Mamori Hughes

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Queens College, City University of New York
Graduate Center, City University of New York (Spring 2012)

I am a formal linguist working principally on the syntax/semantics interface. My dissertation is on the sytax and semantics of the Japanese aspectual morpheme -te iru and -te aru. In addition, I am interested in second/foreign language acquisition, and I've been teaching elementary and intermediate level Japanese courses at Queens College for almost ten years. My recent work includes several self-study Japanese books published by Living Language/Random House. I also worked with the same publisher on self-study books featuring Spanish, Italian, and German languages. I am currently working on a joint research project with Alison Gabriele (University of Kansas) on the acquisition of Japanese bare nominals by native English speakers.

Education

Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2009

Ph.D. Linguistics

Dissertation: Japanese -te iru and -te aru: The aspectual implications of the stage-level and individual-level distinction.

Teaching

Queens College, City University of New York

Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, Asian Languages and Cultures

JPN 101: Elementary Japanese I (Fall 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009)
JPN 102: Elementary Japanese II (Spring 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2012)
JPN 203: Intermediate Japanese I (Fall 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011)
JPN 204: Intermediate Japanese II (Spring 2005, 2006, 2007)

Graduate Center, City University of New York

Ph.D. Program in Linguistics

Semantics I (Spring 2012)

Recent Publications

Author

Essential Japanese. New York: Living Language/Random House. (in press)
Intermediate Japanese. New York: Living Language/Random House. (in press)
Advanced Japanese. New York: Living Language/Random House. (in press)
Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese. New York: Living Language/Random House. (in press)
Starting Out in Japanese. New York: Living Language/Random House. 2010

Contributing Editor

German. New York: Living Language/Random House. 2011
Italian. New York: Living Language/Random House. 2011
Spanish. New York: Living Language/Random House. 2011
Complete Japanese. New York: Living Language/Random House. 2008