The abstract for my presentation at WCCFL 2010, Los Angels has been uploaded. Click the File tab for downloading the pdf file.

I have uploaded the handout for our presentation at Particles Workshop, Downing College, University of Cambridge, 30th-31st October 2008. Click the "File" button on the left for downloading.

I posted the abstract of my 2006 dissertation at Linguist List (without knowing that it is sent as a message!). To download the files (Part 1-3), please click the "File" tab on the left. You should search the files with the keyword "dissertation" because they were posted a year ago. Sorry for the inconvenience!

I have posted the slides presented at Morphology-Lexicon Forum 2008 part 2, Kobe University, July 5.
Tokizaki, Hisao and Yasutomo Kuwana. 2008.
Phrasal compound and marked word orders.
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I uploaded the handout of the poster presentation "Prosody of Positive/Negative Conjunctions in Japanese" at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody:
Conference on Prosody and Language Processing. April 11-13 2008 at Cornell University. Click the "File" tab for downloading!

My book has just been published by Hitsuji Syobo Publishing (Tokyo). ISBN: 978-4-89476-395-1
I would like to thank you for your support.

For publisher's announcement of the book, see:
http://www.hituzi.co.jp/books/sinkan.html
http://www.hituzi.co.jp/books/395.html
This is a revised and updated version of my dissertation. I hope that author index, language index, and subject index are helpful for you.

I uploaded our handout:
Tokizaki, Hisao and Yasutomo Kuwana. 2008.
Non-existent word orders and left-branching structure.
Handout at Sapporo Linguistics Circle, March 1, 2008.
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I have uploaded the abstract of an alternate paper for GLOW 2008 Workshop "Principles of linearization," co-authored by Yasutomo Kuwana. Click "File" tab to download the pdf file. I am looking forward to going to Newcastle in March.

The final version of my paper to be published in Phonological Studies 11 (2008) has been uploaded. Click the "File" tab on the left for downloading the pdf file. In this paper, I argue that left-branching structure has shorter juncture than right-branching structure.

I have been working as one of the organizers of ELSJ Spring Forum 2008, which is to be held by English Linguistics Society of Japan on April 26-27 at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Call for papers is available at:
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/elsj/forum2008.pdf
The deadline for abstract is January 1st, 2008. Why don' you come over to this beautiful Japan!