I'm a second year PhD student in Linguistics at UMass Amherst. 

Interests

・Syntax  ・Semantics 

Contact

 E-mail : kkakenami-at-umass-dot-edu 

News

・2025/10/17-19

I gave a talk at NELS 56. (Slides / Handout)

Title: Japanese Contentful Internally Headed Relative Clauses under believe and know

・2025/08/14-17

I gave a talk at SICOGG 27. (Slides)

Title: Hidden Polarity Particles in Japanese Verb Echo Answers 

・2025/08/05

I organized a workshop at Aoyama Gakuin University. In this workshop, Japanese students studying linguistics in the US presented their work.