Kato Takaomi

(加藤孝臣)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Linguistics, Sophia University

Degree: BA (Language and Area Studies)(1998, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
MA (Literature)(2000, The University of Tokyo)
MA (Social Science)(2003, University of California, Irvine)
Ph. D. (Linguistics)(2006, Harvard University)

Researcher number: 20548151
J-GLOBAL ID: 201301022551106840
researchmap Member ID: 7000004657

(研究テーマ)
日本語・英語を中心とする統辞論研究

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics /

Research History

Apr, 2016 - Present

Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics Master's (Doctoral) Program in Linguistics, Sophia University
Apr, 2013 - Present

SRO Research Institutes Division Linguistic Institute for International Communication, Sophia University
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2016

Sophia University
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2014

Faculty of Foreign Studies Linguistics Program, Sophia University
Apr, 2009 - Mar, 2013

Faculty of Science, Division 1, Tokyo University of Science

Education

Sep, 2003 - Nov, 2006

Department of Linguistics (Graduate Program), Harvard University
Apr, 2000 - Mar, 2004

Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
Sep, 2000 - Jun, 2003

Department of Linguistics (Graduate Program), University of California, Irvine
Apr, 1998 - Mar, 2000

Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
Apr, 1994 - Mar, 1998

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Papers

OCP and downstep in Japanese

Manami Hirayama, Hyun Kyung Hwang, Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation, 6-9, Dec, 2023 Peer-reviewed
On the locus of tense

Takaomi Kato

University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 29(1) 86-91, Jan, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Perceived prominence and downstep in Japanese

Hyun Kyung Hwang, Manami Hirayama, Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2022), 1318-1321, Sep, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Lexical category and downstep in Japanese

Manami Hirayama, Hyun Kyung Hwang, Takaomi Kato

Languages, 7, Jan, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Gapping in Japanese and specifying coordination

Takaomi Kato

Sophia Linguistica, (68) 11-24, Dec, 2019
Lexical category in downstep in Japanese

Manami Hirayama, Hyun Kyung Hwang, Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019, 2851-2855, Aug, 2019 Peer-reviewed
0-Search and 0-Merge

Hiroki Narita, Hironobu Kasai, Takaomi Kato, Mihoko Zushi, Naoki Fukui

Merge in the brain-mind: Essays on theoretical linguistics and the neuroscience of language, 127-154, Apr, 2017 Peer-reviewed
On the primitive operations of syntax

Takaomi Kato, Hiroki Narita, Hironobu Kasai, Mihoko Zushi, Naoki Fukui

Advances in biolinguistics: The human language faculty and its biological basis, 29-45, Sep, 2016 Peer-reviewed
一般探索と相の端

加藤孝臣, 久野正和, 成田広樹, 辻子美保子, 福井直樹

言語の設計・発達・進化：生物言語学探究, 97-119, Nov, 2014
Generalized Search and cyclic derivation by phase: A preliminary study

Takaomi Kato, Masakazu Kuno, Hiroki Narita, Mihoko Zushi, Naoki Fukui

Sophia Linguistica, (61) 203-222, Mar, 2014
-To in Japanese as an NPI scalar focus particle

Masakazu Kuno, Takaomi Kato, Hiroki Narita

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, 121-136, Nov, 2012 Peer-reviewed
Copular sentences and coordinate structures

Yuko Asada, Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the Thirty-ninth Western Conference on Linguistics, 1-11, 2011 Peer-reviewed
An LF copying analysis of Japanese right dislocation constructions

Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the 12th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar: Movement in Minimalism, 253-264, Aug, 2010 Peer-reviewed
Two types of covert wh-movement

Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Negation, 168-177, 2010 Peer-reviewed
On the so-called Japanese genitive marker no

Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the 11th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar: Visions of the Minimalist Program, 177-188, Aug, 2009 Peer-reviewed
Negative concord vs. negative polarity and the acquisition of Japanese

Tetsuya Sano, Hiroyuki Shimada, Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 3, 232-240, 2009 Peer-reviewed
ATB distribution of in-situ wh-phrases: A case for the null operator approach to wh-in-situ in Japanese

Takaomi Kato

Sounds of silence: Empty elements in syntax and phonology, 265-288, 2008 Peer-reviewed
On the nature of the Left Branch Condition: Syntactic or phonological?

Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar: Locality and Minimalism, 39-51, Aug, 2007 Peer-reviewed
Japanese poetry and its implications for Optimality Theory

Takaomi Kato

MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 54: Proceedings of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics II, 217-230, 2007 Peer-reviewed
The CSC as an LF condition: Evidence from Neg-raising in Japanese

Takaomi Kato

University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 13.1: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 113-126, 2007 Peer-reviewed
You can’t unscramble an egg

Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the Seventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, 145-169, Nov, 2006 Peer-reviewed
Symmetries in coordination

Takaomi Kato

Nov, 2006

Attachment
A case against the representational approach to the Coordinate Structure Constraint

Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 35, 307-321, 2006 Peer-reviewed
Neg-raising, Last Resort, and the nature of the CSC

Takaomi Kato

Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics, 11 79-102, 2005
Phase-by-phase derivation and the optionality and locality of optional movements

Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the 6th Seoul Internal Conference on Generative Grammar: Minimalist Views on Interfaces, 117-131, Aug, 2004 Peer-reviewed
Not so overt movement

Takaomi Kato

WCCFL 23: Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 436-449, 2004 Peer-reviewed
Inaudible pre-Spell-Out movement

Takaomi Kato

Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics, 10 75-100, 2004
A sketch of a lowering analysis of optional movements in a single cycle model

Takaomi Kato

Linguistic Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics, 20 1-37, 2004
A note on the Proper Binding Condition and lowering

Takaomi Kato

Linguistic Research, 19 157-173, 2003
Diachronic accounts for the idiosyncrasies of English imperatives: Language acquisition in the eighteenth century

Takaomi Kato

Proceedings of the First Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, 93-112, 2000 Peer-reviewed
A note on Japanese N’-deletion

Takaomi Kato

Linguistic Research, 17 153-165, 2000
Don’t negate imperatives!: Interpretability of clause type features

Takaomi Kato

Linguistic Research, 17 13-30, 2000
The syntax of English imperatives: No V-to-I movement and optional I-to-C movement

Takaomi Kato

Linguistic Research, 16 19-38, 1999

Misc.

失語症者の動詞の表出における項の移動と項の数の影響

髙津亘広, 吉畑博代, 加藤孝臣, 浦野雅世

コミュニケーション障害学, 37(3) 211-211, Dec, 2020 Peer-reviewed
日本語と言語理論

加藤孝臣

新・言語研究のすすめ改訂版, 19-28, Mar, 2017 Invited
意味論・語用論

加藤孝臣

新・言語研究のすすめ改訂版, 60-73, Mar, 2017 Invited
失語症者の文法理解障害：意味役割の順序か，動詞句からの移動か

竹本直也, 吉畑博代, 加藤孝臣, 道又爾

コミュニケーション障害学, 33(3) 187-187, Dec, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Review: Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx (eds.), 2011, The biolinguistic enterprise: New perspectives on the evolution and nature of the human language faculty

Hiroki Narita, Takaomi Kato, Mihoko Zushi

English Linguistics, 30 780-791, Dec, 2013 Peer-reviewed

Presentations

OCP and downstep in Japanese

Manami Hirayama, Hyun Kyung Hwang, Takaomi Kato

The Second Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023), Nov 18, 2023
Perceived prominence and downstep in Japanese

Hyun Kyung Hwang, Manami Hirayama, Takaomi Kato

INTERSPEECH 2002, Sep 20, 2022
On the locus of tense

Takaomi Kato

The 46th Penn Linguistics Conference, Mar 19, 2022
Ordering of attributive modifiers and downstep in Japanese

Takaomi Kato, Manami Hirayama, Hyun Kyung Hwang

Phonology Festa 17, Mar 7, 2022
Production and perception of Japanese downstep

ホワンヒョンギョン, 平山真奈美, 加藤孝臣

国立国語研究所対照言語学プロジェクト（「対照言語学の観点から見た日本語の音声と文法」）プロソディー研究班オンライン研究会, Dec 11, 2020

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

The interface between prosody and syntactic/information structure: A case study of Japanese downstep

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2025
An Integrated Generative Biolinguistic Approach to the Design, Development and Evolution of the Human Language Faculty

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2014

FUJITA Koji, FUKUI Naoki, ZUSHI Mihoko, KUNO Masakazu, KATO Takaomi, NARITA Hiroki, YUSA Noriaki, SUGISAKI Koji, ONO Hajime, OBATA Miki, IKE-UCHI Masayuki, UEDA Masanobu, HOSAKA Michio, BOECKX Cedric
自然言語における随意移動規則の研究

科学研究費助成事業特別研究員奨励費, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2009

加藤孝臣

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