Downloadable Papers

Those which have been /will be published in copy-righted volumes are near- but non-final versions.

Japanese Embedded Questions are Nominal: Evidence from Quantificational Variability Effect. Manuscript.

Hatsuwakoui to Taishou-shudai 'Speech Acts and Contrastive Topics'. Wriiten in Japanese. In Hasegawa, Nobuko (ed.) Toogoron-no Shin-tenkai to Nihongo-kenkyuu: New Development in Syntax and Studies of Japanese, Kaitakusha: Tokyo.

A Scope Theory of Contrastive Topics. Appeared in Iberia 2. A shorter version of the paper with the same title appeared in Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages: Collection of the Papers Selected from the CIL 18 2282-2296.

Contrastive Topics Operate on Speech Acts. In Fery, Caroline, and Malte Zimmermann (eds) Information Structure from Theoretical, Typological and Experimental Perspectives Oxford: Oxford University Press, 115-138.

Why-questions, Presuppositions, and Intervention Effects. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 18: 253-271.

Intervention Effects in Focus. In Ishihara, Shin-ichiro et al (eds.) Working Papers of SFB 632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 9 2282-2296.

The Japanese Existential Possession: A Case Study of Pragmatic Disambiguation. Lingua 117: 881--902.