Jason Ginsburg Curriculum Vitae (August 2019)
Contact Information
Department of Educational Collaboration English Communication Course Osaka Kyoiku University 4-698-1, Asahigaoka, Kashiwara, Osaka 582-8582, Japan Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Education
May, 2009 Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA Committee: Prof. Simin Karimi (Chair), Prof. Andrew Barss, Prof. Andrew Carnie, Prof. Heidi Harley Dissertation Title: Interrogative Features
August, 2009 Master of Science in Human Language Technology University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
August, 2005 Master of Arts in Linguistics University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
May, 2002 Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages American University, Washington, DC, USA
April, 1997 Bachelor of Arts in Language, Literature, and Culture (Japanese) Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Employment
2013 - Present Associate Professor Department of Educational Collaboration, English Communication Course (formerly the Department of European and American Languages and Cul- tures) Osaka Kyoiku University
2015 - Present Part-time lecturer Faculty of Global Communications, Doshisha University
2014 - 2016 Part-time lecturer Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University
2009 - 2013 Associate Professor Center for Language Research, School of Computer Science and Engineering University of Aizu
Publications
Journal Articles and Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)
To Appear Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg & Sandiway Fong. Towards a Minimalist Machine. Minimalist Parsing, ed. by Bob Berwick and Ed Stabler, 16-38. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
To Appear Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Combining linguistic theories in a Minimalist Ma- chine. Minimalist Parsing, ed. by Bob Berwick and Ed Stabler, 39-68. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
2016 Ginsburg, Jason. Modeling of Problems of Projection: A non-countercyclic approach. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 1(1): 7. 1-46. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.22
2012 Fong, Sandiway, & Jason Ginsburg. Computation with doubling constituents: Pronouns and antecedents in Phase Theory. In Towards a Biolinguistic understanding of gram- mar: Essays on interfaces, ed. by Anna Maria Di Sciullo, 303-338. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Conference Proceedings (peer-reviewed by abstract or paper)
2018 Fong, Sandiway, Ginsburg, Jason & Hiroshi Terada. Japanese internally headed relative clauses and relabeling. Proceedings of The 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 13), edited by C´elesteGuillemot, Tomoyuki Yoshida, and Seunghum J. Lee. 319-324. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #88.
2018 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. A relabeling analysis of English possessives. In Papers from the 35th Conference and the Tenth International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan: JELS 35. 211-216. The English Linguistic Society of Japan.
2015 Ogasawara, Naomi & Jason Ginsburg. Linguistic analysis of Japanese tsunami evacu- ation calls. In Proceedings of the 2015 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM ), ed. by Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul. 173-177. IEEE.
2015 Ginsburg, Jason. A doubling constituent account of relative clause and binding facts. In Papers from the 32nd Conference and the 7th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan: JELS 32. 17-22. The English Linguistic Society of Japan.
2 2015 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Stack-based Agree. In Papers from the 32nd Confer- ence and the 7th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan: JELS 32. 235-241. The English Linguistic Society of Japan.
2014 Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. A new approach to tough-constructions. In Pro- ceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 31), ed. by Robert E. Santana-LaBarge. 180-188. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2013 Ginsburg, Jason, Wilson, Ian, Kaneko, Emiko, & Naomi Ogasawara. 会津方言の疑問 文に於けるイントネーションと終助詞の関係 (The relationship between intonation and final particles in the Aizu dialect). In Proceedings of the 147th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Kyoto: Japan: The Linguistic Society of Japan. 154-159.
2013 Ginsburg, Jason, Wilson, Ian, Kaneko, Emiko, & Naomi Ogasawara. 会津方言の疑問文 の音声特徴 (Phonetic Features of Interrogatives in Aizu Area Dialects). In Conference papers of the Dialectological Circle of Japan. 9-16.
2012 Fong, Sandiway, & Jason Ginsburg. Modeling of coreference relations in multi-object constructions. In Proceedings of the 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, ed. by Yukio Otsu, 61-80. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo Publishing.
2012 Ginsburg, Jason. A Wikipedia-based corpus reference tool. In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Human-Centered Computer Environments, HCCE 2012, ed. by Vitaly Klyuev & Alexander Vazhenin. University of Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu, Japan. 1-7. New York: ACM.
2012 Ginsburg, Jason. Automatic generation of English lesson materials for native speakers of Japanese. In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Human-Centered Computer Environments, HCCE 2012, ed. by Vitaly Klyuev & Alexander Vazhenin. University of Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu, Japan. 14-18. New York: ACM.
2011 Wilson, Ian, Kaneko, Emiko, Lyddon, Paul, Okamoto, Kiyomi & Jason Ginsburg. Nonsense-syllable sound discrimination ability correlates with second language (L2) pro- ficiency. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII). 2133-2136.
2011 Ginsburg, Jason. A Wikipedia-based English-language reference and teaching tool. In Proceedings of the 2nd Annual ACM Chapter Conference on eLearning and Tech- nical Documentation: International Transactions on eLearning and Usability (Uni- versity of Aizu): 2011, Volume 2, Issue 1, edited by John Brine & Debopriyo Roy. 14-17. http://clrweb.u-aizu.ac.jp/itelu/publications/sample-page/a-wikipedia- based-english-language-reference-and-teaching-tool/
2011 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. A phase theoretic account of coreference relations in picture DPs. In LSA Annual Meeting extended abstracts. http://www.elanguage.net/ journals/index.php/lsameeting/article/view/1458
3 2011 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Pronoun-antecedent relations from last resort move- ment. In Proceedings of the thirty-ninth Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2010), Volume 20, edited by Dina Bailey & Victoria Teliga. 277-288. Fresno, California: Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.
2010 Ginsburg, Jason. A computational model of language generation applied to English wh- questions. In Proceedings of the 2010 10th International Conference on Intelligent Sys- tems Design and Applications, ed. by Aboul Ella Hasannien, Ajith Abraham, Francesco Marcelloni, Hani Hagras, Michela Antonelli & Tzung-Pei Hong. 1077-1082. IEEE.
2010 Ginsburg, Jason. A computational model of language generation applied to Japanese wh-questions. In Proceedings of The 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Infor- mation and Computation (PACLIC 24), ed. by Ryo Otoguro, Kiyoshi Ishikawa, Hiroshi Umemoto, Kei Yoshimoto & Yasunari Harada. 133-142. Tokyo, Japan: Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University.
2010 Ginsburg, Jason. Last resort movement in wh-questions. In Proceedings of the 12th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar: Movement in Minimalism, ed. by Duk-Ho An & Soo-Yeon Kim. 179-194. Seoul: The Korean Generative Grammar Circle.
2010 Ginsburg, Jason. A Phase Theory-based computational model of sentence generation. In IECE Technical Report: Thought and Language August 5-6, 2010. 93-98. Tokyo: Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.
2010 Ginsburg, Jason. Qu-morpheme positional variation in Sinhala yes/no constructions. In Proceedings of the 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2010): Universal Grammar and Individual Languages, ed. by Yong-Se Kang, Jiun-Shiung Wu, Dong-Hu Choi, Jong-Yurl Yoon, Seongha Rhee, Kee-Ho Kim, Jongseon Hong, Kyoung-Ae Kim, and Hye-Kyung Kang. CD-ROM. Seoul, South Korea: Hankookmunhwasa.
2010 Chan, Erwin, Ginsburg, Jason, Ten Eyck, Brian, Rozenblit, Jerzy, & Mike Dameron. Text analysis and entity extraction in asymmetric threat response and prediction. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security In- formatics, ISI 2010. 202-207. IEEE.
2009 Ginsburg, Jason. Intervention effect asymmetry and the EPP. In Proceedings of the Sec- ond International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, ed. by David Potter and Den- nis Ryan Storoshenko. http://www.sfu.ca/gradlings/working-papers/wp_2.html. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Lin- guistics.
2007 Sato, Yosuke, and Jason Ginsburg. A new type of nominal ellipsis in Japanese. In Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics: Proceedings of FAJL 4, ed. by Yoichi Miyamoto and Masao Ochi. 197-204. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 55.
4 2006 Ginsburg, Jason. Q-feature movement in single and multiple wh-questions in Japanese. In Proceedings of the 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar: Min- imalist Views on Language Design, ed. by Changguk Yim. 61-77. Seoul, South Korea: The Korean Generative Grammar Circle.
2006 Sato, Yosuke, and Jason Ginsburg. A new type of nominal ellipsis in Japanese: Further evidence for the LF Copy analysis. In Proceedings of the 8th Seoul International Confer- ence on Generative Grammar: Minimalist Views on Language Design, ed. by Changguk Yim. 293-300. Seoul, South Korea: The Korean Generative Grammar Circle.
Working Papers (not peer-reviewed)
2019 Ginsburg, Jason. Qu-morpheme Agreement and Wh-question Interpretation. The Bul- letin of the English Linguistic Society Osaka Kyoiku University 64: 9-38.
2018 Ginsburg, Jason. Extended shared labeling. The Bulletin of the English Linguistic Soci- ety Osaka Kyoiku University 63: 23-34.
2007 Ginsburg, Jason, and Sandiway Fong. Modeling Q-feature movement in Japanese. In Coyote Papers: The University of Arizona Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 15, Language and Cognition, ed. by Jordan Brewer, Polly O’Rourke, & Peter Richtsmeier. 18-39. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Linguistics Circle. s
Book Reviews
2012 Ginsburg, Jason. Review of “Rooryck, Johan and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd. 2011. Dis- solving Binding Theory. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.” LINGUIST List 23.1792. (http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-1792.html)
2012 Ginsburg, Jason. Review of “Stroik, Thomas S. 2009. Locality in Minimalist Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.” Canadian Journal of Linguistics 57. 156-159.
2011 Ginsburg, Jason. Review of “Panagiotidis, E. Phoevos (Ed.). 2010. The complementizer phase: Subjects and operators. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.” LINGUIST List 22.2098. (http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-2098.html).
2010 Ginsburg, Jason. Review of “Richards, Norvin. 2010. Uttering trees. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.” LINGUIST List 21.4014. (http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21- 4014.html#1).
In Progress
In Progress Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. The Minimalist Machine.
5 In Progress Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. Deriving relative clauses using a Minimalist Machine.
In Progress Ginsburg, Jason. Generating English wh-questions with a Labeling-based model.
Invited Talks
To be presented on Ginsburg, Jason. Labeling of non-finite clause. Annual conference of the Kan- December 8, 2019 sai Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan. Nara Women’s University: Nara, Japan.
October 10, 2015 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Towards a Minimalist Machine: Com- bining linguistic theories. The First Workshop on Minimalist Parsing. Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
October 10, 2015 Sandiway Fong & Ginsburg, Jason. Towards a Minimalist Machine: A stack-based architecture. The First Workshop on Minimalist Parsing. Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
April 27, 2015 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Minimalist Machine. Presented at the University of Arizona SynSalon. University of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona.
July 25, 2006 Ginsburg, Jason. Overt Q-feature movement in Japanese wh-constructions. Tohoku University: Sendai, Japan.
Conference Presentations
May 26, 2019 Fong, Sandiway, Berwick, Robert & Jason Ginsburg. The combinatorics of Merge and Workspace right-sizing. Evolinguistics Workshop 2019. University of Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan.
June 10, 2018 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. On constraining Free Merge. The 43rd Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society. Konan University: Kobe, Japan.
May 27, 2017 Fong, Sandiway, Ginsburg, Jason & Hiroshi Terada. Japanese internally headed relative clauses and relabeling. The 13th Workshop on Altaic For- mal Linguistics. International Christian University: Tokyo, Japan. [Poster].
April 24, 2017 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. A relabeling analysis of English posses- sives. The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 10th International Spring Forum 2017. Meiji Gakuin University: Tokyo, Japan.
October 15, 2016 Ginsburg, Jason & Naomi Ogasawara. Generating Japanese imperatives with a labeling-based machine. The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics: Tokyo, Japan. [Poster] 6 February 18, 2016 Ginsburg, Jason & Naomi Ogasawara. A Labeling-based account of Japanese imperatives. Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 8 (FAJL 8). Mie University: Mie, Japan. [Poster]
January 9, 2016 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. uT checking in relative clauses. The Linguistic Society of America 2016 Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. [Poster]
December 2, 2015 Ogasawara, Naomi & Jason Ginsburg. Linguistic analysis of Japanese tsunami evacuation calls. The 2nd International Conference on Information and Com- munication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM ’ 2015): Rennes, France.
November 9, 2014 Ginsburg, Jason. A doubling constituent account of relative clause and bind- ing facts. The 32nd Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan. Gakushuin University: Tokyo, Japan.
July, 27, 2014 Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi & Ian Wilson. Wh- question intonation patterns in the Showamura dialect of Japanese. The 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14). National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics: Tokyo, Japan. [Poster]
May 9, 2014 Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi & Ian Wilson. The prosodic domains of wh-questions in the Showamura dialect of Japanese. Ex- ploring the Interfaces 3: Prosody and Constituent Structure. McGill Univer- sity, Montreal, Canada. [Poster]
April 19, 2014 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Stack-Based Agree. The English Linguis- tic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 7th International Spring Forum 2014. Doshisha University: Kyoto, Japan.
November 23, 2013 Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi & Ian Wilson. 会津方言 の疑問文に於けるイントネーションと終助詞の関係 (The relationship between intonation and final particles in the Aizu dialect). The 147th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Kobe City University of Foreign Studies: Kobe, Japan.
May 31, 2013 Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi & Ian Wilson. 会津 方言の疑問文の音声特徴 (Phonetic features of Interrogatives in Aizu Area Dialects). The 96th meeting of the Dialectological Circle of Japan. Osaka Shoin Women’s University: Osaka, Japan.
February 10, 2013 Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. A new approach to tough-constructions. The 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 31). Arizona State University: Tempe, Arizona.
7 January 25, 2013 Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi & Ian Wilson. Intona- tion of wh-questions in the Aizu dialect. The International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology 2013 (ICPP 2013). National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics: Tokyo, Japan. [Poster]
October 11, 2012 Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi & Ian Wilson. Intona- tion used to contrast interrogative sentences in the Inawashiro dialect of the Aizu region. The International Workshop on Endangered Dialects in Korea and Japan. Pre-conference workshop of the 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguis- tics Conference. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics: Tokyo, Japan. [Poster]
April 22, 2012 Ginsburg, Jason. Qu-morpheme agreement and wh-question interpretations. The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 5th International Spring Fo- rum 2012. Konan University: Kobe, Japan.
March 10, 2012 Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. Modeling of coreference relations in multi- object constructions. The 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2012). Keio University: Tokyo, Japan. [Poster]
March 8, 2012 Ginsburg, Jason. A Wikipedia-based corpus reference tool. The Joint In- ternational Conference on Human-Centered Computer Environments, HCCE 2012. University of Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.
October 19, 2011 Ginsburg, Jason. Automatic generation of English lesson materials for native speakers of Japanese. The 3rd Annual ACM Chapter Conference on eLearning and Technical Documentation. University of Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.
October 1, 2011 Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. A computational implementation of syn- tactic binding theory in the Minimalist Program. The Second Joint ASU/U of A Linguistic Symposium, Arizona State University: Tempe, Arizona. [Pre- sented by Sandiway Fong]
August 21, 2011 Wilson, Ian, Kaneko, Emiko, Lyddon, Paul, Okamoto, Kiyomi & Jason Ginsburg. Nonsense-syllable sound discrimination ability correlates with second language (L2) proficiency. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong. [Poster presented by Ian Wil- son]
February 12, 2011 Ginsburg, Jason. Modeling of Wh- and Qu-element chain formation in inter- rogatives. Chains in Minimalism Workshop. Yokohama National University: Yokohama, Japan.
January 7, 2011 Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. A Phase Theoretic Account of Coreference Relations in Picture DPs. The Linguistic Society of America 2011 Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [Poster]
8 December 1, 2010 Ginsburg, Jason. A computational model of language generation applied to English wh-questions. The International Workshop on Natural Language Un- derstanding, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA ’10. Cairo University: Cairo, Egypt.
November 12, 2010 Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Pronoun-antecedent relations from Last Resort Movement. 2010 Western Conference on Linguistics. California State University, Fresno: Fresno, California.
November 5, 2010 Ginsburg, Jason. A computational model of language generation applied to Japanese wh-questions. The 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Infor- mation and Computation (PACLIC 24). Tohoku University: Sendai, Japan.
October 30, 2010 Ginsburg, Jason. A Wikipedia-based English-language reference and teaching tool. The 2nd Annual ACM Chapter Conference on eLearning and Technical Documentation. University of Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.
August 18, 2010 Ginsburg, Jason. Last resort movement in wh-questions. The 12th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. Konkuk University: Seoul, South Korea.
August 6, 2010 Ginsburg, Jason. A Phase Theory-based computational model of sentence generation. August 2010 Meeting of the Technical Group of Thought and Language of the Institute of Electronics: Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language 2010 (MAPLL 2010). Tokyo, Japan.
June 23, 2010 Ginsburg, Jason. Qu-morpheme positional variation in Sinhala yes/no con- structions. The 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL- 2010). Korea University: Seoul, South Korea.
May, 26, 2010 Chan, Erwin, Ginsburg, Jason, Ten Eyck, Brian, Rozenblit, Jerzy, and Mike Dameron. Text analysis and entity extraction in asymmetric threat response and prediction. IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2010. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. IEEE. [Pre- sented by Erwin Chan and Brian Ten Eyck]
November 9, 2008 Ginsburg, Jason. Intervention effect asymmetry and the EPP. The Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics. Simon Fraser University: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [Poster]
November 1, 2008 Ginsburg, Jason. Wh-constructions: Moving a phrase, a feature, or nothing. The 2nd Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle. University of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona.
October 21, 2007 Ginsburg, Jason. TP-internal Qu-morphemes. The 1st Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle. University of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona.
9 September 22, 2007 Ginsburg, Jason. Q-morpheme specifications. The 36th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center: Denver, Colorado.
August 12, 2006 Ginsburg, Jason. Q-feature movement in single and multiple wh-questions in Japanese. The 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. Sookmyung Women’s University: Seoul, South Korea.
August 12, 2006 Sato, Yosuke, and Jason Ginsburg. A new type of nominal ellipsis in Japanese: Further evidence for the LF copy analysis. The 8th Seoul International Con- ference on Generative Grammar. Sookmyung Women’s University: Seoul, South Korea.
July 15, 2006 Fong, Sandiway, and Jason Ginsburg. Parsing and multiple wh-questions in Japanese. The 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sci- ences, University of Tokyo: Tokyo, Japan. [Presented by Sandiway Fong]
January 7, 2006 Ginsburg, Jason. Q-feature movement in Japanese. The Linguistic Society of America 2006 Annual Meeting: Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Workshops, Public Lectures
March 18, 2016 大阪教育大学 Moodle 講習会 活用事例報告 (Presentation about how to use Moodle in classes), Presented at the Osaka Kyoiku University Moodle Work- shop, Osaka Kyoiku University
February 1, 2013 英語の習得上で知っておくべき英語と日本語の文法の違い (English and Japanese grammatical differences that you should know about when learning English), Lecture given at Gakuho High School, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan
October 20, 2012 Discussion forum on learning English, University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan
June 8, 2012 Lecture on English pronunciation, given at Tamura High School, Tamura, Fukushima, Japan
October 31, 2011 言語の構造への入門 (An introduction to the structure of language), Lecture given in Japanese at Tachibana High School, Fukushima City, Fukushima, Japan
October 22, 2011 Discussion forum on learning English, University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan
June 12, 2010 Discussion forum on learning English, University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan
10 Grants (Principle Investigator)
2016 FY 2016-20 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (科学研究費基盤研究 C) (Principle-Investigator) Amount: ￥3,500,000 Co-Investigators: Masumi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Terada Research collaborator: Sandiway Fong Project Title: Development of syntactic theory using a computer model that generates sen- tences from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (ミニマリスト・プログラムにおける 文生成コンピュータプログラム構築と統語理論の開発), Project #: 16K02769
2015 FY 2015 Osaka Kyoiku University Trial funding (Principal Investigator) Amount: ￥624,000 Project Title: Computer modeling of the sentence generation process from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (ミニマリスト・プログラムにおける文生成の程のコンピュータモデ リング)
2014 FY 2014 Osaka Kyoiku University Strategic Funding for Young Researchers (Principle Inves- tigator) Amount: ￥752,000 Project Title: Computer modeling of the sentence generation process from the perspective of Generative Grammar (生成文法における文の生成過程のコンピュータモデリング)
2013 FY 2013 Osaka Kyoiku University Strategic Funding for Young Researchers (Principle Inves- tigator) Amount: ￥686,000 Project Title: Development and Analysis of a Database of Learner English (英語学習者のデー タベース構築とデータ分析)
2012 FY 2012 Fukushima Prefectural Foundation Subsidy (Principle Investigator) Amount: ￥643,000 FY 2012 University of Aizu Competitive Research Funding (Principle Investigator) Amount: ￥603,000 Co-Investigators: Ian Wilson, Emiko Kaneko, Naomi Ogasawara Project Title: Analysis of the Syntactic and Phonetic Structures of Interrogative Construc- tions in the Aizu Dialect （会津地方の方言:疑問文の統語 構造と音声構造の分析事業)
2008 University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant for travel to the Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Amount: US $500
Grants (Co-investigator)
2017 FY 2017-20 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (科学研究費基盤研究 C) (Co-Investigator)
11 Principle Investigator: Naomi Ogasawara Project Title: Exploring the effective linguistic characteristics of spoken warnings to facilitate psychological responses to evacuation (自然災害避難呼びかけ文の効果的な言語的特徴の探求 よ り避難心理に訴えるには), Project #: 17K02686 Amount: ￥480,000 (amount allotted to Jason Ginsburg);￥3,300,000 for the whole project
2017 FY 2017-20 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Sci- entific Research Results (科学研究費研究成果公開促進費データベース） (Co-investigator) Principle Investigator: Asai Nobuyoshi Amount: ￥5,10,000 Project title: Hyper English Dictionary with Etymology (ハイパー英単語語源辞書) Project # 17HP7007
2016 FY 2016 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results, Database (科学研究費研究成果公開促進費 データベース）(Co-investigator) Principle Investigator: Asai Nobuyoshi Amount: ￥2,100,000 Project title: Hyper English Dictionary with Etymology (ハイパー英単語語源辞書), Project #16HP8047
2015 FY 2015 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results (科学研究費研究成果公開促進費データベース） (Co-investigator) Principle Investigator: Asai Nobuyoshi Amount: ￥1,800,000 Project title: Hyper English Dictionary with Etymology (ハイパー英単語語源辞書) Project #15HP8057
2014 FY 2014-16 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (科学研究費基盤研究 C) (Co-Investigator) Amount: ￥250,000 (amount allotted to Jason Ginsburg);￥2,700,000 for the whole project Principle Investigator: Naomi Ogasawara Project Title: Classification and Linguistic Analysis of Natural Disaster Evacuation Calls (自 然災害発生時の避難勧告・指示文の分類と言語学的分析), Project #: 26370490 Amount: ￥250,000 (amount allotted to Jason Ginsburg);￥2,700,000 for the whole project
Journal Reviewing
2019 - present English Linguistic Society of Japan, Editorial Board Member Kansai Linguistic Society, Editorial Board Member
Anonymous reviewing for the following journals: Language and Linguistics Lingua Linguistic Inquiry
Anonymous reviewing for the following conferences, etc.:
12 International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding, 10th Interna- tional Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA ’10 (2010) The Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting (2010, 2011) University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council travel grant applications (2008) The 1st Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC1) (2007)
Academic Service
2019 - Present Teacher’s License Approval Committee (Osaka Kyoiku University) 2018 - Present Foreign Language Study Abroad Committee (Osaka Kyoiku University) 2014 - Present University Information Processing Center Management Committee (Osaka Kyoiku University) English Communication Course (formerly European and American Languages and Cultures) website manager (Osaka Kyoiku University) 2014 - 2017 Department of Arts and Sciences web and publicity working group (Osaka Kyoiku University) 2012 - 2013 President of the Support Association for International Students of the Uni- versity of Aizu 2012 Freshman class mentor (University of Aizu) 2010 - 2011 2010 Freshman class mentor (University of Aizu) 2007 Organization Committee for the 1st Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle, Session Chair for the 36th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
University Teaching
2015-Present Doshisha University Introduction to linguistics, English Communication, English Presen- tation, Translation
2014-2016 Kyoto University English Writing
2013-Present Osaka Kyoiku University English Communication, Introduction to linguistics, Syntax, Aca- demic Writing, Academic Presentation, Information and Communi- cation Technology
2009-2013 University of Aizu, Center for Language Research Introduction to Syntax, Computational Linguistics/Natural Lan- guage Processing, Introduction to Linguistics, Thesis Writing, En- glish Speaking and Writing, English Listening and Reading
2008 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Summer Session)
13 2007-2008 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Winter Session)
2007 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Summer Session)
2006 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Summer Session)
2005 University of Arizona, Center for English as a Second Language Academic Writing (Summer Session) Academic Conversation (Summer Session)
2004 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Summer Session)
University of Arizona, Center for English as a Second Language Academic Writing (Summer Session) Academic Conversation (Summer Session)
2002-2003 Kansai Gaidai University (Osaka, Japan) English conversation, Writing (Fall and Spring Semesters)
University Teaching: Teaching Assistant
2008 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Spring Semester) for Prof. Alina Twist
2007 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Spring and Fall Semesters) for Prof. Amy Fountain
2006 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Fall Semester) for Prof. Amy Fountain LING 300 Introduction to Syntax (Fall Semester) for Prof. Andrew Barss INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Spring Semester) for Prof. Mas- simo Piattelli-Palmarini
2005 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics LING 201 Introduction to Linguistics (Fall Semester) for Prof. Adam Ussishkin
2004 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
14 INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Spring Semester) for Prof. Richard Demers
2003 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Fall Semester) for Prof. Lee Fulmer
Research Work Experience
2008 - 2009 Research Assistant University of Arizona, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Asymmetric Threat Response and Analysis Project (Prof. Jerzy Rozenblit, Director) Worked on adding named entity recognition capabilities to software.
2004 - 2005 Lab Manager SPAM lab (Prof. Michael Hammond, Director) Worked as the lab manager, helped design and implement psycholinguistics experiments.
2005 - 2009 Volunteer Lab Member SPAM lab (Prof. Michael Hammond, Director)
Other Teaching Experience
2002-2003 Matsushita Electric Ind. Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), Shiga and Kyoto, Japan Taught English conversation to company employees.
American University English Language Institute, Washington, DC Taught conversation and writing as part of an internship for MA degree in TESOL
2001 ELS Language Center, Washington, DC Taught English conversation and writing.
Stratford College, Falls Church, Virginia Taught English conversation and listening.
1998-2001 Osaka English Academy, Osaka, Japan Taught English conversation to children and adults.
Other Work Experience
2002-2003 Alpha Top International, Kyoto, Japan
15 Translated documents from Japanese into English, checked the accuracy of English translations of Japanese documents.
Languages
English (native), Japanese (fluent; passed the level one of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test - 1998)
Professional Affiliations
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ) The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS) Kansai Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan (ELSJ)
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