Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL17)

Editor: Edited by Erdene-Ochir Tumen-Ochir, Julia Sinitsyna, and Shigeru Miyagawa, Year:2024

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD
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ON THE NATURE OF REFLEXIVE POSSESSIVE AGREEMENT IN MONGOLIAN: FROM NOMINALS TO CLAUSES
Zhiyu Mia Gong, Miloje Despić
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NULL ARGUMENTS IN EA LANGUAGES REVISITED
Mamoru Saito
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A REDUCED CLEFT ANALYSIS OF REDUCED EMBEDDED QUESTIONS WITH MULTIPLE WH-PHRASES IN CHAKHAR MONGOLIAN
Xue Bai
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CONTIGUITY, PNI, AND DOM
Michael Barrie
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DOUBLE SIDEWARD MOVEMENT IS FORM-SEQUENCE: JAPANESE SURPRISING CONSTITUENTS
Yuqiao DU
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THE DIAGNOSTIC STATUS OF NON-NEGATIVE CONTEXTS FOR NEGATIVE CONCORD: THE VIEW FROM TURKISH
Isaac Gould, Sam Alxatib
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POSITIONAL RESTRICTION ON CASE ASSIGNMENT: EVIDENCE FROM KOREAN CASE-MARKED ADVERBIALS
Eunsun Jou
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PHASE-EDGE NPI LICENSING IN KOREAN
Dahoon Kim, Jungu Kang, Heesun Yeom
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FINITENESS, AGREEMENT AND SUBJECT CASE IN TWO VARIETIES OF MONGOLIAN
Jun Jie Lim
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TRANSITIVE RESTRICTION AND GA/NO CONVERSION IN JAPANESE
Nobuaki Nishioka
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WEAK HEADS AT THE INTERFACE: A VIEW FROM TEMPORAL ADVERBIAL CLAUSES
Hiromune Oda, Yuta Tatsumi, Yoichi Miyamoto
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THE EXTERNAL SYNTAX OF MONGOLIAN CONVERBS
Sable Peters
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WHY ARE ALTAIC SCALAR NPIS SO STRONG?
Petr Rossyaykin
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LIGHT VERB-STRANDING “VP-ELLIPSIS” IN JAPANESE
Yuta Sakamoto
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LICENSING THE GENITIVE DP IN JAPANESE VIA NOMINALIZATION
Koji Shimamura, Norio Nasu, Takayuki Akimoto, Yusuke Yoda
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ON A NEW TYPE OF D-LICENSING APPROACH TO NOMINATIVE/GENITIVE CONVERSION IN JAPANESE
Naoyuki Akaso
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A THEORY OF COORDINATE STRUCTURE FORMATION AND “ATB-SCRAMBLING” IN JAPANESE
Masahiro Akiyama
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TEMPORAL -MADE IN JAPANESE AND ITS INTERACTION WITH ASPECT AND POLARITY
Sam Alxatib, Yasutada Sudo
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REANALYZING SPEECH STYLE ENDINGS IN KOREAN
Duk-Ho An
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A CARTOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO EVIDENTIAL MARKERS IN KOREAN AND JAPANESE: POTA AND SOODA
Duk-Ho An, Masako Maeda
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PROSODIC EVIDENCE FOR REDUCED NOMINALS IN UZBEK
Jungu Kang
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THE (IN)APPLICABILITY OF THE SUBJECT CONDITION IN JAPANESE: PARAMETERIZATION OF FEATURE INHERITANCE AND COUNTER-CYCLIC FOCUS-MOVEMENT
Suguru Mikami
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DISJUNCTIVE AND CONJUNCTIVE KOREAN PARTICLE NA
Hajime Mori
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ON THE POSITIONS OF FOCUSED NOMINATIVE SUBJECTS IN JAPANESE
Nozomi Moritake, Nobuaki Nishioka
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TENSE, ASPECT, AND EVIDENTIALITY IN KHALKHA MONGOLIAN
Anujin Munkhbat
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SELECTION AND DIRECTNESS IN MONGOLIAN CAUSATIVES
Anujin Munkhbat, Sable Peters
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TURKIC DATIVE PRONOUN ALTERNATION: DIACHRONIC TYPOLOGY & FAITHFULNESS HIERARCHIES
Kutay Serova
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DM APPROACH TO HISTORICAL DIFFERENCE IN THE SEQUENCE OF KOREAN SUBJECT HONORIFIC -SI
Jaehong Shim
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A MODAL APPROACH TO THE JAPANESE HIGH-APPLICATIVE EXPRESSION -TEMORAW
Akitaka Yamada
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NOT ALWAYS INTRODUCING ARGUMENTS: THE SYNTAX OF HIGH-APPLICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN JAPANESE
Akitaka Yamada, Taika Nagano
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