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Cross-linguistic Studies

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Formal Semantics of Conventional Implicatures

We focus on the semantic analysis of Conventional Implicatures. Since H. P. Grice first classified conversational and conventional implicatures, the formal treatment of conventional implicatures has been much neglected compared to that of conversational implicatures. Recently, however, Christopher Potts reidentified the category of conventional implicatures and provided a formal and compositional semantics to expressives. This course aims to apply the theory to other lexical items in non-English languages that induce similar secondary meanings.

Brief Outline of History & Achievements

2006 Ph.D in Linguistics, University of Delaware.

Selected publications:
Yurie Hara, Shigeto Kawahara, and Yuli Feng. The prosody of enhanced bias in Mandarin and Japanese negative questions. Lingua, 150:92-116, 2014.
Yurie Hara, Youngju Kim, Hiromu Sakai, and Sanae Tamura. Projections of events and propositions in Japanese: A case study of koto-nominalized clauses in causal relations. Lingua, 133:262-288, September 2013.
Yurie Hara. Evidentiality of discourse items and Because-clauses. Journal of Semantics, 25(3):229-268, 2008.

See https://yuriehara.github.io/website/ for the full list.

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Academic Society Affiliations

The Linguistic Society of Japan

E-mail

hara@imc.hokudai.ac.jp

Research Areas

formal semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, Japanese linguistics, historical linguistics

Interests

I have been interested in how words are combined together to covey meanings. In particular, I have been trying to identify the meanings that are expressed by non-prototypical words such as intonation and particles. I also conduct psycholinguistic/neurolinguistic experiments on semantic/pragmatic issues.