home LINGUISTICS research & media projects Publications & Manuscripts Honors & Awards COURSES Shigeru Miyagawa Massachusetts Institute of Technology Head, Foreign Languages and Literatures Professor of Linguistics & Kochi-Manjiro Professor of   Japanese Language and Culture 14N-303, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02420 USA 617-253-4771  miyagawa@mit.edu Recent Publications Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order. Leading Linguists Series. Routledge. To appear (publication planned for 2012). Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying Agreement-based and Discourse Configurational Languages. MIT Press. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 54. 2010. Link to MIT Press. Handbook of Japanese Linguistics. Oxford University Press (co-edited with Mamoru Saito). 2008. “Locality in Syntax and Floated Numeral Quantifiers,” Linguistic Inquiry 38.4: 645-670, 2007 (with Koji Arikawa). Link to article. Media Projects StarFestival JP NET Visualizing Cultures (with John W. Dower) Awards MIT Class of 1960 Innovation in Education Award (with John W. Dower), 2004 Distinguished Award, Multimedia Grandprix, StarFestival Network, 2000 Fellowship for Linguistics Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1999 International Cultural Award, The Cultural Foundation For Promoting the National Costumes of Japan, 1997 Best of Show, for Star Festival, MacWorld Exposition, Boston (presented by the Northeast Mac Conspiracy), 1997 Irwin Sizer Award, For the Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education, 1995 Grants (details provided upon request) National Endowment for the Humanities U.S. Department of Education Luce Foundation Getty Foundation Center for Global Partnership Japan Foundation Canon Fujitsu Fuji Xerox MIT d’Arbeloff Grant for Undergraduate Education MIT iCampus Positions Professor of Linguistics, MIT, 1991-present Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, MIT, 1995–present Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, MIT, 1991–1995 Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Lits., Ohio State U, 1987–i991 Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Lits, Ohio State U, 1980–1987 Education Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health Fellow, MIT, Linguistics, 1982-83. Ph.D., University of Arizona, Linguistics, 1980 B.A., International Christian University, Linguistics, 1975