Shigeru Miyagawa

Shigeru Miyagawa has served as Professor of Linguistics and Kochi-Majiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at MIT since 1991. After earning his B.A. from International Christian University in 1975 and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1980, he has built a distinguished career bridging linguistics research and educational innovation. His academic contributions include significant publications in linguistic theory, with influential books on case, argument structure, and word order. He co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics and authored numerous articles on various linguistics topics.