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Invited Talks
2023 Indefinite articles and the scale of the NP/DP-language distinction. At Comparative Syntax, Semantics, and Language Acquisition #1 at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. May 27-28.
2023 Emergence of parameters in the structure of the nominal phrase in minimalism. At 東大英文学会 at The University of Tokyo, Japan, March 18.
2022 Generative typology and parameterization of the NP/DP-language distinction as a scale. A public mini-seminar hosted by TExL/CELESE at Waseda University (online), August 10.
2022 尺度としてのNP/DP言語の区別[The NP/DP-language distinction as a scale] At Okayama Linguistics Forum 4 hosted by Notre Dame Seishin University (online), July 28.
2022 Generative typological investigation of indefinite pronouns. Paper presented at The 15th English Linguistic Society of Japan International Spring Forum, online, May 14-15.
2021 Japanese free choice items as unconditionals. At Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai (online), June 19.
2019 Japanese free choice "items" as unconditionals. At UConn Logic Group Workshop: “If” by any other name at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, April 6-7.
2014 理論言語学と社会貢献 [Theoretical linguistics and its contribution to the society]. At Onomichi-kita High School, Hiroshima, Japan, September 26.
2013 言語研究と社会とのつながり [Linguistic research and its relation to the society]. At Onomichi-kita High School, Hiroshima, Japan, September 27.
Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations
2024 P as a locus of definiteness in the extended projections of the nominal domain. Paper presented at the English Linguistic Society of Japan 17th International Spring Forum, Kyoto University, May 25-26.
2024 with Yosuke Sato. Interspeaker variation in particle stranding ellipsis in the Two-Grammar Model for Japanese. Poster presented at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 42, University of California, Berkeley, April 12-14.
2023 with Siyu Li. Decategorialization of parenthetical I mean and typology of grammaticalization. Paper presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, The University of Tokyo, November 4-5.
2023 with Yuta Tatsumi and Yoichi Miyamoto. Weak heads at the interface: A view from temporal adverbial clauses. Paper presented at Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) 16, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, September 27-29.
2023 Indefinite articles matter for the NP/DP-language distinction. Poster presented at the 16th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Acquisition (SinFonIJA 16), Masatyk University, Brno, Czech Republic, September 21-23.
2023 with Sakura Imai, Daisuke Kawahara, and Naho Orita. Theoretical Linguistics Rivals Embeddings in Language Clustering for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition. Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Student Research Workshop, the Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Canada, July 10-12.
2023 with Siyu Li. Structural reduction of parenthetical I mean at an intermediate stage of grammaticalization. Poster presented at the 166th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan, June 17-18.
2023 Definite articles need not project DP: A more fine-grained NP/DP-language distinction. Paper presented at North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 53 at the University of Göttingen, January 12-14.
2022 Large-scale pied-piping under the labeling theory and conditions on weak heads. Flash talk (an alternative of poster presentation) presented at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) in Asia XIII, hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (online), August 4-7.
2022 with Takanobu Nakamura. On the typology of situation distributors. Poster presented at Generative Linguistics in Old World 45, the thematic workshop "Typological Generalizations and Semantic Theory", Queen Mary University of London, UK, April 26-29.
2019 Violating the Coordinate Structure Constraint cross-linguistically. Paper presented at Cambridge Comparative Syntax (CamCoS) 8 at the University of Cambridge, UK, May 2-4.
2019 Toward a unified account of CLLD and Clitic Doubling: A view from Japanese. Paper presented at Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG) 45, the Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, February 21-23.
2018 with Pietro Cerrone. A correlative construction in Japanese and Italian and its implication to typology. Poster presented at the Eleventh Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 11), the Institute of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, October 11-13, 2018.
2018 A correlative construction in Japanese and its implication to typology. Poster presented at Workshop on Formal Altaic Linguistics 14, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 19-21, 2018.
2018 with Akihiko Arano. The A-/A'-distinction in scrambling revisited. Poster presented at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 36, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, April 20-22.
2018 with Pietro Cerrone. Reinterpreting ne-cliticization as split-topicalization. Poster presented at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 41, the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, April 10-14
2018 with Akihiko Arano. The A-/A’-distinction in scrambling revisited. Paper Presented at Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC) 42, University of Pennsylvania, USA, March 23-25.
2018 with Pietro Cerrone. Reinterpreting ne-cliticization as split-topicalization. Paper Presented at Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC) 42, University of Pennsylvania, USA, March 23-25.
2018 with Pietro Cerrone. Reinterpreting ne-cliticization as split-topicalization. Poster Presented at Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG) 44, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy March 1-3.
2016 Two types of the Coordinate Structure Constraint and rescue by PF deletion. Paper Presented at North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, October 14-16.
2016 with Yuta Tatsumi. A non-unified analysis of “before” clauses in Japanese. Paper Presented at Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) 12, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, USA, May 13-15.
2016 with Yuta Tatsumi. Two types of Japanese “before” clauses. Paper Presented at Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL) 8, Mie University, Mie, Japan, February 18-20.
2015 日本語の時の副詞節の構造に関する考察 [Study on the structure of Japanese temporal adverbial clauses]. Paper Presented at the 150th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Daito Bunka University, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan, June 20−21.
2013 日本語自由選択表現の分布と構造 [The distribution and the structure of Japanese free choice items]. Paper Presented at the 147th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Hyogo, Japan, November 23-24.
Other Presentations
2024 Comments on Nagisa Hayashi's talk on negative wh-questions. Presented at Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics 10, The University of Tokyo, March 26-27.
2024 Weak heads at the interface: A view from temporal adverbial clauses. Talk at Core-to-Core/Leibniz Dream, ZAS Berlin, March 15-17.
2024 A more fine-grained picture of the NP/DP-language distinction. Talk at Core-to-Core/Leibniz Dream, ZAS Berlin, March 15-17.
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, 神戸国際会議場, March 11-15.
2023 Weak head at the interface: A view from temporal adverbial clauses. Talk at CiNET × 人文学研究科@大阪大学, December 15-17.
2023 Invitation to generative typology: What's interesting is what's impossible. Talk presented at New Emerging Perspectives in the Generative Tradition (with Yosuke Sato, Yuta Tatsumi, and Yusuke Yagi), Workshop at the 41st Annual Meeting of English Linguistic Society of Japan, The University of Tokyo, November 4-5.
2023 Some speculations on the properties of Early Child English from a labeling theoretic perspective: As comments on Nozomi Moritake’s "On the distribution of caseless subjects in Japanese and English". Presented at Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics 9, Tsuda University, August 26-27.
2023 Large-scale pied-piping in the labeling theory, conditions on weak heads, and deduction of Agree from Minimal Search. Talk at 「自然言語の構造と獲得メカニズムの理解に向けた拠点形成」セミナー, online, April 15.
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. At 言語処理学会第29回年次大会, 沖縄コンベンションセンター, March 13-17.
2022 小澤海斗氏「日本語否定命令文の構造:主要部移動への示唆」へのコメント[Comments on Kaito Ozawa's talk "The structure of negative imperatives in Japanese: Implications to head-movement] Presented at Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics 7, online, August 28-29.
2022 Flash introduction and recommendation of previous works. Selected paper: Watanabe, Akira (1996) "Nominative-Genitive conversion and agreement in Japanese: A cross-linguistic perspective, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 5: 373-410. Presented at Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics 7. Online, August 28-29.
2022 Comments on Takayuki Kimura's talk "Reassembling Uninterpretable Features in Second Language Acquisition: Arguments from the Acquisition of Wh-questions". Presented at Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics 6, online, March 15-16.
2021 Typology of indefinite pronouns and syntax of wh-questions. Presented at Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics 5, online, August 25-27.
2020 More on the typology of situation distributors: A reply to “Situation partition and shifted evaluation of distributivity” presented by Takanobu Nakamura. Presented at Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics 4, Online, December 25-27.
2019 Toward unification of CLLD and Clitic Doubling: A view from Japanese. Presented at Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics 1, Osaka, Japan June 30.
2018 Toward unification of CLLD and Clitic Doubling: A view from Japanese. At the 8th UConn Graduate Roundtable, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, December 8.
2017 Reconsidering Ne-cliticization from a Perspective of German and Japanese. Paper presented at ECO-5, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, April 15.
2016 with Pietro Cerrone. Preoccupare preoccupa ancora: Some new data on Italian psych-verbs. At the 6th UConn Graduate Roundtable, University of Connecticut, Storrs, December 11.
2015 with Yuta Tatsumi. Two types of Japanese “before” clauses. At the 5th UConn Graduate Roundtable, University of Connecticut Storrs, December 12.
2013 Movement of Japanese FCIs. At the Annual Meeting of the University of Tokyo English Linguistics Association, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, September 28.