Taisuke Nishigauchi
Taisuke Nishigauchi is a Japanese linguist and bluegrass banjo player. He earned a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1986 and is a professor in the Department of English at Kobe Shoin Women's University, where he has served as dean of the Graduate School of Letters. His research focuses on Japanese syntax, including wh-questions, ellipsis, and reflexive binding, and his books include Quantification in the Theory of Grammar (1990). He co-translated Japanese Bluegrass: A History into English and wrote its introduction. He plays banjo in the band Nowhere Bound.
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- No. 31 December 2002