iyuhara
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| Introduction | I was born and brought up in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Keio University, I studied first at Columbia University and then at the University of Chicago. I consider myself an American-trained generative grammarian, but my research belongs to a relatively recent tradition that seeks to build a theory of universal grammar based on accurate descriptions and sufficient data, free of Eurocentrism, and to find out empirically what kinds of formalism can best reveal and explain the regularities that run through numerous natural languages. My 2008 Chicago dissertation is in part intended to show what universal grammar would look like if it were based on an analysis of Japanese (or any of a great many other “exotic” languages) in justification of the grammatical architecture of Automodular Grammar (Sadock 2012; Ueno 2015). I am also interested in the history of linguistics, especially from the 19th century to the present. I read western scholars of Japanese (e.g. Chamberlain, Sansom, Bloch, Kuroda, McCawley,..) and study grammatical descriptions of the Ainu language as well. I am currently associate professor of English at Tokyo Metropolitan University. |
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