All talks and poster sessions will be held in the R Building (Venue). Please check in at the reception desk on the ground floor of the R Building.
Day１（March 13）
| 13:00-13:10 |
Opening Remarks (Flatten Hall) |
| 13:10-14:10 |
Invited Talk |
| Presenter: Jo-Wang Lin (Academia Sinica) |
| Title of Presentation: The Copula as a Function Variable: Pair-List Shi in Mandarin Chinese |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Break |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Presentation 01 (R49) |
| Presenter: Mouma Banik (University of Delhi) |
| Title of Presentation: Licensing hyper-raising in Bangla through evidentiality |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Presentation 02 |
| Presenter: Madhusmitha Venkatesan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) |
| Title of Presentation: Biological Gender, nP, and the Syntax of Predicative Possession in Tamil |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Presentation 03 |
| Presenter: Zhendong Liu (University of Southern California) and Lang Gaji (University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) |
| Title of Presentation: The semantics of direct evidentials in Rngaba Amdo Tibetan |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Break |
| 16:20-16:50 |
Presentation 04 |
| Presenter: Qiushi Chen (University of Connecticut) |
| Title of Presentation: Accidental gaps and agreement in Hokkaido Ainu |
| 16:50-17:20 |
Presentation 05 |
| Presenter: J. Cooper Roberts (Massachusuetts Institute of Technology) |
| Title of Presentation: Honor omnivorously: The syntax of politeness in Kikai Amami |
| 17:20-17:50 |
Presentation 06 |
| Presenter: Zetao Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| Title of Presentation: The DP structure of nDrapa: When a classifier and a deifnite marker co-occur |
Day２（March 14）
| 9:30-10:30 |
Invited Talk (Flatten Hall) |
| Presenter: Daiko Takahashi (Tohoku University) |
| Title of Presentation: Sluicing in Disguise |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Break |
| 10:50-11:20 |
Presentation 07 (R49) |
| Presenter: Koki Morishita (Kwansei Gakuin University) |
| Title of Presentation: The Syntax of Fragments in Japanese: The View from Chlidren's Interpretation of Disjunction |
| 11:20-11:50 |
Presentation 08 |
| Presenter: Yu Tazaki (Nanzan University) |
| Title of Presentation: Psychoilnguistic Evidence for the EPP in Japanese Double Complement Unaccusatives |
| 11:50-12:20 |
Presentation 09 |
| Presenter: Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee (City University of Hong Kong) & Ka-Fai Yip (Yale University) |
| Title of Presentation: Revisiting Parallel Chains: a long road to repetition |
| 12:20-14:20 |
Lunch and Poster Session 1 (Flatten Hall Foyer) |
| 14:20-14:50 |
Presentation 10 (R49) |
| Presenter: Adæmrys Chihjen CHENG (University of Ottawa) |
| Title of Presentation: Yami Wh-questions as Pseudoclefts |
| 14:50-15:20 |
Presentation 11 |
| Presenter: Wenze WU (City University of Hong Kong) |
| Title of Presentation: Between InTopP and InFocP: Mandarin Causal Zenme Undergoing Wh‑Topicalization |
| 15:20-15:50 |
Presentation 12 |
| Presenter: Ekaterina Georgieva (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics) |
| Title of Presentation: On sluicing-like constructions |
| 15:50-16:10 |
Break |
| 16:10-16:40 |
Presentation 13 |
| Presenter: Jiayuan Chen (Rutgers University) |
| Title of Presentation: Derive anti-uniqueness in English demonstratives for free from focus |
| 16:40-17:10 |
Presentation 14 |
| Presenter: Simon Wimmer (Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf) |
| Title of Presentation: Wähnen and how not to predict its falsity presupposition |
| 17:10-17:40 |
Presentation 15 |
| Presenter: YI-HSUN CHEN (National Chengchi University) |
| Title of Presentation: On nominal similative plurality in Taiwanese Mandarin |
| 17:40-18:40 |
Poster Session 2 (Flatten Hall Foyer) |
| 19:00-21:00 |
Conference Dinner (Sweets Magic Lab. Cafeteria in the C buiding) |
Day３（March 15）
| 9:30-10:00 |
Presentation 16 (R49) |
| Presenter: Liu (Willow) Yang (University of Cambridge) |
| Title of Presentation: A feature-based approach to relativisation in predicative nominals |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Presentation 17 |
| Presenter: Yosub Shin (National Tsing Hua University) |
| Title of Presentation: A Diachronic Study of Chinese Causal How-expressions |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Presentation 18 |
| Presenter: Youngho Lee (Seoul National University) |
| Title of Presentation: The syntax of ought: External Merge above TP |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Break |
| 11:20-12:20 |
Keynote Talk (Flatten Hall) |
Presenter: Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) and Dalina Kallulli (University of
Vienna) |
| Title of Presentation: Discovering Parameters |
| 12:20-12:30 |
Closing Remarks |
Poster Session Program
| Poster Session 1 (Flatten Hall Foyer) |
| Presenter |
Title of Presentation |
| Haoliang Liu* (University of Florida) |
DOM Bleeds Argument Ellipsis: A Case-Movement Account |
| Shuki Otani* (The University of Osaka) |
Exploring Null Arguments under Agreement from a Different Perspective |
| Sukchan Lee (Seoul National University) |
lllocutionary Force in (and out of) Syntax: Evidence from Korean Negative Imperatives |
| Yuta Kato (Kobe University) |
The Syntactic Mechanism of Honorification in the Miracle Creed Framework |
| Hajime Miyamoto (Kagoshima University) |
Externailzation of copies within the Form Copy framework |
| Yiyang Guo (University ofC ambridge) |
Postverbal event counting expressions and Object Shift in Mandarin Chinese |
| Monica Rajguru (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar) |
Null pro in Odia: Evidence from Ditransitives and Psych-Predicate Constructions |
| Vlad Orlov (lnstitute of Linguistics of RAS, MIT) & Daria Belova (Institute of Linguistics RAS/HSE University, Moscow) |
Detransitivization as agreement with an implicit argument: The case of Tatyshly Udmurt |
| Takato Yamamoto (Kyushu University) |
On Relativization of Instrumental PPs |
| Sumedha Gupta (Georg-August-Univ ersität Göttingen) |
Simple Past in Bangla: Not that Simple! |
| Ryuta Ono (University of Connecticut) |
Wh-scope marking via prosody and partial wh-movement in Japanese |
| * Also designated as an alternate oral speaker |
| Poster Session 2 (Flatten Hall Foyer) |
| Presenter |
Title of Presentation |
| Nozomi Moritake* (Fukuoka University) |
On the Argument/Adjunct Asymmetry in Quotative Expressions |
| Koichi Kono* (University of Tokyo) |
Variations of DP-Structures in West Germanic and their Effects on Syntactic Phenomena |
| Biswanath Dash (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) |
Denominal Verbailzation in Santali: Evidence for Compositionality |
Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee (City University of
Hong Kong) |
Optional but not free: Licensing Focus Projection in East Asian languages |
| Thu Trang Ho (National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan)) |
The Semantics of Vietnamese Adverbs 'Còn' and 'Vẫn': A Formal Comparative Study with the English 'Still' |
| Ryoya Saito (Kobe University) |
Depictives and Applicatives: A Japanese and English Perspective |
| Wenjun SHI (Kyoto University) |
The verb copying construction: A Form Set-based account |
| Zhuang Chen (Bar-IIan University) |
Comparison without degrees |
| Yuka Usui (Kyushu University) |
Incorporation as a Case of Reverse Internal Pair-Merge |
| Hiroaki Saito (Mie University) |
Attitude shift and the left periphery in Japanese |
| Jiwon Kim (Incheon National University) |
The syntax and semantics of dative-nominative √EXIST constructions in Korean |
| Holly Drayton (New castle University) |
Inner Aspect and Voice in Belait (and the Lower Baram) |
| * Also designated as an alternate oral speaker |
