Education
- B.A. Japanese & Linguistics, Sophia University, 1990.
- M.A. Linguistics, Sophia University, 1992.
- Ph.D. Linguistics, Cornell University, 2004.
Research and Teaching Fields
- Comparative and historical syntax
- Language specializations: Chinese, Austronesian, Japanese
Current Research Projects
- Current projects include articles on ergativity and existential constructions in Tagalog, pronoun fronting and causative constructions in Archaic Chinese, and hentai kambun in Heian Period texts.
Selected Publications
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In Press. Antipassive in Austronesian Alignment Change. In Dianne Jonas, John Whitman, Andrew Garrett, eds., Grammatical Change: Origins, Nature, Outcomes. Oxford University Press.
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To appear. Directionality in Word Order Change in Austronesian Languages. In A. Breitbarth, C. Lucas, S. Watts, D. Willis, eds. Continuity and Change in Grammar. John Benjamins.
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Forthcoming. Neg-to-Q: Historical Development of one Clause-Final Particle in Chinese. The Linguistic Review, Special Issue on Particles, ed. by Theresa Biberauer & Glenda Newton.
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2009. Short Wh-movement in Old Japanese. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 17. S. Iwasaki, H. Hoji, P. Clancy, S. Sohn, eds. Center for the Study of Language and Information, 15 pages.
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2009. Old Chinese Determiner Zhe. In Paola Crisma, Giuseppe Longobardi, eds., Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory, 233-248. Oxford University Press.
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2009. Local and Long Distance Reflexives in Archaic Chinese. In D. Potter and D.R. Storoshenko, eds., Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 2: Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, 12 pages. URL: http://www.sfu.ca/gradlings/wp_2.html.
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2008. Generative Approaches to Ergativity. Language and Linguistics Compass: Syntax and Morphology 2.5:966-995.
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Courses Taught
- Sytactic theory (LING 508 - graduate level; LING 461, 462 - undergraduate level; LING 580 - graduate seminars)
- Historical linguistics (LING 454; LING 580)
- Introduction to linguistics (LING 200, LING 400)
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