Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 10-12 September 2025

Programme

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Wednesday, 10th of September

2025-09-10 09:30Registration
2025-09-10 10:00Welcome
2025-09-10 10:10Invited Talk
Upsorn Tawilapakul (Thammasat University)
2025-09-10 11:10Break
2025-09-10 11:30Madeline Ladore (Georg-August Universität Göttingen):
From class to category: The development of the mass-count distinction in Asante Twi
2025-09-10 12:00Margaret Asperheim, Johnny Rudolph (University of California, Berkeley):
Mass nouns and number agreement in Nukuoro
2025-09-10 12:30Lunch
2025-09-10 13:30Virginia Dawson (Western Washington University):
Group kin terms in Tiwa: Non-symmetric reciprocal plurals
2025-09-10 14:10J. Cooper Roberts, Yizhen Jiang, Haoming Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
How to talk about groups in a language without group nouns: The case of Passamaquoddy
2025-09-10 14:50Break
2025-09-10 15:10Carla Bombi (Universität Potsdam), Dinah Adom Mac-Arthur (Georg-August Univeristät Göttingen):
Quasi-names in Akan: New semantic fieldwork on definite bare nouns
2025-09-10 15:50Ariela Ye, Aidan Sharma, Jiayuan Chen (Rutgers University):
Definiteness and familiarity in Yemba
2025-09-10 16:30Break
2025-09-10 16:50Aidan Sharma (Rutgers University):
Magahi determiner spreading
2025-09-10 17:30Ka-Fai Yip, Comfort Ahenkorah (Yale University):
Exclusive focus in Akan and type flexibility
2025-09-10 18:10End of Day 1

Thursday, 11th of September

2025-09-11 10:00Invited Talk
John Gluckman (University of Kansas):
Manner deixis and complementizers
2025-09-11 11:00Break
2025-09-11 11:20Rong He (Tsinghua University):
Mandarin he: Conjunction as scalar implicature
2025-09-11 11:50Sukchan Lee (Seoul National University):
Korean -lato as additive free choice
2025-09-11 12:20Lunch
2025-09-11 13:30Minghui Qiu, Xuping Li (Zhejiang University):
Approximation via comparison: Mandarin duō in numerical expressions
2025-09-11 14:10Kang Franco Liu (University of California, Berkeley), Huawu Xiang (Shanghai Normal University):
Standard-topic comparatives in Northern Tujia
2025-09-11 14:50Break
2025-09-11 15:10Maryam Mohammadi (Bielefeld University), Todor Koev (Ben Gurion University):
Association with contrastive topic: Farsi ke and the need for a topic shift
2025-09-11 15:50Rong He, Mingming Liu (Tsinghua University):
Fragment questions as contrastive topics over QUD
2025-09-11 16:30Break
2025-09-11 16:50Luis Alonso Ovalle, Martina Martinović, Junko Shimoyama (McGill University):
Event relatives in Wolof
2025-09-11 17:30Ryan Walter Smith (Rutgers University):
Decomposing memory reports: A Kurdish perspective
2025-09-11 18:10End of Day 2

Friday, 12th of September

2025-09-12 10:00Invited Talk
Norikazu Kogura (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies):
Evidentiality and information structure in Sibe (Xibe)
2025-09-12 11:00Break
2025-09-12 11:20Tim Jantarungsee (University College London), Christopher Davis (University of the Ryukyus), Yasutada Sudo (University College London):
Selectional restriction in Mlabri ingestion verbs
2025-09-12 11:50Anna Kulikova, Daria Sidorkina (HSE University):
Past time reference in a language with not-so-optional tense: The case of Forest Nenets
2025-09-12 12:20Lunch
2025-09-12 13:30Gune Kim, Michael Barrie (Sogang University):
The semantics of past tense in Eastern Tamang
2025-09-12 14:10Sihwei Chen, Gan-ling Tan (Academia Sinica):
A language with multiple tenses: Evidence from Vernacular Atayalic Japanese
2025-09-12 14:50Break
2025-09-12 15:100Junri Shimada (Meiji Gakuin University), Abdul-Razak Sulemana (University of Ghana):
Embedded tenses in Bùlì
2025-09-12 15:50Daria Sidorkina (HSE University):
Deriving epistemic modality from inverted negation in Forest Nenets
2025-09-12 16:30Break
2025-09-12 16:50Shweta Akolkar, Uttam Singha (University of California, Berkeley):
Asymmetries in the expression of modality in Bishnupriya Manipuri
2025-09-12 17:30Ates Ismail Calisir, Tekla Gabunia (Georg-August Univeristät Göttingen):
Performative modality without imperative morphology: The case of Georgian ver
2025-09-12 18:10Business Meeting