My CV should be here (as of April 2026).

About

I come from Japan (my name is written in kanji as 掛波 健太). My family name is quite rare with approximately 50 people recorded as holding it (Link). 

Before coming to UMass, I worked as a high-school teacher and later as a university lecturer. While teaching at high school, I also coached the swimming club though I can't swim myself. Outside of linguistics, I cook Japanese food and unauthentic Asian food. 

Conference Proceedings (Reviewed by Abstract)

2025. Hidden Polarity Particles in Japanese Verb Echo Answers In "Proceedings of SICOGG 27" (PDF)

2022. A Disjunctive-unconditional Analysis of Japanese Sukunakutomo 'at least' In "Proceedings of J/K29" CSLI publications (PDF)

2021. On the Extraction of Predicative Phrases in English Non-restrictive Relative Clauses In "Proceedings of CLS 56" Chicago Linguistic Society (PDF)

Conference Presentation (Reviewed by Abstract)

2026. On Japanese Quotative Adjuncts and Uniqueness of Bare Content NPs @ Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 62, talk, withdrawn

2025. Japanese Contentful Internally Headed Relative Clauses under believe and know @ North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 56, talk

2025. Hidden Polarity particles in Japanese Verb Echo Answers @ Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG) 27, talk

2021. A Disjunctive-unconditional Analysis of Japanese Sukunakutomo ‘at least’ @ Japanese/Korean Linguistic Society (J/K) 29, poster, online

2020. On the Extraction of Predicative Phrases in English Non-restrictive Relative Clauses @ Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 56, talk, online