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Overview

For on-site registration, please refer to the FAQs section.

The full day-by-day timetable of the program is downloadable from here (in PDF format).

The full alphabetical list of presentations is provided here.

The list of reviewers is provided here.

Instructions for posters (final version) are provided here.

*For information on conference site, please refer to the Venue section.

*For information on how to get lunch, please refer to the FAQ's section.


Time table

August 31 (Thu): Registration & Tutorial on FrameNet

REG. Time Table Event

Room

10:00 - 13:30 FN Tutorial (am) Information Education Building
14:30 - 17:45 FN Tutorial (pm) Information Education Building
13:00 - 18:30 Registration Bldg. 18 1F Lobby
13:00 - 18:30 Refreshment Bldg. 18 4F Lounge


September 1 (Fri): Day 1

Registration Desk will be set up on the lobby of Mathematical Science Hall on the morning of September 1. Afterwards, please come to the ICCG4 Information Desk, located at Bldg. 18, 4F Room 4, through the end of the conference.

The full day-by-day timetable of the program is downloadable from here (in PDF format).

DAY 1 Time Table Event

Room

9:00 - 9:20

Opening Ceremony

Mathematical Science Hall
9:20 - 10:20 Plenary Lecture Mathematical Science Hall
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break Bldg. 18 4F Lounge
10:50 - 12:20 Oral Sessions Bldg.18 Hall Bldg.18 4F Room 1 Bldg.18 4F Room 3
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch Break
 
13:30 - 15:00 Oral Sessions Bldg.18 Hall Bldg.18 4F Room1 Bldg.18 4F Room 3
15:00 - 15:10
Break
 
15:10 - 16:10 Oral Sessions Bldg.18 Hall Bldg.18 4F Room1 Bldg.18 4F Room 3
16:10 - 16:30
Coffee Break
Mathematical Science Hall Lobby
16:30 - 17:30 Plenary Lecture Mathematical Science Hall
17:30 - 18:30 Plenary Lecture Mathematical Science Hall


September 2 (Sat): Day 2

For registration, please come to the ICCG4 Information Desk, located at Bldg. 18, 4F Room 4, through the end of the conference.

The full day-by-day timetable of the program is downloadable from here (in PDF format).

DAY 2 9:00 - 10:00

Plenary Lecture

Mathematical Science Hall
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break Bldg. 18 4F Lounge
10:20 - 12:20 Oral Sessions Bldg.18 Hall Bldg.18 4F Room1 Bldg.18 4F Room 3
12:20 - 13:30 Lunch Break  
13:00 - 14:00 Poster Session Bldg.18 1F Lobby
13:30 - 15:00 Oral Sessions Bldg.18 Hall Bldg.18 4F Room1 Bldg.18 4F Room 3
15:00 - 15:10 Break  
15:10 - 16:10 Oral Sessions Bldg.18 Hall Bldg.18 4F Room1 Bldg.18 4F Room 3
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee Break Mathematical Science Hall Lobby
16:30 - 17:30 Plenary Lecture Mathematical Science Hall
17:30 - 18:30 Plenary Lecture Mathematical Science Hall
19:00 - 21:00 Conference Party Faculty House

The instructions for posters are given here.


September 3 (Sun): Day 3

For registration, please come to the ICCG4 Information Desk, located at Bldg. 18, 4F Room 4, through the end of the conference.

The full day-by-day timetable of the program is downloadable from here (in PDF format).

DAY 3 9:00 - 10:00

Plenary Lecture

Mathematical Science Hall
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break Bldg. 18 4F Lounge
10:20 - 12:20 Oral Sessions Bldg.18 Hall Bldg.18 4F Room1 Bldg.18 4F Room 3
12:20 - 13:30 Lunch Break  
13:30 - 15:00 Oral Sessions Bldg.18 Hall Bldg.18 4F Room1 Bldg.18 4F Room 3
15:00 - 15:10 Break  
15:10 - 16:10 Oral Sessions Bldg.18 Hall Bldg.18 4F Room1 Bldg.18 4F Room 3
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee Break Mathematical Science Hall Lobby
16:30 - 17:30 Plenary Lecture Mathematical Science Hall
17:30 - 18:30 Plenary Lecture Mathematical Science Hall


September 4 (Mon): Post-conference workshop on "Typological perspectives on constructions". For details, click here.


List of Presentations -- as of August 3, 2006 (not the final version; for PDF version, click here)

Plenary Lectures

Collin BAKER (International Computer Science Institute)
Frame Semantics in Operation: The FrameNet Lexicon and Text Understanding

Charles J. FILLMORE (International Computer Science Institute & University of California at Berkeley)
Articulating Lexicon and Constructicon

Adele GOLDBERG (Princeton University)
Constructions and the nature of generalization

Yukio HIROSE (University of Tsukuba)
The Conceptual Basis for Reflexive Constructions in Japanese

Knud LAMBRECHT (University of Texas at Austin)
Syntactic Amalgams Re-revisited: Apokoinou Constructions in Spoken English

Yo MATSUMOTO (Kobe University)
Constraints on the cooccurrence of spatial and metaphorical paths in English: A closer look at the Unique Path Constraint

Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki)
Accountability in (Construction) Grammar

Masayoshi SHIBATANI (Rice University & Kobe University)
Grammaticalization of complex predicate constructions

Michael TOMASELLO (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Constructing a language


Oral Presentations

Susana AFONSO (University of Manchester)
Existentials as impersonalising devices: the case of European Portuguese

Hiromitsu AKASHI (University of Tsukuba)
Semantic Compatibility between Caused-Motion Verbs and the Ditransitive Construction

Jóhanna BARÐDAL (University of Bergen)
Constructional choices of new verbs of instrument of communication

Heike BEHRENS (University of Basel)
Discovering the middle field: The acquisition of discontinuous word order in German

Benjamin BERGEN & Kathryn WHEELER (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Aspectual constructions modulate mental simulation

Sturla BERG-OLSEN (University of Oslo)
Lacking in Latvian - case variation from a construction grammar perspective

Hans C. BOAS (University of Texas at Austin)
The syntax and semantics of constructional families

Daniela CALUIANU (Otaru University of Commerce)
The Expletive Object Construction in Romanian

Nancy CHANG & Eva H. MOK (University of California at Berkeley & International Computer Science Institute)
Putting Context in Constructions

Jidong CHEN (Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics)
"He cut-break the rope": A semantic and syntactic analysis of the resultative verb constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Shu-mei CHIANG & Huei-ling LAI (National Chengchi University)
A Family of NP1 V NP2 m11 X Constructions in Hakka

Kenneth William COOK (Hawaii Pacific University)
Nominal Predication via Juxtaposition in Hawaiian

Caroline V. DAVID (University of Montpellier III)
Why you can put somebody to sleep but not to the floor: the interaction of put and some of its prepositions

Henri-José DEULOFEU (Université de Provence)
On the limit between constructions and discourse patterns : the case of [il y a indef NP que X] construct in spoken french

Michael ELLSWORTH, Kyoko OHARA, Carlos SUBIRATS, & Thomas SCHMIDT (International Computer Science Institute, Keio University, & Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Frame-semantic analysis of motion scenarios in English, German, Spanish, and Japanese

Tomoko ENDO (University of California at Los Angeles)
The Pa 'Fear' Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Epistemicity with a Suppressed Experiencer

Mirjam FRIED (Princeton University)
Constructional properties of a text-cohesion marker in spoken Czech

Francisco GONZÁLVEZ-GARCÍA (University of Almería)
A constructionist reappraisal of interpersonal manipulation: Evidence from secondary predication in English and Spanish

Stefan Th. GRIES (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Corpus data in usage-based linguistics: What's the right degree of granularity for the analysis of argument structure constructions?

Tomoko Okazaki HANSEN (University of Oslo)
The Constructional Polysemy of Ditransitive Constructions in Japanese

Yoko HASEGAWA, Kyoko Hirose OHARA, Russell LEE-GOLDMAN, & Charles J. FILLMORE (University of California at Berkeley, Keio University, & International Computer Science Institute)
Frame Integration, Head Switching, and Translation: RISK in English andJapanese

Willem B. HOLLMANN & Anna SIEWIERSKA (Lancaster University)
The role of frequency in sociolinguistic perspective

Fuhui HSIEH (National Taiwan University)
The si-construction in Saisiyat: Window Connecting the World and the Mind

Shin-ya IWASAKI (Osaka University)
On Cognate Object Constructions in English: A Construction Grammar Perspective

Shoichi IWASAKI (International Christian University & University of California at Los Angeles)
A "multiple-grammar" view and the passive construction in Japanese

Seizi IWATA (Osaka City University)
Where there's a sound, there's motion: Two types of path PPs that appear after verbs of sound emission

Kim Ebensgaard JENSEN (University of Southern Denmark)
A family of body-based aspect constructions in Danish

Rocío JIMÉNEZ BRIONES (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
The Lexical Grammar Model: how to integrate Construction Grammar into a lexico-functional approach to language

Jong-Bok KIM (Kyung Hee University)
Three Types of Relative Clause Constructions: A Construction-Based Approach

Hiroaki KOGA (University of Tokyo)
The semantics, syntax, and pragmatics of inverse constructions in Japanese

Lari KOTILAINEN (University of Helsinki)
At the mercy of variation: On formalizing constructions based on non-standard language corpora

Kristian Emil KRISTOFFERSEN (University of Oslo)
Unique object control in Old Norse -- a constructional approach

Chigusa KURUMADA & Seiko FUJII (University of Tokyo)
Constructing storylines: A constructional approach to the structure and development of narratives

Huei-ling LAI (National Chengchi University)
Lien11 cya55/du55 constructions in Hakka

Christine LAMARRE (University of Tokyo)
Chinese Path Resultatives: a Variationist Approach

Russell LEE-GOLDMAN (University of California at Berkeley)
Rhetorical questions and scalar implicature: what do you think constructions are for?

Jaakko LEINO (University of Helsinki)
Construction Grammar and dialect syntax

Jianguo LI (Ohio State University)
Subject-Oriented Resultative Compound Verbs (RCV) in Chinese

Chinfa LIEN (National Tsing Hua University)
Approximatives in Taiwanese Southern Min

Anne Daphne M. LINDAYA & Ai NOMURA (University of the Philippines at Diliman & Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Tagalog pa- causatives and Philippine transitivity

Yoshiko MATSUMOTO (Stanford University)
Juxtaposition and integration of frames in Japanese noun-modifying constructions

Vanessa MICELLI, Robert PORZEL, & Aldo GANGEMI (European Media Laboratory & Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council)
ECtoloG: Construction Grammar Meets the Semantic Web

Inger MOEN & Marte MYHRUM (University of Oslo, Rikshospitalet, & University Hospital)
Speech recognition in noise: the influence of structures and frequency

Stefan MÜLLER (Universitat Potsdam)
Persian Complex Predicates

Bhuvana NARASIMHAN, Anetta KOPECKA, & Asil OZYUREK (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Crosslinguistic variation in motion event encoding: do constructions play a role?

Bracha NIR-SAGIV (Tel-Aviv University)
Multi-Clausal Constructions: Preferred Syntactic Architectures in Narrative Text Production

Yoshihiro NISHIMITSU (Kobe University)
Why are there two kinds of direct speech acts?

Kyoko Hirose OHARA, Seiko FUJII, Toshio OHORI, Ryoko SUZUKI, Hiroaki SAITO, & Shun ISHIZAKI (Keio University & University of Tokyo)
Frame-based Contrastive Lexical Semantics and Japanese FrameNet

Tsuyoshi ONO (University of Alberta)
Constituent Order as a Construction: A Discourse-based Approach

David Y. OSHIMA (Stanford University)
Subject-oriented adverbs and related constructions: One meaning, different packages

Jeong-Woon PARK (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Some Korean Causative Verbs Not Increasing Valence: A Case of Construction-Level Backformation

Doris L. PAYNE (University of Oregon)
Lexical vs. Constructional properties of Maa tii 'be at' and ata 'have'

Michaela POSS (Leiden University Center for Linguistics)
Ditransitive Constructions and Dative Alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective: The case of Dutch, English, and German

Jouni ROSTILA (University of Tampere)
Grammaticalization and Construction Grammar(s)

Francisco José RUIZ DE MENDOZA & Ricardo MAIRAL (University of La Rioja & National Distance Education University)
Grounding lexical and constructional representations in metaphor and metonymy

Heete SAHKAI (Institute of the Estonian Language & Tallinn University)
Construction-driven phrase structure: the Estonian Genitive Agent Construction

Chie SAKUTA & Seiko FUJII (University of Tokyo)
Intonation units, information structure, and grammatical constructions in Japanese and English

Osamu SAWADA (University of Chicago)
Scalarity and the Rhetorical Negative Constructions

Sergey SAY (Institute for linguistic research of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Non-contextual verbless sentences in Russian: against ellipsis

Kim SCHULTE (University of Exeter & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
What makes a construction 'attractive'? -- A comparative Romance case study of constructional expansion.

Hanne Gram SIMONSEN, Inger MOEN, & Marianne LIND (University of Oslo & Bredvet Resource Centre)
Syntactic frames and slot fillers in the speech of a Norwegian patient with fluent aphasia

Luc STEELS, Joachim DE BEULE, M. Loetzsch, & Remi VAN TRIJP (University of Brussels & Sony Computer Science Lab)
Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar

Tatiana I. STEKSOVA (State Pedagogical University)
Syntactic tautological phrasemes in Russian

Lily I. SU & Rachel HSIAO (National Taiwan University)
Emotion Events in Mandarin Emotion Constructions

Karen SULLIVAN (University of California at Berkeley)
Constituency in if and when conditional constructions

Hidemitsu TAKAHASHI (Hokkaido University)
Constructions in Fusion and in Clash: Imperatives in Adverbial Clauses

Kiyoko TAKAHASHI (Kanda University of International Studies)
A Two-Dimensional Classification of Complex Events Represented by Basic Serial Verb Constructions

Kingkarn THEPKANJANA (Chulalongkorn University)
The Constructional Status of Serial Verb Constructions in Thai

Ellen Hellebostad TOFT (University of Oslo)
The possessive genitive in Old Norse from a construction grammar perspective

I-Ni TSAI (University of California at Los Angeles)
Feeling Verbs and Their Argument Structures: A Corpus-Based Approach

Natsuko TSUJIMURA (Indiana University)
A Construction-Based Approach to Phrasal Postpositions in Japanese

Masanobu UEDA (Fukuoka Jogakuin University Junior College)
On The Japanese Commercial Transaction Frame: How Culture-Specific Information Fits into a Semantic Frame

Arie VERHAGEN (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)
The notion of 'form' in construction grammar and the theory of signs -- the role of paradigms

Hunter WEILBACHER & Hans C. BOAS (University of Texas at Austin)
Just because two constructions look alike in two languages doesn't mean that they share the same properties: Towards contrastive Construction Grammars

Yu-ting YANG (National Chengchi University)
Variations of Resultative CHU oConstruction in Mandarin Chinese

Nina Azumi YOSHIDA (University of California at Los Angeles)
Modal Nominalized Predicate Constructions in Japanese


Posters

Olga BLANCO-CARRION (Universidad de Cordoba)
Cognition from the perspective of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar

Aoju CHEN & Bhuvana NARASIMHAN (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
WH-question constructions in Dutch: the role of intonation and information structure

Hanne Martine ECKHOFF (University of Oslo)
Overlaps in conceptual space: Old Church Slavic possessives

Yoko FUJII (Japan Women's University)
Covert objects in the semantic frames of verbs of "break" in Japanese and English and the typological implications

Naoko HAYASE (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)
How Predicative Adjective Adjuncts are Motivated: On the Emergence and Extension of a New Copulative Construction

Kent HILL (Sophia University)
Constructing Future Tense and Perfect Aspect

HUANG Su-miao (National Cheng Kung University)
Grammaticalization of ModernChineseLanguage -- Based on The Directional Complements "shang" (up), "xia" (down), "qi" (rise) and "chu" (out)

Masaru KANETANI (University of Tsukuba)
Inheritance Links as the Central Role in Understanding Constructions: A Case of Constructions of Metalinguistic Reasons

Ruetaivan KESSAKUL (Chulalongkorn University)
From Motion to Resultatives and Potentiality: A close look at constructional polysemy in Thai

Miyuki KOJIMA (University of Tokyo)
Hortative use of GIVE construction in Mandarin Chinese

Hiroaki KONNO (University of Tsukuba)
On the Form/Meaning Correspondence in the Japanese Nani-o X-o Construction

Ritva LAURY & Ryoko SUZUKI (University of Helsinki & Keio University)
The use of morphemes as pragmatic particles and complementizers in Finnish and Japanese -- a crosslinguistic comparison

Miho MANO (Junshin-kai University of Nursing and Health Sciences)
Functional typological approach to Japanese non-canonical constructions

Noriko MATSUMOTO (Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts)
Recapturing Double-Verb Constructions: The Case of Go

Keiko NAKAMOTO, Jae-ho LEE, & Kow KURODA (Bunkyo University & National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Constructional meaning affects preferred word order of a Japanese sentence: Psycholinguistic experiments on caused motion and possession constructions

Naoki OTANI (Kyoto Uiversity)
A Corpus-Based Approach to Come Out Construction

Yoshikata SHIBUYA (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
A constructional approach to synaesthesia

Mari SIIROINEN (University of Helsinki)
Perspective and nearly synonymous complement constructions in Finnish

Hideyuki SUGIURA (Shukutoku Junior and Senior High School & University of Alberta)
What Frequency Tells Us about the Choice of Japanese Adnominal Constructions

Kozue TAKUBO (State University of New York at Buffalo)
The use and function of the nominal plural in Japanese

Napasri TIMYAM (Kasetsart University)The relation between distribution and meaning: The case of datives and ditransitives in Thai


List of Reviewers

Hans Boas (University of Texas at Austin)

Mirjam Fried (Princeton University)

Seiko Fujii (University of Tokyo)

Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)

Kaoru Horie (Tohoku University)

Seizi Iwata (Osaka City University)

Christine Lamarre (University of Tokyo)

Yo Matsumoto (Kobe University)

Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University)

Laura Michaelis (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Yoshiki Nishimura (University of Tokyo)

Kyoko H. Ohara (Keio University)

Toshio Ohori (University of Tokyo)

Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki)

Jeong-Woon Park (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Shigeru Sakahara (University of Tokyo)

Hidemitsu Takahashi (Hokkaido University)

Eijiro Tsuboi (University of Tokyo)


Instructions for Posters [for the Japanese version, click here]

What is the purpose of poster session? For a sound development of any theory, the diversity of approaches and active exchange of ideas are vital. The poster session precisely serves this purpose. While the paper session proceeds exactly keeping the time, the poster session has greater flexibility, especially when it comes to the discussion between the presenter and the audience. A presenter, standing by his/her poster, may either give a self-contained presentation of the paper, or just start by taking questions from the nearby audience. It often happens that people who share exactly the same interest come across each other during the poster session and collaborations develop. Also, the informal atomosphere of the poster session makes it easier for anyone to get engaged in in-depth discussions.

In humanitites, the poster session is not as common as in sciences. But in certin respects, for example in terms of interactivity, the poster session is superior to the paper session. So please take this as a good chance to enjoy in-depth discussions.

Time and location: The time for poster session will be September 2, 13:00-14:00 which is the second day of the conference. The place will be the Lobby of Building 18 (called "Multimedia Gallery"). For details please refer to the section on Venue. The panels will be removed in the afternoon of September 3, so please take back your posters if you want to keep them.

Format: We provide roughly 60 minutes, partially overlapping with the lunch time, for the poster session. Each presenter will be provided a panel with the effective space of about 85 x 165 cm (=33 x 65 inch). Put a resume of your presentation with examples, tables, and figures, on this space which will give a clear idea of your study. You may either put a large single-page poster or put several regular-sized pages together. The samples are shown below.

Each presenter must bring in the finished, printed poster. We offer no printing facility whatsoever. The poster must be put on the panel well before the session starts. We strongly recommend that you get everything ready around 12:30, as some people may visit your poster right after the morning session. We will put a name tag on the panels (in alphabetical order) for your convenience. The poster must be in English, while we put no constraints on the language used in the discussion. Unfortunately, there is no internet connection on the location. If you wish to bring in a PC you must put all necessary documents on it, stand-alone, or use a wireless connection (at your own risk!).

There will be about 20 poster presentations. All presenters must be standing by their posters for the whole session. It is welcome, though not required, that the posters be put on the panels through the end of the second day. If you wish to bring back your poster, please take it back by lunch time of the third day.

Tips: Because the poster session has great flexibility, the presentation should not be like that of an ordinary paper, i.e. you are not expected to just read your paper. Rather, take it as a very quick lecture (say five to ten minutes), expecting interruptions at any moment. Just present the gist of your research, and let the audience decide how to proceed.

Given the time slot of about 60 minutes, the audience will move from one poster to another during the session. So it is probable that you give the same talk more than once. It's worth doing, so don't get tired.

It is also a good idea that you bring copies of your full paper, or detailed handouts, so that interested audience may obtain them for future correspondence.