Kaori Furuya

Kaori Furuya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Japanese at the University of North Texas (UNT). Her academic work focuses on theoretical linguistics, syntax, and phi-feature specification in Japanese and cross-linguistic contexts.

Research Interests: Furuya's research explores syntactic structures, particularly right-dislocation, imposter constructions, and the DP hypothesis in Japanese and related languages. She investigates how phi-features (person, number, gender) are specified or under-specified in various grammatical contexts.

Article Trends: Her publications emphasize syntactic analysis, cross-linguistic comparisons, and theoretical frameworks. Key topics include right-dislocation, phi-feature mismatches, and nominal collocation structures in articleless languages like Japanese.