Language and Information Sciences

Website

• http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yatabe/

Research Interests

My current research focuses on the question of how the meaning of a composite linguistic expression is determined on the basis of the meaning of its parts. I have developed a novel theory of meaning assembly in which semantic composition is performed not when some syntactic constituents ("signs" in the HPSG parlance) are combined to produce a new, larger syntactic constituent but when some prosodic constituents ("domain objects") are merged to produce a new, larger prosodic constituent, and have been trying to evaluate the validity of that theory through examination of long-distance scrambling and various types of non-constituent coordination such as right-node raising.