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 homeLINGUISTICS research & media projects Publications & Manuscripts Honors & Awards COURSES Linguistics Research I work on syntactic theory, argument structure, and Altaic and East Asian linguistics. In syntax, I have recently been studying word order and movement, and how agreement in some languages (Indo-European) and focus in other languages (Japanese) interact with movement (Miyagawa 2001, 2003, 2005, to appear). I have also been studying the argument structure of ditransitive verbs (Miyagawa and Tsujioka 2004, Jung and Miyagawa 2004). I taught a course on this topic at the 2005 LSA Summer Institute. I also recently completed a large study of accusative case marking in Classical Japanese (Miyagawa and Ekida 2003). I continue to work on floated numeral quantifiers; I have been running acoustic experiments to try to distinguish various types of FNQs (Miyagawa and Arikawa 2004). I am co-editing Handbook of Japanese Linguistics with Mamoru Saito, to be published by Oxford University Press. See publications and manuscripts for a complete list of recent publications and downloadable papers.  Media Projects I was on the original faculty team that recommended OpenCourseWare to the MIT administration. I now serve on the MIT OCW Advisory Committee and also the MIT Council on Educational Technology. I helped to start the Japan OCW Consortium. I teach a course on digital divide every 2-3 years. In the fall of 2005, I taught the course that led to the OpenAfrica project, which involved students going to Kenya, Cameroon, and Zambia to help with the higher education system. I visited the students in all three sites. StarFestival is a large interactive media project based on my own life as a bilingual, bicultural person growing up in the U.S. and Japan. It has been used in over 100 schools nationwide, and it won the Best of Show at the 1997 MacWorld Exposition and the Distinguished Award in Multimedia Grandprix 2000. In 1994 I put the entire MIT Japanese language program on the Internet as an experiment to explore the power of this new technology. Called JPNET, it was the first time that an entire academic program was placed on the Internet, even before web browsers such as Netscape came into being. My project with the Pulitzer Prize historian John W. Dower, Visualizing Cultures, has won numerous recognitions, including the MIT Class of 1960 Innovation in Education Award and the National Endowment for the Humanities recognition as an outstanding humanities education website. 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 |