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Ai Taniguchi, PhD
Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) - English Language Linguistics and Online Teaching
University of Toronto Mississauga
Department of Language Studies
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Research interests (broadly): formal semantics, formal pragmatics, sociolinguistics

Research interests (specifically): dynamic semantics, multi-dimensional semantics, non-at-issue meaning, expressives, social meaning, illocutionary meaning, sentence-final particles in Japanese, Japanese

Dissertation: The formal pragmatics of non-at-issue intensification in English and Japanese [pdf]

Recent work [see CV]:

• Multidimensional/dynamic semantics and social meaning:
  
• Paper: [submitted]
• Slides: [Oxford slides] [MIST 2019 slides] [invited talk at UToronto] [invited talk at HHU-Dusseldorf]
• The formal pragmatics of "Role language" (yakuwarigo) like -nya in Japanese
  
• For non-specialist audience: [LSA 5-Minute Linguist slides]
  
• For linguists: [invited talk at UToronto] [invited talk at HHU-Dusseldorf]
• Paper: [in prep]
• Pejorative use of the Japanese extender -nanka
  
• Handout: [ESSLLI 2017 handout]
• Paper: [in prep]
  
• Inversion exclamatives and negative inversion exclamatives in English
  
• Most recent version: [see diss]
• Older version: [SuB21 proceedings]
• Even older version: [ConSOLE24 proceedings]
  
• Verum focus in English [see diss]
• Sentence-final particle -yo  (notification particle)  / -ka-yo  in Japanese
• Most recent version: [see diss]
• Older version: [FAJL8 proceedings]
  

I've also worked on: expletive negation in Japanese (sociolinguistics), the truncation of Japanese loanword compounds in Japansese (phonology)

Also interested in: pedagogy in linguistics