Conference & Workshop

[2023]

• Yuto Hirayama, Shun Ihara, Ryoichiro Kobayashi (2023) On the peculiar distribution of the Japanese epistemic adverb masaka. Sinn und Bedeutung 28 (SuB28). Ruhr University Bochum (RUB). September 8. (Refereed)

• Shun Ihara (2023) A typology of semantic structures of Japanese imperatives Shun Ihara Comparative Syntax, Semantics, and Language Acquisition #1. Nanzan University, Nagoya. May 28. (Invited)

• Shiho Watanabe, Shun Ihara, Hideki Tanaka and Maki Furutani (2023) Psychological and physiological stress in the process of white lie. Poster Presentation. The 41st Meeting of Japanese Society for Physiological Psychology and Psychophysiology (JSPP2023). Keio University, Tokyo. May 15-16.

• Shun Ihara (2023). Strategies of notification: resolving QUDs with discourse particles and vocatives. Oral Presentation. The 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (J/K30). Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. March 11-13. (Refereed) (Canceled)

[2022]

• Shun Ihara and Katsumasa Ito (2022) The discourse move of exclamatives revisited: a view from Japanese. Oral Presentation. International Semantics Conference 2022 (InSemantiC 2022). the University of Porto, Porto. November 21-23. (Refereed)

• Shun Ihara and Katsumasa Ito (2022) Exploring the discourse move of exclamatives. Oral Presentation. Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop. NINJAL, Tokyo. September 5th.

• Shun Ihara (2022) The global licensing of Japanese expletive negation. Oral Presentation. The 13th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIII) Online Special. August 4-7. (Refereed)

• Shun Ihara and Kenta Mizutani (2022) QUD-sensitivity of superlative modifiers: A neo-Gricean and structural theoretic approach. Oral Presentation. The 164th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Online. Jun 17-18. (Refereed)

• Shun Ihara (2022) Pragmatic licensing of Japanese expletive negation. Workshop on negation, polarity, and aspects of koto. Oral Presentation. Online. March 28. (invited)

[2021]

• Shun Ihara and Yuta Tatsumi (2021) The Duality of Negative Attitudes in Japanese Conditionals. Oral Presentation. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 18 (LENLS18). Keio University. November 13-15. (Refereed)

• Kenta Mizutani and Shun Ihara (2021) Two Strategies for being "at least": Japanese sukunakutomo and English at least. Poster Presentation. The 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (J/K29). Nagoya University, Nagoya. October 9–11. (Refereed)

• Ihara, Shun (2021) Resolving Teleological QuDs with/without discourse particles and vocatives. Oral Presentation. Sinn und Bedeutung 26 (SuB26). University of Cologne, Germany. September 8–10. (Refereed) (Canceled) 

• Ihara, Shun (2021) Obligatory implicatures in discourse particles: A case of yo. Semantic Workshop on Tokai and Kansai. Online. February 18.  (Invited) 

[2020]

• Ihara, Shun and Kenta Mizutani (2020) Superlative modifiers as concessive conditionals. Oral Presentation. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 17 (LENLS17). Online. November 15–17. (Refereed)

• Ihara, Shun (2020) From subjunctive alternatives to unconditionals and imperatives. Oral Presentation. The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK28). The University of Central Lancashire in Preston, United Kingdom. September 7–20. (Refereed)

• Kenta Mizutani and Shun Ihara (2020) Decomposing the Japanese Deontic Modal hoo-ga ii. Poster Presentation. The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK28). The University of Central Lancashire in Preston, United Kingdom. September 7–20. (Refereed)

• Ihara, Shun, Stephanie Solt, Kenta Mizutani and Eri Tanaka (2020) Licensing of Minimizer PPIs under Negation. Oral Presentation. Workshop on Degree Expressions and Polarity Effects (DegPol2020). The Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. March 9–10. (Refereed) 

[2019]

• Ihara, Shun and Kenta Mizutani (2019) Hurford conditionals in Japanese. Poster Presentation. The 27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK27). Sogang University, Seoul. October 18–20. (Refereed)

• Noguchi, Yuya and Shun Ihara (2019) What sluicing tells us about imperatives. Poster Presentation. The 27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK27). Sogang University, Seoul. October 18–20. (Refereed)

• Ihara, Shun and Mana Asano (2019) Rhetorical imperatives: expressing anti-preferences. Oral Presentation. Sinn und Bedeutung 24 (SuB24). Osnabrück University, Germany. September 4–7. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2019) Decomposing remind-me questions. Oral Presentation. The 44th Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS 44). Kansai University, Osaka. July 13–14. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2019) Minimal or Strong?: Toward a Hybrid Approach to Imperatives in Japanese. Semantic Workshop on Tokai. Nagoya Gakuin University, Nagoya. April 28.  (Invited) 

• Ihara, Shun (2019) On the presuppositional status of discourse particles. Work Shop "Development of Logical Language and Mathematical Concepts" The Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. March 26. 

• Hirayama, Yuto and Shun Ihara (2019) Epistemic adverbs that can/cannot be embedded under imperatives. Oral Presentation. Linguistic Society of America 2019 (LSA 2019) Annual Meeting. Sheraton New York Times Square, NY. January 3–6.  (Refereed) 

[2018]

• Ihara, Shun (2018) Pseudo-imperatives as weak modalized assertions. Poster Presentation. The 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK26).  The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles. November 29–December 1. (Refereed) 

• Asano, Mana and Shun Ihara (2018) Rhetorical imperatives-no seiki jooken [On the conditions of rhetorical imperatives] Oral Presentation. The 36th Conference of the English Linguistics Society of Japan. Yokohama National University (YNU), Yokohama. November 23–24. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2018) What ‘-nakereba naranai’ should and must be. Oral Presentation. The 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ157). Kyoto University, Kyoto. November 17–18. (Refereed) 

• Bade, Nadine, Ryota Nakanishi, Frank Sode, Yasuhiro Iida, Shun Ihara, Mika Ebara, Hajime Ono, Yoichi Miyamoto, and Uli Sauerland (2018) Japanese particles WA and GA as scope markers of EXH. Poster Presentation. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 14 (WAFL14). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. October 19–21. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2018) A unified semantics for jussives in Japanese. Oral Presentation.The 20th International Congress of Linguists (ICL20). the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town. July 2–6. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2018) Ne as a questioning operator on speech acts. Oral Presentation. The 43rd Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS43). Konan University, Kobe. June 9–10. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2018) Necessity, directives, and three types of imperatives. Oral Presentation. The 26th edition of the Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE XXIVI). University College London (UCL), London. February 14–16. (Refereed) 

[2017]

• Ihara, Shun (2017) Kore-mo kopyura-JA rooka?: kyara kopyura-no imiron/goyooron [On the property of character-associated copula in Japanese. Oral Presentation. Work Shop. The 20th Annual Meeting of the Pragmatic Society of Japan (PSJ20). Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto. December 16–17. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2017) Shuujoshi-niokeru gimutekigani-to zentei-no saidaika [Maximize Presupposition! and Obligatory Implicatures of sentence-final particles in Japanese]. Oral Presentation. The 155th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ155). Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. November 25–26. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun and Yuya Noguchi (2017) Imperatives with/without necessity. Oral presentation. The 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK25). The University of Hawaii at Manoa. Honolulu. October 12–14.  (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2017) Contrastive topics and the dual character of imperatives. Oral Presentation. The English Linguistic Society of Japan 10th International Spring Forum. Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo. April 22–23. (Refereed) 

[2016]

• Ihara, Shun and Yuya Noguchi (2016) Hukushi dooka-no kyookisei-to imi: meireikeishikibun-no imi-o moto-ni [On the semantics and co-occurrences of the adverb dooka in Japanese]. Oral Presentation. The 17th Annual Meeting of the Society of Japanese Grammar. Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe. December 10–11. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2016) What sentence-final particle ne does in imperatives. Poster Presentation. The 19th Annual Meeting of the Pragmatic Society of Japan (PSJ19). Shimonoseki City University, Shimonoseki. December 10–11. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2016) The dynamics of the sentence-final particle ne in Japanese. Poster Presentation. The 24thJapanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK24). NINJAL and Keio University, Tokyo. October 14–16.  (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun and Yuya Noguchi (2016) Meireikeishikibun-no togokozo: togo, keitai, imi-no intafesu-kara [The syntactic structure of the imperative form sentence in Japanese: at the syntax, morphology and semantics interface]. Oral Presentation. The 41st Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS41). Ryukoku University, Kyoto. June 11–12. (Refereed) 

• Ihara, Shun (2016) CCG (Combinatory Categorial Grammar)-niyoru shujoshi-to buntaipu-no bunseki [The Japanese sentence-final particles and clause types in CCG (Combinatory Categorial Grammar)]. Oral Presentation. The 22nd Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP22). Tohoku University, Sendai. March 7–10.

[2015]

• Ihara, Shun (2015) Shijishihukusuukei-no bunmyakushijiyoohoo-ni-tsuite [On the anaphoric use of plural form demonstratives in Japanese]. Oral Presentation. The 47th Meeting of the Association of Language and Culture. Osaka University, Osaka. June 25.