Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2018 - 2022 Investigating the indexical shift mechanism and its interaction with the syntax and pragmatics interface
2015 - 2017 Investigation into differences and inconsistencies of grammatical judgment and its resolution
2012 - 2014 How to resolve grammatical judgment variability
Papers (40):
Hisashi Morita. A new syntactic approach to (non-negative) weak islands. Proceedings for the 25th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG),. 2023. 187-206
Hisashi MORITA, Gillian RAMCHAND. Shifty Indexicals and Logophors in Japanese. Proceedings for the 159th Nihon Gengo Gakkai (The Linguistic Society of Japan). 2019. 159. 353-359
Hisashi MORITA. The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Covert Pied-piping in Sinhala and Japanese Wh-Questions. Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 2019. 28. 4. 307-356
Hisashi MORITA. Two kinds of in-situ languages and two ways to overcome islands. Mulberry. 2019. 69. 39-61