Faculty Information - ODA Toshiko

■ Business career

1.	2018/07～2018/07	Beijing University of International Business and Economics Summer School Foreign Teacher
2.	2010/04～2011/03	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Visiting Scholar
3.	2009/04～2010/03	University of Connecticut, USA Visiting Scholar
4.	2009/04～	Tokyo Keizai University Center for General Education Associate Professor
5.	2004/04～2009/03	Tokyo Keizai University Center for General Education Full-Time Lecturer
6.	1995/08～1996/06	Earlham College, IN Visiting Instructor
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■ Degree/Academic background

1.	Degree Acquisition	Nanzan University,
2.	Degree Acquisition	Aichi University of Education,
3.		Faculty of Education, Aichi University of Education,
4.		〔Master Course〕, Graduate School, Division of Foreign Language, Nanzan University, Completed,

■ User Research Outline

・Semantics of Numeral Indeterminate Pronouns in Japanese ・Semantics of Scalar Particles ・Semantics of degree constructions ・Counterfactuals

■ Reseach Areas

Semantics・Syntax

■ Research Subject

1.	2000/04/01 2025/03/31
2.	2006/04 Study abroad for college students study abroad, English, Chinese, college students
3.	2016/09 Machine translation and language education machine translation, automated scoring, language education
4.	2022/12/01 Degree semantics of Gilgiti-Shina Shina, Gilgit, degree semantics
5.	2023/04/01 2026/03/31
6.	2024/04/24 2025/03/31 Survey of Foreign Residents of Kokubunji City (Grant number D24-01)
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■ Book and thesis

1.	2024/11/08	Article	Teachers Should Ask Students What They Learned from AI Selected Papers from the Thirty-second International Symposium on English Language Teaching and Learning pp.229-308 (Single)
2.	2024/03	Article	Indirect Strategy and Interpretive Economy in Phrasal Yorimo and Bǐ-Comparatives Journal of Cognitive Science 25(1),pp.125-178 (Single)
3.	2023/12/06	Article	Notes on Degree Constructions of Gilgiti-Shina 人文自然科学論集 (153),pp.37-59 (Single)
4.	2023/12	Article	English Grammar Learning as Prompt Engineering Through Japanese-English Comparison pp.33-44 (Single)
5.	2023/10	Book	English Education and Machine Translation- New Approaches and Practices (Collaboration)
6.	2023/06/01	Article	Regretful concessions: on Japanese noni Proceedings of the Fifty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 57,pp.461-475 (Collaboration)
7.	2023/01/01	Article	How Various Frame Setters Restrict Interpretations of Contextual Comparisons U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 29(1),pp.139-148 (Single)
8.	2023	Article	If-adversatives in Japanese Japanese and Korean Linguistics 30 30,pp.525-535 (Collaboration)
9.	2022/12/01	Article	Designed for Study Abroad Online: A One-Month Weekend Mandarin Program The Journal of Worldwide Education 15(1),pp.24-29 (Single)
10.	2022/11	Article	Let's Work with AI! Machine Translation as a Tool for Discussion The Language Teacher 46(6),pp.59-60 (Single)
11.	2022/10	Article	Regrets and Surprises: A Unifying Account of Japanese Noni Journal of Cognitive Science 23(3),pp.323-374 (Collaboration)
12.	2021/09/08	Article	Indirect comparisons as a last resort by Interpretive Economy Japanese and Korean Linguistics pp.1-14 (Single)
13.	2021/08/10	Article	Japanese naa as an exclamative operator A Comparative Approach to the Syntax-Semantics Interface 87,pp.83-103 (Collaboration)
14.	2021/07/31	Article	Study Abroad Online as a New Option: The Case of a Two-Week Mandarin Program The Journal of Worldwide Education 14(1),pp.19-22 (Single)
15.	2021/05/15	Article	Pre-/Post-Study Abroad Learning in the Local Community PanSIG Journal 2020 pp.86-91 (Single)
16.	2021/05/14	Article	Indirectly Determined Comparison and Difference: The Case of Japanese Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation pp.496-504 (Single)
17.	2021/02/05	Book	Bibliobattle in English pp.48-54 (Collaboration)
18.	2021/01/11	Article	Interpretive Economy and Presuppositions JELS 39(1),pp.85-91 (Single)
19.	2020/09/01	Article	Pragmatic Phrasal Comparison in Mandarin Chinese Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society pp.43-61 (Single)
20.	2020/03/01	Article	How to make positive use of machine translation The Language Teacher 44(2),pp.30-31 (Single)
21.	2019/02/04	Article	Study Abroad Destination: The Case of Beijing Pan SIG Journal 2018 pp.181-188 (Single)
22.	2018/11/01	Article	Bibliobattle in English, an Alternative Style of English Presentation The Language Teacher 42(6),pp.25-26 (Single)
23.	2018	Article	Resumptive pronouns of degree in clausal yorimo('than')-comparatives Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WALF 10) pp.203-215 (Single)
24.	2017/12/01	Article	Notes on the Expletive Negation of "Almost" Constructions in Mandarin Chinese The Journal of Humanities and Natural Sciences 141,pp.23-37 (Single)
25.	2017/08/09	Article	When 'Barely' Turns Out to be 'Almost' Proceedings of the 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar pp.241-259 (Single)
26.	2016/08/01	Article	E-Type Anaphora of Degree in Izyooni(than)-Comparatives Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23,pp.213-227 (Single)
27.	2015/10/30	Article	Degree Variables by Choose Degree in Izyooni ‘Than’-Clauses Online Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation pp.408-416 (Single)
28.	2014/03/20	Article	Angelika Kratzer, Modals and Conditionals Studies in English Literature, English number 55,pp.167-174 (Single)
29.	2013/05/13	Article	Overt Degree Arguments as Internal Heads of Relative Clauses of Degree LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 4,pp.1-5 (Single)
30.	2012/12/31	Article	Numeral Indeterminate Phrases and Their Existential Quantification by MO in Japanese English Linguistics 29(2),pp.285-315 (Single)
31.	2012/03	Article	Indeterminate Phrases Proceedings of the 29th Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan (JELS 29) 29,pp.128-134 (Single)
32.	2011/09/03	Article	Degree Constructions in Japanese
33.	2010/07/11	Article	Contextually Restricted Scales of i-Adjectives in Japanese Proceedings of the 11th Tokyo Conference　on　Psycholinguistic pp.pp.201-220. (Single)
34.	2008/12/14	Article	Degree Constructions in Japanese Ph.D dissertation, University of Connecticut (Single)
35.	2008/11/26	Article	Multihead Comparatives in Japanese (第126号),pp.pp.3-31. (Single)
36.	2006/11	Article	Comparative Conditionals in Japanese The Proceedings of the Seventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics pp.pp.223-226. (Single)
37.	2006/08	Article	Overt Degree Arguments in Comparatives The Proceedings of the eighth Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar pp.pp.213-228. (Single)
38.	2005/06/12	Article	Japanese Adjectives in Comparative Form pp.98-103 (Single)
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2024/11/09	Teachers Should Ask Students What They Learned from AI (The Thirty-second International Symposium on English Language Teaching and Learning)
2.	2024/09/22	If-conditional-optatives/-adversatives in Mandarin Chinese (2024 The 3rd Conference on Biolinguistics and Language Acquisition)
3.	2024/05/18	Teachers Should Let Learners Examine the Output of AI Translation (JALT CALL2024)
4.	2023/03/13	If-adversatives in Japanese (Japanese and Korean Linguistics 30)
5.	2022/03/20	How various frame setters restrict interpretations of contextual comparison (the 46th annual Penn Linguistics Conference)
6.	2021/08/28	(JACET 60th Commemorative International Convention)
7.	2021/08/12	Japanese naa as an exclamative operator (the 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar)
8.	2021/05/15	Utility and Challenges of Online Short-Term SA English Programs (JALT PanSIG Conference 2021)
9.	2021/05/06	Regretful concessions: On Japanese noni (Chicago Linguistics Society 57)
10.	2020/11/07	Interpretive Economy and presuppositions (the 38th conference of the English Linguistics Society of Japan)
11.	2020/10/25	Indirectly Determined Comparison and Difference: The Case of Japanese (the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation)
12.	2020/09/26	Learning about Languages from Exchange Students in Japan (JALT Study Abroad Conference 2020)
13.	2020/09/16	Contextual comparison as a last resort by Interpretive Economy (Japanese and Korean Linguistics 28)
14.	2020/06/20	Pre/post study abroad learning in the local community (JALTPanSIG2020)
15.	2020/02/14	Phrasal Pragmatic Comparison in Mandarin Chinese (19th Meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society)
16.	2019/03/16	'Barely' that takes/does not take implicatures of counterfactuals (The Second International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-2))
17.	2019/01/19	Study Abroad in China: Its Potentials and Limitations (Special Session on Study Abroad, JALT Yokohama Chapter)
18.	2018/05/19	Study Abroad SIG Forum: Study Abroad Destinations (JALT Pan-Sig 2018)
19.	2017/09/16	100 Questions in English for Short-Term Study Abroad Programs (JALT Study Abroad SIG)
20.	2017/08/11	When 'Barely' Turns Out to be 'Almost' (the 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar)
21.	2016/10/15	Compositional Analysis of Japanese Ayauku/Ayaui ‘Almost’ (the 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference)
22.	2015/11/01	Degree Variables by Choose Degree in Izyooni ‘Than’-Clauses (The 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation)
23.	2014/07/27	An Empirical Investigation into the Status of 'Yori'-Constituents in Japanese Comparatives (Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 7)
24.	2014/05/24	Resumptive pronouns of degree in clausal yorimo (than)-comparatives (GLOW Asia X (Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia 10))
25.	2014/05/03	Resumptive pronouns of degree in clausal yorimo (than)-comparatives (Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 10)
26.	2013/10/12	E-type Anaphora of Degree in Izyooni(than)-comparatives (Japanese and Korean Linguistics 23)
27.	2013/01/05	Overt Degree Arguments as Internal Heads of Relative Clauses of Degree (the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America)
28.	2011/11/12	Indeterminate Phrases
29.	2010/05/07	Contextually Restricted Scales of i-Adjectives in Japanese (Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 5)
30.	2010/03/12	Contextually Restricted Scales of i-Adjectives in Japanese (Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics 2010)
31.	2010/02/27	Contextually Restricted Scales of i-Adjectives in Japanese (Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS))
32.	2009/10/31	Multihead Comparatives in Japanese (Michigan Linguistic Society 39)
33.	2006/08/09	Overt Degree Arguments inComparatives (The eighth Seoul International Conference on Generative)
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■ Lecturer and lecture

1.	2023/11/04	Contextual Comparison Revisited (東京大学駒場キャンパス)
2.	2023/07/26	Will MT Save Japanese English Education?
3.	2016/12/16	Approximative expressions with ayaui tokoro in Japanese
4.	2013/09/06	Overt Degree Arguments as Internal Heads of Relative Clauses of Degrees
5.	2013/08/08	Degrees in Izyooni(than)-Comparatives
6.	2012/01/27	Indeterminate Phrases and their Existential Quantification
7.	2010/06/01	Contextually Restricted Scales of i-Adjectives in Japanese
8.	2007/09/07	Degree Constructions in Japanese
9.	2006/09/26	Degree Constructions in Japanese
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■ Activity in society

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2016/05～2016/09

Ph.D dissertation committee member for Abusalim, Nimer (2016) “The Syntax and Semantics of Jordanian Arabic Comparatives: Between English and Japanese” University of University of Delaware.

■ Belonging society

1.	2004/04	The Japan Association Language Teaching(JALT)
2.	2019/02	The Japan Association for Interpreting and Translation Studies
3.	2018/05	The Japan Association of Chinese Language Education
4.	2012/09	Linguistic Society of America
5.	1995/08～1996/07	American Association of Teachers of Japanese