Faculty - YANAGI Tomohiro |

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YANAGI Tomohiro

Department / Course

College of Humanities Department of English Language and Culture

Graduate School of Global Humanics Department of Languages and Cultures

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Education and Degrees
	English Linguistics Graduate School of Letters Nagoya University English linguistics PhD in English Linguistics

Belonging society
1996 ～	The English Linguistic Society of Japan
1996	Modern English Association
2010 ～	The International Society for the Linguistics of English
2009 ～	The Philological Society

Present specialized field
Historical English Syntax, History of English

Research, Studies
A Diachronic Study of Quantifiers
An Internal and External Syntax of Nouns and Pronouns

Book and thesis
Books	Theories of Morphological Case and Topic/Focus: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change in Japanese and Beyond (Co-authored) 2025/05/28
Books	Generative Grammar and Language Change (Co-authored) 2024/10/28
Papers	Negative Contracted Form 'don't' as a Negative Marker Phonological Externalization 9,pp.27-37 (Sole-authored) 2024/03/31
Papers	Two Types of Cliticization and Quantifier Stranding in the History of English Phonological Externalization 7,pp.131-144 (Sole-authored) 2022/03
Papers	Alliteration and Word Order in Old English Rhythmical Prose Phonological Externalization 6 (Sole-authored) 2021
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Academic conference presentation
2026/03/02	Verb Second in the History of English Revisited (The 18th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure)
2025/02/27	Word Order in Verse: From Alliteration to Rhyme (The 17th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure)
2024/02/24	'It don't matter' does not matter (The 15th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure)
2019	Negative Polarity Items and Negative Indefinites in the Negative Construction of Old English (In Memoriam of Dr. Anne Vainikka Conference 2019)
2018	A Diachronic Analysis of the Distribution of the Distributive Quantifier each (The 39th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English)
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