Research keywords (5):
Japanese Language Teaching
, 外国語教育
, Pragmatics
, Semantics
, Grammatical Theory
Research theme for competitive and other funds (1):
2007 - 2009 A Study of Floating Numeral Quantifiers in Japanese within the framework of Dynamic Syntax
Papers (39):
Kenji Yokota. The Role of Complement/Adjunct Identification in the L2 Acquisition. International Journal of Linguistics Studies. 2024. 4. 3. 83-88
Kenji Yokota. A Dynamic-Syntactic Perspective on Arguments and Adjuncts. Kerala University Journal of Linguistics. 2022. 4. 80-88
Kenji Yokota. Prosody and Interpretation of Floating Numeral Quantifier Constructions in Japanese. Proceedings of The 19th Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. 2020. 19. 80-95
Chujo Kiyomi, Hamada Akira, Wakamatsu Hiroko, Kobayashi Yuichiro, Yokota Kenji, Uchiyama Masao, Akasegawa Shiro, Michelle Johnson, Nishigaki Chikako. The Fourth Phase of Development of the Sentence Corpus of Remedial English (SCoRE). 日本大学生産工学部研究報告B(文系). 2018. 51. 1-12
Kenji Yokota. Some Notes on Atomicity and Distributivity in Japanese. International Journal of Linguistics. 2017. 9. 6. 37-53
On Floating Numeral Quantifiers in Japanese. In "Linguistic Workshop Series Vol. 9: The Dynamics of the Language. Faculty"
Kuroshio Publishers: Tokyo 2009
Lectures and oral presentations (8):
Evaluation and Enhancement of Japanese Language Education in an English-Medium Degree Program: A Preliminary Study at a Japanese University
(The 14th International Symposium on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies, Hong Kong 2025)
Building Meaning in Context: A Dynamic-Syntactic Perspective on Arguments and Adjuncts
(The International Webinar on ‘Current Trends in Lexical Semantics’ 2022)
Prosody and Interpretation of Floating Numeral Quantifier Constructions in Japanese
(The nineteenth Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society 2020)
A New Perspective on Argument/Adjunct Distinction in the Theory of Grammar
(The Second International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-2) 2019)
Prosody and Quantifier Float
(Journées Sémantique et ModélisationConference on Semantics and Formal Modelling 2010)
- 2001 University of Tokyo Graduate School, Division of General Culture Language and Information Sciences
Professional career (2):
修士(学術) (東京大学)
Doctor of Philosophy (Language and Culture) (Osaka Prefecture University)
Work history (8):
2022/04 - 現在 Tokyo International University Japanese Language Institute [JLI] Professor
2018/04 - 2022/03 Tokyo International University Institute of Language Education professor
2016/04 - 2018/03 College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University Professor
2011/04 - 2016/03/31 College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University Associate Professor
2008/04 - 2011/03 College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University Assistant Professor
2007/04 - 2008/03 Faculty of Education and Culture, Akita University Associate Professor
2004/04 - 2007/03 Faculty of Education and Culture, Akita University Assistant Professor
2001/10 - 2004/03 Japanese Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge Lector
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Association Membership(s) (4):
The British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
, The Japan Second Language Association
, THE SOCIETY OF JAPANESE GRAMMAR
, The Linguistic Society of Japan