Yasutada Sudo

On going manuscripts

Quantification into quotations.

Biased polar questions and question particles in Japanese.

Shifted indexicals in Uyghur (tentative title) : with Kirill Shklovsky. To appear in Proceedings of NELS40.

2009

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. 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. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

An E-type analysis of tokoro-relatives : (2009) In Cedric Boeckx and Suleyman Ulutas (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

2008

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.

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.

2009

Shifted indexicals in Uyghur : with Kirill Shklovsky. The 40th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS40). 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 Berkley Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies. January 30-February 1, 2009. University of California, Los Angeles.

2008

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.

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 (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.

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

Summer 2009: 21 ESSLLI at Université Bordeaux, France.

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)