Osamu
SAWADA
Professor of linguistics, Kobe University
Department
of Linguistics (link)/Graduate School of Humanities and Faculty of Letters (link)
Email: sawadao(at)lit.kobe-u.ac.jp
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Office
hours: Monday and Tuesday, 12am-1pm, and by
appointment
Mailing
address
Department of Linguistics, Kobe University
1-1 Rokkodai-cho,
Nada-ku
Kobe city, 657-8501, Japan
Telephone: +81-78-803-5554
Broad
interests
Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax, Typology,
Cross-linguistic Semantics
Japanese linguistics (syntax, semantics,
pragmatics)
Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Science
Narrow
interests
Scalar semantics/pragmatics, comparatives,
topic and focus, polarity sensitivity, classifiers, measure phrases,
minimizers,
quantifiers, modality, presupposition, implicatures
(conventional/conversational),
discourse particles, information structure, dynamic semantics, honorifics,
diminutives, demonstratives
Teaching
(2024, 1st-2nd quarters)
- Linguistics seminar/theoretical linguistics I,
undergraduate/graduate [Wed 2]
- Seminar on discourse structure (Linguistics seminar), undergraduate (course info) [Thu 3]
- Seminar on modality (Seminar in cognitive
linguistics/science II), graduate (course info) [Thu 4]
- Lexical semantics III (Special lecture in
linguistics/Special lecture in cognitive linguistics/science),
undergraduate/graduate (course info) [Fri 2]
Non-regular courses
- Introduction to cognitive system
- Humanities
seminar (linguistics)
Languages
Japanese (native), Old Japanese, English,
French, Spanish (basic), German (basic), Korean (basic)