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.
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]