Presentations
Upcoming Presentations:
Mizutani, Kenta and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2024. Head movement does not necessarily affect scopal relations: Arguments from Syntax and Semantics. (Workshop: Ellipsis and head movement at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics crossroad: Japanese and beyond.) The 169th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ), International Christian University, June 30th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
小林亮一朗. 2024. 空付加詞の解釈とスルーシング:Adjunct Ellipsis の可能性について.(ワークショップ:GrammarXivを活用した新しい研究発表のあり方を探る:付加詞をめぐる諸問題を例に) 口頭発表, 関西言語学会 第49回大会, 6月8日, 関西学院大学. [website] (査読有り)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2024. Phi-agreement and the Raising-to-Object constructions in English and Japanese. The 17th English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) International Spring Forum, Kyoto University, May 25th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Selected Presentations:
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2024. Replicability of adjunct-inclusive interpretation: implications for Adjunct Ellipsis in Japanese. Chicago Linguistic Society 60 (CLS 60), the University of Chicago, April 27th. [website] [pdf] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Daiki Matsumoto and Tomoya Tanabe. 2024. Deriving Verb-Echo Answers in Japanese by referencing (immediate) QUD sets. GLOW in Asia XIV, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 7th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Tomoya Tanabe and Yosuke Sato. 2024. Focusing on the diagnostic validity of the adjunct test in Japanese Ellipsis: where prosody meets information structure. The 15th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Theory, Typology and History (Phex15), Tokyo Woman's Christian University, February 24th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
小林亮一朗. 2024. 日本語におけるAdjunct Ellipsisについて. The 20th Okayama Linguistics Forum, January 25th. [website] [handout] (invited)
Hirayama, Yuto, Shun Ihara and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2023. On the peculiar distribution of the Japanese epistemic adverb masaka. Sinn und Bedeutung 28 (SuB28), Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), September 8th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Tomoya Tanabe and Yosuke Sato. 2023. Focusing on the diagnostic validity of the adjunct test in Japanese ellipsis: Where prosody meets information structure. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 25 (SICOGG25), Dongguk University, August 15th. [website] [slides] (refereed) (Talk)
小林亮一朗. 2023. 日本語における動詞主要部移動分析の批判的検証. 招待発表, 上智大学言語学会 第37回大会, 7月15日, 上智大学 (Online). [website] (invited)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Tomoya Tanabe. 2023. Arguments against reanalyses of Pair-MERGE as Set-MERGE. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 41 (WCCFL 41), University of California, Santa Cruz, May 5th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2023. Verbs stay in-situ in Japanese: A case study of VP-fronting. Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 30 (JK 30), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, March 12th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2022. Null adjuncts are not a hallmark of head-stranding ellipsis in Japanese. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 16 (WAFL 16), Online, October 2nd. [slides] [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2022. Remarks on verb echo answers and head movement in Japanese. Chicago Linguistic Society 58 (CLS 58), Online, April 24th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2022. Remarks on syntactic head movement in Japanese: A reply to Sato and Maeda (2021). Penn Linguistics Conference 46 (PLC 46), Online, March 19th. [handout] [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2020. Labeling the unlabelable in the CP domain. Western Conference on Linguistics 2020 (WECOL 2020), Online, November 14th. (Online) [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2019. Notes on coordination, copula, and from-to constructions. GLOW in Asia XII and SICOGG XXI, Dongguk University, August 9th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2019. Verb mismatches in Japanese verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis. Penn Linguistics Conference 43 (PLC 43), the University of Pennsylvania, March 23rd. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2019. A case against the verb-stranding VP-ellipsis analysis in Japanese. Penn Linguistics Conference 43 (PLC 43), University of Pennsylvania, March 23rd. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
小林亮一朗. 2017. 二種類のfrom-to表現と統辞的対称性について. 口頭発表, 日本英語学会 第35回大会, 11月19日, 東北大学. [website] (査読有り)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. The syntax of path/range PP constructions in Japanese. Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 25 (JK25), the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, October 13th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2017. Alternating conj/disjunctions: The case of Japanese -toka and -tari. Sinn und Bedeutung 22 (SuB22), Potsdam/Berlin, September 9th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. On some symmetric constituents in Japanese. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 19 (SICOGG19), Seoul National University, August 11th. [website] (refereed) (Poster (Alternate))
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Ryan Walter Smith. 2017. A case of semantics restriction on coordination. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 19 (SICOGG19), Seoul National University, August 10. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Ryan Walter Smith. 2017. Non-exhaustive coordination in Japanese: A domain-widening account. Semantics of African, Asian, and Austronesian Languages 4 (TripleA 4), University of Gothenburg, July 10th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2017. On the syntax/semantics of -tari and -toka in Japanese. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 13 (WAFL 13), International Christian University, May 28th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. Parametrizing the timing of Transfer in Japanese and English and its consequences. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 13 (WAFL 13), International Christian University, May 26th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. Eliminating the discourse-based parameter. The English Linguistic Society of Japan 10th International Spring Forum, Meiji Gakuin University, April 22nd. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Smith, Ryan Walter and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2017. Focusing on coordination: The case of Japanese -toka and -tari. GLOW in Asia XI, National University of Singapore, February 20th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Ryan Walter Smith. 2017. Conjunctive or disjunctive? On the syntax/semantics of -toka and -tari in Japanese. ConSOLE XXV, Leipzig, Germany, January 5th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2017. Feature inheritance and the syntax of lexical VV compounds. ConSOLE XXV, Leipzig, Germany, January 4th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. 日英語受動文の比較統辞論. ワークショップ: 日英語比較統辞論研究の現在: 自由併合理論における移動と埋め込み (with Takakazu Nagamori and Yushi Sugimoto) 口頭発表, 日本言語学会 第153回大会 12月4日, 福岡大学 [website] [slides] (査読有り)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. φ-defectiveness and the predicate-internal syntax: Comparative syntax of VV-compounds and their kin. Workshop "Current Issues in Comparative Minimalist Syntax" (with Nobu Goto and Yosuke Sato) at the 34th Annual Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Kanazawa University, November 12th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. "Project Both" within a nominal adjective. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 18 (SICOGG18), Sogang University, Seoul, August 2nd. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. NCIs at the syntax-prosody interface and the position of NEG in Japanese/Korean coordination. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 12 (WAFL 12), Central Connecticut State University, May 13th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Yusuke Yoda. 2016. NEG in VP-coordination and suspended affixation in Japanese. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 12 (WAFL12), Central Connecticut State University, May 13th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Yoda, Yusuke and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2016. I didn't drink and drove a car: Neg expresses eccentric triplets. Penn Linguistics Conference 40 (PLC 40), University of Pennsylvania, March 19th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Gen Fujita. 2016. Neg-raising is an illusion: Japanese verbal complex formation in Distributed Morphology. Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 8 (FAJL 8), Mie University, February 18th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. On the position of NEG in coordination: NCIs in Japanese at the syntax-prosody Interface. Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 8 (FAJL 8), Mie University, February 18th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. Against V-to-T-to-C movement in Japanese and Korean non-constituent coordination. The Linguistic Society of America's 90th Annual Meeting (LSA 90), Marriott Marquis Washington, DC, January 9th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2016. A post-syntactic account on the nature of complex V-te V predicates in Japanese. ConSOLE XXIV, York St John University, January 6th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro and Taihei Asada. 2016. Negative concord items in coordinate structure. ConSOLE XXIV, York St John University, January 6th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. PF-reanalysis revisited: Non-constituent coordination in Distributed Morphology. Arizona Linguistics Circle 9 (ALC 9), The University of Arizona, Tucson, November 6th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. Interface conditions on head movement: Case studies of Neg-raising and coordination in Japanese. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 17 (SICOGG17), Kyung Hee University, August 7th. [website] (refereed) (Poster)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. Against V-to-T-to-C movement in Japanese: A case study of non-constituent coordination. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 11 (WAFL 11), University of York, June 4th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. The repetitive coordinator-ka and the syntax of alternative questions in Japanese. The English Linguistic Society of Japan 8th International Spring Forum, Seikei University, April 19th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2015. The repetitive coordinator-ka in Japanese and either in English as scope indicators in disjunction. Penn Linguistics Conference 39 (PLC 39), University of Pennsylvania, March 22nd. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2014. A hybrid analysis for LF-intervention effects: Polarity sensitive items as genuine LF-interveners. The 149th Annual Meeting of The Linguistic Society of Japan, Ehime University, November 15th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2014. The repetitive coordinator-to in Japanese as a postposition. Sophia University Linguistics Society 29 (SULS29), Sophia University, July 19th. [website] (refereed) (Talk)
Misc:
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. 2022. Functional Parametrization Hypothesis in the Minimalist Program. 慶應言語学コロキアム, April 23rd. [handout] [website] (invited)
Tanabe, Tomoya and Ryoichiro Kobayashi. 2021. Ellipsis in Japanese and information structure. Workshop on Ellipsis in Japanese, Online, September 6th. (invited)