Wataru Uegaki
Lecturer
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 651 1839
- Email: w.uegaki@ed.ac.uk
- Web: http://www.wataruuegaki.com
Address
- Street
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Room 2.10, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Availability
Office hours: 10-11am Monday. Please feel free to drop by my office at any other time or contact me by email to schedule a meeting.
Background
- 2019-: Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
- 2016-2019: Assistant Professor, Leiden University
- 2015-2016: Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Keio University (Tokyo) & Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS/ENS (Paris)
- 2015: Ph.D., MIT Linguistics
- 2010: M.A., University of Tokyo
- 2008: B.A., University of Tokyo
Undergraduate teaching
- Contributor to pre-honours "Linguistics and English Language 1B" (6 hours)
- Honours "Current Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics" (co-taught with Rob Truswell)
Postgraduate teaching
- MSc "Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics"
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
- Takanobu Nakamura
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Question marker drop in Japanese and Generalized Factivity
(6 pages)
In:
ICU Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 7, pp. 57-62
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
The 'hope-wh' puzzle
In:
Natural Language Semantics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-019-09156-5
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
The semantics of question-embedding predicates
(17 pages)
In:
Language and Linguistics Compass, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12308
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Distributive ignorance inferences with wonder and believe
In:
Semantics and Pragmatics
Contribution to journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Do modals take propositions or sets of propositions? Evidence from Japanese `darou'
(21 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v28i0.4427
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
The distributive ignorance puzzle
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
Japanese alternative questions and a unified in-situ semantics for ka
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
A unified semantics for the Japanese Q-particle `ka' in indefinites, questions and disjunctions
(45 pages)
In:
Glossa, vol. 3, pp. 1-45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.238
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
On the projection of the presupposition of embedded questions
(20 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v28i0.4411
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
Predicates of relevance and theories of question embedding
(8 pages)
In:
Journal of Semantics, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 547-554
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffx008
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
The anti-rogativity of non-veridical preferential predicates
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
Content nouns and the semantics of question-embedding
(38 pages)
In:
Journal of Semantics, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 623-660
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffv009
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Japanese alternative questions are disjunctions of polar questions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v24i0.2423
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
Cross-linguistic variation in the derivation of alternative questions : Japanese and beyond
(24 pages)
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Published) -
Predicting the distribution of exhaustive inference in a QUD model
(12 pages)
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published)