| Position | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Faculty | Japanese Language and Literature |
| Graduate School | Japanese Language and Literature |
| Department | Japanese Linguistics |
Career
| October 2017 : | Completed doctoral course at Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
| April 2024 : | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
Japanese Linguistics, Modern Japanese Grammar, History of Japanese Grammar
1) Research on Japanese Interrogative Sentences
My current research explores the diverse sentential patterns observed in modern Japanese interrogative sentences. Specifically, I am interested in exhaustively categorizing the sentence structure patterns, conducting grammatical analyses of each pattern, and speculating the interplaying negotiations between grammatical structure and the being nature of the speech act of its sentence. My research objective firstly is to identify the existence of sentence patterns in interrogative sentences that essentially do not require syntactic structural adjustments over inversion, and secondly to determine the causes that enable its independence from descriptive sentence.
2) Historical Contrastive Approach
Drawing on insights from previous research projects on modern Japanese, I intend to clarify the development of interrogative sentences in Japanese by comparing interrogative sentences from modern Japanese with those from historical Japanese and explaining the change process. My interest is mainly in the nominalization of interrogative predicates, which is realized in different ways in the historical and modern Japanese languages.
