| Hidemi Riggs, PhDAdjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Education
Phone: 949-480-4176
Fax: 949-480-4261
Email: hriggs@soka.edu |
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
- M.A., California State University, San Jose
- M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
- B.A., Rikkyo University
Positions Held
- At SUA since 2005
- 2005 - 2005, Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2004 - 2005, Lecturer, California State University, Los Angeles
Research Interests
- The structural analysis of grammatical systems and the ways lexical items develop multiple functional uses
- Grammaticalization
- Elipsis as a typological tendency
Selected Papers, Publications & Lectures
- "The Structure of the Japanese Inferential Auxiliaries: A Functional Analysis of daroo, rashii, sooda, and yooda," Columbia School Beyond its Origins, John Benjamins, Publishing Company, 2006
- "Semantic Shift from Politeness to Expressive: A Case Study of the Japanese Inferential Auxiliary soo," Japanese and Korean Linguistics Conference: Volume 14, In press
- "The Japanese Inferential Auxiliaries yooda and rashii as Indicators of Level of Focus on One's Inferential Judgment," Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, 2004
- "The degree of emphasis system in causal conjunctions," Gengogaku to Nihongo Kyoiku II New Directions in Applied Linguistics of Japanese, Kurosio Publishers, 2001
- Karada no eichi o torimodosu, (Translation) Shinju-sha Shuppan Publications, 1996
Courses Taught at SUA
- First-Year Japanese I
- Second-Year Japanese I