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REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

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BOOKS

2018 Subjects in Japanese and English, Routledge, Oxford. (Republication of Kitagawa (1994))

2004 Kitagawa, Yoshihisa and Ayumi Ueyama, Seesee-bunpoo-no Kangae-kata (Ways of Thinking in Generative Grammar), Kenkyusha, Tokyo.

1994 Subjects in Japanese and English, Garland Publishing, New York.

ARTICLES

2022 "Reflexivity, reciprocality and collectivity in Jordanian Arabic," Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1), 1–38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5799.[PDF1/2], [PDF2/2]

2020 Tomioka, Satoshi, Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Katsuo Tamaoka, "Intervention Effects in Japanese Revisited: Gradable Acceptability and its Theoretical Consequences," Japanese/Korean Linguistics 27, CSLI Publications, 19-36.

2020  Patterson, Yina and Yoshihisa Kitagawa, “On the So-Called Gapless Relative Clauses in Chinese," Proceedings of the 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32), 289-306.

2018 "Floating Quantifiers in Japanese Passives and Beyond," Journal of Japanese Linguistics 34.2, pp. 59-85.

2018 Yoon Junghyoe and Yoshihisa Kitagawa, "Synchronizing Physical and Logical Properties," WAFL 13, MIT, pp. 281-294. [PDF]

2018 Ishihara, Shinichiro, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Satoshi Nambu and Hajime Ono, "Non-focal Prominence," WAFL 13, MIT, Pp. 12. [PDF]

2017 "Interfacing Syntax with Sounds and Meanings," Shibatani, Masayoshi, Shigeru Miyagawa and Hisashi Noda eds., Handbook of Japanese Syntax, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin,
497-552. [PDF (prepubication version] (Published version also available upon request)

2017 "Morphosyntax at LF," Peskyset: Papers for David Pesetsky, MIT, 1-10. [PDF]

2013 "Uttering and Interpreting Trees," English Linguistics 30.1. [PDF (unabridged version),
PDF (published version — Contact the author. ]

2013 Special Issue: Prosody at the Grammatical Crossroads — Japanese and Beyond
Guest Edited by Yoshihisa Kitagawa & Satoshi Tomioka, Lingua 124. [PDF] [PDF]

2013 Kitagawa, Yoshihisa, Katsuo Tamaoka and Satoshi Tomioka, "Prosodic Matters in
Intervention Effects in Japanese: An Experimental Study," Lingua 124, 41-63.

2013 Yoon, Junghyoe and Yoshihisa Kitagawa, "Case Drop from Fragment Answers in
Korean," Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 19.1, pp. 277-286. <http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1277&context=pwpl>

2012 Kitagawa, Yoshihisa and Yuki Hirose, "Appeals to Prosody in Wh-interrogatives:
Speakers' versus Listeners' Strategies," Lingua 122.6, 608-641.

2011 "Decomposing Overt Syntax," Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19, CSLI
 Publications, pp. 61-80. [PDF]

2011 Kim, Ock-Hwan and Yoshihisa Kitagawa, "Selective Reproduction in NP-Ellipsis," Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19, pp. 125-140, CSLI Publications. [PDF]

2010 Hirose, Yuki and Yoshihisa Kitagawa, "Production-Perception Asymmetry in Wh-scope Marking," Processing and Producing Head-final Structures, eds. by Yamashita, Hiroko, Jerry Packard and Yuki Hirose, pp. 93-110, Springer, New York.

2010 "Nihongo-no Shoten-ni-kansuru Shubun-gensho (Matrix Phenomenon on Focus in
 Japanese)," in Hasegawa, Nobuko ed., Nihongo-no Shintenkai-to Nihongo-kenkyu —
 Meidai-o Koete (The New Developments in the Syntactic Theories and the Study of 
 Japanese — Beyond Propositions), pp. 269-300, Kaitakusha, Tokyo. (『統語論の新展開と日本語研究:命題を超えて』)

2009 "Exhaustive Focus in Japanese," Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages
— Collection of the Papers Selected from the CIL 18
, The Linguistic Society of Korea,
pp. 454-474.

2009 Kitagawa, Yoshihisa and Kenji Yoshida, "Statistical Anatomy of Unacceptability,"
Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages — Collection of the Papers Selected
from the CIL 18
, The Linguistic Society of Korea, pp. 1954-1973.

2007 "When We Fail to Question in Japanese," In Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 9, Ishihara, Shinichiro (eds), University of Potsdam.

2006 Kitagawa, Yoshihisa and Janet D. Fodor, "Prosodic Influence on Syntactic Judgments," In Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives, ed. Fanselow, Gisbert, et al., Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2006 "Naze," In In Search of the Essence of Language Science: Festschrift for Professor Heizo Nakajima on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, Hitsuji Shobo.

2006 "Wh-scope Puzzles," NELS 35, GLSA.

2005 "Prosody, Syntax and Pragmatics of Wh-questions in Japanese," English Linguistics 22.2, 302-346. [PDF]

2004 Kitagawa, Yoshihisa, Dorian Roehrs and Satoshi Tomioka, "Multiple
Wh-interpretations," Generative Grammar in a Broader PerspectiveProceedings of
GLOW in Asia 2003
, pp. 209-233. [PDF]

2004 Kitagawa, Yoshihisa and Satoshi Tomioka "Masked Island Effects in Japanese," Proceedings of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics I —  MIT Working Papers in
Linguistics 46, pp. 315-329.

2003 "Copying Variables," in Yen-hui Audrey Li, and Andrew Simpson, eds. Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation: Perspectives from East Asian Languages, pp. 28-64, RoutledgeCurzon, London.

2003 Kitagawa, Yoshihisa and Janet Dean Fodor "Default Prosody Explains Neglected Syntactic Analyses in Japanese," Japanese/Korean Linguistics 12, Pp. 12, CSLI Publications.

2002 Deguchi, Masanori and Yoshihisa Kitagawa "Prosody and Wh-questions," Masako Hirotani ed., Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the North-Eastern Linguistic Society, pp. 73-92. [PDF]

2002 Kim, Ae-ryung and Yoshihisa Kitagawa "Opacity in Japanese and Korean," Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10, pp. 603-616, CSLI Publications.

2000 Endo, Yoshio, Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Jiyoung Yoon "Smaller Clauses," The Nanzan GLOW Proceedings, pp. 73-95.

1999 "VP-Ellipsis vs. NP-Ellipsis," Muraki, Masatake and Enoch Iwamoto eds. Linguistics In Search of Human Mind - A Festschrift for Kazuko Inoue, Kaitakusha, pp.347-372.

1996 Ito, Junko, Yoshihisa Kitagawa and R. Armin Mester "Prosodic Faithfulness and Correspondence: Evidence from a Japanese Argot," Journal of East Asian Linguistics 5.3, pp. 217-294.

1995 "'Affect' in Binding and Coreference," in Gabriele, L. and R. Westmoreland eds., FLSM VI, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America, Indiana University Linguistics Club, pp. 130-142. [PDF]

1994 "Shells, Yolks, and Scrambled E.g.s," Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the North-Eastern Linguistic Society, pp. 221-239. [PDF]

1991 "Copying Identity," Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol. 9.3, pp. 497-536.

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

2000 "Covert Syntax for Anaphoric Interpretation," Pp. 77. - This is an extended version of Kitagawa (1995) above. [PDF]

1992 Kitagawa, Yoshihisa and S. -Y. Kuroda, "Passive in Japanese," Pp. 125. [PDF]

1990 "Anti-Scrambling," Pp. 110. [PDF]

EDITING

2013 Lingua Special Issue: Prosody at the Grammatical Crossroads — Japanese and Beyond
Guest Edited by Yoshihisa Kitagawa & Satoshi TomiokaKitagawa, Lingua 124.

2005 Indiana University Working Papers in Linguistics:  Syntax and Beyond,vol. 5,
        (with Dorian Roehrs and Ock-Hwan Kim), Indiana University Linguistics Club.