BOOKS

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.

 

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. (2009) Pragmatic aspects of implicit comparison: an economy-based approach. Journal of Pragmatics 41(6): 1079-1103. (link)(draft)

2. (2005) Correlative scale in the Japanese and English concessive conditional constructions. Ars linguistica (Linguistic studies of Shizuoka) 12: 59-68. (Written in Japanese)

3. (2004) On ‘if not’: the concessive type and the suspension type. Ars linguistica (Linguistic studies of Shizuoka) 11: 176-193. (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.

 

 

MANUSCRIPTS

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 Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society. (draft PDF)

2.    (To appear) Comparison, indeterminateness, and the semantics-pragmatics interface. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 18. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

3.  (To appear) Comparison with indeterminateness: a multidimensional approach. Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. (draft PDF)

4.  (To appear) The comparative morpheme in Modern Japanese. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society. (draft PDF)

5.  (To appear) The Japanese contrastive wa: a mirror image of EVEN. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society. (draft PDF)

6.  (2010) Modes of scalar reversal in Japanese. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 17. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. (draft PDF)

7.  (2009) Pragmatic aspects of the ‘negative use’ of the Japanese adverb motto. Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 175-182.

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 Japan, 263-270. (draft PDF)

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 Chicago Linguistic Society: The Main Session, 321-334. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society. (copyright year 2004)

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, Stanford, CA: CSLI Publication.

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 Japan, 220-229.

17. (2006) ‘N hitotu V naikoobun 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 wellkoobun 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 Japan (JELS 22), 181-190.

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.

20. (2003) The two-dimensional scale of the concessive conditional construction: The case of English even if construction. Proceedings of the 8th conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 424-433.

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.

 

 

WORKING PAPERS

1.   (2004) The relation between ‘scalar implicature’ and its ‘cancellation’: from the one-dimensional scalar model to the multidimensional scalar model. (written in Japanese) The Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education of Waseda University, vol.12 (2): 215-225.