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(Ph.D. University of Chicago, linguistics)

 

                                    Associate Professor of Linguistics, Mie University

                                    Department of Humanities/Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics (link)

                                   

                                    Email: sawadao(at)human.mie-u.ac.jp

                                   

Mailing address

Mie University, Department of Humanities

1577 Kurimamachiya-cho, Tsu city

Mie, 514-8507, Japan

Telephone: +81-59-231-9145

                                   

                                    Office hours: Monday and Tuesday, 12am-1pm, and by appointment

                                               

                                    Broad interests

                                    Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax, Typology, Cross-linguistic Semantics

                                    Japanese linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics)

                                    Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Science

                                   

Narrow interests

Scalar semantics/pragmatics, comparatives, topic and focus, polarity sensitivity, indeterminateness, classifiers, measure phrases,

vagueness, modality, conditionals, presupposition, implicatures (conventional/conversational), speech acts, information structure,

event structure, honorifics, diminutives

                                   

                                    Teaching (2013, first semester)

                                    • Language Science Seminar E (Seminar on natural language quantifiers)

                                      (Thu 3)[course info]

                                    • English Language A (Introduction to semantics)

(Thu 2)[course info]

                                    • English II (Tue 5, Thu 4)

                                    • English I (Wed 2)

                                    - Non-regular courses

                                    • Reconsidering the meaning of culture (lecture series), ‘meaning and context-dependency’

                                    • Studies in Amarican culture (lecture series), ‘language and linguistics’

 

Languages

Japanese (native), Old Japanese, English, French, Spanish (basic), German (basic), Korean (basic)

                                   

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