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Wataru Uegaki is a Reader and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Edinburgh within the Department of Linguistics and English Language. His academic background includes a PhD in Linguistics from MIT, and previous studies at Leiden University. Uegaki's teaching focuses on semantics and pragmatics, covering both undergraduate and MSc courses. He supervises PhD students engaged in research regarding semantics and syntax-semantics interface. His research investigates how humans draw inferences in conversations and the systems governing human behavior using tools from linguistics, logic, and cognitive science. Uegaki's current research endeavors include an AHRC/DFG project exploring the meanings of clause-embedding predicates in various languages, emphasizing the cross-linguistic patterns in how different languages combine these structures. His ongoing projects aim to collect data and conduct experiments that contribute to a deeper understanding of meaning in natural language, particularly in the context of clausal embedding and the relationship between word meanings and grammatical regularities.
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