Shoichi Takahashi

Graduate School of Economics

Hitotsubashi University

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

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

CV

Employment:

October, 2011-present:

Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University

 

April, 2011-September, 2011:

Associate Professor, Nihon University

 

April, 2009-March, 2011:

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)

Education:

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:

-            Gengo Kenkyu

-            The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

-            Journal of East Asian Linguistics

-            Journal of Linguistics

-            Journal of Semantics

-            Language Acquisition

-            Language and Linguistics

-            Lingua

-            Linguistic Inquiry

-            Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

-            Natural Language Semantics

-            Syntax

-            The Linguistic Review

·           Peer reviewer for a book chapter submitted to the following publisher:

-            Oxford University Press

·           Peer reviewer for abstracts submitted to the following conferences and workshops:

-            Chains in Minimalism

-            Generative Linguistics in the Old World 34-35

-            GLOW in Asia IX Workshop for Young Scholars

-            Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference 5

-            Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 18, 21

-            Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17-22

-            Sinn und Bedeutung 14-16

-            West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 30

-            Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 6, 8

 

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