| Position | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Faculty | Linguistics |
| Graduate School | Linguistics |
| Department | Linguistics |
Career
| July 2016 : | Ph.D., The University of Tokyo |
| April 2026 : | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
1) Cognitive Grammar
2) English Linguistics
My main interest lies in the description of present-day English. Specifically, I have written on English prepositions such as for, from, on—and quite extensively on by—as well as on constructions like what I call the tautological wdydwyd construction (e.g., Why did you do what you did today?) and the X thing construction (my term again) (e.g., when this whole covid thing is over ...) and some intonation patterns. While the target of description is thus varied, there is a common thread running through all my work: I aim to elucidate the knowledge that native speakers of English directly access in usage events (i.e., while speaking, listening, reading or writing) from the perspective of Cognitive Grammar, a particular theory proposed by Ronald W. Langacker.
