Position | Associate Professor |
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Faculty | Linguistics |
Graduate School | Linguistics |
Department | Linguistics |
Career
December 2011: | PhD in Linguistics (Rice University, USA) |
April 2019: | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
linguistics, linguistic typology
Dr. Naonori Nagaya received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Rice University and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan. He specializes in the Austronesian languages of the Philippines and Indonesia. His research interests are in the areas of linguistic typology, cognitive-functional linguistics, and interactional linguistics. His research focuses on voice, information structure, relativization/nominalization, word classes, spatial expressions, and discourse particles in Tagalog (Philippines) and Lamaholot (eastern Indonesia).