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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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