Yusuke Kubota's Home Page

Graduate student
Department of Linguistics
The Ohio State University

Contact information

Email:

k***** at ling dot ohio-state dot edu
(replace ***** and 'at' and 'dot' in an obvious way)

Office:

209 Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue

Mailing Address:

The Ohio State University, Department of Linguistics
225 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1298

Research

Research interests: Syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, categorial grammar

CV (the text file of the CV that I actually edit and the perl script that converts it to .tex)

Papers and presentations

Recent projects

Syntax

• Structured phonology: A theory of syntactic-phonology interface in multi-modal categorial grammar (dissertation in progress and ongoing collaboration with Carl Pollard).

  • A short paper briefly describing the theory (in Proceedings of MoL11).
  • Handout for a talk on Japanese nonconstituent coordination at SWAMP (aka Midwest Workshop on Semantics).

• A pragmatically-based analysis of the Coordinate Structure Constraint in Japanese and Korean (with Jungmee Lee; paper)

Semantics

• Semantics of degrees and gradability

  • The meaning of the degree expression kanari in Japanese (paper to appear in CLS 45)
  • Phrasal comparatives and measure phrases in Japanese (handout for a talk on comparatives at CSSP 2009)

• Treatment of implicit variables in Variable-Free Semantics (with Wataru Uegaki; paper to appear in SALT 19)

• Continuation-based semantics for conventional implicatures (with Wataru Uegaki; paper to appear in SALT 19)

• Cross-linguistic semantics of the temporal interpretation of embedded clauses (with Jungmee Lee, Anastasia Smirnova and Judith Tonhauser; paper in SuB13; paper to appear in Chronos 8)

Some (potentially) useful stuff

If you do linguistics and/or if you write papers in LaTeX, you might find some of the following useful.

• Lazy LaTeXing with RDx

  (Try this if you think LaTeX source files are too complicated to edit.)

• Doing Linguistics in LaTeX

• Some good sources of BibTeX files

  • Rich Thomason's BibTeX Bibliographies (fairly large and useful)

  • Stefan Müller's HPSG Bibliography

• Martin J. Osborne's text2bib

  (Converts bibliographic information in plain text to the BibTeX format.)

• Emacs

  (I'm heavily addicted to emacs. I can't edit any text without it.)

• Markdown

  (I used to convert LaTeX files to html to edit this page, but this is much simpler and better.)

Last Modified: November 18 2009