Analyticity and Wh-Questions 10:00 Harvard University 10:00 - 10:20 Break Room C301 10:20 - 12:20 Sessions 1A and 1B Session Syntax Chair: Qian Gao 1A Room: C313 10:20 - Liang Chen and Ning Pan Negative Effect, LF Subjacency and Feature 10:50* University of Louisiana at Lafayette Movement: A Comparison between French and Chinese 10:50 - Chen-Sheng Luther Liu On the Status of Chinese Anaphoric Epithets 11:20 National Chiao Tung University 11:20 - Ching-Huei Teresa Wu Arguments in Resultative Constructions 11:50 McGill University 11:50 - Ruixi Ai Lexical Argument Structure and Two Types 12:20 Harvard University of Denominals in Chinese Session Sociolinguistics Chair: Ye Fan 1B Room: C312 10:20 - I-Ni Tsai Understanding Gender and Talk-in- 10:50 Academia Sinica interaction: How Repetition Constructs the (to be presented by Cui-xia Weng) "Girl Talk" in Spoken Chinese 10:50 - Shouhui Zhao Simplification and Standardization of 11:20 University of Sydney Chinese Character -- History and Future 11:20 - Liwei Gao A Sociolinguistic Profile of Chinese 11:50 University of Illinois at Urbana- Electronic Lexis Champaign 11:50 - Sai-hua Kuo Language as Ideology: Analyzing Quotations 12:20 National Tsing Hua University in Taiwanese News Discourse 12:20 - 1:45 Lunch 1:45 - 3:45 Sessions 2A and 2B Session Historical Syntax/Semantics Chair: Shi Jianguo 2A Room: C313 1:45 - Helen Kai-yun Chen & Liana Chen Diachronic Perspectives toward the 2:15* University of Colorado at Boulder Grammaticalization of Mandarin & Stanford University Constructional Idioms 2:15 - Jingmin Fang 2:45 Matsuyama University 2:45 - June Sun On the Origin of Modern Madnarin Gei 3:15* Providence University 'Give' Session Syntax Chair: Jen Ting 2B Semantics Room: C312 1:45 - Sio Ut Seong The Two Types of Possessive Construction 2:15 Universiteit Leiden Centre for in Cantonese Linguistics 2:15 - Chor Oi Wan Verbal Particles in Cantonese 2:45 University of Hong Kong 2:45 - Jiun-Shiung Wu The Significant Point and the Semantics of 3:15 National Chiayi University the Perfective le: A Segmented Discourse Representation Theory Approach 3:15 - Shuhui Su The Network Category of the Adverb Jiu 3:45 University of Hawaii 3:45 - 4:00 Break Room C301 4:00 - 6:00 Sessions 3A and 3B Session Phonology Chair: Yi-ching Su 3A Psycholinguistics Room: C313 4:00 - Yin-Ling Christina Chen On the Syllable Structure of Taiwanese – 4:30 National Tsing Hua University Illustration from Nasality Distribution 4:30 - Hang Du The Acquisition of the Chinese ba- 5:00* University of Arizona Construction by Adult Second Language Learners Session Syntax Chair: Y.-H. Audrey Li 3B Room: C312 4:00 - Ting-chi Tang & Shu-min Chang Secondary Predicates: A Contrastive 4:30 Yuan-Ze University Analysis of English, Chinese and Japanese 4:30 - Huichi lee On Sentence-Final DE in Mandarin 5:00 National Tsing Hua University 5:00 - Huei-Ling Lin Complex Predicates in Taiwanese 5:30 National Chung Cheng University 5:30 - Haiyong Liu Predication in Mandarin P1-de-P2 Structures 6:00 UCLA Evening: Free ****************************************************************************** Saturday, July 12 8:30 - 9:00 Registration Coffee/Tea/Refreshments Room C301 9:00 - 9:45 Session 4 Session Syntax Chair: C.-T. James Huang 4 Room: B102 9:00 - Invited Speaker How Empty is an Empty Noun? 9:45 Y.-H. Audrey Li University of Southern California 9:45 - 10:00 Break Room C301 10:00 - 12:00 Sessions 5A and 5B Session Syntax/Semantics Chair: Yu-fen Liou 5A Room: C313 10:00 - Mei-hsiu Chen & Jung-hsing Chang The Meaning Extensions of XIANG and its 10:30* National Chung Cheng University Polysemy Networks 10:30 - Qian Gao & Carl Pollard Variation in Argument Structure and Verb 11:00 Defense Language Institute & The Classification in Chinese Ohio State University 11:00 - Yun Xiao Verb Attachment and Mandarin OV Word 11:30 University of Massachusetts at Order Amherst 11:30 - Jun Yang Interpretation of Temporal Locations in 12:00 The University of Chicago Chinese Session Phonology Chair: H. Samuel Wang 5B Historical Phonology Room: C312 10:00 - Feng-fan Hsieh Loanword Tonology in Taiwanese 10:30* MIT 10:30 - Guanjun Feng An OT Account of Chinese Verb versus 11:00 University of Southern California Adjective Reduplication 11:00 - Hui-chuan Hsu Histroical Development of the Syllabic Velar 11:30 National Chiao Tung University Nasal in Xiamen: à la the Shan and Zhen (to be presented by Chen-Sheng Luther Categories Liu) 11:30 - Shi Jianguo and Zhuo Qiongyan 12:00 The Hong Kong Institute of (Historical Sound Changes of the Medial [i] Education and Hong Kong in Cantonese) Polytechnic University 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:45 Sessions 6A & 6B Session Phonetics Chair: San Duanmu 6A Phonology Room: C313 1:30 - Invited Speaker The Phonetic Characteristics of the Sounds 2:15* Eric Zee in Standard Chinese (Beijing) City University of Hong Kong 2:15 - James H. Yang Acoustic-Perceptual Accounts of the Nasal 2:45 University of Illinois at Urbana- Merger in Mandarin: Auditory Experiments Champaign and their Limitations 2:45 - Liu Juan A Cross-language Investigation of Tonal 3:15* Hope College Coarticulation in Some Tone Languages 3:15 - H. Samuel Wang and Shih-Ting On the Psychological Reality of Geminate 3:45 Kao Consonants in Taiwan Min National Tsing Hua University Session Syntax Chair: Ming Xiang 6B Functional Grammar Room: C312 2:15 - Roy Chan Shuen-ti Cantonese ge2 in go2ge2je5 'That Such 2:45* The Chinese University of Hong Thing': Grammaticalization and the Structure Kong of NP (to be presented by Tsui Wai Ming) 2:45 - Kawaii K. W. Yeung The Grammaticalization of Complementizers 3:15 The University of Hong Kong from Verbs of Saying: The Case of Cantonese waa6 3:15 - Hui Yin Why Na Grammaticalized as Instrument 3:45 University of Alberta Marker while Ba as Object Marker (to be presented by Shuhui Su) 3:45 - 4:00 Break Room C301 4:00 - 6:00 Sessions 7A and 7B Session Psycholinguistics Chair: I-Ping Wan 7A Corpus Linguistics Room: C313 4:00 - Yi-ching Su Children Don't Always Follow C-Command 4:30* National Taiwan Normal University as a Scope Principle 4:30 - Michael Emonts & Deryle Lonsdale Memory-based Tone Recognition of 5:00 Sony Electronics & BYU Cantonese Syllables 5:00 - Jenny Yi-chun Kuo & Maria Sera Classifier Effects on Human Categorization 5:30* University of Minnesota 5:30 - Benedetta Bassetti Reading Pinyin: the Role of the Orthographic 6:00* University of Essex Word Session Syntax Chair: Chen-Sheng Luther Liu 7B Room: C312 4:00 - Jen Ting The "Middle Voice" Construction in Chinese 4:30* National Taiwan Normal University Revisited 4:30 - Miao-Ling Hsieh Are A-not-A Forms Polarity Items? 5:00 National Taiwan Normal University (to be presented by Jen Ting) 5:00 - Ming Xiang Phrasal Comparatives and Functional 5:30 Michigan State University Analysis -- Evidence from Chinese 5:30 - Francesca Del Gobbo On the Interpretation of Prenominal Relative 6:00 University of California, Irvine Clause in Chinese 6:30 - 9:00 Dinner at Kellogg Center Room: Red Cedar AB ****************************************************************************** Sunday, July 13 8:30 - 9:00 Coffee/Tea/Refreshments Room C301 9:00 - 10:45 Sessions 8A and 8B Session Phonology Chair: Eric Zee 8A Room: C313 9:00 - Invited Speaker The Phonology of the Syllable in New 9:45* San Duanmu Shanghai University of Michigan 9:45 - Chen-huei Wu The Asymmetry of Glides in Tsou 10:15* Academia Sinica (to be presented by Li-jen Shih) 10:15 - Hui-chuan Huang Competition between Syllabic and Metrical 10:45* National Tsing Hua University Constraints in two Bunun Dialects Session Functional/Pragmatics Chair: Sai-hua Kuo 8B Room: C312 9:45 - Chia-Ling Hsieh On the Source Involvement in Chinese 10:15* National Chiao Tung University Modal Expressions 10:15 - Jing Liang Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Functional 10:45* Carnegie Mellon University Analysis of Chinese and English Argumentative Texts 10:45 - Jenny Jing Yee Fong Japanese no in Contemporary Cantonese: 11:15 The Chinese University of Hong Evidence of Grammaticalization Constraints Kong on Borrowing 10:45 - 11:30 Break Room C301 11:00 - 12:30 Session 9 Session Phonology Chair: Hui-chuan Huang 9 Room: C313 11:00 - Tsui Wai-ming Tone Sandhi of Shanghai Dialect: OT 11:30* The Chinese University of Hong Analysis without Tone-Stress Interaction Kong 11:30 - I-Ping Wan The Five Vowel System in Taiwan 12:00* National Chengchi University Mandarin: A Psycholinguistic Study 12:00 - Michael Barrie Contrast in the Cantonese Vowel System 12:30 University of Toronto 12:30 - 12:40 Conference Closing & Farewell Room C313 .