Theses Supervised (2009-2024)

Tsuda University (2021-2024)

    Senior Theses

    Natsumi Fukuda (2024) "On the Limits of Elliptical Mismatch and the LF-PF Divide"

    Otoe, Shichijo (2024) "On the Fine Representation of Agentivity under the Three-Layered VP Hypothesis; With Special Reference to -(r)asaru"

    Misa Kaneko (2024) "A Comparative Analysis of Usage Restrictions on Sentence-Final Particles in Suwa Dialect"

    Sara Nakajima (2024) "On the Acquisition of Sentence-Final Particles in Autism Spectrum Discourse: A Pragmatic Approach"

    Mei Inoue (2024) "The Role of Sound Symbolism in Mimetic Words in Japanese Manga and its English Translation"

    Riko Homma (2023) "Comparing Japanese and English Words for Raising Self-Esteem"

    Miina Okuno (2023) "Regional Differences in the Auxiliary Verbs in Kinki Dialect"

    Riko Nakayama (2023) "A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Relationships between Present Counterfactuals and Past Tense"

    Nanako Kasahara (2023) "Constructional Differences Between English and Japanese and Their Accommodation Strategies" 

    Chihiro Kobayashi (2023) "An Experimental Investigation of Scalar Impressions of Japanese Onomatopoeia by Native Japanese Speakers"

    Setsuren Kin (2023) "Similarity of Tones between Mandarin Chinese and Kansai Dialects"

    Moe Sato (2023) "An Image Schema-Based Approach to Be Verbs: Exploring Pedagogical A pplications of Cognitive Linguistics"

    Master's Theses

     Nagisa, Hayashi (in progress) 

    Riko, Nakayama (in progress)

    Otoe, Shichijo (in progress) 

    Rio Sato (2022) "Wh-compound questions in Japanese and their theoretical implications for the syntax-morphology interface"

Seisen University (2018-2021)

 Senior Theses

    Chikako Suzuki (2021) "On differences between “begin an NP” and “NP-o hazimeru” constructions: A new analysis based on “change of state”"   

    Izumi Suganuma (2021) "Sound symbolism as reflected in parents’ naming wishes"

    Yasuha Hirai (2021) "On the usage patterns and origin of “Yaa-Kaa” conversations: An analysis based on in-group vs. out-group relationships"

    Fuko Yasumoto (2020) "What are the merits of irony? An explanation of plus alpha effects of irony based on Mental Space Theory"

    Moka Michihata (2020) "A new analysis of sya- vs. ka-based agentive nominals based on invariance"

    Misae Hase (2020) "On the effects of praise in negative campaigns: A politeness-theoretic account"

    Yuka Imai (2020) "Why do people use verbal irony?"

    Airi Ishioka (2019) "On the Derivations of Beautification and Negative Prefixation in Japanese: A Distributed Morphology Approach"

    Mizuki Koyama (2019) "On Super-Indirect Speech Acts in Japanese and English: A Relevance-Theoretic Analysis"

    Shione Takahama (2019) "Image Schema of Prepositions: Search of the Differences from Japanese Case Particles"

National University of Singapore (2009-2018)   

Senior Theses

    Si Kai Lee (2018) "A Nanosyntactic Approach to Sentence-Final Particles in Singlish: A Cartographic Perspective"

    Jun Jie Lee (2018) "To Move or Not to Move: That is the Echo Question" 

   Jacky Chua Jie Qi (2017) "Richard Seems Like He is Stranded: A Sub-Move Analysis of Copy Raising in English"

   JoHannah Lau (2015) "An Analysis of Compound Stresses in Singapore English"

    Eunice Sebastien Patajo (2015) "An Analysis of the Functions and Syntatcic Positions of NA in Taglish and Colegiala English"

    Jian Gang Ngui (2014) "Past Tense Recovery and Temporal Prominence in Colloquial Singapore English"

    Nathalie Rachel Fernandez (2014) "(In)definiteness of Bare Nominals in Colloquial Singapore English"

    Adeline Ruilin Tan (2013) "The Syntax of Crossed-Control Constructions in Indonesian/Malay"

    Dat Ho Kinh (2013) "Vietnamese Resultative Constructions and the Direct Object Restriction"

    Andrea Ying Hui Yap (2012) "The Second Person Plural Pronouns of Singaporean English"                           

    Randy Peh Ji Hao (2012) "Incomplete Relexification in Colloquial Singapore English: A Language Stages Theory"

    Talia Ong Tian Lu (2011) "Silence Speaks: A Study of Deliberate Silences in Yes-No Questions" 

   Master's Theses

    Jian Gang Ngui (2016) "An in-situ PF-deletion analysis for Colloquial Singapore English contrastive fragments"

    Jianrong Yu (2015) "Copula-less non-verbal predication in Colloquial Singapore English and the universal anchoring condition"

Doctoral theses

   Qizhong Chang (2017) "Wh-question constructions in Colloquial Singapore English"