Researcher Profile and Settings

Affiliation

• Research Faculty of Media and Communication　Media and Communication　Public Language and Communication

Job Title

• Professor

Degree

• Ph.D（Linguistics）

URL

https://yuriehara.github.io/website/

J-Global ID

• 201701002577619461

Profile

• Formal semantics, pragmatics
  
  Syntax
  
  Japanese Linguistics
  
  Psycholinguistics
  
  Neurolinguistics
  
  Linguistics of Manga/Anime

Research Interests

• psycholinguistics   Japanese linguistics   syntax   pragmatics   formal semantics   

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / English linguistics
• Humanities & social sciences / Japanese linguistics
• Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics / semantics

Educational Organization

•  Master's degree program　Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies
•  Doctoral (PhD) degree program　Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies

Academic & Professional Experience

• 2024/04 - Today Hokkaido University Research Faculty of Media and Communication Professor
• 2019/09 - 2024/03 Hokkaido University Research Faculty of Media and Communication Associate Professor
• 2017/01 - 2019/08 Waseda University Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering Visiting Researcher
• 2009/04 - 2017/01 City University of Hong Kong Department of Linguistics and Translation Assistant Professor
• 2006/04 - 2009/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Kyoto University Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

•        - 2006/02  University of Delaware  Linguistics  Ph.D
• 2005 - 2006  University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Research Activities

Published Papers

• *Daroo ka↑: the interplay of deictic modality, sentence type, prosody and tier of meaning

  Yurie Hara

  Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 2024/02 [Refereed]
  
• Cantonese question particles

  Yurie Hara

  2023/06/22 [Refereed][Invited]
  
• Question under discussion-based analysis of Japanese ellipses

  Tanabe Tomoya, Yurie Hara

  日本言語学会第162回大会 予稿集 239 - 335 2021/06/26 [Refereed]
  
• 12 Evidentials: Marking the source of information

  Yurie Hara

  Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics 589 - 618 2020/10/12 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Even More Varieties of Conventional Implicatures: Paratactically Associating Intonation, Particles and Questions

  Yurie Hara, Mengxi Yuan

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 12331 LNAI 197 - 213 0302-9743 2020 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  This paper proposes a new composition rule for discourse particles and prosodic morphemes that paratactically-associate with the main text. Furthermore, the data and analyses support the framework of inquisitive semantics since the morphemes at issue often embed both declarative and interrogative clauses.
• Diachronic Semantic Shift of Sequential Conjunction: the Causal to Conditional Path

  Yurie Hara

  Semantics and Linguistic Theory 29 300 - 300 2019/12/09 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Guiding assertions and questions in discourse: Mandarin dique and zhende

  Mengxi Yuan, Yurie Hara

  Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 37 (4) 1545 - 1583 0167-806X 2019/11/01 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  © 2018, Springer Nature B.V. This paper explores how discourse markers contribute to the update of discourse through a detailed study of Mandarin dique ‘indeed’ and zhende ‘really’. On the basis of empirical data and a naturalness rating experiment, we show that dique and zhende make similar yet different contributions to discourse updates. Dique presupposes that its prejacent issue is old, while zhende presupposes that its prejacent issue is old and that some discourse participant has failed to resolve this issue. Furthermore, dique and zhende can embed both assertions and questions. This supports Farkas and Bruce’s (2010) Table stack model, which provides a uniform treatment for assertions and questions.
• Alternatives in Cantonese: Disjunctions, Questions and (Un)conditionals

  Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2015 177 - 186 2019 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Evidentials in causal premise semantics: theoretical and experimental investigation

  Yurie Hara, Naho Orita, Hiromu Sakai

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 10838 LNAI 282 - 298 0302-9743 2018 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  © 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. We formalize the causal component of Davis & Hara’s (2014) analysis of Japanese evidentiality, which defines “indirect evidence” as an observation of the effect state of the cause-effect dependency. The analysis correctly predicts that uttering p-youda only commits the speaker to ‘if p, q must be true’ but not to the prejacent p, and successfully derives the asymmetry between the prejacent p and the evidence source q. Also, the results of the rating study and the corpus study show that the interpretation and the distribution of evidentials are subject to the cause-effect dependencies.
• Causality and evidentiality

  Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2017 295 - 304 2017 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  © Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2017.All right reserved. This paper formalizes the causal component of Davis &Hara's (2014) analysis ofJapanese evidentiality, which defines "indirect evidence" as an observation of the effectstate of the cause-effect dependency. The analysis correctly predicts that uttering p-youdaonly commits the speaker to 'if p, q must be true' but not to the prejacent p, and successfullyderives the asymmetry between the prejacent p and the evidence source q.
• Particles of (Un)expectedness: Cantonese Wo and Lo

  Yurie Hara, Eric McCready

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 10091 LNCS 27 - 40 0302-9743 2017 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  © Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Cantonese has a number of sentence-final particles which serve various communicative functions. This paper looks into two of the most frequently used particles, wo3 and lo1. We propose that wo3 and lo1 are expressive items: Wo3 indicates unexpectedness of the propositional content or the current discourse move, while lo1 indicates expectedness of the propositional content or the current discourse move. We employ Default Logic to characterize the notion of (un)expectedness by normality conditionals. The analysis has a further implication on the Gricean Cooperative Principle in that the use of wo3 and lo1 makes reference to the general world knowledge which includes conditions on how the discourse should normally proceed.
• Cantonese wo: Expression of unexpectedness

  Yurie Hara, Eric McCready

  PACLING 2015 The Pacic Association for Computational Linguistics Conference, 126 - 131 2015 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Two kinds of disjunction in Cantonese: A rating study.

  Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 12 (LENLS 12) 11 - 24 2015 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Alternatives in Cantonese: Disjunctions, questions and (un)conditionals

  Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium 177 - 186 2015 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• The prosody of enhanced bias in Mandarin and Japanese negative questions

  Yurie Hara, Shigeto Kawahara, Yuli Feng

  Lingua 150 92 - 116 0024-3841 2014/10 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  This paper examines the semantics of prosodic cues that enhance the bias meaning of negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. We propose a semantic denotation for each phonetic phenomenon: Mandarin sentence-final stress marks the salience of the proposition with the opposite polarity to that of the surface proposition, while Japanese deaccentuation marks the givenness of the positive answer. The proposed semantics compositionally derives the observed discourse effects. The second part of the paper reports two naturalness rating experiments, which further support the empirical bases of our semantic analyses. Taken together, our study demonstrates the significant interaction between prosodic cues and contexts. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.
• The semantics of the two kinds of questions in Mandarin: a case study of discourse adverbs

  Mengxi Yuan, Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of The 44th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS44) 2 279 - 290 2014 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Conditional independence and biscuit conditional questions in dynamic semantics

  Katsuhiko Sano, Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of SALT 24 84 - 101 2014 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Semantics and pragmatics of Cantonese polar questions: An inquisitive approach

  Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014 605 - 614 2014 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  Copyright 2014 by Yurie Hara. This paper analyzes four kinds of Cantonese polar questions, HO2, ME1, AA4 and A-NOTA questions in the framework of radical inquisitive semantics (Groenendijk & Roelofsen, 2010; Aher, 2012; Sano, 2014). HO2, ME1 and A-NOT-A questions have multidimensional semantics. In addition to their primary speech act of questioning, HO2 and ME1 interrogatives encode secondary assertive acts of positive and negative expectations, respectively, while A-NOT-A interrogatives conventionally encode lack of expectation, hence the neutral requirement. In contrast, AA4 interrogatives are semantically simplex question acts, thus they can be used in both biased and neutral contexts.
• A case study fromexhaustification over questions

  Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014 522 - 531 2014 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  Copyright 2014 by Yurie Hara. This paper argues in favor of Haiman's (1978) idea that conditionals and topics are analogous. The evidence comes from exhaustification over topicalized questions, which have the same semantics as conditional questions (Isaacs & Rawlins, 2008).
• Topics are conditionals: A case study from exhaustication over questions.

  Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28) 522 - 531 2014 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Evidentiality as a causal relation: A case study from Japanese youda

  Christopher Davis, Yurie Hara

  Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 10 2014 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Semantic realization of the layered TP: Evidence from the ambiguity of the sentential koto-nominal

  Yurie Hara, Youngju Kim, Hiromu Sakai, Sanae Tamura

  Proceedings of Japanese/Korean Linguistics 20. 2013 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Darou as a deictic context shifter

  Yurie Hara, Christopher Davis

  Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6 (FAJL 6) MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 66 41 - 56 2013 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• On the interaction among sentence types, bias, and intonation: a rating study

  Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of Glow in Asia IX 2013 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• The semantics of Mandarin assertion modi ers dique and zhende

  Mengxi Yuan, Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17 617 - 634, 2013 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• The syntax and semantics of Mandarin assertion modi ers dique and zhende

  Mengxi Yuan, Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of GLOW in Asia IX 2013 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Questioning and asserting at the same time: The L% tone in a-not-a questions

  Mengxi Yuan, Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2013 265 - 272 2013 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Projections of events and propositions in Japanese: A case study of Koto-nominalized clauses in causal relations

  Yurie Hara, Youngju Kim, Hiromu Sakai, Sanae Tamura

  Lingua 133 262 - 288 0024-3841 2013 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  This paper proposes a syntax and semantics of nominalized clauses headed by koto in Japanese. We argue that the koto-nominalized clause can denote either a concrete event or an abstract proposition. Koto serves as a maximality operator for clauses as well as NPs. The sentential koto is syntactically ambiguous depending on the structure with which koto merges. Finally, our analysis also has a strong implication for the linguistic distinction between physical causation and causal judgment. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
• The prosody of public evidence in Japanese: A rating study

  Yurie Hara, Shigeto Kawahara

  Proceedings of 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL29) 2012 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Discourse update and semantic composition of particles: The case of nen in Osaka Japanese

  Tomohide Kinuhata, Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16. MITWPL 2012 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Osaka Japanese nen: One-sided public belief and paratactic association

  Yurie Hara, Tomohide Kinuhata

  Sprache und Datenverarbeitung: International Journal for Language Data Processing 49 - 70 2012 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Japanese sentential nominalization and di erent kinds of causation

  Sanae Tamura, Yurie Hara, Youngju Kim, Hiromu Sakai

  Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL7) 91 - 106 2011 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Emphatic stress as epistemic con ict: A case study of Mandarin Chinese

  Yurie Hara, Shigeto Kawahara, Yuli Feng

  Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8 (LENLS8) 13 - 26 2011 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• [Research Notes] Types of causal relations: a survey

  Sanae Tamura, Yurie Hara, Youngju Kim, Hiromu Sakai

  Kyoto Universty Linguistic Research 京都大学大学院文学研究科言語学研究室 29 1 - 26 1349-7804 2010/12 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  本研究ノートでは、先行研究で提案されてきた因果関係の分類について概観し、関係する言語現象についてまとめる。哲学、言語学両分野の研究において、因果関係をいくつかの種類に分けられることが提案されている。本論ではそのうち4つの分類基準について論じる。すなわち、(A)因果関係の担い手が事実・命題であるか出来事であるか、(B)結果を引き起こすものが個体であるか出来事であるか、(C)原因と結果の間に別の出来事が介在しているか否か、(D)原因と結果の間に、何らかの主体による原因の認識が介在しているか否か、の4点である。2,3節では(A)の基準にかかわる先行研究をまとめた。まず2節では、因果関係に関する古典的研究として、Davidson(1967)の因果言明causal statementと因果的説明causal explanationの分類について述べた。前者は川来事の間の関係を表すが、後者は事実にかかわるものである。その後3節で、出来事間の因果と事実間の因果の両方を認める研究として、Vendler(1967)とBennet(1988)を取り上げた。4節では、(B)の観点による分類として、日本語の使役動詞を分析した影山(1996)について見た。影山は、使役動詞の形態意味論的分析のための概念として、因果関係をCAUSEとCONTROLの2種類に分けることを提案している。5節と6節は原因と結果の間の介在物に注目した分類を扱った。5節は(C)の観点について、直接因果direct causationと間接因果indirect causationという分類を取り上げ、因果関係の違いが言語現象に影響する場合を見た。最後に6節では、(D)の基準による分類を論じた。原因と結果の間に認識が介在する場合は意思的因果volitional causation、介在しない場合は無意志的因果non-volitional causationとした上で、日本語の(1)のような例にもこの分類が関わることを論じた。(1) a. アクセルペダルが故障したことが事故を引き起こした。(無意志的因果)b. アクセルペダルが故障したことが消費者のトヨタ離れを引き起こした。(意思的因果)
• Types of causal relations: A survey

  Tamura, S, Hara, Y, Kim, Y.-J, Sakai, H

  「京都大学言語学研究」 (29) 153 - 170 2010/12 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Two ways to nominalize actions: concrete or abstract

  Yurie Hara, Sanae Tamura

  Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop of LENLS6 人工知能学会 143 - 156 2009/11 [Not refereed][Not invited]
   

  本論文は、日本語の動詞（句）を名詞化した場合の意味論的な解釈の違いについて論じた。本稿で扱ったのは「マリの走り」のような連用形名詞化と、「マリが走ること」のようなコト名詞化である。論者は、連用形名詞化は特定のイベントを指すのに対し、コト名詞化はMontague意味論における Sublimation （イベントの属性の集合）を指すと分析することで、2種の名詞化の解釈の違いを捉えられると主張した。（原由理枝氏との共同研究）
• Expressives and identity conditions

  Christopher Potts, Ash Asudeh, Seth Cable, Yurie Hara, Eric McCready, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Rajesh Bhatt, Christopher Davis, Angelika Kratzer, Tom Roeper, Martin Walkow

  Linguistic Inquiry 40 (2) 356 - 366 0024-3892 2009/03 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Auxiliary fronting in Peranakan Javanese

  Peter Cole, Yurie Hara, Ngee Thai Yap

  Journal of Linguistics 44 (1) 1 - 43 0022-2267 2008/03 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  Peranakan Javanese (PNJ) is a relatively undescribed variety of Javanese spoken primarily by ethnic Chinese native speakers of Javanese in the city of Semarang in Central Java (Indonesia). PNJ makes a structural distinction between auxiliaries and main verbs. Auxiliaries are unique in that they undergo optional head movement to C. Not only do single auxiliaries move to C, as in familiar languages, but sequences of two or three auxiliaries can move to C as well. Significantly, the order of the moved auxiliaries is always the same as the order in their unmoved position. The distribution of auxiliaries in PNJ is predicted if a tucking in (Richards 1997) analysis of head movement similar to that of Collins (2002) is adopted. The PNJ facts are of special interest not only because they are an example of an additional language/construction that shows the distribution expected on the basis of tucking in, but also because PNJ provides evidence that helps to distinguish between a head movement analysis and the standard version of the remnant movement analysis, in which adverbs occupy fixed positions in the clause. It is quite difficult to distinguish between these approaches empirically, so the PNJ auxiliary facts are important in this regard. © 2008 Cambridge University Press.
• Evidentiality of discourse items and because - Clauses

  Yurie Hara

  Journal of Semantics 25 (3 SPEC. ISS.) 229 - 268 0167-5133 2008 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  There is a parallelism between contrastive marking and evidential marking with respect to their distribution among adjunct clauses. I take this fact to show that both contrastive marking and evidential marking express some attitude towards a closed proposition, following Johnston's (1994) analysis that the semantics of temporal and if-clauses involve event quantification while that of because-clauses is a relation between two particular events. Furthermore, this association between the implicature and the attitude-holder cannot be established in certain constructions, namely adjunct clauses and relative clauses. Hence, I argue that the computation of contrastive marking involves an island-sensitive movement of an operator. © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
• Deaccenting, MAXIMIZE PRESUPPOSITION and evidential scale

  Yurie Hara, Shigeto Kawahara

  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008 509 - 512 2008 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  Some studies have assumed that prosodic patterns of sentences are exclusively determined by the rules of accented expressions, with deaccenting of non-focused elements playing little or no role [1, 2]. However,many researchers have also recognized the importance of deaccenting rules [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. This paper documents two intonational patterns of Japanese biased questions,"Rise with Accents" and"Rise with Deaccentuation", used by young speakers of the Tokyo dialect for Japanese biased questions. We argue that Japanese data furthers the deaccenting-as-rule view. Specifically, deaccentuation in biased questions has recently gained a grammaticalized status, and now gives rise to a Givenness presupposition. Moreover, the presuppositions of Bias and Givenness form a scale, i.e., Given ⊂ Bias, which interacts with MAXIMIZE PRESUPPOSITION [8]. Our proposal also naturally extends to the evidential hierarchy proposed in the literature.
• Dake-wa: Exhaustifying assertions

  Yurie Hara

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 4384 LNAI 219 - 231 0302-9743 2007 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Implicatures and evidentiality of because complements at syntax-semantics-pragmatics interfaces

  Yurie Hara

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 4012 LNAI 118 - 125 0302-9743 2006 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Contrastives and gricean principle

  Yurie Hara

  Proceedings of the 15th Amsterdam Colloquium 101 - 106 2005 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  It has been observed that contrastive-markings in various languages are associated with uncertainty implicatures. However, a sentence can be contrastive-marked even when the speaker has a complete answer to the question, as long as one of the alternatives have an opposite value from the rest. Following the analyses by Spector 2003 and Schulz and van Rooij (in press) on exhaustivity and the Gricean Principle, this paper claims that Contrastive-marking presupposes that the speaker's knowledge is not maximal.

Books etc

• Key Concepts of Experimental Pragmatics

  宮本, 陽一, 小泉, 政利, 小野, 創, Yatsushiro, Kazuko, Sauerland, Uli (ContributorInferential Evidential)
  Kaitakusha 2022 (ISBN: 9784758923743) x, 352 p. 290–306
• データに基づく日本語のモダリティ研究

  田窪, 行則, 野田, 尚史 (Contributor「脳科学から見たモダリティ」)
  くろしお出版 2020/03 (ISBN: 9784874248287) iv, 221p 199–217
• Handbook of Japanese semantics and pragmatics

  Jacobsen, Wesley M., 田窪, 行則 (ContributorEvidentials: marking the source of information)
  De Gruyter Mouton 2020 (ISBN: 9781614512882) xliv, 843 p. 589–617

Conference Activities & Talks

• A diachronic semantic shift from causal to conditional: a cross-linguistic and game-theoretic approach  [Invited]

  Yurie hara

  Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (TaLK) Semantics Conference  2022/03
• A cross-linguistic diachronic trajectory from causal to conditional: a game-theoretic analysis  [Invited]

  Yurie Hara

  International Symposium on Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives
• Questions are Independent Issues  [Invited]

  Yurie Hara

  Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansa  2021/07
• A semantic shift from Causal to Conditional in Japanese and German: A game-theoretic investigation  [Invited]

  Yurie Hara

  Zyookenditionals: Conditionals in Japanese, English, and beyond  2021/06
• Question under discussion-based analysis of Japanese ellipses

  Yurie Hara, Tomoya Tanabe

  162nd Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan
• A Game-Theoretic Approach to Diachronic Trajectory from Causal to Conditional in Japanese and German  [Invited]

  Yurie Hara

  ICU LINC (ICU LINguistics Colloquium)  2021/04
• Contextual Bias and the Landscape of Mandarin Polar Questions  [Invited]

  Yurie Hara, Mengxi Yuan

  Biased question workshops, ZAS, Berlin.  2021/02

MISC

• Review of Asking questions: Using meaningful structures to imply ignorance.

  Yurie Hara  JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS  45-  (1)  221  -227  2009/03  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  

Research Grants & Projects

• Semantic-Pragmatic interfaces at Left Peripheries: neurological approach

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

  Date (from‐to) : 2018/04 -2021/03 

  Author : 原 由理枝, 折田 奈甫

   

  本研究は、統語構造の左方周辺部の意味と語用の理論及びその経験的実証を探求することを目的としている。 平成30年度は、主として、日本語の証拠性「ヨウダ」とモダリティ「ダロウ」の経験的、神経言語学差異を調査するため、コーパスを用いた計量的な測定と、事象関連電位を用いた脳波実験の予備実験および本実験を行った。結果、モダリティと比較して、証拠性を表す助動詞の使用は、因果関係に依存することが判明し、また、脳波実験の結果から、複数の可能世界を処理しなければならないモダリティは、証拠性よりも、処理負荷が高いことが示された。以上の結果を研究会等で発表し、令和元年度、国際学会等で発表が採択された。 Mengxi Yuan氏（Jinan University）との共同研究である、中国語の談話助動詞が、どのように、AssertionやQuestionなどの言語行為を変更するか、Farkas & Bruce（2009）のスタック化されたCommon Groundを用いて説明した論文が、国際学術誌に掲載された。 日本語の助動詞ダロウ、イントネーション、Clause type、および意味層の相互関係を探求する研究を複数の研究会で発表し、論文を学術雑誌に提出した。具体的には、自然さ判断テストを用いて分布を精査し、Paratactic associationというイントネーションと助詞の統語構造に対応する意味計算規則を提案し、Inquisitive Semanticsの理論を用いて形式的意味を与えた。令和元年度は、このParatactic associationの意味計算規則を他の言語の現象に応用することを試みている。 最後に、已然形＋バの用法の歴史的変遷を、先行文献とコーパスを用いて計量的にデータを取り、進化ゲーム理論を用いて説明する研究をスタートさせ、研究会等で発表した。次年度、国際学会での発表が採択された。
• Compositional Semantics of Particles and Intonation: Formal Semantic and Neurobiological Approaches

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up

  Date (from‐to) : 2017/08 -2019/03 

  Author : 原 由理枝

   

  29年度は、酒井弘氏、折田奈甫氏と協力して日本語の証拠性を表す文末表現の自然さ判断テストのサーベイを行い、証拠性の解釈に、因果関係が深くかかわることを明らかにし、Causal Premise Semanticsを用いて証拠性に形式意味論的定義を与えた論文を執筆した。Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) and Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP) 2017ワークショップ、Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 14およびThe 21st Amsterdam Colloquiumといった国際学会で発表した。The 2nd Asian Junior Linguistics conferenceにおいては、plenary speakerとして招聘講演をおこなった。さらに、証拠性と因果関係の相関性を示すため、コーパス分析を行い、国立国語研究所で行われた、 Prosody and Grammar Festa 2で成果を発表した。29年度後半は、次年度実施予定の証拠性文末表現のEEG実験の準備を行った。また、De Gruyter Moutonから出版される、Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmaticsに寄稿するEvidentialityの章を執筆した。 また、推量を表す文末モダリティ「だろう」と疑問文との共起関係をInquisitive Semanticsを用いて分析した論文をThe 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conferenceで発表した。 さらに、広東語の選言を表す助詞および、疑問文の種類を示す助動詞の自然さ判断テストのサーベイを行い、EEGのパイロット実験を香港城市大学で行った。また、話題を示す助詞「は」と条件文の類似性について、国際基督教大学で開催されたWorkshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 13において、plenary speakerとして招聘講演を行った。さらに、佐野勝彦氏と共著で、条件疑問文の形式意味論の分析を行い、Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundaryで発表した。
• 談話的概念の文法化-通言語的研究およびその経験科学的立証-

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

  Date (from‐to) : 2006 -2008 

  Author : 原 由理枝

   

  前年度に引き続き、アメリカ合衆国・ラトガース大学の川原繁人氏とともに、アクセントの平板化と証拠性の関係を調べる録音実験と、その形式意味論的分析を前年度より発展させた。具体的には、偏りを持つ疑問文において、ある命題pを表す文を平板化させて発話するということは、Barker and Tarranto(In press)で提唱された、「pという情報を話者間の共通知識としてよい」という判断を提案する言語的手段になっている、とするものである。この研究は本年度5月の、ブラジル・カンピーナスでの国際学会、Speech Prosody、および、7月に韓国・ソウルで開かれた、International Congress in LinguisticsのWorkshop on information Structureで発表した。 また、高橋将一氏(東京大学)との共同研究で、日本語のとりたて詞「さえ」が、命令文と共起できないことから、命令文を義務的モダルのNuclear scopeではなく、Restrictionとして扱う提案をし、7月のInternational Congress in LinguisticsのFormal Approaches to the Relation of Tense,Aspect and Modalityで発表した。今年度後半には、Eric McCready氏(青山学院大学)とともに、「さえ」をPotts(2003)の規約的含意(Conventional Implicature)をもたらす、語彙として分析する研究に発展させている。 さらに、日本語の「だけは」構文と質問文の不和合性と英語の擬似条件文と質問文の不和合性の類似点に着目し、質問という発話行為の本質を探る研究を前年度よりすすめている。今年度は、Groenendijk(2009)で提唱された、Inquisitive Semanticsとの関連性を中心に検証した。

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