
"Discourse event-matching in the interpretation of Japanese auxiliary -te iru," presented at the 80th annual meeting of LSA, Albuquerque, January 7, 2006.
"Rhetorical relations and speaker's strategies of discourse updating," presented at CAJ (The Communication Association of Japan) 35th annual convention , Kansai Gaidai University, June 2005.
"Focus-affected readings of weak NPs in information updating," presented at LACUS 31, University of Illinois at Chicago, July 2004.
"Overriding effects of focus on weak NPs in thetic sentences," presented at CLS 40, University of Chicago, April 2004.
"Resolution of conflicting defaults in discourse interpretation of underspecification," presented at English Linguistic Society of Japan, Aoyama Gakuin University. November 17, 2002.
"Duplicated complex predicate Involves Davidsonian event predicate," presented at LSA (Linguistic Society of America) annual meeting, Chicago, January 2000.
"Duplicate in complex predicate as Davidsonian event predicate," presented at Michigan Linguistic Society, Michigan State University, East Lansing, October 1999.
"Event hyouji-ni yoru mu-jisei-bun no imi-kaishaku (Interpretation of Tenseless Clauses in Event Representation)," presented at English Literary Society of Japan, Matsuyama University, May 1999.