The workshop focuses on the linguistic analysis of “zero”, following the last workshop held in March.
Linguistic analyses often assume a zero form when there is nothing tangible on the surface. However, since a zero does not have any substance, it is sometimes quite difficult to determine whether there is actually a zero or nothing. In the workshop, we shall discuss problems concerning a linguistic zero on the basis of case examples from various languages.

Linguistic analyses often assume a zero form when there is nothing tangible on the surface. However, since a zero does not have any substance, it is sometimes quite difficult to determine whether there is actually a zero or nothing. In the workshop, we shall discuss problems concerning a linguistic zero on the basis of case examples from various languages.

This workshop is held as the second meeting of “Grammatical Studies Workshops.” Following the first one in May, it addresses various problems concerning adjectives. In Japanese, attributive notions are mainly categorized into “adjectives.” In not a few languages, however, such notions are expressed by verbs or nouns, which often manifest grammatical idiosyncrasy. This workshop attempts to illustrate that idiosyncrasy from some notional perspectives as “(per-/con-)ception”, “attributive predication” and “temporality.”

This workshop is held as the first meeting of “Grammatical Studies Workshops.”
In Japanese, attributive notions are mainly categorized into “adjectives.”However, in not a few languages, these notions are categorized as verbs or nouns. In such cases, it is quite common that those verbs and nouns which describe attributive notions manifest grammatical idiosyncrasy. This workshop attempts to illustrate that idiosyncrasy from some notional perspectives as “(per-/con-)ception”, “attributive predication” and “temporality.”