Dr. Kaori Furuya
University of North Texas
World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
(940) 565-2404
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Education

PhD, The City University of New York, 2009.
Major: Linguistics
Degree Specialization: Linguistics
Dissertation Title: The DP hypothesis through the lens of Japanese nominal collocation constructions
MPhil, The City University of New York, 2004.
Major: Linguistics
MEd, Shizuoka University, 1996.
Major: English Education
Degree Specialization: Linguistics in English Education
BEd, Shizuoka University, 1994.
Major: English Education

Professional Positions

Professional
Associate Professor of Japanese and Linguistics, University of North Texas. (September 1, 2020 – Present).
Assistant Professor of Japanese and Linguistics, University of North Texas. (September 1, 2014 – August 30, 2020).
Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University. (September 1, 2013 – May 31, 2014).

Professional Memberships

Texas Foreign Language Association. (January 6, 2017 – Present).

The Japanese Society for Language Sciences. (January 2018 – December 2018).

The Linguistic Association of the Southwest. (2017 – January 2018).

the English Linguistic Society of Japan. (January 2017 – December 2017).

CerLiCO, Université de Nantes. (January 2016 – December 2016).

Development Activities Attended

Workshop,"Embed Quiz Questions in Video with Canvas Studio," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (November 6, 2023 – November 6, 2023).

Workshop,"Research Breaks Seeding Success," UNT, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (October 25, 2023 – October 25, 2023).

Workshop,"Better Writing and Less Time Grading with Packback Discussion," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (October 24, 2023 – October 24, 2023).

Tutorial,"UNT Ethics and Standards of Conduct," UNT, United States of America. (December 21, 2022 – December 21, 2022).

Workshop,"Faculty Involvement for Finding CLASS," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (December 2, 2022 – December 2, 2022).

Workshop,"Faculty Advocate Network," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (October 17, 2022 – October 17, 2022).

Tutorial,"Information Security Handbook and Data Protection 2022-2023," UNT, United States of America. (October 5, 2022 – October 5, 2022).

Tutorial,"Texas Cybersecurity Awareness Training 2022-2023," UNT, United States of America. (October 5, 2022 – October 5, 2022).

Workshop,"Faculty Advocate Network," UNT, Denton, United States of America. (September 28, 2022 – September 28, 2022).

Tutorial,"Assessment Design for Academic Integrity," UNT, United States of America. (April 28, 2022 – April 28, 2022).

Workshop,"Workshop for promotion," UNT, United States of America. (April 23, 2022 – April 23, 2022).

Tutorial,"Cultural Humility: Developing Inclusive Attitudes," UNT, United States of America. (April 20, 2022 – April 20, 2022).

Workshop,"FACULTY WRITING PANEL WORKSHOP," UNT, United States of America. (February 21, 2022 – February 21, 2022).

Tutorial,"Ethics and Standards of Conduct," UNT, United States of America. (February 1, 2022 – February 1, 2022).

Tutorial,"Cybersecurity Awareness Training," UNT, United States of America. (October 26, 2021 – October 26, 2021).

Workshop,"From Panapto to Canvas Studio," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (August 4, 2021 – August 4, 2021).

Workshop,"Mental Health First Aid," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (July 15, 2021 – July 15, 2021).

Other,"One-to-one training for Curriculog," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (June 22, 2021 – June 22, 2021).

Tutorial,"Anti-Bias & Cultural Awareness Program," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (June 1, 2021 – June 1, 2021).

Tutorial,"ABCA- Inclusive Leadership Program," UNT, United States of America. (May 25, 2021 – May 25, 2021).

Workshop,"Cultures and Languages in and beyond the Time of COVID," Stocken University-Global Engagement, Galloway, New Jersey, United States of America. (May 14, 2021 – May 14, 2021).

Workshop,"NEH Award and More," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (April 27, 2021 – April 27, 2021).

Workshop,"Faculty Development Leave Virtual Worship," UNT, United States of America. (April 12, 2021 – April 12, 2021).

Tutorial,"SPOT origination," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (April 1, 2021 – April 1, 2021).

Tutorial,"Introduction to Microsoft Teams," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (December 10, 2020 – December 10, 2020).

Tutorial,"Anti-Bias & Cultural Awareness Program Speaker Series: Introduction to Inclusion in Higher Educational Settings," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (November 6, 2020 – November 6, 2020).

Other,"One-to-one training for Curriculog," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (October 20, 2020 – October 20, 2020).

Other,"How to Get the Most out of Zoom," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (May 15, 2020 – May 15, 2020).

Other,"How to Work with Exams and Quizzes in Canvas," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (May 14, 2020 – May 14, 2020).

Other,"How to Work with Graded Assignments," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (May 14, 2020 – May 14, 2020).

Other,"How to Implement Discussions in Canvas," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (May 13, 2020 – May 13, 2020).

Other,"How to Organize Your Course," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (May 12, 2020 – May 12, 2020).

Other,"Working with Graded Assignments in Canvas," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (May 12, 2020 – May 12, 2020).

Tutorial,"Security Awareness Training," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (November 13, 2019 – November 13, 2019).

Workshop,"Canvas Bootcamp," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (December 1, 2017 – December 1, 2017).

Workshop,"Progress towards tenure," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (November 14, 2017 – November 14, 2017).

Workshop,"Clicker Cloud Training," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (November 3, 2017 – November 3, 2017).

Workshop,"Team Based Learning Workshop," UNT, Denton, TX, Australia. (April 11, 2017 – April 11, 2017).

Workshop,"FIS Training," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (March 1, 2017 – March 1, 2017).

Workshop,"Search Committee Training," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (January 24, 2017 – January 24, 2017).

Workshop,"Pathway to Tenure and Promotion," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (January 18, 2017 – January 18, 2017).

Workshop,"Meeting about progress towards," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (November 30, 2016 – November 30, 2016).

Workshop,"Information to Blackboard Learning Grade Center," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (July 30, 2015 – July 30, 2015).

Workshop,"Media & Blackboard Training," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (July 30, 2015 – July 30, 2015).

Workshop,"Promotion and Tenure Workshop," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (February 5, 2015 – February 5, 2015).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
JAPN 3020, Advanced Japanese I, 8 courses.
JAPN 3030, Advanced Japanese II, 4 courses.
JAPN 3040, Advanced Topics in Japanese Culture, 1 course.
JAPN 3060, Advanced Topics in Japanese Language, 4 courses.
JAPN 3064, Japanese Grammar and Kanji, 1 course.
JAPN 4020, Advanced Japanese III, 5 courses.
JAPN 4030, Advanced Japanese IV, 5 courses.
JAPN 4040, Advanced Topics in Japanese Culture, 11 courses.
JAPN 4042, Japanese Ghost Stories, 1 course.
JAPN 4044, Lives of the Samurai, 1 course.
JAPN 4900, SPECIAL PROBLEMS, 4 courses.
WLLC 2980, Experimental Course, 1 course.

Teaching at Other Institutions

Texas Christian University, JAPN 30123, 30113, 20123,, Spring 2014.

Texas Christian University, JAPN 20113, 10123, 10113, Fall 2013.

Grand Valley State University, Fall 2011.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings
Furuya, K. (2018). The syntax of Japanese postverbal elements: rethinking right dislocation. Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo: Kaitakusha Publishing Company,. http://elsj.jp/english_linguistics-eng/
Furuya, K. (2015). PRO and Phi-feature Mismatch in Imposter Construction. WPCL Digital edition, University of Victoria.
Journal Article
Furuya, K. (2020). Additional bi-clausal types of Japanese right dislocation. 36(2), 225-251. De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jjl-2020-2025/html
Furuya, K. (2020). Structure and Inference in Japanese Right-Dislocation. 21(4), 557-580. John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lali.00070.fur
Furuya, K. (2019). A Cross-linguistic study of imposter constructions. 9(1), 1-10. London: Academy Publication. http://www.academypublication.com/ojs/index.php/tpls/article/view/tpls09010110
Furuya, K. (2018). A reconsideration of the (non-)uniform syntax of Korean right-dislocation. 35(2), 275-304. Seoul: Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University. http://isli.khu.ac.kr/journal/content/data/35_2/2.pdf
Furuya, K. (2017). (Under)specification of the person feature in relative clauses. 64(2), 281-311. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. http://akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1556/2062.2017.64.2.6
Furuya, K. (2017). Two types of 3rd person in English. (4), 40-46. Elsevier. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039016300637
Furuya, K. (2016). PRO and (Under)specification of Person in Imposter Constructions. 6(9), 1799-2591. London: Academy Publication. http://www.academypublication.com/tpls/

Presentations Given

Exhibit

Furuya, K., The CUNY/SUNY/NYU Mini-Conference, On the pronoun-noun constructions, City University of New York, NY, City University of New York, NY, United States of America. (2003 – 2003).

Oral Presentation

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), English Linguistics Society 16th International Spring Forum 2023, The Right Sides of Japanese Sentences with Resultatives, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, online (via Zoom), Japan. (2023 – 2023).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), The 13th Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, On the Identification of the Null Category in Japanese Right Dislocation, National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan. (2023 – 2023).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), English Linguistics Society 15th International Spring Forum 2022, The Right Sides of Japanese Sentences, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, online (via Zoom), Japan. (2022 – 2022).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2021, Unagreement is Illusion, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC via Zoom, United States of America. (2021 – 2021).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), Workshop: Agreement in Multivaluation Constructions (AMC 2021), Unagreement is Illusion in Imposter Constructions, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany, Zoom, Germany. (2021 – 2021).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), 14th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society, Reconsideration of Japanese Right-Dislocation, Kansai University, Japan, Zoom, Japan. (2021 – 2021).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), 13th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan (cancelled due to the COVID 19), Japanese Right-Dislocation Constructions with Adverbials, Kansai University, Japan, Osaka, Japan, Japan. (2020 – 2020).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), 48th Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Mono-clausal analysis for Japanese right dislocation New evidence with postverbal adverbials, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), 12th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, vP movement in Japanese right-dislocation constructions, English Linguistics, the journal of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, Japan. (2019 – 2019).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Person and number agreement in Spanish, Austin TX, United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), The Japanese Society for Language Sciences, The Right Periphery in Japanese Right-Dislocation, Japan, Japan. (2018 – 2018).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Person agreement in Spanish, Texas Tech University, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), 46th Linguistics Association of the Southwest, Person feature and agreement, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), 3rd International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies, Japanese Right Dislocation, the Chartered Institute of Linguists Hong Kong Society, Hong Kong, China, China. (2017 – 2017).

Furuya, K. (Author & Presenter), 10th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Japanese postverbal elements, English Linguistics, the journal of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, Japan. (2017 – 2017).

Furuya, K. (Author), Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, Specification of the Person Feature in Pronominal Binding, the Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale, France,, Paris, France, France. (2016 – 2016).

Furuya, K. (Author), The Agreement - Non-Agreement 30th Annual Conference CerLiCO), Referential DPs and Binding Conditions, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France, France. (2016 – 2016).

Furuya, K. (Presenter), (Under)specification of the Person Feature in Restrictive Relatives, The linguistics department at Université de Nantes, Université de Nantes, France, France. (2016 – 2016).

Furuya, K. (Author), 31st Northwest Linguistic Conference, PRO and Phi-feature Mismatch in Imposter Constructions, University of Victoria, Canada, University of Victoria, Canada, Canada. (2015 – 2015).

Furuya, K., 19th Workshop on East Asian Languages, Grammar of the Sentence-Final Particles Yo and Ne, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. (2013 – 2013).

Furuya, K., 28th Northwest Linguistics Conference, On agreement of Full NPs and Personal pronouns, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. (2012 – 2012).

Furuya, K., 5th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Partitives and Specificity effects, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, P. R. China, China. (2011 – 2011).

Furuya, K., The Illinois Language and Linguistics Society 3, Specificity effects for Japanese, an articleless language, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America. (2011 – 2011).

Furuya, K., Workshop in General Linguistics 9, Phase DP hypothesis for Japanese noun phrases, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2011 – 2011).

Furuya, K., Japanese Society for Language Sciences at the 11th Annual International Conference, This property of Japanese is shared by d-pronouns in German., the Tokyo Denki University, Japan, the Tokyo Denki University, Japan, Japan. (2009 – 2009).

Furuya, K., 31st University of Pennsylvania Linguistic Colloquium, DP Hypothesis for Japanese ‘bare’ noun phrases, 31st University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, 31st University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America. (2007 – 2007).

Furuya, K., 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics, Japanese noun phrases and the DP hypothesis, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Massachusetts, United States of America. (2007 – 2007).

Furuya, K., The CUNY/SUNY/NYU Mini-Conference, Bare nouns in Japanese, New York University, New York, New York University, New York, United States of America. (2007 – 2007).

Furuya, K., The Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics,, DP Hypothesis for Japanese: Is a case marker a Determiner of DP?, Georgetown University, Connecticut, Georgetown University, Connecticut, United States of America. (2007 – 2007).

Furuya, K., 1st Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics, Us linguists, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, United States of America. (2003 – 2003).

Poster

Furuya, K., 13th Annual Conference of Pragmatics Society, Syntactic constraint on referentiality/specificity, Osaka, Japan, Japan. (2010 – 2010).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Service
Furuya, K., "Fund for the cultural event (Japanese tea ceremony)," Sponsored by Multicultural Center, Other, $500 Funded. (April 13, 2016 – April 13, 2016).
Grant - Teaching
Furuya, K. (Other), "Fund for the Japanese National Exam," Sponsored by WLLC, Other, $400 Funded. (March 2015 – March 2015).

Service

University Service

Member, Committee on the Status of Faculty of Color. (September 2023 – Present).

Other, Personnel Affairs Committee. (September 1, 2023 – Present).

Member, Curriculum Committee. (October 2020 – Present).

Faculty Advisor, Japanese Cultural Organization. (August 2016 – Present).

Committee Chair, Japanese tenure-trach search. (September 1, 2023 – 2024).

Faculty Advisor, Regional speech content. (December 2023 – January 2024).

Program Organizer, Workshop for JET interview (Japanese program). (January 19, 2024 – January 19, 2024).

Other, Teaching Needs Assessment Focus Groups. (December 8, 2023 – December 8, 2023).

Program Organizer, Conversation Table with the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. (December 1, 2023 – December 1, 2023).

Program Organizer, Conversation Table with the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. (October 27, 2023 – October 27, 2023).

Faculty Advisor, Regional speech content. (December 2022 – January 2023).

Member, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee for Tenure-Track Professors. (September 2020 – December 2022).

Program Organizer, Pen Pal workshop. (April 2022 – May 2022).

Chairperson, Personnel Affairs Committee. (September 2021 – May 2022).

Member, Japanese Lecturer Search. (February 10, 2022 – May 25, 2022).

Guest Speaker, Guest Speaker Invitation for APIDA Heritage Month Lunch Event. (May 4, 2022 – May 4, 2022).

Program Organizer, Workshop for job search. (April 21, 2022 – April 21, 2022).

Other, Japanese SACS Assessment. (April 15, 2022 – April 15, 2022).

Member, API-MENA (and API-DA). (March 30, 2022 – March 30, 2022).

Program Organizer, Workshop for JET interview (Japanese program). (January 25, 2022 – January 25, 2022).

Faculty Advisor, Japanese speech contest. (October 10, 2021 – January 10, 2022).

Other, Proposals in Curriculog. (October 2021 – December 2021).

Program Organizer, Meet Our Alumni (Japanese program). (November 10, 2021 – November 10, 2021).

Program Organizer, Meet Our Alumni (Japanese program). (October 21, 2021 – October 21, 2021).

Program Organizer, Workshop for Job Search. (October 20, 2021 – October 20, 2021).

Program Organizer, Workshop for Job Search. (September 22, 2021 – September 22, 2021).

Other, Create documents for SACS. (May 16, 2021 – May 16, 2021).

Program Organizer, Japanese Honor Society Induction. (May 6, 2021 – May 6, 2021).

Program Organizer, Meet Our Alumni (Japanese program). (April 7, 2021 – April 7, 2021).

Program Organizer, Meet Our Alumni (Japanese program). (March 6, 2021 – March 6, 2021).

Program Organizer, Workshop for JET interview (Japanese program). (January 28, 2021 – January 28, 2021).

Faculty Advisor, Japanese Speech Contest. (December 10, 2020 – January 10, 2021).

Prepare/Grade Certification Exams, WLLC. (November 16, 2020 – November 19, 2020).

Program Organizer, Meet Our Alumni (Japanese program). (October 21, 2020 – October 21, 2020).

Program Organizer, JET Info Session (Japanese program). (October 8, 2020 – October 8, 2020).

Chairperson, Advertising and Recruitment Committee. (August 2019 – May 2020).

Prepare/Grade Certification Exams, WLLC. (May 17, 2020 – May 20, 2020).

Faculty Advisor, Japanese Speech Contest. (December 2019 – February 10, 2020).

Member, Japanese Lecturer Search Committee. (September 2019 – December 2019).

Member, Executive Committee. (August 2017 – May 2019).

Faculty Advisor, Japanese Speech contest. (December 2018 – February 10, 2019).

Other, Proposal of UCC application (WLLC 3600). (December 2, 2018 – December 11, 2018).

Other, Japanese Program. (November 16, 2018 – November 16, 2018).

Other, Create documents for SACS. (October 3, 2018 – October 11, 2018).

Workshop Organizer, Japanese Program. (October 4, 2018 – October 5, 2018).

Other, WLLC Film Festival. (April 10, 2018 – April 10, 2018).

Other, Onigiri Social. (March 19, 2018 – March 19, 2018).

Other, Japanese Program. (February 12, 2018 – February 12, 2018).

Faculty Advisor, Japanese speech contest. (December 2017 – February 10, 2018).

Member, Search committee for a full-time lecturer in Japanese. (September 2017 – December 2017).

Other, Guest Speaker. (November 2017 – November 7, 2017).

Member, Search committee for a full-time lecturer in Japanese. (May 2017 – June 2017).

Co-Chair, Departmental movie festival. (January 2017 – April 2017).

Other, WLLC Film Festival. (April 13, 2017 – April 13, 2017).

Other, Visit Hitachi, Japanese company. (April 4, 2017 – April 4, 2017).

Other, Omusubi Social. (March 3, 2017 – March 3, 2017).

Member, Search Committee for French Tenure Position. (September 2016 – February 2017).

Member, Search committee for a full-time lecturer in Japanese. (August 2016 – December 2016).

Workshop Organizer, Japanese Program. (November 29, 2016 – November 29, 2016).

Other, Onigiri Social. (October 24, 2016 – October 24, 2016).

Member, Curriculum Committee. (September 2015 – May 2016).

Member, Presenter of a Japanese movie at the WLLC international film festival. (April 2016 – April 2016).

Other, Japanese Tea Ceremony. (April 13, 2016 – April 13, 2016).

Other, Survey of the Japanese Program. (December 2015 – December 2015).

Other, Research on Japanese Program Nathionwide. (September 2015 – November 2015).

Other, Meeting with Deputy Consul-General. (November 18, 2015 – November 18, 2015).

Member, Search committee for a full-time lecturer in Japanese. (March 2015 – June 2015).

Member, Core Curriculum committee. (January 2015 – May 2015).

Member, Event committee. (January 2015 – May 2015).

Member, Recruitment committee. (January 2015 – May 2015).

Member, Presenter of a Japanese movie at the WLLC international film festival. (April 2015 – April 2015).

Other, Mean Green Fling. (April 11, 2015 – April 11, 2015).

Other, Japanese National Exam. (March 31, 2015 – March 31, 2015).

Other, Omusubi Social. (March 5, 2015 – March 5, 2015).

Professional Service

Member, Member of group selecting candidates for the Japan Exchange Program and Teaching (JET), Houston, TX. (January 29, 2024 – January 29, 2024).

Member, Member of group selecting candidates for the Japan Exchange Program and Teaching (JET), Houston, TX. (January 27, 2023 – January 27, 2023).

Other, Member of group selecting candidates, Houston, Texas. (February 4, 2022 – February 4, 2022).

Member, Member of group selecting candidates for the Japan Exchange Program and Teaching (JET), Houston, TX. (February 4, 2022 – February 4, 2022).

Other, Member of group selecting candidates, Houston, Texas. (January 28, 2022 – January 28, 2022).

Member, Member of group selecting candidates for the Japan Exchange Program and Teaching (JET), Houston, TX. (January 28, 2022 – January 28, 2022).

Other, Member of group selecting candidates, Houston, Texas. (March 5, 2021 – March 5, 2021).

Session Chair, Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Austin, TX. (October 26, 2018 – October 26, 2018).

Member, Member of group selecting candidates for the Japan Exchange Program and Teaching (JET). (February 2015 – February 2015).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Reviewer of a manuscript for Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. (2013 – 2013).

Member, Member of group selecting candidates for the Japan Exchange Program and Teaching (JET), Chicago, Illinois. (February 2009 – February 2009).

Member, Member of group selecting candidates for the Japan Exchange Program and Teaching (JET), New York, New York. (February 2008 – February 2008).

Member, Member of the organizing committee of the 8th International Conference, New York, New York. (2007 – 2007).

Member, To select candidates for the JET program, New York, New York. (February 2007 – February 2007).

Member, Member of group selecting candidates for the Japan Exchange Program and Teaching (JET), New York, New York. (February 2006 – February 2006).

Member, Member of group selecting candidates for the Japan Exchange Program and Teaching (JET), New York, New York. (February 2005 – February 2005).

Member, Member of the organizing committee of the 32nd North East Linguistic Society Conference, New York, New York. (2001 – 2001).