Fields of Study: Theoretical Linguistics, Japanese-English comparative syntax, Diachronic syntax
More specific subfields of study:

• Diachronic syntax, which studies the mechanism of diachronic grammaticalization and constructionalization of Japanese, English and Chinese, among others in the framework of generative syntax
• Microparametric syntax, which aims for the elucidation of syntactic variations in the framework of generative syntax
• Morphosyntax, which aims for the elucidation of whether and how syntactic structure is similar to word-internal structure, in the framework of distributed morphology and construction grammar

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Grade: D3
Research Topics:

• Morphosyntax of Chinese, Chinese-Japanese comparative syntax

Grade: Undergraduate Research Student
Research Topics:

• Verbal compounds in Japanese, Education of Japanese as a second language