Presentations
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REFERRED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/ INVITED TALKS/INTENSIVE LECTURES/SEMINARS
2025. Title TBA. The English Linguistic Society of Japan 18th International Spring Forum 2024. Seijo University, Tokyo, Japan. May 17-18. [invited lecture]
2024a. The i-ochi construction in Japanese, event evidentiality and utterance phrase. 31st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JKL31), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, October 31-November 2. [with Nagisa Hayashi and Riko Nakayama]
2024b. Particle stranding ellipsis in Japanese and the two-grammar model of language. 31st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JKL31), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, October 31-November 2. [with Hiromune Oda]
2024c. The Multiple Grammmars Hypothesis and Interspeaker Variation: Towards a More Inclusive Generative Paradigm (morning talk) +「人生冒険紀行: 研究を通してぼんやりと見えてきた自分軸 」(afternoon talk), English Linguistic Colloquium, Department of English Linguistics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. July 20. [invited talk series]
2024d. On the internal syntax of the i-ochi construction and saa-exclamatives. Workshop on Comparative Syntax, Semantics, and Language Acquisition #1, Centre for Linguistics, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. July 6-7. [invited talk; with Nagisa Hayashi and Riko Nakayama]
2024e. Argument ellipsis, pragmatic enrichment and head movement: Why is Japanese so special? Workshop "Ellipsis and Head Movement at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Crossroad: Japanese and Beyond". 168th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. June 30. [other presenters: Ryoichiro Kobayashi (Tokyo University of Agriculture), Kenta Mizutani (Aichi Prefectural University) and Tomoya Tanabe (Hokkaido University)]
2024f. 言語学者の世界冒険紀行: 「他人軸」から「自分軸」へ. Open Course Synthesis 2024 (Theme:「学ぶ門には福来る〜豊かに生きるヒントを探そう〜」). Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan. June 6. [encore invited talk]
2024g. The syntax of the so-called i-ochi construction in colloquial Japanese. Graduate School of Humanities and Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. May 11. [invited talk; with Nagisa Hayashi and Riko Nakayama]
2024h. Interspeaker variation in particle stranding ellipsis in the two-grammar model for Japanese. 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL42). University of California, Berkeley, CA. USA. April 12. [with Hiromune Oda]
2024i. Argument ellipsis, pragmatic enrichment and head movement: Why is Japanese (not) so special? Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. March 30.
2024j. The syntactic OCP and obliteration: With special reference to Indonesian meN-. Generative Linguistics in the Old World XIV (GLOW in Asia XIV). Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 8.
2024k. Focusing on the diagnostic validity of the adjunct test in Japanese ellipsis: Where prosody meets information structure. The 15th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Theory, Typology and History (Phex15). Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. February 24. [with Ryoichiro Kobayashi and Tomoya Tanabe]
2023a. The Japanese adjectival conjugational ending drop construction revisited: Tenseless T, eventual evidentiality and speech act phrase. Research workshop. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. December 23. [with Nagisa Hayashi and Riko Nakayama]
2023b. The doubly-filled vP filter and repair by obliteration: With a focus on Indonesian meN-. Workshop "Toogo onin bumon niokeru intaafeisuhooryaku no seisitsu nituite [On the Nature of interface Strategies at the Syntax-Phonology Correspondence]".167th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. November 12. [other presenters: Shin-Ichi Kitada (Niigata University) and Yoshihito Dobashi (Chukyo University)]
2023c. ECM, raising-to-object, or none of the above? Pettiward's (1998) challenge revisited. 167th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. November 11.
2023d. Embracing and Encouraging Diversity: Syntactic Diglossia and Interspeaker Variation. Workshop "New Emerging Prospects in the Generative Tradition." 41st National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Universiy of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. November 4. [other presenters: Hiromune Oda (The University of Tokyo), Yuta Tatsumi (Meikai University), and Yusuke Yagi (University of Connecticutt)]
2023e. On PF-LF mismatch in ellipsis, non-simultaneous transfer, and computational efficiency. 2023 Korean Generative Grammar Circle Fall Conference, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, October 28. [invited lecture]
2023f. The Obligatory Contour Principle and obliteration at the syntax-phonology interface: With special reference to Indonesian. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan/Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. September 23. [presented online]
2023g. How much can we mismatch under ellipsis and why? Workshop "Current Issues in Comparative Syntax 2: Boundaries of Ellipsis Mismatch", Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan. September 1-3.
2023h. Focusing on the diagnostic validity of the adjunct test in Japanese ellipsis: Where prosody meets information structure. 25th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG25). Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea. August 14-16. [with Ryoichiro Kobayashi and Tomoya Tanabe]
2023i. Intensive lecture series <Introduction to Syntax (Master's Program)>, Graduate Program in Linguistic Science, Graduate School of Humanities, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. August 7-10.
2023j. 言語学者の世界冒険紀行: 「他人軸」から「自分軸」へ. Open Course Synthesis 2023 (Theme: 「自分軸を考える～なに、なぜ、どうする～」). Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan. June 1. [invited talk]
2023k. Endogenous computational variability: Input indeterminacy and competing grammars. Workshop on Comparative Syntax, Semantics, and Language Acquisition #1, Centre for Linguistics, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. May 27. [invited talk]
2023l. Endogenous computational variability. Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics 8, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. March 28-29. [invited talk; http://ewflling.com]
2023m. Elliptical conspiracy and neg raising in English. The 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Denver, CO, USA. January 5-8. [presented online]
2022a. Endogenous computational variability: Toward a more inclusive generative paradigm. Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. USA. December 9. [invited talk; presented online]
2022b. Input indeterminacy and syntactic vulnerability: Interspeaker variation in transitive subject control promise. Research workshop. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. November 27. [presented online]
2022c. Modalities of post-auxiliary ellipsis: A false dichotomy? 40th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. November 5. [presented online; with Hajime Ono, Haruka Ikebuchi, Fuwa Makino, Nonoko Morita and Misato Nagumo]
2022d. A mismatch theory of ellipsis. Workshop "Mapping Out the Dynamics of Variation in Ellipsis Mismatches." 40th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. November 5. [presented online; other presenters: Taichi Nakamura (Tohoku University), Yuta Sakamoto (Meiji University), and Kensuke Takita (Doshisha University)]
2022e. Endogenous computational variability and grammars in competition. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan/Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. September 18. [presented online]
2022f. Intensive lecture series <Introduction to Syntax (Master's Program)>, Graduate Program in Linguistic Science, Graduate School of Humanities, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. August 22-25.
2022g. When VP-ellipsis meets TP-ellipsis: Implications for neg raising, sluicing, and PF-deletion. 24th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG24). August 12-14, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. [presented online]
2022h. Deriving wordhood without word: Wh-compound questions in Japanese and renumeration. Generative Linguistics in the Old World XIII (GLOW in Asia XIII). Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 4-7. [presented online; with Rio Sato and Hisako Ikawa]
2022i. Neg raising, short-circuited implicature and usage vs. grammar: A bridge still that far? Research workshop. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. July 24. [presented online]
2022j. Reversed polarity sluicing in Japanese and PF-deletion through local contextual licensing. Main colloquium, the 45th GLOW conference, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. April 26-29. [recorded presentation available upon request]
2022k. PF-LF domain mismatches under ellipsis and the non-simultaneous transfer hypothesis. 58th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. April 22-24. [presented online]
2022l. Crossed-control in Indonesian: When passivization meets functional restructuring. The 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).San Francisco, CA, USA. January 6-9. [presented online]
2021a. Reversed polarity sluicing in Japanese. 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JKL29). Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. October 9-11. [presented online; recorded presentation available upon request]
2021b. Reversed polarity sluicing in Japanese. Generative Grammar Circle, Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. September 25. [presented online]
2021c. Back to the future or forward to the past? Time and space in Singapore English. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan/Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. September 5-6. [presented online]
2021d. Crossed-control in Indonesian and functional restructuring of verbs of wanting. 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG23). Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. August 11-13. [presented online]
2021e. Unaccusative mismatch, floating quantifiers and telicity: The state of the art amended. 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG23). Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, August 11-13. [presented online; with Ran Gonoi, Mayuko Hattori and Rio Sato]
2021f. Crossed-control in Indonesian, passivization and functional restructuring. Research workshop. Institute for Research in Language and Culture, Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan. July 24 [invited talk; presented online]
2021g. How much should we really "distribute morphology"? Words, compounds and lexical integrity. Research workshop. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. July 18. [presented online]
2021h. Crossed-control in Indonesian: When passive morphology meets auxiliarization. Research workshop. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. May 30. [presented online]
2021i. Focus mismatch under ellipsis in Japanese, polarity and head movement. The 95th Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). January 7-10. San Francisco, CA, USA. [presented online]
2020a. Focus mismatch under argument ellipsis in Japanese. 2020 Dongguk occasional workshop on mismatches in ellipsis. December 11. Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea. --> online presentation due to Covid-19.
2020b. On the degree semantics of hutsuni and zenzen. 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JKL28). University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. September 7-9. [with Yuka Imai and Moka Michihata] --> online presentation due to Covid-19.
2020c. Focus mismatch under ellipsis in Japanese, polarity and head movement. 22nd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG22). August 12-14, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. --> online presentation due to Covid-19.
2020d. Intensive lecture series <Specialized Research in Language Sciences (Linguistic Theory) B>, Graduate Program in Linguistic Science, Graduate School of Humanities, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. August. [invited intensive lecture series: https://porta.nanzan-u.ac.jp/syllabus/html/2020_40008634.html] --> online lecture series due to Covid-19.
2020e. Talk 1: Causal pluralism and the role of intentionality at the syntax-semantics interface. Talk 2: Know where to stop: Labeling, criterial freezing and partial wh-movement. English Linguistic Colloquium, Department of English Linguistics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. February 21. [invited talk series]
2020f. How can one kill someone twice in Indonesian? Causal pluralism at the syntax-semantics interface. The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). January 3-6. New Orleans, LA, USA.
2020g VP-ellipsis and lexical decomposition in syntax. The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). January 3-6. New Orleans, LA, USA. [ with Jianrong Yu]
2019a. We must all know where to stop: Criterial freezing and partial wh-movement. December 14, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. [invited talk]
2019b. How to eat your cake and have it too in Japanese: Causal pluralism and the role of agentivity. 27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JKL27). October 18-20. Sogang University, Seoul, Korea.
2019c. How can we have our cake and eat it too in Asia? Causal pluralism and the role of agentivity in natural language. July 1. Workshop “Frontiers in Linguistic Research”. Research Institute for Language Education, Seisen University, Tokyo, Japan. [invited talk]
2019d. How can one kill someone twice in Indonesian? GLOW-in-Asia XII/SICOGG XXI. Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, August 6–9.
2019e. Lexical decomposition in syntax: New evidence from VP-ellipsis. Generative Linguistics in the Old World XII (GLOW in Asia XII). Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, August 6–9. [with Jianrong Yu]
2019f. How can one kill someone twice in Indonesian? Causal pluralism at the syntax-semantics interface. Workshop on the Interface between the Modules of Grammar. International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. May 16–17. [invited talk]
2019g. How can one kill someone twice in Indonesian? Causal pluralism and tripartite VP structure. Workshop “Recent Approaches to (Non-)Agentivity in Natural Language”. National University of Singapore, Singapore, May 3–4.
2018a. Category mismatch under ellipsis: Implications for the morphosyntax and directionality of conversion. Workshop “Nominals at the Interfaces”. Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, November 2–4. [invited talk]
2018b. Syntactic head movement in Japanese: Evidence from verb-echo answers and negative scope reversal. Graduate School of Humanities and Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, May 12. [invited talk]
2018c. On syntactic head movement in Japanese and its interpretive consequences: A new perspective from verb-echo answers and negative scope reversal. Main colloquium, the 41st GLOW conference, Budapest, Hungary. April 11-13. [with Masako Maeda]
2018d. Japanese obligatory control as switch reference: Toward eliminating PRO from linguistic theory. Poster presented at the Workshop “Current Issues in Comparative Syntax: Past, Present and Future”, National University of Singapore, Singapore, March 1–2. [with Masako Maeda]
2018e. Interactions of phasal spell-out and prosodic phrasing: Evidence from focus intonation and inverse scope in Japanese. Paper presented at the 6th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables, Ekinan-Campus TOKIMATE, Niigata University, Japan. February 17. [with Masako Maeda]
2017a. Spelling-out inverse scope in Japanese: Intonation and scope-prosody correspondence. The Second Meeting of the Tokai Area Circle of Syntax, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan. December 11, 2017. [with Masako Maeda]
2017b. Canonical word order and voice alternation in Javanese syntax: Between “English-type” and “Austronesian-type”. Presentation at the research meeting for the project “Field Psycholinguistics regarding Discourse Processing Mechanisms in OS languages” ( https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-15H02603/ ) December 9–10, 2017. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
2017c. “Myth”teries of argument ellipsis: On love-hate relationships between DP and NP languages. National Research Foundation Sponsored Sogang Workshop on Nominals, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, November 11, 2017 [presented online]
2017d. Particle stranding ellipsis in Japanese, string deletion, and argument ellipsis. 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JKL25). October 12-14. University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA. [with Masako Maeda]
2017e. Particle stranding ellipsis involves PF-ellipsis. 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG19). August 9-11. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. [with Masako Maeda]
2017f. Combinatorial underspecification and the boundary of cross-linguistic variation: A new perspective from (non)complementarity of wh-movement and wh-in-situ. General Session, CamCos 6 (Cambridge Comparative Syntax 6), University of Cambridge, UK. May 4-6. [with Jian Gang Ngui]
2016a. What is the point of studying Singapore English? On the competition and coexistence of multiple grammatical systems. Meikai Linguistics Colloquium, Graduate School of Applied Linguistics, Meikai University, Japan. November 15. [invited talk]
2016b. What can Singapore English say about the comparative syntax of wh-questions? A Southeast Asian perspective. Workshop “Current Issues in Comparative Minimalist Syntax”. 34th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan. November 12. [invited presentation]
2016c. The syntax of verb-echo answers in Japanese: Implications for string-vacuous head movement. Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Dlhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India. October 14. [invited talk]
2016d. To move or not to move: An in-situ syntax of sluicing in Indonesian. Research Seminar, Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. July 3. [invited talk]
2016e. How to sluice without movement: A case study in a language with optional wh-movement. Linguistic Colloquium, Department of English Linguistics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. July 1. [invited talk]
2016f. An in-situ syntax of sluicing in Indonesian. 23th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistic Association (AFLA23). Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. June 10-12.
2016g. An in-situ syntax of sluicing in Indonesian: Implications for elliptical repair and interface economy. General Session, CamCos 5 (Cambridge Comparative Syntax 5), University of Cambridge, UK. May 5-7.
2016h. How large can elliptical arguments be in Japanese? 8th Meeting of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL8), Mie University, Japan, February 18-20.
2015a. The microparametric syntax of argument ellipsis in Asia. Linguistic Colloquium, October 10, Centre for Linguistics, Nanzan University, Japan. [invited talk]
2015b. Argument ellipsis and discourse-agreement features: A Southeast Asian perspective. General Session, CamCos 4 (Cambridge Comparative Syntax 4), University of Cambridge, UK. May 7-9.
2014a. Copy or deletion? An idiomatic argument from argument ellipsis. December 25, Linguistic Colloquium, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mie University, Japan. [invited talk]
2014b. Whether we agree or not in Asia: A new perspective from comparative syntax of argument ellipsis. Linguistic Colloquium, December 17, CREST Group, Sophia, Linguistic Institute for International Communication, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Japan. [invited talk]
2014c. Argument ellipsis, ditransitive idioms and PF-repair in Japanese. Linguistic Colloquium, November 13, Department of English, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea. [invited talk]
2014d. Whether we agree or not in Asia: A new perspective from comparative syntax of argument ellipsis. Linguistic Colloquium. October 17. Department of Linguistics. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. [invited talk]
2014e. Agreement, East and West: New perspective from Argument ellipsis in Asia. Colloquium. Department of English Linguistics, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan. September 8. [invited talk]
2014f. On the design of agreement: A new perspective from Asian argument ellipsis. Colloquium. Department of English Linguistics. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. September 5. [invited talk]
2014g. Definiteness as agreement: Comparative evidence from argument ellipsis in Asia. Generative Linguistics in the Old World X (GLOW in Asia X). National Tsing Hua University, Taipei, Taiwan. May 24-26.
2012a. Prospects for invasive interface syntax: Evidence from Indonesian. Keio Linguistics Colloquium, Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. December 15. [invited intensive lecture]
2012b. Prosodic phrasing and that-trace effects at the syntax-prosody interface. Generative Linguistics in the Old World XI (GLOW in Asia XI). September 4-6. Mie University, Mie, Japan. [with Yoshihoto Dobashi]
2012c. Successive cyclicity at the syntax-phonology interface: “Voices” from Bahasa Indonesia. August 24. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS). Institute of Linguistics, Berlin, Germany. [invited presentation]
2012d. Argument ellipsis in Javanese and the definiteness restriction on subjects. 19th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistic Association (AFLA19). June 26-30. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
2011a. Successive cyclicity at the syntax-phonology interface: Voices from Standard Indonesian. Symposium “The Syntax-Phonology Interface”. 29th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan. November 12-13. Niigata University, Niigata, Japan. [invited lecturer]
2011b. Particle-stranding ellipsis in Japanese as the privilege of the root phenomenon. GLOW in Asia Workshop for Young Scholars. September 9-12. Mie University, Mie, Japan.
2011c. ‘Can’ construction and substrate reinforcement in Colloquial Singapore English. Dialect and Regiolect Syntax Workshop, Methods in Dialectology 14, August 4, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CANADA. [with Mie Hiramoto]
2010a. ‘Got’ interrogatives and answers in Colloquial Singapore English. December 9, 2020. The 15th English in South East Asian Conference, University of Macau, China. [with Mie Hiramoto, Shawn Chia, Jacquline Tan and Zechy Wong].
2010b. Radical pro drop, pronominal morphology and topic-prominence in Singapore English. September 25, Department of British and American Studies and Comparative Culture, Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan. [invited talk]
2010c. Radical pro drop, pronominal morphology and topic-comment structure: Why is Singlish (Not) Special? Research Seminar, September 15. Department of English Language & Literature, National University of Singapore. [invited talk]
2010d. Bare verbal nouns, idiomatization and incorporation in Japanese. The Six International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-6). August 15-16. Peking University, Beijing, China.
2010e. P-stranding under sluicing in Indonesian, repair by ellipsis and the organization of grammar. Generative Linguistics in the Old World VIII (GLOW in Asia VIII). August 12-14. Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China. [with Dwi Hesti Yuliani]
2009a. Coordination, dependency, and gapping in Japanese. The Sixth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6). September 4-6. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
2009b. Radical underspecification, general number, and nominal denotation in Indonesian. The 16th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 16). May 1-3. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
2009c. Phase-bound locality, deletion, and failure of vocabulary insertion at the syntax-phonology interface. The 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 45). April 16-18. University of Chicago, IL, USA.
2009d. Underspecification and the mass/count Distinction in Indonesian: The Interface Substantiation Hypothesis. Conference on Languages of Southeast Asia. January 30-February 1. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2008a. Stranding, repair, and interface syntax: Why is Indonesian (not) so special? Linguistic Colloquium. November 28. Department of Linguistics. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. [invited talk]
2008b. Gapping in Japanese = Coordinate + dependent ellipsis. The 2nd International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL2). November 7-9. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2008c. Minimalist interfaces: Selected issues in Indonesian and Javanese. June 26. Department of English Linguistics. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan [invited talk]
2008d. “Jeopardy” game show questions and choice functions: A formal approach to a cultural icon. Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium. May 9-11. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
2008e. Successive cyclicity at the syntax-morphology interface in Austronesian: “Voices” from Indonesian languages. International Network in Biolinguistics, First Meeting, February 22-24. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
2008f. Sluicing in Bahasa Indonesia, P-stranding, and interface repair. The Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS). February 8-10. University of California, Berkeley, CA. USA.
2008g. The distribution of the active voice morphology in Javanese: A phase-theoretic approach. The 82nd Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). January 3-6. Chicago, IL, USA.
2008h. The syntax of Sino-Japanese reflexive verbs: A hidden transitive analysis. The 82nd Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). January 3-6. Chicago, IL, USA. [with Maki Kishida]
2007a. The distribution of the active voice morphology in Javanese and vP phases. The 2007 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). November 30-December 2. University of California, San Diego, USA.
2007b. The denotation and morphosyntax of bare nominals in Javanese: A problem for the nominal mapping parameter. The 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference (MALC). October 26-28. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
2007c. Wh-in-situ in Bahasa Indonesia and choice function. The 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference (MALC). October 26-28. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA [with Dwi Hesti Yuliani]
2007d. The denotation and morphosyntax of NPs in Javanese: Evidence against the nominal mapping parameter. The First Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC). October 19-21. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
2007e. A crosslinguistic investigation of epistemic and root modals: Their syntax and semantics. The First Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC). October 19-21. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. [with Simin Karimi, Sumayya Racy, and Azita Teleghani]
2007f. The syntax of intrinsic reflexivity in Japanese: A case study with zi-verbs. The Light Verbs and Verbal Nouns Workshop of the 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG9). August 8-11. Kwangwoon University. Seoul. Korea. [with Maki Kishida]
2007g. Switch reference and control at the syntax-morphology interface: An AGREE-based account. On Linguistic Interfaces. University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. June 1-3.
2007h. Japanese obligatory control as switch reference: An AGREE-based account. The Fourth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL4). May 18-20. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. USA.
2007i. Reduplication in Indonesian and the lexicalist hypothesis. The Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 33). February 9-11. University of California, Berkeley, CA. USA. [with Bradley McDonnell]
2006a A new type of nominal ellipsis in Japanese: Further evidence for the LF copy analysis. The Fourth Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL4). August 17-19. Osaka University. Osaka. Japan [with Jason Ginsburg; alternate oral presentation]
2006b. A new type of nominal ellipsis in Japanese: Further evidence for the LF copy analysis. The 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG8). August 9-12. Sookmyung Women’s University. Seoul. Korea [with Jason Ginsburg]
2006c. Spelling-out prosodic domains: A multiple spell-out account. The InterPhases Conference. May 18-20. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2005a. A derivational theory of the syntax-prosody interface: Nuclear stress, contraction, and French liaison. July 15. Department of English Linguistics. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan [invited talk]
2005b. One- and do so-replacement revisited: An argument for the derivational approach to syntax. The 2005 KASELL International Conference on English Languages and Linguistics. June 21-22. Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
2003. Causative psych verbs as world-creating perceptive predicates: A hyperclause analysis of backward binding. The 127th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. November 21-22. Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan.
2002a. Idiom compositions and lexical decompositions. Student Workshop of the 20th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan. November 17-18. Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
2002b. Dynamic lexical semantics: Towards the unification of lexical semantics and the minimalist syntax. Special Session on “Psychological Predicates” of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Morphology and Lexicon Forum. March 23-24. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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