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| Research Interests: Masaru Kanetani teaches courses on the English language and on English linguistics. His published work focuses on descriptive grammar of contemporary English, in particular of conjunctions of reason in English, from the perspectives of construction grammar and pragmatics. His 2008 Ph.D. thesis proposes an analysis that gives an integrated account of the conjunctions of reason, because, since, and for, and shows the validity of the proposed analysis. His recent works also include comparative (or contrastive) syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the English and Japanese languages. A monogoraph grown out of the thesis is published as Causation and Reasoning Constructions from John Benjamins Publishing Company in 2019. |
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| Short Bio: Since April, 2012, Masaru has been working as assitant professor of English linguistics at University of Tsukuba, from which he received an MA (2004) and a Ph.D. (2008) both in linguistics. Before joining the faculty at Tsukuba, he taught English and English linguistics at Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba (2009 - 2012). He was born in Tottori and grown up there before moving to Tsukuba in 2002 for graduate school. | ||