HIRAYAMA AT FAJL

A couple weeks ago, graduate student Hitomi Hirayama traveled to Japan to attend Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL) 8, which took place on February 18-20 at Mie University. She had the following to report:

I gave a poster presentation entitled “A null pronominal account for apparent parasitic gaps in Japanese,” which is based on my first QP project. During the poster session and throughout the conference, I had very interesting conversations with many Japanese linguists. Among the attendees, there were two former visitors to our department: Shigeto Kawahara (Keio University) and Takashi Morita (MIT). To my pleasant surprise, I also ran into one of our alumni Kazutaka Kurisu (Kobe College) at the reception, and we had a great time talking about how people are doing in Santa Cruz. He asked me to say hello to all!