July 19-21, 2009
Program
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Time Event Venue
08:00 – 24:00 Registration Sir Shaw Run Run Building (Yifulou,
East Campus, BFSU)
Monday Morning, July 20, 2009
Time Opening Ceremony Chair Venue
Welcome Speech
Speech by Professor WEN Qiufang, Director of National Research Center for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University 08:00–08:15
Opening Speech by Professor NING Chunyan, Tianjin Normal University
DAI Manchun Room 6 in Sir Shaw Run Run Building (Yifulou, East Campus, BFSU)
08:15-08:45 Group photo
Plenary
Session
Title Speaker Chair Venue
08:45-09:45 Invited Talk On Government and the
James HUANG ZHU Leqi Room 6 in Sir Shaw Run Run Building (Yifulou,
Minimalist Program
East Campus, BFSU) 09:45-09:55 Coffee Break
09:55-11:55 Panel Session (Session 1-1 ～ Session 1-5) 12:00-13:00 Lunch
Monday Afternoon, July 20, 2009
Time Plenary Session
Title Speaker Chair Venue
14:00-14:40 Invited Talk Action Meets Syntax:
Evolingo and Biolinguistic Minimalism
Koji FUJITA GU Gang Room 6 in Sir Shaw Run Run Building (Yifulou, East Campus, BFSU) 14:40-15:20 Invited Talk The Two
Phases of Minimalism
Cedric BOECKX NING Chunyan Room 6 in Sir Shaw Run Run Building (Yifulou, East Campus, BFSU) 15:20-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Panel Session (Session 2-1 ～ Session 2-5) 18:00 Welcome Banquet
19:30-21:30 A Special Evening with Cedric BEOCKX on Biolinguistics Room 1
Tuesday Morning, July 21, 2009
Time Plenary Session
Title Speaker Chair Venue
08:00-08:40 Invited Talk The Theory of Successive Merge
NING Chunyan SHI Dingxu Room 6 in Sir Shaw Run Run Building (Yifulou, East Campus, BFSU) 08:40-09:20 Invited Talk Biolinguistics
and Language Maturation:
With Special
Kenneth WEXLER
DAI Manchun Room 6 in Sir Shaw Run Run Building (Yifulou, East
Attention to the Case of Clefts
Campus, BFSU)
09:20-09:30 Coffee Break
09:30-11:50 Panel Session (Session 3-1 ～ Session 3-5) 12:00-13:00 Lunch
Tuesday Afternoon, July 21, 2009
Time Plenary Session
Title Speaker Chair Venue
14:00-15:00 Keynote Speech
Some
Consequences of Single-Cycle Syntax
Howard LASNIK NING Chunyan Room 6 in Sir Shaw Run Run Building (Yifulou, East Campus, BFSU) 15:00-15:40 Invited Talk Philosophy of
Language and Beyond
LIU Runqing GU Gang Room 6 in Sir Shaw Run Run Building (Yifulou, East Campus, BFSU) 15:40-16:20 Invited Talk Game Theory
and Linguistic Contexts (Yifulou, East Campus, BFSU) 16:20-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:10 Panel Session (Session 4-1 ～ Session 4-3)
18:10 Dinner
Monday Morning, July 20, 2009
Panel Session (Session 1-1)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
09:55-10:15 ZHU Leqi Light Verbs and Their Application to Causative Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
10:15-10:35 Paweł RUTKOWSKI From Left Dislocation to Subjecthood 10:35-10:55 Lindsey N. CHEN Mass Terms in Pseudopartitives 10:55-11:15 Toru ISHII Amelioration of the Subject Condition
Effects by Remnant Movement 11:15-11:35 JIANG Li (Julie) Extractions and Phase Edges 11:35-11:55 Mohammadreza
PIROOZ
On the Availability of Movement Theory of Control
HE Xiaowei
Room 1
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Panel Session (Session 1-2)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
09:55-10:15 WU Hongyan Why Taking an OT-Approach to the Inquiry of the Minimalist Goals 10:15-10:35 CAO Hui Word Order of Preverbal Indefinites
and Universals in Mandarin Chinese 10:35-10:55 CHEN Dan,
WEN Weiping
The Reference of Bare NPs in English and Chinese
10:55-11:15 CHEN Yanqiu,
LÜ Xiangzhen
The Two Ways to Realize the Number in Chinese NPs
11:15-11:35 CHEN Peng,
ZHANG Peng
A Phase-Based Approach to Chinese ziji
11:35-11:55 CHEN Zhongyi Plurality in English and Mandarin Chinese
WEN Binli
Room 2
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Panel Session (Session 1-3)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
09:55-10:15 HE
Chuansheng, JIANG Yan
On Kind Projection in Chinese Nominal Structure
10:15-10:35 CHEN Zongli, WEN Binli
Topic in Chinese Nominal Phrases
10:35-10:55 DU Ting,
WEN Weiping
On the Syntax and Semantics of “any + N＂ and “renhe(任何) + N＂
10:55-11:15 CHENG Jie A Tentative Study of the Syntactic Derivation of Mandarin Denominal Verbs
11:15-11:35 CHENG Zhenquan The Phonetic Realizations of Causative Light Verb in Mandarin Chinese 11:35-11:55 MAN Zaijiang DP Parallels with CP or Vice Versus:
Tensed Clauses as DPs
HUA Dongfan
Room 3
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Panel Session (Session 1-4)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
09:55-10:15 LI Bing Segmental Structure and the Types of Checked Syllables across Chinese Dialects
10:15-10:35 JIANG Zhaozi On Non-learnability of OT Grammar from Language Design
10:35-10:55 TIAN Feiyang IA, IP, WP, OT: A Comparison between Different Models of Analysis on the Retroflex Suffixations of Beijing Dialect
10:55-11:15 CHEN Si An OT-CC Analysis of Bidirectional Applications in Tianjin Dialect
WU Yimin
Room 4
11:15-11:35 HE Junjie Tone Sandhi in Danyang Dialect Spreading of Contour-Tone Unit Revisited
11:35-11:55 LI Mingxing Two Types of On-glide [–i] and Mandarin Syllabic Structure 12:00-13:00 Lunch
Panel Session (Session 1-5)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
09:55-10:15 YANG Xiaolu Functional Categories of Early Child Grammar: A Perspective from Mandarin Chinese
10:15-10:35 WU Zhuang What Do Numerals Mean? — Perspective from Chinese Children＇s Understanding of Cardinals
10:35-10:55 XU Yin Development of Long-Distance Binding in Mandarin Chinese Children 10:55-11:15 ZHANG Jin A Case Study of Acquisition of Syntax
in Mandarin
11:15-11:35 LIU Haiyun An Acquisition-base Syntax of Passive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese 11:35-11:55 GUO Jie Scale Structures of Gradable Adjectives
and Degree Expressions in Chinese
WANG Qi
Room 5
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Monday Afternoon, July 20, 2009
Panel Session (Session 2-1)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
15:30-15:50 HE Xiaowei A Parametric Approach to the Double Object Construction
15:50-16:10 HUA Dongfan Cataphoric Reference of Personal Pronouns in Chinese
HE Chuansheng
Room 1
16:10-16:30 HE Yunjuan,
GUO Fenglan
Variation Patterns in the Acceptation of Diminutive Suffixation /r/ in Chinese Surname：An Optimality Theoretic Account
16:30-16:50 YANG Liexiang Recursion-only Claim and its Biology Comparative Evidence
16:50-17:10 CHENG Fang The “Conflict＂ between Chomsky and Wittgenstein
17:10-17:30 DAI Tianshan Reductionism in Generative Linguistics
18:00 Dinner
Panel Session (Session 2-2)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
15:30-15:50 KAN Zhehua Independent Derivation of
Causative-Inchoative Alternation Verbs: A Distributed Morphology Account
15:50-16:10 Tommi LEUNG Mood, Structural Case, and Complementizer in Standard Arabic
16:10-16:30 LI Haoze Reflexive Binding in VP Ellipsis and Interpretation of Subject Chains 16:30-16:50 LIU Liping,
GU Gang
A Reclassification of Chinese VP Ellipsis Constructions
16:50-17:10 FU Yu A Study on VP-ellipsis under the
Framework of the “Derivation by Phase＂
in the Minimalist Syntax
17:10-17:30 MAI Tao Feature Inheritance and Scope-taking by Phase
Panel Session (Session 2-3)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
15:30-15:50 LIU Lijin The Derivation of “NP1 de (的) NP2+V de (得) R＂ Reexplored
15:50-16:10 MA Zhigang An Applicative-construction Based Analysis of the Syntax and Semantics of Two Types of Double Object Constructions in Modern Chinese 16:10-16:30 YANG Daran The Chinese Resultative V-V
Compounds and the Direct Object Restriction
16:30-16:50 YOU Mengna
A Syntactic Study of the
｀Possessor-Subject Possessee
-Object Sentence＇ in Chinese 16:50-17:10 YIN Minghua A Contrastive Study on English and
Korean Imperatives 17:10-17:30 Paweł
RUTKOWSKI, Małgorzata CZAJKOWSKA-
KISIL
On the Functional Structure of Nominals in Polish Sign Language
HAN Jingquan Room 3
18:00 Dinner
Panel Session (Session 2-4)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
15:30-15:50 LI Yue The Syllabic Structure of #sC Clusters:
Heterosyllabic or Tautosyllabic？
15:50-16:10 YUAN Ye Stress and Syllabic Interception in Cantonese Loanwords
16:10-16:30 LÜ Meng An Analysis of Tones in Shangqiu Dialect
16:30-16:50 LI Wenxin Directionality of Tone Sandhi and the Harmonic Serialism Solution 16:50-17:10 GUO Xiaodan Vowels of Chinese English Learners 17:10-17:30 ZHANG Jiao An Empirical Study of English
Consonant Clusters in Chinese Learners of English
LI Bing
Room 4
18:00 Dinner
Panel Session (Session 2-5)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
15:30-15:50 Kazumi YAMADA,
Yoichi MIYAMOTO
Acquisition of Word Order in Contexts by Child L1 Japanese-L2 English: Left Branch Effects or Specificity Effects?
15:50-16:10 QIAN Cuijing Lexical Aspect and L1 Transfer in the Acquisition of Tense-Aspect
Morphology
16:10-16:30 HOU Jiandong On the Roles of Accessibility and Animacy in the Acquisition of Relative Clauses
16:30-16:50 GAO Haiying Second Language Acquisition of English Relative Extraposition by Chinese EFL Learners
16:50-17:10 CHEN Shuichi An Empirical Study on the Acquisition of Adjective-Noun Collocational Knowledge by Chinese Learners of English
17:10-17:30 Emad Sale AWAD Relevance Theory in ELT Coursebooks
ZHANG Jingyu
Room 5
18:00 Dinner
Tuesday Morning, July 21, 2009
Panel Session (Session 3-1)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
09:30-09:50 Stefan KEINE Case Splits by Impoverishment 09:50-10:10 TONG Helong The Derivation of Verb Coping
Construction within the Framework of the Minimalist Program
10:10-10:30 WANG Qi On the Structure of the So-called Verb-copying Construction in Chinese 10:30-10:50 SHI Dingxu The Cartography of Chinese CP 10:50-11:10 WU Yimin,
YANG Huanhuan
A Unified Explanation of the Resultative Constructions in Chinese
FU Yu
Room 1
11:10-11:30 XIE Zhiguo Fixing the General Minimality Constraint
11:30-11:50 LIU Na The Coda Construction of the Chinese You-Existential Sentence
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Panel Session (Session 3-2)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
09:30-09:50 NAN Chao On Case of there be Construction in Minimalism
09:50-10:10 DAI Manchun FEX as a Feature in Deriving Existential Constructions
10:10-10:30 HE Yan On the Derivation of Existential Sentences
10:30-10:50 WEN Binli,
YUAN Fang
The Copy Analysis of the Chinese Pivotal Construction
10:50-11:10 CHEN Lijuan Multiple wh-questions
11:10-11:30 YANG Jun Prosody-syntax Mapping in English and Chinese: From Direct/Indirect References to Edge Visibility
ZHANG Heyou
Room 2
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Panel Session (Session 3-3)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
09:30-09:50 Soyoung EOM No Nouns, No Verbs
09:50-10:10 Yangsook PARK Two Different Combinations of the Verb gao ｀搞＇ with Nouns in Mandarin Chinese : Based on the Theory of Generative Lexicon 10:10-10:30 LIU Changzhen On ta gao ta de ge xin and Related
Problems
10:30-10:50 ZU Xin On Case and Agreement in Jingpo
YANG Caimei
Room 3
10:50-11:10 Xuan DI Postpositional Phrases and Conditions on QR in Mandarin (Beijing Dialect) 11:10-11:30 ZHOU Changyin An Analysis of the Chinese Zhui-lei
Construction within the Framework of Event Syntax
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Panel Session (Session 3-4)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
09:30-09:50 DONG Xiaoli Hidden Phonotactic Knowledge of L2 Listeners
09:50-10:10 Wen MA Learning English through
Family-Based Literacy Activities in an American Context
10:10-10:30 NOTLEY Anna, ZHOU Peng, JENSEN Britta, CRAIN Stephen
Children＇s Interpretation of before and or in English and Mandarin Chinese
10:30-10:50 CHAI Yi Are Functional Categories Missing in the Early L2 Grammar? — A Case Study
10:50-11:10 GAO Jian The Acquisition of Topic Constructions by Chinese EFL Learners: An
Empirical Study
11:10-11:30 CAI Qing Research on the Attrition of ESL Skills 11:30-11:50 WEI Longxing Abstract Lexical Structure and Its
Implications for Interlanguage Construction
WU Hongyan
Room 4
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Panel Session (Session 3-5)
Time Speaker Title Chair Venue
09:30-09:50 ZHANG Jingyu, MA Zheng
The Role of Specificity in Chinese Students＇ Acquisition of English Articles
09:50-10:10 ZHOU Yuanyuan The Efficacy of Negative Evidence on the Second Language Acquisition of English Definite Article The 10:10-10:30 SUN Lan,
SHAO Yang
Bilingual Lexical Representation Models Revisited: Evidence from Word-translation and Word-recognition Studies
10:30-10:50 LIANG Yi Chinese Learners＇ Acquisition of English Finite Verb Inflections 10:50-11:10 LI Duanyang L2 Acquisition of English Psych Verbs
By Native Speakers of Chinese 11:10-11:30 LI Zhi,
LIU Aijuan
Age Effects on Chinese EFL Learner＇s Acquisition of Non-null Subject
YANG Xiaolu
Room 5
12:00-13:00 Lunch