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Osamu Sawada Author & Editor

Osamu Sawada received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2010, and is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at Mie University. His main research areas are semantics, pragmatics, and syntax, and he is particularly interested in scalar meanings, implicatures, presuppositions, the interaction between grammar and context, and language change. His work has appeared in journals including Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Natural Language Semantics, and Linguistics & Philosophy.