Hiromune Oda,
Lecturer – Japan in East Asia
Contact: hiromuneoda[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Profile
Hiromune Oda earned his BA (2013) and MA (2015) in English Linguistics at the University of Tokyo and Ph.D in Linguistics (2022) at the University of Connecticut, and then joined the University of Tokyo as a lecturer of linguistics at the Department of Language and Information Sciences and the Department of English Language in 2022. He was awarded 新村出研究奨励賞 in 2024.
Research Interests
He investigates the nature of human language capacity and the whole picture of human languages from the perspectives of generative linguistics and linguistic typology. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, locality of dislocation, typology of indefinite pronouns, differences in the nominal structure, topicalization and cliticization. He is interested not only in synchronic linguistic properties but also in diachronic language change, language acquisition, and evolution of human language.
Selected Publications
Oda, Hiromune. (2024) Large-scale pied-piping in the labeling theory and conditions on weak heads. The Linguistic Review 41(1): 153-185. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2024-2006
Oda, Hiromune. (2021) Deducing and decomposing the Coordinate Structure Constraint. The Linguistic Review 38(4): 605-644. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2021-2077
Oda, Hiromune. (2021) Japanese free choice items as unconditionals. Natural Language Semantics 29(2): 281-338. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-021-09175-1