Publications

<Monographs>

1. Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing, Linguistik Aktuell - Linguistics Today 277, John Benjamins. (2022)    

2. Minimalist Syntax for Quantifier Raising, Topicalization and Focus Movement: A Search and Float Approach for Internal Merge. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vo. 93, Springer. (2016) 

3. The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing, Linguistik Aktuell - Linguistics Today 222, John Benjamins. (2015)

4. A Movement Theory of Anaphora, Studies in Generative Grammar 120, Mouton De Gruyter. (2014)

<Articles> 

1. "Bottom Copy Pronunciation in Japanese Passives," to appear in Studia Linguistica.  (2024)

2. "How to Apply Multiple Scrambling in Japanese," to appear in Syntax. (2024)

3. "Scrambling of Wh-Phrases and Minimality in Japanese," to appear in Proceedings of  the 25th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. (2023)   

4. "The Right Node Raising Analysis of Coordinated Wh-Questions in Japanese,"   Journal of East Asian Linguistic 32(3), 261-301. (2023)

5. 「Aチェーンの要素の顕在化と束縛変項読みとの関係について」『言語の本質を共時的・通時的に探る：大室剛志教授退職記念論文集』開拓社、pp. 13-25. (2022)        

6.  "What Scrambling Tells Us about Wh-Islands in Japanese," Language and Information Society 40, 1-28. (Korea) (2020)

7. "The Locality Effects of Japanese Sluicing in Wh-Island Contexts," in Tae Sik Kim & Sae-Youn Cho, eds., 2020 The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in Generative Grammar, Proceedings of the 22nd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp. 264-277. (2020)

8. "Antecedent-Contained Deletion in Japanese: Support for the VP-Ellipsis Analysis," Studia Linguistica 73(1), 106-138. (2019)

9. "Focus Licensing at the Left Periphery in Japanese Right Dislocation" Syntax 22(1), 1-23. (2019)

10. "Sluicing, Right Dislocation, and Scopal Parallelism," Studies in Modern Grammar 100, 165-189. (Korea) (2018)

11. "How to Derive the Anti-C-Command Requirement on Argument Ellipsis," in Yoen-Mee Park, ed., 2018 The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Generative Grammar, Proceedings of the 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp. 1-16. (2018)

12. "Late Merge and Phases for Anti-C-Command Requirements," Syntax 21(2), 91-111. (2018) 

13. "How to Probe Expletives," Studia Linguistica 72(1), 76-112. (2018)

14. "Against the Approach of Island Repair by Ellipsis: The Case of Wh-Islands in Japanese" in Changguk Yim, ed., 2017 The Syntax-Morphology Interface in Generative Grammar, Proceedings of the 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp. 3-17. (2017)

15. "Against the "Repair by Ellipsis" Approach: The Case of Japanese Multiple Right Dislocation," in Tae Sik Kim & Seungwan Ha, eds., 2016 Beyond Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach, Proceedings of the 18th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp. 3-16. (2016)

16. “Make Short Answers Shorter: Support for the In-Situ Approach,”  Syntax 19(3), 223-255. (2016)

17. “String-Vacuity and LF Interpretation in A-Chains: Cases of ECM and Nominative-Genitive Conversion,” The Linguistic Review 33(2), 199-238. (2016)

18. "Argument-Adjunct Asymmetries and Interface Conditions on 'Gaps'," in 菊地朗他 [編]『言語学の現在（いま）を知る２６考』研究社、pp. 1-12. (2016)

19. "Dynamic Antisymmetry for Labeling" Lingua 174, 1-15. (2016)

20. "Infinite Regress Resolution of ACD: An Overt Movement Approach," in Tae Sik Kim and Seungwan Ha, eds., 2015 Case and Agreement in Minimalism, Proceedings of the 17th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp 3-20. (2015)

21. “The EPP and Subject Extraction,” Lingua 159, 1-17. (A shortened version appeared in JELS 27, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, pp. 1-10, 2010). (2015)

22. “No Reconstruction Approach to A-Chains,” in 江頭浩樹 他 [編]『より良き代案を絶えず求めて』 開拓社、pp. 130-139. (2015)

23. "Copy Reflexivization in Japanese," in Jong Un Park and Il-Jae Lee, eds., 2014 Comparative Syntax, Proceedings of the 16th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp. 3-22. (2014)

24. "Pronunciation and LF Interpretation in the ECM Construction," in Il-Jae Lee and Uujinbai Dolgormaa, eds., 2013 Universals and Parameters, Proceedings of the 15th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp. 3-21. (2013)

25. “Backward Anaphora in Japanese: Cases of Condition C Violations,” in Kazuko Yatsushiro and Uli Sauerland, eds., Proceedings of FAJL 6. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 66, pp. 5-15. (2013)

26. “Reconstruction into Parasitic Gaps,” in JELS 30, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, pp. 3-9. (2013)

27. "Can a Modular Approach to Binding Be Successful?" Review article of Eric Reuland's Anaphora and Language Design, English Linguistics 29, No. 2, pp. 382-412. (2012)

28. “String-Vacuity under Japanese Right Node Raising,” (with Chizuru Nakao) in Matthew A. Tucker, Anie Thompson, Oliver Northrup, and Ryan Bennett, eds., Proceedings of FAJL 5. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 64, pp. 1-14. (2012)

29. “‘Lasnik-Effects’ and String-Vacuous ATB Movement,” (with Norbert Hornstein) in Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria and Vidal Valmala, eds., Ways of Structure Building, Oxford University Press, pp. 169-205. (2012)

30. “Optionality in Word Order: A Case Study of a Japanese Sign Language,” English Language and Literature 96, The Research Association, Tohoku Gakuin University, pp. 1-40. （『東北学院大学論集第９６号』東北学院大学学術研究会）(2012)

31. “Scrambling and operator movement,” Lingua 122, 66-91. (2012)

32. “Real parasitic gaps in Japanese,” Journal of East Asian Linguistics 20, 195-218. (2011)

33. 「極小理論におけるパラメターの位置づけ」『東北学院大学論集 English Language and Literature 第９５号』東北学院大学学術研究会 pp. 1-40. (2011)

34. “On ATB-Movement and Parasitic Gaps in Japanese,” (with Chizuru Nakao) in Sun-Woong Kim, ed., 2009 Visions of the Minimalist Program, Proceedings of the 11th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Hankuk Publishing Co., pp. 1-15. (2009)

35. “Identification of Null Arguments in Japanese,” in Hiroto Hoshi, ed., The Dynamics of the Language Faculty: Perspectives from Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience, Kuroshio Publishers, Tokyo, pp. 135-162. (2009)

36. 「深層構造はどうなったのか」『月刊言語１1月号』大修館書店 pp. 28-33. (2008)

37. "Directionality of Movement: A Case of Japanese Right Dislocation," Proceedings of the 58th Conference, The Tohoku English Literary Society, 54-61. (2003)

38. "Toward a Better Understanding of Binding Theory," English Linguistics 19, 54-80. (2002)

39. "Bare Output Conditions and Language (Im)perfections," An Interface between Meaning and Form: A Festschrift for Minoru Nakau on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, Kuroshio Publishers, Tokyo, pp. 587-597. (2001)

40. "A Generalized Rightward Movement Analysis of Antecedent Contained Deletion," (with Hiroto Hoshi) Journal of Linguistics 35, 451-487. (1999)

41. "Directionality of Movement in Ellipsis Resolution in English and Japanese Ellipsis," (with Hiroto Hoshi) in Shalom Lappin and Elabbas Benmamoun, eds., Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 193-226. (1999)

42. "'Three-Layered' Better Than 'Two-Layered'," a review article of Akira Watanabe's Case Absorption and Wh-Agreement, Glot Internatioinal Vol. 2, December 20-22. (1997)

43. "What Triggers Successive-Cyclic Movement," in Jeong-Seok Kim, Satoshi Oku and Sandra Stjepanović, eds., 'Is the Logic Clear?' Papers in Honor of Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics 8, pp. 1-20. (1997)

44. "LF Undoing Effects of Scrambling," in Shigeo Tonoike, ed., Scrambling, Kuroshio Publishers, Tokyo, pp. 35-59. (1997)

45. "Gapping and P-Stranding," (with Hiroto Hoshi) Journal of East Asian Linguistics 6, 101-136. (1997)

46. "Ellipsis: Deletion, Copying or Both?" in Yuji Nishiyama and Yukio Otsu, eds., Keio Studies in Theoretical Linguistics I, Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University, pp. 49-87. (1996)

47. "What Motivates Form-Chain," in Shosuke Haraguchi and Michio Funaki, eds., Minimalism and Linguistic Theory, Hituzi Publishers, Tokyo, pp. 33-51. (1995)

48. "Condition A without A-Binding," in Sharon Hargus, Gerald R. McMenamin, and Vida Samiian, eds., Proceedings of the 23rd Western Conference on Linguistics Vol. 6, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno, pp. 1-13. (1994)

49. "Scrambling without A/A' Distinction," in Noriko Akatsuka, ed., Japanese Korean Linguistics 4, CSLI Publications, Stanford University, pp. 277-293. (1994)

50. "Movement Operations in Syllable Structures and Their Locality and Economy," in Jun Abe, Lisa Ferro, Laurel LaPorte-Grimes, Daiko Takahashi, and Miyuki Yamashina, eds., UCONN Working Papers in Linguistics 4, University of Connecticut, Storrs, pp. 1-34. (1994)

51. "The Economy Condition on Dependency," in Andreas Kathol and Michael Bernstein, eds., Proceedings of the Tenth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, DMLL Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, pp. 1-12. (1993)

52. "Expletive Replacement and Quantifier Scope," in Amy J. Schafer, ed., Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 23, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, pp. 1-15. (1993)

53. "Zibun as Distributor and Its Interaction with Pronominal Kare," Proceedings of the Northeast Linguistic Society 22, Graduate Linguistic Student Publications, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, pp. 1-15. (1992)

54. "English En: Prefix or Suffix," (with Wayne P. Lawrence, Hiroaki Horiuchi and Masao Okazaki) English Linguistics 6, 168-182. (1989)

55. "Compound and Non-Compound Reflexives: A Generalized Binding Approach," Tsukuba English Studies 7, 245-278. (1988)

56. "Generalized Binding Theory and the Behavior of Anaphors in Gerunds," English Linguistics 4, 165-185. (1987)

57. "Anaphoric INFL," Tsukuba English Studies 6, 69-98. (1987)

58. "Prepositional To-Infinitives in English," English Linguistics 3, 79-97. (1986)

59. "The Behavior of Anaphors in Gerunds," Tsukuba English Studies 5, 87-106. (1986)

<Textbooks>

1. 『生成意味論入門』開拓社叢書３１ (2018)

2. 『生成文法理論の哲学的意義：言語の内在的・自然主義的アプローチ』開拓社 (2017)

3. 『生成統語論入門：普遍文法の解明に向けて』開拓社叢書２６ (2016)

4. Learning Generative Grammar through Solving Problems『問題を通して学ぶ生成文法』 Hituzi Publishers, Tokyo. (2008)

5. An Introduction to Generative Linguistic Theory『入門 生成言語理論』 (with Sin-ichi Tanaka and Takeshi Omuro) Hituzi Publishers, Tokyo. (2000) [第２章]