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Etsuyo Yuasa, Associate Professor

Office Information
342 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210

Phone: 614-292-1895
Fax: 614-292-3225

Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/yuasa1/

Ph.D., linguistics, 1998, The University of Chicago.
Prof. Yuasa's current research focuses on the interaction between syntax and semantics, exceptions/idiosyncrasies in grammar, and multi-modular approaches to grammar. Her book, Modularity in Language: Constructional and Categorial Mismatch in Syntax and Semantics, was published from Mouton de Gruyter in 2005, and her recent publications include "A Multi-modular approach to gradual change in grammaticalization" with Elaine Francis (Journal of Linguistics 44, 2008) and "From the core to the periphery: The tense system in Japanese" (Japanese Language and Literature, forthcoming). She is currently editing a festschrift for Jerry Sadock and a volume on individualized instruction. She is also interested in applying the findings in linguistics into Japanese language pedagogy, and she is the director of the Japanese Individualized Instruction Program. She teaches 5th Year Japanese courses (Japanese 710.51~712.51), Pedagogical Syntax (EALL 701), and Syntax Seminar (Japanese 784) on a regular basis.