Workshop on Dynamic Syntax:
What can the study of head-final languages contribute to the theory?

9:00am-6:00pm, October 6, 2006
Collaboration Room 1, 4th Floor, Building 18
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University (Komaba Campus)

Program

 
9:30

Opening

9:35-10:15

Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University): Introduction: A Crash Course in Dynamic Syntax [Abstract]
10:15-11:00

Hiroaki Nakamura (Japan Coast Guard Academy): Topic-Comment Articulation: A Dynamic Syntax Approach to Information Packaging [Abstract]
11:00-11:45

Yoshiki Mori (Tsukuba University) and Ken-ichiro Shirai (Chukyo University): Dynamics in Context Shift [Abstract]
11:45-13:15 Lunch Break
13:15-14:00

Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University): Dynamic Syntax as a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Human Parsing [Abstract]
14:00-14:45

Masahiro Kobayashi (Tottori University): Anaphoric Treatment of Floating Quantifiers in Japanese and Grammar Implementation [Abstract]
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-17:00

Invited Lectures:
Grammars as Parsers: Making Syntax Dynamic
Ruth Kempson (Kingfs College London): Grammars as Parsers: Japanese - The Challenge of Word-Order Variation [Abstract]
Jieun Kiaer (Kingfs College London): Incrementally Parsing the Syntax of Verb-Final Languages [Abstract]
17:00-17:10 Break
17:10-18:00 Free Discussion (Chair: Hiroaki Nakamura)