Program

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Program (Japan Standard Time (JST) = UTC/GMT +9 hours)

phex 18 (the 18th workshop on phonological externalization of morphosyntactic structure)

Date: Monday, March 2nd, 2026

Venue: Room 0401, Building 0, Nagoya Campus, Chukyo University (Nagoya, Japan) + online (zoom)

Contact Person: Hisao Tokizaki

10:00-10:15 Welcome

10:15-10:20 Opening

10:20-12:00 [Round Table] A generative typological approach to asymmetry: A preliminary study

Kayono Shiobara (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)

Asymmetry in coordination: A typological view

Tomio Hirose (Kanagawa University)

Microvariation across dialects: A case of Ainu person affixes

Hiroyuki Nawata (Shimane University)

(Dis)connection of clauses in the history of English

Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo University)

Comments on the talks by Shiobara, Hirose and Nawata

Lunch (120 min)

2:00-2:30 Kuniya Nasukawa and Hitomi Onuma (Tohoku Gakuin University) [Chair: H. Tokizaki]

Edge elements and silent onsets: A phonetic interpretation

2:40-3:10 Edward Göbbel (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) [Chair: Hisao Tokizaki]

The prosodic realisation of temporal clauses in English

Break (20 min)

3:30-4:00 Tomohiro Yanagi (Chubu University) [Chair: Yoshihito Dobashi]

Verb second in the history of English revisited

4:10-4:40 Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo University) [Chair: Yoshihito Dobashi]

Historical changes of prosody and verb particle order in English

Break (20 min)

5:00-5:30 Yoshihito Dobashi (Chukyo University) [Chair: Kayono Shiobara]

Notes on Affix-Hopping

5:30-6:00 Discussion

6:30- Banquet

Updated on Feb 22, 2026