Masashi Harada

Assistant Prof. of Japanese

Williams College

Hello!

I am a Japanese language educator and linguist specializing in the formal semantics of natural languages. My research focuses on understanding the patterns and constraints that shape how sentence meanings are derived from the meanings of individual words, with a particular emphasis on Japanese and English. I am deeply passionate about teaching and have had the opportunity to teach Japanese language and linguistics as an instructor and teaching assistant at Williams College, Grinnell College, McGill University, the University of Kansas, and Waseda University. Outside of work, I enjoy cooking and spending time outdoors such as skiing and camping with my family."

Publications

Harada, M. 2024 Addressing Sample Size in a Linguistic Acceptability Judgment Experiment: Simulation and Power Analysis for Japanese Sentences.

Harada, M. 2023 Cumulativity Without Plural Projection. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 26 , 377-395.

Harada, M. 2022. Locality in the Derivation of Cumulativity. Proceedings of the Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32 , 852-871.

Harada, M. 2022 Locality Effects in Composition with Plurals and Conjunctions. Ph.D. dissertation , McGill University.

Harada, M. 2020 Cumulativity in Right Node Raising Construction. Evaluation 2 Paper , McGill University.

Harada, M. 2020. Experimental Design with a Focus on Power Calculations.

Harada, M. 2019 Contextual Effects on Case in Japanese Copular Constructions. Proceedings of the General Linguistics in the Old World in Asia 12, 447-456.

Harada, M. 2018 The Existence of Pseudoclefts in Japanese. Proceedings of Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 3, 43-52.

Harada, M. 2017. Japanese Pseudoclefts. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 37, 59-75.

Harada, M. 2015. 日本語における名詞句消去について(Deletion of the Nominal Expressions in Japanese). The Japan Association of Teaching Language and Culture 9, 4-21.

Presentations

Harada, M. 2022. Locality in the Derivation of Cumulativity. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, June.

Harada, M. 2021. Cumulative Interpretations and the Need of the Plural Projection. Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 26, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, September.

Harada, M. 2020. Cumulativity Favors the Movement Analysis of the Right Node Raising. The 13th Annual Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canceled due to the COVID-19.

Harada, M. 2019. Contextual Effects on Case in Japanese Copular Constructions. General Linguistics in the Old World in Asia 12. Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea, August

Harada, M. 2016. The Preference of the Pair-List Reading in Japanese Multiple Sluicing. The 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, May.

Harada, M. 2016. Sluicing of Non-finite Clauses in Japanese. Linguistic Society of America 2016 Annual Meetings, Washington D.C., January.