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Junko Shimoyama

Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
McGill University
1085 Dr. Penfield, #121
tel: 514-398-4867
e-mail: junko.shimoyama(at)mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Associate member

Research Themes

Visual Language Processing

Areas of Expertise

Syntax, Syntax-semantics interface, Japanese linguistics

Current Research Interests

My main research interests lie in syntax and its interface with semantic interpretation.  In particular, current research topics include quantification, scope, relative clauses and other modifiers, questions, degree constructions, and polarity phenomena.   

Selected Publications

  • Shimoyama, J. Indeterminate phrase quantification in Japanese. Natural Language Semantics, 14, 139-173.
  • Kratzer, A. a& Shimoyama, J. (2002). Indeterminate pronouns: the view from Japanese. In Y. Otsu, (Ed.), The Proceedings of the Third Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2002), 1-25, Hituzi Syobo, Tokyo.
  • Shimoyama, J. (1999). Internally headed relative clauses in Japanese and E-type anaphora. Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 8, 147-182.
  • Shimoyama, J. (1999). Complex NPs and wh-quantification in Japanese. In P. N. Tamanji et al. (Eds). Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 29, 355-365. GLSA, Amherst.

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