CV
Education
- M.A. in Language and Culture, The University of Osaka (Osaka Japan), 2024
- Thesis title: Locality Constraints on Allomorphy: Japanese Verbal Morphology in the Causative-Inchoative Alternation.
- Committee: Masao Ochi, Akitaka Yamada, Hirotaka Nakajima
- B.A. in Foreign Studies, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (Hyogo, Japan), 2022
- Thesis title: Syntactic Asymmetry in the Dative Alternation: A Case of the English VerbParticle Construction.
- Committee: Norio Nasu, Franklin Chang
Work experience
Academic/Teaching
- Apr 2026 – Mar 2028 (expected) | JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)
- May 2025 – Mar 2026 (expected) | Research Assistant
- Div. of Language and Culture, The University of Osaka
- Supervisor: Prof. Yushi Sugimoto
- Duties included: facilitating monthly meetings, proofreading an internal journal
- Apr 2025 – Aug 2026 (expected) | Part-time Lecturer
- Faculty of International Studies, Setsunan University (Osaka, Japan)
- Course description: Introductory English course for freshmen
- Jan 2023 – Feb 2023 | Research Assistant
- Center for International Education and Exchange (CIEE), The University of Osaka
- Supervisor: Prof. Naoki Nakamata
- Duties included: proofreading an internal journal
- Oct 2022 – Feb 2024 | Teaching Assistant
- Center for International Education and Exchange (CIEE), The University of Osaka
- Supervisor: Prof. Koji Namba
- Course description: Introductory Japnese course for international exchange students
Misc
- Apr 2024 – Mar 2026 (expected) | Part-time lecturer
- Josho Gakuen High School / Junior High School (Osaka, Japan)
- April 2024 – Mar 2025 | Part-time lecturer
- Naniwa Gakuin High School (Osaka, Japan)
- Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 | Part-time lecturer
- Sakai Liberal Junior High School (Osaka, Japan)
- Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 | Part-time lecturer
- Kyoto Nishiyama High School (Kyoto, Japan)
Academic Services
- Apr 2025 – | Tutor of an international student
- The University of Osaka
- Supervisor: Masao Ochi
- Jan 2025 – Mar 2025 | Editor
- KLS (Kansai Linguistic Society) Selected Papers 7
- Dec 2024 | Local student staff
- Internationla Workshop 2024 of JSPS Core-to-Core Program “International Research Network for the Human Language Faculty”
- Nov 2024 – Feb 2025 | Tutor of an international student
- The University of Osaka
- Supervisor: Kozi Ueda
- Jan 2024 – Mar 2024 | Editor
- KLS (Kansai Linguistic Society) Selected Papers 6
- Jan 2023 – Mar 2023 | Editor
- KLS (Kansai Linguistic Society) Selected Papers 5
Fellowship
- Apr 2026 – Mar 2028 (expected) | JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)
- Apr 2024 – Mar 2027 (expected) | JST Spring
Early Background
I was born in Osaka City, Japan, on August 16, 1999.
Publications
Nagano, Taika and Kanta Tateno (2025) "Morpho-semantic notes on unhappier", in Proceedings of the 33rd Edition of the Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE 33), Federica Longo, Leonardo Russo Cardona, Tommaso Sgrizzi, and Hadis Tamleh Eds., Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), pp. 248-257.
Nagano, Taika (2025) "Decomposing causative/passive morphemes in Japanese," in Proceedings of the 27th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 27), A. Kang, Ed., The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, pp. 182--191.
Yamada, Akitaka and Taika Nagano (2024) "Not always introducing arguments: The syntax of high-applicative constructions in Japanese," in Proceedings of Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 17 (WAFL 17), E.-O. Tumen-Ochir, J. Sinitsyna, and S. Miyagawa, Eds., MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, pp. 299--306.
Yamada, Akitaka and Taika Nagano (2023) "The ‘passivized’ high-applicative construction in Japanese," in Proceedings of the 166th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan.
Nagano, Taika (2025) "Phonological allomorphs of sase" Gengo Bunka Kyoodoo Project 2025, 2024, pp. 33--42.
Talks
August 16, 2025
Poster at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
January 29, 2025
Oral presentation at University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany
November 09, 2024
Poster at Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
September 27, 2023
Poster at National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
June 17, 2023
Poster at Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan
September 04, 2021
Oral at Zoom, Zoom
Teaching
