Upcoming Presentations:

小林亮一朗. 2024. 英語における付加詞の省略について. 口頭発表, 日本英語学会 第42回大会, 11月24日, 名古屋大学. [website] (査読有り)

Tanabe, Tomoya, Ryoichiro Kobayashi and Yosuke Sato. 2024. The obligatory wide scope phenomena in Japanese: a myth? The 169th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, November 30th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Selected Presentations:

Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2024. Non-intersective modification requires deverbal derivation: evidence from Japanese. Sinn und Bedeutung 29, Consorzio Universitario Mediterraneo Orientale (C.U.M.O.) in Noto, Italy, September 17th. [website] [poster] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Yuto Hirayama and Shun Ihara. 2024. Prosodic prominence induces ellipsis resistance: New evidence from masaka in Japanese. The 26th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar and the 18th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (SICOGG26/WAFL18), Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea, August 23rd. [website] [handout] (refereed) (Talk)

Mizutani, Kenta and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2024. Head movement does not necessarily affect scopal relations: Arguments from Syntax and Semantics. Workshop: Ellipsis and head movement at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics crossroad: Japanese and beyond (with Yosuke Sato, Kenta Mizutani and Tomoya Tanabe) The 168th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ), International Christian University, Japan, June 30th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

小林亮一朗. 2024. 空付加詞の解釈とスルーシング：Adjunct Ellipsis の可能性について.ワークショップ：GrammarXivを活用した新しい研究発表のあり方を探る：付加詞をめぐる諸問題を例に (with Kensuke Takita and Masashi Yamaguchi) 口頭発表, 関西言語学会 第49回大会, 6月8日, 関西学院大学. [website] (査読有り)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2024. Phi-agreement and the Raising-to-Object constructions in English and Japanese. The 17th English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) International Spring Forum, Kyoto University, May 26th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2024. Replicability of adjunct-inclusive interpretation: Implications for Adjunct Ellipsis in Japanese. Chicago Linguistic Society 60 (CLS 60), the University of Chicago, April 27th. [website] [poster] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Daiki Matsumoto and Tomoya Tanabe. 2024. Deriving Verb-Echo Answers in Japanese by referencing (immediate) QUD sets. GLOW in Asia XIV, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 7th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Tomoya Tanabe and Yosuke Sato. 2024. Focusing on the diagnostic validity of the adjunct test in Japanese Ellipsis: where prosody meets information structure. The 15th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Theory, Typology and History (Phex15), Tokyo Woman's Christian University, February 24th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

小林亮一朗. 2024. 日本語におけるAdjunct Ellipsisについて. The 20th Okayama Linguistics Forum, January 25th. [website] [handout] (invited)

Hirayama, Yuto, Shun Ihara and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2023. On the peculiar distribution of the Japanese epistemic adverb masaka. Sinn und Bedeutung 28 (SuB28), Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), September 8th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Tomoya Tanabe and Yosuke Sato. 2023. Focusing on the diagnostic validity of the adjunct test in Japanese ellipsis: Where prosody meets information structure. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 25 (SICOGG25), Dongguk University, August 15th. [website] [slides] (refereed) (Talk)

小林亮一朗. 2023. 日本語における動詞主要部移動分析の批判的検証. 招待発表, 上智大学言語学会 第37回大会, 7月15日, 上智大学 (Online). [website] (invited)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Tomoya Tanabe. 2023. Arguments against reanalyses of Pair-MERGE as Set-MERGE. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 41 (WCCFL 41), University of California, Santa Cruz, May 5th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2023. Verbs stay in-situ in Japanese: A case study of VP-fronting. Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 30 (JK 30), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, March 12th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2022. Null adjuncts are not a hallmark of head-stranding ellipsis in Japanese. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 16 (WAFL 16), Online, October 2nd. [slides] [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2022. Remarks on verb echo answers and head movement in Japanese. Chicago Linguistic Society 58 (CLS 58), Online, April 24th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2022. Remarks on syntactic head movement in Japanese: A reply to Sato and Maeda (2021). Penn Linguistics Conference 46 (PLC 46), Online, March 19th. [website] [handout] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2020. Labeling the unlabelable in the CP domain. Western Conference on Linguistics 2020 (WECOL 2020), Online, November 14th. (Online) [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2019. Notes on coordination, copula, and from-to constructions. GLOW in Asia XII and SICOGG XXI, Dongguk University, August 9th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2019. Verb mismatches in Japanese verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis. Penn Linguistics Conference 43 (PLC 43), the University of Pennsylvania, March 23rd. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2019. A case against the verb-stranding VP-ellipsis analysis in Japanese. Penn Linguistics Conference 43 (PLC 43), University of Pennsylvania, March 23rd. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

小林亮一朗. 2017. 二種類のfrom-to表現と統辞的対称性について. 口頭発表, 日本英語学会 第35回大会, 11月19日, 東北大学. [website] (査読有り)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. The syntax of path/range PP constructions in Japanese. Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 25 (JK25), the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, October 13th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2017. Alternating conj/disjunctions: The case of Japanese -toka and -tari. Sinn und Bedeutung 22 (SuB22), Potsdam/Berlin, September 9th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. On some symmetric constituents in Japanese. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 19 (SICOGG19), Seoul National University, August 11th. [website] (refereed) (Poster (Alternate))

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Ryan Walter Smith. 2017. A case of semantics restriction on coordination. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 19 (SICOGG19), Seoul National University, August 10. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Ryan Walter Smith. 2017. Non-exhaustive coordination in Japanese: A domain-widening account. Semantics of African, Asian, and Austronesian Languages 4 (TripleA 4), University of Gothenburg, July 10th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2017. On the syntax/semantics of -tari and -toka in Japanese. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 13 (WAFL 13), International Christian University, May 28th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. Parametrizing the timing of Transfer in Japanese and English and its consequences. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 13 (WAFL 13), International Christian University, May 26th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. Eliminating the discourse-based parameter. The English Linguistic Society of Japan 10th International Spring Forum, Meiji Gakuin University, April 22nd. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2017. Focusing on coordination: The case of Japanese -toka and -tari. GLOW in Asia XI, National University of Singapore, February 20th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Ryan Walter Smith. 2017. Conjunctive or disjunctive? On the syntax/semantics of -toka and -tari in Japanese. ConSOLE XXV, Leipzig, Germany, January 5th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. Feature inheritance and the syntax of lexical VV compounds. ConSOLE XXV, Leipzig, Germany, January 4th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. 日英語受動文の比較統辞論. ワークショップ: 日英語比較統辞論研究の現在: 自由併合理論における移動と埋め込み (with Takakazu Nagamori and Yushi Sugimoto) 口頭発表, 日本言語学会 第153回大会 12月4日, 福岡大学 [website] [slides] (査読有り)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. φ-defectiveness and the predicate-internal syntax: Comparative syntax of VV-compounds and their kin. Workshop: Current Issues in Comparative Minimalist Syntax (with Yosuke Sato and Nobu Goto) The 34th Annual Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Kanazawa University, November 12th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. "Project Both" within a nominal adjective. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 18 (SICOGG18), Sogang University, Seoul, August 2nd. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. NCIs at the syntax-prosody interface and the position of NEG in Japanese/Korean coordination. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 12 (WAFL 12), Central Connecticut State University, May 13th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Yusuke Yoda. 2016. NEG in VP-coordination and suspended affixation in Japanese. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 12 (WAFL12), Central Connecticut State University, May 13th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Yoda, Yusuke and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2016. I didn't drink and drove a car: Neg expresses eccentric triplets. Penn Linguistics Conference 40 (PLC 40), University of Pennsylvania, March 19th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Gen Fujita. 2016. Neg-raising is an illusion: Japanese verbal complex formation in Distributed Morphology. Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 8 (FAJL 8), Mie University, February 18th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. On the position of NEG in coordination: NCIs in Japanese at the syntax-prosody Interface. Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 8 (FAJL 8), Mie University, February 18th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. Against V-to-T-to-C movement in Japanese and Korean non-constituent coordination. The Linguistic Society of America's 90th Annual Meeting (LSA 90), Marriott Marquis Washington, DC, January 9th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. A post-syntactic account on the nature of complex V-te V predicates in Japanese. ConSOLE XXIV, York St John University, January 6th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Taihei Asada. 2016. Negative concord items in coordinate structure. ConSOLE XXIV, York St John University, January 6th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. PF-reanalysis revisited: Non-constituent coordination in Distributed Morphology. Arizona Linguistics Circle 9 (ALC 9), The University of Arizona, Tucson, November 6th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. Interface conditions on head movement: Case studies of Neg-raising and coordination in Japanese. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 17 (SICOGG17), Kyung Hee University, August 7th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. Against V-to-T-to-C movement in Japanese: A case study of non-constituent coordination. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 11 (WAFL 11), University of York, June 4th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. The repetitive coordinator-ka and the syntax of alternative questions in Japanese. The English Linguistic Society of Japan 8th International Spring Forum, Seikei University, April 19th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. The repetitive coordinator-ka in Japanese and either in English as scope indicators in disjunction. Penn Linguistics Conference 39 (PLC 39), University of Pennsylvania, March 22nd. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2014. A hybrid analysis for LF-intervention effects: Polarity sensitive items as genuine LF-interveners. The 149th Annual Meeting of The Linguistic Society of Japan, Ehime University, November 15th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2014. The repetitive coordinator-to in Japanese as a postposition. Sophia University Linguistics Society 29 (SULS29), Sophia University, July 19th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)

Misc:

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2022. Functional Parametrization Hypothesis in the Minimalist Program. 慶應言語学コロキアム, April 23rd. [handout] [website] (invited)

Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2021. Ellipsis in Japanese and information structure. Workshop on Ellipsis in Japanese, Online, September 6th. (invited)