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My name in Kanji & Hiragana: 中川奈津子 (なかがわなつこ)
Education
2016 PhD (Human and environmental studies), Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
2013 MA (Linguistics), Department of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo
2007 MA (Human and environmental studies), Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
2005 BA (Letters), Department of Japanese Literature, Doshisha University
Work
2022.4-2024.1 Associate professor of Graduate School of Humanities, Kyushu University
2022.4-2024.1 Associate professor of National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
2019.8-2022.3 Project assistant professor of National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
2019.4-2019.7 Adjunct researcher of National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
2018.4-2019.3 Research fellow at Graduate School of Humanities, Chiba University
2017.4-2019.3 Part-time lecturer at Aomori Public University
2016.7-current Project Collaborator of National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
2015.4-2018.3 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD), Chiba University
2015.4-2018.3 Joint researcher of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa)
2014.4-2015.3 Part-time lecturer at Kyoto University
2014.4-2015.3 Part-time lecturer at Doshisha University
2010.8-2012.5 Part-time lecturer at State University of New York
Research interests
I'm particularly interested in information structure:
how people process topic, focus, given/new information in online conversation, and
how discourse structure is organized.
My current research topic is to investigate the interactions between information structure and intonational phrase, word order, and case particles, cognitive motivations for these interactions, and how I can explain typological tendency in terms of these interactions.
I'm mainly working on Japanese languages and Ryukyuan languages especially in terms of information structure. Currently I'm working on languages in Ishigaki Island, Okinawa. More broadly, I'm interested in the following topics:
Processing of information structure
Semantic (or Pragmatic) typology
Language documentation
Conversation and interaction
Psycholinguistics
Corpus linguistics and computational linguistics
Second language learning and pedagogy
and so on.
Projects
Information structure of Spoken Japanese [dissertation prject]
Reference grammar of Shiraho Dialect (Ssabu muni), Yaeyama Ryukyuan [with Tyler Lau and Yukinori Takubo]
A typological survey of the case-marking systems in Ryukyuan (website) [headed by Michinori Shimoji]
Reference grammar of Nambu Dialect (Japanese)
E-mail address
nakagawanatuko *at* gmail.com