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Keynote addresses:

C.-T. James Huang
Harvard University
"Macro- and Micro-parametric Changes and the History
of Chinese Syntax"

Kenneth Wexler
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Developing Phases, Verbal, Resultant State and
Target State Passives, Inverse Copulas, Clefts: the
Interaction of Brilliant Plasticity and Genetically
Guided Principles"

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Invited talks:

R. Amritavalli and K. A. Jayaseelan
The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
"Clause Structure and Early Acquisition of Split Ergativity and Negation"

Tanmoy Bhattacharya
University of Delhi
"Free Relatives in Bangla"

Jo-wang Lin
National Chiao Tung University
"Chinese Comparatives in Comparative Perspective"
 
Anoop Mahajan
University of California at Los Angeles
"Reverse Engineering Two Word Order Generalizations"

Mamoru Saito
Nanzan University
"Argument Ellipsis and (the Absence of) Agreement"

Daiko Takahashi
Tohoku University
"Argument Ellipsis from a Crosslinguistic Perspective: an Interim Report"

Wei-tien Dylan Tsai
National Tsing Hua University
"On Middle Applicatives"

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Conference papers:
(In alphabetical order of author name)

Anne Abeille and Robert Borsley
University Paris 7 and University of Essex
"On the Syntax of Comparative Correlatives"

Edith Aldridge
University of Washington
"Featural Parameters in Austronesian Syntax"

Rahul Balusu
New York University
"Consonantal Sandhi in Telugu: Variable Deletion and Overlap at Work"

Michael Barrie
University of British Columbia
"Cyclic Linearization and the Reunification of CED"

Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg and Ian Roberts
Cambridge University and Newcastle University
"A Phase-based Approach to the Cross-linguistic Distribution of "mixed" Word-order Types"

Hyon Sook Choe
Yeungnam University
"The EP Hypothesis and A Splitting Approach to Existential there"
 
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Roberta Pires de Oliveira
CNRS-LLF, Université Paris 7 & Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/CNPQ
"Reference to Kinds in Brazilian Portuguese: Definite Singulars vs Bare Singulars"

Takuya Goro, Tomohiro Fujii, Utako Minai and Masatoshi Koizumi
Tohoku University, JST (RISTEX), Nanzan University and RIKEN Brain Science Institute
"The Acquisition of Anti-Reconstruction and Grammar Variation in Adult Japanese"
 
Graham Horwood
Thammasat University
"Reining in GEN: The Case for a Stronger Scope Concordance Condition"

Shinichiro Ishihara
University of Potsdam
"Divorce of Focus Intonation from Prosodic Phrasing: Evidence from Tokyo Japanese"

Fan Luo and Chunyan Ning
Hunan University of Chinese Medicine and Institute of Cognitive Science, Hunan University
"The Bottom-up Processing Order of Word Category Information and Word Meaning Information: Evidence from an ERP Study in Chinese"

Edson T. Miyamoto
University of Tsukuba
"Left-corner Parsing of Sentence-initial NPs in Japanese"

Keiko Murasugi , Chisato Fuji and Tomoko Hashimoto
Nanzan University
"What Acquired Later in an Agglutinative Language: Implications for the v-VP Frame Analysis"

Marco Nicolis
Queen's University
"The Null Subject Parameter: Expletive pro, Syntactic Doubling and pro Subextraction"

Bum-Sik Park and Sei-Rang Oh
Incheon City College and Gyeongsang National University
"A Note on Covert Movement"

Natsumi Shibata, Yasutada Sudo and Jun Yashima
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Tokyo
"On Apparent DOR Violations in Chinese and Japanese Resultative Compounds"
 
Minjeong Son
CASTL, University of Tromsoe
"Decomposing Denominal Location Verbs: Morpho-Syntactic Evidence from Indonesian"

Michelle St-Amour
McGill University and University of Toronto
"The Default Parameter Setting in the Acquisition of Multiple Negation"

Koji Sugisaki
Mie University
"Structure Dependence in Child Japanese"

Kensuke Takita and Barry C.-Y. Yang
Nanzan University, National Tsing Hua University & Harvard University
"Feature Valuation and Antisuperiority"
 
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Alternate papers:

Chonghyuck Kim , Qizhong Chang and Leslie Lee
National University of Singapore and University of California, San Diego
"Colloquial Singapore English Number Marking"
 
Eun-Sook Kim and John Stonham
Pusan National University and Pukyong National University
"(De)labialization and Opacity in Nuuchahnulth"
 
Milena Kuehnast
Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research, ZAS Berlin
"Acquisition of Null Pronouns in a Discourse Configurational Language - an Experimental Study"

Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Jason Kandybowicz
Swarthmore College
"Sandhi Sans Derivation: Third Tone Patterns in Mandarin Chinese"

Haruko Matsui , Mizuho Imada ,  Edson T. Miyamoto ,Inna P. Subacheva, and Takumi Tagawa
University of Tsukuba
"Phonological Length in the Processing of Scrambling in Japanese"

Yosuke Sato 
University of Arizona 
P-Stranding under Sluicing and Salvation by Deletion: Why Austronesian is (n't) Special

Kensuke Takita
Nanzan University
"A Linearization Approach to the PBC-effect and its Consequences"

Eriko Watanabe
Nanzan University
"Dative Subject in Japanese-speaking Children"