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Wataru Uegaki (上垣 渉)

M.A. student,

Department of Language and Information Sciences,

University of Tokyo [CV]

English/Japanese
  • Research interests
    • Formal semantics and pragmatics of natural language (attitude reports; indexicality; scale structure and degrees; event structure; conventional implicatures)
    • Lexical semantics
    • Categorial Grammar
    • Japanese syntax and semantics
    • Computational linguistics
  • Ongoing projects
    • Analysis of a controller-ambiguous construction in English ('nearly free' control) in terms of de se attitude reports (CSSP 2009 talk & ongoing MA thesis)
    • Analysis of Japanese resultative constructions in a scale-based event semantics (Chronos 9 talk), and a comparison of Japanese/English resultative constructions
    • Analysis of the de re/de se reading ambiguity of English attitude reports in variable-free semantics
  • Publications
    1. Kubota, Yusuke and Wataru Uegaki. to appear. Nothing else for something else: a variable-free account. In S. Ito and E. Cormany (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XIX, New York: CLC Publications. [pdf]
    2. Kubota, Yusuke and Wataru Uegaki. to appear. Continuation-based semantics for Conventional Implicatures: The case of Japanese benefactives. In S. Ito and E. Cormany (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XIX, New York: CLC Publications. [pdf]
    3. Fujii, Seiko and Wataru Uegaki. 2008. Sien-doosi koobun ni okeru jitaisei meesi to doosi to no kookyooyuu to renketsusei: Nihongo koopasu o mochiita bunseki [Argument sharing and collocation in Japanese support verb constructions: An analysis based on `Nihongo Corpus']. Proceedings of the 136th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. (Japanese)
  • Presentations
  1. Uegaki, Wataru. 2009. Attitudes de se and `nearly free' control. Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP) 2009, University of Paris Sorbonne, Paris. [slides]
  2. Uegaki, Wataru. 2009. Japanese resultative phrases as verbal degree modifiers. Special Workshop on scale structure & event structure, Chronos 9: 9th International Conference on Tense, Aspect and Modality. University of Paris-Diderot, Paris. [slides]
  3. Kubota, Yusuke and Wataru Uegaki. 2009. Nothing else for something else: a variable-free account. General Session, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XIX, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. [slides]
  4. Kubota, Yusuke and Wataru Uegaki. 2009. Continuation-based semantics for Conventional Implicatures and the Japanese benefactive. Poster Session, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XIX, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
  5. Fujii, Seiko and Wataru Uegaki. 2008. Sien-doosi koobun ni okeru jitaisei meesi to doosi to no kookyooyuu to renketsusei: Nihongo koopasu o mochiita bunseki [Argument sharing and collocation in Japanese support verb constructions: An analysis based on ‘Nihongo Corpus’]. The 136th meeting of Linguistic Society of Japan, Gakushuin University, Tokyo. (Japanese)
  • Manuscripts
    1. Uegaki, Wataru. 2009. Property-identificational use of onaji ‘same’ in Japanese. University of Tokyo.
    2. Uegaki, Wataru. 2008. Control of internal arguments in Japanese support verb constructions. University of Tokyo.
  • Contact
                wuegaki (the AT symbol) gmail (dot) com

 Last update: October 23, 2009