Welcome to my academic homepage. I’m an associate professor of linguistics in the Department of Global and Regional Studies at the University of the Ryukyus, specializing in semantics, pragmatics, and fieldwork.

Recent and Upcoming

• 2021.10.29–31 Poster with Grégoire Winterstein at NELS52, From Exclusive Particles to Adversative Connectives

• 2021.10.08 Talk with Sunwoo Jeong at J/K 29 Workshop on Data-oriented approaches to meaning in Korean and Japanese, Syntactic and pragmatic constraints on subject-oriented honorifics in Korean and Japanese

• 2021.05.25–28 Talk at AFLA 28, Deriving Categorical and Continuous Properties of Javanese Speech Levels || abstract

• 2021.04.23 — Talk with Grégoire Winterstein at 50 ANS DE LINGUISTIQUE À L’UQAM : Regards croisés sur les enjeux de la linguistique

• 2021.03.18 — Talk with Elin McCready at the Linguistic Circle, University of Edinburgh, Invocations, Slurs, and Social Meaning

• 2021.03.03 — Pragmatic constraints on subject-oriented honorifics in Yaeyaman and Japanese published in Proceedings of SALT 30