CURRICULUM VITAE
Keiko Murasugi

Department of British and American Studies, Graduate School of Humanities,
Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University
Address: 18Yamazato-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8673 Japan
Phone: (52) 832-3111 Fax: (52) 832-5330
mail: murasugi@nanzan-u.ac.jp
EDUCATION
1983.3.1.
1985.3.
1989.1.
1991.3.

B.A. in English and English Literature, Tsuda College
M.A. in English Linguistics, Tsuda College
M.A. in Linguistics, University of Connecticut
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Connecticut

EXPERIENCE(A) Full-Time Positions
1991.4.-1998.3. Associate Professor, Department of English and English Literature,
Kinjo Gakuin University
1998.4.-2004.4. Associate Professor, Department of British and American Studies,
Nanzan University
2004.4-present. Professor,

Department of British and American Studies,
Nanzan University(B) Short-term Visiting Appointments
1985.4.-1986.6.
1988.9.-1990.8.
1992.4.-1993.3.
1994.9.-1995.3.
1995.4.-1998.3.
2002.4-2003.3.
2003.4-2004.3.
2004.4- 2011.3.
2009.4-2010.3.
2010.4-2011.3.
2012.4- present.

Lecturer, Tsuda English School
Lecturer, Department of Modern Language, University of Connecticut.
Faculty of Arts and Letters and the Graduate School, Tohoku
University, Sendai, Miyagi.
Nagoya City Junior College, School of Pre-school Education, Owari Asahi, Aichi.
Faculty of Foreign Studies and Faculty of Humanities,Nanzan University, Nagoya, Aichi.
The University of the Air, Nagoya, Aichi.
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi.
Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, Aichi.
Mie University, Tsu, Mie.
Kobe University, Hyogo, Hyogo.
Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Aichi

COURSES TAUGHT(A) Graduate: Introduction to English Linguistics, Syntax, Psycholinguistics,
Seminar in Psycholinguistics, The Structure of English and Japanese.
(B) Undergraduate: Introduction to Linguistics, Introduction to Linguistic Theory,
Psycholinguistics, Seminar in Linguistics, General Linguistics,
Seminar in Psycholinguistics and Linguistics, English, Japanese.
PUBLICATIONS[1] “The Adult System of English Demonstratives.” Tsuda Inquiry 7, pp.140-150. Tsuda Collage.
1986.
[2] “A Study on the Acquisition of English Demonstratives 'this' and ' that': the Acquisition of Invisibility
Principle.” Descriptive and Applied Linguistics XIX, pp.175-186. 1986. (Abstract appeared in
LLBA 21, 1987.)[3] “A Comparative Study of English and Japanese Demonstratives.”（with Shuji Chiba）Journal ofTsuda College 11, pp.111-153. Tsuda College. 1987.
[4] “The Learnability of English Demonstratives.” UConn Working Papers in Linguistics 1, pp.46-55.
University of Connecticut. 1987.
[5] “Structural and Pragmatic Constraints on Children's Understanding of Backwards Anaphora.” UConn
Working Papers in Linguistics 2, pp.40-68. University of Connecticut. 1988.
[6] “The Acquisition of Structural and Pragmatic Constraints on Pronominal References.” MITA
Working Paper in Psycholinguistics 1, pp.91-119. 1989.
[7] “N'-deletion in Japanese: A Preliminary Study.”（with Mamoru Saito） Japanese and KoreanLinguistics. (H. Hoji (ed.)), pp.285-301. Center for the Study of Language and Information.
Stanford. 1990.
[8] “N'-deletion in Japanese.” (with Mamoru Saito）UConn Working Papers in Linguistics 3, pp.87-107.
University of Connecticut. 1990.
[9] “Adjectives, Nominal Adjectives and Adjectival Verbs in Japanese: Their Syntactic and LexicalStatus.” UConn Working Papers in Linguistics 3, pp.55-86. University of Connecticut. 1990.
[10] “Prenominal Sentential Modifiers: A Study in Acquisition, Learnability and Syntax.” Comparative
Studies on the Structure of Noun Phrases, pp.58-86. University of Connecticut. 1990.
[11] Noun Phrases in Japanese and English: A Study in Syntax, Learnability, and Acquisition. Ph.D.
dissertation. University of Connecticut. 1991. (Abstract appeared in Journal of Japanese
Linguistics 13, pp.171-172. 1991.)[12] “Locative/Temporal vs. Manner/Reason Phrases.” Treaties and Studies by the Faculty of Kinjo
Gakuin University 33, pp.153-170. Kinjo Gakuin University. 1991. (Reprint appeared in Eigogaku
Ronsetu Shiryo. Ronsetsu Shuppankai. 1993)

[13] “The Route that Children Take to Retreat from Overgeneration.” Proceedings ofThe Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 92) 5, pp.240-250. California State University,Fresno. 1992.
[14] “Quasi-Adjuncts as Sentential Arguments.”（with Mamoru Saito） Proceedings of the Western
Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 92) 5, pp.251-264. California State University, Fresno. 1992.
[15] “Two Notes on Head-Internal Relative Clauses.” Treaties and Studies by the Faculty of Kinjo
Gakuin University 34, pp.233-242. Kinjo Gakuin University. 1992. (Reprint appeared in Eigogaku
Ronsetu Shiryo. Ronsetsu Shuppankai. 1994.）[16] “Head-Internal Relative Clauses as Pure Adjunct Complex NPs.” Synchronic and DiachronicApproaches to Language. (Shuji Chiba et al. (eds.)) pp.425-437. Tokyo: Leiber Press. 1993.
[17] “On the Lexico-Semantic Hypothesis for Learnability Theory.” Treaties and Studies by the Facultyof Kinjo Gakuin University 35, pp.267-283. Kinjo Gakuin University. 1993. (Reprint appeared in
Eigogaku Ronsetu Shiryo. Ronsetsu Shuppankai. 1995.)[18] “Generalized Transformational Analysis of Relative Clauses in Japanese.” Journal of Japanese
Linguistics (JJL) 15. pp.113-123. 1994.
[19] “Adjunction and Cyclicity.”（with Mamoru Saito）Proceedings of West Coast Conference of FormalLinguistics (WCCFL 94) pp.302-316. University of California, San Diego. 1994.
[20] “Some Notes on Argument Structure in Noun Phrases.” Studies in English Linguistics. (Shuji Chiba(ed.)) pp.441-455. Tokyo: Taishukan. 1997.
[21] “Head-Internal Relative Clauses and Pro-drop Parameter.” Treaties and Studies by the Faculty ofKinjo Gakuin University, pp.327 ｰ 350. Kinjo Gakuin University.1995.(Reprint appeared in
Eigogaku Ronsetu Shiryo. Ronsetsu Shuppankai. 1997.）[22] “Pure Complex NPs headed by ‘half’: Its Structure and the Syntactic Properties.” Treaties andStudies by the Faculty of Kinjo Gakuin University) pp.279-298. Kinjo Gakuin University. 1996.
(Reprint appeared in Eigogaku Ronsetu Shiryo. Ronsetsu Shuppankai. 1998)[23] “The Syntax-Discourse Interface: A Case Study.”Inference in Reading. (Michiko Temma (ed.))pp.57-84. Tokyo: Leiber. 1997.
[24] “Language (Acquisition) Theory and the Studies of Dialects.” Academia. Literature and Language
64, pp.227-259. Nanzan University. 1998. (Reprint appeared in Eigogaku Ronsetu Shiryo.
Ronsetsu Shuppankai. 2000)[25] “Subject Predication within IP and DP.” (with Mamoru Saito) Beyond Principles and Parameters.
(Ian Roberts and Kyle Johnson (eds.)) pp.167-188. Kluwer Academic Press. 1999.
[26] “On the Acquisition of Complex Predicate Sentences: A Case Study of a Japanese 4-year-old Child.”(with Nanako Machida) Academia. Literature and Language 66. pp. 381-459. Nanzan University.
1999.

[27] “An Antisymmetry Analysis of Japanese Relative Clauses.” The Syntax of Relative Clauses.
(Artemims Alexiadou, Paul Law, Andre Meinunger, and Chris Wilder (eds.)) pp. 221-234(Chapter 6). John Benjamins. 2000.
[28] “On the Acquisition of Movement: Case Studies in Japanese Scrambling and Passive.” Academia.
Literature and Language 68. pp. 223-25. Nanzan University. 2000.
[29] “Japanese Complex Noun Phrases and the Antisymmetry Theory.”Step by Step. pp.231-264.
(Chapter 7). (Roger Martin, David Michaels and Juan Uriagereka (eds.)) Boston: MIT Press. 2000.
[30] “A Longitudinal Study in the Acquisition of ‘no’ in Different Syntactic Categories.” (with TomokoHashimoto) Academia Literature and Language 70. pp. 55-88. Nanzan University. 2001.
[31] “Grammar.” Reading: Its Process and the Pedagogy. pp. 59-86. (Chapter 3) Tokyo: Taishukan.
2002.
[32] “On the Acquisition of Scrambling in Japanese.” (with Tomoko Kawamura) Language andLinguistics. pp. 131-151. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. 2002.
[33] “Three pieces of acquisition evidence for the v-VP frame.”（with Tomoko Hashimoto） Nanzan
Linguistics 1. pp. 1-19. Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University. 2004.
[34] “Teaching University Level English to non-Japanese Students with no English Background: Practiceand Implication.” (with Yuichi Kondo) Academia Literature and Language 76. pp.21-51. Nanzan
University. 2004.
[35] “Two Different Types of Overgeneration of ‘no’ in Japanese Noun Phrases.” (with TomokoHashimoto) Proceedings of the 4th Asian GLOW in Seoul (Generative Grammar in the Broader
Perspective.) (Hang-jin Yoon (ed.)) pp.327-349. Seoul: Hankook Publishing Company. 2004.
[36] “On the acquisition of causatives in Japanese.” (with Tomoko Hashimoto and Sachiko Kato) In
BUCLD 28 Proceedings Online Supplement, (Alejna Brugos, Linnea Micciulla andChristineE.Smith (eds.)) (http://www.bu.edu /linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/supp.html) Boston,
MA: Cascadilla Press. 12p. 2004.
[37]Sokubaku to Sakujo (Binding and Deletion). (with Masatake Arimoto) Tokyo: Taishukan, 2005.

[38] “Childern’s Overgeneration in Japanese Noun Phrases.”(with Tomoko Hashimoto) The Proceedingsof the thirtieth Anniversary Meeting :Kansai Linguistic Society26. pp.12-22. 2006.
[39] “VP-shell analysis for the Acquisition of Japanese Transitive verbs, Intransitive verbs, andCausatives.” (with Tomoko Hashimoto and Chisato Fuji) Linguistics 45 (Number 3). pp. 615-651.
2007.
[40] “N’ Ellipsis and the Structure of Noun Phrases in Chinese and Japanese.” (with Mamoru Saito andJonah Lin) Proceedings of International Conference on East Asian Linguistics. pp. 297-321.
University of Toronto, 2008.

[41] “VP-shell Analysis for the Japanese Potentials.” (with Chisato Fuji and Tomoko Hashimoto)
Nanzan Linguistics：Special Issue 3, vol.2. pp. 65-102. Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University.
2008.
[42] “Experimental Evidence for the Parameter Resetting Hypothesis: The Second Language Acquisitionof English Reflexive-Binding by Japanese Speakers.” (with Eriko Watanabe, Chisato Fuji, andYoshie Kabuto) Nanzan Linguistics：Special Issue 3, vol.2. pp.263-283. Center for Linguistics,Nanzan University. 2008[43] “Sentential Modifiers in a Discourse-Pro Language.” Eigogaku Kenkyu (Studies in English
Linguistics): A Festschrift for Prof. Masaru Nakamura, pp.115-133. Tokyo: Kaitaku-sha. 2008.
[44] “A Theoretical Account for the Undergeneration and Overgeneration in JapaneseComplex Predicates.”(with Chisato Fuji and Tomoko Hashimoto) Online Proceedings Supplementof Boston University Conference on Language Development （BUCLD32）. 12p.Somerville, MA:
Cascadilla Press. 2008.
[45] “The Acquisition in Japanese Syntax.” (with Koji Sugisaki) Handbook of Japanese
Linguistics (Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito (eds.)). pp.250-286. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 2008.
[46] “Capturing the Evasive Passives.” (with Crain, Stephen and Rosalind Thornton). LanguageAcquisition 16 (2), pp.123-133. 2009.
[47] “Case Errors in Child Japanese and the Implications for the Syntactic Theory.” (withEriko Watanabe) Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches toLanguage Acquisition North America (GALANA3), pp.153-164. 2009.
[48] “Root Infinitive Analogues in Japanese: A Longitudinal and Observational Study.”(with Tomomi Nakatani) Academia. Literature and Lingusitics 86. pp.59 -94. Nanzan University.
2009.
[49] “Root Infinitives in Japanese and the Late Acquisition of Head-Movement.”(withChisato Fuji) Online Proceedings Supplement of Boston University Conference onLanguage Development (BUCLD 33). 12p. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 2009.
[50] “The Emergence of Speech Act Phrase: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Two
Japanese-Speaking Infants,” (with Mayumi Dejima and Tomomi Nakatani) Nanzan Linguistics 5,pp.17-39. Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University. 2009.
[51] “Theoretical Account for the 'Erroneous' Genitive Subjects in Child Japanese and theSpecification of Tense.” (with Naoko Sawada and Chisato Fuji) Online Proceedings Supplement ofBoston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 34), 12p. Somerville, MA:Cascadilla Press. 2010.
[52] “ What’s Acquired Later in an Agglutinative Language.” (with Chisato Fuji and TomokoHashimoto) Nanzan Linguistics 6. pp.47-78. Center for Linguistics. Nanzan University. 2010.
[53] “The Onset of Complex NPs in Child Production.” Proceedings of Workshop on Altaic
Formal Linguistics (WAFL6). (Hiroki Maezawa and Azusa Yokogoshi (eds)) pp.27-47. Boston,MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press.2010.
[54] “The Roots of Root Infinitive Analogues: The Surrogate Verb Forms Common in Adultand Child Grammar” (with Tomomi Nakatani and Chisato Fuji) Online Proceedings Supplementof Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 34), 12p. Somerville,
MA: Cascadilla Press. 2010.
[55] “Bare Verbs as the Root Infinitive Analogues: A Longitudinal and Observational Study.” (withTomomi Nakatani) Academia Literature and Language 87. pp. 13 -60. Nanzan University. 2010.
[56] “A Cross-Linguistic Approach to the ‘Erroneous’ Genitive Subjects: Underspecification of Tensein Child Grammar Revisited.” (with Naoko Sawada) Selected Proceedings of the 4th Conference onGenerative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2010), pp.
209-226.Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 2011.
[57] “Root Infinitives: The Parallel Routes the Japanese- and Korean-speaking Children Stepin.” (with Chisato Fuji) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 18, pp. 3-15. Stanford, California: CSLIPublications. 2011.
[58] “Japanese Syntax: Implications from Language Acquisition.” In Studies in Language Sciences 10:
Papers from the Eighth Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Science (JSLS2010), pp.17-39.Tokyo: Kuroshio Publishers. 2011.
[59] “Universal Grammar and Children’s’Grammatical Errors’” Kotoba no Jijitsu o Mitsumete:Festschrift for Shuji Chiba. (Kyoko Sato et al. (eds.)). pp. 238-250. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. 2011.
[60] “A Trihedral Approach to the Overgeneration of no in the Acquisition of Japanese NounPhrases.”(with Tomomi Nakatani, and Chisato Fuji) Proceedings of the 19thJapanese/KoreanLinguistics(Ho-min Sohn, Haruko Minegishi Cook, William O’Grady, Leon Angelo
Serafim and Sang Yee Cheon (eds.)). pp. 527-541. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 2011.
[61] “The Intermediate Stages in the Grammar Acquisition: A View from Japanese,” Studies inJapanese and Korean Linguistics, (Bjarke Frellesvig, Jieun Kiaer and Janick Wrona (eds.)).
München: Lincom GmbH, pp.104-119. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 2012.
[62] “Language Acquisition and Generative Grammar” Ninjal Project Review 4, 69-87. National
Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics. 2012.
[63] “Three Types of Overgeneration of no in the Acquisition of Japanese Noun Phrases,”NanzanLinguistics 8, pp. 69-87. Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University. 2012.
[64] “Steps in the Emergence of Full Syntactic Structure in Child Grammar.” Nanzan Linguistics 9，pp.
85-118. Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University. 2013.
[65] “Why Are There ‘Errors’ in Child Language? : The Role of Universal Grammar in Language
Acquisition.” Nihongo Bunpoo 13.2. pp. 19-36. Kuroshio Publishers. 2013.
[66] “N'-Ellipsis and the Structure of Noun Phrases in Chinese and Japanese.” (with Mamoru Saito andJonah Lin) Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspectives. (Mamoru Saito (ed.)) pp.1-49. (335p)
Oxford University Press. 2014.

[67] “Ne-attachment (Ne-tuke) on the Truncated Sentences.” Inquiries into Linguistic Theory andLanguage Acquisition. (Carla Contemori and Lena Dal Pozzo (eds.)) pp.145-156, CISCL PRESS.
2014.
[68] Kotoba to Kokoro: Nyumon Shinri-Gengogaku- (Language and Mind: Introduction toPsycholingusitics) 200p. Tokyo: Mimizuku-sha/Igaku Hyoronsha. 2014.
ISBN: 978-4-86399-269-6[69] “The Acquisition of WH-Islands in Japanese: A Preliminary Study.” (with Koji Sugisaki)
Nanzan Linguistics 10, pp.43-53. Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University. 2015.
[70] “Root Infinitive Analogues in Child Chinese and Japanese.” Chinese Syntax in Cross-Linguistic
Perspective. (Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson and Dylan Tsai (eds.)) pp.375-398. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. 2015.
[71] “The Acquisition of WH-Constraints in Japanese.” (with Koji Sugisaki) Online Proceedings
Supplement of Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 39), 12p.
Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 2015.
http://faculty.human.mie-u.ac.jp/~sugisaki/Papers/Sugisaki&Murasugi_2015b.pdf[72] “Yoji no Gimonbun-Kakutoku ni okeru Mittsu-no Tokucho (Three Issues in the First Language
Acquisition of Interrogative Sentences.)” Nihongo-Gimonbun no Tuujiteki-Taishou
Gengogaku-teki Kenkyuu Kenkyuu Hokokusho 3. pp.155-173. Tokyo: NINJAL.2015.
[73] “Root Infinitive Analogues in Child Chinese and Japanese.” Chinese Syntax in Cross-Linguistic
Perspective. (Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson and Dylan Tsai (eds.)) pp.375-398. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. 2015.
[74] “Children’s ‘Erroneous’ Intransitives, Transitives, and Causatives: Their Implications for Syntactic
Theory.” Transitivity and Valency Alternations: Studies in Japanese and Beyond. (Taro Kageyamaand Wesley M. Jacobsen (eds.)) pp. 313-340. (Chapter 10)，Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton 2016.
[75] “Bun-Koozoo no Kakutoku (The Acquisition of Phrase Structure)” Handbook of Japanese Grammar.
(Keiko Murasugi, Mamoru Saito, Yoichi Miyamoto and Kensuke Takita (eds.)) pp. 71-100(Chapter 3)，Tokyo: Kaitaku-sha Publishing Co, Ltd. 2016.
[76] “Dooshi to Kaku no Kakutoku (The Acquisition of Verbs and Case)” Handbook of JapaneseGrammar. (Keiko Murasugi, Mamoru Saito, Yoichi Miyamoto and Kensuke Takita (eds.)) pp.
189-225 (Chapter 6)，Tokyo: Kaitaku-sha Publishing Co, Ltd. 2016.
[77] “Sukuranburing no Kakutoku (The Acquisition of Scrambling)” (with Koji Sugisaki) Handbook ofJapanese Grammar. (Keiko Murasugi, Mamoru Saito, Yoichi Miyamoto and Kensuke Takita(eds.)) pp. 444-456 (Chapter 13).Tokyo: Kaitaku-sha Publishing Co, Ltd. 2016.
[78] Edition: Nihongo Bunpo Handobukku (Handbook of Japanese Grammar)(with Mamoru Saito,
Yoichi Miyamoto and Kensuke Takita) Tokyo: Kaitaku-sha Publishing Co, Ltd. 2016.
[79] “Very Early Utterances in Child Language: Implications for the Minimalist Theory.” Tsing Hua
Journal of Chinese Studies 47，pp. 351-381. National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. 2017.

[80] “Review Article: Rich Languages from Poor Inputs.” English Linguistics 33-2, 616-631.Tokyo:
Kaitakusha Publishing Co, Ltd. 2017.
[81] “The Structure of Mimetic Verbs: A Preliminary Study.” Nanzan Linguistics 12，pp.47-59. Centerfor Linguistics, Nanzan University, 2017.
[82] “Mimetics as Japanese Root Infinitive Analogues.” Mimetics：Linguistic Analysis, Acquisition andTranslation. (Noriko Iwasaki, Peter Sells and Kimi Akita (eds.)) pp.131-147 (Chapter 6). London:Routledge. 2017.
[83] “Scrambling and Its Locality Constraints in Child Japanese.” (with Koji Sugisaki) Studies inChinese and Japanese Language Acquisition. (Miineharu Nakayama, Yi-Ching Su, Aijun Huang(eds.)) pp.147-164 (Chapter 7). John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2017.
http://faculty.human.mie-u.ac.jp/~sugisaki/Papers/Sugisaki&Murasugi_2015b.pdf[84] “Root Infinitive Analogues: Evidence from Tamil, Korean and Japanese.” Perspectives on theArchitecture and Acquisition of Syntax. pp 243-259 (Chapter 13). Springer. 2017.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-981-10-4295-9_13[85] “Ina Hoogen ‘Zura’: Toogoteki Tokuchoo ni kansuru Yobiteki Kenkyu (The Minimalist Approach to
Epistemic Modality in Ina Dialect: A Preliminary Study)” Academia. Literature and language 103,
pp. 1-27. Nanzan University. 2018.
https://nanzan-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_ite
m_detail&item_id=1580&item_no=1&page_id=13&block_id=21[86] “Goi Kakutoku (The Acquisition of Lexicon).” Rekushikon Kenkyuu no Aratana Apuroochi. (TaroKageyama and Hideki Kishimoto (eds.)) pp.175-200 (Chapter 8). Kuroshio Publisher. 2019.

EARLY BACKGROUND
Born in Nagano City, Japan, on November 30, 1960. Attended Nagano High School in Nagano, Japan.

Keiko Murasugi