• "Seeking an Optimal Design of Search and Merge: its Consequences and Challenges," in The Linguistics Review 41(1), pp. 119-152, De Gruyter, 2024.  [with Nobu Goto]

 

  • "Deriving ATB from Box System," in SICOGG 25 (Proceedings of the 25th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar), pp. 22-39, Korean Generative Grammar Circle, 2023.  [with Nobu Goto]

 

  • "Deriving ATB from Box System," unpublished manuscript lingbuzz 007627 Toyo University and Meiji University, 2023.  [with Nobu Goto]

 

  •  "Syntactic and Prosodic Topicalization in Japanese," in Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 30, pp. 399-410, Published for the Stanford Linguistics Association by Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 2023.  [with Brian Agbayani]

 

  • "Where does Determinacy Apply?" in Proceedings of  Sophia University Linguistic Society, Sophia University, to appear.  [with Nobu Goto]

 

  • "On Multiple Sluicing in Japanese," in Proceedings of  the 38th Meeting of the West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 38), pp. 11-20, Cascadilla Press, 2021.  [with Brian Agbayani]

 

  • "Japanese Multiple Cleft Constructions," in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 15), pp. 1-14, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL, 2021.  [with Brian Agbayani]

 

  • "Multiple Nominative and Form Sequence," unpublished manuscript lingbuzz/005931, Toyo University and Meiji University, 2021.  [with Nobu Goto]

 

  • "Some Consequences of MERGE and Determinacy," unpublished manuscript lingbuzz/004108, Toyo University and Meiji University, 2020.  [with Nobu Goto]

 

  • "Determinacy Theory of Movement," in Proceedings of  the 50th Annual Meeting of the North West Linguistic Society (NELS 50) Volume Two, pp. 29-38, University of Massachusetts GLSA, 2020.  [with Nobu Goto]

 

  • "The Principle of Determinacy and Its Implications for MERGE" in Proceedings of the GLOW in Asia XII and SICOGG XXI, pp. 91-110, 2020. [with Nobu Goto]

 

  • ""Dual" Selectional Restrictions on Complementation," in Proceedings of the GLOW in Asia XII and SICOGG XXI, pp. 335-353, 2020.

 

  • "On Multiple Cleft Constructions in Japanese," in Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 55), University of Chicago, pp. 173-188, 2019.  [with Brian Agbayani]

 

  • "On Multiple Right Dislocation in Japanese," in Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 54), University of Chicago, ed. by Eszter Ronai, Laura Stigliano and Yenan Sun, pp. 195-210, Chicago Linguistic Society, 2019. 

 

  • "Japanese Multiple Right Dislocation," in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 90: Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 14), ed. by Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis, Justin Colley and Dmitry Privoznov, pp. 103-115, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL, 2019.

 

  •  Review of Norvin Richards (2016) "Contiguity Theory," in English Linguistics, Volume 36, Number 2, pp. 69-80, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, 2019

 

  • 書評「理論言語学史」英文学研究96号, pp. 161-166, 日本英文学会, 2019.

 

  • "Japanese "Gapless Relative Clauses": A Movement Approach," in Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 53), pp. 153-166, University of Chicago, 2018.

 

  •  "On so called "Gapless" Constructions in Japanese," in Journal of Japanese Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 2, pp. 173-194, De Gruyter, 2018

 

  •  "A Uniform Analysis of EMC/Transitive and Bridge Verb Constructions," The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Generative Grammar (Proceedings of the 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar), ed. by Yoen-Mee Park, pp. 109-119, The Korea Generative Grammar Circle, 2018. 

 

  • "A Movement Analysis of Japanese "Gapless" Relative Clauses," in  MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 88: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 13), ed. by Celeste Guillemot, Tomoyuki Yoshida, and Seunghun Lee, pp. 341-346, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL, 2018.

 

  •  "A Movement Analysis of Japanese "Gapless Topicalization"," in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 83: Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 12), ed. by Leyla Zidani-Eroglu, Matthew Ciscel, and Elena Doulidobrova, pp. 127-138, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL, 2017.

 

  • "Transfer and Self-Merge," in A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson, ed. by Nicholas LaCara, Keir Mouton, and Anne-Michelle Tessier, Linguistics Open Access Publications, pp. 159-167, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2017   

 

  • "Dual Selections and Relabeling in Japanese and Korean," in Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 22, ed. by Mikio Giriko, Kyoko Kanzaki, Naonori Nagaya, and Akiko Takemura, pp. 323-338, Published for the Stanford Linguistics Association by Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 2015. 

 

  •  "Transfer as Self Pair-Merge," in Bungei Kenkyuu (Studies in Literature) Volume 129: 5-33, School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University, 2016.

 

  • "Locality on Selection and Labeling," in The Journal of Humanities Volume 22: 1-17, Institute of Humanities, Meiji University, 2016. 

 

  • "Evidential Marker in the Nominal Right Periphery: The Japanese Hearsay Marker -Tte," in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 76: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 9), ed. by Andrew Joseph and Esra Predolac pp. 59-70, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL, 2015.

 

  • "Syntactic and Prosodic Scrambling in Japanese," in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Volume 33, Issue 1, pp. 47-77, Springer, 2015.  [With Brian Agbayani and Chris Golston]

 

  • "On Coordinated Multiple Wh-Questions" in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 73: Proceedings of the Seventh Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL 7), MITWPL, ed. by Shigeto Kawahara and Mika Igarashi, pp. 89-100, Cambridge MA: MITWPL, 2014.

 

  • "Coordinated Multiple Wh-Questions: A Crosslinguistic Perspective," Comparative Syntax (Proceedings of the 16th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar), ed. by Bun-Sik Park and Il-Jae Lee, pp. 141-156, Hankuk Publishing, 2014. 

 

  • "On Symmetric Aspects of Grammar (Review of Barbara Citko "Symmetry in Syntax")," in English Linguistics, Volume 31, Number 1, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, pp. 203-233, 2014.

 

  • "Complementizer Stacking, Dual Selections, and Relabeling" in Proceedings of the Sixth Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL 6), MITWPL, ed. by Kazuko Yatsushiro and Uli Sauerland, pp. 73-84, Cambridge MA: MITWPL, 2013.

 

  • 「特別記事：日本語文法学界の展望：展望２理論的研究」、『日本語文法』13巻1号, 2013.

 

  • Review of Seth Cable (2010) "The Grammar of Q: Q-particles, Wh-Movement, and Pied-Piping," in Studies in English Literature, English Number 54, pp. 155-165, The English Literary Society of Japan, 2013.

 

  • "The subject condition and its crosslinguistic variation," in Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2011, ed. by Christina Galeano, Emrah Gorgugu, Irina Presnyakova, pp. 407-418, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2012.

  

  • "Multiple scrambling in Japanese" in JELS, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, 2012.

 

  • "Long-distance Passives in Japanese," in Three Factors and Syntactic Theory (Proceedings of the 14th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar), ed. by Bun-Sik Park, pp. 129-149, Hankuk Publishing, 2012. 

 

  • "Multiple reflexives in Japanese," in Proceedings of the Western Conference on   Linguistics (WECOL) 2010, ed. by Dina Bailey and Victoria Teliga, pp. 105-117, California State University, Fresno, 2011.

 

  • "Prosodic scrambling," in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 64: Proceedings of the Fifth Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL 5), MITWPL, ed. by Matthew A. Tucker, Anie Thompson, Oliver Northrup, and Ryan Bennett, pp. 15-24, Cambridge MA: MITWPL, 2011.  [With Brian Abgayani and Chris Golston]

 

  • "On PF-LF mismatch in the Japanese light verb construction," in Language and Linguistics Volume 10, Number 4: 629-667, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2009d.

 

  • "Prosodic scrambling in Japanese," in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL 2); Simon Fraser Working Papers in Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 2009b.  [With Brian Agbayani and Chris Golston]

 

  • "Non-simultaneous transfer, case domain fusion and the light verb construction," in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 55: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 5), ed. by Reiko Vermeulen and Ryosuke Shibagaki, pp. 181-195, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL, 2009a.

 

  • "The light verb construction in Japanese and PF-LF mismatch in argument linking, " in Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguistics (CIL XVIII), pp. 1937-1953, The Linguistic Society of Korea, 2008c. 

 

  • "Discontinuous antecedent and radical reconstruction," in Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2007), ed. by Rebecca Colavin, Kathryn Cooke, Kathryn Davidson, Shin Fukuda, and Alex Del Guidice, pp. 86-101, University of California, San Diego, 2008b.

 

  • "On the nature and structure of principles and parameters (Review of Naoki Fukui (2006) "Theoretical Comparative Syntax")" in English Linguistics,Volume 25, Number 1: 151-174, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, 2008a.

 

  • 言語学名著再読④　チョムスキー『文法理論の諸相』, 月刊言語4月号, pp. 90-95, 大修館

 

  • "On the relaxation of intervention effects," in Wh-movement Moving on, ed. by Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Norbert Corver, pp. 217-241, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006b. 

 

  • "A nonuniform analysis of overt wh-movement," in Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 37, Number 1: 155-167, MIT Press, 2006a. 

 

  • "Do indirect questions constitute islands?" in The Journal of Humanities, Volume 11: 1-24, Institute of Humanities, Meiji University, 2005b.

 

  •  書評　Noam Chomsky "The Generative Enterprise Revisited," ノーム・チョムスキー著／福井直樹・辻子美保子訳 『生成文法の企て』, 英文学研究, pp. 235-240, 日本英文学会, 2005b

 

  • "Crosslinguistic variations with CSC effects and interpretations of multiple questions," in Ellipsis in Minimalism (Proceedings of the 7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar), pp. 183-202, Hankuk Publishing, 2005a. 

 

  • "Weak crossover, D-linking, and scrambling," in Generative Grammar in a Broader Perspective (Proceedings of the 4th GLOW in Asia), pp. 503-523, Hankuk Publishing, 2004c. 

 

  • "The phase impenetrability condition, the vacuous movement hypothesis, and that-teffects," in Lingua, Volume 114, Number 2: 183-215, Elsevier Science, 2004b. 

 

  • "Single output syntax and covert movement," in Bungei Kenkyuu (Studies in Literature), Volume 92: 73-111, School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University, 2004a.

 

  • "Weak crossover and scrambling in English," in English Linguistics, Volume 20, Number 2: 562-572, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, 2003b.

 

  • "Adjunct condition and empty operator movement," in Bungei Kenkyuu (Studies in Literature), Volume 91: 21-52, School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University, 2003a. 

 

  • "That-t effects and their crosslinguistic variations," in UCI Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 7, ed. by Maki Irie and Hajime Ono, pp. 131-162, University of California, Irvine, 2001. 

 

  • "The minimal link condition and the theory of movement," in English Linguistics, Volume 17, Number 2: 305-329, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, 2000.

  

  • "Cyclic spell-out and the that-t effects," in WCCFL 18 (the Proceedings of the Eighteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics), ed. by Sonya Bird, Andrew Carnie, Jason D. Haugen, and Peter Norquest, pp. 220-231, Cascadilla Press, 1999. 

 

  • "Islands and movement types," in UCI Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 4, ed. by Hidehito Hoshi, pp. 69-104, University of California, Irvine, 1998b. 

 

  • "Derivational selectional restriction and reconstruction,” in English Linguistics, Volume 15: 28-49, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, 1998a. 

  

  • "The ‘crossing’ constraint and the minimal link condition,” in UCI Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 3, ed. by Luther Chen-Sheng Liu and Kazue Takeda, pp. 69-98, University of California, Irvine, 1997.

 

  • "An optimality theoretic approach to ternary stress systems,” in UCI Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 2, Proceedings of the South Western Optimality Theory Workshop (SWOT II), ed. by Brian Agbayani and Naomi Harada, pp. 95-111, University of California, Irvine, 1996.

 

  • "On agreement-inducing vs. non-agreement-inducing NPIs,” in NELS 24 (Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society), ed. by Mercè Gonzàlez, pp. 1-15, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994b.  [With Hiroshi Aoyagi]

 

  • "On NPI licensing in Japanese,” in Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 4, ed. by Noriko Akatsuka, pp. 295-311, Published for the Stanford Linguistics Association by Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 1994a.  [With Hiroshi Aoyagi] 

 

  • "Notes on W-verb complements," in TLF 2 (Proceedings of the Tokyo Linguistics Forum 2nd Summer Conference), 59-74, Tokyo Linguistics Forum.

 

  • "Functional categories and principle of full interpretation," in TLF 1 (Proceedings of the 1st Summer Conference), 43-59, Tokyo Linguistics Forum.

 

  • "Inflectional assignment and preception verb complements," in Descriptive and Applies Linguistics, Vol. XX (Bulletin of the ICU Summer Institute in Linguistics), 81-93, International Christian University.