1. (2009) Papers from the 43rd Annual
Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (The Main Session: Gradience in Grammar). With Malcolm Elliott, James Kirby, Eleni Staraki, and Suwon Yoon (eds.), copyright year 2007.
2.
(2009) Papers
from the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
(The Panels). With Malcolm Elliott, James Kirby, Eleni
Staraki, and Suwon Yoon (eds.), copyright year 2007.
2.
(2005) Correlative scale in the Japanese and English concessive conditional
constructions. Ars linguistica (Linguistic studies
of Shizuoka) 12: 59-68. (Written
in Japanese)
4.
(2003) Rethinking the let alone
construction: what are its construction-specific characteristics? Journal of
Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 7: 135-151.
1.
(2009) Scale
structure, coercion, and the interpretation of measure phrases in Japanese. With Thomas Grano. (PDF)
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS
1.
(To
appear) Investigating an asymmetry in the semantics of Japanese measure
phrases. With Thomas Grano. Proceedings of the 35th Annual
Meeting of the
2.
(To
appear) Comparison, indeterminateness, and the semantics-pragmatics interface. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 18.
3. (To
appear) Comparison with indeterminateness: a multidimensional approach. Proceedings of
the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.
4. (To appear) The comparative morpheme in
Modern Japanese. Proceedings
of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.
5. (To appear) The Japanese contrastive wa: a mirror
image of EVEN. Proceedings
of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.
6. (2010) Modes of scalar reversal in
Japanese. Japanese/Korean
Linguistics 17.
7. (2009) Pragmatic aspects of the
‘negative use’ of the Japanese adverb motto. Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the
Pragmatics Society of
8. (2009)
Varying implicature in contrastiveness. Current Issues
in Unity and Diversity of Languages: Collection of the Papers Selected from the
CIL 18, 3599-3614. Linguistic Society of Korea.
9. (2008) Two types of adverbial polarity
items in Japanese: absolute and relative.
Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Pragmatics
Society of
10. (2008) The multifunctionality of English and Japanese scalar distance
constructions: a semantic map approach. In Nikki Adams, Adam Cooper, Fey Parrill, and Thomas Wier (eds.), Papers from the
40th Annual Meeting of the
11.
(2007) On the dual standard in the Japanese comparatives. (Written in Japanese)
Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan (vol.2), 65-72.
12. (2007) The scalar sensitivity of the Japanese scalar additive
particles. In Erin Bainbridge and Brian Agbayani
(eds.), Proceedings
of the Thirty-Fourth Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2006), vol. 17, 383-397. (Online
proceedings)
13. (2007) From classifier construction
to scalar construction: the case of the Japanese N hitotu V nai and N 1-classifier V nai constructions. In Naomi McGloin and Junko Mori (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 15,
161-172,
14. (2006) Wa-oroka, dokoro-ka koobun ni kansuru imiron teki
goyooron teki koosatu (The semantics
and pragmatics of the wa-oroka
and dokoro-ka constructions). In Ueda
Isao and Noda Hisashi (eds.), Gengai to
gennai no kouryuu bunya: Koizumi Tamotsu hakase sanju kinen ronbunsyuu (The
interaction between language external and language internal: Festschrift for
Prof. Tamotsu Koizumi on his 80th birthday), 243-252. Tokyo:
Daigakusyorin.
15. (2006) Scalarity
and the rhetorical negative constructions. In Seiko Fujii,
Takahito Morita, and Chie Sakuta
(eds.), Proceedings
of the Fourth International Conference on Construction Grammar,
162-163.
16. (2006) Sinri
teki yuusensei o arawasu ‘before’ koobun
ni kansuru itikoo satu: jikansei
kara hikaku e (The
psychological priority in the before
construction: from ‘time’ to ‘comparison’). Proceedings of
the 23rd Conference of the English Linguistic Society of
17. (2006) ‘N hitotu
V nai’ koobun no imiron teki, goyooron
teki tokusei ni tuite: kanren
koobun tono hikaku o tyuusin to site (The
semantics and pragmatics of the “N hitotu V nai” construction: focusing
on the comparison with related constructions). Proceedings of Kansai Linguistic Society 30,
176-186.
18. (2005) ‘May/might (just) as
well’ koobun ni tuite: tagisei to toraekata to no kankei o tyuusin ni site (On the may/might
(just) as well construction: its multi-functionality and the
speaker’s construal). Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference of the English
Linguistic Society of
19. (2004) The cognitive characteristics
of the idiomatic comparative constructions: the case of the ‘no more/less…than’
constructions. Proceedings
of the 9th conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied
Linguistics, 273-279.
21. (2003) The scalar if not construction: syntactic, semantic
and pragmatic conditions of its two readings. Proceedings of the 7th
conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied linguistics,
189-198.