PhD.Thesis, Major and Minors Papers
- Masaya Yoshida (2006) Constraints and Mechanisms in Long-Distance
Dependency Formation. PhD. Dissertation. University of Maryland,
College Park.
- Masaya Yoshida (2004) Relative Clause Prediction in Japanese.
First Generals Examination Paper.(Major area of sepecialization)
- Masaya Yoshida (2004) The Specificity Condition: PF-condition
or LF-condition? Second Generals Examination Paper (Minor area
of specialization)
Jounal Articles
Published
- Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Masaya Yoshida
& Colin Phillips. The Effect of Syntactic Constraints on the Processing
of Backwards Anaphora. Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 56, 384–409.
- Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima &
Colin Phillips, Processing Exclamatives; Different from Interrogatives?
in Ninchi Kagaku [Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive
Science Society], Vol. 13, No 3 (Sep. 2006)
- Diogo Almeida & Masaya Yoshida, A Problem for
the Preposition Stranding Generalization. Linguistic Inquiry, Vol.
38, No 2 (Spring 2007). {This paper discusses some problematic examples
with Merchant's (2001) P-stranding generalization. Examples are collected
from Brazilian Portuguese. We argue that BP allows P-stranding under
sluicing, even though it doesn't in regular wh-question.}
Under Revision
- Masaya Yoshida, "Antecedent Contained"
Sluicing. A manuscript submitted to Linguistic Inquiry.
- Chizuru Nakao, Masaya Yoshida & Hajime Ono, On
Swiping and PP Shift. A manuscript submitted to Syntax. {Through
detailed analysis of Swiping construction and some other related phenomena,
this paper argues that PP-shift, a rigtward movement of complement PP,
does not leave a copy behind.}
Manuscripts
- Masaya Yoshida & Tomohiro Fujii, Preposition
Doubling as Multiple Copy Pronunciation. {This paper deals with
the so-called Preposition Doubling construction in English. The construction
raises a problm with transformational analyses of relative clauses and
wh-interlogatives. We point out that Nunes's (2005) Copy Theory of Movement
can sufficiently handle this construction with some minor modifications,
and therefore, P-doubling construction rather provides a support for
Copy Theory of Movement}
(Manuscript prepared for submission to Linguistic Inquiry)
- Masaya Yoshida, Michael Walsh-Dickey & Patrick
Sturt, Sluicing and Syntactic Prediction. {This is a manuscript based
on the presentation at AMLaP 2008 @ Cambridge. We argue that the human
parser prefers ellipsis over other continuations whenever the licensing
condition for sluicing can be satisfied during online reading.}
(Manuscript prepared for submission to Cognitive Science)
- Masaya Yoshida, Gappin in NP. {This paper
investigates properties of the so-called Nominal Gapping (a gapping
like string in Nominal Domain (DP)). It is pointed out that Nominal
Gapping can be best analyzed as the movement of remnants and ellipsis
of NP and higher functional projections in DP, such as NumP.}
- Masaya Yoshida, On the Syntax of Nominal Conditionals.
{This is a paper based on one of the chapters of my dissertation.
The main point of the paper is that the so-called Conditional Topic
construction in Japanese exhibits strong parallelisms with Elliptical
Clefts (e.g., Sluicing and Stripping). An analysis is provided that
incoportates Hiraiwa & Ishihara's analysis of Sluicing/Clefts/No-da
Focus constructions, and I argue that Conditional Topics also has No-da
clause as its underlying form.}
- Masaya Yoshida, On the Syntax of Conditional
Clauses in Japanese. {This is another paper based on a chapter
of my dissertation.This paper argues that Japanese conditional clauses
(and other adjunct clauses ) does not show strong island effects, and
argument NPs are easily extracted. I pointed out that under certan circumstances,
they show weak island properties, and I'm discussing what creates the
weak island effects.}
- Masaya Yoshida, Chizuru Nakao & Ivan Ortega-Santos,
Why Ellipsis but not Otherwise?: The Syntax of Why-Stripping. {This
paper discusses a type of stripping construction that involves sluicing
like elliptical wh-interrogative on the top of it. We point out some
interesting constraints on this construction, and also point out that
these constraints are subject of cross-language variation. We try to
provide a key feature of cross-language variations, and also invesitage
the basic properties of this construction in detail.}
- Masaya Yoshida & Tomohiro Fujii, Preposition
Drop in Apparent NP-coordinations and P-stranding Parameter. {This
paper points out a curious correlation between the possibility of P-stranding
and the possibility of some type of coordinated structures.}
Conference Presentations, Posters and Proceedings
Past Presentations
- Masaya Yoshida, Michael Walsh-Dickey & Patrick
Sturt, Sluicing and Syntactic Prediction. The paper presentet at AMLaP
2008.
- Masaya Yoshida & Patrick Sturt, The speed of
relative clause attachment. Poster presentet at AMLaP 2008
- Masaya Yoshida, On the syntax of conditional topics
in Japanese. The paper presented at 5th Workshop on Altaic Formal
Linguistics (WAFL 5), SOAS, University of London, London, UK. May
2008
- Masaya Yoshida & Ángel J. Gallego, Phases
and Ellipsis. The paper presented at 27th West Coast Conference on
Formal Linguistics (WCCFL27), UCLA, Los Angels, CA, USA. May 2008.
- Masaya Yoshida & Michael Walsh Dickey, Active
dependency formation for adjunct wh- phrases, Poster presented at
The 21st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. The University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. March 2008.
- Masaya Yoshida & Michael Walsh Dickey, Prediction
in parsing: Either syntactic or semantic. Poster presented at The
21st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. March 2008.
- Rachel Baker, Celina Troutman, Melissa Baese, Masaya Yoshida
& Michael Dickey, 'Either' prediction 'or' local attachment: Competing
effects during on-line comprehension. Poster presented at The 21st
Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. March 2008.
- Masaya Yoshida & Ángel J. Gallego, Phases
and Ellipsis. The paper to be presented at "Local Modelling of
Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax", Workshop, 30th meeting of
the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). Universität Bamberg, Bamberg,
Germany. March 2008.
- Chizuru Nakao & Masaya Yoshida (2006)“Not-so-propositional”
Islands and Their Implications on Swiping. In the Proceedings of Western
Conference on Linguistics (WECOL).
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Chizuru Nakao, Hajime Ono, & Masaya
Yoshida (2006) When a Complement PP Goes Missing: A Study
on the Licensing of Swiping. The Proceedings of The 25th. West Coast
Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25).
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Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima,
Hajime Ono & Colin Phillips (2006) Conditionals and Long- Distance
Dependency Formation in Japanese. Poster presented at The 19th Annual
CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. City University of New York,
NY. March.
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Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida,
Sachiko Aoshima & Colin Phillips (2006) Real-Time Processing
of Japanese Exclamatives and the Strength of Locality Conditions.
Poster to be presented at The 19th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing
Conference. City University of New York, NY. March.
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Masaya Yoshida (2005) Sometimes
Smaller is Better: Sluicing, Gapping and Semantic Identity. Paper
presented at NELS 36 at Univerity of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Masaya
Yoshida (2005) The Source of the Bias for Longer Filler-Gap
Dependencies in Japanese. Paper presented at The 18th Annual CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing. At University of Arizona,
Tucson.
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Masaya Yoshida (2005) The rightward
movement analysis of gapping in NP and its structural implications.
Paper presented at The 24th West Coast Coference on Formal Linguistics
(WCCFL 24). At Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada.
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Chizuru Nakao & Masaya Yoshida
(2005) Japanese Sluicing as a specificational pseudo-cleft. Paper
presented at Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. At Keio University,
Tokyo, Japan.
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Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin
Phillips & Masaya Yoshida (2005) Constraints
on Coreference in the Online Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Poster
presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference
at University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
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Chun-Chien Hsu, Colin Phillips &
Masaya Yoshida (2005) Cues for Head-Final Relative Clauses
in Chinese. Poster presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing
Conference at University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
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Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima&
Colin Phillips (2004) Relative Clause Prediction in Japanese. Paper
presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference
at University of Maryland, College Park.
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Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin
Phillips & Masaya Yoshida (2004) Use Of Grammatical
Constraints In The Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Paper presented
at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University
of Maryland, College Park.
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Sachiko Aoshima, Masaya Yoshida
& Colin Phillips (2004) The Real-time Application of Structural
Constraints on Binding in Japanese. Poster presented at The 17th
Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Maryland,
College Park.
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Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida,
Sachiko Aoshima & Colin Phillips (2004) Japanese Exclamatives
and the Strength of Locality Conditions in Sentence Generation.
Poster presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference
at University of Maryland, College Park.
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Masaya
Yoshida (2003) The Specificity Condition: PF-condition
or LF-condition? Paper Presented at WCCFL XXII 2003 at University
of California, San Diego.
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Masaya Yoshida (2002) When negative
statements are easier: processing of polarity items in Japanese.
Poster presentet at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
at City University of New York, New York, March 2002.
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Masaya
Yoshida, and Tetsuya Sano (2001) Psycolinguistic Studies
on Japanese Head Internal Relative Clauses. in M. Cristina Cuervo,
Daniel Harbour, Ken Hiraiwa, and Shinichiro Ishihara (eds). Proceedings
of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 3 (FAJL3), MIT Working
Papers in Linguistics #41.
Colloquium Talks
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Masaya Yoshida, Mechanisms
and Constraints in Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk
at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at Kings College London, London,
UK. December 2007
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Masaya Yoshida, Gapping
in NP. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL. April 2007.
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Masaya Yoshida, Problems
of Representations in Sentence Processing. Talk at the Linguistics
Colloquium Series at University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
April 2007.
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Masaya Yoshida, Mechanisms
and Constraints in Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk
at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at North Western University,
Evanston, IL. November 2006
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Masaya Yoshida, Constraints
and Mechanisms in Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk
at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, Canada, May 2006
Other Presentations
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Masaya Yoshida, In Search of
Gapped Structures. Paper presented at The First UMD– UFRJ
Meeting on Syntax and Neuroscience of Language, Federal University
of Rio de. Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2006.
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Diogo Almeida & Masaya Yoshida,
Sluicing in Brazilian Portuguese and Preposition Stranding Generalization.
Paper presented at The First UMD–UFRJ Meeting on Syntax and
Neuroscience of Language, Federal University of Rio de. Janeiro,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2006.
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Masaya Yoshida, The Rightward
Movement Analysis of Gapping in NP and Its Structural Implications.
Paper presented at 3rd. ECO-5 Student Conference, at Harvard University,
Boston, MA. 2005
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Chizuru Nakao & Masaya Yoshida,
Japanese Sluicing as a Specificational Pseudo-Cleft. Paper presented
at 3rd. ECO-5 Student Conference, at Harvard University, Boston,
MA. 2005
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