Shoichi Takahashi

General Education, College of Engineering

Nihon University

Email: s_takahashi -at- alum -dot- mit -dot- edu

Permanent URL: http://alum.mit.edu/www/s_takahashi

CV

Position and Education:

April, 2009-:

Assistant Professor, Nihon University

 

April, 2006-March, 2009:

Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

University of Tokyo

(a visiting scholar at UMass, Amherst for 2006-2008)

 

September, 2001-February, 2006:

Ph.D. in Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

1998-2001:

Ph.D. Program in Linguistics at Kanda University of International Studies

 

1996-1998:

M.A. at Tamagawa University

 

1992-1996:

B.A. at Tamagawa University

 

Dissertation:

Decompositionality and Identity

Committee: Danny Fox (chair), Irene Heim, Kyle Johnson, and David Pesetsky

Fellowship:

April, 2006-March, 2009:

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow

 

September, 2001-August, 2004:

Shoyu Club Fellowship

 

Teaching and Service:

Teaching Assistant:

·          MIT, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy; Fall, 2003. [conducted weekly sessions for Introduction to Linguistics (Suzanne Flynn)]

 

Reviewer:

·          Member of the Editorial Boards of the following journals:

-          Linguistic Inquiry

-          Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

·          Peer reviewer for manuscripts submitted to the following journals:

-          Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

-          Journal of East Asian Linguistics

-          Journal of Semantics

-          Language Acquisition

-          Language and Linguistics

-          Lingua

-          Linguistic Inquiry

-          Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

-          Natural Language Semantics

-          Syntax

·          Peer reviewer for abstracts submitted to the following conferences:

-          The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference

-          Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17-20

-          Sinn und Bedeutung 14

-          6th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics

-          5th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference

 

Organizer:

·          Ling-Lunch at MIT (Fall, 2002-Spring, 2004)

·          Syntax-Semantics Reading Group at MIT (Fall, 2003-Spring, 2005)

·          Student Workshop on Quantifiers

(The 20th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan in 2002)

·          Student Workshop on Focus

(The 22nd National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan in 2004)

 

Publications and Manuscripts:

·         Syntax/Semantics/Syntax-Semantics Interface

·         Sentence Processing

·         Phonology

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks:

·         Syntax/Semantics/Syntax-Semantics Interface

·         Sentence Processing

·         Invited Talks