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TOYOSHIMA, Takashi professor

Subjects Taught English Grammar I & II, English Syntax I & II, Grammar
Research topic

My interests lie primarily in generative grammar, but also in linguistics, analytical philosophy, and cognitive science in general, including information science. In particular, I am researching the syntactic computation system, a key issue in the latest generative grammar theory, from an information science perspective. I am exploring the commonalities and differences between various human natural languages and the communication abilities of other organisms, the underlying neural basis, the computational capabilities at play, and why only humans possess such abilities.

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Co-authored book (chapter writing)
  1. Toyoshima, Takayuki (2024) "Introduction: Economy in Generative Grammar," in Toru Ishii, Wataru Goto, Masayuki Komachi, and Takashi Munakata (eds.), *Challenges of Explanatory Theory in Minimalism: Merging and Copy Operations Derived from Optimal Minimalism*, Kaitakusha, 2–39. https://www.kaitakusha.co.jp/book/book.php?c=2412&l=ja​
  2. Toyoshima, Takashi (2018) Chapter 5 Autosegmental Evaluative Morphology in Japanese: Augmentative and Diminutive Mimetics. Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto & Edith Aldridge (eds.) Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in Honor of John B. Whitman. John Benjamins, 97–121. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.250.06toy.
  3. Toyoshima, Takashi (2015) Unified Merge into Multidominance. In Hiroki Egashira, Hisashi Kitahara, Kazuo Nakazawa, Tadao Nomura, Masayuki Oishi, Akira Nishimae, and Izumi Suzuki (eds.), *In Untiring Pursuit of Better Alternatives*, Kaitakusha, pp. 435–445. https://www.kaitakusha.co.jp/book/book.php?c=2210&l=ja​
  4. Toyoshima, Takashi (2013) Traversal Parameter at the PF Interface: Graph-Theoretical Linearization of Bare Phrase Structure. Theresa Biberauer & Michelle Sheehan (eds.) Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order. Oxford University Press, 340–388. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684359.003.0013.
  5. Toyoshima, Takashi (2009) Dynamic Economy of Derivation. Kleanthes K. Grohmann (ed.) Explorations of Phase Theory: Interpretation at the Interfaces (Interface Explorations 17). Mouton de Gruyter, 211–251. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213959.211.
  6. Toyoshima, Takashi (2001) Head-to-Spec Movement. Galina M. Alexandrova & Olga Arnaudova (eds,) The Minimalist Parameter: Selected Papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997. John Benjamins, 115–136. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.192.10toy.
Major academic papers (peer-reviewed)
  1. Toyoshima, Takashi (2022) A Note on Adjunct(ion), Pair-Merge, and Sequence. Tohoku Gakuin University Institute of English Language and Literature Bulletin No. 46, 49–67. https://tohoku-gakuin.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/25065.
  2. Toyoshima, Takashi (2012) Spelling-Out the Multidominance Approach to Right-Node Raising in Japanese. Proceedings of the 14th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar: 2012 Three Factors and Syntactic Theory, 390–409. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331480906_Spelling-Out_the_Multidominance_Approach_to_Right-Node_Raising_in_Japanese.
  3. Toyoshima, Takashi (2009) Word Order Typology in Graph-Theoretical Linearization of Bare Phrase Structure. Universals and Variation: Proceedings of GLOW in Asia VII, Conference at The English and Foreign Languages University held, Hyderabad, 181–203. https://www.academia.edu/224451/Universals_and_Variation_Proceedings_of_the_7_GLOW_in_Asia.
  4. Toyoshima, Takashi (2009) Application of Graph-Theoretical Traversals to Linearization of Syntactic Structures. Аспекты Взаимодействия. Международной научной конференции. Санкт-Петербург, 20–22 ноября 2009 г. Санкт-Петербургско отделение Математического института им. В. А. Международный математический институт имени Л. Эйлера: Санкт-Петербург, Россия. 207–213. http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2009/ph/index_files/titles_abstracts.htm.
  5. Toyoshima, Takashi (2008) Breton Verb-Aux Construction. Mohammed Erradi (ed.) اللسانية الوطنية ال(Bare Structures and Functional Projections: Proceeding of the Sixth Moroccan Linguistic Meeting). The Institute for Studies and Research on Arabization: Rabat, Morocco. 7–34. https://books.google.co.jp/books/about/Bare_Structures_and_Functional_Projectio.html?id=nHUlzgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y.
  6. Mizushima, Fuminori & Takashi Toyoshima (2006) Language Learnability by Feedback Self-Organizing Maps. Neural Information Processing. 13th International Conference, ICONIP 2006, Hong Kong, China, October 3–6, 2006. Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4232:228–236. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893028_26.
  7. Toyoshima, Takashi (2005) “Preemptive Move Toward Elimination of Lexical Subarray: Dynamic Economy” 21 Proceedings of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 21). http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/21/TOC.html.
  8. Toyoshima, Takashi (2003) Breton V1 Construction: Evidence for Head-to-Spec Movement. Proceedings of the II Encuentro de Gramática Generativa. CD-ROM. Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  9. Toyoshima, Takashi (2001) A Neo-Lexicalist Movement Analysis of Incorporation. The Proceedings of the Twentieth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 579–592. http://www.cascadilla.com/wccfl20.html.
  10. Sugimoto, Noriko, Takashi Toyoshima, Shinichi Shimozono & Kouichi Hirata (2000) Constructive Learning of Context-Free Languages with a Subpansive Tree. Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications. 5th International Colloquium, ICGI 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, September 11–13, 2000, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1891, 270–283. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45257-7_22.
  11. Toyoshima, Takashi (2000) Heading for Their Own Places. Proceedings of the Ninth Student Conference in Linguistics: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 36:93–108. http://mitwpl.mit.edu/catalog/mwpl36/.
  12. Toyoshima, Takashi (1999) Move 1st: A Dynamic Economy Plan. Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 29, vol. 1: Papers from the Main Session, 409–425. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/publication/020148ea-6a32-4cd4-bae9-685a87300bf7.
  13. Toyoshima, Takashi (1998) Subject Shift: Small case for Strong Case. The Proceedings of the Sixteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 399–413. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781575861425/page/n7/mode/2up.
  14. Toyoshima, Takashi (1997) 'Long' Head Movement, or Wrong 'Head Movement'? CLS 33: Papers from the Main Session. The Proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistic Society's Thirty-Third Meeting, 401–416.
  15. Toyoshima, Takashi (1997) Derivational CED: A Consequence of the Bottom-Up Parallel-Process of Merge and Attract. The Proceedings of the Fifteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 505–519. https://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/pdf/wccfl-15.pdf.
Major academic presentations (peer-reviewed)
  1. Takayuki Toyoshima (November 10, 2024) Guidelines for Economic Efficiency in Generative Grammar. Workshop "The Origin and Consequences of Economic Efficiency in Computational Mechanisms," 169th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Hokkaido University.
  2. Hikaru Chiba & Takashi Toyoshima (June 5, 2023) Passive Nominals Cannot Voice the External Argument. Journées Scientifiques Nantes Université: 10es Journées d'Etude sur les Nominalisations — Sizing Up Nominalizations. Nantes Université: Nantes, France.
  3. Toyoshima, Takashi (November 13, 2016) Phonological Significance of Bare Phrase Structure Labels for Linearization. The 34th Annual Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan. Kanazawa University. (Invited presentation)
  4. Toyoshima, Takashi (October 2, 2015) Quexjunction: Japanese Questions are Disjunctions (, as well as Existentials). The International Workshop 'Questions and Disjunctions': Syntax, Semantics, Typology. Institut für Romanistik, Universität Wien: Wien, Austria.
  5. Toyoshima, Takashi (September 30, 2013) Communication and Language: A Perspective for Engineering. International Symposium on Applied Engineering and Sciences 2013. Universiti Putra Malaysia: Serdang, Malaysia.
  6. Toyoshima, Takashi (September 17, 2013) Diminutives and Augmentatives in Japanese. 9th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. Poslijediplomsko Središte Dubrivnik, Sveučilište u Zagrebu: Dubrivnik, Croatia.
  7. Toyoshima, Takashi (August 9, 2013) Computational Learning of Recursion in Language from Positive-Only Data. Recursion in Brazilian Languages and Beyond. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  8. Toyoshima, Takashi (July 25, 2013) The Exjunction Ka: Existential ⋁ Disjunction. Congrè International des Linguistes 19: Workshop. 'The Semantics and Pragmatics of Logical Words: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective.' Université de Genève: Geneva, The Switzerland.
  9. Toyoshima, Takashi (November 10, 2012) A Multidominance Approach to Covert Movement and Forward Sharing in Japanese. International Workshop ELLIPSIS 2012: Crosslinguistic, Formal, Semantic, Discursive and Processing Perspective. Universidade de Vigo: Vigo, Spain.
  10. Toyoshima, Takashi (November 2, 2012) Parameterized Resolution and Linearization [of Multidominance Structures]. Workshop on [the Syntax of Sharing & the Semantics of Sharing]: From the Combined Perspective of Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics. Université de Nantes: Nantes, France.
  11. Toyoshima, Takashi (May 6, 2011) Parameterized Linearization of Multidominance Bare Phrase Structure. Parallel Domains: Locality in Syntax/Phonology and the Representation of Constitution — A Workshop in Honor of the Work of Jean-Roger Vergnaud — University of Southern California: Los Angeles, California.
  12. Toyoshima, Takashi (September 8, 2010) Language: Human Signals — For Better Speech Recognition —. 2010 International Workshop on Smart-Media Systems in Asia. Unibersidad ng Pilipinas: Manila, The Philippines. (Keynote Lecture).
  13. Toyoshima, Takashi (February 24, 2010) Graph-Theoretical Linearization of Bare Phrase Structure. Linearisierung: 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Berlin, Germany.
  14. Toyoshima, Takashi & Fuminori Mizushima (May 27, 2009) Unsupervised Computational Learning of Recursion in Language. Recursion: Structural Complexity in Language and Cognition. University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Amherst, Massachusetts.
  15. Toyoshima, Takashi & Hiroshi Sakamoto (May 22, 2008) Move as Multi-Dominance and Graph-Theoretical Linearization. The Third Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics: Trees and Beyond. Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel: Brussels, The Belgium.
  16. Toyoshima, Takashi (March 1, 2008) Derivational Locality: Look-One-Step-Ahead. Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars. Carson-Newman College: Jefferson City, Tennessee.
  17. Toyoshima, Takashi & Fuminori Mizushima (June 4, 2007) Learnability of Recursion in Language. Biolinguistic Perspective on Language Evolution and Variation Conference. Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia: Venezia, Italy.
  18. Toyoshima, Takashi (April 21, 2006) Non-Finite Verb Fronting in South/West Slavic and Germanic. The 37th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2006). Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu: Poznań, Poland.
  19. Toyoshima, Takashi (June 13, 2004) Wh-Tideland. The 2nd International Theoretical East Asian Linguistics Workshop. National Tsinghua University: Hsinchu City, Republic of China.
External funding (representative)
  1. 1. Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Basic Research (C) (General) (FY2025-2027), Project Number 25K04171
    "A Study on Non-Nominal Movements in Box Theory within Minimalist Programs"
  2. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Basic Research (C) (General) (FY2022-2024)
    Project No. 22K00608: "Research on the Generation of Additional Structures in Minimalist Programs"
  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Basic Research (C) (General) (FY2018-2020)
  4. Project No. 18K0543: "A Study on the Possibilities and Elaboration of Grand Merger Operations in a Minimalist Program of Generative Grammar Theory"
  5. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Challenging Exploratory Research (2014-2016)
  6. Project Number 26580086: "The Possibility of Multiple Governing Syntax Structures in Generative Grammar Theory"
  7. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Basic Research (C) (General) (FY2010-2012)
  8. Project Number 22520401: "Research on the linearization of syntactic structures in generative grammar theory based on graph theory"
  9. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Challenging) Exploratory Research (2007-2009)
  10. Project Number 19652044: "Research on a linearization mapping system from syntactic structure to morphophoneme form in generative grammar theory"
  11. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Basic Research (C) (2) (FY2002-2005)
  12. Project Number 14510626: "Research on computational complexity and computational intensity as measures of the principle of economy in generative grammar theory"
  13. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Encouragement Research (A) (2) (FY2000-2001)
  14. Project Number 12710285: "Research on Dynamic Local Determinism Economy and Computational Complexity of Language Generation Using Optimization Methods"
  15. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Special Research Fellowship (1994-1996)
  16. Project No. 3222: "A Comparative Morphological and Syntactic Study of Non-Major Categories"

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