Curriculum Vitae

Education 

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: September, 2001-February, 2006, Ph.D. in Linguistics 

• Kanda University of International Studies: April, 1998-August, 2001, Ph.D. Program in Linguistics 

• Tamagawa University: April, 1996-March, 1998, M.A. in English Literature 

• Tamagawa University: April, 1992-March, 1996, B.A. in Foreign Languages

Employment

• Aoyama Gakuin University, Department of English: Professor, April, 2020-present; Associate Professor, April, 2015-March, 2020

• Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Economics: Associate Professor, October, 2011-March, 2015

• Nihon University, College of Engineering: Associate Professor, April, 2011-September, 2011; Assistant Professor, April, 2009-March, 2011 

• Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, The University of Tokyo, April, 2006-March, 2009 (2006-2008: Visiting Scholar at University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Other Linguistics-related Academic Positions 

• Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies of Language: Lecturer, May, 2026-present, September, 2025-December, 2025; May, 2023-December, 2023; May, 2021-December, 2021; October, 2020-December, 2020; May, 2019-July, 2019; May, 2018-December, 2018; May, 2017-July, 2017; May, 2016-December, 2016; May, 2015-July, 2015; May, 2014-July, 2014

• The Linguistic Society of Japan Summer Institute 2024: Lecturer, August, 2024

• Tsuda University: Lecturer, April, 2017-March, 2021

• Tohoku University: Lecturer, September, 2020

• Bunkyo University: Lecturer, September, 2019

• Hitotsubashi University: Lecturer, September, 2015-March, 2016

• Keio University: Lecturer, April, 2013-March, 2015 

• Mie University: Lecturer, August, 2010-September, 2010 

Doctoral Thesis Supervision 

• Akira Saizen: committee member, Aoyama Gakuin University, 2022

• Masayuki Tanabe: committee member, Aoyama Gakuin University, 2021

• Mioko Miyama: committee member, The University of Tokyo, 2020

• Tomoe Arii: committee member, The University of Tokyo, 2018

• Shunichiro Inada: committee member, The University of Tokyo, 2016  

Master's Thesis Supervision 

• Weiqin Wang: chair, Aoyama Gakuin University, 2026

• Yuji Hitomi: chair, Aoyama Gakuin University, 2026

• Thomas Schökler: chair, Aoyama Gakuin University, 2025

• Shusuke Kasahara: chair, Aoyama Gakuin University, 2025

• Keita Miyamoto: chair, Aoyama Gakuin University, 2024

• Kenta Kakenami: chair, Aoyama Gakuin University, 2021

Service

Member of the (associate) editorial boards of the following journals 

• Linguistic Inquiry: 2010-present

• Natural Language & Linguistic Theory: 2010-present

• Semantics and Pragmatics: 2013-present

• Journal of East Asian Linguistics: 2019-present    

Peer reviewer for manuscripts submitted to the following journals 

• Acta Linguistica Academica 

• Australian Journal of Linguistics 

• Canadian Journal of Linguistics

• English Linguistics

• Gengo Kenkyu 

• Glossa 

• Journal of East Asian Linguistics 

• Journal of Linguistics 

• Journal of Semantics 

• Language 

• Language Acquisition 

• Language and Linguistics 

• Lingua 

• Linguistic Inquiry 

• Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 

• Natural Language Semantics

• Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 

• Semantics and Pragmatics 

• Studia Linguistica 

• Syntax 

• The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 

• The Linguistic Review 

Peer reviewer for book chapters submitted to the following publishers 

• John Benjamins 

• MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 

• Oxford University Press 

Peer reviewer for abstracts submitted to the following conferences and workshops

• Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics 13

• Chains in Minimalism 

• Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference 5-8 

• Generative Linguistics in the Old World 34-48 (39: nominated, but no abstracts assigned)

• GLOW in Asia IX-XI, XIII-XIV 

• GLOW in Asia IX Workshop for Young Scholars

• GLOW in Asia 2026 The 2nd Workshop for Young Scholars 

• GLOW in Asia XII/Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 21

• Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 18, 21, 23-32

• North East Linguistic Society 43-46, 50-56

• Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17-35 (33: nominated, but no abstracts assigned)

• Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 22-25, 27

• Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 26/Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 18 

• Sinn und Bedeutung 14-24, 26-30

• The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America 

• The English Linguistic Society of Japan International Spring Forum 18-19

• West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 30, 32-36, 38-44

• Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 6, 8-10, 12-17, 19

• Workshop on Little v 

Member of the board of councilors

• The English Linguistic Society of Japan: 2019-present 

Member of the steering committee

• Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies of Language: 2020-present 

Fellowships 

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists: April, 2006-March, 2009

• Shoyu Club Fellowship: September, 2001-August, 2004