### Seminar in Linguistics
This is an informal seminar in linguistics with Professor Robert Levine
of Ohio State University, who is visiting Tsukuba from January to June
on his sabbatical.
#### Organizers
Masaharu Shimada (shimada.masaharu.fu |AT| u.tsukuba.ac.jp)
Yusuke Kubota (kubota.yusuke.fn |AT| u.tsukuba.ac.jp)
#### Time and location
Time: Thursday afternoon, 13:45--
Room: Jinsha-tou A101, University of Tsukuba (except if noted otherwise)
#### Schedule
2/1: **Robert Levine**
'What are we missing? Formal grammar, functional factors and the analysis of ellipsis'
[[abstract]](levine.html)
2/8: **Masatoshi Honda**
'Syntactic Realization of Emphatic Information Focus, with Special Reference to Negative Inversion in English'
[[abstract]](honda.html)
2/15: **Yukio Hirose** 'Two Types of Comparison: Predication-Based vs. Domain-Based'
[[abstract]](hirose.html)
2/22 (13:30-17:30): **Yusuke Kubota**, **Misato Ido**, **Ayaka Suzuki**
- Yusuke Kubota: 'Treebanks and theoretical linguistics research' [[abstract]](IdoSuzuki.html)
- Misato Ido: 'Distribution and licensing of adverbial NPIs beyond clause boundaries in Japanese' [[abstract]](IdoSuzuki.html#ido)
- Ayaka Suzuki: 'Corpus-based investigations of the temporal interpretations of the* toki-*clause' [[abstract]](IdoSuzuki.html#suzuki)
3/1 (13:30-17:30, Room: **A520**): **Nobuyoshi Miyoshi**, **Koyo Akuzawa & Dandan Wang**, **Shohei Nagata**
- Nobuyoshi Miyoshi:
'Distribution of non-restrictive adnominal clause in different text genres'
[[abstract]](0301.html)
- Koyo Akuzawa & Dandan Wang:
'Finite Control in Japanese and Chinese: Its syntactic and semantic properties'
[[abstract]](0301.html#akuzawa)
- Shohei Nagata: 'On Verum Focus in emphatic *do* and VP Ellipsis'
[[abstract]](0301.html#nagata)
3/8: **No meeting**
3/15 (13:30-17:30): **Ryohei Naya**, **Masatoshi Honda**
- CANCELLED: Ryohei Naya
'On the Two Factors Triggering Subhead Phenomena in English Compounds'
[[abstract]](naya.pdf)
- Masatoshi Honda
'Copy Raising and the Role of Predication in Evidential Marking'
[[abstract]](honda.pdf)
3/21-22: [Workshop on Conceptual and Methodological Alternatives in Theoretical Linguistics](workshop.html)
4/5 (13:45-17:45): **Nivedita Kumari**, **Masaharu Shimada**
- Nivedita Kumari 'Teaching the rules for the use of reported speech in English'
[[abstract]](kumari.html)
- Masaharu Shimada 'Depictive predicates with attributive structures'
[[abstract]](shimada.pdf)
4/12 (13:45-17:45): **Takashi Ishida**, **Hiroko Wakamatsu**
- Takashi Ishida
'Japanese Adjective Phrases Behaving Like Direct Modifiers: With Special
Reference to A-N Synaesthetic Expressions' [[abstract]](ishida.pdf)
- Hiroko Wakamatsu
'Insertional Mixing of English “Let’s” into Japanese' [[abstract]](wakamatsu.html)
4/19 (13:45-15:45, Room: **A520**): **Yuichi Ono**
'Behavioral similarities and differences in Head and Modifier
relationship between borrowed English prepositions *in *and *with* in
Japanese recipe names' [[abstract]](ono.html)
4/26 (13:45-17:45): **Misato Ido**, **Ayaka Suzuki**
- Misato Ido
'The semantic difference between *dake* and *sika* focusing on their presupposition set' [[abstract]](0426.html)
- Ayaka Suzuki
'The nominative object in Japanese and the genericity of object nouns'
[[abstract]](0426.html#suzuki)
5/10 (**15:00-19:00**): **Takeshi Oguro**, **Nobuyoshi Miyoshi**
- Takeshi Oguro 'Speech Act Phrase and Point of View' [[abstract]](oguro.pdf)
- Nobuyoshi Miyoshi 'Two Types of Intentional Predicates from the Viewpoint of Relative Clause in Japanese'
5/17: **No meeting**
5/24 (13:45-17:45): **Yukio Hirose**, **Hiroaki Konno**
- Yukio Hirose
1. 'Introduction: English and Japanese as seen from the three-tier model of language use'
[[abstract]](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/isle5/workshops/ws9.htm)
2. 'English as a public-self-centered language and Japanese as a
private-self-centered language'
[abstract]
- Hiroaki Konno
'English and Japanese constructions without hearer-orientation'
[[abstract]](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/isle5/workshops/pdfs/ws9/3.Konno.pdf)
5/31 (13:45-17:45): **Naoaki Wada**, **Masaru Kanetani**
- Masaru Kanetani
'Innovation because deviation: Cases of _because_ constructions'
[[abstract]](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/isle5/workshops/pdfs/ws9/4.Kanetani.pdf)
- Naoaki Wada
'How to express (indirect) speech acts in English and Japanese:
A perspective from the three-tier model of language use'
[[abstract]](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/isle5/workshops/pdfs/ws9/5.Wada.pdf)
6/7 (13:45-17:45): Monday Research Seminar Participants' Presentation Session:
**Haruka Shimura**, **Satomi Takemoto**, **Masatoshi Honda**, **Kanato Ochiai**
- Haruka Shimura 'The differences between the present perfect and the present perfect progressive'
- Satomi Takemoto 'Analysis of unaccusative causatives'
- Masatoshi Honda 'Negative Inversion as Information Focus Movement'
- Kanato Ochiai 'On the usage tendency of conjunctions in LINE conversations'
#### Acknowledgment
We gratefully acknowledge the support of JSPS KAKENHI Grant number
15K16732 and the OSU Larger Grant Award for Arts and Humanities to host
this seminar series.