Research
A primary question that drives my research interests is how scalarity and gradability inform the interpretation of context-sensitive content. To this end, I currently look at topics relevant to degree semantics, including proportional quantification, gradable modality, and plurality inferences.
I'm also engaged in ongoing experimental work under Pranav Anand and Allison Nguyen on decision bias in the information associated with discourse referents.
Kato, Andrew. 2024. Relative quantification and equative scope-taking. Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, ed. by Fausto Carcassi, Tamar Johnson, Søren Brinck Knudstorp, Sabrina Domínguez Parrado, Pablo Rivas Robledo, & Giorgio Sbardolini, 203-210. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. [proceedings] [individual paper]
Kato, Andrew. 2024. Restricting the scope of a relative measure. University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics, ed. by Adeline Braverman, 1-14. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. [osf]
Kato, Andrew. To appear. Reframing zìjǐ-(men). Proceedings of the 36th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, ed. by Feng Xiao and Jun Lang. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.