Workshop on Linguistic Theory and the Japanese Language
Dates: July 29-30, 2005
Time: 9:30am-6pm
Breakfast: 9:00am
Location: Harvard, Emerson 210

Workshop Program

This workshop brings together some of the leading linguists who have made important contributions to the recent study of Japanese and linguistic theory.

On the causative construction, Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
On verb raising, Hideki Kishimot o, Kobe University
Nominative object, Masatoshi Koizumi, Tohoku University
Ga/No conversion, Hideki Maki and Asako Uchibori, Gifu University and Nihon University
Syntax and semantics of floated numeral quantifiers, Kimiko Nakanishi, University of Calgary
Predicate formation, Kunio Nishiyama, Ibaraki University
Wh-questions, Norvin Richards, MIT
Indeterminate pronouns, Junko Shimoyam a, McGill University
Noun-phrase ellipsis, Daiko Takahashi, Tohoku University
On ditransitive verbs, Yuji Takano, Kinjo Women's University
A new landscape of LF intervention effects, Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delware
The structure of DP in Japanese, Akira Watanabe, University of Tokyo
Lexical classes in phonology, Junko Ito and Armin Mester, UC Santa Cruz
Child language acquisition, Keiko Murasugi and Koji Sugisaki, Mie University and Nanzan Univeristy
Japanese -wa, -ga, and information structure, Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh

Organizers: 
Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito

Contact:
miyagawa@mit.edu
saito@ic.nanzan-u.ac.jp

Sponsors:
The Japan Foundation
MIT Foreign Languages and Literature