Junko Shimoyama / 霜山純子
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
McGill University
Papers & handouts
2021
Goodhue, Daniel and Junko Shimoyama. 2021. Embedded negative polar questions in Japanese: Explaining the puzzling distribution of embedded noncanonical negation via the speech act embedding complementizer 'to'. [manuscript]
2020
Moulton, Keir, Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten and Junko Shimoyama. 2020. Things we embed. Presented by Keir Moulton (invited speaker), Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL) 13: The syntax and semantics of clausal complementation, Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (CRISSP), KU Leuven, Belgium, December 16-18, 2020. [handout]
Socolof, Michaela and Junko Shimoyama. 2020. The distribution of the Māori Genitive Relative Construction. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Special issue, Selected Papers from the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 25 (AFLA 25): 47-59. Henry Y. Chang and Hui-chuan J. Huang, eds. [paper]
2019
Moulton, Keir and Junko Shimoyama. 2019. On the Inverse Trace Conversion and maximal informativeness analysis of Japanese internally-headed relative clauses: A reply to Erlewine and Gould 2016. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 5. [paper]
Shimoyama, Junko, Daniel Goodhue and Mako Hirotani. 2019. Positively biased negative polar questions in Japanese and their embeddability. In Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis, Justin Colley, and Dmitry Privoznov, eds., Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 14), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 90, 289-304. Cambridge, Mass.: MITWPL [prepublication draft]
2018
Shimoyama, Junko and Bernhard Schwarz. 2018. A note on such that relatives. Semantics 2018: Looking Ahead, Angelika Fest, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, March 10, 2018. [slides]
2017
Drummond, Alex and Junko Shimoyama. 2017. Adverbial comparatives as event modifiers. In Andrew Lamont and Katerina Tetzloff eds., Proceedings of the 47th North East Linguistic Society (NELS 47), GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [prepublication draft]
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Junko Shimoyama. 2017. Modal indefinites: where do Japanese wh-kas fit in? In Ana Arregui, María Luisa Rivero, and Andrés Pablo Salanova, eds., Modality Across Categories. Oxford University Press, 30-48. [prepublication draft]
Kratzer, Angelika and Junko Shimoyama. 2017. Indeterminate pronouns: The view from Japanese. In Chungmin Lee, Ferenc Kiefer and Manfred Krifka, eds., Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures. Springer, 123-143.
2016
Shimoyama, Junko and Alex Drummond. 2016. Apparent vehicle change phenomena in the absence of ellipsis. In Michael Kenstowicz, Ted Levin and Ryo Masuda, eds., Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23, CSLI Publications. [prepublication draft]
2015
Shimoyama, Junko, Alex Drummond, Bernhard Schwarz and Michael Wagner. 2015. Movement and ellipsis in afterthought right dislocation, sluicing and fragments. Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association. [paper]
2014
Yoon, Erica J. and Junko Shimoyama. 2014. Predictions of the two-grammar hypothesis for Korean and Japanese. [manuscript]
Drummond, Alex and Junko Shimoyama. 2014. QR as an agent of vehicle change. In Jyoti Iyer and Leland Kusmer eds., Proceedings of the 44th North East Linguistic Society (NELS 44), GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [prepublication draft]
Shimoyama, Junko. 2014. The size of noun modifiers and degree quantifier movement. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 23(3): 307-331. [paper]
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Junko Shimoyama. 2014. Expressing ignorance in the nominal domain: Japanese wh-ka. In Robert E. Santana-LaBarge ed., Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 11-20. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [paper]
2013
Yoon, Erica J. and Junko Shimoyama. 2013. The two-grammar model for Korean and its consequences. In Umut Özge, ed., Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 8), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 67, 381-393. MITWPL. [paper]
2012
Shimoyama, Junko. 2012. Reassessing crosslinguistic variation in clausal comparatives. Natural Language Semantics 20(1):83-113. [paper]
2011
Shimoyama, Junko. 2011. Clausal comparatives and cross-linguistic variation. In Suzi Lima, Kevin Mullin and Brian Smith, eds., Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 39), 677-690. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [paper]
Shimoyama, Junko. 2011. Degree quantification and the size of noun modifiers. In William McClure and Marcel den Dikken, eds., Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 18, 356-367. Stanford: CSLI Publications. [prepublication draft]
Shimoyama, Junko. 2011. Japanese indeterminate negative polarity items and their scope. Journal of Semantics 28(4):413-450. [paper]
Schwarz, Bernhard and Junko Shimoyama. 2011. Negative islands and obviation by wa in Japanese degree questions. In Nan Li and David Lutz, eds., Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XX (SALT 20), pp. 702-719. [paper]
2010
Schwarz, Bernhard and Junko Shimoyama. 2010. Epistemic wa and negative islands in Japanese. Handout for MIT Workshop on Comparatives, November 13-14, 2010. [handout]
2008
Shimoyama, Junko. 2008. Indeterminate NPIs and scope. In Tova Friedman and Satoshi Ito, eds., Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XVIII (SALT18), CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca. [paper]
Shimoyama, Junko. 2008. Indeterminate pronouns. In Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito, eds., The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, 372-393. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [chapter]
2006
Shimoyama, Junko. 2006. Indeterminate phrase quantification in Japanese. Natural Language Semantics 14:139-173. [paper]
Shimoyama, Junko. 2006. A QVE-like phenomenon in the Japanese universal construction and its implications. In Yubun Suzuki, Keizo Mizuno, and Ken-Ichi Takami, eds., In search of the essence of language science: festschrift for Professor Heizo Nakajima on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, 297-309. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. [prepublication draft]
2003
Shimoyama, Junko. 2003. Adjectival passives and the Japanese ‘intransitivizing resultative’ V-te aru construction. In Shuji Chiba et al. eds., Empirical and theoretical investigations into language: a festschrift for Masaru Kajita, 647-661. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. [prepublication draft]
2002
Kratzer, Angelika and Junko Shimoyama. 2002. Indeterminate pronouns: The view from Japanese. In Y. Otsu. ed. The Proceedings of the Third Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2002), 1-25. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. [longer draft]
2001
Shimoyama, Junko. 2001. Wh-constructions in Japanese. PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [pdf]
1999
Shimoyama, Junko. 1999. Internally headed relative clauses in Japanese and E-type anaphora. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 8:147-182. [paper]
Shimoyama, Junko. 1999. Complex NPs and wh-quantification in Japanese. In P. N. Tamanji et al. eds. Proceedings of the 29th North East Linguistic Society (NELS 29), 355-365. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [paper]
1995
Shimoyama, Junko. 1995. On ‘sluicing’ in Japanese. Ms., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [manuscript]