Conference Presentation and Lectures

-Linguistics  -TEFL(Teaching English as a Foreign Language

2010. 9. 11. “Speech Styles and ‘The Speaker’ Subject”, The Workshop on "the Interface between Syntax and Pragmatics/Semantics", Kanda University of International Studies at KIFL.


2010. 8. 13. “The View from CP: Force and Person-Feature Agreement,” GLOW-in-Asia VIII 2010, Beijing Language and Culture University. (2010. 8. 12-15) 


2010. 3. 26. “Subject Agreement and Clause Types,” Paper presented at the Panel ‘Does Japanese Have Subjects?’ at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Philadelphia Marriot Downtown.


2009. 11. 24. “Licensing a Null Subject: Agreement in the CP Domain,” Invited Lecture for Topics in Syntax: Seminar in Topics in East Asian Linguistics at Harvard/MIT.


2008. 5. 24.“Agreement at the CP Level: Clause Types and ‘Person’ Restriction on the Subject,” The Fifth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL), SOAS, University of London. (May 23-25, 2008)


2007. 10. 21.“The Main Clause CP System and ‘Person’ Restrictions,” a paper presented at the Symposium on Syntactic Structure and Functional Categories, Tokyo International Forum.


2007. 10. 20.“Agreement and Modality: Licensing a Null Subject at CP.” a paper presented at the CLS Workshop on Theoretical Linguistics, Tokyo International Forum.


2007. 5. 19.“Wh-Movement in Japanese: Matrix Sluicing is different from Embedded Sluicing,” The Fourth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL), Harvard Type University. (May 18-20, 2007).


2005. 7. 22. The EPP Realization on Head and on Spec: Wh-questions and Mo‘also’-phrases. Poster presentation. Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics. Harvard University. (Juy 22-23).


2005. 7. 22.“The Feature Specification of the Passive - (r)are: How Possessor Passives Fit in” Comments on Shin Fukuda’s ‘Japanese Passives as Control/Raising/ECM,’ Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics. Harvard University. (Juy 22-23).


2005, 5. 18. The EPP Materialized either on Head or on Spec: Wh-questions and Mo‘also’-phrases in Japanese. Linguistics Colloquium, Indiana University.


2005. 1. 5. Subject Positions in Japanese: In view of the interpretation of Mo. Workshop on Japanese and Korean Linguistics, MIT.


2003. 5. 17. Unaccusative’ Transitives and Burzio’s Generalization: Reflexive Constructions in Japanese. The First Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL), MIT. (May 16-18, 2003)


2001. 3.20. Non-Agentive Causatives. Emonds Festschrift Festival. University of Durham (UK).


2000. 12. 9. Causatives: Agent, Causer, and Experiencer. COE International Symposium on Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Research. Kanda University of International Studies. Makuhari, Chiba, Japan.


1999. 8. 2. Resultatives and Language Variations: Result Phrases and VV Compounds. The Ninth Japanese/Korean Linguistics. The Ohio State University. (July 31 - August 2, 1999)


1998. 11. 19. The Syntax of Resultatives. COE International Workshop in Linguistics. Kanda University of International Studies. Makuhari, Chiba, Japan.


1989. 4.“Head Movement in Japanese” the workshop on Japanese Syntax: Issues Partaining to Movement, the Ohio State University.


1988. 5.“Comments on Mazuka and Lust’s Paper ‘On Parameter Setting and Parsing: Predictions for Acquisition” the Language Processing and Acquisition workshop, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.


1988. 3.“Quantifier Expression and the Scope of Negation: Japanese vs. English; NP vs. QP” the Workshop on ‘Japanese and LF’ the University of California, San Diego.


1988. 2.“Passives, Verb Rising, and the Affectedness Condition” the Seventh Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, the University of California, Irvine.


1987. 5.“Remarks on ‘Zero Pronominals’: In Defense of Hasegawa (1984/5)” the Japanese Syntax Workshop: Issues on Empty Categories, Connecticut College.


1986. 2.“Quantifier Expressions with Case-Makers and those without” the Korean and Japanese Linguistics Circle, the University of Southern California.


1985. 5.“More Arguments for the Pies-Piping Analysis of Wh-Questions in Japanese” the Workshop on Oriental Linguistics, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.


1985. 3. “On Zero Pronouns” : the Japanese Syntax Workshop, the University of California, San Diego.


1981. 1. “Lexicalist Grammar and Japanese Passives” the Arizona Conference on Japanese Linguistics, the University of Arizona.


1980. 11 ”On the Passive as a Lexical Process” the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, Cornell Type University.


1979. 4. “Casual Speech vs. Fast Speech,” the Fifteenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, the University of Chicago.


1979. 2. “Evidence against the Use of Word Boundaries in Tonological Rules: an Autosegmental Approach to the Fast Speech of the Tokyo Dialect of Japanese” the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, the University of California, Berkeley.



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