Professional Activities:

Referee for Journal of Linguistics; Linguistic Analysis; Natural Language and Linguistic Theory; Newcastle-Durham Working Papers; Linguistic Review; Cambridge University Press; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Oxford University Press, Linguistic Soceity of Japan, U.S. National Science Foundation.

Board of Consulting Editors for The Linguistic Review; Editorial Board for Linguistic Analysis; Advisory Board for Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.

External Examiner for doctoral dissertations: Simon Fraser University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Paris, Tilburg University, Palacky University, University of Washington, University of Bangor, University of London (SOAS), University of Essex, Kanda University of International Studies.

Summer School in Linguistics, International Christian University, Mitaka, Japan. August 1976.

Conference for the journal Linguistics, Cascais, Portugal. January 1982.

Intensive course on Local Transformations, University of Ottawa. January 1982.

Co-course director, Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik. June 1989.

University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz. May 1990. Invited consultant on the project on verb-initial languages.

University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, LOT Summer School, June 1992. Five lectures on "Case-marked complements of verbs."

Workshop Organizer, Linguistic Association of Great Britain, Manchester. March 1993.

Member, Eurotyp Project of the European Science Foundation, Group 9 (Clitics and Functional Categories). 1992-1995.

Meeting Organizer and Host, Autumn meeting of Eurotyp Group 9, Durham. October 1993.

Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. September 1993.

Summer TEC lecture course in linguistics, "Subcategorization: The Unexplored Alternative, TEC Institute, Tokyo. July 1995.

Summer School in Morphology, Université de Nantes, Nantes, September 1997.

Cooperative Member and Consultant for the Center of Excellence in Linguistics, Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba. 1996-2001.

Intensive postgraduate course on the History of Morphology, University of Durham. February-March 2002.

Fellowship Committee for the Second International TEAL Workshop, National Tsing Hua University, Republic of China, June 2004.

Workshop organizer on the Roles and Formal Properties of the Lexicon in Generative Grammar, English Linguistic Society of Japan, Dokkyo University, November 2004.

Member of the Study Group on Evolution and Syntax, International Institute of Advanced Study, Kyoto, Japan, 2005-.

Lecturer on Principles of Morpho-syntax, Eastern European Summer School in Generative Grammar, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, Summer 2006.

Phd Dissertations supervised:

University of California at Los Angeles (USA)
Cushing, Steven (1976) The Formal Semantics of Quantification
Dahlgren, Kathleen (1976) Referential Semantics
Wilkins, Wendy (1977) The Variable Interpretation Convention: A condition on Variables in Syntactic Transformations
Hendrick, Randall (1979) On nesting and indexical conditions in linguistic theory
Horvath, Julia (1981) Aspects of Hungarian syntax and the theory of grammar
Klein, Sharon (1982) Syntactic theory and the developing grammar
Samiian, Vida (1983) Structure of phrasal categories in Persian: an X-bar analysis University of Washington (USA)
Zagona, Karen (1982) Government and proper government of verbal projections
Yim, Young-Jae (1982) Case-tropism
Whitney, Rosemarie (1984) The syntax and interpretation of A'-adjunctions
Al-shalan, Abdul Assiz (1984) Word Order and Passivization in Arabic
Hoji, Hajime (1985) Logical Form constraints and configurationally structures in Japanese
Jo, Mi-Jeung (1986) Determinants of free and fixed word order in Korean
Lobeck, Anne (1986) Syntactic constraints on VP Ellipsis
Walinska de Hackbeil, Hanna (1986) The Roots of Phrase Structure: the Syntactic Basis of English Morphology
MdSalleh, Ramli (1987) Fronted constituents in Malay: base structures and move-a in a configurationally non-Indo-European language
Takezawa, Koichi (1987) A configurationally approach to case-marking in Japanese
Karimi, Simin (1989) Aspects of Persian syntax, specificity and the theory of grammar
Morikawa, Masuhiro (1989) A Parametric Approach to Case Alternation Phenomena in Japanese
Tajima, Kazuhiko (1989) Null operators and two types of A-bar dependencies
Huang, Li -Yi (1990) The Deep Word Order and Some Propositional Constructions of Mandarin Chinese
Osman, Mariam (1991) WH-questions in Egyptian Arabic
Lee, Sookhee (1992) The Syntax and Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions
Artiagoitia, Xabier (1992) Verbal projections in Basque and Minimal Structure
Chandrashekar, Siddaramaiah (1994) Syntax of nominative case in Kannada

University of Durham (UK)
Douglas-Brown, Denise (1996) In Search of Syntactic Symmetry: On the parallels between clausal and nominal hierarchical structure.
Andrew, Caink (1997) The Lexical Interface: Closed Class Items in South Slavic and English
Kallulli, Dalina (1999) The Comparative Syntax of Albanian: on the Contribution of Syntactic Types to Propositional Interpretation
Maylor, Roger (1999) The Morphosyntax of the German Inseparable Prefixes in a Figure/ Ground Framework
Ayano, Seiki (2001) The Layered Internal Structure and the External Syntax of PP
Oga, Kyoko (2002) The Syntax of Japanese Nominal Projections and some Cross-Linguistic Implications
Whong-Barr, Melinda (2004) Morphology, Derivational Syntax and Second Language Acquisition of Resultatives (joint supervision with Dr. B. Schwartz and Dr. M. Tallerman)
Stringer, David (2005) Paths in First Language Acquisition: Motion through Space in English, French and Japanese (joint supervision with Dr. B. Schwartz)

Kobe-Shoin University (Japan)
Takahashi, Mitsuko (2006) The Efficacy of Grammar Instruction in EFL Classes in Japan
Inoue, Shoko (in progress)