PRESENTATIONS

　　　　                                                                                                                

Presentations (abstracts peer reviewed)

1. Ambiguity of the Japanese negative comparative expression kurabe mono-ni nara-nai ’cannot be compared’. The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). New York. January 6th, 2024. Poster.

2. The Japanese negative polarity item hitotsu ‘even’: An event semantics approach. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 20 (LENLS 20). Osaka University, Nakanoshima Center. November 18, 2023.

3. Projective properties of sense-based low-degree modifiers: A comparison with predicates of personal taste. Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2023. NINJAL, Tokyo. September 15, 2023. Poster.

4. Varieties of wh-exclamatives: A view from the negative wh-expressives in Japanese. The 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Denver/online, January 8th, 2023. poster.

5. モーラに基づく最小詞「XY…のXの字」の曖昧性について：コーパスデータを用いての考察. Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2022. NINJAL, Tokyo. September 6, 2022.

6. On the properties of expressivity and counter-expectation in the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’. The 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 6, 2022. Online. Poster.

7. The scalar contrastive wa in Japanese. Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2021). Université de Paris, Campus Rive Gauche/online. December 10, 2021.

8. Interpretations of sense-based minimizers in Japanese and English: Local and global sense-based measurements. The Eighteenth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 18 (LENLS18). Online. November 14, 2021.

9. The scalar properties of English and Japanese sense-based minimizers. The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 9, 2021. Online. Poster.

10. The Japanese reactive attitudinal nani-mo: Polarity sensitivity and the pragmatic function of objection. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 28. September 7, 2020. University of Central Lancashire. Online.

11. The ambiguity of tense in the Japanese mirative sentence with nante/towa. With Jun Sawada. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 16 (LENLS 16). Keio University. November 10, 2019.

12. The interpretation of tense in the Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa. With Jun Sawada. Functional Categories and Expressive Meaning. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. September 9, 2019.

13. 推論用法の「NPのことだ（から）」の因果的特性について―形式、意味、談話のインターフェース―. With Jun Sawada. Kansai Linguistic Society 44 (Workshop: 日本語における意味と語用のインターフェース：談話表現を中心に) Kansai University. July 13, 2019.

14. On the literal and non-literal interpretations of the Japanese mora-based minimizer. The International Workshop on Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective (DeG 2019). Nanjing University. March 16, 2019.

15. The scalarity and alternatives of Japanese mora (letter)-based minimizers. The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York. January 3, 2019. Poster.

16. The Japanese negative totemo: From an unconditional expression to an expressive intensifier. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 15 (LENLS 15). Keio University. November 13, 2018. 

17. The Japanese inferential -no koto-da-(kara): Explicit and implicit causal marking. With Jun Sawada. Workshop “Implicit and explicit marking of discourse relations: the comparison between causals vs. conditionals”. Osnabrück University. May 25 2018.

18. Scale structures in discourse: The discourse-pragmatic properties of the Japanese comparative expressions. The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Salt Lake City. January 6, 2018. Poster.

19. The dependent property of the Japanese inferential use of no koto-da: An evidence indicator for an inferential modal statement. With Jun Sawada. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 14 (LENLS 14). University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Campus. November 14, 2017.

20. Interpretations of the embedded expressive motto in Japanese: Varieties of meaning and projectivity. DGfS Workshop: Secondary Information & Linguistic Encoding. Saarland University, March 8, 2017.

21. On the property of mirativity in the Japanese modal demonstrative ano. With Jun Sawada. The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. NINJAL, Tokyo. October 14, 2016.

22. Interpretations of embedded expressives: A view from the Japanese comparative expressive motto. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 13 (LENLS 13). Keio University. November 15, 2016.

23. The Japanese negative totemo ‘very’: Toward a new typology of negative sensitive items. The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. April 21, 2016.

24. The (non)-projective properties of the Japanese counter-expectational intensifier yoppodo. The 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, DC. January 9, 2016. Poster.

25. The projection of non-at-issue meaning via modal support: The meaning and use of the Japanese counter-expectational adverbs. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 12 (LENLS 12). Ochanomizu University/Keio University. November 16, 2015.

26. The Japanese negative totemo ‘very’: Toward a new typology of negative sensitive items. The Göttingen workshop on negation and polarity. University of Göttingen. September 18, 2015.

27. Polarity sensitivity of the Japanese intensifier totemo ‘very.’ The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Portland, OR. January 9, 2015. Poster.

28. On the negative use of the Japanese intensifier totemo ‘very.’ The 17th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Kyoto Notre Dame University. November 29, 2014.

29. Polarity sensitivity and update refusal: the case of the Japanese negative totemo ‘very’. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 11 (LENLS 11). Ochanomizu University/Keio University. November 24, 2014.

30. The degree of the speaker’s negative attitude in a goal-shifting comparison. The 15th Texas Linguistics Society Conference. University of Texas Austin. October 25, 2014.

31. Varieties of goal: the goal-oriented comparisons in Japanese. The Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA 1). University of Tübingen, June 12, 2014.

32. The concept of degree in discourse structure: the case of noteworthy comparison. The 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. January 3, 2014. Poster.

33. The conventionality of pragmatic inference in noteworthy comparison. The 16th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Keio University, December 7, 2013.

34. Cross-linguistic variation of intensified comparison: the semantics/pragmatics interface. Workshop on Semantic Variation. University of Chicago. October 26, 2013.

35. On the context-dependent pragmatic strategies of Japanese diminutive shift. Sinn und Bedeutung 18. University of the Basque country. September 12, 2013. Poster.

36. The modal demonstratives in Japanese: a mismatch between at-issue and non-at-issue meanings. With Jun Sawada. International Congress of Linguistics (ICL19), Semantics/Pragmatics Interfaces. University of Geneva. July 23, 2013. Poster.

37. The meaning and use of utterance situation-based comparison in Japanese. The 15th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Osaka Gakuin University. December 2, 2012.

38. The utterance situation-based comparison in the Japanese degree adverb motto. The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo. October 12, 2012. Poster.

39. Precision and manners of measurement: the case of Japanese minimizers. Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6 (FAJL). Humboldt Universität/Japanese Embassy, Berlin. Septermber 27, 2012. Poster.

40. Nihongo moodaru sijisi ni okeru imi no tajigensei: imiron to goyooron no intaafeesu (The multidimensional meaning of Japanese modal demonstratives: the semantics-pragmatics interface) (With Jun Sawada). The 37th Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society. Konan Women’s University, Kobe. June 2, 2012.

41. The meaning of diminutive shift in Japanese: its dimensionality, regularity and pragmatic effect. The 14th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. December 4, 2011. Poster.

42. The meanings of diminutive shifts in Japanese. The 42nd Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. University of Toronto. November 11, 2011.

43. The meanings of modal affective demonstratives in Japanese. With Jun Sawada. The 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Seoul National University. October 22, 2011.

44. Diminutive shifts in Japanese: a phonology-pragmatics interface. The Prosody-Discourse Interface IDP. The University of Salford, UK, September 13, 2011. Poster.

45. On the expressive use of ano ‘that’ in Japanese: a probability scale approach. With Jun Sawada. The 13th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Kansai University, Osaka. December 5, 2010.

46. Saliency and scalarity in the meaning of the Japanese modal affective demonstratives. With Jun Sawada. The 7th International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS). Campus Innovation Center, Tokyo. November 19, 2010.

47. Nihongo no suuryooteki ruika hyoogen ni okeru sukeeru koozoo ni tuite (Scale structures of numerical additive particles in Japanese). Workshop on recent advances in formal approaches to lexical semantics/pragmatics based on scale structures. The 140th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. University of Tsukuba. June 20, 2010.

48. The meanings of positive polarity minimizers in Japanese: a unified approach. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 20. University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. April 30, 2010. Poster.

49. Positive polarity minimizers: the semantics/pragmatics interface. The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. April 10, 2010.

50. The multidimensionality of the Japanese minimizers sukoshi/chotto ‘a little’. The 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Baltimore, January 10, 2010.

51. Dimensions of the Japanese minimizers A LITTLE. The 12th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Ryukoku University, December 6, 2009.

52. The meaning of numerical additive particles: the case of Japanese ato and moo. The 9th International Conference on Tense, Aspect and Modality (Workshop on Scalarity and Event Structure). Paris, September 3, 2009.

53. Investigating an asymmetry in the semantics of Japanese measure phrases. With Thomas Grano. The 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. February 15, 2009.

54. Pragmatic aspects of the ‘negative use’ of the Japanese adverb motto. The 11th Annual Meeting of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Matsuyama University, December 21, 2008.

55. Comparison, indeterminateness, and the semantics-pragmatics interface. The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. CUNY Graduate Center, November 13-15, 2008.

56. Comparison with indeterminateness: a multidimensional approach. The 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS). Cornell University, November 8, 2008.

57. Direct and differential measurement in Japanese. With Thomas Grano. In Search of Meaning in the Midwest (The 3rd Annual Midwest Workshop on Semantics). The Ohio State University, October 18, 2008.

58. Varying implicature in contrastiveness. The 18th International Congress of Linguistics (CIL 18). Korea University, Seoul. July 22, 2008.

59. Vagueness and adverbial polarity items. Vagueness and Language Use. École Normale Supérieure, Paris. April 8, 2008.

60. The comparative morpheme in Modern Japanese. The 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA. February 9, 2008.

61. Scalar/polar properties of ‘at all’ items in Japanese. The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, IL. January 4, 2008.

62. Two types of ‘at all’ in Japanese: absolute and relative. The 10th Annual Meeting of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Kansai Gaidai University. December 8, 2007.

63. Modes of scalar reversal in Japanese. The 17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. UCLA, November 11, 2007.

64. Pragmatic properties of the Japanese scalar reversal adverbs. The 2nd Annual Midwest Workshop on Semantics. Michigan State University, October 6, 2007.

65. The Japanese contrastive wa: a mirror image of EVEN. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA. February 9, 2007.

66. Pragmatic aspects of implicit comparison. The 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Anaheim, CA. January 6, 2007. (handout)

67. Nihongo hikakubun no nijuu kijunsei ni tuite. (On the dual standard in the Japanese comparatives) The 9th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Momoyama Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan. December 9, 2006.

68. Scalar sensitivity of the Japanese scalar additive particles. The Western Conference on Linguistics 2006 (WECOL 2006). Poster Session. California State University, Fresno, October 28, 2006.

69. Pragmatic aspects of compared to. The First Midwest Workshop on Semantics. University of Chicago, October 7, 2006.

70. Scalarity and the rhetorical negative constructions. The Fourth International Conference on Construction Grammar. University of Tokyo, Komaba, September 3, 2006.

71. The psychological priority in the ‘before’ construction: from time to comparison. The Twenty-third Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan. Kyusyu University, November 12-13, 2005.

72. From classifier construction to scalar construction: the case of Japanese N hitotu V nai and N 1-classifier V nai. The 15th Japanese/ Korean Linguistics Conference. University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 7, 2005.

73. The cognitive patterns of construals in comparatives. The 10th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. August 2-4, 2005. University of Edinburgh.

74. The possible semantic diversity of the comparative constructions in English and Japanese: a construction-based approach. The 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Yonsei University, Korea, July 19, 2005.

75. ‘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: comparison with the related constructions). Kansai Linguistic Society 30. Kansai University, June 4, 2005.

76. Joretu no gyakuten o arawasu teido fukusi no imiron to goyoron: ‘kaette’, ‘musiro’, ‘yoppodo’ o tyusin to site. (The Semantics and pragmatics of Japanese ‘ranking-reversal’ adverbs: mainly concerning kaette, musiro, and yoppodo.) The 130th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Conference Handbook: 104-109, International Christian University (ICU), June 12, 2005.

77. The essence of comparatives viewed from idiomatic comparative constructions: a Construction Grammar approach. The 129th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Conference Handbook: 183-188.Toyama University. November 21, 2004.

78. Scalar construals in comparative constructions: high/low and near/far construals, and their fusion. The 128th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Tokyo Gakugei university. Conference Handbook: 233-238. June 20, 2004.

79. The cognitive characteristics of the idiomatic comparative constructions: a case of the ‘no more…than’ and ‘no less…than’ constructions. The 9th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. Namseoul University, Korea. August 19-21, 2004.

80. On the may/might just as well construction: its multifunctionality and the speaker’s construal. The Twenty-Second Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan. Conference Handbook: 45-48. Dokkyo University. November 13-14, 2004.

81. The multifuncionality of English and Japanese scalar distance constructions: a semantic map approach. The 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago. April 14, 2004.

82. The cancellation of scalar implicature: from the one-dimensional scalar model to the three dimensional model. The 6th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Programs and Abstracts: 42-45. Kanagawa University. December 6, 2003.

83. The multifunctionality of Japanese and English Scalar Constructions. The 127th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Conference Handbook: 176-181.Osaka City University, November 23, 2003.

84. The correlative scale of the Japanese and English concessive conditional constructions: A comparative study. The 126th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Conference Handbook: 76-81. Aoyama Gakuin Univeristy. June 22, 2003.

85. The two-dimensional scale of the concessive conditional construction: the case of English even if construction. The 8th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. Kibi International University, Japan, August 4-5, 2003.

86. Two types of the if not construction: viewed from contextual givenness. The 5th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Program and abstracts: 80-87. Kansai Gaidai university, December 7, 2002.

87. The Japanese ‘wa-oroka’and ‘dokoro-ka’ constructions: the mechanism of semantic and pragmatic scale. The 124th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Conference Handbook: 36-41, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, June 16, 2002.

88. The semantics and pragmatics of the scalar if not constructions. The 7th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. Singapore. December 2002.

89. Construction Grammar as a theory for second language learning. The 13 the World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA). Singapore. December 16-21 2002. Poster.

90. Rethinking the let alone construction: focusing on the positive polarity case. The 4th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Momoyama Gakuin University. Program and abstracts: 15-18, December 2001.

91. On the idiomaticity of let alone. The Society of English Language and Literature at Waseda University. Waseda Univeristy, December 1st, 2001.

 

 

Other talks (invited talks, workshops, colloquiums, etc.)

1.       Expressivity in Japanese: Cross-linguistic and language-internal variations. The 18th Modality Workshop. Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library. March 24, 2024.

2.      On the similarities and differences between ordinary wh questions and negative wh expressives. 「疑問詞文のプロソディーに関する音声学・言語学の融合的・実証的研究」, 科研研究会. Kobe University. March 9, 2024.

3.      On the meaning and use of the Japanese negative comparative expression kurabe mono-ni nara-nai ‘cannot be compared’. Kobe Linguistics Symposium (jointly held with Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai). December 15, 2023.

4.      The ambiguous negative comparison: With special reference to the Japanese kurabe mono-ni nara-nai ‘cannot be compared’. Symposium: Comparative Constructions in English and Other Languages, English Linguistic Society of Japan, University of Tokyo. November 4, 2023.

5.      Scale structures of numerical additive particles: The case of the Japanese particles moo and ato. The 17th Modality Workshop. Shizuoka Mokusei Hall. September 1, 2023.

6.      Expressivity, expectations, and relation to focus in the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’. Semantics Workshop in Osaka. Osaka University. August 28, 2023.

7.      On the interpretation of the Japanese mirative demonstrative ano. With Jun Sawada. Comparative Syntax, Semantics, and Language Acquisition #1. Nanzan University. May 28, 2023.

8.     Typology of wh-exclamatives: A view from the Negative wh-expressive in Japanese. Workshop on Semantics: Gradability, Scales and more. Osaka University. March 22, 2023.

9.      The expressive and expectational properties of the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’ and the relationship with focus. Meaning and Grammar Seminar. University of Edinburgh. March 10, 2023.

10.           　Sense-based low-degree modifiers in Japanese and English. Oxford Kobe Linguistics Symposium. Oxford University. March 8, 2023.

11.   The expressivity, expectation, and relationship with focus of the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’. Semantics Roundtable. University of Washington. November 18, 2022.

12.  On the interpretation of negative wh-expressives in Japanese. Kobe-Oxford Linguistics Colloquium (日本語研究の最前線3). Kobe University. August 5, 2022.

13.  On the properties of expressivity and counter-expectation in the Japanese negative polarity item kakera ‘piece’. Kobe-NINJAL Linguistics Colloquium (日本語研究の最前線2). Kobe University. March 10, 2022.

14.  「感情表出性を持つ不定表現の意味・機能」, 日本英文学会北海道支部第66 回大会 (シンポジウム「不定語研究の展開と展望」), 2021年11月7日.

15.  Sense-based minimizers in Japanese and English: Speaker’s experience, evaluation, and the relation with emotions. ICU Linguistics Colloquium. April 10, 2021.

16.  Sense-based minimizers in English and Japanese: Speaker’s experience and classification of scales. International Conference on English Linguistics. Kyung Hee University, Online. October 16, 2020.

17.   日本語のモーラに基づく最小詞の (非) 字義的用法について: 形式意味論・対照言語学的アプローチ, Prosody and Grammar Festa 4, Kobe University. February 16, 2020.

18.  The meaning and use of the Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa. With Jun Sawada. 神戸大学言語学年末研究会. Kobe University. December 21, 2019.

19.  The meaning and use of the Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa. With Jun Sawada. The 16th Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. August 28, 2019.

20. 「のことだ（から）」の推論用法について―モダリティとの関係性を中心に― With Jun Sawada. The 16th Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. August 28, 2019.

21.  On the meaning and use of the Japanese mora-based minimizers. The 15th Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. March 5-6, 2019.

22. On the Japanese NPI totemo: Between unconditionality and intensification. The 14th International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. August 23-24, 2018.

23. Expressive NPIs: The case of the Japanese negative totemo. Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop at Mie University. August 10, 2018.

24. On the inferential use of the Japanese NP-no koto-da(-kara): The dependent relationship with a modal statement. With Jun Sawada. Semantics Workshop in Tokai. March 31, 2018.

25. The mirative demonstrative in Japanese. The 13th International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. March 14-15, 2018.

26. Scale structures in discourse: Discourse-pragmatic properties of the Japanese comparative expressions sore-yori and nani-yori. Semantics Research Group. Keio University, March 9, 2018.

27.  The Japanese negative totemo ‘very’: Toward a new typology of negative polarity items. The 12th International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. August 22, 2017.

28. The context-dependency of the Japanese discourse marker sore-yori ‘than it’: The interaction between a CI and a general pragmatic principle. 第100回待兼山ことばの会/Semantics Workshop in Tokai. August 6, 2017. Osaka University.

29. Goal-shifting and the structure of discourse: The case of the Japanese discourse-oriented comparative expression sore-yori. The 85th annual congress of the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas). Workshop: Actes de discours et conversations. Primary organizer: Daniel Vanderveken. May 11, 2017. McGill University.

30. Information structure of the Japanese modal demonstrative ano. With Jun Sawada. Semantics Workshop in Tokai. March 18, 2017.

31.  Modal demonstratives in Japanese. With Jun Sawada. The 11th International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. March 15, 2017.

32. Interpretations of embedded pragmatic scalar modifiers. Ling Supper. Mie University. February 10, 2017.

33. The Japanese negative totemo ‘very’: Toward a new typology of negative polarity items. Semantics Workshop in Tokai. September 24, 2016.

34. Interpretations of embedded pragmatic scalar modifiers. The 10th International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. August 22, 2016.

35.  Modal demonstratives in Japanese. (with Jun Sawada) Semantics Workshop in Tokai. Nagoya Gakuin. March 26, 2016.

36. Varieties of not-at-issue meanings: with special reference to the Japanese positive polarity minimizers. The 9th International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. March 16, 2016.

37.  語用論的スケール表現の投射的振る舞いについて: モダリティ表現の関与の可能性を考える (Projective behaviors of the Japanese pragmatic scalar modifiers: sensitivity of projection to modal and other related expressions). The 20th ICR seminar.「視点」が関わる言語表現をめぐって (On perspective-sensitive expressions). University of Tsukuba, Tokyo campus. November 14, 2015.

38. Pragmatic aspects of scalar modifiers. Semantics Workshop in Tokai. October 4, 2015.

39. Interpretations of embedded pragmatic scalar modifiers in Japanese: projection via modal support. The 8th International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. August 28, 2015.

40. Varieties of positive polarity minimizers in Japanese. Mie University Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition. July 31, 2015.

41.  Projective properties of the Japanese counter-expectational scalar adverbs yoppodo and kaette: a new class of projective content. Semantics Workshop in Tokai. March 10, 2015.

42. Varieties of positive polarity minimizers in Japanese. Invited. Workshop: Varieties of Positive Polarity Items. DGfS 2015. University of Leipzig. March 4-6, 2015. (Organizers: Mingya Liu and Gianina Iordăchioaia)

43. The meanings of the Japanese scalar adverbs yoppodo and kaette and their projective behaviors. The 7th International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research. Kansai Gaidai University, February 24, 2015.

44. Modality, polarity, and intensification: the meaning and distributions of the Japanese negative use of totemo ‘very’. The 6th International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research. Kansai Gaidai University, August 28th, 2014.

45. Modal affective demonstratives in Japanese. With Jun Sawada. Semantics Workshop in Tokai. Nagoya Gakuin University. March 21, 2014.

46. Comparison and goal-orientedness. The Fifth International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research. Kansai Gaidai University. March 15, 2014.

47.  The meaning and use of noteworthy comparison. The Fourth International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research. Kansai Gaidai University. August 28, 2013.

48. The context-dependency of Japanese diminutive shift. The Third International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research. Kansai Gaidai University. March 15, 2013.

49. An utterance situation-based comparison: the case of the Japanese comparative adverb motto. Nanzan University Linguistics Colloquium. Center for Linguistics. December 22, 2012.

50. Imprecision and speaker-orientedness in the interpretation of Japanese minimizers. The Second International Modality Workshop (via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research). Kansai Gaidai University. August 28, 2012.

51.  Expressivity and measurement: the case of the Japanese degree adverb motto. The Modality Workshop (via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research). Kansai Gaidai University. March 17, 2012.

52. The role of scalarity in language use: the semantics/pragmatics interface (presented in Japanese). PHILOLOGIA (Mie daigaku eigo kenkyuukai). Mie University. December 22, 2010.

53.  Speaker-oriented use of Japanese numeral quantifiers. The 9th Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation, and Kyunghee Korea-Japan Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing. Kyoto University. December 11, 2010.

54. On the dual-use phenomenon of scalar modifiers. The 8th Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation. Kyoto University, July 12, 2010.

55.  Scale structures of numerical additive particles in Japanese. Speaking of Possibility and Time (The 7th Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation). Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen, June 5, 2010.

56. Understanding Variation in the distribution of measure phrase: a view from Japanese. With Thomas Grano. The Workshop on Comparatives. University of Chicago, March 13, 2009.

57.  Adverbial polarity items in Japanese: relative and absolute. Student Mini-Conference. University of Chicago, March 11, 2008.

58. Japanese scale-reversal adverbs and the logic of conventional implicature. The Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language. University of Chicago, April 18, 2008.

59. The Japanese contrastive -wa: the ‘scalar type’ and the ‘polarity type’. Student Mini-Conference. University of Chicago, March 6, 2007.

 

 

Symposiums/workshops (organized)

1. ワークショップ: 極性表現の構造・意味・機能 (Polarity-sensitive expressions: Their forms, meanings and functions). Nagoya Gakuin University. March 29-30, 2019. (program)

2. Symposium “Polarity-Sensitive Items: Their Forms, Meanings, and Functions.” English Linguistic Society of Japan. Kanazawa University. November 13, 2016. (Organizer: Osamu Sawada; Speakers: Hideki Kishimoto, Ikumi Imani, Kimiko Nakanishi, Osamu Sawada) Presentation title: Expressives and polarity sensitivity. (abstracts)

3. Symposium: Discourse Expressions and Information Structure. English Linguistic Society of Japan. Gakushuin University. November 8, 2014. (Organizer: Osamu Sawada; Speakers: Chris Davis, Elin McCready, David Oshima, Osamu Sawada) Presentation title: Comparison and goal-shifting. (abstracts)