Biography

Hikaru Hotta is a doctoral assistant who joined the Institute of English Studies in September 2023. Prior to coming to Neuchâtel, he earned a BA in Language Education from International Christian University and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Tokyo.

Teaching

English Linguistics Workshop (From Autumn 2025).

Publications

2025a. Frequency does not predict the processing speed of multi-morpheme sequences in Japanese. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0083

2025b. With Tomoko Endo. Reanalyzing “to omou” ‘I think’ Construction: A Corpus-Based Study of Natural Japanese Conversation. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 31. 389–398. https://doi.org/10.5070/J7.48961

2025c. With Martin Hilpert. English comparative constructions at different levels of schematicity: what is the role of adjective-specific variability? Cognitive Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2025-0025

Conferences

Aug 2025. With Martin Hilpert. Variation and isomorphism in the English comparative alternation. Societas Linguistica Europaea. Bordeaux, France.

March 2025. English comparative constructions at different levels of schematicity: What is the role of adjective-specific variability? Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics. Bern, Switzerland.

Nov 2024. With Tomoko Endo. Reanalyzing the “to omou” ‘I think’ construction: A corpus-based study of natural Japanese conversation. Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Melbourne, Australia.

Aug 2024. Rethinking the Principle of No Synonymy from the perspective of intra-speaker variation. International Conference on Construction Grammar. Göteborg, Sweden.

April 2024. A lexical construction across a clausal boundary: an analysis of the Japanese self-quotative construction kana to omou. Challenging Construction Grammar: New insights from Morphology. Monte Verità, Switzerland.

Aug 2023. Psycholinguistic evidence against frequency effects for multi-morphemic sequences in Japanese. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Düsseldorf, Germany.