Profile
Education
1999 Ph.D. in Linguistics Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut (1994 – 1999)
1994 MA in Linguistics Graduate School of Foreign Languages, Dokkyo University (1991 – 1994)
1993 MA in Linguistics Department of Linguistics, University of Essex (1991 – 1992)
1991 BA in Literature School of Education, Waseda University (1986 – 1991)
Academic appointments
2020 – present Professor, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University
2005 – 2020 Associate professor, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University
2009 – 2010 Visiting coordinate researcher, Harvard-Yenching Institute
2003 – 2005 Assistant professor, Faculty of Language and Culture, Osaka University
2002 – 2003 Visiting scholar, MIT & University of Connecticut
2000 – 2003 Full-time lecturer, Faculty of Language and Culture, Osaka University
Research Grants
2020 – 2022 Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 20K00679)
A Comparative Syntactic Study of Noun Phrase Structure and Agreement Phenomena, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of
Japan
2017 – 2020 Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 25370431)
An Investigation of Universal Aspects of the Structure of Nominal Arguments based on the Verification of the Nominal Mapping Parameter Hypothesis,
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
2013 – 2016 Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 25370431), A Comparative Linguistic Study in the Syntax and Semantics of Classifiers,
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
2010 – 2012 Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 22520398)
A Syntactic Study of the Noun Phrase Periphery in Japanese and Chinese, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
2009 – 2010 Coordinate Research Scholarship, Harvard-Yenching Institute
(collaborating Harvard faculty: C.-T. James Huang)
2005 – 2007 Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (No. 17720084), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
2006 International Scientific Meetings in Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2002 – 2003 Overseas Research Fellow, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan