Downloadable Papers 

 

The Event Semantic Root of Inalienable Possession. (with Changyong Sim) Manuscript  New!        

 

The Japanese Existential Possession: A Case Study of Pragmatic Disambiguation. To appear in Lingua: the (near-)final version.

 

Pragmatics of LF Intervention Effects: Japanese and Korean Wh-Interrogatives. To appear in Journal of Pragmatics: the (near-)final version.

 

A Step-by-step Guide to VP Ellipsis Resolution. To appear in K. Johnson (ed.) Topics in Ellipsis, Cambridge University Press: the (near-)final version.

 

Lowering and Mid-size Clauses. (with Johnson, K.) 1997. In Proceedings of Workshop on Reconstruction, SFB 340, Universtaet Tuebingen.



Downloadable Handouts

Grammar of Anti-Exhaustivity. Talk given at WPSI III, Indiana University, September 18th, 2007 (Slightly revised version of Stony Book Talk) New!

Contrastive Topics, Speech Acts, and (Anti-)Exhaustivity. Talk given at Stony Brook University, February 16th, 2007. 

Contrastive Topics as Speech Act Modifiers (Part 1 & Part 2). Lectures presented at Kyoto University, July 4th and 6th, 2006.

Plurality of Second-person Indexicals in Japanese (and Beyond). Talk given at ZAS-Berlin, June 26th, 2006.

LF Intervention: Old and New Challenges. Talk given at Current Issues in Semantics, Kyoto University, March 12th.