I'm a second-year Ph.D. student. My main interests are in semantics, fieldwork, and more recently, experimental approaches.
I primarily work on Gitksan (Tsimshianic) and Japanese. I have also worked on and continue to be interested in American Sign Language (ASL).
I am especially interested in tense, aspect, modality, and degrees. Please visit my personal website for more details.
Selected publications [Please see my CV or website for a complete list.]
Theses
Aonuki, Yurika. 2021. "Relative pronominal tense: Evidence from Gitksan, Japanese, and English". MA thesis, University of British Columbia.
Aonuki, Yurika. 2019. "Adjective intensification in American Sign Language". BA Honours thesis, University of British Columbia.
Journal articles
Bertrand et al. 2022. “Nobody’s perfect”. In Languages 7.2, p. 148. [https://www.mdpi.com/1674678].
Conference proceedings (reviewed by abstract)
Aonuki, Yurika. to appear. "Evaluativity in Japanese degree constructions. Sinn und Bedeutung 28.
Aonuki, Yurika. 2022. “Morphological tenselessness and SOT: Evidence for a covert relative pronominal tense in Gitksan”. Sinn und Bedeutung 26. [https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2022.v26i0.988].
Aonuki, Yurika. to appear. “Covert relative non-future tense in Gitksan”. WCCFL 39.
Aonuki, Yurika. to appear. “Free relatives in Gitksan”. Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA) 11.
Aonuki, Yurika. 2020. “Unifying the ‘still’ and ‘just’ readings of ḵ’ay in Gitksan”. WCCFL 37. [http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/37/abstract3516.html].
Invited talks
Aonuki, Yurika. 2022. Relative pronominal tense in Gitksan and Japanese. Invited talk at UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, 18 February.