Hello,

a bit about me:

I am Akitaka Yamada, an associate professor at Osaka University.

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I graduated from Georgetown University, majoring linguistics!

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As a theoretical linguist, I am interested in the way discourse-oriented meanings are encoded in natural languages and my dissertation work explores this interface for addressee-honorific constructions in Japanese.

 

As a corpus linguist, I examine quantitative data by building and comparing statistical models to improve our understanding of natural languages.