University of Chicago

Department of Linguistics

 

 

Osamu SAWADA

Ph.D. student (2005 Fall-)

 

 

Address

University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics, 1010 East 59th street, Chicago IL 60637, USA

 

E-mail: sawadao(at)uchicago.edu

 

 

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

                                   

 

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

auxiliary selection in Old Japanese, grammaticalization, language change

 

Dissertation (in progress)

Pragmatic aspects of scalar modifiers

 

                                    Teaching (Fall 2009)

Topics in Japanese Grammar

Ling 27960 (undergraduate)

T/Th (9:00-10:20)

                                    [course description]

 

Recent Teaching Experience (U of Chicago)

Pragmatics, TA (Fall/2008)

Syntax 3, TA (Spring/2008)

 

 

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