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If you are interested in joining the study groups below, please feel free to drop me a line at yosukes@tsuda.ac.jp. The first group is done F2F; the second group is done online (zoom).
If you are interested in joining the study groups below, please feel free to drop me a line at yosukes@tsuda.ac.jp. The first group is done F2F; the second group is done online (zoom).
Tsuda University Linguistic Datablitz (Friday Morning)
Tsuda University Linguistic Datablitz (Friday Morning)
Tsuda Advanced Syntax Reading Group (Friday Afternoon)
Tsuda Advanced Syntax Reading Group (Friday Afternoon)
Here is the list of reading items discussed this year.
Sheehan, Michelle et al. 2017. The final-over-final condition: A syntactic universal. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Nakamura, Masanori. 2019. "Cross-linguistic variation in MaxElide effects" Ms., Senshu University.
Sato, Yosuke. 2025. "Ellipsis mismatch in Central Javanese: Which voice is heard in the silence?" Ms., Tsuda University.
Sato, Yosuke. 2025. "Remarks on free exceptive sluicing in Japanese" Ms., Tsuda University.
Sato, Yosuke. 2026. "How much can we mismatch under ellipsis and why?" Ms., Tsuda University.
Stockwell, Richard. 2020. Contrast and verb phrase ellipsis: Triviality, symmetry, and competition. PhD Diss, University of California, Los Angeles.
Mendes, Gesoel, and Jason Kandybowicz. 2023. Salvation by deletion in Nupe. Linguistic Inquiry 54: 299-325.
AFFILIATION
Associate Professor
Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, Tsuda University
2-1-1 Tsuda-machi, Kodaira-shi, Tokyo, JAPAN 187-8577
Email: yosukes@tsuda.ac.jp
TEL: +81-42-342-5150 FAX: +81-42-342-5152
Tsuda University Department Homepage
Yosuke Sato Research Homepage
PROFESSIONAL AREAS
Specialization: Syntax, Morphology, Semantics, Linguistic Interfaces, Cross-Linguistic Variation
Languages: 1. Austronesian (Indonesian, Javanese, Malay), 2. East Asian (Japanese, Korean, Chinese), 3. World Englishes (American English, Colloquial Singapore English), 4. Persian
Areas of Interest: Biology of Language; Contact Linguistics, Origin of Human Intelligence/Creativity; Theory of Mind; Nature and Origin of Spatio-Temporal Metaphors, Interfaces between Cognitive Linguistics and Generative Grammar
EDUCATION
2008 PhD in Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Dissertation: Minimalist Interfaces: Selected Issues in Indonesian and Javanese
(Committee: Heidi Harley (supervisor), Andrew Barss, Andrew Carnie, and Simin Karimi)
2006 MA in Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Thesis: AGREE: A Unified Syntax of Switch Reference and Control
(Supervisor: Heidi Harley)
2003 MA in English Linguistics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Thesis: Dynamic Semantic Studies on Causative Psych Verbs and Composite Verbal Idioms
(Supervisor: Masaru Nakamura)
2001 BA in English Linguistics, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
Thesis: Notes on the Cause Readings in English Verbs
(Supervisor: Aki Takamichi)
EMPLOYMENT
(A) Full-Time Positions
April 2021 – present Associate Professor (tenured), Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan
Sept. 2018 - March 2021 Associate Professor (tenured), Department of English Language and Literature, Seisen University, Tokyo, Japan
July 2017 – June 2018 Associate Professor (tenured), Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, Singapore
July 2011 – June 2017 Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, Singapore
July 2009 – July 2011 Visiting Fellow, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sept 2008 – July 2009 Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
August 2005-May 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant/Associate, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
(B) Short-Term Appointments
April 2023 - present Associate Researcher, Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan
April 2022 – present Member of the Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit (unit leader: Professor Yoshiki Ogawa), Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
August 2020 – present Part-Time Lecturer, Graduate Program in Linguistic Science, Graduate School, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan
April 2021 – Mar 2024 Joint Researcher, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan
April 2021 –March 2022 Part-Time Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, Seisen University
Feb. 2010 – June 2010 Associate Course Developer, SIM University, Singapore
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
April 2025 - present The Society of Japanese Grammar
June 2023 - present Linguistic Society of Japan
June 2020 – present English Linguistic Society of Japan
April 2019 – present Linguistic Society of America
INVITED SERVICE
November 2026 Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 44th Annual Conference of the English Linguistic Society of
Japan (held at Tsuda University, Kodaira Campus, November 21 and 22)
April 2025 - present Associate Editor, Languages
January 2025 - present Editorial Board, Journal of East Asian Linguistics
May 2024 - present Editorial Board, Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics
January 2021 – present Editorial Board, Korean Journal of Linguistics
June 2024 - March 2025 Editorial Board, Languages
April 2024 - January 2026 Editorial Board, English Linguistics
September 2023 - present Fulbright Program/Japan-United States Education Commission Reviewing Panel
April 2021– May 2023 Secretary of the English Linguistic Society of Japan: Public Relations and Spring Forum
Outreach Activities
July 2025 - present 星野高等学校 高大連携探求型ゼミ(言語学) 外部顧問 [星野探求 ～知の海を航る～]
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