Naonori Nagaya

Hi, I am a PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, Rice University. I work on Austronesian languages of the Philippines and Indonesia. Currently I am a research assistant working with Professor Masayoshi Shibatani for his NSF project "Austronesian Voice Systems: An Eastern Indonesian Perspective". My name is written in Kanji as 長屋 尚典.

Notice! I will be staying in Flores, Indonesia, until early November 2008. It is difficult for me to check my emails during this period.

• Research interests:
  
  • Philippine languages (esp. Tagalog, Ilocano), Indonesian languages, Japanese
  • grammatical relations, reference-tracking, information structure, voice, metonymy
  • functional linguistics, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Linguistics
• Education:
  
  • Ph.D. in Linguistics, Rice University, In progress.
  • M.A. in Linguistics, The University of Tokyo, 2006.
  • B.A. in Linguistics, The University of Tokyo, 2004.
• Published papers:
  
  • Submitted. The middle voice in Tagalog.
  • Submitted. Rethinking the referentiality of Tagalog ang-phrases.
  • Submitted. Development from referential to non-referential uses: articles in Philippine languages.
  • 2008. Metonimi toshite no Tagarogu-go shuyoubu nashi kankei-setsu [Tagalog headless relative clauses as metonymy]. Proceedings of the 8th meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 108-115.
  • 2007. Information structure and constituent order in Tagalog. Language and Linguistics 8:343-372. [abstract]
  • 2006. Preferred referential expressions in Tagalog. Tokyo University Linguistics Papers 25:83-106. [pdf]
  • 2004. Depictive construction and grammatical relations in Tagalog. Tokyo University Linguistic Papers 23:119-150. [pdf]
• Conference presentations:
  
  • 2008. Noun-modifying constructions in Tagalog. The 18th annual conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, May 21-22.
  • 2008. Foundations for building a Filipino corpus: Beyond orthography and readability. The 1st Filipino as Global Language Conference, to be held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 17-19, 2008 (with Mark Felix Albert Santiago). [Cancelled]
  • 2008. Uhou-ten'i koubun no jyouhou-kouzou to intonesyon [Information structure and intonation of Japanese right-dislocation]. Sixth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese, to be held at San Fransisco State University, San Fransisco, California, March 1-2, 2008 (with Natsuko Nakagawa and Yoshihiko Asao).
  • 2008. Light-before-heavy principle in a head-final language: the case of Japanese right-dislocation. The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Hilton Chicago, Chicago, January 3-6, 2008 (with Natsuko Nakagawa).
  • 2007. Nihongo ni okeru uhou-ten'i koubun to bunretsu-bun no kinou [On the functions of the right-dislocation and cleft in Japanese]. The 135th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Nagano, November 24-25 (with Natsuko Nakagawa and Yoshihiko Asao).
  • 2007. Rethinking referentiality of Tagalog ang-phrases. The 2007 annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Adelaide, September 26-28. [abstract]
  • 2007. Metonimi toshite no Tagarogu-go shuyoubu nashi kankei-setsu [Tagalog headless relative clauses as metonymy]. The 8th meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Tokyo, September 22-23.
  • 2007. The middle voice in Tagalog. Presented at the 17th annual conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS), The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, August 31-September 2. [abstract]
  • 2007. Pagtunton sa mga kalahok sa isang naratibo. Presented at Seminar-Worksyap sa Pagsusuri at Pagtuturo ng Gramaritkang Filipino, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Intramuros, Manila, January 25-27 (with Mark Felix Albert Santiago). [pdf]
  • 2006. Tagarogu-go no jitakoutai [Transitivity alternations in Tagalog]. Proceedings of the 132nd meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 129-134. [pdf]
  • 2006. Topicality and reference-tracking in Tagalog. Presented at the 9th Philippine Linguistics Congress, held at the University of the Philippines Diliman. [pdf]
  • 2005. Information structure and constituent order in Tagalog. Presented at the 2005 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, held at Academia Sinica. [pdf]
• Colloquia and invited talks:
  
  • 2007. Referentiality of Tagalog ang-phrases revisited: referential, definite, specific, or none of the above? Linguistic Colloquium, Rice University, Houston, November 8.
  • 2006. Different ways to say the same thing: Focus structures in Tagalog and Japanese. Presented at the 1st Philippine-Japan Linguistics Conference, Davao city, October 20-21.
  • 2006. Preferred referential expressions in Tagalog. The Linguistic Society of the Philippines Monthly Lecture Series in cooperation with Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, De La Salle University, Manila, August 12.
  • 2006. Filipino meets the Animacy Hierarchy. Invited talk at Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, Manila, May 31.
  • 2006. Embracing difference: Ellipsis in Tagalog and Japanese. Presented at the 3rd Japanese Language Teachers' Forum, held by the Japan Foundation, JICA auditorium, Makati city, May 27-28.
  • 2006. Tagalog for Japanese speakers. Invited talk at the Japan Foundation Manila Lecture Series, The Japan Foundation, Makati city, March 15.
  • 2005. Ninchi-gengogaku-to fiirudowaaku [Cognitive linguistics and fieldwork]. Presented at Ninchi-gengogaku-no manabi-kata 2 [Workshop on How to Study Cognitive Linguistics2], The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, May 7.
  • 2004. Information structure and the LDP/PrCS in Tagalog. Presented at Student Workshop on Role and Reference Grammar, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, November 12.
• Positions held:
  
  • April 2006 - August 2006
    Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
    (Professor Yoshiki Nishimura)
  • August 2005 - October 2005
    Visiting researcher at the Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines Diliman
    (Professor Ricardo Ma. Nolasco)
• Links:
  
  • Department of Linguistics, Rice University
  • Department of Linguistics, The University of Tokyo
  • Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Austronesian Voice Systems: An Eastern Indonesian Perspective
  • Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
• Contact:
  
  • E-mail: my last name + at + rice.edu
  • Address:

    Department of Linguistics, Rice University

    6100 Main St., MS-23,

    Houston, TX 77005-1892 U.S.A.