Dr. Naonori Nagaya is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), where he has been on faculty since 2019. He has also been an editor of the journal Gengo Kenkyū, the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan, an HMC Fellow at the Ushioda East Asian Humanities Initiative, and the 2021 Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics and Language Education, Linguistic Society of the Philippines.