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
Education
- Doctral Program in Language and Culture, The University of Osaka (Osaka Japan)
- Apr 2024 –
- Advised by Masao Ochi and Takeshi Yamamoto
- 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
Research experience
- May 2025 – Mar 2026 Research Assistant
- Div. of Language and Culture, The University of Osaka
- Supervisor: Prof. Yushi Sugimoto
- Duties included: facilitating monthly meetings, proofreading an internal journal
- 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
Fellowship
- Apr 2026 – Mar 2028 JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)
- Apr 2024 – Mar 2026 JST Spring
Teaching experience
- Apr 2025 – Part-time Lecturer
- Faculty of International Studies, Setsunan University (Osaka, Japan)
- Course description: Introductory English course for freshmen
- 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
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
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
Early Background
I was born in Osaka City, Japan, on August 16, 1999.