Huei-ju Huang
Jan 2008-June 2008 (Sandy Thompson)
National Taiwan University
Jean Mulder
Sept 2007-Dec 2007 (Marianne Mithun)
University of Melbourne, Australia
Toshio Ohori
Sept 2007-March 2008 (Carol Genetti)
University of Tokyo
Research
My areas of interest include semantics, functional-typological syntax,
and discourse (especially narrative analysis). I have worked on
various facets of clause linkage constructions across languages, and
currently I am preparing a book on complex sentences. For a list of my
publications, please refer to: http://gamp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tohori/ohori.html (some of my papers are
downloadable)
Naoki Otani Aug 2007-Mar 2008 Kyoto University, Japan
Research
My research fields are Cognitive Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics.My major interests are 1) the polysemy of English phrasal verbs and particles, 2) asymmetries in language, 3) embodiment of language and 4) quantitative methodology for semantic analysis.
Chie Sakuta
Sept 2007-June 2008 (Jack Du Bois & Pat Clancy) University of Tokyo
Research
My main areas of study are pragmatics and discourse analysis. I am currently working on a comparative study of Japanese and English Intonation Units, and am particularly interested in the theories of information structure.
Elena Skapoulli
Sept 2006-June 2008 (Mary Bucholtz)
University of California, Santa Barbara
