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1st Year Graduate Student
Formal Semantics/Pragmatics, Syntax
Hidden nominals in Japanese clausal comparatives : (to appear) In Reiko Vermeulen and Ryosuke Shibagaki (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
An E-type analysis of tokoro-relatives : (to appear) In Cedric Boeckx and Suleyman Ulutas (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
Quantification into quotations: Evidence from Japanese wh-doublets : (2008) In Atle Grønn (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 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.
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.
De re/de dicto ambiguity and presupposition projection : (with Jacopo Romoli) Sinn und Bedeutung 13 (SuB13). September 30-October 2, 2008. Universität Stuttgart, Germany.
Comparative Deletion in Japanese : 5th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL5). May 23-25, 2008. SOAS, University of London, UK.
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.
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 (SuB12). September 20-22, 2007. University of Oslo, Norway.
An E-type analysis of tokoro-relatives : 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL4). May 18-20, 2007. Harvard University.
Japanese Wh-doublets as Metalinguistic Variables : International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL). November 10-12, 2006. University of Toronto, Canada.
2007-: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D. program in linguistics.
Summer 2007: 19th ESSLLI at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
2005-2007: University of Tokyo; MA in Linguistics (March 2007)
Summer 2005: LSA Summer Institute at MIT/Harvard; Participant
2001-2005: International Christian University; BA in Liberal Arts (March 2005)
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email: ysudo@mit.edu
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