Publications
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world,
not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
— Francis Darwin
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world,
not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
— Francis Darwin
Google Scholar Citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IlplxlkAAAAJ&hl=en
Decompositionality and Identity
Committee: Danny Fox (chair), Irene Heim, Kyle Johnson, and David Pesetsky
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2025. Deta to tomoni manabu seisei bumpo no kiso. [The essentials of generative grammar learning with data]. Kaitakusha.
(The problem sets are available upon request. Please email me for a copy!)
Takahashi, Shoichi. To appear. Recipient (Sub)extraction: A Case for Cyclic Linearization. To appear in The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2026. What Prepositional Object Gaps Tells Us about Merge and Linearization. Proceedings of the 47th Generative Linguistics in the Old World, ed. by Adelaide Banafo, Ai Chen, Katharina Hartmann, Anke Himmelreich, Jana-Elina Jordan, Farbod Khouzani, Viktor Köhlich, Johannes Mursell, Kwaku Sasu, and Golshan Shakeebaee, 1-14.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2019. Kaizai suru keikensha [Intervening Experiencers]. Thought Currents in English Literature 92:1-28. The English Literary Society of Aoyama Gakuin University.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2019. Putative Null Pronominals in English: Causes and Consequences. Studia Linguistica 73:650-682.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2018. Tough idoo ni okeru hijunkanteki heigoo [Late Merger in Tough Movement]. Bulletin of College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University 60:83-97. Aoyama Gakuin University.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2018. Zanryuu to idoo no sosei ni kansuru shomondai [Stranding and Issues of the Composition of Movement]. Thought Currents in English Literature 91:1-15. The English Literary Society of Aoyama Gakuin University.
Takahashi, Shoichi and Akane Ohtaka. 2017. A Lacuna in Adjunct Extraposition. Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society 47, ed. by Andrew Lamont and Katerina Tetzloff, 155-164. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA Publications.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2017. Seiseibunpoo no Kadai [Problems in Generative Grammar]. In Kotoba no Kagaku: Tokyo Gengo Kenkyuujo Kaisetsu 50 Shuunen Kinen Seminar [Language Science: Seminars of the 50th Anniversary of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies of Language], ed. by Yuji Nishiyama and Yoko Sugioka, 127-151. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
Bhatt, Rajesh and Shoichi Takahashi. 2011. Reduced and Unreduced Phrasal Comparatives. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 29:581-620.
Bhatt, Rajesh and Shoichi Takahashi. 2011. Book Review: Winfried Lechner, Ellipsis in Comparatives. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 14:139-171.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2010. Approaching Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory from Reconstruction and Ellipsis. English Linguistics 27:449-481.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2010. Traces or Copies, or Both - Part II: Introducing Further Considerations. Language and Linguistics Compass 4:1104-1115.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2010. Traces or Copies, or Both - Part I: Characterizing Movement Properties. Language and Linguistics Compass 4:1091-1103.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2010. The Hidden Side of Clausal Complements. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 28:343-380.
Takahashi, Shoichi and Sarah Hulsey. 2009. Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/Ā-distinction. Linguistic Inquiry 40:387-426.
Takahashi, Shoichi and Martina Gračanin-Yuksek. 2008. Morphosyntax of Movement Dependencies in Haitian Creole. Syntax 11:223-250.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2008. Variable Binding in Temporal Adverbial Clauses: Evidence from Ellipsis. In Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 26, ed. by Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie, 445-453. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press.
Bhatt, Rajesh and Shoichi Takahashi. 2007. Direct Comparisons: Resurrecting the Direct Analysis of Phrasal Comparatives. In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17, ed. by Masayuki Gibson and Tova Friedman, 19-36. Ithaca, New York: CLC Publications.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2006. More Than Two Quantifiers. Natural Language Semantics 14:57-101.
Takahashi, Shoichi and Danny Fox. 2005. MaxElide and the Re-binding Problem. In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 15, ed. by Effi Georgala and Jonathan Howell, 223-240. Ithaca, New York: CLC Publications.
Takahashi, Shoichi and Martina Gračanin-Yuksek. 2005. Morphosyntax of Movement Dependencies in Haitian Creole. In Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society 35, ed. by Leah Bateman and Cherlon Ussery, 615-629. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA Publications.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2004. Pseudogapping and Cyclic Linearization. In Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society 34, ed. by Keir Moulton and Matthew Wolf, 571-585. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA Publications.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2003. More Than Two Quantifiers. In Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society 33, ed. by Makoto Kadowaki and Shigeto Kawahara, 405-424. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA Publications.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2002. Interpreting Chains: The PBC, Anaphor and Frozen Scope. In On-line Proceedings of GLOW in Asia 3.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2001. Movement, Reconstruction and the PBC. In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 41: Proceedings of the 3rd Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference, ed. by María Cristina Cuervo, Daniel Harbour, Ken Hiraiwa, and Shinichiro Ishihara, 59-74. Cambridge, Mass.: MITWPL.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2001. Multiplicity and Feature Absorption. In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 40: Proceedings of a Joint MIT-Harvard Student Conference on Language Research, ed. by Ora Matushansky, Albert Costa, Javier Martin-Gonzalez, Lance Nathan, and Adam Szcezegielniak, 231-244. Cambridge, Mass.: MITWPL.
Kasai, Hironobu and Shoichi Takahashi. 2001. Coordination without Coordinator. In Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, ed. by Yukio Otsu, 97-117. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.
Kasai, Hironobu and Shoichi Takahashi. 2001. Coordination in Japanese. In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 41: Proceedings of the 3rd Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference, ed. by María Cristina Cuervo, Daniel Harbour, Ken Hiraiwa, and Shinichiro Ishihara, 19-32. Cambridge, Mass.: MITWPL.
Kasai, Hironobu and Shoichi Takahashi. 2001. Where is Subjacency? In Papers from the 18th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 51-60.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2000. Null Operator and Locative Inversion. In Papers from the 17th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 211-220.
Kasai, Hironobu and Shoichi Takahashi. 2000. An ATB Movement Approach to Gapping. In Proceedings of the 2000 International Workshop on Generative Grammar, ed. by Young Jun Jang and Jeong-Seok Kim, 75-89. Hanshin Publishing.
Takahashi, Shoichi. 2006. Topics in Palauan Loanword Phonology. In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 52: Studies in Loanword Phonology, ed. by Feng-fan Hsieh and Michael Kenstowicz, 165-200. Cambridge, Mass.: MITWPL.
Miyamoto, Edson T. and Shoichi Takahashi. 2004. Filler-gap Dependencies in the Processing of Scrambling in Japanese. Language and Linguistics 5:153-166.
Miyamoto, Edson T., Michiko Nakamura, and Shoichi Takahashi. 2004. Processing Relative Clauses in Japanese with Two Attachment Sites. In Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society 34, ed. by Keir Moulton and Matthew Wolf, 441-452. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA Publications.
Miyamoto, Edson T. and Shoichi Takahashi. 2002. Sources of Difficulty in the Processing of Scrambling in Japanese. In Sentence Processing in East Asian Languages, ed. by Mineharu Nakayama, 167-188. Stanford, Calif.: CSLI Publications.
Miyamoto, Edson T. and Shoichi Takahashi. 2002. The Processing of Wh-phrases and Interrogative Complementizers in Japanese. In Proceedings of the 10th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, ed. by Noriko Akatsuka, Susan Strauss, and Bernard Comrie, 62-75. Stanford, Calif.: CSLI Publications.
Miyamoto, Edson T. and Shoichi Takahashi. 2002. Antecedent Reactivation in the Processing of Scrambling in Japanese. In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 43: Proceedings of MIT and Harvard University Annual Student Conference on Language Study, ed. by Tania Ionin, Heejeong Ko, and Andrew Nevins, 123-138. Cambridge, Mass.: MITWPL.
Miyamoto, Edson T. and Shoichi Takahashi. 2002. The Processing of Wh-phrases in Japanese. Scientific Approaches to Language 1:133-172. Kanda University of International Studies.
Miyamoto, Edson T. and Shoichi Takahashi. 2001. The Processing of Wh-phrases and Question Particles in Japanese. Grant-in-Aid for COE Research Report (5):573-587. Kanda University of International Studies.
Miyamoto, Edson T. and Shoichi Takahashi. 2001. Sentence-level Processing in Japanese: A Preliminary Report. Studies in Language Sciences 7:89-102. Kanda University of International Studies.
Takahashi, Shoichi and Masahiro Akutsu. 1998. An Exploration of the Language Processing System: Eye Movements in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution. Technical Report of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers 98 (381):1-11.