Osamu Sawada. Scale structures of numeral additive particles: The case of the Japanese particles moo and ato. Kobe Papers in Linguistics. 2024. 14. 39-61
Osamu Sawada. The polarity sensitivity of reactive intensifiers in Japanese and English. Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages. 2023. 297-342
Osamu Sawada, Hideki Kishimoto, Ikumi Imani. Empirical and theoretical issues of polarity-sensitive expressions. Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages. 2023. 1-36
Osamu Sawada. Interpretations of Sense-Based Minimizers in Japanese and English: Direct and Indirect Sense-Based Measurements. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 2023. 13856 LNAI. 145-160
Osamu Sawada. Scalarity of the Japanese initial mora-based minimizer: a compositional (lexically unspecified) minimizer and a non-compositional (lexically specified) minimizer. NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS. 2023
Expressivity in Japanese: Cross-linguistic and language-internal variations
(The 18th Modality Workshop 2024)
On the similarities and differences between ordinary wh questions and negative wh expressives
(「疑問詞文のプロソディーに関する音声学・言語学の融合的・実証的研究」, 科研研究会 2024)
Ambiguity of the Japanese negative comparative expression kurabe mono-ni nara-nai ’cannot be compared’.
(The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America 2024)
On the meaning and use of the Japanese negative comparative expression kurabe mono-ni nara-nai ‘cannot be compared’
(Kobe Linguistics Symposium (jointly held with Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai) 2023)
The Japanese negative polarity item hitotsu ‘even’: An event semantics approach
(Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 20 (LENLS 20) 2023)
