Books:

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2022. Functional Parametrization Hypothesis in the Minimalist Program: Case Studies from the Perspective of Comparative Syntax of Japanese and English. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. (ISBN: 9784758923781) [website] [amazon]

Journal Articles:

1. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Tomoya Tanabe. to appear. Remarks on “Pair-MERGE as Set-MERGE”: Internal Pair-MERGE of heads reconsidered. Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 70(4), xx–xx. [website] [pdf] (corresponding author)

2. Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2024. Verb-echo answers in Japanese do not call for syntactic head movement: Arguments for a pragmatic account. Studia Linguistica 78(3), 518–554. [website] [pdf] (corresponding author)

3. Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2024. Arguments against head-stranding ellipsis in Japanese: A reply to Funakoshi (2016). Syntax, 1–23. [website] [pdf] (corresponding author)

4. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2023. On the verb-raising analysis of non-constituent coordination in Japanese. The Linguistic Review 40(3), 405–418. [website] [pdf]

5. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2022. Argument ellipsis and NP-ni in indirect passives. English Linguistics 38(2), 242–249. [website] [pdf]

6. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2021. The uniform hypothesis of ni-passives in Japanese and movement into θ-position. English Linguistics 38(1), 74–90. [website] [pdf]

7. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. Is it syntactic or pragmatic? A hybrid analysis for LF-intervention effects. Language and Linguistics 18(2), 228–253. [website] [pdf]

8. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. Eliminating PF-reanalysis. English Linguistics 33(1), 100–107. [website] [pdf]

9. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. Japanese V-te V compounds as post-syntactic compounds. Studies in Generative Grammar 26(2), 223–238. [website] [pdf]

Conference Proceedings:

1. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. to appear. Replicability of adjunct-inclusive interpretation: Implications for Adjunct Ellipsis in Japanese. In xx (eds.), Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society Vol.60, xx–xx. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. [pdf]

2. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Tomoya Tanabe. 2025. Arguments against reanalyses of Pair-MERGE as Set-MERGE. In Nikolas Webster, Yağmur Kiper, Richard Wang, and Sichen Larry Lyu (eds.), Proceedings of the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 316–322. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [website] [pdf]

3. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2025. Adjunct Ellipsis in English. JELS 42, 100–109. [pdf]

4. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2025. Phi-agreement and the Raising-to-Object constructions in English and Japanese. JELS 42, 253–261. [pdf]

5. Kobayashi, Ryoicihro, Tomoya Tanabe and Daiki Matsumoto. 2024. Deriving Verb-Echo Answers in Japanese by referencing (immediate) QUD sets. In Xiangyu Li, Zetao Xu, Yuqiao Du, Zhuo Chen, Chenghao Hu, Zhongyang Yu and Victor Junnan Pan (eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV), 170–183. Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. [pdf]

6. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Tomoya Tanabe and Yosuke Sato. 2023. Focusing on the diagnostic validity of the adjunct test in Japanese: Where prosody meets information structure. In Tae Sik Kim (ed.), Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 25, 60–73. Korea Generative Grammar Circle. [pdf]

7. Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2023. Remarks on verb echo answers and head movement in Japanese. In Lucas Fagen, Sam Gray, Quain, Stephanie Reyes and Irene Tang (eds.), Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society Vol.58, 467–478. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. [pdf]

8. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2023. Verbs stay in-situ in Japanese: A case study of VP-fronting. In Sara Williamson, Adeola Aminat Babayode-Lawal, Laurens Bosman, Nicole Chan, Sylvia Cho, Ivan Fong and Kaye Holubowsky (eds.), Proceedings of Japanese/Korean Linguistics 30, 463–470. Stanford: CSLI Publications. [pdf]

9. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2021. Labeling the unlabelable in the CP domain. In Sho Akamine (ed.), Proceedings of the 32nd Western Conference on Linguistics Volume 26 (WECOL 2020), 1–10. Fresno: California State University. [pdf]

10. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2020. A case against the verb-stranding VP-ellipsis analysis in Japanese. In Tae Sik Kim and Sae-Youn Cho (eds.), Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 22, 298–304. Korea Generative Grammar Circle. [pdf]

11. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2019. Notes on coordination, copulas, and from-to constructions. In Sae-Youn Cho (ed.), Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XII, 145–159. Korean Generative Grammar Circle. [pdf]

12. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2019. The syntax of path/range PP constructions in Japanese. In Shin Fukuda, Mary Shin Kim and Mee-Jeong Park (eds.), Online Proceedings of Japanese/Korean Linguistics 25, 1–13. Stanford: CSLI Publications. [pdf]

13. Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2018. Alternating conj/disjunctions: The case of Japanese -toka & -tari. In Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22(2) (ZAS Papers in Linguistics 61), 293–307. Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin. [pdf]

14. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2018. Parametrizing the timing of Transfer in Japanese and English and its consequences.  In Céleste Guillemot, Tomoyuki Yoshida and Seunghun J. Lee (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Edition of the Workshop of Altaic Formal Linguistics, 371–379. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf]

15. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2018. On two types of from-to PPs in English and the parallelism in syntax. JELS 35, 76–82. [pdf]

16. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2018. Eliminating the discourse-based parameter. JELS 35, 252–258. [pdf]

17. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Ryan Walter Smith. 2018. Conjunctive or disjunctive? On the syntax/semantics of -toka and -tari in Japanese. In Kate Bellamy, Anastasiia Ionova and George Saad (eds.), Proceedings of the ConSOLE XXV, 91–108. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. [pdf]

18. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2018. Feature inheritance and the syntax of lexical VV compounds. In Kate Bellamy, Anastasiia Ionova and George Saad (eds.), Proceedings of the ConSOLE XXV, 250–267. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. [pdf]

19. Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2017. Focusing on coordination: The case of Japanese -toka and -tari. In Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (ed.), Proceedings of the GLOW in Asia XI, Vol. 2, 205–215. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf]

20. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. NCIs at the syntax-prosody interface and the position of NEG in Japanese/Korean coordination. In Leyla Zidani-Eroğlu, Matthew Ciscel and Elena Koulidobrova (eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Edition of the Workshop of Altaic Formal Linguistics, 189–196. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf]

21. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Yusuke Yoda. 2017. NEG in VP-coordination and suspended affixation in Japanese. In Leyla Zidani-Eroğlu, Matthew Ciscel and Elena Koulidobrova (eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Edition of the Workshop of Altaic Formal Linguistics, 177–187. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf]

22. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. On some symmetric constituents in Japanese. In Yim Changguk (ed.), Proceedings of the 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 451–463. Korean Generative Grammar Circle. [pdf]

23. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Ryan Walter Smith. 2017. A case of a semantic restriction on coordination. In Yim Changguk (ed.), Proceedings of the 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 451–463. Korean Generative Grammar Circle. [pdf]

24. Yoda, Yusuke and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2017. I didn't drink and drove a Car: NEG expresses eccentric Triplets. In Kajsa Djärv and Amy Goodwin Davies (eds.), Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 23(1), 311–318. Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. [pdf]

25. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. On the position of NEG in coordination: NCIs in Japanese at the syntax-prosody interface. In Ayaka Sugawara, Shintaro Hayashi and Satoshi Ito (eds.), Proceedings of the Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 8, 63–74. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf]

26. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Taihei Asada. 2016. Negative concord items in coordinate structure. In Kate Bellamy, Anastasiia Ionova and George Saad (eds.), Proceedings of the ConSOLE XXIV, 254–262. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. [pdf]

27. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. "Project Both" within a nominal adjective. In Tae Sik Kim and Seungwan Ha (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 246–260. Korean Generative Grammar Circle. [pdf]

28. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. Against V-to-T-to-C movement in Japanese and Korean non-constituent coordination. In Patrick Farrell (ed.), Proceedings of the 90th Annual Meeting of the LSA, 8:1–14. The Linguistic Society of America. [pdf]

29. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. The repetitive coordinator-ka in and the syntax of alternative questions in Japanese. JELS 33, 242–248. [pdf]

30. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. The repetitive coordinator-ka in Japanese and either in English as scope indicators in disjunction. In Sunghye Cho (ed.), Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 22(1), 187–196. Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. [pdf]

31. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. Interface conditions on head movement: Case studies on NEG-raising and coordination in Japanese. In Tae Sik Kim and Seungwan Ha (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Generative Grammar, 255–269. Korean Generative Grammar Circle. [pdf]

32. Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. The repetitive coordinator-to in Japanese as a postposition. In Tatsuhiro Matsuda, Chuan Lian Hua and Yuriko Yokoe (eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Sophia University Linguistics Society, 1–19. Sophia University Linguistics Society. [pdf]

Misc:

Narita, Hiroki, Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Takeuchi, Jiei and Masayuki Komachi. 2024. Topics in the anaphoric expression zibun in Japanese: disentangling issues and prospects with GrammarXiv. Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies 55, 89–113. [website] [pdf]

Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2022. Null adjuncts are not a hallmark of head-stranding ellipsis in Japanese. Paper presented at the 16th edition of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics. [pdf]

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. Language learning strategies of Japanese students joining "English Speaking Society." Beyond Words 4(2), 113–125. [website] [refereed]

Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. Against V-to-T-to-C movement in Japanese: A case study of non-constituent coordination. Paper presented at the 11th Edition of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics. [pdf]