May, 2023

CURRICULUM VITAE
MAMORU SAITO

Department of English Language and Literature
Notre Dame Seishin University
2-16-9 Ifuku-cho, Kita-ku
Okayama City 700-8516, Japansaito@m.ndsu.ac.jp
saito@nanzan-u.ac.jp(86)252-7194

EDUCATION
1979.4

A.B. with Distinction in Philosophy, Stanford University

1980.6

A.M. in Linguistics, Stanford University

1985.2

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

EXPERIENCE(A) Full-Time Positions
1984.9-1986.5

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Instructor, Department of Linguistics (1984.9-1985.8)
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics (1985.9-1986.5)

1986.6-1988.7

University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Instructor, Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures

1988.9-1995.8

University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

1995.9-2022.3

Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan
Professor, Department of Japanese (1995.9-2000.3)
Professor, Department of Anthropology and Philosophy (2000.4-2017.3)
Professor, Department of Global Liberal Studies (2017.4-2022.3)
Chair, Graduate Program in Japanese Language Education (1997.4-2004.3)
Member, University Council (representing Foreign Languages) (1999.4-2000.3)
Director, Center for Linguistics (2003.4-2013.3, 2014.4-2022.3)
Dean, Graduate School of Humanities (2004.4-2008.3)
Member, University Council (representing Humanities) (2008.4-2012.3)
Dean, Faculty of Global Liberal Studies (2017.4-2021.3)

2022.4-Present

Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama City, Japan
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature (2022.4-Present)

2(B) Visiting Appointments
2004.9-Present

University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Distinguished Visitor, Department of Linguistics

2016.4-2021.3

National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan
Visiting Professor

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Center for Cognitive Science, MIT
Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin
Faculty of Arts and Letters and Graduate School, Tohoku University
Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (LSA Summer Institute)
Faculty of Letters and Graduate School, Kobe University
Graduate School (M.Ed. Program), University of Tsukuba
Faculty of Letters and Graduate School, Hokkaido University
Faculty of Humanities, Yamagata University
Faculty of Arts and Letters and Graduate School, Tohoku University
Faculty of Humanities and Graduate School, Niigata University
Faculty of Letters and Graduate School, Kyushu University
Department of Linguistics, Cornell University (LSA Summer Institute)
LSJ (Linguistic Society of Japan) Summer Institute
Faculty of Letters and Graduate School, Kyoto University
Faculty of Arts and Letters and Graduate School, Tohoku University
Faculty of Education and Graduate School, Yokohama National University
Department of Linguistics, Michigan State University (LSA Summer Institute)
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT (LSA Summer Institute)
Faculty of Humanities, Matsuyama University
Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University
School of Letter and Graduate School of Humanities, Kyushu University
Faculty of Letters and Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Okayama University
LSJ (Linguistic Society of Japan) Summer Institute
Faculty of Arts and Letters and Graduate School, Tohoku University

COURSES TAUGHT(A) Graduate: Introduction to Syntax and Semantics, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Semantics I,
Syntax I-III, Readings in Syntax, Seminar in Syntax, Syntax Workshop, The Structure ofJapanese.
(B) Undergraduate: Introduction to Linguistics, Introduction to Syntax and Semantics, Introduction to
Linguistic Theory, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Syntax, Phonology,
Semantics, Seminar in Linguistics, Introduction to Global Liberal Studies

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES(A) Research Projects with External Funding
Consultant, Japanese Lexicon Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (funded by Nippon
Electric Company, principal investigator: Kenneth Hale), 1985.
Director, Japanese Grammar Project, University of Southern California (funded by Sumitomo
Electric, U.S.A.), 1985-1986.
Consultant, Japanese Grammar Project, University of Southern California (funded by Sumitomo
Electric, U.S.A., directors: Osvaldo Jaeggli and Douglas Pulleyblank), 1986-1987.
Co-investigator, Research Project on Passive and Universal Grammar, University of Tsukuba(funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, principal investigator: Akio Kamio), 1987-1988.
Principal Investigator, Research Project on Quantifier Scope and the Comparative Syntax ofEnglish and Japanese, University of Tsukuba (funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education),
1987-1988.
Principal Investigator, Development of a Formal Grammar of Japanese, University of Connecticut(funded by DARPA (subcontract with BBN Systems and Technologies)), 1991-1993.
Co-investigator, Complex Predicates and Argument Structure, Nanzan University (funded by theJapanese Ministry of Education and Science, principal investigator: Yasuaki Abe), 1999-2002.
Principal Investigator, A Comparative Study of Scrambling, Nanzan University (funded by theJapanese Ministry of Education and Science), 2001-2004.
Co-investigator, Markedness in Universal Grammar: A Research Project in Theoretical Syntax andLanguage Acquisition, Nanzan University (funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science, principal investigator: Keiko Murasugi), 2005-2008.
Principal Investigator, On the Role of Formal/Semantic Features in the Formation andInterpretation of Chains, Nanzan University (funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science), 2005-2008.
Principal Investigator, Comparative Syntax on Movements and Noun Phrase Structure, Nanzan
University (funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), 2008-2012.
Principal Investigator, The Role of Selection in the Formation and Interpretation of Phrase Structure,
Nanzan University (funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), 2013-2016.
Principal Investigator, Labeling and Parametric Variation in the Syntax, Nanzan University (fundedby the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), 2016-2019.
Principal Investigator, Phase and Transfer Domains: Research on the Variation in the Locality of
NP-movement and Anaphor Binding, Nanzan University (funded by the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science), 2019-2024.

4(B) Work for Publishers, Conferences, and Granting Agencies
Editorial Work: Journal of Japanese Linguistics (Associate Editor, 1985-89)
Linguistic Inquiry (Japanese Area Editor, 1986-90)
Journal of East Asian Linguistics (Co-Editor, 1996-2021)
The Linguistic Review (Guest Editor, 37.1, 2020, Special Issue: Japanese Syntax in
Minimalist Perspective)
Member of Editorial Board:

Linguistic Inquiry (1985-86, 1996-Present)
Journal of Japanese Linguistics (1990-1997)
Journal of East Asian Linguistics (1992-1995, 2022-Present)
Journal of Linguistics (1999-2006)
Gengo Kenkyu (2001-2006, 2009-2012)
Studies in Chinese Linguistics (2011-Present)
Linguistic Variation (2012-Present)
Lingua (2014-2017)
Glossa (2017-Present)
Language and Linguistics (2014-Present)
Linguistics (2017-Present)

Prepublication Reviewer: Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Journal of(1979-2023)
East Asian Linguistics, Syntax, Language, Lingua, Journal of Linguistics,
Language Acquisition, The Linguistic Review, Journal of Japanese
Linguistics, Linguistics, Journal of Semantics, Language and Linguistics,
Language Research, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Gengo Kenkyu,
Gengo Kagaku Kenkyu, MIT Press, Reidel Publishing Company, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Springer, Oxford University Press, Blackwell
Publishers, John Benjamins, Walter de Gruyter, and others.
Abstract/Proposal Reviewer:(1983-2023)

North East Linguistic Society (NELS), West Coast Conference on
Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Generative Linguistics in the Old
World (GLOW), GLOW in Asia, Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS),
Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America (FLSM), Eastern States
Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL), Western Conference on
Linguistics (WECOL), Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference,
Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL), Workshop on
Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL), Student Conference in
Linguistics, Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP), Penn
Linguistic Colloquium (PLC), National Science Foundation (NSF),
European Science Foundation, Research Grants Council of Hong
Kong, Japanese Ministry of Education and Science, Japanese Society
for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan University Accreditation
Association (JUAA), and others.

(C) Memberships
Linguistic Society of Japan (1989-Present)

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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
Syntactic Theory, Comparative Syntax, and the Structure of Japanese.

PUBLICATIONS(A) Books[1] Issues in Japanese Linguistics (ed. with Takashi Imai), Foris Publications, Dordrecht, 374pp.
(1986)[2] Move a: Conditions on its Application and Output (with Howard Lasnik), MIT Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 222pp. (1992)[3] The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity (ed. with Joachim Sabel),de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, 382pp. (2005)[4] The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics (ed. with Shigeru Miyagawa), Oxford University
Press, New York, 576pp. (2008)[5] Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective (ed.), Oxford University Press, New York, 352pp.
(2014)(B) Articles[1] "Three Ways to Get Tough" (with Mario Montalbetti and Lisa Travis), Chicago Linguistic Society(CLS) 18, 348-366. (1982)[2] "Comments on the Papers on Generative Syntax," in Yukio Otsu, et al., eds., Studies in Generative
Grammar and Language Acquisition, International Christian University, Tokyo, 79-89. (1983)[3] "Tough Constructions and the q-criterion" (with Mario Montalbetti), in Shiro Hattori and
Kazuko Inoue, eds., Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Linguists, Proceedings
Publishing Committee, Tokyo, 467-472. (1983)[4] "Weak Crossover and Move-a in Japanese" (with Hajime Hoji), Natural Language & Linguistic
Theory 1, 245-259. (1983)[Reprinted in Natsuko Tsujimura, ed., Japanese Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics(Volume II: Syntax and Semantics), Routledge, London, 1-14. (2005)][5] "On Certain Tough Differences between Spanish and English" (with Mario Montalbetti), North
East Linguistic Society (NELS) 13, 191-198. (1983)

6[6] "Case and Government in Japanese," West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 2,
247-259. (1983)[7] "On the Nature of Proper Government" (with Howard Lasnik), Linguistic Inquiry 15, 235-289.
(1984)[Reprinted in Howard Lasnik, Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht, 198-262. (1990)][Reprinted also in Robert Freidin and Howard Lasnik, eds., Syntax: Critical Concepts in
Linguistics (Volume IV: Conditions on Derivations and Representations (1)), Routledge, London,
169-232. (2006)][8] "On the Definition of C-command and Government," North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 14,
402-417. (1984)[9] "On the Definition of C-command: Evidence from Japanese," in Nam-Kil Kim and H. Henry
Tiee, eds., Studies in East Asian Linguistics, University of Southern California, 138-154. (1985)[10] "Three Notes on Syntactic Movement in Japanese," in Takashi Imai and Mamoru Saito, eds.,
Issues in Japanese Linguistics, Foris Publications, Dordrecht, 301-350. (1986)[11] "Scrambling as Semantically Vacuous A'-movement," in Mark R. Baltin and Anthony S. Kroch,eds., Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure, University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
182-200. (1989)[12] "N'-Deletion in Japanese: A Preliminary Study" (with Keiko Murasugi), in Hajime Hoji, ed.,Japanese/Korean Linguistics 1, CSLI Publications, Stanford (distributed by University of
Chicago Press), 285-301. (1990)
An extended version "N'-Deletion in Japanese" (with Keiko Murasugi), UConn Working Papers
in Linguistics 3, 87-107. (1990)[13] "Extraposition and Parasitic Gaps," in Carol Georgopoulos and Roberta Ishihara, eds.,
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language: Essays in Honor of S.-Y. Kuroda, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht, 467-486. (1991)[14] "On the Subject of Infinitives" (with Howard Lasnik), Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 27,
324-343. (1991)[Reprinted in Howard Lasnik, Minimalist Analysis, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 7-24. (1999)][Reprinted also in Robert Freidin and Howard Lasnik, Syntax: Critical Concepts in Linguistics(Volume II: Transformations (1)), Routledge, London, 101-119. (2006)][15] "Long Distance Scrambling in Japanese," Journal of East Asian Linguistics 1, 69-118. (1992)[Reprinted in Natsuko Tsujimura, ed., Japanese Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics(Volume II: Syntax and Semantics), Routledge, London, 15-60. (2005)][16] "Quasi-Adjuncts as Sentential Arguments" (with Keiko Murasugi), Western Conference on
Linguistics (WECOL) 5, 251-264. (1993)

7[17] "Japanese Light Verb Constructions: A Case of LF q-Role Assignment" (with Hiroto Hoshi), in
A Formal Grammar of Japanese II (the second annual report of research project funded by
BBN Systems and Technologies), University of Connecticut, 45-62. (1993)[18] "Additional-Wh Effects and the Adjunction Site Theory," Journal of East Asian Linguistics 3,
195-240. (1994)[19] "Improper Adjunction," in Masatoshi Koizumi and Hiroyuki Ura, eds., Formal Approaches toJapanese Linguistics 1 (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #24), 263-293. (1994)[20] "Scrambling and the Functional Interpretation of Wh-Phrases," in Young-Sun Kim, et al., eds.,
Explorations in Generative Grammar: A Festschrift for Dong-Whee Yang, Hankuk Publishing
Company, Seoul, 571-588. (1994)[21] "Adjunction and Cyclicity" (with Keiko Murasugi), West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics (WCCFL) 13, 302-317. (1995)[22] "Barriers for A-adjunction," in Noriko Akatsuka, Shoichi Iwasaki, and Susan Stauss, eds.,
Japanese/Korean Linguistics 5, CSLI Publications, Stanford (distributed by Cambridge
University Press), 1-36. (1996)[23] "Order in Phrase Structure and Movement" (with Naoki Fukui), Linguistic Inquiry 29, 439-474.
(1998)[Reprinted in Ian Roberts, ed., Comparative Grammar: Critical Concepts in Linguistics (Volume
III: Head-Complement Order), Routledge, London, 431-472. (2007)][24] "Subject Predication within IP and DP" (with Keiko Murasugi), in Kyle Johnson and Ian Roberts,
eds., Beyond Principles and Parameters: Essays in Memory of Osvaldo Jaeggli, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 167-188. (1999)[25] "Control in Complex Predicates" (with Hiroto Hoshi), The 1998-1999 Report of the Special
Research Project for the Typological Investigation of Languages and Cultures of the East andWest (Volume II), University of Tsukuba, 15-45. (1999)[26] "Wh-Quantifier Interaction and the Interpretation of Wh-Phrases," in Enoch Iwamoto andMasatake Muraki, eds., In Search of the Human Mind: A Festschrift for Kazuko Inoue,
Kaitakusha, Tokyo, 588-621. (1999)[27] "The Japanese Light Verb Construction and the Minimalist Program" (with Hiroto Hoshi), in
Roger Martin, David Michaels, and Juan Uriagereka, eds., Step by Step: Essays on Minimalist
Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 261-295. (2000)[28] "Predicate Raising and Theta Relations," Proceedings of the 2000 Seoul International
Conference on Language and Computation, The Linguistic Society of Korea, Seoul, 85-113.
(2000)

8[29] "Movement and q-roles: A Case Study with Resultatives," in Yukio Otsu, ed., The Proceedings of
the Second Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Hituzi Syobo, Tokyo, 35-60. (2001)[30] "Toward the Reunification of Japanese Scramblings," in Maria Cuervo, Daniel Harbour, Ken
Hiraiwa, and Shinichiro Ishihara , eds., Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 3 (MITWorking Papers in Linguistics #41), 287-307. (2001)[31] "The ‘Illogicalness’ of Japanese: The difference between Japanese and English in Phrase
Structure Formation,” Southern Review: Studies in Foreign Language and Literature 16, Foreign
Language and Literature Society of Okinawa, 1-18. (2001)[32] "Two Notes on the Analysis of NP-movement in the Minimalist Program," Proceedings of Sophia
Linguistic Society 16, 72-98. (2002)[33] "A Derivational Approach to the Interpretation of Scrambling Chains," Lingua 113, 481-518.
(2003)[34] "On the Role of Selection in the Application of Merge," North East Linguistic Society (NELS)
33, 323-345. (2003)[35] "Japanese Scrambling in a Comparative Perspective," in David Adger, Cecil de Cat and George
Tsoulas, eds., Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and their Effects, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht, 143-163. (2004)[36] "Some Remarks on Superiority and Crossing," in Hang-Jin Yoon, ed., Generative Grammar ina Broader Perspective, Hankook Publishing Company, Seoul, 571-595. (2004)[37] "Ellipsis and Pronominal Reference in Japanese Clefts," Studies in Modern Grammar 36, 1-44.
(2004)[38] "Genitive Subjects in Japanese: Implications for the Theory of Null Objects," in Peri Bhaskararao
and K. V. Subbarao, eds., Non-nominative Subjects (Volume 2), John Benjamins Publishing
Company, Amsterdam, 103-118. (2004)[39] "Further Notes on the Interpretation of Scrambling Chains," in Joachim Sabel and Mamoru Saito,
eds., The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity, de Gruyter Mouton,
Berlin, 335-376. (2005)[40] "Expletive Replacement Reconsidered: Evidence from Expletive Verbs in Japanese," in Patrick
Brandt and Eric Fuss, eds., Form, Structure, and Grammar: A Festschrift Presented to Günther
Grewendorf on Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 255-273. (2006)[41] "Subjects of Complex Predicates: A Preliminary Study," Stony Brook Occasional Papers in
Linguistics 1, Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University, 172-188. (2006)[42] "Notes on East Asian Argument Ellipsis," Language Research 43, 203-227. (2007)9[43] "Argument Ellipsis, Radical Pro-Drop, and (the Absence of) Agreement," in Yoshiaki Kaneko,
et al., eds., The State of the Art in Linguistic Research: The Interface of Form and Meaning,
Kaitakusha, Tokyo, 154-172. (2008)[44] "N’-Ellipsis and the Structure of Noun Phrases in Chinese and Japanese" (with T.-H. Jonah Lin
and Keiko Murasugi), Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17, 247-271. (2008)[Reprinted in Mamoru Saito, ed., Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective, Oxford
University Press, New York, 1-24. (2014)][45] "On the Variety of Movements to the vP Edge" (with Kensuke Takita), in Yoko Yumoto and
Hideki Kishimoto, eds., Goi-no Imi-to Bunpoo [Semantics and Syntax of Words], Kuroshio
Shuppan, Tokyo, 307-329. (2009)[46] "Optional A-Scrambling," in Yukinori Takubo, et al., eds., Japanese/Korean Linguistics 16, CSLI
Publications, Stanford (distributed by Cambridge University Press), 44-63. (2009)[47] "Semantic and Discourse Interpretation of the Japanese Left Periphery," in Nomi Erteschik-Shirand Lisa Rochman, eds., The Sound Patterns of Syntax, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
140-173. (2010)[48] "On the Scope Properties of Nominative Phrases in Japanese," in Rajat Mohanty and Mythili
Menon, eds., Universals and Variation: Proceedings of GLOW in Asia VII 2009, EFL University
Press, Hyderabad, 313-333. (2010)[49] "A Comparative Syntax of Ellipsis in Japanese and Korean" (with Duk-Ho An), in Hiroki
Maezawa and Azusa Yokogoshi, eds., Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Altaic Formal
Linguistics (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #61), 287-307. (2010)[Reprinted in Mamoru Saito, ed., Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective, Oxford
University Press, New York, 117-138. (2014)][50] "On the Nature of the Complementizer To, " Journal of Japanese Linguistics 26 (Special Issue inMemory of S.-Y. Kuroda), 85-100. (2010)[51] "Two Notes on Feature Inheritance: A Parametric Variation in the Distribution of the EPP,"
Nanzan Linguistics 7, Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University, 43-61. (2011)[52] "Case Checking/Valuation in Japanese: Move, Agree or Merge," Nanzan Linguistics 8, Center for
Linguistics, Nanzan University, 109-127. (2012)[53] "Semantic and Discourse Effects of Scrambling," in Bjarke Frellesvig, Jieun Kiaer and Janick
Wrona, eds., Studies in Japanese and Korean Linguistics, Lincom GmbH, München, 146-172.
(2012)[54] "Sentence Types and the Japanese Right Periphery," in Günther Grewendorf and Thomas Ede
Zimmermann, eds., Discourse and Grammar: From Sentence Types to Lexical Categories,
de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, 147-175. (2012)10[55] "Deriving the Cartography of the Japanese Right Periphery: The Case of Sentence-Final
Particles" (with Tomoko Haraguchi), Iberia 4.2 (Special Issue in Honor of Andrew Radford),
104-123. (2012)[56] "Selection and Incorporation in Complex Predicate Formation," in Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson,and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, eds., Chinese Syntax in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, Oxford
University Press, New York, 251-269. (2014)[57] "Case and Labeling in a Language without f-feature Agreement," in Anna Cardinaletti,
Guglielmo Cinque, and Yoshio Endo, eds., On Peripheries: Exploring Clause Initial and Clause
Final Positions, Hituzi Syobo Publishing, Tokyo, 269-297. (2014)[58] "Notes on the Referential Transparency of Perception and Factive Verb Complements," Nanzan
Linguistics 10, Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University, 21-42. (2015)[59] "Cartography and Selection: Case Studies in Japanese," in Ur Shlonsky, ed., Beyond Functional
Sequence, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 255-274. (2015)[60] "Remnant Movement, Radical Reconstruction, and Binding Relations," in Günther Grewendorf,ed., Remnant Movement, de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, 221-256. (2015)[61]"(A) Case for Labeling: Labeling in Languages without f-feature Agreement," The Linguistic
Review 33, 129-175. (2016)[62] "Japanese Wh-Phrases as Operators with Unspecified Quantificational Force" (Featured Article),
Language and Linguistics 18.1, 1-25. (2017)[63]"A Note on Transfer Domains," Nanzan Linguistics 12, 61-69. (2017)[64]"Labeling and Argument Doubling in Japanese," Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 47,
383-405. (2017)[65]"Notes on the Locality of Anaphor Binding and A-Movement" (Invited Article), English
Linguistics 34, 1-33. (2017)[66]"Ellipsis," in Masayoshi Shibatani, Shigeru Miyagawa and Hisashi Noda, eds., Handbook ofJapanese Syntax, de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, 701-750. (2017)[67]"Transformations in the Quest for a Simpler, more Elegant Theory," in Norbert Hornstein,
Howard Lasnik, Pritty Patel-Grosz and Charles Yang, eds., Syntactic Structures after 60 Years:
The Impact of the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics, de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, 255-282.
(2018)[68]"Kase as a Weak Head," McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25.1 (Special Issue in Honour of
Lisa Travis), 382-391. (2018)

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"On the Incompatibility of Wh and Focus" (with Giuliano Bocci and Luigi Rizzi, Invited
Article), Gengo Kenkyu 154, 29-51. (2018)[70]"On the Causative Paradoxes: Derivations and Transfer Domains," Nanzan Linguistics 15, Center
for Linguistics, Nanzan University, 25-44. (2020)[71]"Two Notes on Copy Formation," Nanzan Linguistics 17, Center for Linguistics, Nanzan
University, 157-178. (2022)(C) Others and Publications in Japanese[1] Some Asymmetries in Japanese and their Theoretical Implications, Ph.D. Dissertation, distributedby MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. (1985)[2] "Seisei Toogoron no Hoohoo [On the Methodology of Generative Syntax]," Explorations inEnglish Linguistics 6, Tohoku University, 28-37. (1988)[3] "Government," in William Bright, ed., International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Volume 2),
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 55-57. (1992)[4] "Noam Chomsky's Impact on Linguistics in Japan" (with Naoki Fukui), in Carlos P. Otero, ed.,Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments (Volume 1: Linguistics), Routledge, London, 735-739.
(1994)[5] "The Minimalist Program: Its Background and Goals," Tsukuba Review of English Language
Teaching 18, University of Tsukuba, 1-11. (1997)[6] "Nihongo Kenkyuu no Taishoo to Hoohoo [On the Subject and Method of Research in Japanese
Grammar]," in Naoki Fukui, ed., Syntax and Semantics: Collected Works in Linguistics by S. I.
Harada, Taishukan, Tokyo, 804-808. (2000)[7] "Noam Chomsky," Gengo [Language] (Special Issue: 101 Linguists in the 20th Century),
Taishukan, Tokyo, 162-165. (2001)[8] "Feizu Riron to Rensa no Zyunkanteki Kaishaku [The Phase Theory and the Cyclic Interpretationof Chains]," Eigo Seinen [Rising Generation], Vol. CXLVIII, 274-278. (2002)[9] "Nihongo Umekomibun-no Imiteki-Danwateki Seishitu: Hikaku Toogoron-e-no Shootai [On the
Semantic and Discourse Properties of Embedded Sentences in Japanese: An Invitation toComparative Syntax]," in Masayuki Ikeuchi and Takuya Goro, eds., Seisei Gengo Kenkyuu-no
Ima [The Current Stage of Generative Grammatical Research], Hituzi Syobo, Tokyo, 221-251.
(2013)[10] "Nihongo-o Tokuchoozukeru Parametaa Saikoo [Reconsideration of the Parameters that DefineJapanese Grammar]," in Keiko Murasugi, ed., Linguistic Variations within the Confines ofLanguage Faculty: Studies in the Acquisition of Japanese and Parametric Syntax, Research12Report II, The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics and Nanzan University,
1-30. (2013)[11] "Fukugoo Dooshi-no Keisei to Sentaku Seigen [Formation of Complex Verbs and Selectional
Restrictions]," in Hideki Kishimoto and Yoko Yumoto, eds., Fukuzatsu Jutsugo Kenkyuu-no Ima
[The Current Stage of Research on Complex Predicates], Hituzi Syobo, Tokyo, 207-233. (2014)[12]

Nihongo Bunpoo Handobukku [Handbook of Japanese Grammar] (ed. with Keiko Murasugi,
Yoichi Miyamoto, and Kensuke Takita), Kaitakusha, Tokyo, 474pp. (2016)[13]"Nihongo-ni-okeru Hobun-no Bunpu-to Kaishaku [The Distribution and Interpretation ofComplement Clauses in Japanese," in [12], 38-70. (2016)[14]"Hiteiji-to Suuryooshi-no Sayooiki: Shibata Yoshiyuki-shi-no Kenkyuu [On the Scope ofNegation and Quantifiers: Research by Yoshiyuki Shibata" (with Kensuke Takita), in [12],408-443. (2016)[15]"Genri-gun-ni-yoru Kisoku-no Setsumei-kara Genri-gun-no Setsumei-e [From the Explanation ofRules by Principles to the Explanation of Principles]," Energeia 45, 13-37. (2020)[16]

Nihongo-Kenkyuu-kara Seiseibunpoo-riron-e [From Research on Japanese to the Generative
Grammatical Theory] (ed. with Daiko Takahashi, Kensuke Takita, Masahiko Takahashi and
Keiko Murasugi), Kaitakusha, Tokyo, 295pp. (2020)[17]"Jaku-shuyoobu-to Gengo-ruikeiron: Nihongo-no Bunpooteki-Tokushitsu-o Megutte [WeakHeads and Language Typology: On the Grammatical Characteristics of Japanese]," in [16], 2-18.
(2020)[18] "Phrase Structure and Movement in Japanese," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics(on-line), doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.286, 45 pp. in pdf. (2021)

INVITED PRESENTATIONS (Selective)
1994

Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 1 (Invited Speaker)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1995

The 5th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (Invited Speaker)
University of California, Los Angeles

1997

The Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute (Forum Lecture)
Cornell University

1998

GLOW in Asia I (Invited Speaker)
CIEFL, Hyderabad

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2000

Seoul International Conference on Language and Computation (Forum Lecture)
Korea University (Organized by the Linguistic Society of Korea)

2001

The 7th Annual Meeting of the Sociolinguistic Society of Japan (Invited Lecture)
Kokugakuin University
The 2nd Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (Invited Speaker)
Keio University
Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 3 (Invited Speaker)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Foreign Language and Literature Society of Okinawa(Special Lecture)
Okinawa University

2002

GLOW in Asia III (Invited Speaker)
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
North East Linguistic Society 33 (Invited Speaker)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2003

The 13th Japanese/Korean Linguistic Conference (Invited Speaker)
Michigan State University
GLOW in Asia IV (Invited Speaker)
Seoul National University
SMOG 2003 International Conference on Topics in Grammatical Analysis (Forum Lecture)
Kyungpook National University (Organized by the Modern Grammar Society of Korea)

2005

GLOW in Asia V (Invited Speaker)
Jawaharlal Nehru University

2006

The 16th Japanese/Korean Linguistic Conference (Invited Speaker)
Kyoto University

2007

International Conference on Linguistics in Korea (Invited Speaker)
Seoul National University (Organized by the Linguistic Society of Korea)
The 7th Conference of the Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies(Keynote Speaker)
University of Copenhagen
GLOW in Asia VI (Invited Speaker)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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2008

The 7th Pan-Asiatic International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics(Keynote Speaker)
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2009

GLOW in Asia VII (Invited Speaker)
EFL University, Hyderabad
The 6th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (Invited Speaker)
Nagoya University

2010

Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 5 (Invited Speaker)
University of California, Santa Cruz

2011

GLOW in Asia Workshop for Young Scholars (Invited Speaker)
Mie University

2012

Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6 (Invited Speaker)
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) and Humboldt Universität

2014

LILA ’14: Linguistics and Language Conference (Keynote Speaker)
DAKAM, Istanbul
Linguistics as Scientific Inquiry Lecture Series #1 (Speaker of a five-day lecture series)
Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University

2015

Cambridge Comparative Syntax 4: Rethinking Comparative Syntax (Invited Speaker)
University of Cambridge
The 40th Anniversary Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society (Invited Lecture)
Kobe University

2018

The Korean Generative Grammar Circle 2018 Winter Workshop (Invited Speaker)
Korea University

2019

The 100th Meeting of Japan German Grammar Workshop (Invited Lecture)
Gakushuin University
Theoretical East Asian Linguistics Workshop 12 (Keynote Speaker)
University of Macau

2021

The Study of Modern Grammar Society of Korea (SMOG): Workshop on Workspace,
MERGE, and Labeling (Invited Speaker, Online)
Dongguk University

2022

GLOW in Asia XIII, Workshop on Workspace, Merge and Labeling(Keynote Speaker, Online)
Chinese University of Hong Kong

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The 40th Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan (Special Lecture, Online)

EARLY BACKGROUND
Born in Kita-kyushu-shi, Japan on December 12, 1953. Did the first grade at Emerson School in
Berkeley, California. Graduated from Higashita Primary School and Musashi High School, both inTokyo, Japan. Studied at Rikkyo University in Tokyo and at Menlo College in Menlo Park, California.
Transferred to Stanford University in 1976.