Welcome to my academic homepage. I am an Assistant Professor in the Faculty
of Law and Letters at the University of the
Ryukyus. I
work
primarily in the areas of formal semantics and
pragmatics, with an empirical focus on discourse particles and related
phenomena in the languages of Japan. My recent work has been focused on
endangered languages of the Ryukyus. I combine formal modeling with
computational and quantitative methods in my work, which can be found here.
Spring 2012
- Fieldwork in Ishigaki Island | February-March
Fall/Winter 2011
- Fieldwork in Ishigaki Island [石垣島] | July
- Fieldwork in Miyako Island [宮古島] | September 3-8
- Fieldwork in Ishigaki Island [石垣島] | September 19-30
- Talk at JK 2011 workshop on evidentials and modals at Seoul National University [abstract] | October 19
- Talk at Keio University semantics
research group meeting. | December 16