Junko Shimoyama, Assistant Professor
Specializations: Syntax, Syntax/Semantics Interface, East Asian Languages
PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst

Contact information

Email: Junko Shimoyama
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield, #121
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:30 - 12:30 and Thursdays 1:30 - 2:30 and by appointment (Winter 2010 term)
Phone: 514-398-4867

Major publications

• Shimoyama, Junko. to appear. Clausal comparatives and cross-linguistic variation. In Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS39), GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. PDF [.pdf]
• Shimoyama, Junko. To appear. Degree quantification and the size of noun modifiers. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 18. Stanford: CSLI Publications. PDF [.pdf]
• Shimoyama, Junko. 2009. Indeterminate NPIs and scope. In Tova Friedman and Satoshi Ito, eds., Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XVIII (SALT18), CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca. PDF [.pdf]
• Shimoyama, Junko. 2008. Indeterminate pronouns. In Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito, eds., The handbook of Japanese linguistics, 372-393. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Shimoyama, Junko. 2006. Indeterminate phrase quantification in Japanese. Natural Language Semantics 14:139-173.
• Shimoyama, Junko. 2006. A QVE-like phenomenon in the Japanese universal construction and its implications. In Yubun Suzuki, Keizo Mizuno, and Ken-Ichi Takami, eds., In search of the essence of language science: festschrift for Professor Heizo Nakajima on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, 297-309. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.
• Shimoyama, Junko. 2003. Adjectival passives and the Japanese ‘intransitivizing resultative’ V-te aru construction. In Shuji Chiba et al. eds., Empirical and theoretical investigations into language: a festschrift for Masaru Kajita, 647-661. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
• Kratzer, Angelika and Junko Shimoyama. 2002. Indeterminate pronouns: The view from Japanese. In Y. Otsu. ed. The Proceedings of the Third Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2002), 1-25. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.
• Shimoyama, Junko. 2001. Wh-constructions in Japanese. PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
• Shimoyama, Junko. 1999. Internally headed relative clauses in Japanese and E-type anaphora. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 8:147-182.
• Shimoyama, Junko. 1999. Complex NPs and wh-quantification in Japanese. In P. N. Tamanji et al. eds. Proceedings of the 29th North East Linguistic Society (NELS 29), 355-365. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
• Shimoyama, Junko. 1995. On ‘sluicing’ in Japanese. Ms., University of Massachusetts, Amherst.