Akira Watanabe is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Tokyo. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT. His main research interests are syntactic theory, comparative syntax, and parameter setting. Recently, he has also developed interests in the history of Japanese. He is the author of Case Absorption and Wh-Agreement (Kluwer) as well as papers such as “Loss of Overt Wh-movement in Old Japanese,” in Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change (Oxford University Press); and “The Genesis of Negative Concord: Syntax and Morphology of Negative Doubling,” in Linguistic Inquiry.

The Syntax of Pre-Modern Japanese | LSA.239
with John Whitman
TR 2:55-4:35
Three Week Course | Second Session