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SAWADA Osamu
Graduate School of Humanities / Division of Human Social Dynamics
Professor

Researcher basic information

■ Degree
  • Doctor of Philosophy
■ Research Areas
  • Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics

Research activity information

■ Paper
  • Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Mar. 2025, JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Osamu Sawada
    Aug. 2024, LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, 47(4) (4), 653 - 702, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Scale structures of numeral additive particles: The case of the Japanese particles moo and ato
    Osamu Sawada
    Mar. 2024, Kobe Papers in Linguistics, 14, 39 - 61, English
    Research institution
    Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)

  • Osamu Sawada
    De Gruyter, Dec. 2023, Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages, 297 - 342, English
    [Refereed][Invited]
    In book
    Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)

  • Osamu Sawada, Hideki Kishimoto, Ikumi Imani
    De Gruyter, Dec. 2023, Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages, 1 - 36, English
    [Refereed][Invited]
    In book
    Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)

  • Osamu Sawada
    Jul. 2023, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13856 LNAI, 145 - 160
    [Refereed]
    International conference proceedings
    Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)

  • Osamu Sawada
    Jun. 2023, NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal
    Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)

  • Osamu Sawada
    Wh-exclamatives are usually considered degree constructions (e.g., Zanuttini & Portner 2003, Castroviejo 2008, Rett 2008). However, Japanese possesses what I call negative wh-expressives, which are unrelated to degree. I argue that unlike typical wh-exclamatives, negative wh-expressive sentences express a speaker’s negative attitude, and their compositional system is similar to that of an interrogative sentence except for the speech act operator. That is, a negative wh-expressive occurs with a speech act operator, which takes a set of propositions Q and (i) presupposes that there is a unique proposition p in Q that is salient, and (ii) conventionally implies that p is unexpected and that the speaker has a negative attitude toward it. In this paper, we also look at cases in which the wh expression is embedded in the complement of omo-tteiru ‘think’ and cases in which nani ‘what’ acts as an adjunct, and show that these cases can also be explained by the core component of the proposed mechanism. This paper shows that wh-related exclamatives have both scalar and non-scalar types, and considers a new typology of exclamatives.
    Linguistic Society of America, Apr. 2023, Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 8(1) (1), 5524 - 5524, English
    International conference proceedings
    Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)

  • Review of Indirect Speech Acts by Nicholas Ruytenbeek
    Sawada, Osamu
    Mar. 2023, Studies in Pragmatics, 24, 169 - 178, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Osamu Sawada
    Jan. 2023, LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS, 24(1) (1), 36 - 73, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal
    Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)

  • The scalar contrastive wa in Japanese
    Sawada, Osamu
    Dec. 2022, Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics, 14, 239 - 271, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • International pragmatic research on Japanese
    Tetsuharu Koyama, Jun Sawada, Kaoru Hayano, Sachiko Takagi, Noriko Onodera, Osamu Sawada, Michi Shiina
    Aug. 2022, Xinren Chen and Doreen Dongying Wu (eds.), East Asian Pragmatics: Commonalities and Variations, Routledge, 118 - 134
    [Refereed][Invited]
    In book

  • Osamu Sawada
    The Japanese expression kakera has a literal meaning of ‘piece’. However, when kakera is combined with mo ‘even’, it can behave as an idiomatic negative polarity item (NPI). The distinctive features of the NPI kakera are that it usually co-occur with a property-related positive noun (e.g., seijitsu-sa ‘sincerity’) and is used for expressing a feeling of complaint. I argue that unlike the typical minimizer NPIs, the NPI kakera has an expressive property in that it not only denotes a minimum degree of an NP, but conventionally implies that high degrees of NP are expected (as a desire), and a judge (typically a speaker) is complaining about the target in question. Previous studies have shown that the meaning of EVEN (explicitly or implicitly) contributes to the creation of the emphatic function of minimizer (e.g., Horn 1989; Chierchia 2013). However, the phenomenon of kakera suggests that in addition to EVEN, minimizers can have expectation/attitudinal components that further restrict the situation in which they are used. This study shows that the multidimensional approach (Potts 2005; McCready 2010; Sawada 2010, 2018; Gutzmann 2012) to meaning allows us to capture the item-specific pragmatic properties of minimizers in a systematic fashion.
    Linguistic Society of America, May 2022, Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 7(1) (1), 5259 - 5259
    Scientific journal
    Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)

  • Information structure of the Japanese mirative demonstrative ano
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Mar. 2022, Kobe Papers in Linguistics, 13, 16 - 34, English
    Scientific journal
    Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)

  • The Japanese reactive attitudinal nani-mo: Polarity sensitivity and the function of objection
    Osamu Sawada
    Oct. 2021, Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 28, 131 - 145, English
    Scientific journal

  • Osamu Sawada
    Sep. 2021, Gengo Kenkyu 160, 160, 43 - 68, English
    [Refereed][Invited]

  • Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada

    This chapter investigates the interpretation of tense in Japanese mirative sentences using nante/towa and considers cross-linguistic variations of mirativity in terms of tense. In Japanese, when nante or towa is combined with a proposition that contains the so-called non-past form ru, the sentence becomes ambiguous as having both a non-past (future/present) reading and a past reading. Based on a theory by Sawada and Sawada (2019), we argue that this ambiguity of tense is due to the conventional implicature of nante/towa: nante/towa can take a ‘non-tensed’ proposition p and conventionally implies that (i) p is settled (i.e., p is/was true or predicted to be true) and (ii) the speaker did not expect such p. It will be shown that a basic analysis of nante/towa can apply to the English exclamatory that-clause, which also presents an ambiguity of tense, and at least partially to the Korean mirative tani sentence in which a past-oriented meaning can be represented based on the stem form of a verb.

    Oxford University Press, Aug. 2021, Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks, Oxford University Press, 216 - 247
    [Refereed]
    In book

  • Osamu Sawada
    The Japanese minimizers kasukani ‘faintly’ and honokani ‘approx. faintly’ and the English minimizer faintly are similar to typical minimizers, such as the Japanese sukoshi ‘a bit’ and English a bit, in that they semantically represent a low degree. However, their meanings and distribution patterns are not the same. I argue that kasukani, honokani, and faintly are sense-based minimizers in that they not only semantically denote a small degree but also convey that thejudge (typically the speaker) measures degree based on his/her own sense ( the senses of sight, smell, taste, etc.) at the level of conventional implicature (CI) (e.g., Grice 1975; Potts 2005; McCready 2010; Gutzmann 2011). It will be shown that this characteristic restricts sense-based minimizers to occur only in a limited environment. This paper also shows that there are variations among the sense-based minimizers with regard to (i) the kind of sense, (ii) the presence/absence of evaluativity, and (iii) the possibility of a combination with an emotive predicate, and will explain them in the non-at-issue domain. In analyzing the meaning of sense-based minimizers, the relationship between a sense-based minimizer and a predicate of personal taste (e.g., Pearson 2013; Ninan 2014; Kennedy & Willer 2019; Willer & Kennedy 2019) will also be discussed.
    Linguistic Society of America, Mar. 2021, Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 6(1) (1), 433 - 433, English
    International conference proceedings

  • Interpretations of sense-based minimizers in Japanese and English: Local and global sense-based measurements
    Osamu Sawada
    2021, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 18), 161 - 174, English
    International conference proceedings

  • Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Sep. 2020, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12331 LNAI(paper 16) (paper 16), 325 - 340
    [Refereed]
    International conference proceedings
    Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)

  • Gricean Pragmatics
    Osamu Sawada
    Mar. 2020, 加藤重広, 澤田淳 (編）『はじめての語用論―基礎から応用まで』, 24 - 40, Japanese
    [Refereed][Invited]

  • The directionality of causal inference in NP-no koto-da(kara)
    Jun Sawada, Osamu Sawada
    Mar. 2020, Journal of Japanese Grammar, 20(1) (1), 37 - 52, Japanese
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • 慣習的推意―インターフェースの観点から―
    澤田治
    Nov. 2019, 西原哲雄, 都田青子, 中村浩一郎, 米倉よう子, 田中真一（編）,『言語におけるインターフェイス』, 開拓社, 138 - 152
    [Invited]
    In book

  • 感情表出表現として振る舞う否定極性表現の意味・機能について―「何も」と「とても」を中心に―
    澤田治
    Nov. 2019, 澤田治, 岸本秀樹, 今仁生美（編）,『極性表現の構造・意味・機能』, 開拓社, 311 - 334
    [Refereed][Invited]

  • 序論―極性表現の構造・意味・機能―
    澤田治, 岸本秀樹, 今仁生美
    Nov. 2019, 澤田治, 岸本秀樹, 今仁生美（編）,『極性表現の構造・意味・機能』, 開拓社, 1 - 47
    In book

  • Interpretations of the embedded expressive motto in Japanese: Varieties of meaning and projectivity
    Osamu Sawada
    Jun. 2019, Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay (eds.), Secondary Content: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Side Issues (Current Research in the Semantics Pragmatics-Interface (CRiSPI)). Leiden: Brill., 341 - 375
    [Refereed]
    In book

  • The discourse-pragmatic properties of the Japanese negative intensifier totemo
    Osamu Sawada
    Apr. 2019, 澤田治美, 仁田義雄, 山梨正明（編）,『場面と主体性・主観性』, ひつじ書房, 593 - 613, English
    [Refereed][Invited]
    In book

  • Review Articles and Book Reviews : Review Article : Review of "The Logic of Horn's A Natural History of Negation" by Yasuhiko Kato
    澤田 治
    日本語用論学会, 2019, 語用論研究, (21) (21), 187 - 196, Japanese
    [Refereed]

  • Scalarity and alternatives of Japanese mora (letter)-based minimizers
    Osamu Sawada
    2019, Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 4(21), 1 - 15
    International conference proceedings

  • Osamu Sawada
    The Japanese sore-yori ‘lit. than it’ and nani-yori ‘lit. than what’ have a pragmatic use (in addition to semantic use), and their pragmatic functions are highly discourse-sensitive. In terms of scalarity, the pragmatic sore-yori is non-endpoint-oriented in that it conventionally implicates that U in sore-yori(U) is preferable to the previous utterance. In contrast, the pragmatic nani-yori is endpoint-oriented in that it conventionally implicates that U in nani-yori(U) is preferable to any alternative utterance. In this paper I argue (i) that these two types of scalar meanings at the level of conventional implicaure (CI) are derived compositionally by the single yori ‘than’, and (ii) that various kinds of discourse-pragmatic functions of sore-yori and nani-yori―such as “topic shifting” in sore-yori, and “priority listing” and “additive reinforcing” in nani-yori―automatically arise from the interaction between the expression’s scale structures (endpoint vs. non-endpoint scales) and Grice’s conversational maxims (relevance, manner). This paper shows that scale structures play a crucial role in managing the direction of discourse and that there is a rich interaction between CIs and general conversational maxims in pragmatic comparative expressions.
    Linguistic Society of America, Mar. 2018, Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 3(1) (1), 7 - 7
    International conference proceedings

  • The Japanese negative totemo: From an unconditional expression to an expressive intensifier
    Osamu Sawada
    2018, The Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 15, (Paper 18) (Paper 18), 1 - 14

  • Varieties of positive polarity minimizers in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    2018, Studies in Language and Literature (Commemoration Number for Prof. Susumu Kubo), 38(1-2) (1-2), 189 - 236
    [Invited]
    Research institution

  • The dependent property of the Japanese inferential use of no koto-da: An evidence indicator for an inferential modal statement
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    2017, Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 14 (LENLS 14), paper 14: 1 - 14
    International conference proceedings

  • 澤田 治
    一般財団法人 日本英文学会, 2017, 英文学研究, 94, 143, Japanese
    [Refereed][Invited]

  • The Japanese negative totemo ‘very’: Toward a new typology of negative sensitive items
    Osamu Sawada
    2017, Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 437 - 451
    International conference proceedings

  • On the property of mirativity in the Japanese modal demonstrative ano
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    2017, Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 24, 141 - 155
    International conference proceedings

  • Osamu Sawada
    2017, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10091 LNCS, 122 - 137
    [Refereed]
    International conference proceedings

  • Interpretations of embedded expressives: A view from the Japanese comparative expressive motto
    Osamu Sawada
    2016, Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics, 120 - 133
    International conference proceedings

  • The projection of non-at-issue meaning via modal support: The meaning and use of the Japanese counter-expectational adverbs
    Osamu Sawada
    2015, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics, 88 - 102
    International conference proceedings

  • Review of Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Heiko Narrog (2012 Oxford University Press)
    Sawada, Osamu
    2015, English Linguistics, 32, 223 - 235
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • The degree of the speaker’s negative attitude in a goal-shifting comparison
    Sawada, Osamu
    2015, Proceedings of the 15th Texas Linguistics Society Conference, NA, 150 - 169
    International conference proceedings

  • Osamu Sawada
    Jul. 2014, Linguistics and Philosophy, 37(3) (3), 205 - 248
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Mark Steedman, Taking Scope: The Natural Semantics of Quantifiers, Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2012, xviii+306pp. :
    SAWADA,Osamu
    English Literary Society of Japan, Mar. 2014, Studies in English literature, 175 - 183, English
    [Refereed][Invited]

  • The conventionality of pragmatic inference in noteworthy comparison
    Osamu Sawada
    2014, Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 233 - 240
    International conference proceedings

  • The meaning of modal affective demonstratives in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    2014, Japanese/Korean Linguistics 21, 181 - 196
    In book

  • Positive polarity minimizers: the semantics/pragmatics interface
    Osamu Sawada
    2014, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 175 - 190
    International conference proceedings

  • On the context-dependent pragmatic strategies of Japanese self-diminutive shift
    Osamu Sawada
    2014, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 18, 377 - 395
    International conference proceedings

  • Osamu Sawada
    Aug. 2013, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 22(3) (3), 217 - 260
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • The meaning and use of utterance situation-based comparison in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    2013, Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 221 - 228
    International conference proceedings

  • 日本語モーダル指示詞における意味の多次元性：意味論と語用論のインターフェース
    澤田淳, 澤田治
    2013, Proceedings of the Kansai Linguistics Society, 33, 73 - 84
    Scientific journal

  • Precision and manners of measurement: the case of Japanese minimizers
    Osamu Sawada
    2013, Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6 (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics), 6, 157 - 168
    Scientific journal

  • The meaning of diminutive shift in Japanese: Its dimensionality, regularity and pragmatic effect
    Osamu Sawada
    2012, Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 257 - 260
    International conference proceedings

  • 比較構文の語用論
    澤田治
    2012, 『構文と意味』(ひつじ意味論講座 vol.2), 澤田治美(編), ひつじ書房., 133 - 155
    In book

  • The meanings of diminutive shifts in Japanese
    Sawada, Osamu
    2012, Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, 42, 163 - 176
    International conference proceedings

  • Osamu Sawada, Thomas Grano
    Jun. 2011, Natural Language Semantics, 19(2) (2), 191 - 226
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • On the expressive use of ano ‘that’ in Japanese: A probability scale approach
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    2011, Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 49 - 56
    International conference proceedings

  • Comparison, indeterminateness, and the semantics-pragmatics interface
    Osamu Sawada
    2011, Japanese/Korean Linguistics 18, 18, 315 - 327
    International conference proceedings

  • Comparison with Indeterminateness: A Multidimensional Approach
    Osamu Sawada
    2011, Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, 645 - 659
    International conference proceedings

  • Osamu Sawada
    In Japanese there are multiple lexical items for positive polarity minimizers (hereinafter, minimizer PPIs), each of which can differ in meaning/use. For example, while sukoshi ‘lit. a bit/a little’ can only express a quantitative (amount) meaning, chotto ‘lit. a bit/a little’ can express either a quantitative meaning or an ‘expressive’ meaning (i.e. attenuation in degree of the force of a speech act). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the semantics and pragmatics of the Japanese minimizer PPIs chotto and sukoshi and to consider (i) the parallelism/non-parallelism between truth conditional scalar meanings and non-truth conditional scalar meanings, and (ii) what mechanism can explain the cross-linguistic and language internal variation between minimizer PPIs. As for the semantics/pragmatics of minimizers, I will argue that although the meanings of the amount and expressive minimizers are logically and dimensionally different (non-parallelism), they can systematically be captured by positing a single lexical item (parallelism). As for the language internal and cross-linguistic variations, it will be shown that there is a point of variation with respect to whether a particular degree morpheme allows a dimensional shift (i.e. an extension from a semantic scale to a pragmatic scale). Based on the above proposals, this paper will also investigate the pragmatic motivation behind the use of minimizers in an evaluative context.
    Linguistic Society of America, Aug. 2010, Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 20, 599 - 599
    International conference proceedings

  • Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers
    Osamu Sawada
    Mar. 2010, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago
    [Refereed]
    Doctoral thesis

  • Dimensions of the Japanese minimizers A LITTLE
    Osamu Sawada
    2010, Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 169 - 176
    International conference proceedings

  • Modes of scalar reversal in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    2010, Japanese/Korean Linguistics 17, 263 - 277
    In book

  • 推意
    澤田治
    2010, 『言葉の意味と使用』, 澤田治美・高見健一(編), 鳳書房, 246 - 256
    In book

  • Saliency and scalarity in the meaning of the Japanese modal affective demonstratives
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    2010, Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 7), 111(124) (124)
    International conference proceedings

  • Investigating an asymmetry in the semantics of Japanese measure phrases
    Osamu Sawada, Thomas Grano
    2010, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 305 - 316
    International conference proceedings

  • Osamu Sawada
    Jun. 2009, Journal of Pragmatics, 41(6) (6), 1079 - 1103
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Pragmatic aspects of the ‘negative use’ of the Japanese adverb motto
    Osamu Sawada
    2009, Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 175 - 182
    International conference proceedings

  • Varying implicature in contrastiveness
    Osamu Sawada
    2009, Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages: Collection of the Papers Selected from the CIL 18, Linguistic Society of Korea., 3599 - 3614
    International conference proceedings

  • Two types of adverbial polarity items in Japanese: absolute and relative
    Osamu Sawada
    2008, Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 263 - 270
    International conference proceedings

  • The multifunctionality of English and Japanese scalar distance constructions: A semantic map approach
    Osamu Sawada
    2008, Papers from the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 321 - 334
    International conference proceedings

  • 日本語比較文の2重基準性について
    澤田治
    日本語用論学会, 2007, 『日本語用論学会第9回大会発表論文集』, 2(2) (2), 65 - 72, Japanese
    Scientific journal

  • The scalar sensitivity of the Japanese scalar additive particles
    Osamu Sawada
    2007, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2006), vol. 17, 383 - 397
    International conference proceedings

  • From classifier construction to scalar construction: the case of the Japanese N hitotu V nai and N 1-classifier V nai constructions
    Osamu Sawada
    2007, Japanese/Korean Linguistics 15, 15, 161 - 172
    In book

  • Osamu Sawada
    n/a
    Linguistic Society of America, 2007, Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 33(1) (1), 374 - 386
    International conference proceedings

  • 「NひとつVない」構文の意味論的語用論的特性について：関連構文との比較を中心にして
    澤田治
    2006, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Anniversary Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society 26, 176 - 186
    Scientific journal

  • 「心理的優先性」のbefore構文に関する一考察：時間性から比較へ
    澤田治
    2006, 『日本英語学会第23回大会発表論文集』(JELS 23), 220 - 229
    Scientific journal

  • 「はおろか」構文・「どころか」構文に関する意味論的・語用論的考察
    澤田治
    2006, 『言外と言内の交流分野 : 小泉保博士傘寿記念論文集』, 上田功, 野田尚史 (編), 大学書林, 243 - 252
    In book

  • “May/ might (just) as well”構文について―多機能性と捉え方との関係を中心にして
    澤田治
    Mar. 2005, 『日本英語学会第22回大会発表論文集』(JELS 22), 181 - 190
    Scientific journal

  • 日英語の譲歩条件構文における相関的スケール性について
    澤田治
    2005, Ars linguistica, 12, 59 - 68
    Scientific journal

  • スケール推意とその取り消しの関係について：一次元的スケール・モデルから多次元的スケール・モデルまで
    澤田治
    2005, 『早稲田大学 教育学研究科紀要』別冊12(2), 215 - 225
    Research institution

  • “X if not Y” 構文における「譲歩タイプ」と「棚上げタイプ」について
    澤田治
    Nov. 2004, Ars linguistica (「小泉保先生喜寿記念特集号」), 11, 176 - 193
    Scientific journal

  • The cognitive characteristics of the idiomatic comparative constructions: The case of the ‘no more/less…than’ constructions
    Osamu Sawada
    2004, Proceedings of the 9th conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 273 - 279
    International conference proceedings

  • The scalar if not construction: syntactic, semantic and pragmatic conditions of its two readings
    Osamu Sawada
    2003, Proceedings of the 7th conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied linguistics, 189 - 198
    International conference proceedings

  • The two-dimensional scale of the concessive conditional construction: The case of English even if construction
    Osamu Sawada
    2003, Proceedings of the 8th conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 424 - 433
    International conference proceedings

  • Rethinking the let alone construction: what are its construction-specific characteristics?
    Osamu Sawada
    2003, Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 7, 135 - 151
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

■ Books And Other Publications
  • Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages
    Hideki Kishimoto, Osamu Sawada, Ikumi Imani
    Joint editor, De Gruyter Mouton, Dec. 2023

  • 人文学を解き放つ
    神戸大学人文学研究科
    Contributor, ことばの意味について考える―フェイクニュース、真理、スケール性―, 神戸大学出版会, Mar. 2023, ISBN: 9784909364197

  • 形態論と語形成
    Huddleston, Rodney D., Pullum, Geoffrey K., 畠山, 雄二, 今仁, 生美, 伊藤, たかね, 由本, 陽子, 澤田, 治, 川原, 功司
    開拓社, Jul. 2021, ISBN: 9784758913706

  • 40 Lessons to Improve Your English: Linguistic Insights to Boost the 4 Skills
    畠山雄二, 縄田裕幸, 本田謙介, 田中江扶, 澤田治, 菅原真理子, 今仁生美
    朝倉書店, Jul. 2020, ISBN: 9784254510652

  • 極性表現の構造・意味・機能
    澤田, 治, 岸本, 秀樹, 今仁, 生美
    開拓社, Nov. 2019, ISBN: 9784758922807

  • 談話分析キーターム事典
    Baker, Paul, Ellece, Sibonile, 澤田, 治美, 澤田, 治, 澤田, 淳
    開拓社, Dec. 2018, Japanese, ISBN: 9784758922678

  • Pragmatic aspects of scalar modifiers : The semantics-pragmatics interface
    Osamu Sawada
    Single work, Oxford University Press, Dec. 2017, English, ISBN: 9780198714231
    [Refereed]

  • Papers from the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. 2007. Volume 43-1. (CLS 43-1: The Main Session)
    Elliot, Malcolm, James Kirby, Osamu Sawada, Eleni Staraki, Suwon Yoon
    Joint editor, Chicago Linguistic Society, 2009, ISBN: 0914203703

  • Papers from the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 43-2: The Panels)
    Malcolm Elliot, James Kirby, Osamu Sawada, Eleni Staraki, Suwon Yoon
    Joint editor, Chicago Linguistic Society, 2009, English, ISBN: 9780914203711

■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • Varieties of incremental meanings: With special reference to the Japanese incremental expressions moo, ato, and sarani
    Osamu Sawada
    The 20th Modality Workshop. Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library, Mar. 2025, English
    Oral presentation

  • The variation of expressive modifiers: A view from the Japanese modifier baka ‘stupid’
    Osamu Sawada
    Expressivity: Variation and Change, 47th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2025). University of Mainz, Mar. 2025, English
    Oral presentation

  • Japanese incremental particles: Their scale structures, interactions with eventuality/intensionality, and co-occurrence
    Osamu Sawada
    Semantics Workshop in Osaka. Osaka University Nakanoshima Center, Feb. 2025, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • The meanings of the Japanese numerical additive particles ato and moo: Their interaction with eventuality and intensional operators
    Osamu Sawada
    Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2024. NINJAL, Tokyo, Sep. 2024, English
    Poster presentation

  • Varieties of wh-exclamatives: A view from the negative wh-expressives in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    The 19th Modality Workshop. Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library, Sep. 2024, English
    Oral presentation

  • Scale structures of numeral additive particles in Japanese: Their interaction with eventuality and intensionality
    Osamu Sawada
    ESSLLI 2024 workshop, “Incremental constructions within and across languages: where degrees, eventualities and discourse dynamics interact”, KU Leuven, Jul. 2024, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • The inferential use of the Japanese NP-no koto-da(-kara): Its dependent relationship with modal sentences
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Comparative Syntax, Semantics, and Language Acquisition #3, Nanzan University, Jul. 2024, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Expressivity in Japanese: Cross-linguistic and language-internal variations
    Osamu Sawada
    The 18th Modality Workshop, Mar. 2024, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • On the similarities and differences between ordinary wh questions and negative wh expressives
    Osamu Sawada
    「疑問詞文のプロソディーに関する音声学・言語学の融合的・実証的研究」, 科研研究会, Mar. 2024, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • Ambiguity of the Japanese negative comparative expression kurabe mono-ni nara-nai ’cannot be compared’.
    Osamu Sawada
    The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, Jan. 2024, English
    Poster presentation

  • On the meaning and use of the Japanese negative comparative expression kurabe mono-ni nara-nai ‘cannot be compared’
    Osamu Sawada
    Kobe Linguistics Symposium (jointly held with Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai), Dec. 2023, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • The Japanese negative polarity item hitotsu ‘even’: An event semantics approach
    Osamu Sawada
    Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 20 (LENLS 20), Nov. 2023, English
    Oral presentation

  • The ambiguous negative comparison: With special reference to the Japanese kurabe mono-ni nara-nai ‘cannot be compared’
    Osamu Sawada
    Symposium: Comparative Constructions in English and Other Languages, English Linguistic Society of Japan, Nov. 2023, English
    [Invited]
    Nominated symposium

  • Projective properties of sense-based low-degree modifiers: A comparison with predicates of personal taste
    Osamu Sawada
    Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2023, Sep. 2023, English
    Poster presentation

  • Scale structures of numerical additive particles: The case of the Japanese particles moo and ato
    Osamu Sawada
    The 16th Modality Workshop, Sep. 2023, English
    Oral presentation

  • Expressivity, expectations, and relation to focus in the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’
    Osamu Sawada
    Semantics Workshop in Osaka, Aug. 2023, English
    [Invited]
    Public symposium

  • On the interpretation of the Japanese mirative demonstrative ano
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Comparative Syntax, Semantics, and Language Acquisition #1, May 2023, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • Typology of wh-exclamatives: A view from the Negative wh-expressive in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    Workshop on Semantics: Gradability, Scales and more, Mar. 2023, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • The expressive and expectational properties of the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’ and the relationship with focus
    Osamu Sawada
    Meaning and Grammar Seminar, University of Edinburgh, Mar. 2023, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • Sense-based low-degree modifiers in Japanese and English
    Osamu Sawada
    Oxford Kobe Linguistics Symposium, Oxford University, Mar. 2023, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • Varieties of wh-exclamatives: A view from the negative wh-expressives in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    The 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2023, English
    Poster presentation

  • The expressivity, expectation, and relationship with focus of the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’
    Osamu Sawada
    Semantics Roundtable. University of Washington, Nov. 2022, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • モーラに基づく最小詞「XY…のXの字」の曖昧性について：コーパスデータを用いての考察
    澤田 治
    Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2022, Sep. 2022, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • On the interpretation of negative wh-expressives in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    Kobe-Oxford Linguistics Colloquium (日本語研究の最前線3). Kobe University, Aug. 2022, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • On the properties of expressivity and counter-expectation in the Japanese negative polarity item kakera ‘piece’
    Osamu Sawada
    Kobe-NINJAL Linguistics Colloquium (日本語研究の最前線2), Kobe University, Mar. 2022, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • On the properties of expressivity and counter-expectation in the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’
    Osamu Sawada
    The 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2022, English
    Poster presentation

  • The scalar contrastive wa in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2021), Dec. 2021, English
    Oral presentation

  • Interpretations of sense-based minimizers in Japanese and English: Local and global sense-based measurements
    Osamu Sawada
    The Eighteenth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 18 (LENLS18), Nov. 2021, English
    Oral presentation

  • 感情表出性を持つ不定表現の意味・機能
    澤田 治
    日本英文学会北海道支部第66 回大会 (シンポジウム「不定語研究の展開と展望」), Nov. 2021, Japanese
    [Invited]
    Nominated symposium

  • Sense-based minimizers in Japanese and English: Speaker’s experience, evaluation, and the relation with emotions
    Osamu Sawada
    ICU Linguistics Colloquium, Apr. 2021, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • The scalar properties of English and Japanese sense-based minimizers
    Osamu Sawada
    The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2021, English
    Poster presentation

  • Sense-based minimizers in English and Japanese: Speaker’s experience and classification of scales
    Osamu Sawada
    International Conference on English Linguistics, Oct. 2020, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • The Japanese reactive attitudinal nani-mo: Polarity sensitivity and the pragmatic function of objection
    Osamu Sawada
    Japanese/Korean Linguistics 28, Sep. 2020, English
    Oral presentation

  • 日本語のモーラに基づく最小詞の (非) 字義的用法について: 形式意味論・対照言語学的アプローチ
    澤田 治
    Prosody and Grammar Festa 4, Feb. 2020, Japanese
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • The meaning and use of the Japanese mirative expressions nante/towaThe meaning and use of the Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    神戸大学言語学年末研究会, Dec. 2019, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • The ambiguity of tense in the Japanese mirative sentence with nante/towa
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 16 (LENLS 16), Nov. 2019, English
    Oral presentation

  • The interpretation of tense in the Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Functional Categories and Expressive Meaning, Sep. 2019, English
    Oral presentation

  • 「のことだ（から）」の推論用法について―モダリティとの関係性を中心に
    澤田淳, 澤田治
    The 16th Modality Workshop, Aug. 2019, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • The meaning and use of the Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    The 16th Modality Workshop, Aug. 2019, English
    Oral presentation

  • 推論用法の「NPのことだ（から）」の因果的特性について―形式、意味、談話のインターフェース―
    澤田 治, 澤田淳
    Kansai Linguistic Society 44 (Workshop: 日本語における意味と語用のインターフェース：談話表現を中心に), Jul. 2019, English
    Public symposium

  • On the literal and non-literal interpretations of the Japanese mora-based minimizer
    Osamu Sawada
    The International Workshop on Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective (DeG 2019), Mar. 2019, English
    Oral presentation

  • On the meaning and use of the Japanese mora-based minimizers
    Osamu Sawada
    The 15th Modality Workshop, Mar. 2019, English
    Oral presentation

  • The scalarity and alternatives of Japanese mora (letter)-based minimizers
    Osamu Sawada
    The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2019, English
    Poster presentation

  • The Japanese negative totemo: From an unconditional expression to an expressive intensifier
    Osamu Sawada
    Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 15 (LENLS 15), Nov. 2018, English
    Oral presentation

  • On the Japanese NPI totemo: Between unconditionality and intensification
    Osamu Sawada
    The 14th International Modality Workshop, Aug. 2018, English
    Oral presentation

  • The Japanese inferential -no koto-da-(kara): Explicit and implicit causal marking
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Workshop “Implicit and explicit marking of discourse relations: The comparison between causals vs. conditionals”, May 2018, English
    Oral presentation

  • Expressive NPIs: The case of the Japanese negative totemo
    Osamu Sawada
    Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop at Mie University, Apr. 2018, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • On the inferential use of the Japanese NP-no koto-da(-kara): The dependent relationship with a modal statement
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Semantics Workshop in Tokai, Mar. 2018, English
    Oral presentation

  • The mirative demonstrative in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    The 13th International Modality Workshop, Mar. 2018, English
    Oral presentation

  • Scale structures in discourse: Discourse-pragmatic properties of the Japanese comparative expressions sore-yori and nani-yori
    Osamu Sawada
    Semantics Research Group. Keio University, Mar. 2018, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Scale structures in discourse: The discourse-pragmatic properties of the Japanese comparative expressions
    Osamu Sawada
    The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2018, English
    Poster presentation

  • The dependent property of the Japanese inferential use of no koto-da: An evidence indicator for an inferential modal statement
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 14 (LENLS 14), Nov. 2017, English
    Oral presentation

  • The Japanese negative totemo ‘very’: Toward a new typology of negative polarity items
    Osamu Sawada
    The 12th International Modality Workshop, Aug. 2017, English
    Oral presentation

  • The context-dependency of the Japanese discourse marker sore-yori ‘than it’: The interaction between a CI and a general pragmatic principle
    Osamu Sawada
    第100回待兼山ことばの会/Semantics Workshop in Tokai, Aug. 2017, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • Goal-shifting and the structure of discourse: The case of the Japanese discourse-oriented comparative expression sore-yori
    Osamu Sawada
    The 85th annual congress of the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas). Workshop: Actes de discours et conversations, May 2017, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • Information structure of the Japanese modal demonstrative ano
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Semantics Workshop in Tokai, Mar. 2017, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • Modal demonstratives in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    The 11th International Modality Workshop, Mar. 2017, English
    Oral presentation

  • Interpretations of the embedded expressive motto in Japanese: Varieties of meaning and projectivity
    Osamu Sawada
    DGfS Workshop: Secondary Information & Linguistic Encoding, Mar. 2017, English
    Oral presentation

  • Interpretations of embedded pragmatic scalar modifiers
    Osamu Sawada
    Ling Supper. Mie University, Feb. 2017, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • Interpretations of embedded expressives: A view from the Japanese comparative expressive motto
    Osamu Sawada
    Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 13 (LENLS 13), Nov. 2016, English
    Oral presentation

  • On the property of mirativity in the Japanese modal demonstrative ano
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Oct. 2016, English
    Oral presentation

  • The Japanese negative totemo ‘very’: Toward a new typology of negative polarity items
    Osamu Sawada
    Semantics Workshop in Tokai, Sep. 2016, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • Interpretations of embedded pragmatic scalar modifiers
    Osamu Sawada
    The 10th International Modality Workshop, Aug. 2016, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • The Japanese negative totemo ‘very’: Toward a new typology of negative sensitive items
    Osamu Sawada
    The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Apr. 2016, English
    Oral presentation

  • Modal demonstratives in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Semantics Workshop in Tokai, Mar. 2016, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • Varieties of not-at-issue meanings: with special reference to the Japanese positive polarity minimizers
    Osamu Sawada
    The 9th International Modality Workshop, Mar. 2016, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • The (non)-projective properties of the Japanese counter-expectational intensifier yoppodo
    Osamu Sawada
    The 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2016, English
    Poster presentation

  • The projection of non-at-issue meaning via modal support: The meaning and use of the Japanese counter-expectational adverbs
    Osamu Sawada
    Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 12 (LENLS 12), Nov. 2015, English
    Oral presentation

  • 語用論的スケール表現の投射的振る舞いについて: モダリティ表現の関与の可能性を考える (Projective behaviors of the Japanese pragmatic scalar modifiers: sensitivity of projection to modal and other related expressions)
    澤田 治
    The 20th ICR seminar.「視点」が関わる言語表現をめぐって, Nov. 2015, Japanese
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Pragmatic aspects of scalar modifiers
    Osamu Sawada
    Semantics Workshop in Tokai, Oct. 2015, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • The Japanese negative totemo ‘very’: Toward a new typology of negative sensitive items
    Osamu Sawada
    The Göttingen workshop on negation and polarity, Sep. 2015, English
    Oral presentation

  • Interpretations of embedded pragmatic scalar modifiers in Japanese: projection via modal support
    Osamu Sawada
    The 8th International Modality Workshop, Aug. 2015, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • Varieties of positive polarity minimizers in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    Mie University Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition, Jul. 2015, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Projective properties of the Japanese counter-expectational scalar adverbs yoppodo and kaette: a new class of projective content
    Osamu Sawada
    Semantics Workshop in Tokai, Mar. 2015, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • Varieties of positive polarity minimizers in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    Workshop: Varieties of Positive Polarity Items. DGfS 2015, Mar. 2015, English
    [Invited]
    Keynote oral presentation

  • The meanings of the Japanese scalar adverbs yoppodo and kaette and their projective behaviors
    Osamu Sawada
    The 7th International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Feb. 2015, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • Polarity sensitivity of the Japanese intensifier totemo ‘very’
    Osamu Sawada
    The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2015, English
    Poster presentation

  • On the negative use of the Japanese intensifier totemo ‘very’
    Osamu Sawada
    The 17th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Nov. 2014, English
    Oral presentation

  • Polarity sensitivity and update refusal: the case of the Japanese negative totemo ‘very’
    Osamu Sawada
    Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 11 (LENLS 11), Nov. 2014, English
    Oral presentation

  • The degree of the speaker’s negative attitude in a goal-shifting comparison
    Osamu Sawada
    The 15th Texas Linguistics Society Conference. University of Texas Austin, Oct. 2014, English
    Oral presentation

  • Modality, polarity, and intensification: the meaning and distributions of the Japanese negative use of totemo ‘very’
    Osamu Sawada
    The 6th International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Aug. 2014, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • Varieties of goal: the goal-oriented comparisons in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    The Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA 1), Jun. 2014, English
    Oral presentation

  • Modal affective demonstratives in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    Semantics Workshop in Tokai, Mar. 2014, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • Comparison and goal-orientedness
    Osamu Sawada
    The Fifth International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Mar. 2014, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • The concept of degree in discourse structure: The case of noteworthy comparison
    Osamu Sawada
    The 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2014, English
    Poster presentation

  • The conventionality of pragmatic inference in noteworthy comparison
    Osamu Sawada
    The 16th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2013, English
    Oral presentation

  • Cross-linguistic variation of intensified comparison: the semantics/pragmatics interface
    Osamu Sawada
    Workshop on Semantic Variation. University of Chicago, Oct. 2013, English
    Oral presentation

  • On the context-dependent pragmatic strategies of Japanese diminutive shift
    Osamu Sawada
    Sinn und Bedeutung 18. University of the Basque country, Sep. 2013, English
    Poster presentation

  • The meaning and use of noteworthy comparison
    Osamu Sawada
    The Fourth International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Aug. 2013, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • The modal demonstratives in Japanese: a mismatch between at-issue and non-at-issue meanings
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    International Congress of Linguistics (ICL19), Semantics/Pragmatics Interfaces. University of Geneva, Jul. 2013, English
    Poster presentation

  • The context-dependency of Japanese diminutive shift
    Osamu Sawada
    The Third International Modality Workshop via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Mar. 2013, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • An utterance situation-based comparison: the case of the Japanese comparative adverb motto
    Osamu Sawada
    Nanzan University Linguistics Colloquium, Dec. 2012, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • The meaning and use of utterance situation-based comparison in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    The 15th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2012, English
    Oral presentation

  • The utterance situation-based comparison in the Japanese degree adverb motto
    Osamu Sawada
    The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Oct. 2012, English
    Poster presentation

  • Precision and manners of measurement: The case of Japanese minimizers
    Osamu Sawada
    Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6 (FAJL), Sep. 2012, English
    Poster presentation

  • Imprecision and speaker-orientedness in the interpretation of Japanese minimizers
    Osamu Sawada
    The Second International Modality Workshop (via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research), Aug. 2012, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • The multidimensional meaning of Japanese modal demonstratives: The semantics-pragmatics interface
    澤田淳, 澤田治
    The 37th Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society, Jun. 2012, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • Expressivity and measurement: the case of the Japanese degree adverb motto
    Osamu Sawada
    The Modality Workshop (via Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research), Mar. 2012, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • The meaning of diminutive shift in Japanese: its dimensionality, regularity and pragmatic effect
    Osamu Sawada
    The 14th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2011, English
    Poster presentation

  • The meanings of diminutive shifts in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    The 42nd Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Nov. 2011, English
    Oral presentation

  • The meanings of modal affective demonstratives in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    The 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Oct. 2011, English
    Oral presentation

  • Diminutive shifts in Japanese: a phonology-pragmatics interface
    Osamu Sawada
    The Prosody-Discourse Interface IDP, Sep. 2011, English
    Poster presentation

  • The role of scalarity in language use: the semantics/pragmatics interface
    Osamu Sawada
    PHILOLOGIA (Mie daigaku eigo kenkyuukai). Mie University, Dec. 2010, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Speaker-oriented use of Japanese numeral quantifiers
    Osamu Sawada
    The 9th Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation, and Kyunghee Korea-Japan Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing. Kyoto University, Dec. 2010, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • On the expressive use of ano ‘that’ in Japanese: A probability scale approach
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    The 13th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2010, English
    Oral presentation

  • Saliency and scalarity in the meaning of the Japanese modal affective demonstratives
    Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
    The 7th International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS), Nov. 2010, English
    Oral presentation

  • On the dual-use phenomenon of scalar modifiers
    Osamu Sawada
    The 8th Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation. Kyoto University, Jul. 2010, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Scale structures of numerical additive particles in Japanese
    澤田 治
    The 140th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Workshop on recent advances in formal approaches to lexical semantics/pragmatics based on scale structures, Jun. 2010, Japanese
    Public symposium

  • Scale structures of numerical additive particles in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    Speaking of Possibility and Time (The 7th Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation). Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen, Jun. 2010, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • The meanings of positive polarity minimizers in Japanese: a unified approach
    Osamu Sawada
    Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 20, Apr. 2010, English
    Poster presentation

  • Positive polarity minimizers: the semantics/pragmatics interface
    Osamu Sawada
    The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Apr. 2010, English
    Oral presentation

  • The multidimensionality of the Japanese minimizers sukoshi/chotto ‘a little’
    Osamu Sawada
    The 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2010, English
    Oral presentation

  • Dimensions of the Japanese minimizers A LITTLE
    Osamu Sawada
    The 12th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2009, English
    Oral presentation

  • The meaning of numerical additive particles: The case of Japanese ato and moo
    Osamu Sawada
    The 9th International Conference on Tense, Aspect and Modality (Workshop on Scalarity and Event Structure), Sep. 2009, English
    Oral presentation

  • Understanding Variation in the distribution of measure phrase: a view from Japanese
    Osamu Sawada, Thomas Grano
    The Workshop on Comparatives. University of Chicago, Mar. 2009, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Investigating an asymmetry in the semantics of Japanese measure phrases
    Osamu Sawada, Thomas Grano
    The 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Feb. 2009, English
    Oral presentation

  • Pragmatic aspects of the ‘negative use’ of the Japanese adverb motto
    Osamu Sawada
    The 11th Annual Meeting of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2008, English
    Oral presentation

  • Comparison, indeterminateness, and the semantics-pragmatics interface
    Osamu Sawada
    The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference November 13-15, 2008., Nov. 2008, English
    Oral presentation

  • Comparison with indeterminateness: A multidimensional approach
    Osamu Sawada
    The 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS), Nov. 2008, English
    Oral presentation

  • Direct and differential measurement in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada, Thomas Grano
    In Search of Meaning in the Midwest (The 3rd Annual Midwest Workshop on Semantics), Oct. 2008, English
    Oral presentation

  • Varying implicature in contrastiveness
    Osamu Sawada
    The 18th International Congress of Linguistics (CIL 18), Jul. 2008, English
    Oral presentation

  • Japanese scale-reversal adverbs and the logic of conventional implicature
    Osamu Sawada
    The Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language. University of Chicago, Apr. 2008, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Vagueness and adverbial polarity items
    Osamu Sawada
    Vagueness and Language Use. École Normale Supérieure, Paris, Apr. 2008, English
    Oral presentation

  • Adverbial polarity items in Japanese: relative and absolute
    Osamu Sawada
    Student Mini-Conference. University of Chicago, Mar. 2008, English
    Invited oral presentation

  • The comparative morpheme in Modern Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    The 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Feb. 2008, English
    Oral presentation

  • Scalar/polar properties of ‘at all’ items in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2008, English
    Oral presentation

  • Two types of ‘at all’ in Japanese: absolute and relative
    Osamu Sawada
    The 10th Annual Meeting of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2007, English
    Oral presentation

  • Modes of scalar reversal in Japanese
    Osamu Sawada
    The 17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Nov. 2007, English
    Oral presentation

  • Pragmatic properties of the Japanese scalar reversal adverbs
    Osamu Sawada
    The 2nd Annual Midwest Workshop on Semantics, Oct. 2007, English
    Oral presentation

  • The Japanese contrastive -wa: the ‘scalar type’ and the ‘polarity type’
    Osamu Sawada
    Student Mini-Conference. University of Chicago, Mar. 2007, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • The Japanese contrastive wa: a mirror image of EVEN
    Osamu Sawada
    The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Feb. 2007, English
    Oral presentation

  • Pragmatic aspects of implicit comparison
    Osamu Sawada
    The 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2007, English
    Oral presentation

  • On the dual standard in the Japanese comparatives
    澤田 治
    The 9th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2006, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • Scalar sensitivity of the Japanese scalar additive particles
    Osamu Sawada
    The Western Conference on Linguistics 2006 (WECOL 2006), Oct. 2006, English
    Poster presentation

  • Pragmatic aspects of 'compared to'
    Osamu Sawada
    The First Midwest Workshop on Semantics, Oct. 2006, English
    Oral presentation

  • Scalarity and the rhetorical negative constructions
    Osamu Sawada
    The Fourth International Conference on Construction Grammar, Sep. 2006, English
    Oral presentation

  • The psychological priority in the ‘before’ construction: From time to comparison
    Osamu Sawada
    The Twenty-third Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • From classifier construction to scalar construction: the case of Japanese N hitotu V nai and N 1-classifier V nai
    Osamu Sawada
    The 15th Japanese/ Korean Linguistics Conference, Oct. 2005, English
    Oral presentation

  • The cognitive patterns of construals in comparatives
    Osamu Sawada
    The 10th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, Aug. 2005, English
    Oral presentation

  • The possible semantic diversity of the comparative constructions in English and Japanese: A construction-based approach
    Osamu Sawada
    The 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Jul. 2005, English
    Oral presentation

  • The Semantics and pragmatics of Japanese ‘ranking-reversal’ adverbs: mainly concerning kaette, musiro, and yoppodo
    澤田 治
    The 130th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Jun. 2005, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • The semantics and pragmatics of the “N hitotu V nai” construction: Comparison with the related constructions
    澤田 治
    Kansai Linguistic Society 30, Jun. 2005, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • The essence of comparatives viewed from idiomatic comparative constructions: a Construction Grammar approach
    澤田 治
    The 129th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Nov. 2004, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • On the may/might just as well construction: Its multifunctionality and the speaker’s construal
    Osamu Sawada
    The Twenty-Second Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Nov. 2004, English
    Oral presentation

  • Scalar construals in comparative constructions: high/low and near/far construals, and their fusion
    澤田 治
    The 128th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Jun. 2004, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • The multifuncionality of English and Japanese scalar distance constructions: A semantic map approach
    Osamu Sawada
    The 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Apr. 2004, English
    Oral presentation

  • The cognitive characteristics of the idiomatic comparative constructions: a case of the ‘no more…than’ and ‘no less…than’ constructions
    Osamu Sawada
    The 9th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, Aug. 2004, English
    Oral presentation

  • The cancellation of scalar implicature: From the one-dimensional scalar model to the three dimensional model
    Osamu Sawada
    The 6th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2003, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • The multifunctionality of Japanese and English Scalar Constructions
    澤田 治
    The 127th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Nov. 2003, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • The two-dimensional scale of the concessive conditional construction: the case of English even if construction
    Osamu Sawada
    The 8th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, Aug. 2003, English
    Oral presentation

  • The corelative scale of the Japanese and English concessive conditional constructions: A comparative study.
    澤田 治
    The 126th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Jun. 2003, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • Construction Grammar as a theory for second language learning
    Osamu Sawada
    The 13 the World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Dec. 2002, English
    Poster presentation

  • Two types of the if not construction: viewed from contextual givenness
    Osamu Sawada
    The 5th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2002, English
    Oral presentation

  • The semantics and pragmatics of the scalar 'if not' constructions
    The 7th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, Dec. 2002, English
    Oral presentation

  • The Japanese ‘wa-oroka’and ‘dokoro-ka’ constructions: The mechanism of semantic and pragmatic scale
    澤田 治
    The 124th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Jun. 2002, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • On the idiomaticity of 'let alone'
    Osamu Sawada
    The Society of English Language and Literature at Waseda University, Dec. 2001, Japanese
    Oral presentation

  • Rethinking the 'let alone' construction: Focusing on the positive polarity case
    Osamu Sawada
    The 4th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Dec. 2001, Japanese
    Oral presentation

■ Affiliated Academic Society
  • 関西言語学会

  • 日本語用論学会

  • 日本英語学会

  • 日本言語学会

  • Linguistic Society of America

■ Research Themes
  • Semantic and pragmatic studies on the variety of minimizers in terms of polarity and scale
    澤田 治
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, 01 Apr. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2026

  • 疑問詞文のプロソディーに関する音声学・言語学の融合的・実証的研究
    田中 真一, 松井 理直, ホワン ヒョンギョン, 岸本 秀樹, 澤田 治, 竹安 大, 高橋 康徳, Poppe CP, 植田 尚樹, 竹村 亜紀子
    日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(B), 基盤研究(B), 神戸大学, 01 Apr. 2021 - 31 Mar. 2025

  • 言語の意味理解におけるスケール・比較概念の汎用性：語用論、談話構造への発展
    南 英理, 澤田 治, 水谷 謙太
    日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(C), 基盤研究(C), 大阪大学, 01 Apr. 2021 - 31 Mar. 2025
    本研究の目的は、(i) 意味論・語用論における「スケール」という概念の相互作用と(ii)意味論レベルから語用論レベル、さらに談話レベルへの拡張のあり方を明らかにすることである。 本年度は、(i)に関しては、contrastive topicを表す「は」、scalar/additiveを表す「も」、「少なくとも」の意味論・語用論の検討、「は」「も」と比較文の共起とそれがもたらす語用論的効果を検討した。(ii)については、「何よりも」「それより」の談話上の機能について検討した。 (i)については、contrastive topicの「は」がentailmentに基づく非スケール的な意味ではなく、スケールの意味を基本としていることを「おいしいはおいしい」のような表現に基づいて明らかにした。このようなスケールの意味を基本としていることを基に、比較文と共起した場合に生じるimplicationを説明できることを示した。また、「も」と同等比較文についても同様の分析が必要であることを示した。 (ii)については、「何よりも」「それより」が比較の「より」とどのような点で異なるかを検討した。

  • Empirical and theoretical investigations of the variation of conventional implicatures: With special reference to viewpoint and dependency
    Sawada Osamu
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Mie University, 01 Apr. 2018 - 31 Mar. 2022
    This study examined the variation of conventional implicature (CI), particularly in terms of point of view and dependency. Regarding point of view, the study focused on the interpretation of CI expressions in an embedded environment and showed that the way CI takes a point of view (either speaker-oriented or subject-oriented) is determined by various contextual factors. Regarding dependence, the study focused on CI expressions that co-occur with modality and negation (e.g., expressive nani-mo `what-mo' and the expressive totemo `very') and explained their dependent behavior in terms of use-conditions and a general pragmatic principle. Furthermore, this study investigated the interpretation of mirative expressions, the discourse structure of pragmatic comparative expressions and inferential use discourse-expressions, and considered the ways in which CIs interact with discourse structure and conversational implicature.

  • The discourse structure and context-shifting functions of non-truth conditional scalar expressions
    Sawada Osamu
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Mie University, 01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2018
    This project investigated the discourse structure and context-shifting functions of non-truth conditional scalar expressions. Through a detailed analyses of both the meaning and use of various non-truth conditional scalar modifiers, such as the Japanese sore yori ‘than it’, nanni-yori ‘what-than’, and totemo ‘very’, as well as the mirative demonstrative ano and the English more than anything, more than that, this project shows that (i) there are scale structures in the discourse-pragmatic dimension (not only in the semantic dimension), and (ii) scalarity is used flexibly to signal various kinds of pragmatic meanings, such as objection, topic change, and mirativity.

  • A Semantic and Pragmatic Study of Modality
    SAWADA Harumi, KUBO Susumu, WASA Atsuko, KIRA Fumitaka, SAWADA Osamu, NAGATOMO Shunichiro, SAWADA Jun
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kansai Gaidai University, 01 Apr. 2011 - 31 Mar. 2015
    The result of the research can be summarized as follows: First, A new viewpoint of analysis was established based on “evidentiality.” Second, the analysis was carried out based on various language materials such as English, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, (Classic) Japanese. Third, the analysis was done by incorporating various concepts and frameworks, including intentionality, implicature, speech act theory, mirativity, control cycle, deixis, conversation analysis, causality, subjectivity, motivation, “modal packaging,” and conditionality.

  • The role of scalarity in the meaning and function of language: a formal semantic/pragmatic approach
    SAWADA Osamu
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Mie University, 2011 - 2013
    This project investigated the role of scalarity in natural language in terms of the semantics/pragmatics interface. Particularly, I focused on the phenomena of intensifiers, comparison, modal demonstratives, and diminutives, and considered the relationship between semantic scalar meaning and pragmatic scalar meaning. Through analyzing the meanings and use of these phenomena, I clarified that (i) scalarity not only plays an important role in the semantic dimension but also in the discourse-pragmatic dimension (e.g., politeness, modes of speaking, precedence of utterances, and expressives), and that (ii) there is a parallelism between the semantic dimension and the pragmatic dimension in terms of scalarity.

  • スケール表現の意味論・語用論:次元性とコンテクスト依存性
    澤田 治
    日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 特別研究員奨励費, 京都大学, 2010 - 2012
    本研究の目的は、スケール表現の意味・機能を「コンテクスト依存性」と「次元性」の観点から考察することである。具体的には、以下の3つの個別課題に取り組んだ。(A)程度副詞:「ちょっと」には、量的な用法(例:「この竿はちょっと曲がっている」)と感情表出的用法(例:「ちょっとそれはできません」)がある。本課題では、これら2つの用法の共通点と相違点をPottsの「多次元的合成システム」を用いて形式的に明らかにした。(B)累加表現のスケール構造:程度副詞/計量表現につく「あと」と「もう」はどちらも累加の意味を表すが、両者はスケール性に関して異なる特性を持っている。たとえば、「太郎は{あと/もう}一杯ビールを飲むはずだ」という文には、「太郎は既にビールを一杯以上飲んでいる」という発話時以前についての前提があるが、「あと」を使った場合、「次の一杯が最後である」という終点に関する前提も現れる。本課題では、「もう」は「非終点指向的」な計量表現であるのに対して、「あと」は「終点指向的」な計量表現であるということを明らかにし、語用論レベルにおけるスケール構造の類型について考察した。(C)比較文の語用論的特性:「何よりも」は、意味論レベルでの比較(例:「健康は何よりも大切だ」)のみならず、談話レベルでの比較(例:「何よりも、太郎はやさしい」)も表わすことができる。本課題では、談話レベルで使われる「なによりも」は、「当該の発話はそれにとって代わりうるどの発話よりも注目度のスケール上で高い位置にある」という慣習的推意を生み出しているということを明らかにし、意味論レベルの比較と語用論レベルの比較をスケール構造の観点から統一的に説明した。今後は、談話レベルにおけるスケール性の役割をより明示的な形で説明すべく、話し手と聞き手のインタラクションや発話の流れ(move)・目的(goal)も視野に入れて、スケール表現の語用論的特性を考察していきたい。

  • 日英語のスケール構文に関する意味論的・語用論的研究
    澤田 治
    日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 特別研究員奨励費, 早稲田大学, 2005 - 2005
    本研究の研究成果として主に以下の3点が挙げられる。 (1)「比較構文のスケール的捉え方」 本研究では、概念化主体が複数の事象の相対的関係を言語化する際には、常に中立的な視点でそれらを比較しているわけではなく、しばしば主観的「前提」に立っているという点に注目した。たとえば、「太郎に比べたら次郎は賢い」という文では、太郎も次郎も「それほど賢いわけではない」という前提がある。このような前提を踏まえた上での比較は、日英語のイディオム的比較構文に数多く見られる。「前提を踏まえて比較をすることの語用論的効果とは何か」という点を認知言語学、機能言語学、語用論の観点から明らかにした。 (2)「序列の逆転副詞の意味論的・語用論的メカニズム」 日本語の副詞の中には、たとえば「よっぽど」、「かえって」、「むしろ」のように、もともとのスケール上での序列を逆転させる機能をもつものがある。たとえば、「自炊の方が外食より{かえって、むしろ、よっぽど}高くつく」では、「外食>自炊」という費用のランクが逆転し、「自炊>外食」というランクに逆転している。スケール上での逆転という認知プロセスをもった副詞は、英語には見られないという点で興味深い。本研究では、序列の逆転プロセスは「既存の想定構造を覆し、話し手自身の主観的な序列へと変換する認知過程」であるということを認知言語学、および語用論の観点から明らかにした。 (3)「助数詞のスケール構文への文法化」 本研究では、「NひとつVない」構文の文法化に注目した(例:花子はあいさつひとつしない)。この構文における「つ」は脱助数詞化していると考えられる。本研究では、「つ」が脱助数詞化し、「ひとつ」全体が「さえ」のような単独のスケール詞(scalar particle)に変化したという仮説を立て、構文文法(construction grammar)および文法化(grammaticalization)の観点から説明を試みた。

■ Academic Contribution Activities
  • Journal reviewing: Natural Language Semantics; Journal of Semantics; Natural Language and Linguistic Theory; Journal of Pragmatics; Journal of East Asian Linguistics; Glossa; Lingua; Journal of Linguistics; Gengo Kenkyu; English Linguistics; Studies in Pragmatics
    Journal reviewing: Natural Language Semantics; Journal of Semantics; Natural Language and Linguistic Theory; Journal of Pragmatics; Journal of East Asian Linguistics; Glossa; Lingua; Journal of Linguistics; Gengo Kenkyu; English Linguistics; Studies in Pragmatics
    Peer review etc

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