{"id":20946,"date":"2025-12-22T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/?p=20946"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:40:36","slug":"park-yuha-3-3-2-3-6-3-4-3-2-2-6-2-3-2-3-2-5-2-4-3-5-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other-en\/2025\/12\/22\/20946\/","title":{"rendered":"UEGAKI, Wataru"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Name<\/h5>\n<p>UEGAKI, Wataru<\/p>\n<h5>Position and Affiliated Institution<\/h5>\n<p>Reader, University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n<h5>Degree<\/h5>\n<p>Ph.D.<\/p>\n<h5>Education and Academic Employment<\/h5>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-colored-tbhd\" style=\"height: 267px; width: 99.355%; border-collapse: collapse;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\">2023-present<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\" width=\"543\">Reader, Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 48px;\">2022-present<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 48px;\">UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow, University of Edinburgh.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 72px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 72px;\">2019-2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 72px;\">Lecturer in Semantics, Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy,Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\">2016-2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\">Assistant Professor, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\">2015-2016<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\">Postdoctoral fellow, Keio University and Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS\/ENS).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\">2010-2015<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\">Ph.D. in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>Research Topic<\/h5>\n<p>Explanations of cross-linguistic semantic universals in terms of theirs of formal linguistics and cognitive science.<\/p>\n<h5>Fields of Research Interest<\/h5>\n<p>Semantics, Pragmatics, Cross-linguistic generalizations and variations in semantics<\/p>\n<h5>Academic Publications<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Uegaki, Wataru<\/strong>. 2023.\u00a0<em>Question orientedness and the semantics of clausal complementation<\/em>. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series, Springer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uegaki, Wataru<\/strong>. 2024. The informativeness\/complexity trade-off model in the domain of Boolean connectives. <em>Linguistic Inquiry<\/em>. 55(1): 174\u2013196.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uegaki, Wataru<\/strong>. 2021. The existential\/uniqueness presupposition of wh-complements projects from the answers. <em>Linguistics and Philosophy <\/em>44: 911\u2013951.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uegaki, Wataru <\/strong>and Yasutada Sudo. 2019. The <em>*hope-wh <\/em>puzzle. <em>Natural Language Semantics <\/em>27(4): 323\u2013356.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uegaki, Wataru<\/strong>. 2019. The semantics of question-embedding predicates. <em>Language and Linguistics Compass<\/em>. 13(1):1\u201317.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Professional Affiliations<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Editorial board member, <em>Natural Language Semantics<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Editorial board member, <em>Semantics &amp; Pragmatics<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Steering committee, Logic and Engineering in Natural Language Semantics<\/li>\n<li>Member, UKRI Talent Peer Review College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Awards<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>2025-Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.<\/li>\n<li>2023.Shinmura Izuru Research Promotion Award. Shinmura Izuru Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>2010.Ichik\u00f4 Memorial Award, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name UEGAKI, Wataru Position and Affiliated Institution Reader, University of Edinburgh Degree Ph.D. Education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20972,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946\/revisions\/20972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}