Name
UEGAKI, Wataru
Position and Affiliated Institution
Reader, University of Edinburgh
Degree
Ph.D.
Education and Academic Employment
| 2023-present | Reader, Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh. |
| 2022-present | UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow, University of Edinburgh. |
| 2019-2023 | Lecturer in Semantics, Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy,Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh. |
| 2016-2019 | Assistant Professor, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University. |
| 2015-2016 | Postdoctoral fellow, Keio University and Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS/ENS). |
| 2010-2015 | Ph.D. in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
Research Topic
Explanations of cross-linguistic semantic universals in terms of theirs of formal linguistics and cognitive science.
Fields of Research Interest
Semantics, Pragmatics, Cross-linguistic generalizations and variations in semantics
Academic Publications
- Uegaki, Wataru. 2023. Question orientedness and the semantics of clausal complementation. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series, Springer.
- Uegaki, Wataru. 2024. The informativeness/complexity trade-off model in the domain of Boolean connectives. Linguistic Inquiry. 55(1): 174–196.
- Uegaki, Wataru. 2021. The existential/uniqueness presupposition of wh-complements projects from the answers. Linguistics and Philosophy 44: 911–951.
- Uegaki, Wataru and Yasutada Sudo. 2019. The *hope-wh puzzle. Natural Language Semantics 27(4): 323–356.
- Uegaki, Wataru. 2019. The semantics of question-embedding predicates. Language and Linguistics Compass. 13(1):1–17.
Professional Affiliations
- Editorial board member, Natural Language Semantics
- Editorial board member, Semantics & Pragmatics
- Steering committee, Logic and Engineering in Natural Language Semantics
- Member, UKRI Talent Peer Review College
Awards
- 2025-Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.
- 2023.Shinmura Izuru Research Promotion Award. Shinmura Izuru Foundation.
- 2010.Ichikô Memorial Award, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
