Publications

Someday I will (perhaps) manage to put up pdfs of papers or at least some of them. For now, please email me if you need or want a copy of something.

Articles:

Ihara, Shun and Yuta Tatsumi (to appear) "The duality of negative attitudes in Japanese conditionals." New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI)) JSAI-isAI International Workshops, JURISIN, AI-Biz, LENLS, Kansei-AI 2021. Springer.

Ihara, Shun (2022) "The global licensing of Japanese expletive negation." Proceedings of the 13th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIII) 2022 Online Special. Edited by Yuqiao Du, Zhuo Chen, Xiangyu Li, Zetao Xu, and Victor Junnan Pan. pp. 114-129. Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Mizutani, Kenta and Shun Ihara (2022) "Two strategies for being "at least": Japanese sukunakutomo and English at least." Japanese/Korean Linguistics 29. Edited by Kaoru Horie, Kimi Akita, Yusuke Kubota, David Y. Oshima, and Akira Utsugi. pp. 393–402. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Ihara, Shun (2021) "Division of labor between semantics and pragmatics of canonical and non-canonical imperatives". Gengo Kenkyu [Language Research]. vol. 160. pp. 155–182. The Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ).
Ihara, Shun (2021) "From subjunctive alternatives to unconditionals and imperatives". Japanese/Korean Linguistics 28. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Mizutani, Kenta and Shun Ihara (2021) "Decomposing the Japanese deontic modal hoo-ga ii". Japanese/Korean Linguistics 28. Online Proceedings. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Ihara, Shun and Kenta Mizutani (2021) "Superlative modifiers as concessive conditionals". In Okazaki, N., Yada, K., Satoh, K., Mineshima, K. (Eds.) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2020 Workshops (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). pp. 66–81. Springer.
Ihara, Shun (2021) "On properties of imperatives in English and Japanese and their semantic constraints". Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies. pp. 25-49. Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University.
Ihara, Shun and Kenta Mizutani (2020) "Hurford conditionals in Japanese." In Michael Barrie (ed.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 27. Online Proceedings. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Noguchi, Yuya and Shun Ihara (2020) "What sluicing tells us about imperatives." In Michael Barrie (ed.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 27. Online Proceedings. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Ihara, Shun and Mana Asano (2020) "Rhetorical imperatives: expressing anti-preferences." In M. Franke et al. (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, vol. 1. pp. 377–391. Osnabrück University.
Ihara, Shun (2020) "What does at least encode, at least?" Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language. pp. 1–11. Osaka University.
Ihara, Shun (2020) "Ensuring inquisitiveness with repetitive presuppositions: remind-me questions in Japanese." KLS Selected Papers 2. Kansai Linguistic Society.
Ihara, Shun (2020) "Pseudo-imperatives as weak modalized assertions." In Shin Fukuda, Shoichi Iwasaki, Sun-ah Jun, Sung-Ock Sohn, Susan Strauss, and Kie Zuraw (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 26. pp. 1–11. Online Proceedings. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Ihara, Shun (2019) "Conditionals with/without obligatory particles." Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language. pp. 1–11. Osaka University.
Hirayama, Yuto and Shun Ihara (2019) "Epistemic adverbs that can/cannot be embedded under imperatives." Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2019, vol. 4. 20: 1–15. the Linguistic Society of America.
Asano, Mana and Shun Ihara (2019) "On the conditions of rhetorical imperatives." JELS 36: Papers from the 36th Conference of the English Linguistics Society of Japan, pp. 1–8. the English Linguistics Society of Japan.
Bade, Nadine, Ryota Nakanishi, Frank Sode, Yasuhiro Iida, Shun Ihara, Mika Ebara, Hajime Ono, Yoichi Miyamoto, and Uli Sauerland (2019) "Japanese particles WA and GA as scope markers of EXH." Proceedings of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 14 (WAFL 14). Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL).
Ihara, Shun (2019) "Ne as a questioning operator on speech acts." KLS Selected Papers 1. pp. 13–24. Kansai Linguistic Society.
Ihara, Shun (2019) "Necessity, directives, and three types of imperatives." In Bellamy Kate, Anastasiia Ionova, and George Saad (eds.) ConSOLE XXV: Proceedings of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe. Leiden: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
Ihara, Shun and Yuya Noguchi (2019) "Imperatives with/without necessity." In Shin Fukuda, Mary Shin Kim, Mee-Jeong Park, and Haruko Minegishi Cook (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 25. pp. 103–116. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Ihara, Shun (2018) "Exhaustivity in imperatives: a case study of imperatives with dake 'only'." Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language. pp. 1–10. Osaka University.
Ihara, Shun (2018) "Kore-mo Kopyura-JA-roo ka?: Nihongo-niokeru kyarakopyura-no imiron goyooron [On the property of character-associated copula in Japanese]." Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Pragmatic Society of Japan, pp. 315–318.
Ihara, Shun (2018) "Contrastive topics and the dual character of imperatives." Papers from the 10th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistics Society of Japan, JELS 35, pp. 231–237.
Ihara, Shun (2017) "What sentence-final particle ne does in imperatives." Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Pragmatic Society of Japan, pp. 239–242.
Ihara, Shun and Yuya Noguchi (2017) “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]." The Proceedings of the 41st meeting of the Kansai Linguistics Society, KLS 41, pp. 25–37.
Ihara, Shun (2016) "CCG (Combinatory Categorial Grammar)-niyoru shuujoshi-to buntaipu-no bunseki [The Japanese sentence-final particles and clause types in Combinatory Categorial Grammar]." Proceedings of the 22nd Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing, pp. 425–428.

Thesis:

Ihara, Shun (2020) Decomposing Directive Strategies. Ph.D. Dissertation, Osaka University. Chair: Prof. Hiroshi Mito. Members: Prof. Yoichi Miyamoto, Prof. Masao Ochi, Assoc Prof. Eri Tanaka.
Ihara, Shun (2017) Dynamics, Optimality, and the Japanese Sentence-final Particle Ne. M.A. thesis, Osaka University. Thesis Supervisors: Prof. Yoshiyuki Kinouchi, Prof. Hiroshi Mito.
Ihara, Shun (2015) Dokuwa-ni-okeru Ichininsho-to Nininsho: Nichieigo-no Hikaku-o tooshite [First and Second Person Pronouns in Soliloquy: Comparison with Japanese and English]. B.A. thesis, Yokohama National University. Thesis Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Tomohiro Fujii.