Jason Ginsburg
Curriculum Vitae(September 2024)

Contact Information
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
Faculty of Integrated Human Studies
Kyoto University
Email: ginsburg.jasonrobert.2h@kyoto-u.ac.jp
Homepage: ginsburg-lab.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Education
May, 2009

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Committee: Prof. Simin Karimi (Chair), Prof. Andrew Barss,
Prof. Andrew Carnie, Prof. Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: Interrogative Features

August, 2009

Master of Science in Human Language Technology
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

August, 2005

Master of Arts in Linguistics
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

May, 2002

Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
American University, Washington, DC, USA

April, 1997

Bachelor of Arts in Language, Literature, and Culture (Japanese)
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio

Employment
2024 - present

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
Faculty of Integrated Human Studies
Kyoto University

2013 - 2024

Associate Professor
Department of Educational Collaboration, English Communication Course(formerly the Department of European and American Languages and Cultures)
Osaka Kyoiku University

2009 - 2013

Associate Professor
Center for Language Research, School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Aizu

Employment: Part-time lecturing2024-Present

Part-time lecturer
Department of Educational Collaboration, Osaka Kyoiku University2022-2023 Fall Semester

Part-time lecturer
Faculty of Letters, Kobe University

2015 - 2024

Part-time lecturer
Faculty of Global Communications, Doshisha University

2014 - 2016

Part-time lecturer
Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University

Publications
Journal Articles and Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)
To Appear

Ginsburg, Jason. Constraining Free Merge. Biolinguistics.

2023

Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. On the computational modeling of English relative
clauses. Open Linguistics 9: 1-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0246

2019

Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. Towards a Minimalist Machine. In Minimalist Parsing, ed. by Robert C. Berwick and Edward P. Stabler, 16-38. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press.

2019

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Combining linguistic theories in a Minimalist Machine. In Minimalist Parsing, ed. by Robert C. Berwick and Edward P. Stabler, 39-68.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2016

Ginsburg, Jason. Modeling of Problems of Projection: A non-countercyclic approach.
Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 1(1): 7. 1-46.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.22

2012

Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. Computation with doubling constituents: Pronouns
and antecedents in Phase Theory. In Towards a Biolinguistic understanding of grammar: Essays on interfaces, ed. by Anna Maria Di Sciullo, 303-338. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.

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Conference Proceedings (peer-reviewed by abstract or paper)
2024

Ginsburg, Jason & Hiroshi Terada. コピー形成と自由併合：英語と日本語のコントロール
構文を例に (Accounting for English and Japanese Control constructions with FormCopy
and free Merge). Proceeding of the 96th General Meeting of the English Literary Socityof Japan. https://www.elsj.org/meeting/Proceedings/96.html

2023

Fong, Sandiway, Ginsburg, Jason, Matsumoto, Masumi, & Hiroshi Terada. The Strong
Minimalist Thesis (SMT): Form Copy (FC) and the Serial Verb Construction (SVC).
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 30, ed. by Sara Williamson, Adeola Aminat
Babayode-Lawal, Laurens Bosman, Nicole Chan, Sylvia Cho, Ivan Fong, and Kaye Holubowsky. 411-422. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

2022

Ginsburg, Jason. Constraining free Merge: Labeling and the theta-criterion. Proceedingsof The Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCole) Kanazawa, Japan 2022, ed. byAndrea Ravignani, Rie Asano, Daria Valente, Francesco Ferretti, Stefan Hartmann, Misato Hayashi, Yannick Jadoul, Mauricio Martins, Yohei Oseki, Evelina Daniela Rodrigues,
Olga Vasileva, and Slawomir Wacewicz. 237-244.

2018

Fong, Sandiway, Ginsburg, Jason, & Hiroshi Terada. Japanese internally headed relative
clauses and relabeling. Proceedings of The 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics(WAFL 13), ed. by Céleste Guillemot, Tomoyuki Yoshida, and Seunghum J. Lee. 319324. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 88.

2018

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. A relabeling analysis of English possessives. In
Papers from the 35th Conference and the Tenth International Spring Forum of the English
Linguistic Society of Japan: JELS 35. 211-216. The English Linguistic Society of Japan.

2015

Ogasawara, Naomi & Jason Ginsburg. Linguistic analysis of Japanese tsunami evacuation calls. In Proceedings of the 2015 2nd International Conference on Information
and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM), ed. by Yassine
Hadjadj-Aoul. 173-177. IEEE.

2015

Ginsburg, Jason. A doubling constituent account of relative clause and binding facts. In
Papers from the 32nd Conference and the 7th International Spring Forum of the English
Linguistic Society of Japan: JELS 32. 17-22. The English Linguistic Society of Japan.

2015

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Stack-based Agree. In Papers from the 32nd Conference and the 7th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan:
JELS 32. 235-241. The English Linguistic Society of Japan.

2014

Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. A new approach to tough-constructions. In Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 31), ed. byRobert E. Santana-LaBarge. 180-188. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

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2013

Ginsburg, Jason, Wilson, Ian, Kaneko, Emiko, & Naomi Ogasawara. 会津方言の疑問文に於けるイントネーションと終助詞の関係 (The relationship between intonation andﬁnal particles in the Aizu dialect). In Proceedings of the 147th Meeting of the LinguisticSociety of Japan. Kyoto: Japan: The Linguistic Society of Japan. 154-159.

2013

Ginsburg, Jason, Wilson, Ian, Kaneko, Emiko, & Naomi Ogasawara. 会津方言の疑問文の音声特徴 (Phonetic Features of Interrogatives in Aizu Area Dialects). In Conference
papers of the Dialectological Circle of Japan. 9-16.

2012

Fong, Sandiway, & Jason Ginsburg. Modeling of coreference relations in multi-object
constructions. In Proceedings of the 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, ed. by
Yukio Otsu, 61-80. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo Publishing.

2012

Ginsburg, Jason. A Wikipedia-based corpus reference tool. In Proceedings of the Joint
International Conference on Human-Centered Computer Environments, HCCE 2012, ed.
by Vitaly Klyuev & Alexander Vazhenin. University of Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.
1-7. New York: ACM.

2012

Ginsburg, Jason. Automatic generation of English lesson materials for native speakers
of Japanese. In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Human-Centered
Computer Environments, HCCE 2012, ed. by Vitaly Klyuev & Alexander Vazhenin.
University of Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu, Japan. 14-18. New York: ACM.

2011

Wilson, Ian, Kaneko, Emiko, Lyddon, Paul, Okamoto, Kiyomi, & Jason Ginsburg.
Nonsense-syllable sound discrimination ability correlates with second language (L2) proﬁciency. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhSXVII). 2133-2136.

2011

Ginsburg, Jason. A Wikipedia-based English-language reference and teaching tool.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Annual ACM Chapter Conference on eLearning and Technical Documentation: International Transactions on eLearning and Usability (University of Aizu): 2011, Volume 2, Issue 1, ed.
by John Brine & Debopriyo
Roy. 14-17. http://clrweb.u-aizu.ac.jp/itelu/publications/sample-page/a-wikipediabased-english-language-reference-and-teaching-tool/

2011

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. A phase theoretic account of coreference relations inpicture DPs. In LSA Annual Meeting extended abstracts. https://doi.org/10.3765/
exabs.v0i0.535

2011

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Pronoun-antecedent relations from last resort movement. In Proceedings of the thirty-ninth Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL
2010), Volume 20, ed. by Dina Bailey & Victoria Teliga. 277-288. Fresno, California:
Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.

2010

Ginsburg, Jason. A computational model of language generation applied to English whquestions. In Proceedings of the 2010 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ed. by Aboul Ella Hasannien, Ajith Abraham, Francesco
Marcelloni, Hani Hagras, Michela Antonelli & Tzung-Pei Hong. 1077-1082. IEEE.
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2010

Ginsburg, Jason. A computational model of language generation applied to Japanese
wh-questions. In Proceedings of The 24th Paciﬁc Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 24), ed. by Ryo Otoguro, Kiyoshi Ishikawa, Hiroshi
Umemoto, Kei Yoshimoto & Yasunari Harada. 133-142. Tokyo, Japan: Institute for
Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University.

2010

Ginsburg, Jason. Last resort movement in wh-questions. In Proceedings of the 12th
Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar: Movement in Minimalism, ed.
by Duk-Ho An & Soo-Yeon Kim. 179-194. Seoul: The Korean Generative Grammar
Circle.

2010

Ginsburg, Jason. A Phase Theory-based computational model of sentence generation.
In IECE Technical Report: Thought and Language August 5-6, 2010. 93-98. Tokyo:
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.

2010

Ginsburg, Jason. Qu-morpheme positional variation in Sinhala yes/no constructions. In
Proceedings of the 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2010):
Universal Grammar and Individual Languages, ed. by Yong-Se Kang, Jiun-Shiung Wu,
Dong-Hu Choi, Jong-Yurl Yoon, Seongha Rhee, Kee-Ho Kim, Jongseon Hong, Kyoung-Ae
Kim, and Hye-Kyung Kang. CD-ROM. Seoul, South Korea: Hankookmunhwasa.

2010

Chan, Erwin, Ginsburg, Jason, Ten Eyck, Brian, Rozenblit, Jerzy, & Mike Dameron.
Text analysis and entity extraction in asymmetric threat response and prediction. In
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2010. 202-207. IEEE.

2009

Ginsburg, Jason. Intervention eﬀect asymmetry and the EPP. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, ed. by David Potter and Dennis Ryan Storoshenko. http://www.sfu.ca/gradlings/working-papers/wp_2.html.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics.

2007

Sato, Yosuke, and Jason Ginsburg. A new type of nominal ellipsis in Japanese. In Formal
Approaches to Japanese Linguistics: Proceedings of FAJL 4, ed. by Yoichi Miyamoto andMasao Ochi. 197-204. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 55.

2006

Ginsburg, Jason. Q-feature movement in single and multiple wh-questions in Japanese.
In Proceedings of the 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar: Minimalist Views on Language Design, ed. by Changguk Yim. 61-77. Seoul, South Korea:
The Korean Generative Grammar Circle.

Working Papers

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2022

Ginsburg, Jason, Terada, Hiroshi and Sandiway Fong. On the selection of clausal complements in a Minimalist framework. Memoirs of Osaka Kyoiku University, Humanities
and Social Science, Natural Sciences 70: 109-120. DOI: 10.32287/TD00032216

2019

Ginsburg, Jason. Qu-morpheme Agreement and Wh-question Interpretation. The Bulletin of the English Linguistic Society Osaka Kyoiku University 64: 9-38.

2018

Ginsburg, Jason. Extended shared labeling. The Bulletin of the English Linguistic Society Osaka Kyoiku University 63: 23-34.

2007

Ginsburg, Jason, and Sandiway Fong. Modeling Q-feature movement in Japanese. In
Coyote Papers: The University of Arizona Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 15,
Language and Cognition, ed. by Jordan Brewer, Polly O’Rourke, & Peter Richtsmeier.
18-39. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Linguistics Circle.

Book Reviews
2012

Ginsburg, Jason. Review of “Rooryck, Johan and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd. 2011. Dissolving Binding Theory. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.” LINGUIST List 23.1792.
(http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-1792.html)

2012

Ginsburg, Jason. Review of “Stroik, Thomas S. 2009. Locality in Minimalist Syntax.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.” Canadian Journal of Linguistics 57. 156-159.

2011

Ginsburg, Jason. Review of “Panagiotidis, E. Phoevos (Ed.). 2010. The complementizer
phase: Subjects and operators. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.” LINGUIST List
22.2098. (http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-2098.html).

2010

Ginsburg, Jason. Review of “Richards, Norvin. 2010. Uttering trees. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.” LINGUIST List 21.4014. (http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/214014.html#1).

Under review

Ginsburg, Jason. Expletive constructions and agreement in Labeling Theory. Submitted to Studia
Linguistica. Under ﬁrst review.

Invited Talks
December 8, 2019

Ginsburg, Jason. Labeling of non-ﬁnite clauses. Annual conference of the
Kansai Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan. Nara Women’s University: Nara, Japan.

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Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Towards a Minimalist Machine: Combining linguistic theories. The First Workshop on Minimalist Parsing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, Massachusetts.

October 10, 2015

Sandiway Fong & Ginsburg, Jason. Towards a Minimalist Machine: A
stack-based architecture. The First Workshop on Minimalist Parsing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, Massachusetts.

April 27, 2015

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Minimalist Machine. Presented at the
University of Arizona SynSalon. University of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona.

July 25, 2006

Ginsburg, Jason. Overt Q-feature movement in Japanese wh-constructions.
Tohoku University: Sendai, Japan.

Conference Presentations
May 26, 2024

Ginsburg, Jason, Fong, Sandiway, Matsumoto, Masumi, & Hiroshi Terada.
Reconciling serial verbs with Labeling and Theta Theory. The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 17th International Spring Forum 2024. Kyoto
University: Kyoto, Japan. [Poster]

May 5, 2024

Ginsburg, Jason & Hiroshi Terada. コピー形成と自由併合：英語と日本語のコントロール構文を例に (Accounting for English and Japanese Control constructions with FormCopy and free Merge). The 96th General Meeting of the
English Literary Society of Japan. Tohoku University: Sendai, Japan.

March 15, 2023

Fong, Sandiway, Ginsburg, Jason, Matsumoto, Masumi, & Hiroshi Terada.
The Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT): Form Copy (FC) and the Serial Verb
Construction (SVC). The 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Simon Fraser University: Vancouver, Canada. [Poster]

September 6, 2022

Ginsburg, Jason. Constraining free Merge: Labeling and the theta-criterion.
The Joint Conference on Language Evolution. Kanazawa, Japan & online.
[Poster]

May 2020 (Cancelled
dueto
COVID-19)

Ginsburg, Jason, Hiroshi Terada & Sandiway Fong. On the selection of clausal
complements in a Minimalist framework. The English Linguistic Society ofJapan (ELSJ) 13th International Spring Forum 2020. Kansai University: Osaka, Japan. [Poster].

May 26, 2019

Fong, Sandiway, Berwick, Robert, & Jason Ginsburg. The combinatorics ofMerge and Workspace right-sizing. Evolinguistics Workshop 2019. Universityof Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan.

June 10, 2018

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. On constraining Free Merge. The 43rd
Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society. Konan University: Kobe, Japan.

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May 27, 2017

Fong, Sandiway, Ginsburg, Jason, & Hiroshi Terada. Japanese internallyheaded relative clauses and relabeling. The 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics. International Christian University: Tokyo, Japan. [Poster].

April 24, 2017

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. A relabeling analysis of English possessives. The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 10th International
Spring Forum 2017. Meiji Gakuin University: Tokyo, Japan.

October 15, 2016

Ginsburg, Jason & Naomi Ogasawara. Generating Japanese imperatives witha labeling-based machine. The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference.
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics: Tokyo, Japan.
[Poster]

February 18, 2016

Ginsburg, Jason & Naomi Ogasawara. A Labeling-based account of Japaneseimperatives. Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 8 (FAJL 8). Mie
University: Mie, Japan. [Poster]January 9, 2016

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. uT checking in relative clauses. The
Linguistic Society of America 2016 Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. [Poster]December 2, 2015

Ogasawara, Naomi & Jason Ginsburg. Linguistic analysis of Japanese tsunami
evacuation calls. The 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM ’ 2015): Rennes,
France.

November 9, 2014

Ginsburg, Jason. A doubling constituent account of relative clause and binding facts. The 32nd Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan.
Gakushuin University: Tokyo, Japan.

July, 27, 2014

Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi, & Ian Wilson. Whquestion intonation patterns in the Showamura dialect of Japanese. The 14th
Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14). National Institute forJapanese Language and Linguistics: Tokyo, Japan. [Poster]

May 9, 2014

Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi, & Ian Wilson. The
prosodic domains of wh-questions in the Showamura dialect of Japanese. Exploring the Interfaces 3: Prosody and Constituent Structure. McGill University, Montreal, Canada. [Poster]April 19, 2014

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Stack-Based Agree. The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 7th International Spring Forum 2014. Doshisha
University: Kyoto, Japan.

November 23, 2013

Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi, & Ian Wilson. 会津方言の疑問文に於けるイントネーションと終助詞の関係 (The relationship between
intonation and ﬁnal particles in the Aizu dialect). The 147th Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of Japan. Kobe City University of Foreign Studies: Kobe,
Japan.
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May 31, 2013

Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi, & Ian Wilson. 会津
方言の疑問文の音声特徴 (Phonetic features of Interrogatives in Aizu Area
Dialects). The 96th meeting of the Dialectological Circle of Japan. Osaka
Shoin Women’s University: Osaka, Japan.

February 10, 2013

Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. A new approach to tough-constructions.
The 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 31). ArizonaState University: Tempe, Arizona.

January 25, 2013

Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi, & Ian Wilson. Intonation of wh-questions in the Aizu dialect. The International Conference on
Phonetics and Phonology 2013 (ICPP 2013). National Institute for Japanese
Language and Linguistics: Tokyo, Japan. [Poster]

October 11, 2012

Ginsburg, Jason, Kaneko, Emiko, Ogasawara, Naomi & Ian Wilson. Intonation used to contrast interrogative sentences in the Inawashiro dialect of the
Aizu region. The International Workshop on Endangered Dialects in Korea
and Japan. Pre-conference workshop of the 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics:
Tokyo, Japan. [Poster]April 22, 2012

Ginsburg, Jason. Qu-morpheme agreement and wh-question interpretations.
The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 5th International Spring Forum 2012. Konan University: Kobe, Japan.

March 10, 2012

Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. Modeling of coreference relations in multiobject constructions. The 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP
2012). Keio University: Tokyo, Japan. [Poster]March 8, 2012

Ginsburg, Jason. A Wikipedia-based corpus reference tool. The Joint International Conference on Human-Centered Computer Environments, HCCE
2012. University of Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.

October 19, 2011

Ginsburg, Jason. Automatic generation of English lesson materials for native
speakers of Japanese. The 3rd Annual ACM Chapter Conference on eLearning
and Technical Documentation. University of Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.

October 1, 2011

Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. A computational implementation of syntactic binding theory in the Minimalist Program. The Second Joint ASU/U
of A Linguistic Symposium, Arizona State University: Tempe, Arizona. [Presented by Sandiway Fong]

August 21, 2011

Wilson, Ian, Kaneko, Emiko, Lyddon, Paul, Okamoto, Kiyomi, &Jason Ginsburg. Nonsense-syllable sound discrimination ability correlateswith second language (L2) proﬁciency. The 17th International Congress of
Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong. [Poster presented by Ian Wilson]
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Ginsburg, Jason. Modeling of Wh- and Qu-element chain formation in interrogatives. Chains in Minimalism Workshop. Yokohama National University:
Yokohama, Japan.

January 7, 2011

Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. A Phase Theoretic Account of Coreference
Relations in Picture DPs. The Linguistic Society of America 2011 Annual
Meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [Poster]December 1, 2010

Ginsburg, Jason. A computational model of language generation applied toEnglish wh-questions. The International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design andApplications, ISDA ’10. Cairo University: Cairo, Egypt.

November 12, 2010

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. Pronoun-antecedent relations from Last
Resort Movement. 2010 Western Conference on Linguistics. California State
University, Fresno: Fresno, California.

November 5, 2010

Ginsburg, Jason. A computational model of language generation applied toJapanese wh-questions. The 24th Paciﬁc Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 24). Tohoku University: Sendai, Japan.

October 30, 2010

Ginsburg, Jason. A Wikipedia-based English-language reference and teachingtool. The 2nd Annual ACM Chapter Conference on eLearning and TechnicalDocumentation. University of Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.

August 18, 2010

Ginsburg, Jason. Last resort movement in wh-questions. The 12th Seoul
International Conference on Generative Grammar. Konkuk University: Seoul,
South Korea.

August 6, 2010

Ginsburg, Jason. A Phase Theory-based computational model of sentence
generation. August 2010 Meeting of the Technical Group of Thought andLanguage of the Institute of Electronics: Mental Architecture for Processingand Learning of Language 2010 (MAPLL 2010). Tokyo, Japan.

June 23, 2010

Ginsburg, Jason. Qu-morpheme positional variation in Sinhala yes/no constructions. The 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL2010). Korea University: Seoul, South Korea.

May, 26, 2010

Chan, Erwin, Ginsburg, Jason, Ten Eyck, Brian, Rozenblit, Jerzy, and Mike
Dameron. Text analysis and entity extraction in asymmetric threat response
and prediction. IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security
Informatics, ISI 2010. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. IEEE. [Presented by Erwin Chan and Brian Ten Eyck]

November 9, 2008

Ginsburg, Jason. Intervention eﬀect asymmetry and the EPP. The Second
International Conference on East Asian Linguistics. Simon Fraser University:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [Poster]10

November 1, 2008

Ginsburg, Jason. Wh-constructions: Moving a phrase, a feature, or nothing.
The 2nd Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle. University of Arizona:
Tucson, Arizona.

October 21, 2007

Ginsburg, Jason. TP-internal Qu-morphemes. The 1st Meeting of the Arizona
Linguistics Circle. University of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona.

September 22, 2007

Ginsburg, Jason. Q-morpheme speciﬁcations. The 36th Annual Conference of
the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. University of Colorado at Denverand Health Sciences Center: Denver, Colorado.

August 12, 2006

Ginsburg, Jason. Q-feature movement in single and multiple wh-questions inJapanese. The 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar.
Sookmyung Women’s University: Seoul, South Korea.

August 12, 2006

Sato, Yosuke, and Jason Ginsburg. A new type of nominal ellipsis in Japanese:
Further evidence for the LF copy analysis. The 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. Sookmyung Women’s University: Seoul,
South Korea.

July 15, 2006

Fong, Sandiway, and Jason Ginsburg. Parsing and multiple wh-questions inJapanese. The 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, University of Tokyo: Tokyo, Japan. [Presented by Sandiway Fong]

January 7, 2006

Ginsburg, Jason. Q-feature movement in Japanese. The Linguistic Society ofAmerica 2006 Annual Meeting: Albuquerque, New Mexico.

External Grants (Principal Investigator)
2024

FY 2024-27 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientiﬁc Research(科学研究費基盤研究 C) (Principal-Investigator)
Amount: ￥3,500,000
Co-Investigators: Masumi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Terada
Research collaborator: Sandiway Fong
Project Title: Construction of a computer model that generates sentences: Towards thedevelopment of a more economical theory (文生成コンピュータプログラムの構築：より経済的な理論の開発を目指して), Project #: 20K00664

2020

FY 2020-23 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientiﬁc Research(科学研究費基盤研究 C) (Principal-Investigator)
Amount: ￥3,500,000
Co-Investigators: Masumi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Terada
Research collaborator: Sandiway Fong
Project Title: Development of syntactic theory with a Minimalist-based computer model thatgenerates sentences (極小主義における文生成コンピュータプログラム構築と文法理論の開発),
Project #: 20K00664
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2016

FY 2016-20 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientiﬁc Research(科学研究費基盤研究 C) (Principal-Investigator)
Amount: ￥3,500,000
Co-Investigators: Masumi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Terada
Research collaborator: Sandiway Fong
Project Title: Development of syntactic theory using a Minimalist Program-based computermodel that generates sentences (ミニマリスト・プログラムにおける文生成コンピュータプロ
グラム構築と統語理論の開発), Project #: 16K02769

2012

FY 2012 Fukushima Prefectural Foundation Subsidy (Principal Investigator)
Amount: ￥643,000
Co-Investigators: Ian Wilson, Emiko Kaneko, Naomi Ogasawara
Project Title: Analysis of the Syntactic and Phonetic Structures of Interrogative Constructions in the Aizu Dialect （会津地方の方言:疑問文の統語 構造と音声構造の分析事業)

Internal Grants
2015

FY 2015 Osaka Kyoiku University Trial funding (Principal Investigator)
Amount: ￥624,000
Project Title: Computer modeling of the sentence generation process from the perspective of
the Minimalist Program (ミニマリスト・プログラムにおける文生成の程のコンピュータモデ
リング)

2014

FY 2014 Osaka Kyoiku University Strategic Funding for Young Researchers (Principal Investigator)
Amount: ￥752,000
Project Title: Computer modeling of the sentence generation process from the perspective ofGenerative Grammar (生成文法における文の生成過程のコンピュータモデリング)

2013

FY 2013 Osaka Kyoiku University Strategic Funding for Young Researchers (Principal Investigator)
Amount: ￥686,000
Project Title: Development and Analysis of a Database of Learner English ( 英語学習者のデー
タベース構築とデータ分析)

2012

FY 2012 University of Aizu Competitive Research Funding (Principal Investigator)
Amount: ￥603,000
Co-Investigators: Ian Wilson, Emiko Kaneko, Naomi Ogasawara
Project Title: Analysis of the Syntactic and Phonetic Structures of Interrogative Constructions in the Aizu Dialect （会津地方の方言:疑問文の統語 構造と音声構造の分析事業)

2008

University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant for travelto the Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada.
Amount: US $500
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Grants (Co-investigator)
2017

FY 2017-20 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientiﬁc Research(科学研究費基盤研究 C) (Co-Investigator)
Principal Investigator: Naomi Ogasawara
Project Title: Exploring the eﬀective linguistic characteristics of spoken warnings to facilitate
psychological responses to evacuation (自然災害避難呼びかけ文の効果的な言語的特徴の探求 より避難心理に訴えるには), Project #: 17K02686
Amount: ￥480,000 (amount allotted to Jason Ginsburg);￥3,300,000 for the whole project2017

FY 2017-20 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientiﬁc Research Results (科学研究費研究成果公開促進費データベース） (Co-investigator)
Principal Investigator: Asai Nobuyoshi
Amount: ￥5,10,000
Project title: Hyper English Dictionary with Etymology (ハイパー英単語語源辞書) Project# 17HP7007

2016

FY 2016 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Publication of ScientiﬁcResearch Results, Database (科学研究費研究成果公開促進費 データベース） (Co-investigator)
Principal Investigator: Asai Nobuyoshi
Amount: ￥2,100,000
Project title: Hyper English Dictionary with Etymology (ハイパー英単語語源辞書), Project#16HP8047

2015

FY 2015 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Publication of ScientiﬁcResearch Results (科学研究費研究成果公開促進費データベース） (Co-investigator)
Principal Investigator: Asai Nobuyoshi
Amount: ￥1,800,000
Project title: Hyper English Dictionary with Etymology (ハイパー英単語語源辞書) Project#15HP8057

2014

FY 2014-16 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientiﬁc Research(科学研究費基盤研究 C) (Co-Investigator)
Amount: ￥250,000 (amount allotted to Jason Ginsburg);￥2,700,000 for the whole project
Principal Investigator: Naomi Ogasawara
Project Title: Classiﬁcation and Linguistic Analysis of Natural Disaster Evacuation Calls ( 自然災害発生時の避難勧告・指示文の分類と言語学的分析), Project #: 26370490
Amount: ￥250,000 (amount allotted to Jason Ginsburg);￥2,700,000 for the whole project

Academic Service
2019 - present

English Linguistic Society of Japan, Editorial Board Member
Kansai Linguistic Society, Editorial Board Member
Anonymous reviewing for the following journals:
Language and Linguistics
Lingua13

Linguistic Inquiry
English Linguistics, Journal of the English Linguistic Society of Japan
Evolutionary Linguistic Theory
Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research
Anonymous reviewing for the following conferences & workshops:
International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA ’10(2010)The Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting (2010, 2011)
University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council travel grantapplications (2008)
The 1st Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC1) (2007)

University Service
2019 - 20242018 - 2024
2014 - 2024

2014 - 20172012 - 20132010 - 20112007

Teacher’s License Approval Committee (Osaka Kyoiku University)
Foreign Language Study Abroad Committee (Osaka Kyoiku University)
University Information Processing Center Management Committee (Osaka
Kyoiku University)
English Communication Course (formerly European and American Languages
and Cultures) website manager (Osaka Kyoiku University)
Department of Arts and Sciences web and publicity working group (Osaka
Kyoiku University)
President of the Support Association for International Students of the University of Aizu
2012 Freshman class mentor (University of Aizu)
2010 Freshman class mentor (University of Aizu)
Organization Committee for the 1st Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle,
Session Chair for the 36th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of
the Southwest

University Teaching2024-Present

2022-2023
Semester

Kyoto University
Linguistics, Syntax, General English
Fall

Kobe University
English Linguistics

2015-Present

Doshisha University
Introduction to linguistics, English Communication, English Presentation, Translation14

2014-2016

Kyoto University
English Writing

2013-Present

Osaka Kyoiku University
English Communication, Introduction to linguistics, Syntax, Academic Writing, Academic Presentation, Information and Communication Technology, Computational Linguistics/Natural Language
Processing

2009-2013

University of Aizu, Center for Language Research
Introduction to Syntax, Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing, Introduction to Linguistics, Thesis Writing, English Speaking and Writing, English Listening and Reading

2008

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Summer Session)

2007-2008

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Winter Session)

2007

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Summer Session)

2006

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Summer Session)

2005

University of Arizona, Center for English as a Second Language
Academic Writing (Summer Session)
Academic Conversation (Summer Session)

2004

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Summer Session)
University of Arizona, Center for English as a Second Language
Academic Writing (Summer Session)
Academic Conversation (Summer Session)

2002-2003

Kansai Gaidai University (Osaka, Japan)
English conversation, Writing (Fall and Spring Semesters)

University Teaching: Teaching Assistant
2008

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Spring Semester) for Prof. Alina
Twist

2007

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
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INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Spring and Fall Semesters) for
Prof. Amy Fountain
2006

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Fall Semester) for Prof. Amy
Fountain
LING 300 Introduction to Syntax (Fall Semester) for Prof. Andrew
Barss
INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Spring Semester) for Prof. Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

2005

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
LING 201 Introduction to Linguistics (Fall Semester) for Prof. Adam
Ussishkin

2004

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Spring Semester) for Prof.
Richard Demers

2003

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
INDV 101 Mind, Self and Language (Fall Semester) for Prof. Lee
FulmerResearch Work Experience
2008 - 2009

Research Assistant
University of Arizona, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Asymmetric Threat Response and Analysis Project (Prof. Jerzy Rozenblit,
Director)
Worked on adding named entity recognition capabilities to software.

2004 - 2005

Lab Manager
SPAM lab (Prof. Michael Hammond, Director)
Worked as the lab manager, helped design and implement psycholinguistics
experiments.

2005 - 2009

Volunteer Lab Member
SPAM lab (Prof. Michael Hammond, Director)

MA Thesis Supervision
2023

Kana Ishigami Issues with dyslexia from an educational point of view:
Reviewing Japanese English teachers’ awareness of dyslexia

2020

Yumiko Hagio About problems that English learners in Japan havewith participles
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Workshops, Public Lectures
March 18, 2016

大阪教育大学 Moodle 講習会 活用事例報告 (Presentation about how to use
Moodle in classes), Presented at the Osaka Kyoiku University Moodle Workshop, Osaka Kyoiku University

February 1, 2013

英語の習得上で知っておくべき英語と日本語の文法の違い (English and Japanesegrammatical diﬀerences that you should know about when learning English),
Lecture given at Gakuho High School, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan

October 20, 2012

Discussion forum on learning English, University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu,
Japan

June 8, 2012

Lecture on English pronunciation, given at Tamura High School, Tamura,
Fukushima, Japan

October 31, 2011

言語の構造への入門 (An introduction to the structure of language), Lecture
given in Japanese at Tachibana High School, Fukushima City, Fukushima,
Japan

October 22, 2011

Discussion forum on learning English, University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu,
Japan

June 12, 2010

Discussion forum on learning English, University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu,
Japan

Other Teaching Experience
2002-2003

Matsushita Electric Ind. Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), Shiga and Kyoto,
Japan
Taught English conversation to company employees.
American University English Language Institute, Washington, DC
Taught conversation and writing as part of an internship for MA
degree in TESOL

2001

ELS Language Center, Washington, DC
Taught English conversation and writing.
Stratford College, Falls Church, Virginia
Taught English conversation and listening.

1998-2001

Osaka English Academy, Osaka, Japan
Taught English conversation to children and adults.

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Other Work Experience
2002-2003

Alpha Top International, Kyoto, Japan
Translated documents from Japanese into English, checked the accuracy ofEnglish translations of Japanese documents.

Languages
English (native), Japanese (ﬂuent; passed the level one of the Japanese Language Proﬁciency Test - 1998)

Computer Knowledge
I have knowledge of: Python, HTML, JavaScript, LATEX, R, Prolog

Professional Aﬃliations
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ)The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ)
Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS)
Kansai Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan (ELSJ)

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