To appear

Biased polar questions in English and Japanese : To appear in Daniel Gutzmann and Hans-Martin Gaertner (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

An experimental investigation of presupposition projection in conditional sentences : with Jacopo Romoli and Jesse Snedeker. Proceedings of SALT 21.

The small reading of the scalar particle Mo in Japanese and negative polarity : To appear in The Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 7 (LENLS VII).

Operating on presuppositions (with Eric McCready) : To appear in Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 5. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

Person indexicals in Uyghur indexical shifting : To appear in Proceedings of Berkeley Linguistics Society 36.

On (non)-resultative V-V compounds in Chinese (with Natsumi Shibata and Jun Yashima) : To appear in Proceedings of GLOW in Asia VI.

Indexical shifting in Uyghur and the syntax of monsters (with Kirill Shklovsky) : To appear in Proceedings of NELS 40.

2011

Presupposition projection out of quantified sentences: Strengthening, local accommodation and inter-speaker variation : with Jacopo Romoli, Martin Hackl and Danny Fox. Proceedings of Amsterdam Colloquium 2011.

Three readings of most : with Hadas Kotek, Edwin Howard and Martin Hackl. To appear in Proceedings of SALT 21. pp.353-372.

Most meanings are superlative : with Hadas Kotek, Edwin Howard and Martin Hackl. In Jeff Runner (ed.), Syntax and Semantics 37: Experiments at the Interface. NY: Academic Press.

Conditional and non-conditional presuppositions : with Jacopo Romoli. The Proceedings of ESSLLI Student Session.

2010

Linking meaning to language: Linguistic universals and variation (with Joshua Hartshorne, Timothy J. O'Donnell, Miki Uruwashi and Jesse Snedeker) : In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2010). [ proceedings ]

Metalinguistic semantics for echo questions : Ms., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Syntax and Semantics of Indexical Shifting in Modern Uyghur : Ms., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [Generals Paper I]

Hidden nominal structures in Japanese clausal comparatives : Ms., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [Generals Paper II]

2009

Modeling doubly marked lags with exacerbation (with Hrayr Khanjian and Guillaume Thomas) : (2009) Ms., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Squib for 24.981 Topics in Computational Phonology and Morphology, Fall 2009, taught by Adam Albright)

De re/de dicto ambiguity and presupposition projection (with Jacopo Romoli) : (2009) In Arndt Riester and Torgrim Solstad (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13 (SuB 13). Stuttgart.

Invisible degree nominals in Japanese clausal comparatives : (2009) In Reiko Vermeulen and Ryosuke Shibagaki (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL 5). MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 58. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

2008

An E-type analysis of tokoro-relatives : (2008) In Cedric Boeckx and Suleyman Ulutas (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL 4). MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 56. pp. 279-290. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

Quantification into quotations: Evidence from Japanese wh-doublets : (2008) In Atle Grønn (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12 (SuB 12), pp.613-627. Oslo:ILOS.

Japanese wh-doublets and metalinguistic variables : (2008) In Sarah Clarke, Manami Hirayama, Kyumin Kim and Eugenia Suh (eds.), Proceedings of International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL). Toronto: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.

2007

A metalinguistic semantics for echo questions : (2007) In Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker and Floris Roelofsen (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium. pp.205-211. Amsterdam: ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam.

Metalinguistic Variables in Natural Language Semantics: Evidence from Japanese Wh-doublets and Echo Questions : (2007) MA thesis, University of Tokyo.

Upcoming talks

Language and number sense : with Hadas Kotek and Martin Hackl. Poster at CogSci 2012. Sapporo, Japan. August 1-4, 2012.

Many readings of most : with Hadas Kotek and Martin Hackl. Poster at Semanics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 22). University of Chicago. May18-20, 2012.

2012

Many readings of most : with Hadas Kotek and Martin Hackl. Chicago Linguistic Society 48 (CLS 48). University of Chicago. April 19-21, 2012. [ handout ]

Weak evens in Japanese. Workshop on Japanese Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. University of Chicago. March 2, 2012.

2011

Presupposition projection out of quantified sentences: strengthening, local accommodation and inter-speaker variation : with Jacopo Romoli, Danny Fox and Martin Hackl. Workshop on Formal Semantic Evidence in the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium. University of Amsterdam. December 19-21, 2011. [ abstract ] [ poster ]

Conditional and non-conditional presuppositions : with Jacopo Romoli. ESSLLI Student Session. Lubljana, Slovenia. August 1--12, 2011.

Most in subject position : with Hadas Kotek, Edwin Howard and Martin Hackl. The Proper Use of Quantification in Ordinary Language (PUQOL), Workshop at the 23rd ESSLLI 2011. Ljubljana, Slovenia. August 8--12, 2011. [ slides ]

An experimental investigation of presupposition projection in conditional sentences : with Jacopo Romoli and Jesse Snedeker. SALT 21. Rutgers University. May 20--22, 2011. [ abstract ] [ slides ]

Is most more than half? : with Hadas Kotek, Edwin Howard and Martin Hackl. Poster at SALT 21. Rutgers University. May 20-22, 2011.

Presupposition projection in quantificational sentences : with Jacopo Romoli, Danny Fox and Martin Hackl. Poster at Projection, Entailement, Presupposition and Assertion (PEPA 3). Rutgers University. May 19, 2011. [ poster ]

A superlative reading for most : with Hadas Kotek, Edwin Howard and Martin Hackl. WCCFL 29. University of Arizona. April 22-24, 2011.

A superlative reading for most : with Hadas Kotek, Edwin Howard and Martin Hackl. Chicago Linguistic Sociery 47. April 7-9, 2011. University of Chicago.

Priming effects with complex determiners : with Hadas Kotek, Micha Y. Breakstone and Martin Hackl. Poster at CUNY 2011: Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 24-26, 2011. Stanford University. [ poster ]

Effects of domain complextiy on verification procedures for most and more than half : with Hadas Kotek, Edwin Howard, Micha Y. Breakstone and Martin Hackl. Poster at CUNY 2011: Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 24-26, 2011. Stanford University. [ poster ]

2010

The Small Reading of the Scalar Particle Mo in Japanese and Negative Polarity : Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 7 (LENLS VII). November 18-19, 2010. Campus Innovation Center, Tokyo. [ handout ]

Linking meaning to language: linguistic universals and variation : with Joshua Hartshorne, Tim O'Donnell, Jesse Snedeker and Miki Uruwashi. CogSci2010 (The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society). August 11-14, Portland, OR.

Wh-ka indefinites in Japanese and the semantics of indeterminate pronouns : Workshop on Epistemic Indefinites. June 10-12, University of Göttingen, Germany.

Modeling doubly marked lags with excerbation : with Hrayr Khanjian and Guillaume Thomas. The 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting (18mfm). May 20-22, 2010. Manchester, UK.

Operating on presuppositions: Sekkaku revisited : with Eric McCready. The 5th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL 5). May 7-9, 2010. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.

No Case licensing: Evidence from Uyghur : with Kirill Shklovsky. The 33rd Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW XXXIII). April 14-16, 2010. Univeristy of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.

No Case licensing: Evidence from Uyghur : with Kirill Shklovsky. The 34th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 34). March 19-21, 2010. University of Pennsylvania, PA.

Person restrictions in Uyghur indexical shifting. The 36th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 36). February 6-7, 2010. University of California, Berkeley. [handout ]

2009

Indexical shifting in Uyghur : with Kirill Shklovsky. The 40th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 40). Novermber 13-15, 2009. MIT, Cambridge, MA. [handout]

Biased polar questions and question particles in Japanese : The workshop on expressives and other kinds of non-truth-conditional meaning. 31st DGfS annual conference. March 4-6, 2009. University of Osnabrück, Germany.

The indefiniteness effect in Mandarin and Vietnamese : with Tue Trinh. Languages of Southeast Asia. UCLA-UC Berkeley Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies. January 30-February 1, 2009. University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

2008

De re/de dicto ambiguity and presupposition projection : with Jacopo Romoli. Sinn und Bedeutung 13 (SuB 13). September 30-October 2, 2008. Universität Stuttgart, Germany.

Comparative Deletion in Japanese : 5th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL 5). May 23-25, 2008. SOAS, University of London, UK.

2007

On apparent DOR violations in Chinese and Japanese resultative compounds : with Natsumi Shibata and Jun Yashima. The Sixth GLOW in Asia Conference (GLOW in Asia VI). December 27-29, 2007. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Japanese wh-doublets and quantification into quotations : International Conference on Quotation and Meaning (ICQM). October 19-21, 2007. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

Quantification into quotations: Evidence from Japanese wh-doublets : Sinn und Bedeutung 12 (SuB 12). September 20-22, 2007. University of Oslo, Norway.

An E-type analysis of tokoro-relatives : 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL 4). May 18-20, 2007. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2006

Japanese Wh-doublets as Metalinguistic Variables : International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL). November 10-12, 2006. University of Toronto, Canada.

2007-present: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D. program in linguistics

2005-2007: University of Tokyo; MA in Linguistics (March 2007)

2001-2005: International Christian University; BA in Liberal Arts (March 2005)

Summer 2011: 23rd ESSLLI at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Summer 2009: 21st ESSLLI at Université Bordeaux, France.

Summer 2007: 19th ESSLLI at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Summer 2005: LSA Summer Institute at MIT/Harvard; Participant