Papers

Book Chapters

・Shimamura, Koji. 2021. Against embedded modal as control in Japanese: Its relevance to the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy. In The Size of Things I: Structure Building, Language Science Press, Berlin. pp. 131-152.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2020.  “Free Word Order and Neo-Davidsonian Event Semantics”『英語学の深まり・英語学からの広がり』. 英宝社  pp.150-167.
・Wurmbrand, Susi and Koji Shimamura. 2017. “The Features of the Voice Domain: Actives, Passives, and Restructuring” The Verbal Domain. Oxford University Press pp. 179-204.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2015.  “Agreeing type e”『言葉のしんそう (深層・真相) 大庭幸男教授退職記念論文集』. 英宝社  pp. 319-333.

Dissertation

・Shimamura, Koji. 2018.  The Theory of Quotative Complementation in Japanese Semanticosyntax. University of Connecticut p.211. 

Proceedings / Papers

・Shimamura, Koji. To appear. The Syntax and Semantics of the Quotative Complement in Japanese. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 29.1.
・Kudo, Kazuya and Koji Shimamura. To appear. On the Adjectivalizer -si in the reduplicated and deverbal adjectives in Japanese. Proceedings of The 58th Annual Conference of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
・Shimamura, Koji and Hideharu Tanaka. To appear. Eliminating Scrambling from Japanese via Neo-Davidsonian Event Semantics. Proceedings of WAFL 16, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
・Nasu, Norio Takayuki Akimoto, Koji Shimamura, and Yusuke Yoda. 2022. The Categorial Status of Embedded Questions in Japanese. Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XIII, pp. 197-210.
・Fukuta, Junya and Koji Shimamura. 2022. To be Canceled, or Not to be Canceled: Reconsidering the Caused Possession in the Dative Alternation Experimentally. Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 19, pp. 108-112.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2022. The Size of the Complement–The Properties of the Embedded –Yoo in Japanese. Proceedings of the Japanese/Korean Linguistics 29, pp. 131-145.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2021. Clausal Nominalization and Nominative-Genitive Conversion in Japanese. Proceedings of SICOGG 23 pp. 181-197.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2021. SAYing Appositive Clause and Its Relevance to Hearsay-ish Construction in JapaneseProceedings of Japanese/Korean Linguistics 28.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2020. Why Scrambling and Argument Ellipsis? Two Asymmetries between Japanese and English. 第160回 日本言語学会大会予稿集 pp. 98-104.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2019.  The Hidden Syntax of Clausal Complementation in JapaneseProceedings of GLOW in Asia XII & SICOGG 21 pp. 369-388.
・Akimoto, Takayuki and Koji Shimamura. 2017. Syntactic Analysis of Alleged Locative Alternating Compounds. Proceedings of SICOGG vol. 19 pp. 39-51.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2017. Introducing Quote in Japanese and Its Crosslinguistic Relevance. 第154回 日本言語学会大会予稿集 pp. 130-135.
・Hayashi, Shintaro, Hisao Kurokami, Satoshi Ito, Koji Shimamura and Ayaka Sugawara. 2016. Indexical Shifting in Kansai Japanese via Wh- movement under NominalizationProceedings of Formal Approach to Japanese Linguistics 8, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 79 pp. 31-42.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2016. On the Internal and External Syntax and Semantics of Report in Japanese. Proceedings of SICOGG vol. 18 pp. 535-554.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2015. A Non- Conversion Approach to Dative – Nominative Conversion in GermanicProceedings of the Poster Session of the 33rd WCCFL, Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 5 pp. 121-130.
・Shimamura, Koji and Susi Wurmbrand. 2014. Two Types of Restructuring ― Evidence from Scope and Binding.Proceedings of Formal Approach to Japanese Linguistics 7, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 73 pp. 203-214.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2013. On Long- Distance Movement of Subject in JapaneseProceedings of Formal Approach to Japanese Linguistics 6, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 66 pp. 179-188.
・Shimamura, Koji and Lyn Shan Tieu. 2013. When You Can and Can’t See the Double: Revisiting Focus Doubling in ASLUniversity of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 19 pp. 189-196.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2011. That-trace Reconsidered : Definiteness and Complementizer Agreement. Proceedings of Twelfth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, ひつじ書房 pp. 229-248.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2010. On Elimination of EPP: EPP as Tense Feature and Movement for Semantic Considerations. Proceedings of KLS vol. 34 (関西言語学会) pp. 144-155.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2010. EPP as Selectional T-feature and Dative Subject Construction in Japanese. JELS vol. 27 (日本英語学会)  pp. 237-246.
・Shimamura, Koji. 2010. Movement to SpecT and Its Consequences on the Interfaces. Osaka University Papers in English Linguistics, vol. 14 pp. 41-85.