S.-Y. Kuroda

Sige-Yuki Kuroda (黒田 成幸^?, Kuroda Shigeyuki, 1934 – February 25, 2009), aka S.-Y. Kuroda, was Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Although a pioneer in the application of Chomskyan generative syntax to the Japanese language, he is known for the broad range of his work across the language sciences. For instance, in formal language theory, the Kuroda normal form for context-sensitive grammars bears his name.

Kuroda was born into a prominent family of mathematicians in Japan. His grandfather, Teiji Takagi, studied under David Hilbert. Kuroda himself received degrees in mathematics and linguistics from the University of Tokyo. In 1962, he entered MIT with the first graduating class from the new Department of Linguistics, where he wrote his seminal dissertation, Generative Studies in the Japanese Language (1965) under Chomsky's supervision.

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