"Kagaku to site no gengogaku: rendoo yomi-o toosite" (Linguistics as an empirical science: through bound variable anaphora), presented at Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, October 24, 1999.

"Anaphoric relations in Japanese: some preliminary remarks" presented at A Symposium on Diachronic and Synchronic Studies of Syntax of East Asian Languages, USC, November 7, 1998.

"Experiments in Linguistic Science: the null argument anaphora, VP ellipsis and other 'deep/surface anaphors'," presented at the University of Tokyo, May 23, 1997, and at the University of Arizona Linguistics Colloquium, March 7, 1997.

"Deep and Surface Anaphora and Organization of Grammar," presented at the Workshop on Comparative Syntax of Japanese, Korean, Chinese and English, Kyusyu University, Japan, December 21, 1996.

"Formal Dependency and Organization of Grammar," presented at the Workshop on Comparative Syntax of Japanese, Korean, Chinese and English, Kobe University, Japan, December 17, 1996.

"Formal Dependency, Organization of Grammar and Japanese Demonstratives," presented at the Workshop on the Demonstratives in Japanese and Korean, UCLA, November 9, 1996.

"{Formal Dependency, Sloppy Identity, Principle B, Demonstratives}," presented at the Workshop on Japanese and Comparative Syntax, University of Southern California, July 24, 1996.

"Movement and Dependency: On the Landing Site of Scrambling," presented at the Stanford University Linguistics Colloquium, May 26, 1995.

"Comments on Syntax Papers (Panel I)," (with Audrey Li) presented at the 5th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, UCLA, November 4, 1994.

"Demonstratives and Binding Principle B," presented at the Linguistics Colloquium, University of Rochester, May 19, 1994, University of Connecticut, May 11, 1994, MIT, May 9, 1994, and UCSC, May 6, 1994

"The Null Object and the Sloppy Reading in Japanese," presented at the Workshop on East Asian Theoretical Linguistics, UCI, June 5, 1993.

"On the Negative Sentences and Other Related Constructions in Korean and Japanese," an invited talk at La Jolla Workshop on Japanese Syntax, California, November 23-24, 1991.

"Raising-to-Object, ECM and the Major Object in Japanese," an invited talk at the University of Rochester Workshop on Japanese Syntax, May 10-12, 1991.

"Coreference, Bound Variable Anaphora and Language Acquisition," presented at UCI, November 15, 1990.

"Acquisition of Binding Condition B," presented at the University of Rochester, November 2, 1990.

"The Sloppy Identity (in the VP Deletion) in Japanese," an invited lecture at Kansai Association of Theoretical Linguistics, Osaka University, August 6, 1990.

"Binding Conditions B/C/D and Language Acquisition," an invited seminar at the Kansai Linguistics Society Summer Seminar, Osaka, August, 1, 1990.

"Acquisition of Binding Conditions," an invited talk at the Ohio State Workshop on Japanese Syntax, May 11-13, 1990.

"On the Necessity of Binding and Linking," presented at U. of Wisconsin/Madison, February 20, 1990, at UCLA, February 8, 1990, at USC, November 1 and 8, 1989.

"VP-Preposing in Japanese and its Implications," presented at the Workshop on the VP Node in Japanese and Korean, UCLA, August 4, 1989.

"Nominal Categories in Japanese and Binding Conditions," an invited talk at the Ohio State Workshop on Japanese Syntax: Issues pertaining to movement, March 31-April 2, 1989.

"Nominal Categories and Binding Conditions," a Linguistics Colloquium, UCSD, October 31, 1988.

"VP-Preposing in Japanese," presented in a seminar by Prof. S. -Y. Kuroda, UCSD, October 28, 1988.

"The Case of Dislocated Phrases," an invited lecture at Twenty Fifth Anniversary of the Linguistics Department at the University of Washington, Seattle, June 3, 1988.

"Kare (the so-called overt pronoun in Japanese) and Condition B," Linguistics Colloquium, University of California, Irvine, May 26, 1988.

"Sloppy Identity and the Japanese Pronouns," an invited talk at Workshop on Japanese and Logical Form, UCSD, March 18-19, 1988.

"The Linguistic Notion 'Head' and the Japanese Language Teaching," (with Y. Kitagawa) New England Japanese Teachers' Workshop, UMass, Amherst, August 27-28, 1987.

"Variable Binding and Syntactic Positions," Japanese Syntax Workshop: Issues on Empty Categories, Connecticut College, New London, May 10, 1987.

"New Evidence for the VP Node in Japanese," Japanese Grammar Workshop, USC, L.A., March 25, 1987. (also presented at Cornell University, March, 1987)

"Empty Pronouns in Japanese," (with M. Saito) Japanese Grammar Workshop, USC, L.A., March 25, 1987.

"Two Types of Clefts in Japanese," Japanese Grammar Workshop, USC, L.A., March 26, 1987.

"Movement, Variable Binding and Topicalization in Japanese," Linguistics Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 1, 1986.

"Japanese Word Order: How free is it?" Japan Studies Seminar in the Northeast, Amherst College, Amherst, April 5, 1986.

"Movement and Variable Binding in Japanese," International Christian University, Tokyo, January 18, 1986.

"Arguments for Configurationality of Japanese," UMass Round table on Configurationality, Amherst, November 11, 1985.

"Movement, Variable Binding and WA Phrases in Japanese," UMass Workshop on Oriental Linguistics, Amherst, May 1985.

"Weak Crossover in Japanese," Japanese Syntax Workshop, La Jolla, California, March 1985.

"Comments on Papers by Kuno, Whitman and Hasegawa," Japanese Syntax Workshop, La Jolla, California, March 1985.

"Quantifier Scope, Syntactic Movement and Phrase Structure in Japanese," Linguistics Colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December 1984.

"Japanese as a Configurational Language," Linguistics Colloquium, University of Washington, Seattle, July 1983.

"Universal and Language Particular Rules: The Insertion and Deletion of the Japanese Genitive No," Harvard Conference on Japanese and Korean Linguistics I, Harvard University, Cambridge, May 1983.

"Xn --> (YP) Xn-1 and the Bound Variable zibun," MIT Workshop on Japanese Linguistics, MIT, Cambridge, January 1983.