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【7月11日（土）開催】Kobe Linguistics Colloquium（Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai共催）のお知らせ

2026.06.29

7月11日（土）の13時30分から、以下の要領で、Kobe Linguistics Colloquium（Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai共催）を開催いたします。どなたでも参加可能ですので、ふるってご参加ください。（プログラムはこちら）

日時:2026年7月11日（土）13:30~17:00頃まで
場所:神戸大学人文学研究科
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●トーク１: 13:30-15:00

Muyi Yang (University of Osaka)
“An additivity-based analysis of permission: The case of Japanese”

While prioritizing modality (deontic, teleological, bouletic) is typically expressed in Indo-European languages by auxiliaries like must and may, recent work has started to pay attention to languages that encode such information via bi-clausal constructions (Kaufmann 2017, Chung 2019, a.o.). This paper investigates Japanese permission, which consists of an additive particle in the antecedent and an evaluative predicate in the consequent. I take Korean as a reference point, since permission in Korean is expressed by a construction formally similar to that in Japanese. I first show that an existing analysis of Korean permission by Chung (2019) does not extend to Japanese; in particular, it does not capture the implicature that arises from the construction. Based on careful reconsideration of satisfaction of additive presupposition, I propose an indexicality-based account and discuss a number of positive consequences of the analysis.

●トーク2:15:15-16:45

Toshiyuki Ogihara (University of Washington)
“Russell’s yacht example, tense, and comparatives”

This presentation revisits Russell’s famous sentence I thought your yacht was larger than it is. I argue, following Hans Kamp, that the classic ambiguity is probably not due to the scope of the definite description your yacht. Rather, the crucial issue is the interpretation of the comparison clause than it is. In particular, the present tense in that clause is naturally anchored to utterance time, which blocks the sarcastic contradictory reading Russell associated with the example. I will briefly discuss what this suggests about comparatives, sequence of tense, and the relation between comparison clauses and other subordinate structures, with some remarks on possible Japanese counterparts.

This event is supported by the Institute for the Promotion of Humanities Research, Kobe University.