MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #83
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL12)
Leyla Zidani-Eroğlu, Matthew Ciscel, and Elena Koulidobrova, 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Leyla Zidani-Eroğlu, Matthew Ciscel, Elena Koulidobrova DISCOURSE PARTICIPANTS IN THE NOMINAL DOMAIN: EVIDENCE FROM VOCATIVES Faruk Akkuș CONDITION C RECONSTRUCTION IN JAPANESE A-MOVEMENT Akihiko Arano THE LICENSE TO ALTERNATE IN TURKISH CHANGE OF STATE VERBS: EVIDENCE FOR A COMPOSITIONAL ACCOUNT Feyza Balakbabalar ECM IN BURYAT AND THE OPTIONALITY OF MOVEMENT Tatiana Bondarenko POSSESSIVE PASSIVES IN JAPANESE Yunchuan Chen A NEW APPROACH TO TURKISH NOMINALIZED CLAUSES Justin Colley and Colin Davis LOCALITY AND COPULAR ALLOMORPHY IN NORTH AZERI Colin Davis A COMPOSITIONAL SEMANTICS FOR TURKISH CORRELATIVES Ömer Demirok ASPECTUAL DOMAIN AS A PROSODIC CONSTITUENT IN TURKISH Betul Erbasi THE END OF THE VOICING CONTROVERSY IN PROTO-KOREAN-JAPANESE Alexander T. Francis-Ratte PROJECTION OF NULL OPERATOR AND ITS DISTRIBUTION IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH Ryosuke Hattori A MOVEMENT ANALYSIS OF JAPANESE “GAPLESS TOPICALIZATION” Toru Ishii NON-TENSED ATTRIBUTIVE MODIFIERS IN JAPANESE: JAPANESE MIMETICS AS PRENOMINAL MODIFIERS Miyuki Kamiya PARADIGM UNIFORMITY IN HERITAGE KOREAN Yoonjung Kang ONE FUNCTION OR LABOR DIVISION: TWO ASPECT SIGNS IN TID Serpil Karabüklü NEG IN VP-COORDINATION AND SUSPENDED AFFIXATION IN JAPANESE Ryoichiro Kobayashi and Yusuke Yoda NCIS AT THE SYNTAX-PROSODY INTERFACE AND THE POSITION OF NEG IN JAPANESE/KOREAN COORDINATION Ryoichiro Kobayashi UYGHUR CONTRASTIVE POLARITY QUESTIONS: A CASE OF VERB- STRANDING “TP-ELLIPSIS” Travis Major WEAK HEAD AND ITS MORPHOSYNTACTIC CONSEQUENCES Takashi Nakajima ANTI-TOPICALIZATION IN EMBEDDED CONTEXTS Norio Nasu THE SYNTAX OF MIDDLE VOICE IN KESEN Fumikazu Niinuma and Hideya Takahashi A NON-UNIFIED ANALYSIS OF “BEFORE” CLAUSES IN JAPANESE Hiromune Oda and Yuta Tatsumi RELATIVE CLAUSE ELLIPSIS IN KOREAN AND JAPANESE Jayeon Park, Hiroaki Saito, Marcin Dadan and Yongsuk Yoo VERBAL HEAD INCORPORATION IN TURKISH Yağmur Sağ NOT SO HYPER: A-MOVEMENT BEYOND CLAUSE BOUNDARIES? Yushi Sugimto GRAMMATICALIZATION OF THE NUMERAL “ONE” IN JAPANESE: A COMPOSITIONAL SEMANTIC ANALYSIS Yuta Tatsumi A NEW EMBEDDING STRATEGY: PURPOSEFUL QUESTIONS IN JAPANESE AND KOREAN Satoshi Tomioka and Jooyoung Kim SPECIFICITY EFFECTS OF TURKISH DIFFERENTIAL OBJECT MARKING Klaus von Heusinger and Elif Bamyacı A UNIFIED ACCOUNT OF DIRECTED MOTION CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE Masaki Yasuhara and Kazuya Nishimaki ANTI-CAUSATIVES OF EXTERNALLY CAUSED EVENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY Masaki Yasuhara POSITIONAL VARIATION AND REGULAR STRESS OF THE YES/NO QUESTION MARKER ON TURKISH VERBS Heather Lynn Yawney DESONORIZATION IN KYRGYZ: A CUE-BASED ACCOUNT Hanzhi Zhu