- HP
- http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~sawadao/index.html
- e-mail
- sawadao(at)lit.kobe-u.ac.jp
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- 研究分野
- 言語学（意味論、語用論）、英語学
- 担当科目
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- 言語学演習, 理論言語学演習, 言語学特殊講義, 理論言語学特殊研究
研究テーマ・研究課題
- ことばの意味解釈・使用のメカニズム
- スケール性、感情表出性、極性、推意、情報構造と関わる言語現象に焦点を当てて、(i)意味の多様性・次元性、(ii)論理的意味と推論的意味の関係、(iii)構造と意味・機能の対応関係、(iv)意味のコンテクスト依存性、(v)言語の個別性と普遍性について考察している。
主な著書、学術論文等
著書
- Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers: The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics). Oxford University Press. (2018)
編著
- Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages. Hideki Kishimoto, Osamu Sawada and Ikumi Imani (eds.). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. (2023)
- 『極性表現の構造・意味・機能』, 澤田治・岸本秀樹・今仁生美（編）. 東京: 開拓社. (2019)
論文
- “Scalarity of the Japanese initial mora-based minimizer: A compositional (lexically unspecified) minimizer and a non-compositional (lexically specified) minimizer.” Natural Language Semantics 31: 71-120. (2023)
- “The role of comparison in discourse: The meaning and use of the Japanese utterance comparative expressions sore-yori-(mo) ‘than that’ and nani-yori-(mo) ‘than anything’.” Language and Linguistics 24(1): 36-73. (2023)
- “The scalar contrastive wa in Japanese.” In Gabriela Bîlbîie, Berthold Crysmann & Gerhard Schaden (eds.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 14, 239-271. (2022)
- “The Japanese reactive attitudinal nani-mo: A new class of negative polarity items.” Gengo Kenkyu 160: 43-68. (2021)
- “Cross-linguistic variations in the interpretation of tense in mirative sentences: A view from Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa.” (with Jun Sawada). In Andreas Trotzke and Xavier Villalba (eds.), Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks, 216-247. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2021)
- “Interpretations of the embedded expressive motto in Japanese: Varieties of meaning and projectivity.” In Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay (eds.), Secondary Content: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Side Issues (Current Research in the Semantics Pragmatics-Interface (CRiSPI)), 341–375. Leiden: Brill. (2019)
- ”Scalarity and alternatives of Japanese mora (letter)-based minimizers.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Vol.4 (21): 1-15. (2019)
- ”Scale structures in discourse: Discourse-pragmatic properties of Japanese comparative expressions.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Vol.3 (7), 1-15. (2018)
- “The projection of non-at-issue meaning via modal support: The meaning and use of the Japanese counter-expectational adverbs.” In Mihoko Otake, Setsuya Kurahashi, Yuiko Ota, Ken Satoh, Daisuke Bekki (eds.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), vol 10091, 122-137. (2017)
- “On the property of mirativity in the Japanese modal demonstrative ano. With Jun Sawada.” In Kenshi Funakoshi, Shigeto Kawahara, and Christopher D. Tancredi (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 24, 141-155. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (2017)
- “An utterance situation-based comparison.” Linguistics and Philosophy 37: 205-248. (2014)
- “The comparative morpheme in Modern Japanese: Looking at the core from ‘outside’.” Journal of East Asian Linguistics 22: 217-260. (2013)
- “Scale structure, coercion, and the interpretation of measure phrases in Japanese.” With Thomas Grano. Natural Language Semantics 19: 191-226. (2011)
- “Pragmatic aspects of implicit comparison: An economy-based approach.” Journal of Pragmatics 41: 1079-1103. (2009)