Ph.D Dissertation
The NP/DP-language distinction as a scale and parameters in minimalism. University of Connecticut, Storrs. [lingbuzz]
Journal Articles
2024 Weak heads at the interface: A view from temporal adverbial clauses. Acta Mongolica 22(606): 29-41. Publisher website
2024 Large-scale pied-piping in the labeling theory and conditions on weak heads. The Linguistic Review 41(1):153-185. Publisher website
2021 Decomposing and deducing the Coordinate Structure Constraint. The Linguistic Review 38(4): 605-644. Publisher website
2021 Japanese free choice items as unconditionals. Natural Language Semantics 29(2): 281-338. Publisher website; View-only link
Conference Proceedings
to appear P as a locus of definiteness in the extended projections of the nominal domain. In JELS 42.
to appear with Masako Maeda and Yoichi Miyamoto. The Phonological Analysis of Left Branch Extraction in Japanese. In Proceedings of Japanese/Korean Linguistics 31.
to appear with Yosuke Sato. Interspeaker variation in particle stranding ellipsis in the Two-Grammar Model for Japanese. In Proceedings of WCCFL 42.
2024 with Yuta Tatsumi, and Yoichi Miyamoto. Weak heads at the interface: A view from temporal adverbial clauses. In Proceedings of WAFL 17, ed. by Erdene-Ochir Tumen-Ochir, Julia Sinitsyna, and Shigeru Miyagawa, 131-142. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
2024 with 今井咲良、Giovanni Pasa、河原大輔、折田奈甫. 意味的プロービングデータセットの構築と言語モデルの評価: イタリア語の倒置を例に. 言語処理学会 第30回年次大会 発表論文集, 2670-2675. Link
2024 with Siyu Li. Decategorialization of parenthetical I mean and typology of grammaticalization. In JELS 41, 12-18. Link
2024 with Yosuke Sato, Yuta Tatsumi, and Yusuke Yagi. New Emerging Prospects in the Generative Tradition. In JELS 41, 231-233. Link
2023 Definite articles need not project DP: A more fine-grained NP/DP-language distinction. In Proceedings of NELS 53, Vol. 2, ed. by Suet-Ying Lam and Satoru Ozaki, 243-256. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, GLSA. Link
2023 with Sakura Imai, Daisuke Kawahara, and Naho Orita. Theoretical Linguistics Rivals Embeddings in Language Clustering for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Student Research Workshop, 139-151. Toronto, Canada: Association for Computational Linguistics. Link
2023 with Siyu Li. Structural reduction of parenthetical I mean at an intermediate stage of grammaticalization. In Proceedings of the 166th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 192-198. The Linguistic Society of Japan. Link
2023 Generative typological investigation of indefinite pronouns. In JELS40, 154-160. The English Linguistic Society of Japan/Kaitakusha. Link
2023 with 今井咲良、河原大輔、折田奈甫. 理論言語学の知見を応用した多言語クラスタリング. 言語処理学会第29回年次大会発表論文集. 1316-1321. Link
2019 with Akihiko Arano. The A-/A'- distinction in scrambling revisited. In Proceedings of WCCFL 36, ed. by Richard Stockwell, Maura O'Leary, Zhongshi Xu, and Z.L. Zhou, 48-54. Somerville MA: Cascadilla Press. Link
2019 A correlative construction in Japanese and its implications to typology. In Proceedings of WAFL 14, ed. by Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis, Justin Colley, and Dmitry Privoznov, 185-191. Cambridge, MA: MIT, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MITWPL. Final draft
2019 with Pietro Cerrone. Reinterpreting ne-cliticization as split-topicalization. In Proceedings of PLC 42, ed. by Ava Creemers and Caitlin Richter, 51-59. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania. Link
2017 Two types of the Coordinate Structure Constraint and rescue by PF deletion. In Proceedings of NELS 47, ed. by Andrew Lamont and Katerina Tetzloff, 343-356. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, GLSA. Final draft
2017 with Yuta Tatsumi. A non-unified analysis of "before" clauses in Japanese. In Proceedings of WAFL 12, ed. by Leyla Zidani-Eroğlu, Matthew Ciscel, and Elena Koulidobrova, 243-254. Cambridge, MA: MIT, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MITWPL. Final draft
2016 with Yuta Tatsumi. Two types of Japanese "before" clauses. In Proceedings of FAJL 8, ed. by Ayaka Sugawara, Shintaro Hayashi and Satoshi Ito, 87-96. Cambridge, MA: MIT, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MITWPL. Final draft
Other Papers
2024 Indefinite article and the scale of the NP/DP-language distinction. In Nanzan Linguistics 18, 25-42. Link
2016 Notes on free choice items in Japanese. In Linguistic Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics 31, pp. 39-44. Link
2015 Syntax of Japanese TACs and a demonstrative complementizer in Japanese. In Linguistic Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics 30, pp. 41-79. Link
2013 The distribution of Japanese FCIs and the left periphery. In Linguistics Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics 29, pp. 75-92. Link