JUN TAMURA

Last Updated :2026/09/09

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor (Special Appointment)
Web Site
https://jtamura.sites.ucsc.edu/
E-mail
jtamurahiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • University of California Santa Cruz
  • TOHOKU UNIVERSITY

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Linguistics;Linguistics

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • English Linguistic Society of Japan

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Fundamentals of Teaching Japanese as a Second Language
  2. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Pedagogical Japanese Grammar
  3. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Linguistic Structure of Japanese
  4. 2026, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Theory and Methodology of Linguistic Science
  5. 2026, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Specific Study of Japanese as a Second Language I
  6. 2026, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Specific Study of Japanese as a Second Language II
  7. 2026, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
  8. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Introduction of Teaching Practice for Lower and Upper Secondary Schools
  9. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Structure of Japanese Language
  10. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Topics in Structure of Japanese Language
  11. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Tutorial Seminar in Special Topics
  12. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Tutorial Seminar in Special Topics

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Uniformity and Variation in Comparison: Comparatives and Superlatives in Japanese from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 2026
  2. A clausal analysis of a class of phrasal comparatives in Japanese, Proceedings of SUB 30, 2026
  3. DP-internal relative readings of Japanese Ichiban superlatives, Proceedings of SUB 29, 2025
  4. Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Japanese Aoyagi morphemes, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 43(4), 3069-3122, 2025
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  5. Superlatives without degree abstraction: Ichiban superlatives in Japanese, MIT Working Paper, 2025
  6. COMPLEMENTIZERS AT THE SYNTAX-PHONOLOGY INTERFACE, ENGLISH LINGUISTICS, 39(1), 37-70, 2022
  7. Complementizers at the syntax-phonology interface, Explorations in English Linguistics 34, 2020
  8. Licensing of “wh-mo” in syntax and phonology, Proceedings of the 160th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 77-83, 2020
  9. A phonological analysis on complementizers, Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of the Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, 2019
  10. Another Look at Verb Movement in Japanese, Linguistica Atlantica, 36(1), 1-11, 2017

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Uniformity and Variation in Comparison: Comparatives and Superlatives in Japanese from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, Tokyo Theoretical Linguistics Colloquium, 2026, With Invitation, Japanese
  2. A single source analysis of comparatives and superlatives in Japanese, WCCFL44, 2026, Without Invitation, English
  3. A clausal analysis of a class of phrasal comparatives in Japanese, JP LingGrads in the US, 2025, With Invitation, Japanese
  4. The scope of -er: Evidence from Japanese yori comparatives, JK 32, 2025, Without Invitation, English
  5. A small-clause analysis of a class of phrasal comparatives in Japanese, SICOGG 27, 2025, Without Invitation, English
  6. A clausal analysis of a class of phrasal comparatives in Japanese, SUB 30, 2025, Without Invitation, English
  7. Embedded questions as definite descriptions: An insight from Japanese, Li, Haoze, Jun Tamura, Li, Haoze, Jun Tamura, SUB 29, Without Invitation, English
  8. Relative readings of Japanese Ichiban superlatives, SUB 29, 2024, Without Invitation, English
  9. Embedded questions as definite descriptions: An insight from Japanese, Li, Haoze, Jun Tamura, SICOGG 26/WAFL 18, 2024, Without Invitation, English
  10. Superlatives without degree abstraction: Ichiban superlatives in Japanese, SICOGG 26/WAFL 18, Without Invitation, English
  11. Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Aoyagi morphemes, M100, 2023, Without Invitation, English
  12. Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Aoyagi morphemes, SICOGG 25, 2023, Without Invitation, English
  13. Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Aoyagi morphemes, WAFL 17, 2023, Without Invitation, English
  14. Licensing of "wh-mo" in syntax and phonology, 160th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 2020, Without Invitation, Japanese
  15. On the distribution of a conjunction that and the availability of iits omission., Consecutive Symposium "Putting Academic Knowledge to Education" of the 138th Annual Meeting of the Association of European and American Language and Culture, 2019, With Invitation, Japanese
  16. A phonological analysis on complementizers, 74th Annual Meeting of the Tohoku Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, 2019, Without Invitation, Japanese