diachronic synchronic studies syntax east asian languages symposium diachronic synchronic studies syntax east asian languages november 6 8 1998 university southern california preliminary program rooms announced later friday 11 6 9 00 welcoming remarks 9 1510 10 distribution negative nps james huang university california irvine 10 1011 05 parametrizing existential quantification wei tien dylan tsai tsing hua university break 11 1512 05 category ba mandarin chinese yafei li university wisconsin madison 12 05 1 00 early history perfective construction tsu lin mei cornell university lunch break 2 00 2 55 classifiers count mass distinction keiko muromatsu mit 2 55 3 50 synchronic diachronic study plurality mandarin chinese audrey li usc yuzhi shi stanford university break 4 05 5 00 empty determiners nominalization east asia andrew simpson soas 5 00 5 55 functional structure noun phrase korean james yoon seoul national university 6 30 banquet saturday 11 7 8 45 9 40 anaphoric relations japanese preliminary remarks hajime hoji usc 9 4010 35 kare distal demonstrative third person pronoun yukinori takubo kyusyu university break 10 4511 40 relation deictic use nondeictic use japanese demonstratives satoshi kinsui osaka university 11 4012 35 two types scrambling constructions japanese ayumi ueyama kyoto university foreign studies lunch break 1 35 2 30 irrealis korean nam kil kim usc 2 30 3 25 person evidentiality japanese carol tenny mit break 3 35 4 30 status functional categories korean hedon ahn kon kuk university 4 30 5 25 causatives scope ambiguity soowon kim university washington break 5 35 6 30 judgments point view interpretation causee noun phrases kuroda ucsd sunday 11 8 8 00 9 00 breakfast 9 00 9 55 computational approach case word order korean william ogrady university hawaii manoa 9 5510 50 anaphoric relations covert syntax yoshihisa kitagawa indiana university break 11 0512 00 historical considerations place words chinese alain peyraube ehesscnrs 12 0012 55 proxy categories phrase structure theory chinese vp waltraud paul ehesscnrs 12 55 1 50 adjuncts word order typology east asian languages tom ernst rutgers university temple university information please contact hajime hoji hoji usc edu audrey li audreyli usc edu nam kil kim nkim usc edu