RYOSUKE HATTORI

BIO

I am from Hiroshima, Japan. Upon graduation from my high school, I went to Canada for studying English for 10 months, before going to New Zealand for a 1 year working holiday (I worked as a housekeeper; see the picture). During this time in the foreign countries, I met people from all over the world, and found that there are many cross-linguistic similarities among different languages they speak. It is this experience that made me interested in human language and led me to start my career as a researcher in linguistics.

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I have been working on a cross-linguistic analysis of the null operator movement (in e.g. comparatives, "tough" sentences) in many languages including Japanese and English, based on the syntactic theory. I am also studying the child language acquisition through experiments (such as the TVJT or the IPL) and the corpus data analysis.