MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #67

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL8)

Editor: Umut Ozge, Year:2013

This volume contains the proceedings of WAFL8. It consists of the following contributions:

FOREWORD
Klaus von Heusinger, Jaklin Kornfilt, and Umut Ozge

ON THE AGENT/THEME ASYMMETRY IN JAPANESE NOMINATIVE/GENITIVE CONVERSION 1
Naoyuki Akaso and Tomoko Haraguchi

SOME THOUGHTS ON N-ELLIPSIS IN KOREAN 7
Duk-Ho An

NN-SI CONCATENATIONS IN TURKISH CONSTRUCT-STATE NOMINALS AND PHRASAL COM- POUNDS 13
Metin Bagriacik and Angela Ralli 13

ON SUFFIXHOOD 25
Isa Kerem Bayirli

PROPERTIES AS ANAPHORS 39
Cem Bozsahin

TURKIC NON-INFLECTIONAL PLURALS AND FEATURE BUNDLING 53
Elizabeth Coppock, Hyun-Jong Hahm, and Stephen Wechsler

PROVISIONAL AND CONDITIONAL CLAUSES IN OLD JAPANESE 65
Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen W Horn, Kerri L Russell, and Peter Sells

BACKWARD CONTROL IN EXTERNAL POSSESSION CONSTRUCTIONS IN JAPANESE 79
Kenshi Funakoshi

RESTRUCTURING IN TURKIC AUXILIARY CONSTRUCTIONS 91
Pavel Grashchenkov

TWO KINDS OF IT-CLEFTS: EVIDENCE FROM UZBEK 103
Vera Gribanova

ON THE ROLE OF PROSODIC CONSTITUENCY IN TURKISH 115
Guliz Gunes

LOOKING FOR FREE RELATIVES IN TURKISH (AND THE UNEXPECTED PLACES THIS LEADS TO) 129
Sabine Iatridou

THE GENITIVE SUBJECT IN THE YANBIAN VARIETY OF KOREAN: A VISUAL ANALOGUE SCALE ANALYSIS 153
Yinji Jin and Hideki Maki

THE DIACHRONIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE RTR ANALYSIS OF TUNGUSIC VOWEL HARMONY 159
Andrew Joseph and John Whitman

WORD ORDER PREFERENCES OF DITRANSITIVES IN TURKISH 175
Barıs Kahraman

'ALSO' IN TURKISH AND ISHKASHIMI 181
Beste Kamali and Lena Karvovskaya

SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DEFINITENESS IN KOREAN: THE CASE OF ku 187
Arum Kang

ASYMMETRICAL EFFECTS OF TOPIC-MARKING ON DISCOURSE PROCESSING AND MEMORY RETENTION 199
Lucy Kyoungsook Kim and Elsi Kaiser

THE FINE STRUCTURE OF THE VP PERIPHERY AND LOCATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH 213
Masako Maeda

TWO TYPES OF LONG SCRAMBLING IN JAPANESE: A/A'-PROPERTIES AND THE EPP ON T IN FOCUS-PROMINENT LANGUAGES 219
Suguru Mikami

NEGATIVE DEPENDENCIES IN JAPANESE 231
Shigeru Miyagawa, Nobuaki Nishioka, and Hedde Zeijlstra

IT IS ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON! LABIAL HARMONY IN TURKIC AND TUNGUSIC LANGUAGES 245
Beata Moskal

DP-INTERNAL MOVEMENTS AND FLOATING QUANTIFIERS IN JAPANESE 257
Junya Nomura

OBJECT-FIRST ORDERS IN TURKISH DO NOT POSE A CHALLENGE DURING PROCESSING 269
Duygu Ozge, Theodoros Marinis, and Deniz Zeyrek

DIFFERENTIAL CASE MARKING IN TURKIC AS INTERMEDIATE DEPENDENT CASE 281
Alexander Podobryaev

COPULA IN TURKISH 293
Yagmur Sag

SEMANTICS OF REDUPLICATED EVIDENTIALS IN TURKISH 299
Nilufer Sener

'SLUICING' WITHOUT MOVEMENT 311
Serkan Sener

DIFFERENT DEPICTIVES IN MONGOLIAN 325
Ryosuke Shibagaki and Dolgor Guntsetseg

FORMAL CONDITIONS ON THE LICENSING OF TRUE RESULTATIVES 337
Ryosuke Shibagaki and Peter Sells

NO PLACE/GOAL PS IN ARGUMENT POSITIONS IN JAPANESE: DIRECTED MOTION AS CHANGE OF LOCATION 343
Takeru Suzuki

DECOMPOSING EVENT STRUCTURE: EVIDENCE FROM DENOMINAL VERBS IN TATAR 349
Sergei Tatevosov

THE PREHEAD RELATIVE CLAUSE PROBLEM 361
John Whitman

THE TWO-GRAMMAR MODEL FOR KOREAN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 381
Erica J Yoon and Junko Shimoyama