The Ninth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
July 31-August 2, 1999
The Ohio State University
Saturday, July 31
8:30-9:00 Registration/Breakfast
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks (Professor J. Marshall Unger, DEALL Chair)
Phonetics/Phonology
9:30-10:00 Hyunsook Kang & Seo-Hwa Hahn (Hanyang University)
"Nasalization before a liquid in Yonbyon dialect of Korean"
10:00-10:30 Byung-jin Lim (Indiana University)
"The role of syllable weight and position on prominence in Korean"
10:30-11:00 Young-Mee Yu Cho (Rutgers University)
"Deriving optionality in Korean glide formation"
11:00-11:15 Break
Semantics
11:15-11:45 Shravan Vasishth (The Ohio State Univesity)
"Quantificational elements and polarity licensing in Japanese"
11:45-12:15 Jeong-Hwa Lee (Rice University)
"A cognitive approach to connective particles -e and -ko: Conceptual unity and conceptual separation in Korean motion verbs"
12:15-12:45 David McKercher & Yookyung Kim (Stanford University)
"What does ssik in Korean really mean?"
12:45-2:10 Lunch
Syntax
2:10-2:40 Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka)
"The structure of head-internal relative clauses in Japanese
2:40-3:10 Youngjun Jang (Chungang University)
"The role of the coordinators in interpreting ANY in Korean"
Sociolinguistics/Pragmatics/Discourse
3:10-3:40 Tomoko Kozasa (University of Hawaii)
"Code-switching in Japanese/English: A study of Japanese-American WWII veterans"
3:40-3:55 Break
3:55-4:25 Sanae Eda (The Ohio State University)
"A new approach to the analysis of the sentence final particles ne and yo: An interface between prosody and pragmatics"
4:25-4:55 Kaoru Horie & Yuko Sassa (Tohoku University)
"From place to space to discourse: A contrastive linguistic analysis of Japanese tokoro and Korean tey"
4:55-5:25 Eon-suk Ko (University of Pennsylvania)
"A discourse analysis of the realization of objects in Korean"
Sunday, August 1
9:30-10:00 Registration/Breakfast
Historical Linguistics
10:00-10:30 Christopher Beckwith (Indiana University)
"Toward common Japanese-Koguryoic: A reexamination of Old Koguryo onomastic materials"
10:30-11:00 J. Paul Warnick (Brigham Young University)
"Forgotten voices: A linguistic analysis of early recordings of the Kawakami Troup"
11:00-11:30 Kimi Miyagi (University of Hawaii)
"Ni/ni yotte variation in Japanese direct passives: A syntactic, pragmatic, and historical account"
11:30-1:30 Lunch
Phonetics/Phonology
1:30-2:00 Alice Faber and Timothy J. Vance (Haskins Laboratory & Connecticut College)
"More Acoustic traces of 'deleted' vowels in Japanese"
2:00-2:30 Muriko Kondo (University of Edinburgh)
"Syllable weight and syllable structure in Japanese"
2:30-3:00 Kazutoshi Ohno (University of Arizona)
"The lexical nature of rendaku in Japanese"
3:00-3:15 Break
Syntax
3:15-3:45 Norvin Richards (Kanda University of International Studies)
"A single attractor for Japanese long-distance scrambling"
3:45-4:15 Ae-ryung Kim (Indiana University)
"Korean WH-phrases void of an operator"
4:15-4:45 Hong-keun Park & Jinhee Suh (Univ. of Southern California & Univ. of Illinois)
"Interpretation of multiple WH-questions in Korean"
5:00-7:00 Reception
Monday, August 2
9:30-10:00 Registration/Breakfast
Phonology
10:00-10:30 Mi-Hui Cho & Shinsook Lee (Pukyong National University & Hoseo University)
"The role of a prosodic word in the ordering paradox of Korean"
10:30-11:00 Hyunkee Ahn (University of Texas)
"Laryngeal effects of stop consonants on neighboring vowels in /CV/ sequences in Korean"
Language Acquisition
11:00-11:30 Katsura Aoyama (University of Hawaii)
"The acquisition of Japanese prosody: Child's production and perception of the moraic nasal"
11:30-1:30 Lunch
Syntax
1:30-2:00 J.-R. Hayashishita (University of Southern California)
"Two ways of deriving distributive readings"
2:00-2:30 Sang-Geun Lee (University of Wisconsin)
"Causativity and two types of noncausative psych-verbs in Korean and Japanese"
2:30-3:00 Nobuko Hasegawa (Kanda University of International Studies)
"Resultatives and language variations: result phrases and VV compounds"
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-3:45 Takae Tsujioka (Georgetown University)
"Inalienable possession construction with 'do'"
Language Acquisition
3:45-4:15 Yutaka Sato (International Christian University)
"Some evidence for a zero light verb in Japanese"
4:15-4:45 Utako Minai (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
"The acquisition of Japanese passives"
4:45 Closing Remarks
Alternates:
Koji Sugisaki (University of Connecticut) "Scrambling of adjuncts and last resort"
Natsuko Tsujimura (Indiana University) "Subjective motion vs. stativity in Japanese motion verbs"
Mitsuaki Shimojo & Kyung-shim Kang (SUNY Buffalo) "Topic and activated propositions on wa and nun"
J. Marshall Unger and Yu Hirata (Ohio State Univ.) "Searching for correlations of pitch accent and rendaku in Old
Japanese"
For more information, please contact JJ Nakayama (nakayama.1@osu.edu)