| last name | Hirata |
| first name | Ryuichiro |
| nickname | ryu |
| affiliation | Bangor University |
| main domain | syntax |
| level | medium |
| based in | Wales |
| r.hirata @ bangor.ac.uk | |
| grant | none |
| hostel | needs 1 bed in the hostel |
| confirmed | yes |
| self-description | I am a second year PhD student in Bangor University. I am working on contact-induced change, specifically syntactic effects of English on Welsh. My PhD project focuses on preposition stranding which is recently observed in Welsh as a case study. My interest is primarily on theoretical syntax, but I would like to learn optimality theory, formal semantics and more in the EGG this summer. |