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If you are interested in joining the study groups below, please drop me a line at yosukes@tsuda.ac.jp.
Tsuda Advanced Syntax Reading Group (Friday 20:00 (JST))
https://zoom.us/j/99721562452
Meeting ID: 997 2156 2452
Passcode: 261539
初心者用実験統語論・形式意味論 自主勉強会 (Friday 22:00 (JST))
https://zoom.us/j/8169940950
Meeting ID: 816 994 0950
Passcode: 756549
Current Graduate Students/Research Assistants
Riko Nakayama (2nd-year MA student, syntax, formal semantics, scope phenomena in Japanese)
Nagisa Hayashi (2nd-year MA student, syntax, Chinese syntax, Singapore English, psycholinguistics)
Otoe Shichijo (1st-year MA student in the 5-Year BA/MA Program, syntax, lexical semantics, diathesis alternation, Hokkaido dialect)
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 HP
PROFESSIONAL AREAS
Specialization: Syntax, Morphology, Semantics, Linguistic Interfaces, Cross-Linguistic Variation
Languages: 1. Austronesian (Indonesian, Javanese, Malay), 2. East Asian (Japanese, Korean, Chinese), 3. Varieties of English (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 – March 2025 Member of the Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit (unit leader: Professor Yoshiki Ogawa), Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
April 2021 – Mar 2024 Joint Researcher, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan
August 2020 – present Part-Time Lecturer, Graduate Program in Linguistic Science, Graduate School, Nanzan University, Nagoya, 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
June 2023 - present Linguistic Society of Japan
June 2020 – present English Linguistic Society of Japan
April 2019 – present Linguistic Society of America
INVITED SERVICE
Jun. 2024 - present Editorial Board, Languages
May 2024 - present Editorial Board, Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics
Apr.2024 - Jan. 2026 Editorial Board, English Linguistics
Sept. 2023 - present Fulbright Program/Japan-United States Education Commission Reviewing Panel
Apr. 2021– Mar.2023 Secretary of the English Linguistic Society of Japan: Public Relations and Spring Forum
Jan 2021 – Dec 2026 Editorial Board, Korean Journal of Linguistics