• "Toward Elaboration of Box System: ATB and Improper Movement," paper presented at at GLOW in Asia XIX (Generative Linguistics in the Old World 13), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2024.  [With Nobu Goto] 

 

• "A Box Analysis of ATB and its Implications," paper presented at the 41th Annual Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Tokyo University, 2023.  [With Nobu Goto] 

 

• "A Form Copy analysis of Left Branch Extraction," paper presented at Workshop: Factors in Natural Language Design, University of Gettingen, Germany, 2023.  [With Nobu Goto]

 

• "Deriving ATB from Box System," paper presented at SICOGG 25 (The 25th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar), Dongguk University, Korea, 2023.  [With Nobu Goto]

 

• "Multiple PP Topicalization in Japanese," paper presented at TEAL 13 (The 13th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics), National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, 2023.  [With Brian Agbayani]

 

• "Syntactic and Prosodic Topicalization in Japanese," poster presented at JK 30 (The 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference), Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2023.  [With Brian Agbayani]

 

• "Resource Resctriction-Obedient Search and Free Merge," paper presented at at GLOW in Asia XIII (Generative Linguistics in the Old World 13), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2022.  [With Nobu Goto]

 

• "Resource Resctriction-Obedient Search on Merge: A Unified Account of Movement Phenomena," paper presented at the First International Conference on Biolinguistics, Université du Québec á Trois-Riviére, 2022. [with Nobu Goto]

 

• "Dissociating Merge from Minimal Search and Associating Search to Resource Restriction," poster presented at ELSJ International Spring Forum 2022, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, 2022. [with Nobu Goto]

 

• "Resouce Restriction and Accessibility to MERGE," invited talk at  Sophia University Linguistic Society 2021, Sopia University, 2021.  [with Nobu Goto]

 

• "A Restriction on Ambiguous Rule Applications and its Consequences," invited talk at  WECOL (Western Conference on Linguistics) 2020, California State University, Fresno, 2020.

 

• "A Role of Case in ATB Interpretations," paper presented at a workshop of the 38th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Ibaragi University, 2020.  [With Nobu Goto]

 

• "Syntactic and Prosodic Sluicing in Japanese," paper presented at JK 28 (The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference), University of Central Lancashire, 2020.  [With Brian Agbayani]

 

• "Restricting Accessibility to MERGE - A Determinstic Theory of Movement -," invited talk at ELSJ 13th International Spring Forum 2020, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Kansai University, 2020.  

 

• "On Multiple Sluicing in Japanese," paper presented at WCCFL 38 (The 38th Meeting of the West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics), The University of British Columbia, 2020.  [With Brian Agbayani]

 

• "Multiple Cleft Constructions in Japanese and the Externalization Parameter Hypothesis" paper presented at HTLS 12 (The 12th Conference of Hokkaido Theoretical Linguistic Society), Asahikawa Medical College, 2020.

 

• "Determinacy Theory of Movement," paper presented at NELS 50 (The 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society), MIT, 2019.  [With Nobu Goto]

 

•  "Japanese Multiple Cleft Constructions," paper presented at WAFL 15 (the Fifteenth Workshop in Formal Altaic Linguistics), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 2019.  [With Brian Agbayani]

 

• "The Principle of Determinacy and its Implications for MERGE," paper presented at GLOW in Asia XII (Generative Linguistics in the Old World 12), Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, 2019.  [With Nobu Goto]

 

•  ""Dual" Selectional Requirements on Complementation," paper presented at GLOW in Asia XII (Generative Linguistics in the Old World 12), Workshop on Complementation, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, 2019.  

 

• "A Movement Analysis of Japanese "Gapless" Constructions," invited talk at TEAL-12 (The 12th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics), University of Macau, 2019.  

 

• "A Conspiracy of MERGE and Determinacy: A New Analysis of Movement Phenomena," paper presented at CGG 29 (The 29th Colloquium on Generative Grammar), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 2019.  [With Nobu Goto]

 

• "MERGE + Determinacy in Phase Theory: A Comparative Study of Movement Restrictions," paper presented at CamCoS 8 (Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference 8), University of Cambridge, 2019.  [With Nobu Goto]

 

• "On Multiple Cleft Constructions in Japanese," paper presented at CLS 55 (The 55th  Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society), University of Chicago, 2019.  [With Brian Agbayani]

 

• "Japanese Gapless Constructions - A Movement Approach -" paper presented at HTLS 11 (The 11th Conference of Hokkaido Theoretical Linguistic Society), Asahikawa Medical College, 2019.

 

• "Japanese Multiple Right-Dislocation," paper presented at WAFL 14 (the Fourteenth Workshop in Formal Altaic Linguistics), MIT, 2018.

 

• "A Uniform Analysis of the Transitive/ECM and Bridge Verb Constructions," paper presented at the 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG20), Konkun University, Korea, 2018.

 

• "On Multiple Right-Dislocation in Japanese," paper presented at CLS 54 (The 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society), University of Chicago, 2018.

 

• "Some Consequences of MERGE and Determinacy," paper presented at a workshop of ELSJ 11th International Spring Forum 2018, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Hokkaido University, 2018.  [With Nobu Goto] 

 

• "MERGE and Determinacy," paper presented at HTLS 10 (The 10th Conference of Hokkaido Theoretical Linguistic Society), Kitami Institute of Technology, 2018. [With Nobu Goto] 

 

• "Complementizer Stacking and "Dual Selections" in CP Peripheries," paper presented at SelectionFest 2017, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2017.  

 

• "Japanese "Gapless Relative Clauses": A Movement Approach," paper presented at CLS 53 (The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society), University of Chicago, 2017.

 

• "A Movement Analysis of Japanese Gapless Relative Clauses," invited talk at the 89th ELSJ (English Literary Society of Japan) Annual General Meeting, Shizuoka University, 2017.

 

• "A Movement Analysis of Japanese "Gapless Topicalization," paper presented at WAFL 12 (the Twelfth Workshop in Formal Altaic Linguistics), Central Connecticut State University, 2016.

 

• "Coordinated Multiple Wh-Questions: A Crosslinguistic Perspective," paper presented at 16th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG16), Dongguk University, Korea, 2014.

 

• "On Coordinated Multiple Wh-Questions," paper presented at FAJL 7 (the 7th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference), the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics and InternationalChristian University, Japan, 2014.

 

• "Evidential Marker in the Nominal Right Periphery: The Japanese Hearsay Marker Tte," paper presented at WAFL 9 (the Ninth Workshop in Formal Altaic Linguistics), Cornell University, 2013. 

 

• "Dual Selections and relabeling in Japanese and Korean," paper presented at JK 22 (The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference), the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan, 2012.

 

• "Complementizer stacking, dual selections, and relabeling" paper presented at FAJL 6 (the 6th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference), Humboldt University, Germany, 2012.

 

• "Long-distance passives in Japanese," paper presented at the 14th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG14), Dongguk University, Korea, 2012.

 

• "The subject condition and its crosslinguistic variation," paper presented at WECOL (Western Conference on Linguistics) 2011, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2011.

 

• "Long-distance passives and the major subject construction in Japanese," paper presented at The Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis?, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2011. 

 

• "Long-distance passives in Japanese, " paper presented at Miniworkshop on Japanese/Korean Syntax, MIT, 2011.

 

• "Multiple scrambling in Japanese," paper presented at ELSJ International Spring Forum 2011, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Shizuoka University, 2011.  [With Brian Agbayani and Chris Golston]

 

•  "The subject condition and remnant movement," invited talk at Department of Linguistics, Harvard University. 2010.

 

• "On multiple reflexives in Japanese," paper presented at WECOL (Western Conference on Linguistics) 2010, California State University, Fresno, 2010.

 

• "Prosodic scrambling," paper presented at the FAJL 5 (the 5th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference), University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010.  [With Brian Agbayani and Chris Golston]

 

• "Amelioration of the subject condition effects by remnant movement," paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China, 2009.

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• "A PF movement analysis of non-constituent scrambling," paper presented at WECOL (Western Conference on Linguistics) 2008, University of California, Davis, 2008.  [With Brian Agbayani and Chris Golston]

 

• "Prosodic scrambling in Japanese," paper presented at ICEAL 2 (the Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 2008.  [With Brian Agbayani and Chris Golston]

 

• "The light verb construction in Japanese and PF-LF mismatch in argument linking," paper presented at CIL XVIII (the 18th International Congress of Linguists), Korea University, Korea, 2008.

 

• "On PF-LF mismatch in the Japanese light verb construction," paper presented at the Past Meets the Present: A Dialogue Between Historical and Theoretical Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008. 

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• "Non-simultaneous transfer, case domain fusion and the light verb construction in Japanese," paper presented at WAFL 5 (the Fifth Workshop in Formal Altaic Linguistics), University of London, 2008. 

 

• "Discontinuous antecedents and radical reconstruction," paper presented at WECOL (Western Conference on Linguistics) 2007, University of California, San Diego, 2007.

 

• "On PF-LF mismatch phenomena," paper presented at OnLI (On Linguistic Interfaces), University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK, 2007. 

 

• "A minimalist approach to PF-LF mismatch phenomena," paper presented at ICLK-2007 (2007 International Conference on Linguistics in Korea), Seoul National University, Korea, 2007. 

 

• "Crosslinguistic variations with CSC effects and interpretations of multiple questions," paper presented at the 7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Konkuk University, Korea, 2005. 

 

• "On syntactic properties attributable to word order," invited talk given at the 22nd National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Dokkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2004. 

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• "Weak crossover and short distance scrambling in English," paper presented at the 4th GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) in Asia 2003, Seoul National University, Korea, 2003. 

 

• "On the proper treatment of relaxation of intervention effects," paper presented at Workshop on WH-movement, Leiden University and Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 2002. 

 

• "Cyclic spell-out and the that-t effects," paper presented at WCCFL 18 (the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1999. 

 

• "An asymmetry in the composition of phrase structure and its consequences," Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, 1997. 

 

• "An optimality theoretic approach to ternary stress systems," paper presented at SWOT II (the 2nd South Western Optimality Theory Workshop), University of California, Irvine, 1996. 

 

• "On agreement-inducing vs. non-agreement-inducing NPIs," paper presented atNELS 24 (the 24th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993.  [With Hiroshi Aoyagi]

 

• "On NPI licensing in Japanese," paper presented at JK4 (The 4th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference), University of California, Los Angles, 1993.  [With Hiroshi Aoyagi]