PRESENTATIONS
Presentations (abstracts peer reviewed)
1. The Japanese
expressive modifier baka ‘stupid’: Evaluation of the individual and the
situation. The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic
Society of America (LSA). Philadelphia. January 10th, 2025.
Poster.
2. The meanings of
the Japanese numerical additive particles ato
and moo: Their interaction with eventuality and intensional
operators. Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2024. NINJAL, Tokyo.
September 21, 2024. Poster.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9.
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.
10. 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.
11.
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.
12.
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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18.
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.
19.
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.
20.
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.
21.
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.
22.
Interpretations of the embedded
expressive motto in
Japanese: Varieties of meaning and projectivity. DGfS
Workshop: Secondary Information & Linguistic Encoding. Saarland University,
March 8, 2017.
23.
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.
24. 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.
25.
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.
26.
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.
27.
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.
28.
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.
29.
Polarity sensitivity of the Japanese intensifier totemo ‘very.’ The 89th Annual Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America. Portland, OR. January 9, 2015. Poster.
30.
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.
31.
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.
32.
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.
33.
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.
34.
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.
35.
The conventionality of pragmatic inference in noteworthy comparison. The 16th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics
Society of Japan. Keio University, December 7, 2013.
36.
Cross-linguistic variation of
intensified comparison: the semantics/pragmatics interface. Workshop on Semantic Variation. University of Chicago.
October 26, 2013.
37.
On the context-dependent pragmatic strategies of Japanese diminutive shift. Sinn und Bedeutung 18.
University of the Basque country. September 12, 2013. Poster.
38.
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.
39.
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.
40.
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.
41.
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.
42.
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.
43.
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.
44.
The meanings of diminutive shifts in Japanese. The
42nd Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. University
of Toronto. November 11, 2011.
45.
The meanings of modal affective demonstratives in Japanese. With Jun Sawada. The 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference.
Seoul National University. October 22, 2011.
46.
Diminutive shifts in Japanese: a phonology-pragmatics interface. The Prosody-Discourse Interface IDP. The University
of Salford, UK, September 13, 2011. Poster.
47.
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.
48.
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.
49.
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.
50.
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.
51.
Positive polarity minimizers: the
semantics/pragmatics interface. The 46th Annual
Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. April 10, 2010.
52.
The multidimensionality
of the Japanese minimizers sukoshi/chotto ‘a little’. The 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic
Society of America. Baltimore, January 10, 2010.
53.
Dimensions of the Japanese minimizers A LITTLE. The
12th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Ryukoku University, December 6, 2009.
54.
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.
55.
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.
56.
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.
57.
Comparison, indeterminateness, and the semantics-pragmatics interface. The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference.
CUNY Graduate Center, November 13-15, 2008.
58.
Comparison with indeterminateness: a multidimensional approach. The 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic
Society (NELS). Cornell University, November 8, 2008.
59.
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.
60.
Varying implicature in contrastiveness. The 18th International Congress of Linguistics
(CIL 18). Korea University, Seoul. July 22, 2008.
61.
Vagueness and adverbial polarity items. Vagueness
and Language Use. École Normale
Supérieure, Paris. April 8, 2008.
62.
The comparative morpheme in Modern Japanese. The 34th
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA.
February 9, 2008.
63.
Scalar/polar properties of ‘at all’ items in Japanese. The
82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, IL.
January 4, 2008.
64.
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.
65.
Modes of scalar reversal in Japanese. The 17th
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. UCLA, November 11, 2007.
66.
Pragmatic properties of the Japanese scalar reversal adverbs. The 2nd Annual Midwest Workshop on Semantics.
Michigan State University, October 6, 2007.
67.
The Japanese contrastive wa:
a mirror image of EVEN. The 33rd Annual Meeting of
the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA. February 9, 2007.
68.
Pragmatic aspects of implicit comparison. The 81st
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Anaheim, CA.
January 6, 2007. (handout)
69.
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.
70.
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.
71.
Pragmatic aspects of compared to. The First Midwest Workshop on Semantics. University
of Chicago, October 7, 2006.
72.
Scalarity and the rhetorical negative constructions. The Fourth International Conference on Construction
Grammar. University of Tokyo, Komaba, September 3, 2006.
73.
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.
74.
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.
75.
The cognitive patterns of construals in comparatives.
The 10th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of
Applied Linguistics. August 2-4, 2005. University of Edinburgh.
76.
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.
77.
‘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.
78.
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.
79.
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.
80.
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.
81.
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.
82.
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.
83.
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.
84.
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.
85.
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.
86.
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.
87.
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.
88.
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.
89.
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.
90.
The semantics and pragmatics of the scalar if
not constructions. The 7th Conference of
Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. Singapore. December
2002.
91.
Construction Grammar as a theory for second language learning. The 13 the World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA).
Singapore. December 16-21 2002. Poster.
92.
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.
93.
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.
Varieties of wh-exclamatives: A view from the negative wh-expressives in
Japanese. The 19th Modality Workshop.
Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library. September 6, 2024.
2.
Scale structures of numeral additive particles in Japanese: Their
interaction with eventuality and intensionality. ESSLLI 2024 workshop, “Incremental constructions within
and across languages: where degrees, eventualities and discourse dynamics
interact” (link). KU Leuven. July 30, 2024.
3.
The inferential
use of the Japanese NP-no koto-da(-kara):
Its dependent relationship with modal sentences. Comparative Syntax, Semantics, and
Language Acquisition #3. With Jun Sawada. Nanzan
University. July 6, 2024.
4.
Expressivity in Japanese: Cross-linguistic and language-internal
variations. The 18th Modality Workshop.
Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library. March 24, 2024.
5.
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.
6.
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.
7.
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.
8. 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.
9. Expressivity,
expectations, and relation to focus in the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’. Semantics
Workshop in Osaka. Osaka University. August 28, 2023.
10.
On the interpretation of the Japanese mirative
demonstrative ano. With Jun Sawada. Comparative Syntax, Semantics, and Language Acquisition
#1. Nanzan University. May 28, 2023.
11.
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.
12.
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.
13.
Sense-based
low-degree modifiers in Japanese and English. Oxford
Kobe Linguistics Symposium. Oxford
University. March 8, 2023.
14.
The expressivity, expectation,
and relationship with focus of the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’. Semantics Roundtable. University of Washington. November 18, 2022.
15.
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.
16.
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.
17.
「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.
18.
Sense-based minimizers in Japanese and English:
Speaker’s experience, evaluation, and the relation with emotions. ICU Linguistics Colloquium. April 10, 2021.
19.
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.
20.
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.
21.
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.
22.
The meaning and use of the Japanese mirative
expressions nante/towa. With Jun Sawada. The 16th Modality Workshop. Kansai
Gaidai University. August 28, 2019.
23.
「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.
24.
On the meaning and use of the Japanese mora-based
minimizers. The 15th Modality Workshop.
Kansai Gaidai University. March 5-6, 2019.
25.
On the Japanese NPI totemo: Between unconditionality
and intensification. The 14th
International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. August 23-24,
2018.
26.
Expressive NPIs: The case of the Japanese negative totemo. Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop at Mie University.
August 10, 2018.
27.
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.
28.
The mirative demonstrative in Japanese. The 13th International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. March 14-15, 2018.
29.
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.
30.
The Japanese
negative totemo
‘very’: Toward a new typology of negative polarity items. The
12th International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai
University. August 22, 2017.
31.
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.
32.
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.
33. Information structure of the Japanese modal demonstrative ano. With Jun Sawada. Semantics Workshop in Tokai. March 18, 2017.
34.
Modal demonstratives in Japanese. With Jun Sawada.
The 11th International Modality Workshop.
Kansai Gaidai University. March 15, 2017.
35.
Interpretations of embedded pragmatic scalar
modifiers. Ling Supper. Mie University. February
10, 2017.
36. The Japanese
negative totemo ‘very’:
Toward a new typology of negative polarity items. Semantics Workshop in Tokai. September 24,
2016.
37.
Interpretations of embedded pragmatic scalar
modifiers. The 10th International
Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. August 22, 2016.
38.
Modal demonstratives in Japanese. (with Jun
Sawada) Semantics Workshop in Tokai. Nagoya Gakuin. March 26, 2016.
39.
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.
40.
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.
41.
Pragmatic aspects
of scalar modifiers. Semantics Workshop in Tokai. October 4, 2015.
42.
Interpretations of embedded pragmatic scalar modifiers in Japanese:
projection via modal support. The 8th International Modality Workshop. Kansai Gaidai University. August 28, 2015.
43.
Varieties
of positive polarity minimizers in Japanese. Mie University Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Language
Acquisition. July 31, 2015.
44.
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.
45.
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)
46.
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.
47.
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.
48.
Modal
affective demonstratives in Japanese. With Jun Sawada. Semantics Workshop in Tokai. Nagoya Gakuin University. March 21,
2014.
49.
Comparison
and goal-orientedness. The Fifth International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for
Scientific Research. Kansai Gaidai
University. March 15, 2014.
50.
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.
51.
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.
52.
An
utterance situation-based comparison: the case of the Japanese comparative
adverb motto. Nanzan University Linguistics Colloquium. Center for Linguistics. December 22, 2012.
53.
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.
54.
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.
55.
The
role of scalarity in language use: the
semantics/pragmatics interface (presented in Japanese). PHILOLOGIA (Mie
daigaku eigo kenkyuukai). Mie University. December 22, 2010.
56.
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.
57.
On
the dual-use phenomenon of scalar modifiers. The 8th Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their
Linguistic Manifestation.
Kyoto University, July 12, 2010.
58.
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.
59.
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.
60.
Adverbial
polarity items in Japanese: relative and absolute. Student Mini-Conference.
University of Chicago, March 11, 2008.
61.
Japanese
scale-reversal adverbs and the logic of conventional implicature. The Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language. University of Chicago, April 18, 2008.
62.
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)