Yasutada Sudo

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University College London (UCL). My research is about theoretical linguistics, mainly semantics, pragmatics, and syntax.

I am a co-Managing Editor for Journal of Semantics (2023-). I was an Associated Editor at the same journal (2016–2023) and an Editor for the Squibs and Discussion section of Linguistic Inquiry (October 2013–November 2017).

Employment and Education

  • October 2018–present: Associate Professor, UCL, London, UK
  • August-October 2021: Visiting fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany
  • September 2013–September 2018: Lecturer (UK equivalent of Assistant Professor), UCL, London, UK
  • September 2012–August 2013: Postdoctoral researcher (PI: Dr. Philippe Schlenker), Institut Jean-Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure/CNRS, Paris, France
  • September 2007–August 2012: Ph.D., Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
  • April 2005–March 2007: MA, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • April 2001–March 2004: BA, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan

Full CV (pdf)

Contact

  • Email: y.sudo@ucl.ac.uk
  • Address:
    Chandler House, Room 115H
    2 Wakefield Street
    London WC1N 1PF
    UK

Regular courses at UCL

Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics A (PLIN0001; formerly PLIN1001)

Co-taught with Nathan Klinedinst in 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19. This course is an introduction to the study of meaning, intended mainly for first-year BA students in Linguistics. We introduce Set Theory and Propositional Logic as formal tools to analyse the semantics and pragmatics of predicates and sentential connectives in natural language.

A textbook based on this course is in preparation (to be published from Cambridge University Press).

Semantic Theory (PLIN0009; formerly PLIN2001)

This course covers three topics in semantics/pragmatics and its interface with syntax: Quantifiers, Polarity Sensitivity, and Scalar Implicatures.

I am in charge of this couse since 2016–17. It was taught by James Kirkpatrick in 2018–19, by Sophie Moracchini in 2020–21, and by Stefano Castiglione in 2023–24.

Constructed Languages (PLIN0068)

In this course you will learn formal methods in linguistics by constructing your own original language that has properties that care different from natural language in some crucial ways. [ course website ]

Advanced Semantic Theory (PLIN0020; formerly PLIN3004/PLING218)

This course covers advanced topics in formal semantics. From Year 2019–20, students are asked to do their own original research with original data. (What is now taught in Semantic Theory used to be taught in this course)

Semantics Research Seminar (PLIN0056; formerly PLING228)

Co-taught with Nathan Klinedinst and Daniel Rothschild (+ guest lecturers). This is a graduate-level seminar course on semantics and philosophy of language. Each year we pick a topic and read and discuss classic work and recent research on it.

  • Autumn 2023: Question semantics
  • Autumn 2022: Wide scope indefinites; Topics in Semantics
  • Autumn 2021: Language in reasoning
  • Autumn 2019: Dynamic Semantics
  • Autumn 2018: Attitudes
  • Spring 2018: Presupposition
  • Spring 2017: Question Semantics
  • Spring 2016: Question Semantics
  • Spring 2015: Dynamic Semantics, Truth-maker Semantics
  • Spring 2014: De re/de dicto

Advanced Semantic Theory B (PLIN3005/PLING229)

This course is not offered at the moment, but used to cover advanced topics in semantics. The lecture notes from Spring 2015-16 are available here.

Linguistic Relativism

I give one lecture on linguistic relativism every year as part of PLIN0007 Core Issues. [ slides (2019-20) ]

Summer schools and other teaching activities

2023

Experimental approaches to scalar implicatures : with Stavroula Alexandropoulou

CUSO School, 8–10 November 2023, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

2021

Discourse referents

Göttingen fall school in linguistics 2021: anaphora and presupposition, Mon 30 August–Fri 3 September 2021, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

[ course website ]

2019

The Morphosemantics/pragmatics of Nominal Number

Balaton Linguistics Summer School, August 26–30, 2019, Lake Balaton, Hungary.

Fall School of Formal Syntax and Formal Semantics (3-FS), September 1-7, 2019, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

In this course we will investigate some of the current theoretical issues surrounding the morphology, semantics and pragmatics of nominal number. We will in particular focus on the idea that only certain part of the meaning of number comes from the lexically encoded meaning, and the rest comes from some other mechanism, and evaluate and compare several theoretical implementations of this idea. We will cover the following topics:

  • Nominal number across languages
  • Theoretical approaches to unmarked plural
  • Morphological vs. semantic markedness
  • Dual in Slovenian
[ slides ]

2018

Ellipsis, Binding, and Logical Form : with Patrick Elliott

Eastern Generative Grammar 2018, in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Boznia and Herzegovina.

In this seminar, we delve into the semantics of elliptical constructions, by focusing on the interaction between ellipsis and binding – a topic that has been the focus of intensive research since Sag’s (1976) pioneering dissertation. In the first part of the class, we will introduce a number of classical ellipsis/binding puzzles, and the debate surrounding their analysis: the strict/sloppy ambiguity, MaxElide, and Dahl’s puzzle. In the second part of the class, we will briefly introduce dynamic semantics, and argue that static conceptions of binding are insufficient for analysing certain interactions between binding and ellipsis. Ultimately, we will suggest that once one shifts to a dynamic perspective, ellipsis can itself be analysed as a kind of binding.

Course website

The Exhaustivity Operator: Current Issues and Perspectives : with Daniele Panizza

Eastern Generative Grammar 2018, in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Boznia and Herzegovina.

In this course we will review recent theoretical developments concerning the exhaustivity-operator (Exh). We will start with the basics (focus, scalar implicature and problems of alternatives), and move on to more advanced topics, such as economy conditions on the distribution of Exh, polarity sensitivity, etc.

2017

Lectures on the Syntax, Semantics, and Morphology of Number : with Andrew Nevins

12–14 December, 2017, Masaryk University, Brno. Funded by Erasmus+.

  • Lecture 1: Unmarked plurals [ handout ]
  • Webinar: Countable nouns and classifiers in Japanese (and beyond) [ slides ]

2016

Presupposition

Lectures on the Syntax, Semantics, and Morphology of Gender : with Andrew Nevins

1–3 June, 2016, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

In this course we will explore current theoretical issues regarding gender marking in natural languages. Gender is a hotly debated topic in the literature of morphology, syntax, and semantics, as well as their interfaces. We will discuss various theoretical debates, drawing data from a number of languages, including Greek. There will be five lectures:

  • Lecture 1: Introduction [ Slides ]
  • Lecture 2: The Semantics of Gender on Nouns [ Slides ]
  • Lecture 3: Nominal Ellipsis of Gendered Nouns [ Slides ]
  • Lectures 4&5: Gender on Participles

2015

The Semantics of Perspective Sensitivity : with Lisa Bylinina & Eric McCready

ESSLLI 2015, August 10–14, 2015, at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Many expressions in natural language (e.g. left, interesting) are 'perspective-sensitive' in the sense that their meanings nontrivially refer to the perspectives under which they are used. While the semantics of such perspective sensitive items (PSIs) garnered some attention in the 70-80s, the recent literature focuses more on specific subsets of them (e.g. predicates of personal taste, perspective sensitive anaphora, evidentials) and discussion on similarities and differences among PSIs is scarce. Furthermore, despite the recent developments in the study of context sensitivity, especially the semantics of indexical expressions and de se attitude, connections to perspective sensitivity have rarely been made. The purpose of this course is to bring together the views offered by these different trends in the recent literature, aiming at giving a better empirical landscape of PSIs and developing a formal theory of perspective sensitivity in relation to context sensitivity.

  • Lecture 1 (Lisa): Introduction to Perspective Sensitivity [ slides (pdf) ]
  • Lecture 2 (Yasu): Shifting in Attitude Contexts and Elsewhere [ slides (html) ]
  • Lecture 3 (Yasu): Come and Go [ slides (html) ]
  • Lecture 4 (Eric): Epistemic Modality and Evidentials [ slides (pdf) ]
  • Lecture 5 (Lisa): Subjectivity, Predicates of Personal Taste

2014

@University of Hiroshima

集中講義, 広島大学, July 18–19, 2014.

2013

The Semantics of Phi

ACTL, June 24–28, 2013. UCL, London, UK.

  • Day 1: Introduction [ handout ]
  • Day 2: Phi-features on pronous and presuppositions [ handout ]
  • Day 3: Problem of bound pronouns [ handout ]
  • Day 4: Number features on bound pronouns [ handout ]
  • Day 5: Phi-features on verbs, adjectives and nouns [ handout ]

PhD Supervision

  • Tim Jantarungsee: September 2023–, UCL, primary supervisor (funded by AHRC-LAHP)
  • Daniel Blunier: 2022-present, Université de Genève, co-supervisor (with Isabelle Charnavelle)
  • Ruoying Zhao: September 2016–January 2022, UCL primary supervisor
  • Bridget Schvarcz: 2019-2021, Bar Ilan University, external advisor (primary supervisors: Gabi Danon, Susan Rothstein)
  • Gregor Willamson: 2016–September 2021, UCL, primary supervisor (co-supervision with Hans van de Koot)
  • Flóra Lili Donáti: 2018–July 2021, Paris 8, external advisor (primary supervisor: Claire Beyssade)
  • Rodanthi Christofaki: 2017–December 2019, Cambridge University, external advisor (supervisor: Ianthi Tsimpli)

Manuscripts

Marty, Paul, Sonia Ramotowska, Richard Breheny, Jacopo Romoli & Yasutada Sudo (2023; under review) On the source of distributivity inferences. Ms., L-Università ta' Malta, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldor, and UCL

Elliott, Patrick D. & Yasutada Sudo (2023; under review) Free choice with anaphora. Ms., Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldor and UCL.

Marco Degano, Paul Marty, Sonia Ramotowska, Maria Aloni, Richard Breheny, Jacopo Romoli & Yasutada Sudo (2023; under review) The ups and downs of ignorance. Ms., Universiteit van Amsterdam, L-Università ta' Malta, UCL, and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldor.

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Bob van Tiel & Richard Breheny (2023; under review) Scalar inferencing, polarity and working memory. Ms., UCL and University of Bergen.

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2022; under revision) Implicating in semi-cooperative contexts. Ms., L-Università ta' Malta, UCL, and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2022; under revision) Implicature priming, inverse preference, and context adaptation. Ms., L-Università ta' Malta, UCL, and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

Donáti, Flóra Lili & Yasutada Sudo (2022; under revision) Additivity, accommodation and alternatives.

Marušič, Franc, Rok Žaucer, Yasutada Sudo & Andrew Nevins (under revision; 2020) Inflectional competition and interpretation: A case study on the Slovenian dual. Ms., University of Nova Gorica and UCL.

Sudo, Yasutada (2017) It's not always redundant to assert what can be presupposed. Ms., UCL.

Sudo, Yasutada (2014) Presupposition projection in quantified sentences and cross-dimensional anaphora. Ms., UCL.

Sudo, Yasutada (2013) Metalinguistic quantification: Evidence from Japanese wh-doublets. Ms., Institut Jean-Nicod

Journal Articles

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (to appear) Alternative priming, salience, and context adaptation. To appear in Cognition.

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (to appear) What makes inferences robust? To appear in Journal of Semantics.

Sudo, Yasutada (2023) Which answer resolves which reading of which question? Theoretical Linguistics, 49(1–2): 149–165. doi: 10.1515/tl-2023-2008

Sudo, Yasutada (2023) Scalar implicatures with discourse referents: A case study on plurality inferences. Linguistics and Philosophy, 46: 1161–1217. doi: 10.1007/s10988-023-09381-6

Baggio, Pietro & Yasutada Sudo (2023) The representation of gender and inflectional class in Italian: A reply to Kučerová 2018. Linguistic Inquiry, 55(1): 95–151. doi: 10.1162/ling_a_00457

Denić, Milica & Yasutada Sudo (2022) Donkey anaphora in non-monotonic contexts. Journal of Semantics, 39(3): 443–474. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffac005

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2021) Negative Free Choice. Semantics & Pragmatics, 14. doi: 10.3765/sp.14.13

Sudo, Yasutada & Giorgos Spathas. (2020) Gender and interpretation in Greek: Comments on Merchant (2014). Glossa, 5(1): 129. 1–42. doi: 10.5334/gjgl.1173

Spathas, Giorgos & Yasutada Sudo (2020) Gender on animal nouns in Greek. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 19: 25–48. doi: 10.5565/rev/catjl.297

Panizza, Daniele & Yasutada Sudo (2020) Minimal sufficiency with covert even. Glossa, 5(1), 98: 1–25. doi: 10.5334/gjgl.1118

Uegaki, Wataru & Yasutada Sudo (2019) The *hope-wh puzzle. Natural Language Semantics., 27: 323–356. doi: 10.1007/s11050-019-09156-5

Frances Kane, Alexandre Cremers, Lyn Tieu, Lynda Kennedy, Yasutada Sudo, Raffaella Folli & Jacopo Romoli (2018) Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language. Glossa, 3(1): 139, 1–21. doi: 10.5334/gjgl.604

Breheny, Richard, Nathan Klinedinst, Jacopo Romoli & Yasutada Sudo (2018) The symmetry problem: current theories and prospects. Natural Language Semantics, 26(2): 85–110. doi: 10.1007/s11050-017-9141-z

Spector, Benjamin & Yasutada Sudo (2017) Presupposed ignorance and exhaustification: How scalar implicature and presupposition interact. Linguistics and Philosophy, 40(5): 473–517. doi: 10.1007/s10988-017-9208-9

Patrick D. Elliott, Nathan Klinedinst, Yasutada Sudo & Wataru Uegaki (2017) Predicates of relevance and theories of question embedding. Journal of Semantics, 34(3): 547–554. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffx008

Hartshorne, Joshua, Timothy J. O’Donnell, Yasutada Sudo, Miki Uruwashi, Miseon Lee, & Jesse Snedeker. (2016) Psych verbs, the linking problem, and the acquisition of language. Cognition, 157: 268–288. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.08.008

Bylinina, Lisa & Yasutada Sudo (2015) Varieties of intensification: Remarks on Beltrama and Bochnak 'Intensification without degrees cross-linguistically'. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 33(3): 881–895. doi: 10.1007/s11049-015-9291-y

Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo & Martin Hackl (2015) Experimental investigations of ambiguity: The case of most. Natural Language Semantics, 23(2): 119–156. doi: 10.1007/s11050-015-9113-0

Sudo, Yasutada (2015) Hidden nominal structures in Japanese clausal comparatives. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 24(1): 1–51. doi: 10.1007/s10831-014-9125-7

Sudo, Yasutada (2014) Dependent plural pronouns with Skolemized choice functions. Natural Language Semantics, 22(3): 265–297. doi: 10.1007/s11050-014-9107-3

Shklovsky, Kirill & Yasutada Sudo (2014) The syntax of monsters. Linguistic Inquiry, 45(3): 381–402. doi: 10.1162/LING_a_00160

Hartshorne, Joshua, Yasutada Sudo, & Miki Uruwashi (2013) Are implicit causality pronoun resolution biases consistent across languages and cultures? Experimental Psychology, 60(3): 179–196. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000187

Snippets

Nicolae, Andreea & Yasutada Sudo (2019) The exhaustive relevance of complex conjunctions. Snippets, 37, Special issue in honor of Uli Sauerland. doi: 10.7358/snip-2019-037-nisu

Nicolae, Andreea & Yasutada Sudo (2019) Introduction. Snippets, 37, Special issue in honor of Uli Sauerland. doi: 10.7358/snip-2019-037-intr

Nicolae, Andreea, Patrick D. Elliott & Yasutada Sudo (2017) Do superiority-violating multiple singular which-questions have pair-list readings? Snippets, 31. doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-nico

Sudo, Yasutada (2017) De re readings of nested which-phrases in embedded questions. Snippets, 31. doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-sudo

Sudo, Yasutada (2017) Another problem for alternative-based theories of plurality inferences: The case of reduplicated plural nouns in Japanese. Snippets, 31. doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-yasu

Sudo, Yasutada (2015) Japanese nominal conjunction only has the split reading. Snippets, 30. doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-030-sudo

Nicolae, Andreea, Patrick D. Elliott & Yasutada Sudo (2015) Pair-list readings of conjoined singular which-phrases. Snippets, 30. doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-030-nico

Ivlieva, Natalia & Yasutada Sudo (2015) Another problem for alternative-based theories of plurality inferences: The case of mass plurals. Snippets, 29. doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-029-ivli

Book Chapters

Sudo, Yasutada & Andrew Nevins (2022) No ABA patterns with fractionals. In Linnaea Stockall, Luisa Martí, David Adger, Isabelle Roy & Sarah Ouwayda (eds.), For Hagit: A celebration/חגיגת חגית. London: QMUL Occasational Papers in Linguistics, 47.

Sudo, Yasutada (2022) Implicature processing. In 宮本陽一, 小泉政利, 小野創, Uli Sauerland & 八代和子 (eds.), Key Concepts of Experimental Pragmatics. Tokyo: 開拓社.

Donáti, Flóra Lili & Yasutada Sudo (2021) Even superlative modifiers. Marcin Wągiel & Mojmír Dočekal (eds.), Formal Approaches to Number in Slavic and Beyond, pp. 347–368. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5082478

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) On the strong and weak readings of the scalar particle -mo in Japanese. In 澤田治, 岸本秀樹, 今仁生美(編), 『極性表現の構造・意味・機能』, pp. 206–234. Tokyo: 開拓社.

Yasutada Sudo & Wataru Uegaki (2019) Question Marker Drop in Japanese and Generalized Factivity. In Yurie Hara, Shigeto Kawahara & Seunghun J. Lee (eds.) Festschrift for Prof. Tomoyuki Yoshida on His 60th Birthday, Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol.7, pp. 57–62. Mitaka, Tokyo: ICUWPL.

Bylinina, Lisa, Eric McCready & Yasutada Sudo (2015) Notes on perspective-sensitivity. In Peter Arkadiev, Ivan Kapitonov, Yuri Lander, Ekaterina Rakhilina and Sergei Tatevosov (eds.), Donum Semanticum: Opera Linguistica Et Logica In Honorem Barbarae Partee A Disscipulis Amicisque Rossicis Oblata, pp. 67–79. Moscow: Languages of Slavic Culture.

Sudo, Yasutada (2014) Presupposition satisfaction in attitude contexts and modal subordination. In Luka Crnic and Uli Sauerland (eds.), The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim, Vol.2, pp.175–199. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

Romoli, Jacopo, Manizeh Khan, Yasutada Sudo & Jesse Snedeker (2014) Resolving temporary referential ambiguity using presupposed content. In Florian Schwarz (ed.), Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 45. Berlin: Springer.

Sudo, Yasutada (2014) Presupposition. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sudo, Yasutada (2013) Biased polar questions in English and Japanese. In Daniel Gutzmann and Hans-Martin Gaertner (eds.), Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning. Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface (CRiSPI) 28. Leiden: Brill.

Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard & Martin Hackl (2011) Most meanings are superlative. In Jeff Runner (ed.), Syntax and Semantics 37: Experiments at the Interface. New York: Academic Press.

Textbook

Klinedinst, Nathan & Yasutada Sudo (in preparation) The Study of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics. In preparation for publication from Cambridge University Press.

Dissertation

Sudo, Yasutada (2012) On the Semantics of Phi Features on Pronouns. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Book Review

Christofaki, Rodanthi & Yasutada Sudo (2020) Daniel Gutzmann: The Grammar of Expressivity (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 72). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Journal of Linguistics, 56(4): 907–913. doi: 10.1017/S0022226720000328

Other Papers

Alxatib, Sam & Yasutada Sudo (to appear) Temporal -made in Japanese and its interaction with aspect and polarity. To appear in Proceedings of WAFL 17.

Augurzky, Petra, Marion Bonnet, Richard Breheny, Alexandre Cremers, Cornelia Ebert, Clemens Mayr, Jacopo Romoli, Markus Steinbach & Yasutada Sudo (2023) Putting plural definites into context. In Maria Onoeva, Anna Staňková & Radek Šimek (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27, pp. 19-32. doi: 10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1050

Yizhen Jiang, Shiyu Ren, Yihang Shen, Richard Breheny, Paul Marty, & Yasutada Sudo (2022) Plural priming revisited: inverse preference and spillover effects. In Proceedings of Amsterdam Colloquium 2022.

Sonia Ramotowska, Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2022) Diversity with universality. In Proceedings of Amsterdam Colloquium 2022.

Elliott, Patrick D. & Yasutada Sudo (2021) Generalised Crossover. In Proceedings of SALT 30, pp. 396–408. doi: 10.3765/salt.v30i0.4841

Denić, Milica & Yasutada Sudo (2019) Donkey anaphora in non-monotonic contexts. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2019.

Yasutada Sudo & Jacopo Romoli (2018) Lifetime effects as presuppositional scalar strengthening. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics.

Uegaki, Wataru & Yasutada Sudo (2017) The anti-rogativity of non-veridical preferential predicates. In Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2017.

Sudo, Yasutada (2016) Countable nouns in Japanese. Ms. written for Proceedings of WAFL 11.

Sudo, Yasutada (2016) The existential problem of scalar implicatures and anaphora across alternatives. In Christopher Piñon (ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 11., pp. 225-244.

Nicolae, Andreea, Patrick D. Elliott & Yasutada Sudo (2016) List readings of conjoined singular which- phrases. In Proceedings of NELS 46.

Sudo, Yasutada (2016) The semantic role of classifiers in Japanese. In Susan Rothstein & Jurģis Šķilters (eds.), Number: Cognitive, Semantic and Crosslinguistic Approaches, Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, vol 11.

Elliott, Patrick D. & Yasutada Sudo (2016) E-type readings of quantifiers under ellipsis. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20.

Sudo, Yasutada & Giorgos Spathas (2016) Nominal ellipsis and the interpretation of gender in Greek. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20.

Sudo, Yasutada (2016) Person indexicals in Uyghur indexical shifting. In Proceedings of BLS 36.

Elliott, Patrick D., Andreea Nicolae & Yasutada Sudo (2015) The Sticky Reading: VP Ellipsis Without Parallel Binding. In Proceedings of SALT 24.

Bylinina, Lisa, Natalia Ivlieva, Alexander Podobryaev, and Yasutada Sudo (2015) A non-superlative semantics for ordinals and the syntax of comparison classes. In Thuy Bui and Denis Özyıldız (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 45. pp. 135-144.

Spector, Benjamin, and Yasutada Sudo (2015) Presupposed ignorance and exhaustification. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19.

Bylinina, Lisa, Natalia Ivlieva, Alexander Podobryaev, & Yasutada Sudo (2014) A non-superlative semantics for ordinals and the syntax of comparison classes. Ms., Meertens Instituut, Institut Jean Nicod, Higher School of Economics, and UCL.

Shklovsky, Kirill, and Yasutada Sudo (2014) Indexical shifting in Uyghur and the syntax of monsters. In Proceedings of NELS 40.

Sudo, Yasutada (2014) On de re predicates. In Robert E. Santana-LaBarge (ed.), Proceedings of WCCFL 31. 447-456. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Sudo, Yasutada, Jacopo Romoli, Martin Hackl, and Danny Fox (2012) Presupposition projection out of quantified sentences: Strengthening, local accommodation and inter-speaker variation. In Proceedings of Amsterdam Colloquium 2011.

McCready, Eric, and Yasutada Sudo (2012) Operating on presuppositions: 'Sekkaku' revisited. In Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 5. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, and Martin Hackl (2011) Three readings of most. In Proceedings of SALT 21. pp.353-372.

Romoli, Jacopo, Yasutada Sudo, and Jesse Snedeker (2011) An experimental investigation of presupposition projection in conditional sentences Proceedings of SALT 21. pp.598-608.

Romoli, Jacopo, and Yasutada Sudo (2011) Conditional and non-conditional presuppositions. The Proceedings of ESSLLI Student Session.

Sudo, Yasutada (2011) The small reading of the scalar particle mo in Japanese and negative polarity. Ms., MIT.

Hartshorne, Joshua, Tim O'Donnell, Yasutada Sudo, Miki Uruwashi, and Jesse Snedeker (2010) Linking meaning to language: Linguistic universals and variation. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2010). [ proceedings ]

Shibata, Natsumi, Yasutada Sudo, and Jun Yashima (2010) On (non)-resultative V-V compounds in Chinese. Ms. written for Proceedings of GLOW in Asia VI.

Sudo, Yasutada (2010) Metalinguistic semantics for echo questions. Ms., MIT.

Romoli, Jacopo and Yasutada Sudo (2009) De re/de dicto ambiguity and presupposition projection. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13 (SuB 13).

Sudo, Yasutada (2009) Invisible degree nominals in Japanese clausal comparatives. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL 5). Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

Sudo, Yasutada (2008) An E-type analysis of tokoro-relatives. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL 4). pp. 279-290. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

Sudo, Yasutada (2008) Quantification into quotations: Evidence from Japanese wh-doublets. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12 (SuB 12), pp.613-627.

Sudo, Yasutada (2008) Japanese wh-doublets and metalinguistic variables. In Proceedings of International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL). Toronto: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.

Sudo, Yasutada (2007) A metalinguistic semantics for echo questions. In Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium. pp.205-211.

Sudo, Yasutada (2024) Relative atomicity. Talk at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany. February 6, 2024. [ slides (pdf), (html)]

Sudo, Yasutada (2024) Empty restrictors are neglected for redundancy avoidance. Invited talk at the NihiL workshop. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. January 31–February 2, 2024. [ handout ]

Sudo, Yasutada, Lisa Bylinina & Stavroula Alexandropoulou (2024) Priming acceptability judgments of NPIs. Talk at Experimental Linguistics Talks in Utrecht. Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. January 30, 2024.

Sudo, Yasutada (2024) Domain variables, homogeneity projection, and two notations of entailment. Talk at the Semantics Research Group, Keio University. January 12, 2024. [ handout ]

Ramotowska, Sonia, Paul Marty, Leendert van Maanen & Yasutada Sudo (2023) Some but not all speakers sometimes but not always derive scalar implicatures. Poster at the 19th winter conference on Brain & Cognition, the Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition (NVP), December 14–16, 2023.

Alxatib, Sam & Yasutada Sudo (2023) Temporal made in Japanese and its interaction with aspect and polarity. Poster at Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) 17, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, September 27–29, 2023.

Sudo, Yasutada (2023) Relative atomicity. Invited talk at SinFonIJA 16, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, September 23, 2023. [ handout ]

Jiang, Yizhen & Yasutada Sudo (2023) Putting bare plurals into context. Poster at XPRAG X, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, September 20–22, 2023.

Marco Degano, Paul Marty, Sonia Ramotowska, Maria Aloni, Richard Breheny, Jacopo Romoli & Yasutada Sudo (2023) Distinguishing between speaker's uncertainty and possibility. Poster at XPRAG X, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, September 20–22, 2023.

Marco Degano, Paul Marty, Sonia Ramotowska, Maria Aloni, Richard Breheny, Jacopo Romoli & Yasutada Sudo (2023) Distinguishing between speaker's uncertainty and possibility. Poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. September 5–8, 2023.

Baggio, Pietro, Tom Meadows & Yasutada Sudo (2023) Modern Uyghur: LAGB Language Tutorial. [ handout ]

Jiang, Yizhen & Yasutada Sudo (2023) Putting bare plurals into context. Talk at Homogeneity and Non-Maximality 2, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. July 19–20, 2023.

Jacopo Romoli & Yasutada Sudo (2023) Putting definite plurals into context. Invited talk at Homogeneity and Non-Maximality 2, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. July 1920, 2023.

Sudo, Yasutada (2023) Putting bare plurals into context. Waseda Univesrity, Tokyo, Japan. June 3, 2023. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2023) Putting plurals into context. 意味論研究会, Keio Univesrity, Tokyo, Japan. May 19, 2023. [ slides ]

Erbach, Kurt & Yasutada Sudo (2023) Varieties of mass/count interpretation of hybrid nouns. Talk at the Divide and Count workshop, DGFs 2023. Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany. March 8–10, 2023. [ slides.pdf ] [ slides.html ]

Daniele Panizza & Yasutada Sudo (2023) A puzzle about Italian ancora (again). Poster at the 48th Incontro di Grammatica Generative (IGG), University of Florence, Florence, Italy. March 16–18, 2023.

Sudo, Yasutada (2023) Domain variables, homogeneity projection, and two notations of entailment. Invited talk at Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. March 14, 2023. [ handout ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2023) Implicature priming and context adaptation. Invited talk at Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. March 13, 2023. [ slides ]

Yizhen Jiang, Shiyu Ren, Yihang Shen, Richard Breheny, Paul Marty, & Yasutada Sudo (2022) Plural priming revisited: inverse preference and spillover effects. Poster at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2022. Universiteit van Amsterdam. December 19-21, 2022.

Sonia Ramotowska, Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2022) Diversity with universality. Talk at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2022. Universiteit van Amsterdam. December 19–21, 2022.

Mayr, Clemens & Yasutada Sudo (2022) Domain variables, homogeneity projection, and two notions of entailment. Online talk at the 1st Workshop on Homogeneity and Non-Maximality. November 18–19, 2022.

Augurzky, Petra, Marion Bonnet, Richard Breheny, Alexandre Cremers, Cornelia Ebert, Clemens Mayr, Jacopo Romoli, Markus Steinbach & Yasutada Sudo (2022) Putting plural definites into context. Talk at Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG) 9, University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Pavia, Italy. September 22–23, 2022. [ slides ]

Augurzky, Petra, Marion Bonnet, Richard Breheny, Alexandre Cremers, Cornelia Ebert, Clemens Mayr, Jacopo Romoli, Markus Steinbach & Yasutada Sudo (2022) Putting plural definites into context. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 27, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czechia. September 14–16, 2022.

Elliott, Patrick D. & Yasutada Sudo (2022) Against simplification: free choice with anaphora. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 27, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czechia. September 14–16, 2022. [ slides ]

Augurzky, Petra, Marion Bonnet, Richard Breheny, Alexandre Cremers, Cornelia Ebert, Clemens Mayr, Jacopo Romoli, Markus Steinbach & Yasutada Sudo (2022) Plural definites in context. Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 2022, University of York, York, UK. September 7–9, 2022.

Sudo, Yasutada (2022) Additivity, Accommodation, and Alternatives (joint work with Flóra Lili Donáti). Current Trends in Semantics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. June 16, 2022. [ slides ]

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2022) Implicating in semi-cooperative contexts. Talk at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32, El Colegio de México and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico. June 8–10, 2022.

Sudo, Yasutada (2022) Notes on homogeneity in non-monotonic contexts (joint work with Clemens Steiner-Mayr). Conference on Subordination in Language and Thought (SILT), San José del Cabo, Mexico. June 6–7, 2022.

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2022) Ignorance and exclusivity in semi-cooperative contexts. Poster at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 2, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. May 18–20, 2022.

Sudo, Yasutada (2022) Implicature priming, inverse preference, and context adaptation. Online talk at University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan. March 19, 2022.

Sudo, Yasutada (2022) Additivity, Accommodation, and Alternatives. Online invited talk at TALKs, Keio University, Tokyo. March 3–5, 2022. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2022) Additivity, Accommodation, and Alternatives. Online colloquium talk at New York University, NY. February 18, 2022.

Sudo, Yasutada (2022) Implicature priming, inverse preference, and context adaptation. Online colloquium talk at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. January 11, 2022.

Sudo, Yasutada (2021) What primes what? Talk at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. September 14, 2021. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2021) Minimal sufficiency with covert even. Online seminar talk at the University of Graz, June 15, 2021.

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2021) Negative Free Choice. Online talk at the Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 31. Brown University, May 7–9, 2021.

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2021) Distinguishing between alternatives. Online poster at the Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 31. Brown University, May 7–9, 2021.

Sudo, Yasutada (2021) What primes what? Online colloquium talk at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. April 23, 2021. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2021) What primes what? Online colloquium talk at the University of Tel Aviv. April 8, 2021.

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2021) What primes what: An experimental framework to explore alternatives for Scalar Implicatures. Online talk at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pennsylvania, March 3–4, 2021.

Daniele Panizza & Yasutada Sudo (2021) Not you, too! A two-stage exhaustification account for Italian additives/miratives. Poster Online talk at the 46th Incontro di Grammatica Generative (IGG), University of Siena, Siena, Italy. February 27–29, 2020. February 23-26, 2021.

Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Bob van Tiel & Richard Breheny (2020) "Processing implicatures: a comparison between direct and indirect SIs". Online presentation (accepted as a talk) at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. September 16–18, 2020.

Elliott, Patrick D. & Yasutada Sudo (2020) Generalized Crossover. Online talk (accepted as a talk) at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 30, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. April 23–26 August 17–20, 2020. [OSF project page]

Marty, Paul, Bob van Tiel, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny (2020) Processing implicatures: a comparison between direct and indirect SIs. Online poster presentation at CUNY Processing conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. March 19–21, 2020. [OSF project page]

Sudo, Yasutada (2020) Implicatures with discourse referents. Invited talk at ConSOLE, Barcelona, Spain. January 29–31, 2020.

Denić, Milica & Yasutada Sudo (2019) Donkey anaphora in non-monotonic contexts. Poster at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. December 18–20, 2019.

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) Implicatures with discourse referents. Invited talk at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. December 6, 2019. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) Implicatures with discourse referents. Invited talk at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. December 2, 2019.

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) Pragmatics with discourse referents. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. September 6, 2019.

Andrew Nevins, Frank Marušič, Yasutada Sudo and Rok Žaucer (2019) An Experimental Investigation into the Morphopragmatics of the Slovenian Dual. Talk at SinFonIJA 12. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. September 12-14, 2019. [ slides ]

Flóra Lili Donáti & Yasutada Sudo (2019) Even superlative modifiers. Poster at SinFonIJA 12. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. September 12–14, 2019. [ poster ]

Christofaki, Rodanthi & Yasutada Sudo (2019) Multidimensionality of natural language semantics: the return of the myth of conventional implicature. Talk at LAGB 2019. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. September 9–12, 2019.

Uegaki, Wataru, Leticia Pablos Robles, Yasutada Sudo & Hiromu Sakai (2019) An EEG investigation into clausal selection. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 24. Universität Osnabrfück, Osnabrück, Germany. September 4–6, 2019.

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) The plurality inference as a quantity implicature. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany. July 11, 2019.

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) The morphopragmatics of number. Talk at the Alphabet of Universal Grammar, British Academy, London, UK, July 4–5, 2019. [ slides ]

Elliott, Patrick D. & Yasutada Sudo (2019) Binding back from the future. Talk at Asymmetries in Language: Presuppositions and Beyond. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany. July 1–3, 2019.

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) The plurality inference as a quantity implicature. University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. June 26, 2019.

Denić, Milica & Yasutada Sudo (2019) Donkey anaphora in non-monotonic environments: an experimental investigation. Talk at XPRAG 2019, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. June 19–21, 2019. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) The plurality inference as a quantity implicature. All Souls College, University of Oxford, June 5, 2019. [ handout ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) A new semantics for classifiers (in Japanese). Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 23, 2019. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) The plurality inference as a quantity implicature. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, May 20, 2019. [ handout ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) On the multidimensionality of natural language semantics and the myth of conventional implicature. Invited talk at the Cambridge University Linguistic Society. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. May 16, 2019. [ slides ]

Panizza, Daniele & Yasutada Sudo (2019) Minimal sufficiency readings with a covert even. Talk at Generative Grammar in the Old World (GLOW) 42, University of Oslo, Norway. May 7–11, 2019. [ slides ]

Elliott, Patrick D. & Yasutada Sudo (2019) The dynamics of ellipsis identity. Talk at Sluicing + Ellipsis 50. University of Chicago, Chicago. April 12–13, 2019.

Sudo, Yasutada (2019) The plurality inference as a quantity implicature. Invited talk at Institut Jean-Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, March 21, 2019.

Flóra Lili Donáti & Yasutada Sudo (2019) Numerals with superlative modifiers in focus. Talk at the 20th Szklarska Poręba Workshop. March 1–4, 2019.

Panizza, Daniele & Yasutada Sudo (2018) Minimal sufficiency readings with a covert even. Talk at Rencontres d'Automne de Linguistique Formelle (RALFe) 2018. University of Paris 8, Paris, France. December 6–7, 2018. [ slides ]

Elliott, Patrick D. & Yasutada Sudo (2018) Binding ex post facto. Talk at Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 15. November 12–14, 2018. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2018) Plurality inferences as Gricean quantity implicatures. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. 15 June 2018. [ handout ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2018) Plurality inferences as Gricean quantitiy implicatures. LUSH. Universiteit Utrecht. 11 June 2018.

Sudo, Yasutada (2018) Plurality inferences as quantity implicatures: A dynamic semantic account. London Semantics Day 5, Queen Mary University of London, 15 Mary 2018.

Sudo, Yasutada (2018) Come vs. go and perspectival shift. Seminar talk at Rutgers University. [ handout ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2018) How presuppositions and scalar implicatures interact. Invited talk at Rutgers University. [ slides ]

Kane, Frances, Alexandre Cremers, Lyn Tieu, Lynda Kennedy, Yasutada Sudo, Raffaella Folli & Jacopo Romoli (2017) Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language. Poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 22. University of Potsdam/ZAS. September 7–10, 2017. [ poster ]

Oseki, Yohei, Yasutada Sudo, Hiromu Sakai & Alec Marantz (2017) Inflectional directionality in morphological productivity. Talk at MAPLL-TCP 2017. NINJAL, Tokyo, Japan. July 22–23, 2017.

Sudo, Yasutada (2017) It's not always redundant to assert what can be presupposed. Invited talk at Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary (InqBnB). Broek in Waterland, the Netherlands. June 26–29, 2017.

Sudo, Yasutada & Jacopo Romoli. (2017) Lifetime effects as presuppositional scalar strengthening. Talk at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 27. University of Maryland. May 12–14, 2017.

Sudo, Yasutada (2017) It's not always redundant to assert what can be presupposed. Poster at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 27. University of Maryland. May 12–24, 2017. [ poster ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2017) It's not always redundant to assert what can be presupposed. Invited talk at Universität Wien. April 26, 2017.

Sudo, Yasutada & Jacopo Romoli. (2017) Lifetime effects as presuppositional scalar strengthening. Poster at GLOW. Universiteit Leiden. March 14–18, 2017. [ poster ]

Sudo, Yasutada & Jacopo Romoli. (2017) Lifetime effects as presuppositional scalar strengthening. Talk at the Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions. University of Genoa, Italy. March 3–5, 2017.

Sudo, Yasutada (2017) It's not always redundant to assert what can be presupposed. Poster at the 18th Szklarska Poręba Workshop. March 3-6, 2017.

Sudo, Yasutada & Jacopo Romoli. (2017) Lifetime effects as presuppositional scalar strengthening. Invited talk at University of York. February 22, 2017. [ slides ]

須藤 靖直 (2017) スカラー含意研究の動向. Talk at 国立国語研究所(NINJAL). February 11, 2017. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2017) The morphosemantics of the Slovenian dual. Invited talk at the Workshop on Cross-linguistic Pragmatics. ZAS, Berlin. January 25–27, 2017. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2017) The morphosemantics of the Slovenian dual. Invited talk at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. January 24, 2017.

Elliott, Patrick D., Nathan Klinedinst, Yasutada Sudo & Wataru Uegaki (2016) Predicates of relevance and theories of question embedding. Talk at NELS 47. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. October 14–16, 2016.

Sudo, Yasutada (2016) Mass/Count and the Role of Classifiers in Japanese. Semantic Workshop in Tokai. August 25, 2016. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2016) Mass/Count and the Role of Classifiers in Japanese. Talk at the Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2016. July 23–24, 2016. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2016) 'Come' and 'go' with a shift in perspective. Talk at the Workshop on Perspectivization, GLOW 39. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. April 4–8, 2016. [ slides ]

Thomas, Guillaume and Yasutada Sudo (2016) Cumulative readings of each. Poster at GLOW 39. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. April 4–8, 2016. [ poster ]

Thomas, Guillaume and Yasutada Sudo (2016) Cumulative readings of each. Journée Co-Distributivité. February 11–12, 2016. Paris. [ slides ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2016) Come and go with a shift in perspective. Invited talk at ConSOLE 2016. York, UK. January 6–8, 2016. [ handout ]

須藤 靖直 (2015) De re/de dictoとスコープ. 12月23日. 横浜国立大学.

Sudo, Yasutada (2015) Countable nouns and classifiers in Japanese. The 11th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication Number: Cognitive, Semantic and Crosslinguistic Approaches. University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. December 10–11, 2015. [ handout ]

Nicolae, Andreea, Patrick D. Elliott, and Yasutada Sudo (2015) Pair-list readings of conjoined singular which-phrases. North East Linguistics Society (NELS) 46. Concordia University, Quebec, Canada. October 16–18, 2015. [ handout ]

Bylinina, Lisa, Eric McCready, and Yasutada Sudo (2015) Perspective-sensitive anaphora: The case of Japanese 'zibun'. Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE) 8. Newnham College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. September 17-19, 2015.

Sudo, Yasutada and Giorgos Spathas (2015) Nominal ellipsis and the interpretation of gender in Greek. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 20. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. September 9–12, 2015. [ slides ]

Elliott, Patrick D. & Yasutada Sudo (2015) E-type readings of quantifiers under ellipsis: Consequences for the Identity Condition. Poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 20. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. September 9–12, 2015. [ poster ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2015) Come and go. Perspectives in Context Workshop, Georg-August Universität Göttingen. July 10, 2015. [ handout ]

Bylinina, Lisa, Eric McCready, and Yasutada Sudo (2015) Perspective-sensitive anaphora: The case of Japanese 'zibun'. Pronouns: Syntax, Semantics, Processing (PSSP). Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. June 16–19, 2015.

Sudo, Yasutada and Giorgos Spathas (2015) Nominal ellipsis and the interpretation of gender in Greek. Poster at Agreement Across Borders Conference 2015. University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia. June 15–16, 2015. [ poster ]

Sudo, Yasutada (2015) Notes on the semantics of nouns and classifiers in Japanese. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) 11. University of York, UK. June 4–6, 2015. [ handout ]

Elliott, Patrick, Eric McCready and Yasutada Sudo (2015) Discourse even vs. attitude even. Poster at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 25. Stanford University. May 15–17, 2015. [ poster ]

Bylinina, Lisa, Eric McCready and Yasutada Sudo. (2014) The landscape of perspective shifting. The Pronouns in the Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface Workshop. Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany. November 7–9, 2014. [ handout ]

Bylinina, Lisa, Natalia Ivlieva, Alexander Podobryaev, and Yasutada Sudo (2014) A non-superlative semantics for ordinals and the syntax of comparison classes. Poster at North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 45. MIT, Cambridge, MA. October 31–November 2, 2014. [ poster ]

Sudo, Yasutada. (2014) An anti-exhaustive, polarity sensitive connective in Japanese and higher-order scalar implicatures. 9th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-9). University of Nantes, Nantes, France. September 25-26, 2014. [ handout ]

Spector, Benjmain and Yasutada Sudo (2014) Presupposed ignorance and scalar strengthening. Sinn und Bedeutung 2014 (SuB 19). Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany. September 15–17, 2014. [ handout ]

Elliott, Patrick and Yasutada Sudo. (2014) E-type readings of quantifiers under ellipsis. 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). The Queen's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. September 1–5, 2014. [ handout ]

Elliott, Patrick, Andreea Nicolae and Yasutada Sudo. (2014) VP Ellipsis without Parallel Binding: Towards a QUD approach. Poster at SALT 24. May 30–June 1, 2014. [ poster ]

Sudo, Yasutada. Beyond Frege-Strawson. The 19th International Congress of Linguists (19 ICL). July 22-27, 2013. Geneva, Switzerland. [ slides ]

Romoli, Jacopo, Manizeh Khan, Yasutada Sudo and Jesse Snedeker. Resolving temporary referential ambiguity using presupposed content. Poster at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 21–23, 2013. University of South Carolina.

Sudo, Yasutada. On de re predicates. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 31 (WCCFL 31). February 8–10, 2013. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Hartman, Jeremy, Yasutada Sudo, and Ken Wexler. Principle B and phonologically reduced pronouns in Child English. Boston University Conference on Language Development 37 (BUCLD 37). November 2–3, 2012. Boston University, Boston, MA.

Sudo, Yasutada. Person and number features on bound pronouns and the structure of indices. Poster at North East Linguistic Society 43 (NELS 43). October 19–21, 2012. City University of New York, New York City, NY. [ poster ]

Hartman, Jeremy, Yasutada Sudo, and Ken Wexler. Principle B and phonologically reduced pronouns in Child English. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition-North America 5 (GALANA 5). October 11–13, 2012. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. [ slides (PPT) ]

Sudo, Yasutada. Weak evens in Japanese. Poster at Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6 (FAJL 6). September 26–28, 2012. ZAS, Berlin, Germany.

Sudo, Yasutada. Universals and variation in indexical shifting. International Workshop on the Syntax/Semantics of Speech Acts and Embedding. July 22, 2012. Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan.

Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, and Martin Hackl. Language and number sense. CogSci 2012. August 1–4, 2012. Sapporo, Japan.

Sudo, Yasutada, Hadas Kotek, and Martin Hackl. Many readings of most. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 22 (SALT 22). May 18–20, 2012. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Sudo, Yasutada, Hadas Kotek, and Martin Hackl. Many readings of most. Chicago Linguistic Society 48 (CLS 48). April 19–21, 2012. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. [ handout ]

Sudo, Yasutada. Weak evens in Japanese. Workshop on Japanese Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. March 2, 2012. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Sudo, Yasutada, Jacopo Romoli, Martin Hackl and Danny Fox. Presupposition projection out of quantified sentences: Strengthening, local accommodation and inter-speaker variation. Workshop on Formal Semantic Evidence in the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium. December 19–21, 2011. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [ abstract ] [ poster ]

Romoli, Jacopo and Yasutada Sudo. Conditional and non-conditional presuppositions. ESSLLI Student Session. Ljubljana, Slovenia. August 1–12, 2011.

Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard, and Martin Hackl. Most in subject position. The Proper Use of Quantification in Ordinary Language (PUQOL) at The 23rd ESSLLI. August 8–12, 2011. Ljubljana, Slovenia. [ slides ]

Romoli, Jacopo, Yasutada Sudo, and Jesse Snedeker. An experimental investigation of presupposition projection in conditional sentences. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 21 (SALT 21). May 20–22, 2011. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. [ abstract ]

Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard, and Martin Hackl. Is most more than half? Semantics and Linguistic Theory 21 (SALT 21). May 20–22, 2011. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Sudo, Yasutada, Jacopo Romoli, Martin Hackl, and Danny Fox. Presupposition projection in quantified sentences. Projection, Entailment, Presupposition and Assertion 3 (PEPA 3). May 19, 2011. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard, and Martin Hackl. A superlative reading for most. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 29 (WCCFL 29). April 22–24, 2011. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard, and Martin Hackl. A superlative reading for most. Chicago Linguistic Society 47 (CLS 47). April 7–9, 2011. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, Micha Y. Breakstone, and Martin Hackl. Priming effects with complex determiners. CUNY 2011: Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 24–26, 2011. Stanford University, Stanford, CA. [ poster ]

Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, Micha Y. Breakstone, and Martin Hackl. Effects of domain complexity on verification procedures for most and more than half. CUNY 2011: Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 24–26, 2011. Stanford University, Stanford, CA. [ poster ]

Sudo, Yasutada. The small reading of the scalar particle 'mo' in Japanese and negative polarity. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 7 (LENLS VII). November 18–19, 2010. Campus Innovation Center, Tokyo.

Hartshorne, Joshua, Tim O'Donnell, Yasutada Sudo, Miki Uruwashi and Jesse Snedeker. Linking meaning to language: linguistic universals and variation. CogSci 2010. August 11–14, 2010. Portland, OR.

Wh-ka indefinites in Japanese and the semantics of indeterminate pronouns. Workshop on Epistemic Indefinites. June 10–12, 2010. University of Göttingen, Germany.

Khanjian, Hrayr, Yasutada Sudo, and Guillaume Thomas. Modeling doubly marked lags with exacerbation. The 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting (18mfm). May 20–22, 2010. Manchester, UK.

McCready, Eric and Yasutada Sudo. Operating on presuppositions: Sekkaku revisited. The 5th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL 5). May 7–9, 2010. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.

Shklovsky, Kirill, and Yasutada Sudo. No Case licensing: Evidence from Uyghur. The 33rd Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW XXXIII). April 14–16, 2010. University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.

Shklovsky, Kirill, and Yasutada Sudo. No Case licensing: Evidence from Uyghur. The 34th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 34). March 19–24, 2010. University of Pennsylvania, PA.

Sudo, Yasutada. Person restrictions in Uyghur indexical shifting. Berkeley Linguistic Society 36 (BLS 36). February 6–7, 2010. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Shklovsky, Kirill and Yasutada Sudo. Indexical shifting in Uyghur. North East Linguistic Society 40 (NELS 40). November 13–15, 2009. MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Sudo, Yasutada. Biased polar questions and question particles in Japanese. The Workshop on Expressives and Other Kinds of Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning in DGfS 31. March 4–6, 2009. University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Sudo, Yasutada and Tue Trinh. The indefiniteness effect in Mandarin and Vietnamese. Languages of Southeast Asia. UCLA-UC Berkeley Join Conference on Southeast Asian Studies. January 30–February 1, 2009. University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Romoli, Jacopo and Yasutada Sudo. De re/de dicto ambiguity and presupposition projection. Sinn und Bedeutung 13 (SuB 13). September 30–October 2, 2008. Universität Stuttgart, Germany.

Sudo, Yasutada. Comparative Deletion in Japanese. The 5th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL 5). May 23–25, 2008. SOAS, University of London, UK.

Shibata, Natsumi, Yasutada Sudo and Jun Yashima. On apparent DOR violations in Chinese and Japanese resultative compounds. GLOW in Asia VI. December 27–29, 2007. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Sudo, Yasutada. Japanese wh-doublets and quantification into quotations. International Conference on Quotation and Meaning (ICQM). October 19–21, 2007. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

Sudo, Yasutada. Quantification into quotations: Evidence from Japanese wh-doublets. Sinn und Bedeutung 12 (Sub 12). September 20–22, 2007. University of Oslo, Norway.

Sudo, Yasutada. An E-type analysis of tokoro-relatives. The 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL 4). May 18–20, 2007. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Sudo, Yasutada. Japanese wh-doublets as metalinguistic variables. International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL). November 10–12, 2006. University of Toronto, Canada.

Current Projects

Interactions between Dynamic Effects and Alternative-Based Inferences in the Study of Meaning

2021–2024

Co-PI with Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Co-PI, Göttingen), Richard Breheny (Co-I, UCL), Jacopo Romoli (Co-I, Bergen), Cornelia Ebert (Co-I, Frankfurt), Markus Steinbach (Co-I, Göttingen)

AHRC-DFG, £349,349.67 + €394,206

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Language in Reasoning

2021–2022

With Nathan Klinedinst, Salvador Mascarenhas, Stanislas Dehaene.

UCL-Université PSL, £10,000

Reconstruction and scope in indexical shift in Uyghur

May–December 2021

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, £6,078.22

Alternatives in the foundations of a theory of implicit meaning

September 2019–September 2022

Co-Investigator, with Richard Breheny (PI, UCL), Nathan Klinedinst (Co-I, UCL), Jacopo Romoli (Co-I, Ulster), Paul Marty (Research Postdoc, UCL)

RPG-2018-425, Research Project Grant, Leverhulme Trust, £185,016

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Past Projects

On the interaction between morphosyntax and semantics-pragmatics in language acquisition and language loss: the case of temporal inferences

2016–2017

Co-Investigator, with Jacopo Romoli (PI, Ulster University), Rafaella Folli (PI, Ulster University)

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, £8,029