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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. His recent research interests also include ideophones and langauge evolution. |
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| Short Bio: Since April, 2012, Masaru has been working as a faculty member at the 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. | ||
| To Prospective Stundets: If you would like to study under my supervision, please contact me before applying to the graduate program. Please note that I do not accept research students (研究生) prior to the entrance examination, and for this reason, I do not reply to emails asking for a research student position. If you are interested in our program, please enroll in our program as a regular student (大学院生). | ||