Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2021 - 2025 A critical examination of syntactic verb movement: On the mismatch between syntax and semantics
2019 - 2021 A Comparative Study of Syntax for the Investigation of Universal Coordinate and Parallel Structures
2016 - 2018 Elucidating the Universal Structure of Coordination: A Comparative Study of Syntax with Special Reference to Japanese and English
Papers (40):
Tanabe, Tomoya, Ryoichiro Kobayashi. Arguments against Head-stranding Ellipsis in Japanese: A Reply to Funakoshi (2016). Syntax. 2024. 1-23
Hirayama, Yuto, Shun Ihara, Ryoichiro Kobayashi. On the Peculiar Distribution of the Japanese Epistemic Adverb Masaka. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28. 2024
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Tomoya Tanabe, Yosuke Sato. Focusing on the Diagnostic Validity of the Adjunct Test in Japanese: Where Prosody Meets Information Structure. Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 25. 2023. 60-73
Tanabe, Tomoya, Ryoichiro Kobayashi. Remarks on Verb Echo Answers and Head Movement in Japanese. Proceedings of the 58th Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS58). 2023. 58. 467-478
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. Verbs Stay In-situ in Japanese: A Case Study of VP-fronting. Japanese/Korean Linguistics. 2023. 30. 463-470
Vardaman, James M., 鎌田, 明子, 岡田, 大樹, 小林, 亮一朗. Japan's dilemmas and solutions : 15 topics you need to consider : 考えよう日本の論点15. 2022
Ryoichiro Kobayashi. Derivations of non-constituent coordination in Japanese and English. What You Have Always Wanted to Know About English Linguistics, Education, and Literature. 2020. 38-39
Yoda, Yusuke, Kobayashi, Ryoichiro, Takayuki Akimoto. A Report on 1st Year Placement Tests and Current Studentsʼ Learning Attitudes. Bulletin of Toyo Gakuen University. 2018. 26. 1. 123-138
Kobayashi, Ryoichiro. Against V-to-T-to-C movement in Japanese: A case study of non-constituent coordination. Paper presented at the 11th Edition of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics. 2015
Ryoichiro Kobayashi. A hybrid analysis for LF-intervention effects: polarity sensitive items as genuine LF-interveners. Proceedings of the 149th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. 2014. 296-301
Books (1):
Functional Parametrization Hypothesis in the Minimalist Program: Case Studies from the Perspective of Comparative Syntax of Japanese and English
Kaitakusha 2022 ISBN:4758923787
Lectures and oral presentations (55):
Ellipsis and Head Movement at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Crossroad: Japanese and Beyond
(Workshop at the 168th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan 2024)
Head Movement does not Necessarily Affect Scopal Relations: Arguments from Syntax and Semantics
(168th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan 2024)
Interpretation of Null Adjuncts and Sluicing: On Adjunct Ellipsis
(Kansai Linguistic Society 49 2024)
Phi-Agreement and the Raising-to-Object Constructions in English and Japanese
(The 17th English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) International Spring Forum 2024)
Replicability of Adjunct-Inclusive Interpretation: Implications for Adjunct Ellipsis in Japanese
(Chicago Linguistic Society 60 (CLS60) 2024)
2016 - 2020 Sophia University Ph.D Program in Languages and Linguistics Linguistics
2014 - 2016 Sophia University Master's Program in Languages and Linguistics Linguistics
2010 - 2014 Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English Studies(Linguistics Minor)
Professional career (3):
Ph.D. in Linguistics (Sophia University)
MA in Linguistics (Sophia University)
BA in Foreign Studies (Sophia University)
Work history (11):
2023/04 - 現在 Tokyo University of Agriculture Department of Agribusiness Management, Faculty of International Agriculture and Food Studies Associate Professor
2022/04 - 現在 Sophia University SRO Research Institutes Division Linguistic Institute for International Communication Visiting researcher
2024/04 - 2025/03 Tokyo Woman's Christian University School of Arts and Sciences Part-time Lecturer
2022/04 - 2024/03 Kanagawa University Faculty of Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies Part-time Lecturer
2020/04 - 2023/03 Tokyo University of Agriculture Department of Agribusiness Management, Faculty of International Agriculture and Food Studies Assistant Professor
2018/04 - 2020/03 Aichi University of Technology Liberal Education, Faculty of Engineering Assistant Professor
2017/04 - 2018/03 Toyo Gakuen University Faculty of Business Administration Part-time Lecturer
2016/04 - 2018/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow(DC1)
2016/10 - 2017/09 Tokyo Woman's Christian University School of Arts and Sciences Part-time Lecturer
2015/04 - 2016/03 Aoyama Gakuin Senior High School English Part-time Lecturer
2014/04 - 2015/03 Yasuda Gakuen Senior High School English Part-time Lecturer
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Committee career (2):
2023/04 - 2027/03 The English Linguistic Society of Japan The Public Relations Committee
2015/04 - 2018/03 Sophia University Linguistic Society Bulletin Editor
Association Membership(s) (4):
Kansai Linguistic Society
, The Linguistic Society of Japan
, The Linguistic Society of Sophia University
, THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN