Education/academic experience

 

 

Professional experience

2024/4-

Professor (Kyouju), Department of Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities/Faculty of Letters, Kobe University.

2019/10-2024/3

Associate Professor (Junkyouju), Department of Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities/Faculty of Letters, Kobe University.

2012/4-2019/9

Associate Professor (Junkyouju), Department of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics, Mie University.

2010/10-2012/3

Assistant Professor (Koushi ‘lecturer’), Department of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics, Mie University.

2010/4-2010/9

Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyoto University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

 

 

Education

2005-2010   

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics, Humanities Division.

Dissertation title: Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers, March 2010.

Primary advisor: Christopher Kennedy, Committee members: Karlos Arregi, Anastasia Giannakidou, Christopher Potts.

2003

M.A. in Education (Linguistics major), Waseda University, Graduate School of Education, (Advanced to the Ph. D. program in April 2003.)

2001

B.A. in Literature (English Linguistics), Waseda University, School of Education, Department of English Language and Literature.

 

 

Non-degree study

2001-2004

Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies of Language (Tokyo Gengo Kenkyuujo), Theoretical Linguistics Courses.

2002/8

Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of Japan