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SUGIMURA Mina

Department / Course College of Letters International Studies and English Communication Program

Title / Position Associate Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science

Academic background
1.		Doctorial Course │ Linguistics │ Department of Linguistics │ McGill University │ Completed
2.		Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Studies in Language and Culture │ Graduate School of Language and Culture │ Osaka University │ Unfinished
3.		Doctoral Program (1st Semester) │ Studies in Language and Culture │ Graduate School of Language and Culture │ Osaka University │ Completed
4.		│ McGill University Ph.D. (Linguistics)
5.		│ Osaka University M.A. (Studies in Language and Culture)
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Business career
1.	2023/04 ～	Associate Professor │ │

Committee and society
1.	2021/04 ～ 2026/03	Kansai Linguistic Society

Research activities
1.		Kansai Linguistic Society
2.		The English Linguistic Society of Japan

Subject of research
1.	Exploring the mechanism of complex predicate formation
2.	Grammatical roles of Case and semantic effects brought about by Case-particle omission

Present specialized field
Keyword：Theoretical Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Syntax, Morphology

Papers
1.	2025	Restructuring and focus in Japanese │ Journal of Japanese Linguistics │ 41 (2),pp.197-238
2.	2025	Two types of V-ni V formation: The role of ni and its interaction with focus and aspect │ Proceedings of the 27th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG) │ ,pp.261-270
3.	2024	Case particle omission in nominative-accusative dependency in Japanese │ Proceedings of the 38th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) │ ,pp.1213-1223
4.	2023	How labels affect morpheme realization: A study of V-V sequences │ Studies in Generative Grammar, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle │ 33 (2),pp.215-232
5.	2022	[Review] Rekishikon kenkyu no aratana apurochi (New approaches to lexicon research) Ed. by Hideki Kishimoto and Taro Kageyama, Kurosio, Tokyo, 2019 │ English Linguistics │ 38 (2),pp.287-296

Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/08	Two types of V-ni V formation: The role of ni and its interaction with focus and aspect
2.	2024/12	Case particle omission in nominative-accusative dependency in Japanese
3.	2021/05	On the location of nominative objects: focus movement-based approach

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2019/04 ～ 2022/03	Theoretical study of the effects on semantic interpretation brought about by Case particle omission
2.	2017/04 ～ 2022/03	Comprehensive studies on the interpretive mechanism at the interfaces: focusing on the “labeling”, “sounds”, and “meaning”
3.	2016/04 ～ 2019/03	Exploring the mechanism of labeling in merging adjuncts