Papers in Academic Journals
Oshima, David Y. (2025) "Differential coding of the occurrence of negative eventualities and the nonoccurrence of eventualities in Japanese: The past perfective vs. the nonpast nonperfective", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 43(2):827-866.
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (2024) "談話助詞「わ」の機能とキャラ語尾性―汎性語の「わ」・女性語の「わ」― [The functions and status as a kyaragobi (character ending) of the Japanese discourse particle wa: Wa as a gender-neutral expression vs. wa as a feminine expression]" (in Japanese), ことば [Kotoba] 45:39-56.
Oshima, David Y. (2024) "What a nominal predicate may mean: Eel, merfolk, and other creatures", Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences 63.
Oshima, David Y. (2023) "The semantics and sociopragmatics of the Japanese honorific titles san, kun, and chan: Some focal points of variation", Journal of East Asian Linguistics 32(2):169-200. (erratum)
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (2023) "「謙譲語II」と「丁重語」の区分について―語彙的意味と有標性の観点から― [On the distinction of dishonorifics (kenjōgo II) and courtesy honorifics (teichōgo): From the perspectives of lexical semantics and markedness]" (in Japanese), 語用論研究 [Studies in Pragmatics] 24:19-36. (NAGOYA Repository)
Oshima, David Y. (2023) "Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers: English only, Japanese dake, dake-wa, and shika, and the cleft construction", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 41:1529-1561.
Nambu, Satoshi, David Y. Oshima, and Shin-ichiro Sano (2022) "The nominative-to-accusative shift in Japanese: Diachronic and synchronic considerations", Journal of Japanese Linguistics 38(2): 161-191. (pre-publication draft)
Oshima, David Y. (2021) "When (not) to use the Japanese particle wa: Groundhood, contrastive topics, and grammatical functions", Language: A Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 97(4):e320-e340. (pre-publication draft: pdf)
林みどり・大島デイヴィッド義和 [Hayashi, Midori and David Y. Oshima] (2021) "付加的呼称詞「さん」「くん」の使用とジェンダー中立性―実態と規範をめぐって― [The use of affixal designation terms "san" and "kun" and gender neutrality: On the usage and the norms]" (in Japanese), ことば [Kotoba] 42:72-89.
Oshima, David Y., Kimi Akita, and Shin-ichiro Sano (2019) "Gradability, scale structure, and the division of labor between nouns and adjectives: The case of Japanese", Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 4(1), Article 41:1-36.
Nambu, Satoshi, Hyun Kyung Hwang, David Y. Oshima, and Masashi Nomura (2018) "The nominative/accusative alternation in Japanese and information structure", Journal of East Asian Linguistics 27(2):141-171. (pre-publication draft)
Oshima, David Y. and E. McCready (2017) "Anaphoric demonstratives and mutual knowledge: The cases of Japanese and English", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 35(3):801-837. (pre-publication draft: pdf)
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (2017) "主要部を持たない日本語従属節 ―「シテ」・「言ッテ」・「思ッテ」の不在― [Japanese subordinate clauses without a head: The non-occurrence of DO, SAY, and THINK]" (in Japanese; abstract in English), 言語研究 [Gengo Kenkyu: Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan] 151:1-35.
Hayashi, Midori and David Y. Oshima (2015) "How multiple past tenses divide the labor: The case of South Baffin Inuktitut", Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences 53(4):773-808. (draft, May 2015: pdf)
Oshima, David Y. (2014) "On the morphological status of -te, -ta, and related forms in Japanese: Evidence from accent placement", Journal of East Asian Linguistics 23(3):233-265. (draft, December 2013: pdf)
Oshima, David Y. (2011) "On the interpretation of toki-clauses: Beyond the absolute/relative dichotomy", Journal of East Asian Linguistics 20(1):1-32. (errata)
Oshima, David Y. (2009) "Between being wise and acting wise: A hidden conditional in some constructions with propensity adjectives", Journal of Linguistics 45(2):363-393.
Oshima, David Y. (2007) "Syntactic direction and obviation as empathy-based phenomena: A typological approach", Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences 45(4):727-764. (draft, March 2004: pdf)
Oshima, David Y. (2007) "On empathic and logophoric binding", Research on Language and Computation 5(1):19-35. (draft, September 2006: pdf) (erratum)
Oshima, David Y. (2006) "Adversity and Korean/Japanese passives: Constructional analogy", Journal of East Asian Linguistics 15(2):137-166. (draft, December 2004: pdf) (erratum)
Papers in Edited Volumes & Proceedings
Oshima, David Y. (forthcoming) "Information structure and bare nominals in colloquial Japanese", In: William Giang, Lucien Brown, Shimako Iwasaki, Satoshi Nambu, and Daniel Pieper (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.31. Oakland: eScholarship Publishing. pp.474-484.
Oshima, David Y. (2024) "The forms and meanings of negative polar interrogatives in English and Japanese: Epistemic bias, information structure, prosody, and further issues", In: Hideki Kishimoto, Osamu Sawada, and Ikumi Imani (eds.) Polarity-sensitive expressions: Comparison between Japanese and other languages. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp.261-296. (draft: pdf)
Oshima, David Y. (2023) "The semantic markedness of the Japanese negative preterite: Non-existence of (positive) eventualities vs. existence of negative eventualities", In: Daisuke Bekki, Koji Mineshima, and Elin McCready (eds.) Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics: 19th International Conference, LENLS19, Tokyo, Japan, November 19–21, 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Heidelberg: Springer. pp.31-50.
Oshima, David Y. (2023) "The Japanese verb itasu and its kin: Dishonorifics (kenjōgo II) vs. courtesy honorifics (teichōgo)", In: Sara Williamson, Adeola Aminat Babayode-Lawal, Laurens Bosman, Nicole Chan, Sylvia Cho, Ivan Fong, and Kaye Holubowsky (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.30. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp.537-546. (downloadable)
Oshima, David Y. (2023) "On the mirative use of the no (da) construction in Japanese", In: Elin McCready and Hiroki Nomoto (eds.) Discourse particles in Asian languages, volume I: East Asia. Abingdon: Routledge. pp.9-32. (draft: pdf) (erratum)
Oshima, David Y. (2023) "The semantics and pragmatics of the Japanese honorific titles san, kun, and chan", In: Katsutoshi Yada, Yasufumi Takama, Koji Mineshima, and Ken Satoh (eds.) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2021 Workshops, JURISIN, LENLS, SCIDOCA, Kansei-AI, AI-Biz, Japan, November 13-15, 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Heidelberg: Springer. pp.172-187.
Oshima, David Y. (2022) "How to be a ham sandwich or an eel: The English deferred equative and the Japanese eel sentence", In: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Frankfurt: the University Library of Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. pp.120-134.
Oshima, David Y. (2021) "The Japanese particle wa most often does not mark a topic", In: Hae-Sung Jeon (ed.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.28, poster papers. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (online only)
Oshima, David Y. and Midori Hayashi (2021) "Redefining verbal nouns in Japanese: From the perspective of polycategoriality", In: Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), vol.34. pp.514-522. (downloadable)
Oshima, David Y. (2021) "Against the multidimensional approach to honorific meaning: A solution to the binding problem of conventional implicature", In: Naoaki Okazaki, Katsutoshi Yada, Ken Satoh, and Koji Mineshima (eds.) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2020 Workshops, JURISIN, LENLS 2020 Workshops, Virtual Event, November 15–17, 2020, Revised Selected Papers. Heidelberg: Springer. pp.113-128. (draft: pdf)
Meng, Ying and David Y. Oshima (2020) "On the marked usage of demonstratives: Toward the typology", In: Michael Barrie (ed.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.27, poster papers. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (online only)
Oshima, David Y. (2020) "The English rise-fall-rise contour and the Japanese contrastive particle wa: A uniform account", In: Shin Fukuda, Shoichi Iwasaki, Sun-Ah Jun, Sung-Ock Sohn, Susan Strauss, and Kie Zuraw (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.26. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp.165-175. (draft: pdf)
Nambu, Satoshi, Shin-ichiro Sano, and David Y. Oshima (2020) "The nominative-to-accusative shift in modern Japanese: A diachronic observation", In: Shin Fukuda, Shoichi Iwasaki, Sun-Ah Jun, Sung-Ock Sohn, Susan Strauss, and Kie Zuraw (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.26, poster papers. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (online only)
Oshima, David Y. (2020) "On a special interpretation of evaluative adjectives/adverbs of disposition and luck", In: Proceedings of The 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia & the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. Seoul: The Korean Generative Grammar Circle. pp.527-536. (offprint)
Oshima, David Y. (2019) "On supererogation: One should go when going is good enough and not going is not", In: Proceedings of Amsterdam Colloquium 2019. pp.319-326. (downloadable)
Oshima, David Y. (2019) "The logical principles of honorification and dishonorification in Japanese", In: Kazuhiro Kojima, Maki Sakamoto, Koji Mineshima, and Ken Satoh (eds.) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2018 Workshops, JURISIN, AI-Biz, SKL, LENLS, IDAA, Yokohama, Japan, November 12-14, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Heidelberg: Springer. pp.325-340. (draft: pdf)
Oshima, David Y. (2019) "The prosody of positively biased negative polar interrogatives in Japanese: Post-focal reduction or deaccenting?", In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), vol.53. pp.275-289. (offprint)
Meng, Ying and David Y. Oshima (2019) "照応的指示詞による非制限的修飾について―日中英の比較から― [On nonrestrictive modification with anaphoric demonstratives: Through comparison of Japanese, Chinese, and English]" (in Japanese), In: 日本認知言語学会論文集 [Papers from the National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association] 19. pp.376-388. (downloadable from NAGOYA Repository)
Schwarz, Bernhard, David Y. Oshima, and Alexandra Simonenko (2019) "Factive islands from necessary blocking", In: Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), vol.29. Washington: Linguistic Society of America. pp.529-548. (downloadable)
Oshima, David Y. (2017) "Remarks on epistemically biased questions", In: Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), vol.31. pp.169-177. (downloadable)
Hayashi, Midori and David Y. Oshima (2017) "Graded (metric) tenses in embedded clauses: The case of South Baffin Inuktitut", In: Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), vol.27. Washington: Linguistic Society of America. pp.134-152. (downloadable from the LSA website)
Oshima, David Y. (2016) "The meanings of perspectival verbs and their implications on the taxonomy of projective content/conventional implicature", In: Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), vol.26. Washington: Linguistic Society of America. pp.43-60. (downloadable from the LSA website) (erratum)
Ito, Satoshi and David Y. Oshima (2016) "On two varieties of negative polar interrogatives in Japanese", In: Michael Kenstowicz, Ted Levin, and Ryo Masuda (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.23. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp.229-243. (semi-final draft: pdf)
Oshima, David Y. (2015) "Ellipsis of SAY, THINK, and DO in Japanese subordinate clauses: A constructional analysis", In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp.157-176. (downloadable from the CSLI Publications' website)
Oshima, David Y. (2014) "On the functional differences between the discourse particles ne and yone in Japanese", In: Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), vol.28. pp.442-451. (downloadable)
Oshima, David Y. and E. McCready (2014) "How mutual knowledge constrains the choice of anaphoric demonstratives in Japanese and English", In: Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), vol.28. pp.214-223. (downloadable)
Oshima, David Y. (2014) "Iconicity, implicature, and the manner interpretation of coordination structure: Through comparison of English and French", In: Proceedings of The Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS), vol.38. pp.355-370. (downloadable from eLanguage)
Oshima, David Y. (2014) "On the functions of the Japanese discourse particle yo in declaratives", In: Eric McCready, Katsuhiko Yabushita, and Kei Yoshimoto (eds.) Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics: Japanese and Beyond. Heidelberg: Springer. pp.251-271. (semi-final draft: pdf) (erratum)
Oshima, David Y. (2012) "On the semantics of the Japanese infinitive/gerund-clause constructions: Polysemy and temporal constraints", In: Stefan Müller (ed.) Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp.292-309. (downloadable from the CSLI Publications' website)
Oshima, David Y. (2012) "GO and COME revisited: What serves as a reference point?", In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS), vol.32. pp.287-298. (downloadable)
Oshima, David Y. (2012) "The Japanese particle yo in declaratives: Relevance, priority, and blaming", In: Manabu Okumura, Daisuke Bekki, and Ken Satoh (eds.) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2011 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, ALSIP, MiMI, Takamatsu, Japan, December 2011, Selected Papers. Heidelberg: Springer. pp.40-53. (semi-final draft: pdf)
Oshima, David Y. and Shin-ichiro Sano (2012) "On the characteristics of Japanese reported discourse: A study with special reference to elliptic quotation", In: Isabelle Buchstaller and Ingrid van Alphen (eds.) Quotatives: Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp.145-171. (pdf)
Oshima, David Y. (2009) "On the so-called thematic use of wa: Reconsideration and reconciliation", In: Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), vol.23-1. pp.405-414. (pdf; also downloadable from ACL Anthology)
Oshima, David Y. (2009) "Perspective, logophoricity, and embedded tense in Japanese", In: Yukinori Takubo, Tomohide Kinuhata, Szymon Grzelak, and Kayo Nagai (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.16. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp.481-495. (semi-final draft: pdf) (erratum)
Oshima, David Y. (2008) "Semantic divergence of -(r)are: From a different perspective'', In: Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Peter Sells, Sun-Ah Jun, Patricia M. Clancy, Shoichi Iwasaki, and Sung-Ock Sohn. (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.13. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp.309-320. (semi-final draft: pdf) (erratum)
Oshima, David Y. (2008) "Morphological vs. phonological contrastive topic marking", In: Rodney L. Edwards, Patrick J. Midtlying, Colin L. Sprague, and Kjerti G. Stensrud (eds.) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), vol.41-1. pp.371-384. (pre-publication draft; also downloadable from Ingenta Connect) (erratum)
Oshima, David Y. (2008) "Stereotypes, desires, and constructions", In: Grønn, Atle (ed.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB), vol.12. Oslo: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. pp.470-484.
Oshima, David Y. (2007) "On factive islands: Pragmatic anomaly vs. pragmatic infelicity", In: Takashi Washio, Ken Satoh, Hideaki Terada, and Akihiro Inokuchi (eds.) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Joint JSAI 2006 Workshop Post-Proceedings. Heidelberg: Springer. pp.147-161. (semi-final draft: pdf)
Oshima, David Y. (2006) "Boundary tones or prominent particles?: Variation in Japanese focus-marking contours", In: Rebecca T. Cover and Yuni Kim (eds.) Proceedings of The Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS), vol.31. pp.453-464. (downloadable)
Oshima, David Y. (2006) "Motion deixis, indexicality, and presupposition", In: Masayuki Gibson and Jonathan Howell (eds.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), vol.16. Ithaka: Cornell Linguistics Circle. pp.172-189. (downloadable from the LSA website) (erratum)
Oshima, David Y. (2006) "On exceptional zibun binding: An experimental approach", In: Timothy Vance and Kimberly Jones (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.14. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp.283-294. (erratum)
Oshima, David Y. (2004) "Zibun revisited: Empathy, logophoricity, and binding", In: Sylwia Tur and Susannah Levi (eds.) Proceedings of the 20th Northwest Linguistic Conference, vol.23 of University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics. pp.175-190. (semi-final draft: pdf)
Levy, Roger and David Y. Oshima (2003) "Non-transitive information flow in Japanese noun-classifier matching'', In: Stefan Müller (ed.) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp.257-277. (downloadable)
Oshima, David Y. (2002) "Out of control: A unified analysis of Japanese passive constructions", In: Jong-Bok Kim and Stephen Wechsler (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp.245-265. (downloadable)
Bulletin Papers
大島デイヴィッド義和・林みどり [Oshima, David Y. and Midori Hayashi] (2021) "日本語の動詞的名詞 (サ変名詞) の文法的位置づけ―専用型と兼務型― [On the grammatical status of verbal nouns in Japanese: Monocategorial and polycategorial types]", 国立国語研究所論集 [NINJAL Research Papers] 20. pp.57-77. (downloadable)
Oshima, David Y. (2016) "On the polysemy of the Japanese discourse particle ne: A study with special reference to intonation" , Forum of International Development Studies 47-3. pp.1-17. (downloadable from NAGOYA Repository)
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (2014) "日本語指示詞の内部照応用法 (文脈指示用法) について―久野暲による分析の再検討― [On the endophoric use of demonstratives in Japanese: A reconsideration of Susumu Kuno's analysis]" (in Japanese), Forum of International Development Studies 44. pp.1-16. (downloadable from NAGOYA Repository)
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (2013) "日本語におけるイントネーション型と終助詞機能の相関について [On the relation between the intonation types and the functions of discourse particles in Japanese]" (in Japanese), Forum of International Development Studies 43. pp.47-63. (downloadable from NAGOYA Repository) (errata)
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (2013) "引用述語の現れない発話・思考報告文―「省略」か「構文」か― [Japanese speech/attitude report sentences without a quotative predicate: Ellipsis or construction?]" (in Japanese), Research Bulletin of International Student Center, Ibaraki University 11. pp.113-128. (downloadable from Rose Repository Ibaraki)
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (2010) "日本語引用構文における引用述語の省略現象 [Ellipsis of quotative predicates in Japanese]" (in Japanese), Research Bulletin of International Student Center, Ibaraki University 8. pp.86-99. (downloadable from Rose Repository Ibaraki)
Oshima, David Y. (2009) "A note on backward anaphora in Japanese", Research Bulletin of International Student Center, Ibaraki University 7. pp.77-88. (downloadable from Rose Repository Ibaraki)
Book Chapters
Oshima, David Y. (forthcoming) "Expressivity and honorifics", In: Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Chapter 25).
大島デイヴィッド義和・秋田喜美 [Oshima, David Y. and Kimi Akita] (forthcoming) "言語の「意味」 [The meaning of language]" (in Japanese), In: 上山あゆみ・金水敏・窪薗晴夫・広瀬友紀・秋田喜美 [Ueyama, Ayumi, Satoshi Kinsui, Haruo Kubozono, Yuki Hirose, and Kimi Akita] (eds.) 論点・言語学 [Issues in Linguistics]. Tokyo: Minerva Shobo.
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (forthcoming) "大学生はどんな呼ばれ方をしているのでしょう [How are university students addressed?]" (in Japanese), In: 遠藤織枝 [Endo, Orie] (ed.) ことばに潜むジェンダー―学校・本・テレビ・日常のなかのもやもや― [Gender embedded in language: Unsettling issues in school, books, TV, and everyday life]. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten. pp.63-83 (Chapter 3).
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (2020) "情報語用論 [Information-structural pragmatics]" (in Japanese), In: 加藤重広・澤田淳 [Shigehiro Kato and Jun Sawada] (eds.) はじめての語用論―基礎から応用まで― [An Introduction to Pragmatics]. Tokyo: Kenkyusha. pp.41-56 (Chapter 3).
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (2019) "否定極性疑問文の伝達する慣習的推意－日本語と英語の比較－ [The conventional implicature conveyed by negative polar interrogatives: A comparison of Japanese and English]" (in Japanese), In: 澤田治・岸本秀樹・今仁生美 [Osamu Sawada, Hideki Kishimoto, and Ikumi Imani] (eds.) 極性表現の構造・意味・機能 [Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Their Forms, Meanings, and Functions]. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. pp.290-310 (Chapter 11).
大島デイヴィッド義和 [Oshima, David Y.] (2011) "内省に基づく意味の研究 [Semantic studies based on introspection]" (in Japanese), In: 藤村逸子・滝沢直宏 [Itsuko Fujimura and Naohiro Takizawa] (eds.) 言語研究の技法―データの収集と分析― [Techniques for Linguistic Studies: Data Collection and Analysis]. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. pp.73-89 (Chapter 4).
藤村逸子・大曾美恵子・大島デイヴィッド義和 [Fujimura, Itsuko, Mieko Ohso, and David Y. Oshima] (2011) "会話コーパスの構築によるコミュニケーション研究 [Communication studies with spoken corpora]" (in Japanese), In: 藤村逸子・滝沢直宏 [Itsuko Fujimura and Naohiro Takizawa] (eds.) 言語研究の技法―データの収集と分析― [Techniques for Linguistic Studies: Data Collection and Analysis]. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. pp.43-72 (Chapter 3).
Edited Volumes
Horie, Kaoru, Kimi Akita, Yusuke Kubota, David Y. Oshima, and Akira Utsugi (eds.) (2022) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.29. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Matsumoto, Yoshiko, David Y. Oshima, Orrin W. Robinson, and Peter Sells (eds.) (2007) Diversity in Language: Perspectives and Implications. Stanford: CSLI Publications.