Papers
To appear
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii “Revisiting the Freezing Principle: Minimal Search-free Merge and Form Copy.” Linguistic Variation
Under review
Andreas Blümel and Nobu Goto “Adjunction as External Merge into [-theta]-Positions.” The Linguistic Review
2024
Andreas Blümel, Nobu Goto, and Yushi Sugimoto (2024) “When the grammar doesn’t mind which Merge it chooses.” In Proceedings of WCCFL 39, 61-70.
石井透・後藤亘 (2024)「なぜMergeはBinaryなのか？：その背後にある原理を探る」,『極小主義における説明理論の挑戦―最適最小性が導く併合とコピー演算―』東京：開拓社.
Andreas Blümel・後藤亘・杉本侑嗣 (2024)「ボックス理論における残部移動」,『極小主義における説明理論の挑戦―最適最小性が導く併合とコピー演算―』東京：開拓社.
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (2024) “Toward Elaboration of Box System: ATB and Improper Movement.” Proceedings of the 14th GLOW in Asia, 92-106.
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (2024) “Seeking an Optimal Design of Search and Merge: Its Consequences and Challenges.” The Linguistic Review (Special Issue).
2023
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (2023) “Deriving ATB from Box System," in Proceedings of the 25th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 24), 1-21.
Andreas Blümel and Nobu Goto (2023) “Reconsidering the syntax of correlates and propositional arguments.” In On the nominal nature of propositional arguments, ed. by Katrin Axel-Tober, Lutz Gunkel , Jutta Hartmann, Anke Holler. Buske Helmut Verlag GmbH.
2022
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (2022) “Genuine Free Merge and Resource Restriction-Obedient Search: Consequences and Challenges," in Proceedings of the 24th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 24), 1-21.
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (2022) “Where Does Determinacy Apply?.” In Proceedings of Sophia University Linguistic Society 35. 23-41.
2021
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (in preparation) "On ATB" (tentative title). Ms. Toyo U. and Meiji U.
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (2021) "Multiple Nominative and Form Sequence: A New Perspective to MERGE and Form Set." Ms. Toyo U. and Meiji U. [Lingbuzz]
2020
Andreas Blümel and Nobu Goto (2020) "Head Hiding." In Proceedings of NELS 50 (volume one), 49-58. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JVV9WWK/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_sFtGFbMQBBVQS]
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (2020) "Determinacy Theory of Movement." In Proceedings of NELS 50 (volume two), 29-38. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JJR79HP/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_xFtGFb7AGJ8V2]
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (2020) "The Principle of Determinacy and Its Implications for MERGE." In Proceedings of the 12th GLOW in Asia & 21st SICOGG, 91-110. [available at: http://sicogg.or.kr/GLOW-Asia-12-2019/proceedings/]
Nobu Goto and Toru Ishii (2020) "Some Consequences of MERGE and Determinacy." Unpublished manuscript. Toyo University and Meiji University. [available at: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004108]
2019
Nobu Goto and Andreas Blümel (2019) "Taming Free Merge Further - Sub-Extraction and its Kin." In Proceedings of WECOL 2018, 82-93. [website]
2018
『英文法大辞典 第２巻 補部となる節、付加部となる節』（１２月５日発売）[Amazon]
Sato, Yosuke, Nobu Goto and Shin-Ichi Kitada (2018) "On the In-Situ Theory of Sluicing in English: A New Perspective from 'Immobile' Elements." English Linguistics 35.1, 96-121.
Goto, Nobu (2018) "Restricting n to two: When Merge requires search." in Journal of Business Administration 91, 105-114, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan. [available at: https://toyo.repo.nii.ac.jp/index.php?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_snippet&index_id=23&pn=1&count=20&order=17&lang=japanese&page_id=13&block_id=17]
2017
Goto, Nobu (2017) "Some Theoretical Problems of the Ellipsis and A Possible Approach to It Under the Feature-Inheritance System." in Journal of Business Administration 90, 47-60, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan.[available at: https://toyo.repo.nii.ac.jp/index.php?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_snippet&index_id=23&pn=1&count=20&order=17&lang=japanese&page_id=13&block_id=17]
Goto, Nobu (2017) "Eliminating the Strong/Weak Parameter on T." In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI - Volume 2, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #85, ed. by Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine. [available at: https://glowlinguistics.org/asia11/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/11/v2-goto.pdf]
Goto, Nobu (2017) "How to label there-constructions," in English Literature, Regional Branches Combined Issue XII, ed. by The Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, 1-12, The Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, Japan. doi: http://doi.org/10.20759/elsjregional.9.0_33
2016
Goto, Nobu (2016) "Deriving Specificity Effects in the Labeling Theory: A Case Study of Labelability and Extractability," in Proceedings of the 70th Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, The English LIterature Society of Japan, 162-163.
Goto, Nobu (2016) "Labelability = Extractability: Its Theoretical Implications for the Free-Merge Hypothesis." In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Amherst, MA: GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 335-348.
Kensuke Takita, Nobu Goto, and Yoshiyuki Shibata (2016) "Labeling through Spell-Out." The Linguistic Review 32(4), 177-198. [website]
2015
Goto, Nobu (2015) "併合が探査を必要とするとき," in Proceedings of the 150th Linguistics Society of Japan, ed. by the Linguistic Society of Japan, 248-253, The Linguistic Society of Japan. [PDF]
Goto, Nobu (2015) "On Label," (Workshop Report) in JELS 32, The English Linguistic Society of Japan. (with Hiroki Narita and Miki Obata), pp. 193-194. Organizer: Nobu Goto (Toyo University). Participants: Hiroki Narita (Nihon University), Miki Obata (Tokyo University of Science), Nobu Goto (Toyo University).
2014
Goto, Nobu (2014) "Review of David Adger (2013) 'A Syntax of Substance,'" English Linguistics 31(2), 681-692.
Goto, Nobu (2014) "Extraction out of Ellipsis," in Nihongo Gaku Ronsetsu Shiryo 48 (Collected Articles on the Japanese Language 48), Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai, Tokyo, Japan, 591-594. [Reprinted version of Goto (2011).]
Yosuke Sato and Nobu Goto (2014) "Scrambling," in The Routledge Handbook of Syntax, ed. by Andrew Carnie, Daniel Siddiqi and Yosuke Sato, Routledge, London.
Goto, Nobu (2014) "Feature-Inheritance under Full Interpretation: Its Effects on Agree," in English Literature, Regional Branches Combined Issue VI, ed. by The Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, 89-99, The Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, Japan.
2013
Goto, Nobu (2013) "Introduction: Deletion Phenomena in the Minimalist Program," English Linguistics 30(2), 639-642.
Goto, Nobu (2013) "Deletion by Phase and Its Contribution to Non-Constituent Deletion," English Linguistics 30(2), 699-717.
Goto, Nobu (2013) "Interplay between Agree and Move," in Eigo Gaku Ronsetsu Shiryo 45 (Collected Articles on the English Language 45), Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai, Tokyo, Japan, 563-577. [Reprinted version of Goto (2011).]
Goto, Nobu (2013) "Some Consequences of Feature Inheritance," in Eigo Gaku Ronsetsu Shiryo 45 (Collected Articles on the English Language 45), Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai, Tokyo, Japan, 681-692. [Reprinted version of Goto (2010).]
Goto, Nobu (2013) "Feature-Inheritance under Full Interpretation: Its Effects on Agree," in Proceedings of the 67th Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, The English LIterature Society of Japan, 134-135.
Goto, Nobu (2013) "Toward Unconstrained Merge," in Proceedings of the 15th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 15) Universals and Parameters, ed. by Il-Jae Lee and Uujinbai Dolgormaa , 91-110, Hankuk Publishing Co, Seoul, Korea. [PDF]
Goto, Nobu (2013) "Deletion by Phase: A Case Study of Gapping," Generative Linguistics in the Old World 36 (GLOW36), Lund University, Lund Sweden, April 2-6, 2013. Abstract published in GLOW Newsletter #70, 88-89. [website]
Takita, Kensuke and Nobu Goto (2013) "On (Im)possible N'-deletion within PPs," in Nanzan Linguistics 9, 215-231. [PDF]
Goto, Nobu (2013) "Labeling and Scrambling in Japanese," in Tohoku: Essays and Studies in English Language and Literature 46, ed. by the editrial staff of Tohoku, 39-73, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan. [PDF]
Goto, Nobu (2013) "Deletion Phenomena in the Minimalist Program," (Workshop Report) in JELS 30, The English Linguistic Society of Japan. (with Taichi Nakamura, Kensuke Takita, Hiroko Kimura), pp. 243-244. Organizer: Nobu Goto (Mie University). Participants: Taichi Nakamura (Tohoku University), Kensuke Takita (Mie University), Hiroko Kimura (Tohoku University), Nobu Goto (Mie University). [website]
Takita, Kensuke and Nobu Goto (2013) "Some Asymmetries in Japanese N'-Deletion and Their Theoretical Implications," in Proceedings of FAJL 6, ed. by Uli Sauerland and Kazuko Yatsushiro, 215-226, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. [website]
2012
Goto, Nobu (2012) "Notes on Merge and Label, [Heigo to Raberu Zuke wo Meguru Oboegaki]," in Proceedings of the 145th Linguistics Society of Japan, ed. by the Linguistic Society of Japan, 196-201, The Linguistic Society of Japan.
Goto, Nobu (2012) "A Note on Particle Stranding Ellipsis," in Proceedings of the 14th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 14) Three Factors and Syntactic Theory, ed. by Bum-Sik Park, 78-97, Hankuk Publishing Co, Seoul, Korea.
Goto, Nobu (2012) "A Mechanism of PF-Deletion under the Probe-Goal System," in Proceedings of the 66th Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, The English Literature Society of Japan, 161-162.
2011
Goto, Nobu (2011) Feature-Inheritance: Its Effects on Agree, Move, and Delete, Doctoral dissertation, Tohoku Gakuin University.
Goto, Nobu (2011) "Extraction out of Ellipsis," in Gengo Kyoiku Kenkyu 4 (Studies of Language Education 4), ed. by Morioka University Language Education Study Committee, 17-24, Seizansha, Kanagawa. Reprinted in Goto (2014) in Nihongo Gaku Ronsetsu Shiryo 48 (Collected Articles on the Japanese Language 48), Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai, Tokyo, Japan. [PDF]
Goto, Nobu (2011) "Interplay Between Agree and Move," in Tohoku: Essays and Studies in English Language and Literature 44, ed. by the editorial staff of Tohoku, 39-68, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan. Reprinted in Goto (2013) in Eigo Gaku Ronsetsu Shiryo 45 (Collected Articles on the English Language 45), Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai, Tokyo, Japan. [PDF]
2010
Goto, Nobu (2010) "A Mechanism of PF-Deletion under the Probe-Goal System," ms., Tohoku Gakuin University. [PDF]
Goto, Nobu (2010) "Some Consequences of Feature Inheritance," in English Literature, Regional Branches Combined Issue III, ed. by The Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, 113-136, The Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, Japan. Reprinted in Goto (2013) in Eigo Gaku Ronsetsu Shiryo 45 (Collected Articles on the English Language 45), Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai, Tokyo, Japan.
Goto, Nobu (2010) "Null Arguments and C-to-T Feature-Inheritance," ms., Tohoku Gakuin University. [PDF]
2009
Goto, Nobu (2009) "Movement Phenomena in the Minimalist Program（『ミニマリスト・プログラムにおける移動現象』）," (Student Workshop Report) in JELS 26, 373-374, The English Linguistic Society of Japan. (with Taichi Nakamura, Hiroko Kimura). Organizer: Nobu Goto (Tohoku Gakuin University). Participants: Taichi Nakamura (Tohoku University), Hiroko Kimura (Tohoku University), Nobu Goto (Tohoku Gakuin University).
2008
Goto, Nobu (2008) "Some Consequences of Feature Inheritance," ms., Tohoku Gakuin University. Presented at the workshop "Minimalist Program niokeru Idou Gensyo (Movement Phenomena in the Minimalist Program)" in the 26th Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan. [PDF]
2007