S.-Y. Kuroda

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Sige-Yuki Kuroda
Born	(1934-08-01)August 1, 1934  Japan Tokyo
Died	February 25, 2009(2009-02-25) (aged 74)
Alma mater	Tokyo University (BS, BA), Nagoya University (MS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Academic career
Institutions	University of California, San Diego
Thesis	Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language (1965)
Doctoral advisor	Noam Chomsky

Sige-Yuki Kuroda (黒田 成幸, Kuroda Shigeyuki, 1934 – February 25, 2009), also known as 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.