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International Symposium on
Non-nominative Subjects


Organized by
the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
18-21 December 2001
Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Sanjou-kaikan Hall, University of Tokyo Campus


Day I: Tuesday, the 18th December 2001

From
To
Event
0930 0950 Registration
0950 1000 Welcome address by: Prof. Koji Miyazaki, Director of ILCAA
1000 1040 Howard LASNIK (U. of Connecticut):
Key-Note Paper :
The Position of the Accusative Subject in the Accusative-Infinitive Construction
1040 1120 Bernard COMRIE (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig):
Oblique-Case Subjects in Tsez
1120 1200 Halldor SIGURDSSON (U. of Lund):
Non-nominative Subjects in Icelandic
1200 1310
Break
1310 1350 Susann FISCHER & Joanna BLASZCZAK (U. of Postdam):
Diachronic Perspectives of Quirky Subjects
1350 1430 Michael NOONAN (U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee):
Subjectless Clauses in Irish
1430 1445
Break
1445 1525 Nick EVANS (U. of Melbourne):
Experiencer Objects in Iwaidjan Languages(Australia)
1525 1605 Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA):
'Locative-Oriented' Verbs in Balinese
1605 1620
Break
1620 1700 Masayuki ONISHI (Meio U., Nago, Japan):
Instrumental Subjects in Motuna (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea)
1800 Reception


Day II: Wednesday, the 19th December 2001

From
To
Event
1000 1040 K.V. SUBBARAO (Delhi U.):
EPP, Agreement and Non-nominative Subjects in Telugu
1040 1120 R. AMRITAVALLI (Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India):
Non-nominative Subjects in Kannada
1120 1200 K. JAYASEELAN (Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India):
Malayalam Non-nominative Subjects
1200 1310
Break
1310 1350 Peter HOOK (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA):
Case as Agreement - Non-nominative Subjects in Eastern Shina
and Non-Dative Objects in Kashmiri and Poguli
1350 1430 Balthasar BICKEL (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig):
The Syntax of Experiencers in the Himalayas
1430 1445
Break
1445 1525 James H. YOON (U. of Illinois at Urbana, USA):
Non-nominative Subjects in Korean
1525 1605 Mamoru SAITO (Nanzan U., Nagoya):
Genitive Subjects in Japanese: Implications for the theory of Null Pronouns
1605 1620
Break
1620 1700 Josef BAYER (U. of Konstanz, Germany):
Non-standard Subjects and Case


Day III: Thursday, the 20th December 2001

From
To
Event
1000 1040 Probal DASGUPTA (U. of Hyderabad, India):
Some Non-nominative Subjects in Bangla
1040 1120 Gautam SENGUPTA (U. of Hyderabad, India):
Genitive Subjects in Bangla
1120 1200 B. N. PATNAIK (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur):
Non-nominative Subjects in Oriya
1200 1310
Break
1310 1350 P.J. MISTRY (California State University, Fresno):
Subjecthood of Non-nominatives in Gujarati
1350 1430 Kashi WALI (Syracuse U., USA):
Non-nominative Subjects in Marathi
1430 1445
Break
1445 1525 Alice DAVISON (U. of Iowa, Iowa City, USA):
The VP Structure and Case Checking Properties of Sentences
with Non-nominative Subjects: Hindi/Urdu
1525 1605 Annie MONTAUT (INALCO/CNRS, Paris):
Oblique Main Arguments in Hindi as Localizing Predications :
A Discussion of Langacker's Trajectorial Model
1605 1620
Break
1620 1700 Yogendra YADAVA (Tribhuvan U., Kathmandu):
Non-nominative Subjects in Maithili


Day IV: Friday, the 21st December 2001

From
To
Event
1000 1040 Makoto MINEGISHI (ILCAA):
Southeast Asian Languages - A Case for the Caseless?
1040 1120 Tasaku TSUNODA (U. of Tokyo):
Non-canonical Constructions: An Overview
1120 1200 Anoop MAHAJAN (U. of California at Los Angeles):
On the Origin of Non-nominative Subjects
1200 1310
Break
1310 1350 Harbir K. ARORA & K.V.SUBBARAO (Delhi U.):
Syntactic Convergence : The Case of Non-nominative Subjects in Dakkhini and Konkani
1350 1430 P. UMARANI (U. of Pittsburgh, USA):
Dative Subjects in Tamil : A Computational Analysis
1430 1445
Break
1445 1525 Miriam BUTT & Tracy H. KING (U. of Konstanz & Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, USA) :
Non-nominative Subjects in Urdu - A Computational Analysis
1525 1605 B. LAKSHMIBAI (Osmania U., Hyderabad, India):
Acquisition of Dative Subject in Tamil
1605 1620
Break
1620 1700 A. USHARANI & V. SAILAJA (Osmania U., Hyderabad, India):
Acquisition of the Non-nominative Subject in Telugu

Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 51-21 Nishigahara-4, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114-8580, Japan

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