Takako Aikawa

Date: Feb. 1997
Curriculum Vitae
  • Name: Takako Aikawa
  • Address: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 14N-305, MIT
    Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
  • E-mail &Tel: taikawa@MIT.EDU / (617) 253-0109 (office)
EDUCATION
  • 1989-93: Ohio State University: Graduate Student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
    Degree: Ph. D., Summer of 1993
    Specialization: Japanese Linguistics

  • 1991-93 MIT: Visiting Scientist in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy MIT: Instructor of Japanese in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

  • 1980-82 Ohio State University: Graduate Student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
    Degree: M.A., Spring of 1982; Specialization: Japanese Linguistics

  • 1976-80 Tsuda College: Undergraduate in the Department of English Language and Literature
    Degree: B.A., March 1980; Specialization: English Language and Literatur

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    March, 1997
    The Mitsui Career Development Chair, MIT

  • July, 1995
    Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MIT

  • 1995-97
    Coordinator of the Japanese Program, MIT

  • 1993-1995
    Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MIT

  • 1991-1993
    Instructor of Japanese in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; and Visiting Scientist in the Department of Linguistics, MIT

  • Summer, 1992
    Instructor for MIT Japan Program Intensive Language Course, MIT

  • 1989-1991
    Graduate Teaching Assistant in Japanese, Ohio State University

  • 1986-1989
    Instructor of Japanese, Kansai University of Foreign Languages, Osaka, Japan

  • Summer, 1987
    Instructor of Japanese, Hokkaido International Center, Hakodate, Japan

  • Summer, 1986
    Instructor of Japanese, Summer Institute at Indiana University

  • Summer, 1985
    Instructor of Japanese, Summer Institute at Indiana University

  • 1985-1986
    Instructor of Japanese, University of Michigan

  • 1982-1985
    Instructor of Japanese, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan

  • 1983-1985
    Instructor of Japanese, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  • Summer, 1984
    Instructor for Summer Intensive Course, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan

  • 1980-1982
    Graduate Teaching Assistant for Japanese, Ohio State University
FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION

Japanese linguistics, Japanese language pedagogy, general syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, language acquisition, sentence processing, Chinese.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

  • Linguistic Society of America
  • Association of Asian Studies
  • Association of the Teacher of Japanese
  • Association of Japanese Language Education (Nihongo-kyooiku Gakkai)
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
PRESENTATIONS

  • How to teach Permission and Prohibition in Japanese?, Invited Speaker for the Fall Workshop of the Japanese American Association of New York/Japanese Education Committee, October, 1996.

  • What determines the choice of anaphora? Invited speaker for Formal Approach to Japanese Linguistics 2, Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan, August, 1996.

  • Intrinsic Reflexivity and Inalienable Possession in Japanese, Formal Approach to Japanese Linguistics 2, Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan, August, 1996.

  • How to use World Wide Web for teaching Japanese?, Speaker for the Workshop: Enhancing Japanese Language Education in Secondary Schools, Indiana University, July, 1996.

  • Two Types of Zi-Vs in Japanese, the Tenth New England Japanese Pedagogy Workshop, Harvard University, June 1996.

  • Speaker for the Executive Seminar on Japan and East Asia, MIT Japan Program, Cambridge, MA, May, 1996.

  • Reflexivity and Inalienability in Japanese, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Diego, January, 1996.

  • Speaker for the Japan Effectiveness Training, MIT Japan Program, June 8, 1995, Cambridge, MA.

  • Binding Behaviors of the Japanese, Reflexives, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, January, 1995.

  • Essential Japanese for Communication, Invited Speaker for the Japan Target Seminar sponsored by the MIT Japan Program, Cambridge, MA, December, 1995.

  • Speaker for the Conference of Integrating Interactive Technology into the Humanities Curriculum, MIT, May 1994.

  • Logophoric Use of the Japanese Reflexivizer Zibun-zisin self-self, Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics, MIT, May 1994.

  • Reflexivity in Japanese, MIT/the Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference, MIT, March 1994.

  • Binding Behaviors of the Japanese Anaphors: Zibun self and Zibun-zisin self-self, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 1994.

  • Speaker for the Seventh Annual New England Regional Workshop on Japanese Language Pedagogy, Is Linguistics Useful for Teaching Japanese, Trinity College, June, 1993.

  • Speaker for the Sixth Annual New England Regional Workshop on Japanese Language Pedagogy, Video Tapes for Advanced Learners of Japanese, Middlebury College, August, 1992.

  • Agreement without Agreement: an Analysis of Zibun-binding, The West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics, UCLA, February, 1992.

  • Bound Variable Interpretation and Overt Pronouns in Japanese, Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of America, University of Michigan, May, 1991.

  • Behavior of Japanese Anaphoric Expressions in Sloppy Identity: Karera they and Zibun self, the MIT Student Conference in Linguistics, MIT, February, 1991.

  • Model Teacher for the Education Japanese Video by the Pro-Com Japan, How to teach conversation in class?, Osaka, February, 1989.

  • Speaker for the Meeting of Japanese Language Education in Nagoya, Some Comments on the Way of Teaching Kanji, Nagoya, September, 1984.

  • Speaker for the Meeting of Japanese Language Education in Nagoya, The Usage of Video Tapes in Class, Nagoya, February, 1983.

PUBLICATIONS

  • 1996 Intrinsic Reflexivity and Inalienable Possession in Japanese, (in collaboration with N. Tsujimura), in The Proceedings of the Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics #2.

  • 1994 Logophoric Use of the Japanese Reflexivizer Zibun-zisin self-self, in The Proceedings of the Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics.

  • 1993 Reflexivization in Japanese and LF-analysis of Zibun-binding, Ph. D dissertation, Ohio State University, circulated by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

  • 1992 Bound Variable Interpretation and Overt Pronouns in Japanese, in FLSM II.

  • 1991 Behavior of Japanese Anaphoric Expressions in Sloppy Identity: Karera they and Zibun self, in The Proceedings of the MIT Student Conference in Linguistics.

  • 1988 participated as one of the authors, Japanese For You: the Art of Communication (eds., by Prof. M. Ohso and Prof. Y. Koyama), Taishukan Publishing Company, Tokyo.

AWARD

  • Awarded the Mitsui Career Development Professorship from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 1, 1997.

  • Awarded the Membership of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi from Ohio State University, May 1991.

  • Awarded the Graduate Teaching Associate Award from Ohio State University, June 1982.

  • Awarded the Membership of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi from Ohio State University, May 1982.

  • Awarded the Ishizaka Taizo Award from Tsuda College, March 1980.