Michiya Kawai, PhD

Associate Professor

Email: mkawai@uwo.ca

Office: HUC A214

Phone: (519) 438-7224 x330

Education

B.A., M.A. (Meiji Gakuin University), Ph.D. (Connecticut - Storrs)

Courses Taught

  • Japanese 2250
  • Japanese 4450
  • The Cultural Foundations of Modern Japan (JPN 2601A/B)
  • Japan through Film (JPN 3450F/G)

Research Interests

Syntax

Semantics

Language Learnability

Foreign Language Pedagogy

Culture Studies

Recent Publications

Verbal morphology of Japanese and syntactic head movement. 2008. In Susie Jones ed. Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of Canadian Linguistic Society. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2008/CLA2008_Kawai.pdf: 1-15.

Alleged Japanese small clauses. 2008. In Sarah Clarke, Manami Hirayama, Kyumin Kim and Eugenia Suh eds. The Proceedings of the International Conference of East Asian Linguistics: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 28, 8-105. Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~twpl/