Publications

Asami, Daiki  (2026) Resultatives in Japanese: Grammar and Processing, PhD dissertation, University of Delaware. (Link)

• Asami, Daiki and Benjamin Bruening. (to appear) “Arguments for a Lexical Ambiguity Approach to Restitutive Readings with Again”, Linguistic Inquiry (LI).  (Manuscript link)

• Asami, Daiki and Satoshi Tomioka. (2026) “Psycholinguistic Evidence for the Optional Movement of Unaccusative Subjects in Japanese”, Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR), 1 (1), 1–32.

• Asami, Daiki and Satoshi Tomioka. (2025) “Online Processing of Subject-initial Non-Canonical Sentences: Interaction of Syntax with Information Structure”, Glossa Psycholinguistics, 4 (1), 1–39.  

• Asami, Daiki and Benjamin Bruening. (2025) “Subjectless Readings of Again: A Response to Bale (2007) and Smith and Yu (2021)”, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (NLLT), 43 (3), 1813–1837.

• Asami, Daiki. (2025) ‘‘Passive Head only Selects for Agentive Voice in Japanese: A Reply to Jo and Seo (2023)’’, Journal of East Asian Linguistics (JEAL), 34, 205–240. 

• Asami, Daiki. (2024) “Deriving and Processing Experiencer Subject Causatives”, Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 9 (1), 1–57.

• Asami, Daiki and Saku Sugawara. (2024) “What Makes Language Models Good-enough?’’, Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 (Findings of ACL 2024), 15453–15467.

• Asami, Daiki and Saku Sugawara. (2023) “PROPRES: Investigating the Projectivity of Presupposition with Various Triggers and Environments’’, Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2023), 122–137.

• Asami, Daiki, Chao Han, Jacob Burger, Deanna Dunlop, Yue Lu, Effah Morad, Chenyue Zhao, and Arild Hestvik. (2025) “‘Negation-blind’ N400 Effect Disappears When Lexical Priming is Controlled”, Proceedings of the Third Experiments in Linguistic Meaning Conference (ELM 3), 19–31.