Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language 2025
Nagano, Taika (2026) Toward a High Applicative Analysis of Direct Passives: A Preliminary Proposal. The Project on Language and Culture 2025: Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language, pp. 31--40.
CV
Current Affiliations
- Apr 2024 – PhD Student
- Division of Language and Culture, Graduate School of Humanities, The University of Osaka (Osaka, Japan)
- Apr 2026 – JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Apr 2025 – Part-time Lecturer
- Faculty of International Studies, Setsunan University (Osaka, Japan)
Research Interests
- Specialization: Linguistics (morphology, syntax)
- Interests: adjunction, allomorphy, applicative constructions, argument alternations, argument structure, benefactives, causatives, Distributed Morphology, ECM, event semantics, Generative Grammar, middles, Nanosyntax, passives, and syncretism
Education
Apr 2024 – Doctoral Program in Language and Culture, The University of Osaka (Osaka, Japan)
- Apr 2022 – Mar 2024 M.A. in Language and Culture, The University of Osaka (Osaka, Japan)
- Thesis: Locality Constraints on Allomorphy: Japanese Verbal Morphology in the Causative-Inchoative Alternation
- Committee: Masao Ochi, Akitaka Yamada, Hirotaka Nakajima
- Apr 2018 – Mar 2022 B.A. in Foreign Studies, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (Hyogo, Japan)
- Thesis: Syntactic Asymmetry in the Dative Alternation: A Case of the English Verb-Particle Construction
- Committee: Norio Nasu, Franklin Chang
Research Experience
- May 2025 – Mar 2026 Research Assistant
- Division of Language and Culture, The University of Osaka
- Advisor: Yushi Sugimoto
- Jan 2023 – Feb 2023 Research Assistant
- Center for International Education and Exchange (CIEE), The University of Osaka
- Advisor: Naoki Nakamata
Awards & Honors
- Apr 2026 – Mar 2028 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC2) (26KJ1635)
- Project: Syntactic Factors in Argument-Adjunct Alternations
- Amount: 1,400,000 JPY
- Apr 2024 – Mar 2026 JST SPRING, The University of Osaka
- Amount: 480,000 JPY/year
Publications
Proceeding of ConSOLE 33
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.
Proceeding of SICOGG 27
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.
Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language 2024
Nagano, Taika (2025) Phonological allomorphs of sase. The Project on Language and Culture 2024: Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language, pp. 33--42.
Proceeding of WAFL 17
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.
Proceeding of LSJ 166
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.
Presentations
JK 33
Oral presentation at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, US
JK 33 (w/ K. Tateno)
Poster presentation at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, US
DM meets Nano II
Oral presentation at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
KLS 51
Oral presentation at Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan
SICOGG 27
Poster at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
ConSOLE 33 (w/ Kanta Tateno)
Oral presentation at University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
LSJ 169
Poster at Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
WAFL 17 (w/ Akitaka Yamada)
Poster at National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
LSJ 166 (w/ Akitaka Yamada)
Poster at Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan
MLF 2021
Oral at Zoom,
Teaching
Academic Service
- Mar 2026 Proofreader, Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS) Selected Papers 8
- Feb 2025 Proofreader, Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS) Selected Papers 7
- Oct 2024 – Feb 2026 Tutor of an international student
- Division of Language and Culture, Graduate School of Humanities, The University of Osaka
- Supervised by Kozi Ueda and Masao Ochi
- Feb 2024 Proofreader, Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS) Selected Papers 6
- Feb 2023 Proofreader, Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS) Selected Papers 5
Other Experience
- Apr 2024 – Mar 2026 Part-time Lecturer, Josho Gakuen High School & Junior High School (Osaka, Japan)
- Apr 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)
Certification
- Mar 2022 High School Teaching Licence in Japan (English)
- Certified by Hyogo Prefectural Board of Education
- Mar 2022 Junior High School Teaching Licence in Japan (English)
- Certified by Hyogo Prefectural Board of Education
Languages
- Japanese — Native
- English — Fluent
- Spanish — Beginner
- Ainu — Coursework
Early Background
I was born in Osaka City, Japan, on August 16, 1999.