Talks/Slides

2024

Some reconstructions are by default semantic

Talk at WCCFL42



2023


Two Places Where We Need Plug-negation in Update Semantics

Talk at LENLS20 slides


Exhaustification and presupposition: Argument for weak negation

Talk at the 167th meeting of the Linguistics Society of Japan. slides 


What semantics tells us about scope and reconstruction

Workshop talk at the 41st Meeting of the English Linguistics Society of Japan. slides handout


Local context of logical connectives is not universal: A case study of Japanese disjunction

Talk at SuB28. slides handout


Dynamics and Alternatives in Unconditionals" (with Yu Hashimoto and Hajime Mori)

Talk at SuB28. slides


Anaphoricity and Saliency in Answering Negative Questions (with Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu)

Poster at SICOGG 25. poster 


Reconstruction Conflict: Evidence for Parallel Merge

Talk at "How Many Mothers?" workshop. slides


Telescope of Incremental Quantification

Poster at SALT33. poster


Choose Events of Situations: An Ambiguity of Japanese tara

Talk at The English Linguistic Society of Japan 16th International Spring Forum. slides


Crossover Effects with Set Indices: Evidence from Japanese Scrambling 

Poster at Japanese/Korean Linguistics 30  (Joint work with Yuta Tasumi). poster



2022


Distribution Relative to Events in Dynamic Semantics

Poster at SuB27. poster  


Definite Expressions for Tenses: More Analogy between Pronouns and Tenses

Poster at Glow in Asia XIII. slides


Additive Prejecent and/or Additive Alternatives: A Principle and a Parameter in Mandarin and Japanese

Poster at GLOW 45 (Joint work with Xuetong Yuan). slides



Stronger Additivity Derives Concessivity

Talk at PLC 46 (Joint work with Xuetong Yuan). slides


Dynamics of Situations and Semantic Parameter within English

Talk at TLLM2022. slides handout


Stronger additivity: Toward a unification of additivity and concessivity

Talk at Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (Joint work with Xuetong Yuan)


Strawson Semantic Value: An explanation for the definite reading in ellipsis 

Poster at LSA2022. poster


2021


Against Syntactic Neg- raising: Evidence from Polarity-Reversed Ellipsis in Japanese 

Poster at JK 29 (Joint work with Yuta Sakamoto and Yuta Tatsumi)

poster slides


Unifying Concessive Conditionals and Unconditionals in Japanese 

Talk at PLC 45


2019


A Source of Defeasibility: Evidence from Japanese Object Experiencer Predicates

Talk at JK 27


Prospective Result of Causative Predicates: A Uniform Analysis 

Talk at PACLIC 33


A Unified Analysis for Actual and Prospective Result of Causative Predicates 

Talk at Morphology Lexicon Forum (MLF2019)


2018


Sublexical Modality in Permission and Obligation Causative 

Talk at Nihon Gengo Gakkai (The Linguistic Society in Japan) 157