Yurie Hara
Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics
City University of Hong Kong
B7626, 7/F, Blue Zone, Lift 3, Academic Building
83, Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
Telephone: (852) 3442 5615
Fax: (852) 3442 0359
Research Interests
- Semantics, Pragmatics (Implicatures, Presupposition, Evidentiality, Modality, Topic and Focus, Speach Acts), Information Structure
- Japanese Phonology, Semantics-Phonology Interfaces, Syntax
- Field Linguistics
Position
| Assistant Professor | Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong |
| Postdoc | University of Kyoto. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists. (The Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture), April 2006-March 2009 |
| Visiting Scholar | Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 2007-February 2008 |
| Visiting Scholar | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA, February 2006-May 2007 |
Education
| February 2006 | Ph.D., Lingustics, University of Delaware |
| Summer 2005 | Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard University. |
| August 2004 | European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2004, Nancy, France |
| Summer 2003 | Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Michigan State University |
| May 2003 | M.A., Linguistics, University of Delaware |
| March 2001 | B.A., Linguistics, Liberal Arts, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan | Sept. 1999-August 2000 | Exchange Program, University of California, Irvine |
Project
Manuscript
Journal Publications
| 2009 | Christopher Potts, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Ash Asudeh, Rajesh Bhatt, Seth Cable, Christopher Davis, Yurie Hara, Angelika Kratzer, Eric McCready, Tom Roeper, and Martin Walkow (2009) `Expressives and identity conditions' Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2009, pp. 356-366. [paper] |
| 2008 | Hara, Yurie (2008) `Evidentiality of Discourse Items and Because-clauses' Journal of Semantics; doi: 10.1093/jos/ffn001. [paper] |
| Cole, Peter, Yurie Hara and Ngee-Thai Yap (2008) `Constraints on Auxiliary Fronting in Peranakan Javanese' Journal of Linguistics, 44(1):1-43. [paper] |
Conference Proceedings
| To appear | Kawahara, Shigeto and Yurie Hara (To appear)`Hiatus resolution in Hiroshima Japanese.'Proceedings of 38th Meeting of the North East LinguisticSociety, Amherst: GLSA. [bibtex] |
| 2008 | Hara, Yurie and Shigeto Kawahara (2008) `Daccenting, Maximize Presupposition and Evidential Scale.' In Barbosa, P. A., Madureira, S., and Reis, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference. Campinas, Brazil: Editora RG/CNPq. pp. 509-512. [bibtex][paper][poster] |
| Hara, Yurie (2008) `Scope Inversion in Japanese: Contrastive Topics Require Implicature' Proceedings of Japanese/Korean Linguistics 13, pp. 245-256. CSLI Publication. [bibtex][slides] (This paper is very old (originally presented in 2003)) | |
| 2007 | Hara, Yurie (2007) `Movement of a Shifty Operator'Proceedings of the 4th Formal Approaches to JapaneseLinguistics (FAJL 4), pp. 61-72 MITWPL.[bibtex][paper][slides] |
| Hara, Yurie (2007) `On Quantification over Questions: a Case Study of Exhaustification in Japanese' InE. Puig-Waldmüller (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, pp. 320-331. Barcelona:Universitat Pompeu Fabra. | |
| 2006 | Hara, Yurie (2006) `Dake-wa: Exhaustifying Assertions.'JSAI Workshops 2006,, pp. 219-231. Springer.[bibtex][paper] |
| Hara, Yurie (2006) `Implicature Unsuspendable: Japanese Contrastive wa. Proceedings of Texas Linguistics Society 8, University of Texas, Austin, pp. 35-45. Cascadilla Press.[bibtex][paper] | |
| Hara, Yurie (2006) `Question Intonation and Lexicalized Bias Expression'.In David Schlangen & Raquel Fernández (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial-10), pp. 50-54.Potsdam.[bibtex][slides][paper] | |
| Hara, Yurie (2006) `Implicatures and Evidentiality of Because Complements at Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interfaces.' Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 118-125. Springer-Verlag.[bibtex][paper] | |
| Hara, Yurie (2006) `Formal Grammar of Evidentiality and Implicatures: A Case Study of Contrastive Topic' Proceedings of Japanese/Korean Linguistics 14, pp. 201-211. CSLI Publication.[slides] | |
| 2005 | Hara, Yurie (2005)`Contrastives and Gricean Principles' In Paul Dekker & Michael Franke (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 101-106. ILLC, Amsterdam.[bibtex][paper][slides] |
| 2003 | Cole, Peter, Yurie Hara and Ngee-Thai Yap (2003) `Fronting and the Distribution of Auxiliaries in Javanese.' Proceedings of AFLA 9, pp. 35-49. Cornell University. |
Other Publications
| 2009 | Yurie Hara. `Imperatives as modal restrictions.' In Maria Biezma and Jesse A. Harris, editors, University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics: Papers in Pragmatics, volume 39, pages 31-47. GLSA, 2009. |
| Yurie Hara. Review of Robert Fiengo, Asking questions: Using meaningful structures to imply ignorance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+179. Journal of Linguistics, Volume 45, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 221-227. doi:10.1017/S0022226708005598 | |
| Yurie Hara. Review of Reinhard Blutner and Henk Zeevat (eds.), Optimality Theory and Pragmatics. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xi + 304 pp. Studies in English Literature, English Number 50, March 2009, pp 275-279. |
Conference Presentations
| 2010 | `(A-)Temporality in Japanese Nominalization.' Workshop 'On the Semantics of Nominalizations and Time', IHPST, Paris, France, February 16, 2010. |
| 2009 | `Two Ways to Nominalize Predicates in Japanese.' (with Sanae Tamura), The 2009 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 12, 2009. |
| `Two ways to nominalize actions: concrete or abstract.' (with Sanae Tamura), Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 6 (LENLS VI), Tokyo, Japan, November 19-21, 2009. | |
| 2008 | `Imperatives, Modal Bases, and Conditionals.' (with Shoichi Takahashi), International Congress in Linguistics (CIL) 18, Seoul, Korea, July 21-28, 2008.[slides] |
| `Hiatus resolution in Hiroshima Japanese.' (with Shigeto Kawahara), International Congress in Linguistics (CIL) 18, Seoul, Korea, July 21-28, 2008.[slides] | |
| `Biased questions, giveness and direct evidentiality.' (with Shigeto Kawahara), Workshop on Information Structure, International Congress in Linguistics (CIL) 18, Seoul, Korea, July 21-28, 2008.[slides] | |
| `Daccenting, Maximize Presupposition and Evidential Scale'. (with Shigeto Kawahara) the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference, May 6-9, 2008, Campinas, Brazil.[poster] | |
| 2007 | `Contrastive Topics Revisited: a Simpler Set of Topic-Alternatives'. (with Robert van Rooij) 38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, (NELS 38), October 26-28, 2007, University of Ottawa, Canada. [slides] |
| `Hiatus Resolution in Hiroshima Japanese'. (with Shigeto Kawahara) 38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, (NELS 38), October 26-28, 2007, University of Ottawa, Canada. | |
| `Questions are Immediate Issues'. Logics and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics, June 18th-19th, 2007, Miyazaki, Japan. [bibtex] | |
| 2006 | `On Quantification over Question: a Case Study of Exhaustification in Japanese'. Sinn und Bedeutung 11, September 21-23, 2006, Barcelona, Spain. [slides] |
| `Question Intonation and Lexicalized Bias Expression' brandial 2006: The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, September 11th-13th 2006, University of Potsdam, Germany. [slides] | |
| `Movement of a Shifty Operator'. The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference, August 17-19, 2006 Osaka, Japan. [slides] [paper] | |
| `Dake-wa: Exhaustifying Assertions.' Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 2006 (LEN(L)S 2006), June 5-6, 2006, Tokyo, Japan. [paper] | |
| 2005 | "Contrastives and Gricean Principles" 15th Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, 19-21 Dec 2005 [slides] [paper] |
| "Japanese Modal Auxiliary and Levels of Meaning" Sinn und Bedeutung 10, Berlin, Germany, 13-15 October 2005 [slides] | |
| "Modal meaning in the expressive tier." Third International Conference in Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, Shanghai, China, 16-18 September 2005 | |
| `Implicatures and Evidentiality of Because Complements at Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface' Logicand Engineering of Natural Language Semantics, Kitakyushuu International Conference Center. June 13-14, 2005. | |
| "Cross-Linguistic Evidence for Evidential Projection and Locality Conditions on Discourse Items" The (In-)Determinacy of Meaning, Cologne, Germany, Feb. 23-25 2005 | |
| "Evidentiality of Discourse Items and Because-clauses" Language under Uncertainty, University of Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 21-23 | |
| 2004 | `Formal Grammar of Evidentiality and Implicatures: A Case Study of Contrastive Topic' Japanese/Korean Linguistics 14, University of Arizona, November 5-7 2004. [slides] |
| `Implicature Computation and Attitude Predicates,' Workshop on Implicature and Conversational Meaning, organized as part of the European SummerSchool on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2004, Nancy, France, August 2004. [slides] | |
| `Semi-local Computation of Implicature,' the Second International TEAL Workshop, 12-13 June, 2004, National Tsing Hua Univertsity, Taiwan | |
| `Implicature Unsuspendable: Japanese Contrastive wa' Texas Linguistics Society 8, University of Texas at Austin, March 2004. [slides] [paper] | |
| `Contrastive Topic in Japanese and Implicature Unsuspendability' Journées de Sémantique et Modélisation 2004, Lyon, France, March 2004. | |
| 2003 | `Scope Inversion in Japanese: Contrastive Topics Require Implicatures.' Japanese/Korean Linguistics 13, Michigan State University, August 2003. [slides] |
| 2002 | `Fronting and the Distribution of Auxiliaries in Javanese.' (with Peter Cole and Ngee-Thai Yap) AFLA 9, Cornell University, April 2002. |
Invited Talks
| 2009 | `Linguistic Contrast among Objects, Facts and Events: Evidence from Japanese Nominalization', Modelization of Semantic Structures of Conditionals and Modals Based on Tropes, Kyoto University, November 30-December 2, 2009. |
| `Decomposing sae', The Fifth Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation, Kyoto University, July 19, 2009. | |
| 2008 | ``Atsukunai?' Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Deaccentuation', Generative Lyceum, July 5, 2008 (with Shigeto Kawahara). |
| ``Samuku nai?': On Grammaticalized Deaccenting in Biased Questions', Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation, February 16-17, 2008 (with Shigeto Kawahara). | |
| `On Conditional Assertions and Topicality: a Case Study of Questions', Semantics Research Group, National Institute of Informatics, February 15, 2008. | |
| ``Samuku nai?': Foraml Semantics and Pragmatics of Deaccentuation', Guest Lecture at International Christian University, Japan, February 13, 2008 (with Shigeto Kawahara). | |
| `On Conditional Assertions and Topicality: a Case Study of Questions', Leiden Utrecht Semantics Happenings (LUSH),The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Netherlands, February 7, 2008. | |
| `Biased Questions, Deaccenting and Givenness', Guest Colloquium atCenter for Language and Cognition Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands, February 1, 2008 (with Shigeto Kawahara). | |
| `Deaccenting, Maximize Presupposition and Evidential Scale', A colloquium talk, University of Potsdam, Germany, January 24, 2008 (with Shigeto Kawahara). | |
| `On Conditional Assertions and Topicality: a Case Study of Questions', Semantikzirkel,ZAS, Berlin, Germany, January 22, 2008. | |
| 2007 | `Contrastive Topics Revisited' The Semantics Colloquium,the Nijmegen Centre for Semantics, Netherlands, October 16, 2007. |
| `Biased Questions, Givenness and Direct Evidentiality' Kagamiyama Linguistic Science Colloquium, Hiroshima University, Japan, July 25, 2007 (with Shigeto Kawahara). | |
| `Questions are Immediate Issues' DIP colloquium,ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 21, 2007. | |
| `The Emergence of the Evidential Intonation.' Semantics Research Group, July 6, 2007, National Institute of Informatics. (with Shigeto Kawahara) | |
| 2006 | `Exhaustification over Questions in Japanese.' Kin3 Round Table, July 7, 2006, Kyoto University. |
| `Exhaustification over Assertions,' The 42nd Kagamiyama Linguistic,' Science Colloquium, Hiroshima University, Japan, June 15 2006. | |
| 2005 | `Semantics of Darou: Likelihood and Quantification over Reasoning,' Kin3 roundtable, Kyoto University, Japan, May 2005 |
| 2004 | `Implicature Computation at Interfaces,' Kagamiyama Linguistic Science Colloquium, Hiroshima University, Japan, 16 July 2004. |
Teaching Experience
| Feb 2009 | Lecturer: Tutorial on Semantics and Pragmatics, Hiroshima University |
| Feb 2009 | Lecturer: Seminar on Semantics and Pragmatics, Kyoto University |
| Sep 2002-May 2004 | Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Linguistics, University of Delaware |
Work Experience
| Sep 2004-May 2005 | Cognitive Sciences Graduate Assistant |
Awards
| April 2006-March 2009 | Research Fellowships of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists.. |
| September 2005 | Graduate Travel Award for attendance at the Third International Conference in Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, Shanghai, China. |
| September 2005-May 2006 | University Dissertation Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, University of Delaware. |
| Summer 2005 | LSA grant, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard University. |
| February 2005 | Graduate Travel Award for attendance at the 27th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Association `The (In-)Determinacy of Meaning,' Cologne, Germany. |
| August 2004 | ESSLLI 2004 grant, sponsored by IJCAI (The International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence) |
| March 2004 | Graduate Travel Award for attendance at Texas Linguistics Society 8, University of Texas at Austin |
| Summer 2003 | LSA grant, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Michigan State University |
Services
| Department newsletter: | http://ling.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/beta/modules/d3blog/ |
| Conference Refereeing: | LENLS, Sinn und Bedeutung |
| Journal Refereeing: | Journal of Linguistics |
Academic Activity
| Sept. 2004-May 2005 | Webmaster (Linguistics, Program in Cognitive Sciences, University of Delaware) |
| Dec. 2004 - Feb. 2005 | Organizer (International Workshop on the Evolution of Cognition, University of Delaware) |
| Spring 2002 - Fall2004 | Colloquium Organizer at Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Delaware |
| Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2004 | The president of the Linguistic Association of Delaware (graduate student organization) |
Dissertation
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