Lists of Awardees

The ELSJ Awards

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Academic Year	The ELSJ Young Researcher Award (established in April, 2003)
2003	1st: no award granted
2004	2nd: no award granted
2005	3rd: no award granted; two honorable mentions as follows: Nagano, Akiko: “The Status of Backformation and Morpheme-Basedness of English Morphology” (EL 23.1. (2006)) Shima, Etsuro: “Reducing Pseudogapping to VP Ellipsis” (EL 23.1 (2006))
2006	4th: no award granted
2007	5th: no award granted
2008	6th: Award for Promising Young Researchers Nawata, Hiroyuki: “Clausal Architecture and Inflectional Paradigm: The Case of V2 in the History of English” (EL 26.1 (2009))
	The ELSJ Young Researcher Award	The ELSJ Award (established in November, 2008)
2009	7th: no award granted	Iwata, Seizi: Locative Alternation: A Lexical-Constructional Approach, John Benjamins, 2008
2010	Interim period between old and new systems: reconsideration of the screening process and establishment of a new tripartite awarding system (October, 2010)
	The ELSJ Junior Researcher Award	The ELSJ Senior Researcher Award	The ELSJ Prize
2011	Maeda, Masako: “The Criterial Freezing Effect and Split A’-Movement” (EL 27.2 (2010))	Kasai, Hironobu: “Parasitic Gaps under Multiple Dominance” (EL 27.2 (2010))	Yamada, Eiji: Subsidiary Stresses in English, Kaitakusha, 2010
2012	Watanabe, Takuto: “On the Development of the Immediate Future Use of Be About To in the History of English with Special Reference to Late Modern English” (EL 28.1 (2011))	no award granted	no award granted
2013	Kitada, Shin-Ichi: “A Theory of Linearization and Its Implication for Boundedness of Movement” (EL 29.2 (2012))	no award granted	Takahashi, Hidemitsu: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative: With Special Reference to Japanese Imperatives, John Benjamins, 2012 Kono, Tsuguyo: English Relative Clauses, Kaitakusha, 2012
2014	Arano, Akihiko: “Uninterpretable Features and the Immobility of Constituents” (EL 30.1 (2013))	Nagano, Akiko: “Morphology of Direct Modification” (EL 30.1 (2013))	Zamma, Hideki: Patterns and Categories in English Suffixation and Stress Placement: A Theoretical and Quantitative Study, Kaitakusha, 2013
2015	No award granted	Shibasaki, Reijirou: “On the Development of The Point Is and Related Issues in the History of American English” (EL 31.1 (2014))	Ueno, Yoshio: An Automodular View of English Grammar, Waseda University Press, 2014 Maeda, Masako: Derivational Feature-based Relativized Minimality, Kyushu University Press, 2014
2016	Tozawa, Takahiro: “On Labeling in Free Relative Clauses in English” （EL 32.1 (2015)）	No award granted	Tanaka, Hideki: Eigo to Nihongo ni okeru Suryo Hyogen to Kankeisetsu no Kaishaku ni kansuru Kijutsuteki Rironteki Kenkyu (A Descriptive and Theoretical Study of the Interpretation of Quantitative Expressions and Relative Clauses in English and Japanese), Kaitakusha, 2015
2017	Koike, Koji：”The Development of Negative-Initial Constructions in the History of English” (EL 33.2 (2016))	No award granted	Sugisaki, Koji：Hajimete no Gengo Kakutoku: Fuhen Bumpo ni motozuku Apurochi (First Language Acquisition: A UG-based Approach), Iwanami Shoten, 2015
2018	Otsuka, Tomonori：”Radical Free Merger” (EL 34.1 (2017))	No award granted	Sawada, Osamu：Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers: The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Oxford University Press, 2018
2019	Hayashi, Norimasa: “The Derivation of Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses and Their Invisibilities” (EL35.1 (2018))	No award granted	Tonoike, Shigeo： Minimarisuto Nichieigohikaku Tougoron (A Minimalist Approach to Comparative Syntax of English and Japanese), Kaitakusha, 2019 Kanetani, Masaru： Causation and Reasoning Constructions, John Benjamins, 2019
2020			Iwata, Seizi: English Resultatives: A Force-Recipient Account, John Benjamins, 2020

**The English Linguistics Research Promotion Award**

Academic Year	The English Linguistics Research Promotion Award
2010	Kasai, Hironobu： “Parasitic Gaps under Multiple Dominance” (EL 27.2 (2010)) Maeda, Masako： “The Criterial Freezing Effect and Split A’-Movement” (EL 27.2 (2010))
2011	Watanabe, Takuto： “On the Development of the Immediate Future Use of Be About To in the History of English with Special Reference to Late Modern English” (EL 28.1 (2011)) Akaso, Naoyuki and Tomoko Haraguchi： “On the Categorial Status of Japanese Relative Clauses” (EL 28.1 (2011))
2012	Kitada, Shin-Ichi： “A Theory of Linearization and Its Implication for Boundedness of Movement” (EL 29.2 (2012))
2013	Arano, Akihiko： “Uninterpretable Features and the Immobility of Constituents” (EL 30.1 (2013)) Mizuguchi, Manabu： “Reconsidering Phase-Internal Derivations: Are They Exceptional or Not?” (EL 30.1 (2013)) Nagano, Akiko： “Morphology of Direct Modification” (EL 30.1 (2013))

**The English Linguistics Research Paper Award**

Academic Year	The English Linguistics Research Paper Award
2014	Arano, Akihiko：“Two Types of Main Verb Inversion” (EL 31.1 (2014)) Shibasaki, Reijirou：“On the Development of The Point Is and Related Issues in the History of American English” (EL 31.1 (2014))
2015	Tozawa, Takahiro： “On Labeling in Free Relative Clauses in English” (EL 32.1 (2015))
2016	Koike, Koji： “The Development of Negative-Initial Constructions in the History of English” (EL 33.2 (2016))
2017	Otsuka, Tomonori ： “Radical Free Merger” (EL 34.1 (2017))
2018	Hayashi, Norimasa : “The Derivation of Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses and Their Invisibilities” (EL 35.1 (2018)) Maezawa, Hiroki : “Reconstruction, Cyclic Transfer and Reintegration” (EL 35.2 (2018))

The Best Paper Award

Academic Year	Annual Conference	International Spring Forum
2015	No award granted	– – –
2016	(Honorable Mention) Mikami, Suguru: “The Parameterization of the Feature Inheritance System and the Gradual Syntactic Change in the History of English”	(Honorable Mention) Matsuda, Asako: “Shifted Indexicals in Partial Control”
2017	Honda, Masatoshi: “Negative Inversion and Its Implications for the Information Structure of Nominal Phrases” Nakashima, Takanori: “Strict Cyclicity Reconsidered: From a Viewpoint of Labeling” (Honorable Mention) Tanaka, Yuta: “The Historical Change of End up and the Rise of PredP”	(Honorable Mention) Mino, Takashi: “Pragmatic Constraint on There Speak Construction and Its Peculiarities”
2018	Sakamoto, Yuta: “NEG-raising in English: A View from an Interaction with So Anaphora”	No award granted
2019	Ishida, Takashi: “Prefixed Relational Adjectives in English” Kikuchi, Yuki: “An Analysis of N-free and N-less Based on Construction Morphology” (Honorable Mention) Saito, Shogo: “Labeling Algorithm and Copy Deletion”	Yamada, Akitaka: “Comparisons and Speech Acts in Japanese Exclamatives”
2020	Hirata, Takuya: “A Consideration of the Historical Development of Gerunds with Accusative Subjects” (Honorable Mention) Matsuda, Asako: “Indexical Structures of “Bound” Plurals”	Canceled
2021	Saito, Shogo “Optional Movement and an Economy Condition” Matsuda, Yuji “Lexical Category of Subject-Adjective in as-Clauses in as… as Constructions: An Example of as happy as happy can be“ (Honorable Mention) Togano, Yuri “On a New Type of Out-Prefixed Verbs in English” （Honorable Mention） Hattori, Ryosuke “Acquisition of Degree Abstraction: Seeking Evidence from IPL”	(Honorable Mention) Ishida, Takashi and Ryohei Naya “Why Does Contrast Allow Relational Adjectives to Be Used Predicatively?: A Qualia Structure-based Account”
2022	(Honorable Mention) Muraoka, Souichiro “On the Asynchronicity of Bare Infinitives in the Complement of Causative Verbs”	No award granted
2023	Yamada, Akitaka “Embedded Moods and the Semantics of Tokoro-Clauses”	(Honorable Mention) Suzuki, Maya “Labeling and Selection: A Case Study of Wh-Associated Exactly“
2024		(Honorable Mention) Yamada, Akitaka “Semantics of Redupulicants” (Honorable Mention) Chikamori, Airi “The Movement Analysis for Temporal Interpretations in Relative Clauses” (Honorable Mention) Usui, Yuka “A Phase-Based Analysis of Subject-Object Asymmetry in Nonfinite Clauses” (Honorable Mention) Xu, Zicheng “Update Semantics with Accessibility Relation”