Research Interests

    Linguistic Theory

            Formal semantics/pragmatics

            Minimalist syntax

            Syntax-semantics interface

            Comparative syntax (English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Mayrinax)

    Topics on linguistics

            Modality

                    Epistemic modality, subjectivity, epistemic interference, conditional and counterfactual.

            Quantification

                    QP/DP internal syntax, quantification in DP/CP domains, conditional in universal quantifier,

                    distributivity, compositionality of bare nominals, plurality, existential quantification.

            Wh-construction

                    Theory of wh-movement, licensing conditions of wh indefinite and intervention effect,

                    epistemic interference effect.

            Reflexivity

                    Anaphoric binding and reflexive predicate.