• Research Areas:  Second Language Acquisition (Syntax, Semantics & Morphology), Generative Syntax

• Affiliation:  Utsunomiya University (Assistant Professor)

• Degrees:  Ph.D in Literature from Chuo University: 2022 / MA in English Linguistics from Tohoku University: 2018 (Major: Syntax) /  MA in Literature from Chuo University: 2016 (Major: Second Language Acquisition)                                      

•  Membership:  The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA): 2012- /  The English Literary Society of Japan (ELSJ): 2017- / The Japan Society for Language Sciences (JSLS): 2018-

• Research Topics:   I study whatever I found interesting. The phenomena I have studied include: wh-interrogatives, across-the-board phenomena, right node raising, telicity, scalar implicature, unaccusativity, (indirect) passives, VP-ellipsis, present progressive, infinitives/gerunds, control/raising, DP-structure, plurality (atomic mass nouns), subject-verb agreement, past tense marking, grammatical illusion (quantifiers), distributivity/collectivity, quantifier scope, reflexive binding, numeral quantifier floating ...

• Supervision:  I am open to MA applicants in the field of generative approaches to second language acquisition (syntax, morphology, semantics & pragmatics) and syntax.

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