Program

Venue: AG 710, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

8:15-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:15	Opening Dingxu Shi The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Sze-Wing Tang The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Session 1	Chair: Toru Ishii (Meiji University)
9:15-9:45	Mark Volpe Kyushu University "Phonological and Semantic Asymmetries in Japanese Nominalizations: Implications for the Single Engine Hypothesis and the Decomposition of Roots"
9:45-10:15	Mamori Sugita CUNY Graduate Center "The Semantics of Japanese Experiential -te iru"
10:15-10:45	Yicheng Wu The University of Hong Kong "Common Verbs Are Uncommon: A Dynamic Account of Verbal Underspecification"
10:45-11:15	Break
Session 2	Chair: Niina Zhang (National Chung Cheng University)
11:15-11:45	Chi-Ming Louis Liu National Tsing Hua University "Degree Modification of Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese"
11:45-12:15	Nai Fai Wong Leiden University "Event Quantification, Maximality and the First Phase Syntax"
12:15-1:45	Lunch
Session 3	Chair: Chunyan Ning (Hunan University)
1:45-2:15	I-Ping Wan National Chengchi University "Connectionism: Comparing Speech Error Patterns in Normals and Aphasics in Mandarin"
2:15-2:45	Hongyong Liu The Chinese University of Hong Kong "Free and Not-So-Free Demonstratives in Jingpo"
2:45-3:15	Chen-Sheng Liu National Chiao Tung University "Dimension-denoting Classifiers in Taiwanese Compound Adjectives"
3:15-3:45	Break
Session 4	Chair: Peter Svenonius (CASTL, University of Tromso)
3:45-4:15	Lawrence Cheung University of California, Los Angeles "Negative Wh-construction: Question-hood, Negation and Implicature"
4:15-4:45	Satoshi Tomioka University of Delaware "Intervention Effects in 'Why' Questions: A Presuppositional Account"
4:45-5:15	Gabriela Soare University of Geneva "Cross-linguistic Typology of Question Formation and the Antisymmetry Hypothesis"
5:15-5:30	Break
5:30-6:00	Closing Remarks C.-T. James Huang Harvard University

Latest update: December 21, 2007