My name is Hiroaki Teraoka and I am from Japan. I did my BA and MA both in Kyoto University. Although my BA program was English literature, I was not so interested in literature (and as a result, I repeated a year). Rather, I was fascinated by the grammar of the English language and how it had changed over the time. Thus, I started studying linguistics.

I am now interested in syntax. More precisely, I study a framework called “labeling algorithm”.

Since I came to UCONN, I started enjoying working out in the gym (there is a gym in the Storrs campus). Other than working out in the gym, I enjoy reading Noam Chomsky’s works on linguistics, of all of which I like Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory the best, since it is very long and full of interesting ideas which can still be used today. My second favorite book by Chomsky is Lectures on Government and Binding, for more or less the same reasons. Apart from these, I enjoy a Japanese smartphone game called Fate Grand Order, on which I spend a reasonable amount of money and people around me sometimes tell me off for this habit of mine.

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