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  • Education

 

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  • University of California, Irvine
  • Ph.D. in Linguistics
    • Thesis Committee: Professors Naoki Fukui (Chair), C.-T. James Huang,
          •     Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng
    • Thesis Title: An asymmetry in the composition of phrase structure and it   
        •    consequences

 

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  • International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan)
  • M.A. in Linguistics
    • Thesis Committee: Professors Masatake Muraki (Chair), Kazuko Inoue,
          •     Richard Lindy, Eichi Koyayashi
    • Thesis Title:    Licensing conditions for non-lexical categories

 

  • University of Wales (Bangor, United Kingdom)
  • M.A. in Theoretical Linguistics
    • Thesis Advisor:  Professor Andrew Radford
    • Thesis Title: On the accusative and bare infinitive construction in English

 

  • International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan)
  • B.A. in Linguistics

 
 

  • Positions Held

 

  • Regular appointments 

 

  •         April 2004 - present
  •             Professor of Linguistics
  •             School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University
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  •         April 2001 - March 2004
  •             Associate Professor of Linguistics
  •             School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University

 

  •   Short-term appointments
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  •         April 2010 - March 2011
  •             Visiting Scholar
  •             Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
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  •         April 2011 - March 2012
  •             Visiting Scholar
  •             Department of Linguistics and Philosophy,
  •             Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

  • Research Grants

 

  • (1) The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Scientific Research Grant C  24K03951, 2024-2028.

 

  • (2) International Collaborative Research Promotion Project II, Meiji University, 2024.

 

  • (3) The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Scientific Research Grant C  18K00666, 2018-2022.

 

  • (4) The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Scientific Research Grant C 19K00692, 2019-2021 (Co-researcher, Principal Investigator: Prof. Nobu Goto, Toyo University). 

 

  • (5) The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Scientific Research Grant C 20K00786, 2020-2022 (Co-researcher, Principal Investigator: Prof. Toshihiko Kubota, Meiji University). 

 

  • (6) The Institute of Humanities, Meiji University, Special Research Grant, 2019-2020.

 

  • (7) The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Scientific Research Grant C 26370578, 2014-2017.

 

  • (8) The Institute of Humanities, Meiji University, Individual Research Grant I,2013-2014. 
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  • (9) The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Scientific Research Grant C 22520511, 2010-2013.

 

  • (10) The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Scientific Research Grant C 19520436, 2007-2009. 

 

  • (11) The Institute of Humanities, Meiji University, Individual Research Grant I, 2006-2007. 

 

  • (12) The Institute of Humanities, Meiji University, Individual Research Grant II, 2004-2005. 

 

  • (13) The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Scientific Research Grant C2 14510543, 2002-2003.  

 

  • (14) The Institute of Humanities, Meiji University, Individual Research Grant II, 2002-2003.
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