Shuichi Yatabe

Shuichi Yatabe is a Professor of Language and Information Sciences at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University (1993) and specializes in syntax, semantics, and Japanese linguistics with a focus on formal grammar theories. His research explores phenomena like non-constituent coordination, scrambling, and linearization effects in Japanese syntax and semantics.

Research Interests: Specializing in syntax-semantics interface, Yatabe's work addresses challenges such as quantifier scope, right-node raising, and honorific morphological paradoxes. He advocates for HPSG-based analyses and linearization theories to explain Japanese linguistic structures. His formalist approach bridges syntactic architecture with prosodic and semantic composition mechanisms.

Publications: Over 30 key works include groundbreaking studies on medial left-node raising (2016), non-constituent coordination defenses (2021), and scrambling theories (1993 doctoral thesis). His 2001 analysis of left-node raising in Japanese became foundational for syntactic-prosodic interface studies.

Labs/Teams: Active in theoretical linguistics research groups at the University of Tokyo, contributing to the Language and Information Sciences department's research agenda. Maintains a scholarly website with publications (http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yatabe/).