Presentations
2025
TBA
Elaboration of Merge and Form Copy and Its Consequences for the Freezing Principle, 第97回日本英文学会全国大会ワークショップ『Approaching the Principles of Efficient Computation and Interface Conditions: Views from Movement and Ellipsis』東京大学本郷キャンパス(東京都文京区),2025年5月31日(土), 6月1日 (日).
併合理論の再考:条件、帰結、そして集合形成との境界 (Reconsidering Merge Theory: Conditions, Consequences, and a Boundary with Form Set), 慶應言語学コロキアム, 2025年1月11-12日(土・日)(Keio Linguistics Colloquium, Keio University, Mita, Tokyo, Japan, January 11-12, 2025).
2024
なぜ併合は二項なのか?:その背後にある原理を探る (Why is Merge binary?: Exploring the principle behind it). Workshop “基底生成と移動を形作る諸要因: 探索とコピー形成を中心に (Factors forming base generation and movement: Focus on Search and Copy Formation)," The 42nd Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Nagoya University, November 24, 2024. Organizer: Takashi Munakata (YOKOHAMA National University). Participants: Norimasa Hayashi (Nanzan University), Jun Omune (Kansai Gaidai University), Toru Ishii (Meiji University), Nobu Goto (Toyo University). [website]
Mergeの経済性条件について (Economy Conditions on Merge). Workshop “演算メカニズムの経済性の由来と帰結 (Origins and Consequences of the Economy of the Computational Mechanisms)," The 169th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Hokkaido University, November 10, 2024. Organizer: Takashi Munakata (YOKOHAMA National University). Participants: Takashi Toyoshima (Tohoku Gakuin University), Toru Ishii (Meiji University), Nobu Goto (Toyo University). [website]
Revisiting Multiple Nominative Constructions in Japanese (with Toru Ishii), The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL 2024), Poznań Congress Centre (PCC), Poznań, Poland, September 8-14 2024. [website]
Elaborating Box System: New Insights into ATB and Improper Movement. (invited) (with Toru Ishii). Workshop: Advancing Beyond the Miracle Creed (Chomsky 2023), The Society of Modern Grammar, Andong University, Andong city, Korea, August 19th-21st, 2024. [website]
Applying the MC-system to adjuncts (with Andreas Blümel). Workshop: Advancing Beyond the Miracle Creed (Chomsky 2023), The Society of Modern Grammar, Andong University, Andong city, Korea, August 19th-21st, 2024. [website]
Adjunct = External Merge of XP right after the argment (with Andreas Blümel), Fourth International Conference on Adverbial Clauses:Adverbial Clauses in Argument Positions, Rost- und Silberlaube der Freien Universität Berlin, Germany, April 5 2024. [website]
Arguments conform to the duality of semantics, adjuncts don’t (straightforwardly) (with Andreas Blümel), an informal talk given to the department of English Linguistics at Tohoku University, Tohoku University, Sendai, March 29 2024.
Toward Elaboration of Box System: ATB and Improper Movement (with Toru Ishii), The 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 6-8 2024. [website] Also presented at an informal talk given to the department of English Linguistics at Tohoku University (March 28 2024).
Deriving Adjuncts within the SMT: Externally Merging into [-theta]-Positions (with Andreas Blümel), 49th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG 49), The University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Italiy, February 22-23, 2024. [website]
2023
A Form Copy Analysis of Left-Branch Extraction (with Toru Ishii), Workshop: Factors in Natural Language Design – the Nominal Domain and Beyond (FIND 2023), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, December 11-12, 2023. [website]
A Box Analysis of ATB and Its Implications. Workshop “Towards an SMT-compliant I-language system: On an SMT-based Merge with segregation," The 41st Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, The University of Tokyo (Komaba Campus), November 4, 2023. Organizer: Yushi Sugimoto (University of Toyo). Participants: Yushi Sugimoto (University of Tokyo), Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen), Toru Ishii (Meiji University), Nobu Goto (Toyo University). [website]
Deriving ATB from Box System (with Toru Ishii), Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 25 (SICOGG 25), Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, August 14-16, 2023. [website]
Towards Optimal Design of Search and Merge. Tohoku University. February 12, 2023 [website].
2022
Genuine Free Merge and Resource Restriction-Obedient Search Theory (with Toru Ishii). Keio Study Group, November 15, 2022.
Merge and Search under Resource Restriction: its consequences and challenges (with Toru Ishii). Workshop "Search and Merge in Minimalism," The 40th Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Online, November 5, 2022. Organizer: Nobu Goto (Toyo University). Participants: Yushi Sugimoto (University of Michigan/University of Tokyo), Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen), Toru Ishii (Meiji University), Nobu Goto (Toyo University). [website]
Genuine Free Merge and Resource Restriction-Obedient Search: Consequences and Challenges (invited). Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 24 (SICOGG 24) (online). August 12th-14th, 2022 [website].
Resource Restriction-Obedient Search and Free MERGE (with Toru Ishii). Workshop “Workspace, Merge, and Labeling,” Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia XIII (GLOW in Asia XIII), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (online), August 7, 2022 [website]
Resource Restriction-Obedient Search on Merge: A Unified Account of Movement Phenomena (with Toru Ishii), First Conference on Biolinguistics of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Online), June 24-26, 2022. [website]
Dissociating Merge from minimal search and associating search to Resource Restriction (with Toru Ishii), The 15th International Spring Forum 2022 (online), with support from Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan, May 14-15, 2022. [website]
Privileges of the rich (with Andreas Blümel and Yushi Sugimoto), The 46th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 46) (online), March 18-20, 2022 [website]
2021
Adding a Locus of “Variation as Underspecification” (with Andreas Blümel and Yushi Sugimoto), Workshop on Linguistic Variation at the Interfaces II (VARINT 21), hosted by University Autonoma de Barcelona, November 18th-19th, 2021. [website]
Resource Restriction and Accessibility to MERGE (with Toru Ishii). Symposium "On the Computational System of Human Language: Merge," Sophia University Linguistics Society, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, July 17, 2021. [website]
Multiple Nominative and Form Sequence (with Toru Ishii). Keio Study Group, June 6, 2021.
When the Grammar Doesn't Mind Which Merge to Choose (with Andreas Blümel and Yushi Sugimoto), The 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39), hosted by The University of Arizona's Department of Linguistics, April 8-11, 2021. [website]
Options of Externally Merging {v, T, C} - a Comparative Approach (with Andreas Blümel and Yushi Sugimoto), The 45th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 45), ZOOM, March 19-21, 2021. [website]
Reconsidering the syntax of correlates and propositional arguments (with Andreas Blümel). (Workshop "On the nouniness of propositional arguments," The 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Freiburg i. B., Germany, on February 25, 2021. Organizers: Katrin Axel-Tober, Lutz Gunkel, Jutta M. Hartmann, Anke Holler. [website]
Parameters Revisited: Free Modes of Introducing Functional Heads (with Andreas Blümel and Yushi Sugimoto), Keio Study Group on Generative Grammar (ZOOM), January 30th, 2020.
2020
ATB解釈に寄与する格の役割(明治大学石井透教授との共同発表)、第38回日本英語学会ワークショップ「統語領域におけるcopyをめぐる諸問題 – 単純化したcopy派生メカニズム」(ZOOM開催)、2020年11月8日. [website] [Handout]
2019
A Conspiracy of Feature-Inheritance and Pair-Merge (Workshop "Exploring Pair-Merge of Heads," The 37th Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan, November 9, 2019). Organizer: Nobu Goto (Toyo University). Participants: Yushi Sugimoto (University of Michigan), Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen), Nobu Goto (Toyo University). [website] [Handout]
Head Hiding (with Andreas Blümel), The 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 50), MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, October 25th-27th, 2019. [website] [Handout]
Determinacy Theory of Movement (with Toru Ishii) , The 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 50), MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, October 25th-27th, 2019. [website] [Handout]
The Principle of Determinacy and Its Implications for MERGE (with Toru Ishii) , The 12the Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia and the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (GLOW-in-Asia XII & SICOGG 21), Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, August 7-9, 2019. [website] [Handout]
Conspiracy of MERGE and Determinacy: A New Analysis of Movement Phenomena (with Toru Ishii) , The 29th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG29), the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, May 22-24, 2019. [website] [Handout]
C-Hiding by Head Movement (with Andreas Blümel), The 29th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG29), the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, May 22-24, 2019. [website] [Handout]
When and How Does Search Take Place?, The 12th ELSJ International Spring Forum, University of the Sacred Heart, Toyo, Japan, May 11-12, 2019. [website] [Handout] (part of which also presented at IGG45 and Keio Study Group on Generative Grammar)
MERGE + Determinacy in Phase Theory: A Comparative Study of Movement Restrictions (with Toru Ishii), The 8th Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference (CamCos8), the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, May 2-4, 2019. [website] [Handout]
When and How Does Search Take Place?, The 45th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG45), Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy, February 21-23, 2019. [website] [Handout] (part of which also presented at ELSJ Spring Forum 12)
2018
Taming Free Merge Further - Sub-Extraction and its Kin, Western Conference on Linguistics 2018 (WECOL 2018), California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA, United States, November 30-December 2, 2018. (with Andreas Blümel). [website] [Handout]
Some Consequences of MERGE and Determinacy, Workshop "Clarifying the Concept Workspace, revising Merge to MERGE, and identifying consequences," the 11th International Spring Forum 2018, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan, May 12-13, 2018 (with Toru Ishii). Organizer: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University). [website] [Handout]
Whether We Inherit or Not: A Unified Account of Pro-Drop and Topic-Drop, Workshop on "Current Issues in Comparative Syntax: Past, Present, and Future", The National University of Singapore, Singapore, March 1-2, 2018. [website][Handout]
「併合の理論的研究:神経言語学との統合を目指して」, 国立障害者リハビリテーションセンター研究所 (National Rehabilitation Center, Neurolinguistics), 脳機能系障害研究部, 高次脳機能障害研究室, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan, January 16, 2018. <by invitation> [website] [Handout]
2017
「空項現象から見る言語の普遍性と多様性」 (Workshop "Externalization in Minimalist Syntax," The 35th Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, November 18, 2016). Organizer: Yuta Sakamoto (Chukyo University). Participants: Nobu Goto (Toyo University), Kensuke Takita (Meikai University), Taichi Nakamura (Fukui University), Yuta Sakamoto (Chukyo University). [website] [Handout]
A Labeling-based Approach to Floating Numeral Classifiers in Korean and Japanese, The 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, October 12-14, 2017. (with Myung-Kwan Park). [website] [Handout]
Some Refinements of the POP System, 慶應言語学コロキアム, 2017年7月8-9日(土・日)(Keio Linguistics Colloquium, Keio University (慶應義塾大学), Mita, Tokyo, Japan, July 8-9, 2017). <by invitation> [website] [Handout]
"Notes on Search and Syntactic Visibility – 探査の統一理論に向けて", 日本英文学会第89回大会ワークショップ『ラベル付けアルゴリズムを含むフェイズ理論について』静岡大学,2017年5月20日(土)(Workshop "On Phase Theory with Labeling Algorithm," The 89th Annual Meeting of The English Literary Society of Japan, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, May 20, 2017). Organizer: Nobu Goto (Toyo University). Participants: Ken Hiraiwa (Meiji Gakuin University), Yoshihito Dobashi (Niigata University), Nobu Goto (Toyo University). [website] [Handout] [abstract] [abstract]
Labeling Theory and Parametric Variation, 上智大学言語学講演会, Sophia University (上智大学), Tokyo, Japan, March 10, 2017. <by invitation> [abstract] [Handout]
Free Merge: Consequences and Challenges, Aoyama Linguistics and Literature (ALL), Aoyama Gakuin University (青山学院大学), Tokyo, Japan, February 28 , 2017. <by invitation> [abstract] [Handout]
Eliminating Strong/Weak Parameter on T. GLOW in Asia XI, National University of Singapore, Singapore (シンガポール国立大学), February 20-22, 2017. [website] [Handout] [abstract]
「A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky」を通して考える生成文法理論の過去と今、そして、これから ("Considering the Past, Present, and Future of the Theory of Generative Grammar through 'A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky'"), 慶應言語学コロキアム, 2017年1月9日(月・祝日)(Keio Linguistics Colloquium, Keio University (慶應義塾大学), Mita, Tokyo, Japan, January 9, 2017). <by invitation> [website] [Handout]
2016
非相主要部の一般化と素性継承の新たな根拠:言語の普遍性を追い求めて ("A Generalization of Non-Phase Heads and a New Rationale for Feature Inheritance: In Pursuit of the Universality of Language") (ワークショップ「ミニマリスト・プログラムにおけるパラメータの姿と働きについて」Workshop "Exploring the Notion of Parameters in the Minimalist Program,") The 153th Annual Meeting of The Linguistic Society of Japan, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan, December 3-4, 2016). Organizer: Nobu Goto (Toyo University). Participants: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University), Masashi Nomura (Chukyo University), Nobu Goto (Toyo University).[website] [Handout] [program] [abstract]
Labeling and Parametric Variation in Syntax (Workshop "Current Issues in Comparative Minimalist Syntax," The 34th Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, November 12, 2016). Organizer: Nobu Goto (Toyo University). Participants: Yosuke Sato (National University of Singapore), Ryoichiro Kobayashi (Graduate School of Linguistics, Sophia University), Nobu Goto (Toyo University). [website] [Handout]
Labeling and Tough-Movement, Workshop "Addressing Classic Issues on Movement and Its Locality in Japanese and Korean under the Current Minimalist Framework," The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference/Satellite Workshops, NINJAL, Tokyo, Japan, October 13-17, 2016. (with Kensuke Takita). [website] [Handout]
On Labeling Theory, Kent Ridge Linguistics Colloquia, National University of Singapore (NUS), March 2, 2016. [website] [Handout] [abstract]
2015
On Labeling: In Search of Unconstrained Merge. Symposium "Unconstrained Merge: Its Consequences and Challenges," The 33rd Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan, November 21, 2015. [website] [Handout]
Deriving Specificity Effects in the Labeling Theory: A Case Study of Labelability and Extractability. 日本英文学会東北支部第70回大会,宮城学院女子大学,2015年11月7~8日(土・日)(The 70th Annual Meeting of The English Literary Society of Japan, Miyagi Gakuin Women's University, Sendai, Japan, November 2015). [website][Handout]
Labelability = Extractability: Its Theoretical Implications for the Free-Merge Hypothesis. The 46the annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 46), Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, October 16-18, 2015. [website] [Handout]
併合が探査を必要とするとき.日本言語学会150回大会,大東文化大学,2015年6月20日(土)(When Merge Requires Search. The 150th Annual Meeting of The Linguistic Society of Japan, Daito Bunka University, Japan, June 20, 2015). [プログラム][発表要旨][ハンドアウト]
On the Necessity of Labeling in Narrow Syntax: Exploring a Third Approach, Keio Linguistics Colloquium, Keio University, Mita, Tokyo, Japan, March 14, 2015. <by invitation> [Program][Handout 1 (preface)][Handout 2 (main)][Handout 3 (discussion)]
2014
On the Necessity of Labeling in Narrow Syntax: How to Label There-Constructions, 日本英語学会第32回大会ワークショップ『ラベルについて』学習院大学,2014年11月8日(土)(Workshop "On Label," The 32nd Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan, November 8, 2014). Organizer: Nobu Goto (Toyo University). Participants: Miki Obata (Tokyo University of Science), Hiroki Narita (Nihon University), Nobu Goto (Toyo University).[Handout]
Whether We Inherit or Not: A Unified Account of Pro-Drop and Topic-Drop, Fukuoka Linguistic Circle (FLC), Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan, July 19, 2014. <by invitation> [Program][Handout]
Labeling through Spell-Out, GLOW in Asia X, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, May 24-26, 2014. (with Kensuke Takita, Yoshiyuki Shibata).[Handout]
The Deletion by Phase Hypothesis: Consequences and Challenges, SYNTAX WORKSHOP on Phase, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, February 20, 2014. <by invitation> [Program] [Handout]
Case-Markers and Postpositions in Japanese: A View from Ellipsis, 「レキシコン・フェスタ」, 国立国語研究所 理論・構造研究系 プロジェクト成果合同発表会, 国立国語研究所 講堂, Tokyo, Japan, February 1, 2014 (with Kensuke Takita). [Program][Handout]
2013
Some Consequences of Deletion by Phase. MieU Mini Workshop on Syntax, December 26-27. [Handout]
Some Consequences of Deletion by Phase. Workshop "Foundational Issues in Phase Theory," The 31st Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Fukuoka University, Japan, November 9-10, 2013. Organizer: Nobu Goto (Mie University). Participants: Masahiko Takahashi (Mie University), Masako Maeda (Kyushu Institute of Technology), Kensuke Takita (Mie University), Nobu Goto (Mie University). [website] [Handout]
Toward Unconstrained Merge. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 15 (SICOGG 15), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, August 7-10, 2013. [website] [Handout]
A Unified Account for Italian Pro-Drop and German Topic-Drop. Workshop "Towards a Theory of Syntactic Variation," Bilbao, the Basque Country, Spain, June 5-7, 2013. [website] [Handout]
A Theory of Deletion and its Implication for Non-Constituent Deletion. Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition (CSLA) #1, 国立国語研究所共同研究プロジェクト, 第6回研究会, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, May 18, 2013. <by invitation> [website] [Handout] [要旨]
Deletion by Phase: A Case Study of Gapping. Generative Linguistics in the Old World 36 (GLOW36), Lund University, Lund, Sweden, April 2-6, 2013. [website] [Handout]
2012
併合とラベル付けを巡る覚え書き. 日本言語学会145回大会,九州大学,2012年11月24日(土)(Notes on Merge and Label. The 145th Annual Meeting of The Linguistic Society of Japan, Kyusyu University, Japan, November 24, 2012). [ハンドアウト]
Feature-Inheritance under Full Interpretation: Its Effects on Agree. 日本英文学会東北支部第67回大会,岩手県立大学,2012年11月17日(土)(The 67the Meeting of The English Literary Society of Japan, Iwate Prefectural University, Iwate, Japan, December 2012). [Handout]
Deletion by Phase. 日本英語学会第30回大会ワークショップ『ミニマリスト・プログラムにおける削除現象』,慶応義塾大学,2012年11月10日(土)(Workshop "Deletion Phenomena in the Minimalist Program," The 30th Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Keio University, Japan, November 10, 2012). Organizer: Nobu Goto (Mie University). Participants: Taichi Nakamura (Tohoku University), Kensuke Takita (Mie University), Hiroko Kimura (Tohoku University), Nobu Goto (Mie University). [Handout]
Some Asymmetries in Japanese N'-deletion and their Theoretical Implications. Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6 (FAJL 6), ZAS, Berlin, Germany, September 26, 2012 (with Kensuke Takita).
A Note on Particle Stranding Ellipsis. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 14 (SICOGG 14), Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, August 8, 2012. [Handout]
A Note on Merge. 第34回三重大学言語学コロキアム(フィロロギア共同主催),三重大学,2012年5月 (The 34th Mie University Linguistics Colloquium (co-hosted by Philologia), Mie University, Tsu, Japan, May 2012). [Handout]
Extraction out of Ellipsis. 第24・25回英語学・理論言語学セミナー,秋田大学,2012年4月2(The 24・25th Theoretical Linguistics Seminar, Akita University, Akita, Japan, February 4, 2012)(by invitation). [Handout]
2011
A Mechanism of PF-Deletion under the Probe-Goal System. 日本英文学会第66回大会シンポジウム『省略現象の諸相』,東北大学,2011年11月 (Symposium "Aspects of Ellipsis Phenomena," The 66the Meeting of The English Literary Society of Japan, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, November 11, 2011).
A Probe-Goal Analysis of Null Arguments. The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 4th International Spring Forum, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsuh, Japan, April 2011. [I couldn't attend the meeting because of the earthquake in 3/11]
2010
Extraction out of Ellipsis. 第5回言語,文化,社会に関する国際フォーラム,盛岡大学,2010年10月(The 5th International Forum on Language, Culture and Society, Morioka University, Morioka, Japan, October 2010) (by invitation).
A Probe-Goal Analysis of Null Arguments in Italian and German. Sendai Area of Circle of Linguistics (SACL), Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan, July 2010.
2009
Feature-Inheritance, Probe-Goal and Null Arguments. 日本英文学会東北支部第64回大会,岩手カレッジプラザ,2009年11月 (The 64th Meeting of The English Literary Society of Japan, Akita City College Plaza, Akita, Japan, December 2009).
2008
Some Consequences of Feature Inheritance. 日本英語学会第26回大会スチューデントワークショップ『ミニマリスト・プログラムにおける移動現象』筑波大学,2008年11月(Student Workshop "Movement Phenomena in the Minimalist Program," The 26th Annual Meeting of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Tsukuba University, Ibaraki, Japan, November 2008). Organizer: Nobu Goto (Tohoku Gakuin University). Participants: Taichi Nakamura (Tohoku University), Hiroko Kimura (Tohoku University), Nobu Goto (Tohoku Gakuin University).
2007
Tense and AGREE in Wh-Movement. Sendai Area of Circle of Linguistics (SACL), Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan, January 2007.
2006
Sequence-of-Tense Phenomena as a By-Product of Agree. 大学院英文学専攻課程協議会(英専協),日本女子大学,2006年10月.