Oshima Yoshikazu

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://sites.google.com/view/davidyo

Research field (4)： Other , Other , Other , Linguistics

Research keywords (3)： Syntax , Pragmatics , Semantics

Research theme for competitive and other funds (9)：

2022 - 2027 The taxonomy of marked nominal predicate constructions: From semantic, contrastive, and diachronic perspectives
2021 - 2024 Grammar in the text genre: Interaction between the text and the construction as its element
2019 - 2023 Question embedding and ignorance inferences
2019 - 2022 Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar
2017 - 2022 Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese

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Papers (61)：

David Y. Oshima. The forms and meanings of negative polar interrogatives in English and Japanese: Epistemic bias, information structure, prosody, and further issues. Hideki Kishimoto, Osamu Sawada, and Ikumi Imani (eds.) Polarity-sensitive expressions: Comparison between Japanese and other languages. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 2024. 261-296
David Y. Oshima. The semantic markedness of the Japanese negative preterite: Non-existence of (positive) eventualities vs. existence of negative eventualities. Daisuke Bekki, Koji Mineshima, and Elin McCready (eds.) Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics: 19th International Conference, LENLS19, Tokyo, Japan, November 19-21, 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Heidelberg: Springer. 2023. 1-20
David Y. Oshima. The Japanese verb itasu and its kin: Dishonorifics (kenjōgo II) vs. courtesy honorifics (teichōgo). Sara Williamson, Adeola Aminat Babayode-Lawal, Laurens Bosman, Nicole Chan, Sylvia Cho, Ivan Fong, and Kaye Holubowsky (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol.30. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 2023. 1-546
David Y. Oshima. On the mirative use of no (da) construction in Japanese. Elin McCready and Hiroki Nomoto (eds.) Discourse particles in Asian languages, volume I: East Asia. Abingdon: Routledge. 2023. 9-32
David Y. Oshima. The semantics and pragmatics of the Japanese honorific titles san, kun, and chan. Katsutoshi Yada, Yasufumi Takama, Koji Mineshima, and Ken Satoh (eds.) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2021 Workshops, JURISIN, LENLS, SCIDOCA, Kansei-AI, AI-Biz, Japan, November 13-15, 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Heidelberg: Springer. 2023. 172-187

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Books (6)：

An introduction to pragmatics
2020 ISBN:9784327378233
Polarity-sensitive expressions: their forms, meanings, and functions
2019 ISBN:9784758922807
Techniques for Linguistic Studies: Data Collection and Analysis
Hituzi Shobo 2011 ISBN:9784894765825
Perspectives in Reported Discourse: The De Re/De Dicto Distinction, Indexicality, and Presupposition
VDM Verlag 2011 ISBN:9783639367522
Diversity in Language: Perspectives and Implications
CSLI Publications 2007

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Lectures and oral presentations (57)：

The Japanese verb #Iitasu#IR 'do' and its kin: Dishonorifics (#Ikenjōgo#IR II) vs. courtesy honorifics (#Iteichōgo#IR)
(The 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference)
The semantic markedness of the Japanese negative preterite: Non-existence of (positive) eventualities vs. existence of negative eventualities
(Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 19)
How to be a ham sandwich or an eel: The English deferred equative and the Japanese eel sentence
(The 29th International Conference of HPSG)
The semantic functions and usage of the affixal designation terms #Isan#IR, #Ikun#IR, and #Ichan#IR
(The 35th Workshop of "Contrastive Studies of Foreign Languages and Japanese" 2022)
The semantics and pragmatics of the Japanese honorific titles -san, -kun, and -chan
(Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 18 2021)

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Education (3)：

2001 - 2006 Stanford University Department of Linguistics
1999 - 2001 The University of Tokyo Graduate School, Division of General Culture Department of Language and Information Sciences
1995 - 1999 Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Language Department of French Studies

Work history (5)：

2017/04 - 現在 Nagoya University Graduate School of Humanities Associate professor
2016/08 - 2017/08 University of Texas, Austin Department of Linguistics Researcher
2010/04 - 2017/03 Nagoya University Department of International Communication, Graduate School of International Development Associate professor
2007/10 - 2010/03 Ibaraki University International Student Center, Lecturer
2006/08 - 2007/05 Arizona State University Department of Languages and Literatures Visiting Assistant Professor

Committee career (9)：

2017/01 - 現在 LENLS (Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics), organizing/program committee committee member
2022/07 - 2022/12 The 165th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, program committee program committee member
2021/10 - 2022/09 The 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG 2022), local organizing committee local organizing committee chair
2022/01 - 2022/06 The 164th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, program committee program committee member
2021/07 - 2021/12 The 163rd meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, program committee program committee member

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Association Membership(s) (2)：

Japanese Association for the Study of Logic, Language and Information , The Linguistic Society of Japan

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