Assistant Teaching Professor
German, Russian, Asian, and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Tomoyuki Yabe
Education
- Ph.D. Philosophy in Linguistics, University of New York (2007)
- M.A. Philosophy in Linguistics, University of New York (2004)
- B.A. Anthropology and Philosophy, Brooklyn College (1997)
- A.A. Liberal Arts, Morrisville College of the State University of New York (1993)
Teaching and Research Interests
- Syntax
- Morphology
- The Morphology-Syntax interface
- Linguistic Theory
- Historical Morpho-Syntax
- Fieldwork on Endangered and/or Less Familiar languages
- Ethio-Semitic Linguistics
- Cushitic Linguistics
- African Linguistics
- Japanese Linguistics
- Dialectology
Courses Taught
- JPN 101: Elementary Japanese
- JPN 102: Elementary Japanese
- JPN 201: Second Year Japanese
- JPN 302: Third Year Japanese
- JPN 381: Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
Languages
- Amharic (intermediate)
- English (near-native)
- Ga (very elementary)
- Ge'ez/Classical Ethiopic (reading knowledge)
- Japanese (native)
- Japanese-Classical (reading knowledge)
- Okinawan (reading knowledge)
- Oromo (very elementary)
- Somali (very elementary)
- Tigrinya (very elementary)