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SHIBASAKI Reijirou
Department Undergraduate School , School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences

Position Professor

■ Books and Papers

1.		Article	"A little more thought to the decline of iwis: Analogy, reanalysis and obsoletism" (Peter Lang) Linguistic and Stylistic Approaches to Speech, Thought and Writing in English (Single)
2.	2024/11	Article	"The rise and fall of iwis as a pragmatic marker" Brief article (12 pages, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, ELSJ) (Single)
3.	2024/07	Article	On the discourse functions of nɪ in Abou Dida: Expanding the research horizons of Cognitive Linguistics (Invited paper) Gengo Kenkyu 166,pp.5-28 (Single)
4.	2014/09	Article	"More thoughts on the grammaticalization of personal pronouns" (John Benjamins) Grammaticalization Theory and Data (John Benjamins, SLCS) (Single)
5.	2023/09	Article	"Some Issues on Contact-Induced Grammaticalization: The Case of ya-ina-ya in Modern through Present Day Japanese" (CSLI Publications) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 30,pp.319-333 (Single)
6.	2023/08	Article	"Language contact and grammaticalization (written in Japanese)" (Hituzi Syobo Publishing) Grammaticalization in Japanese and its neighboring languages (provisional) (H. Aoki/H. Narrog, eds.) (Single)
7.	2023/07	Article	"From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb" (John Benjamins) Different slants on grammaticalization (eds. by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci) (Single)
8.	2023/07	Article	'Formulaicity of but the fact is that as a pragmatic marker: With focus on Late Modern through Present Day English' Formulaic Expressions and Formulaicity in the History of English (eds by Takuto Watanabe and Reijirou Shibasaki) 10,pp.145-168 (Single)
9.	2023/07	Article	'Studies on formulaic expressions and the history of English' (Kaitakusha) Formulaic Expressions and Formulaicity in the History of English (eds by Takuto Watanabe and Reijirou Shibasaki) pp.1-26 (Single)
10.	2023/07	Book	Formulaic Expressions and Formulaicity in the History of English (Kaitakusha, Tokyo) (Collaboration)
11.	2023/05	Article	"Formulaicity and formulaic expressions in Japanese: An introduction" (De Gruyter Mouton) Journal of Japanese Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton) 39(1),pp.5-14 (Single)
12.	2023/05	Article	Guest Editor’s notes Journal of Japanese Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton) 39(1),pp.3-4 (Single)
13.	2022/07	Article	Review of Nevalainen,Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily（eds.）Patterns of Change in 18th-Century English: A Sociolinguistic Approach, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018, xi + 311. Studies in Modern English pp.71-79 (Single)
14.	2021/11	Article	"Discourse markers in the making: Pragmatic differentiation of jijitsujoo from jijitsu in Modern through Present Day Japanese"(East Asian Pragmatics) East Asian Pragmatics (Equinox) 6(3),pp.303-329 (Single)
15.	2021/11	Article	"Grammaticalisation of Discourse Markers in East Asian Languages: Introduction" (East Asian Pragmatics) East Asian Pragmatics (Equinox) 6(3),pp.271-281 (Collaboration)
16.	2021/10	Article	"Chapter 4: On the interpretation of constructional expansion and subjectivity: The case of the/my/Ø question is in the history of English"（）） Constructions and subjectivity (eds. by Midori Amano and Naoko Hayase) pp.75-95 (Single)
17.	2021/07	Article	"Reanalysis and the emergence of adverbial connectors in the history of Japanese" (John Benjamins, SLCS219) Studies at the grammar-discourse interface pp.101-124 (Single)
18.	2020/11	Article	"On the historical development of (it/there is) no nay and the gradualness of grammaticalization" (Shumpusha Publishing Co., Ltd.) Diversity of Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature (K. Kikuchi & H. Okamoto eds.) pp.459-472 (Single)
19.	2020/12	Article	"A discourse-functional view of the historical amalgamation of wh-clefts and progressive forms in English: Reformulation of information sequence and interpersonal functions" (Hituzi Syobo Publishing Company) Toward Dynamic Interaction between Cognitive Linguistics and Discourse-Functional Linguistics pp.239-266 (Single)
20.	2020/07	Article	"From a clause combining conjunction to a sentence initial adverbial connector in the history of Japanese: With special attention to totan(ni) 'at that moment'" (JK26, CSLI Publications) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 26 (JK26) 26,pp.347-358 (Single)
21.	2020/07	Book	"Pronominal vs. nominal forms of direct object in Late Modern through Present-day English" Proceedings of the 92nd General Meeting of The English Literary Society of Japan (Single)
22.	2020/02	Article	"From Parataxis to Amalgamation: The emergence of the sentence-final is all construction in the history of American English" (De Gruyter Mouton) Grammar - Discourse - Context: Grammar and usage in language variation and change pp.171-191 (Single)
23.	2019/11	Article	"Changes in the conventional usage of decade ending apostrophes in American and British English" (Kaitakusha) Corpus-based approaches to language change, variation and linguistic theory 2 (ed. by Yoshiki Ogawa) (Single)
24.	2019/11	Article	"Exploration of Dynamic Pragmatics through a historical analysis of punctuation markers: With a focus on full stop in British English" (Kaitakusha) Toward a creation of Dynamic Pragmatics, vol.1 (eds.by H.Tanaka, H.Kaori, E.Yoshida and M.Yamaguchi) (Single)
25.	2019/09	Article	"From punctuation to pragmatic marker: On the development of discourse functions of period and future prospects for American English" (Kaitakusha) English in the eyes of phraseology and anomalous expressions (tentative)　(Yoshiki Nishimura et al.) pp.54-69 (Single)
26.	2019/07	Article	Translation supervisor's exposition (Bybee 2015) A complete translation of Joan Bybee Language Change (Cmabridge UP, 2015) pp.400-415 (Single)
27.	2019/07	Book	A complete translation of Language Change (Joan Bybee, Cambridge UP, 2015), Kaitakusya, Japan (Collaboration)
28.	2018/12	Article	"On the rise of douride 'no wonder' as a projector and the reformulation of discourse sequential relations in Japanese" (JK25) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 25 25 (Single)
29.	2018/12	Article	"From the inside to the outside of the sentence: Forming a larger discourse unit with jijitsu 'fact' in Japanese" (John Benjamins, SLCS202) New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change pp.333-360 (Single)
30.	2018/09	Article	"Sequentiality and the emergence of new constructions: That's the bottom line is (that) in American English" (John Benjamins, SLCS198) Explorations in English Historical Syntax (Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Leisbet Heyvaert, and Charlotte Maekelberghe. eds.) pp.283-306 (Single)
31.	2017/12	Article	"Expansion of discourse-syntactic structures and constructionalization: With special reference to jijitsu 'fact' in Modern through Present-day Japanese" (Hituzi Syobo Publishing, Tokyo) Japanese Pragmatics Forum 2 pp.107-133 (Single)
32.	2017/11	Article	"Anacolutha in American English: With a focus on the edge of clause" (Kurosio Publishers, Tokyo) Meanings of constructions and their extensions pp.201-221 (Single)
33.	2017/11	Article	"Formulaic expressions and formulaicity in Late Modern through Present-day English" Conference Handbook 35 pp.218-223 (Single)
34.	2017/04	Article	"Review: Morphosyntactic Change: A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes (Cambridge UP, 2012)(English Linguistics 33:2)" English Linguistics 33(2),pp.591-603 (Single)
35.	2017/03	Article	"A constructional exploration into "clausal periphery" and the pragmatic markers that occur there" (Elizabeth C. Traugott, trans by Reijirou Shibasaki) (Hitsuzi Syobo Publishing, Tokyo) Periphery: Where pragmatic meaning is negotiated
36.	2016	Article	"From relativization to nominalization and more: Evidence from the history of Okinawan" (BLS36) Proceedings of the 36th Annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS36) 36,pp.382-395 (Single)
37.	2015/03	Article	"Explorations of the problem is (that) in American English: With special reference to discourse functions over the past couple of decades." Studies in Pragmatics pp.1-19 (Single)
38.	2015/03	Article	"On the discourse-basis of apo koinou constructions in Present-day American English." Journal of Human Linguistics Circle pp.17-37 (Single)
39.	2014/11	Article	"On the grammaticalization of the thing is and related issues in the history of American English" (De Gruyter Mouton) Studies in the History of the English Language VI (De Gruyter Mouton, TiEL) (Single)
40.	2014/06	Article	"Functions of the thing is in spoken American English: With its origins and development." (Eihosha) Studies in Modern English the thirtieth anniversary publication of the Modern English Association (Single)
41.	2014/06	Article	"On the development of the point is and related issues in the history of American English" (English Linguistics) English Linguistics 31 (1) 31(1),pp.79-113 (Single)
42.	2012/12	Article	"Competing motivations for the ‘head’ in the history of English: The case of personal pronouns" Southern Review 27 27,pp.pp. 21-36 (Single)
43.	2012/11	Article	"Please tilt me-ward by return of post: On the vicissitude of a marginal pronominal construction in the history of English" (John Benjamins) English Historical Linguistics 2010 (John Benjamins, CILT 325) (Single)
44.	2011/11	Article	"The rivalry between negator clitics and copula clitics in the history of American English" Journal of Human Linguistics Circle pp.pp. 1-18 (Single)
45.	2013/03	Article	"What word order fixation brought about in the history of English" Studies in Regional Culture 14,pp.pp. 1-25 (Single)
46.	2011/02	Article	"From nominalizer to stance marker in the history of Okinawan" (CSLI Publications, Stanford Univ.) Japanese/ Korean Linguistics 18 (Stanford: CSLI Publications) 18 (Single)
47.	2010/12	Article	"The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA): A new tool for full-fledged studies of Late Modern English (1810s- 2000s)" Southern Review 25 25,pp.pp.　11-27 (Single)
48.	2010/11	Article	"Frequency as a cause of semantic change: With focus on the second person form omae in Japanese" (John Benjamins) Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research (John Benjamins) (Single)
49.	2010/08	Article	"On the transition of transitivity in English" (Peter Lang) Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English (Peter Lang) pp.349-374 (Single)
50.	2010/06	Article	"How grammaticalization deals with the orthographic change from ’tis to it’s in Early through Late Modern English" The “Grammaticalization” session, The 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2010) on CD-ROM pp.11 pages (on CD-ROM) (Single)
51.	2009/12	Article	"Please tilt me-ward by return of post: Rethinking another pronominal construction in oblivion" Southern Review 24 24,pp.pp. 15-29 (Single)
52.	2009/12	Article	"Semantic constraints on the diachronic productivity of Japanese reduplication" (Grazer Linguistische Studien) Grazer Linguistische Studien 71 (Special Issue: Reduplication) 71,pp.97-97 (Single)
53.	2009/06	Article	"On the grammaticalization of unexpectedness in the languages of Japan" Current Issues in Linguistic Interfaces, vol.1 pp.pp. 193-207 (Single)
54.	2009/06	Article	"Word order fixation and its impact on information flow: Grammatical subjects in Old through Present Day English" Selected Papers from the 2007 Annual Research Forum of LSHK pp.pp.17-37 (Single)
55.	2009/05	Article	"Another look at the development of epistemic meanings in English: A historical collocational approach" Studies in Modern English 25 25,pp.pp. 62-84 (Single)
56.	2008/12	Article	"Subject cliticization in English and Japanese: A case of second person forms" Southern Review 23 23,pp.pp.113-130 (Single)
57.	2008/03	Article	"Two levels of blending with homophonic compounds in Japanese" Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación 5 (Special Issue: Metaphor and Discourse) 5,pp.pp. 221-239 (Single)
58.	2007/10	Article	"Ellipsis and discourse-syntactic structures in Japanese interview discourse: The emergence of the evidential marker TO" LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 8 (4) 8(4),pp.pp. 939-966 (Single)
59.	2007/07	Article	"Left-dislocation and argument structure in Abou Dida, an Eastern Kru language" Proceedings of the 3rd Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics (DISCOG-3) pp.pp. 442-456 (Single)
60.	2006/07	Article	"Aspects of intercultural pragmatics in East Asia: Cultural blending with Chinese characters" Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL 2006) pp.pp. 417-426 (Single)
61.	2006/06	Article	"The evolution of Preferred Argument Structure in English: With focus on referential forms and information status" (English Linguistics 23 (1)) English Linguistics 23 (1) 23(1),pp.pp. 1-26 (Single)
62.	2006/04	Article	"Where does first person go across time and space?" 『沖縄国際大学外国語紀要』 9(2),pp.pp. 43-54 (Single)
63.	2005/12	Article	Personal Pronouns and Argument Structure in Japanese: Discourse Frequency, Diachrony and Typology (Ph.D. dissertation) pp.xxiv+309pp (Single)
64.	2005/04	Article	"On the grammaticalization of verbal reduplication in Japanese." (Mouton de Gruyter) Studies on Reduplication (Mouton de Gruyter) (Single)
65.	2004/06	Article	"Patterns of semantic harmonization in English: The case of May Well" Proceedings of the 29th Annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS29) 29,pp.pp. 391-402 (Single)
66.	2003/05	Article	"Diachronic aspects of Preferred Argument Structure in English and broader implications" Proceedings of the 28th Annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS28) 28,pp.pp. 289-301 (Single)
67.	2002/03	Article	"On sound symbolism in Japanese and Korean" (CSLI Publications, Stanford Univ.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10 10 (Single)
68.	2001/06	Article	"A blending analysis of Chinese and Japanese homographic compounds: Toward a cognitive account of visual iconicity" Proceedings of the 1st Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics (DISCOG-1) pp.pp. 267- 280 (Single)
69.	1998/11	Article	"Historical development of modal verb-adverb co-occurrence in English" Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of Kansai Linguistics Society 18,pp.pp. 186-196 (Single)
70.	1998/03	Article	"Diachrony of reflexive pronouns and related issues" (MA thesis) Rikkyo University (Single)
71.	2011/11	Article	"On the recent emergence of (the) thing is, ... as discourse marker: A case from the history of American English" Conference Handbook of JELS29 pp.pp. 17-20 (Single)
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■ Conference Presentations

1.	2025/06	Panel: Discourse-Pragmatic Markers of Chinese Origin in Asian Languages (IPC19) (The 19th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC19))
2.	2025/05	Workshop: More thoughts on discourse-pragmatic markers in the history of English (The 97th General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan)
3.	2024/11	Iwis: The growth and decline of iwis as a pragmatic marker (Special lecture) (The Forty-Second Conference of The English Linguistic Society of Japan (@Nagoya University))
4.	2023/11	"Discourse markers of Sino-Japanese compounds and their discourse structure: With special reference to jijitsujoo and jijitsu" (Invited talk) (Seminar on the use of Chinese characters outside China)
5.	2023/10	"Discourse sequence and the rise of the evidential marker to in Japanese" (Invited talk) (International Workshop: Discourse grammar and complementation)
6.	2023/07	"From truth to truly: The case of shin-ni 眞/真に ‘truly’ in Japanese" (with Yuko Higashiizumi) (The 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA18, Brussel, 2023))
7.	2023/07	"From a unit of time in temporal axis to a discourse marker in a contextual-spatial axis: The case of shunkan 瞬間 ‘(at the) moment’" (with Keiko Takahashi)) (The 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA18, Brussel, 2023))
8.	2023/07	PANEL: Discourse-Pragmatic Markers of Chinese Origin in East Asian Languages (The 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA18, Brussel, 2023))
9.	2023/07	'On the decline of iwis, i-wis and I wis' (The 22nd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL22))
10.	2023/03	"On the role of writing systems in the process of grammaticalization" (The 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK30))
11.	2023/01	"(De)grammaticalization in Japanese through language contact with European languages" (招聘講演/Plenary talk) (Linguistics and Data Science in Collaboration (DaSci) 2022)
12.	2023/01	"On the rise and fall of (it/there) is no nay in the history of English" (with Jerzy N. Nykiel, the first author) (The Colloque Bisannuel de la Diachronie de l’Anglais 7 (CBDA-7))
13.	2022/10	"Thoughts race through my mind: Discourse-pragmatic markers in Japanese from the perspective of East Asian languages and beyond" (招聘講演/Plenary talk) (Workshop: Discourse Grammar and Formation of Discourse Markers (online))
14.	2022/08	"Diachronic aspects of what matters is in American English and issues concerning grammaticalization" (2022 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2022))
15.	2022/03	"Some thoughts on formulaic expression studies for the future" (“Symposium on Formulaicity in Interactional Discourse 2022” (ONLINE) Afternoon session with project members’ research reports (Language: Japanese))
16.	2021/08	"Survival of the fittest? The cases of bestest and worstest in Late Modern through Present-day English" (Symposium at the 38th annual meeting of Modern English Association zoom conference)
17.	2021/08	"How the peripheral survived the age of standardization: Three diachronic cases in the history of English: An introduction" (Symposium at the the 38th annual meeting of Modern English Association zoom conference)
18.	2021/06	"On the development of the projector the chances are that in American English: A constructional approach" (The International Society for the Linguistics of English 6 (ISLE6, Theme: Evolving English and the Digital Era.))
19.	2021/05/28	"Thoughts on formulaic expressions in English in a cross-linguistic perspective" (招待講演) (Norwegian Graduate Researcher School in Linguistics and Philology (online))
20.	2021/03	"On the discourse function and formulaicity of tashikani 'certainly'" (Online International Symposium “Formulaicity in interactional discourse”)
21.	2020/10	"Some notes on the emergence of full stop as a pragmatic marker in the history of British English" (2020 International Conference on English Linguistics (Kyung Hee University, Seoul [online]))
22.	2020/07	Symposium: More thoughts on (in)transitivity and related issues in the history of English (Chairperson & Presenter) (The 92nd Annual General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan (ELSJ web-conference, July 6-15 202))
23.	2019/12	"Syntactic change and subjectification: With special reference to the/my/Ø question is in the history of English " (Construction study workshop 2019 (working title))
24.	2019/12	"Another look at formulaicity: The case of the bottom line is (that) in British and American English" (Workshop on Formulaicity and Referentiality in Discourse)
25.	2019/11	"Language contact and grammaticalization: The case of comparative constructions in Modern and Present-day Japanese" (Workshop: Grammaticalization of Japanese and nearby languages 4 (GJNL-4))
26.	2019/08	"The question remains is whether constructions are in the making: Constructionalization in Present-day American English" (The 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-15))
27.	2019/06	PANEL: Sequentiality and emergence of discourse-pragmatic markers (org by Yuko Higashiizumi, Noriko O. Onodera & Reijirou Shibasaki (The 16th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA-16))
28.	2019/05	"From punctuation to pragmatic marker, period: Written language as a source of language change" (Dictionary Society of North America 22 / Studies in the History of the English Language 11)
29.	2019/03	"From nominal predicates pragmatic markers in the history of Japanese With special reference to East Asian languages" (招待講演) (International Conference on Current Trends in Linguistics, 28-29 March 2019)
30.	2018/12	"Observations on the use of totan(ni) at sentence-initial position" (Workshop: Grammaticalization of Japanese and Nearby Languages 3 (GJNL-3))
31.	2018/11	"From a clause-combining conjunction to a sentence-initial adverbial connector in the history of Japanese: With special attention to totan(-ni) 'at the moment'" (The 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK26))
32.	2018/11	"Versatility of nominal predicates and the emergence of pragmatic markers in Japanese" (invited) (Referentiality in Asian Languages (The 2018 JK PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP ))
33.	2018/11	"From a clause-combining conjunction to a sentence-initial adverbial connector in the history of Japanese: With special attention to totan(-ni) 'at the moment'" (The 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK26))
34.	2018/09	"Flexibility of temporal nouns in Japanese: With special reference to shunkan '(at the) moment'" (Referentiality Workshop)
35.	2018/06	"Learner perceptions of active learning: Some issues of poster session activities in ESP university classes" (The 3rd International Psychology of Language Learning Conference (PLL3), June 7-10, 2018)
36.	2018/02/24	"Emergence of stand-alone formulae from the predicate: Another look at douride in Modern and Present-day Japanese" (Linguistics of spoken language (?))
37.	2017/12/10	"A historical study of wh-clefts as projector constructions: What the progression of the progressive reveals about" (Interface between cognitive linguistics and discourse-functional linguistics: In search of usage-based linguistics (closed workshop))
38.	2017/11	"On formulaic expressions and formulaicity in Late Modern through Present-day English" (The Thirty-Fifth Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan)
39.	2017/10	"On the matter of chemistry between wh-clefts and the progressive" (Plenary) (Society for Language Change and Variations)
40.	2017/10	"On the rise of douride 'no wonder' as a projector and the reformulation of discourse sequential relations in Japanese" (The 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK25))
41.	2017/09	"A study of present progressive forms in projector constructions: With attention to wh-clefts in American English" (International Workshop on Fixed Expressions with Mental Verbs and Related Expressions)
42.	2017/08	"Active Learning through Poster Sessions: Ongoing Development of a Presentation Course" (with James A Elwood and Madoka Kawano) (JACET 56th International Convention 2017)
43.	2017/07	"Clause combining and integration at right periphery of utterance: ..., is what I'm saying in American English" (The 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA 2017))
44.	2017/03/20	"On the rate of language change at the edge of clause: English WH-cleft constructions at left and right peripheries" (MEIJI INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: New Directions in Pragmatic Research: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives)
45.	2016/09	"Look, I'm just saying I'm undecided, is all: The emergence of a sentence-final quotation marker in English" (The 4th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE-4))
46.	2016/09	"On the rise of a sentence-final quotative construction in American English" (Language change, variation and linguistic theory: What cannot be revealed by introspection (tentative translation))
47.	2016/09	"Poster presentations: An authentic, effective method of enhancing communication skills of academic English." (JACET 55th International Convention 2016)
48.	2016/04	"All the way to adverbs from nominal predicates: The case of constructionalization with jijitsu 'fact' in Japanese" (The Second International Conference on Grammaticalization Theory and Data (Gramm2))
49.	2016/03	"Constructional variations and change in the development of chances are in American English" (The 1st Purdue Languages and Cultures Conference (PLCC-1))
50.	2015/11	"Periphery of utterance and the emergence of apo koinou constructions" (The 33rd Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan)
51.	2015/09	(The 8th workshop on Japanese Corpus Linguistics)
52.	2015/08	"So was, I'm, I'm just getting a little confused here: Is self-repetition formulaic?" (The 8th workshop on spoken language)
53.	2015/07	"Adverbial use of formal nouns as projector construction in Japanese" (Grammaticalization in Japanese and across languages)
54.	2014/11/08	"The discourse-based development of shell nouns constructions in English: The case of the problem is (that) and that’s the problem" (at WORKSHOP: Clauses on the Move: A Historical-Contrastive Approach to English and German) (The 32nd Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan)
55.	2014/10/05	On the usage of (the) chances are (that) in American English: Discourse function, diffusion and grammaticalization (The 40th Conference of Japan Association for English Corpus Studies)
56.	2014/10/25	"The speaker-based linguistic innovation in American English" (Human Linguistics Circle (HLC))
57.	2014/09	"On the chain of information at the periphery of discourse: With focus on the question is (that) and that's the question" (The 15th annual meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Keio Univerisity, Tokyo.)
58.	2014/08	"A diachronic approach to shell noun constructions: With a focus on the fact is (that)" (The 3rd Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE3))
59.	2014/07	"Diachronic aspects of the shell noun constructions: With a focus on the bottom line is (that)" (The 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL18))
60.	2013/12	"From parenthetical to main clause: Rethinking the directions of change with a focus on the problem is in the history of English" (The 16th Annual Conference of Pragmatics Society of Japan (PSJ-16))
61.	2013/08	"Negator vs. copula contractions in the history of American English" (The 5th International Conference on Late Modern English (LModE-5))
62.	2013/08	"From parenthetical to main clause: The case of the problem is in the history of American English" (The 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL21))
63.	2013/07/06	A pilot study on the NOUN + is construction: With special focus on the point is, ... (The 28th Conference of the Foreign Language and Literature Society of Okinawa)
64.	2012/12	"Phraseology in the 19th century English: What end and start in Late Modern English"
65.	2012/08	"On the emergence of (the) point is, … as discourse marker in the history of American English" (The 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL17))
66.	2012/07	"Regularity behind apparent lawlessness: Referential shifting of personal pronouns in Japanese and other languages" (New Reflections on Grammaticalization V (NRG5))
67.	2012/04	"Discourse marker (the) thing is,… as a reflection of (inter)subjectivity: A case from the history of American English" (The 7th Studies in the History of the English Language conference (SHEL7))
68.	2011/07	"On the rise and demise of second person forms in Japanese: A diachronic-typological perspective" (The 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHLXX))
69.	2011/04	"Negator vs. copula contractions in the history of American English" (ELSJ International Spring Forum 2011)
70.	2010/08	"Please tilt me-ward by return of post: A marginal pronominal construction revisited" (The 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL16))
71.	2010/08	"From head-marking to dependent-marking in the early English pronominal paradigm: A case of degrammaticalization?" (The 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL16))
72.	2010/06	"How grammaticalization deals with the orthographic change from ’tis to it’s in Early through Late Modern English" (The “Grammaticalization” session, The 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2010))
73.	2010/04	"The morphosyntactic change from ’tis me to it’s me in Early through Late Modern English" (ELSJ International Spring Forum 2010)
74.	2010/04	"Subject cliticization and intersubjectification in English and Japanese: With respect to second person forms" (ELSJ International Spring Forum 2010)
75.	2010/02	"From relativization to nominalization and more: Evidence from the history of Okinawan" (The 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society)
76.	2009/12	"From head-marking to dependent-marking in the history of English personal pronouns: A case of degrammaticalization?" (The 2009 Annual Research Forum by the Linguistics Society of Hong Kong (LSHK))
77.	2009/06	"On the grammaticalization of unexpectedness in the languages of Japan" (The 2009 Seoul International Conference on Linguistic Interfaces (SICOLI-2009))
78.	2009/08	"Subject cliticization and intersubjectification in Japanese dialects" (The 2009 annual meeting of LACUS (LACUS XXXVI))
79.	2008/11	"From nominalizer to stance marker in the history of Okinawan" (The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference)
80.	2008/08	"Structural change as a trigger of semantic change in English: A perspective from argument structure and word order change" (The 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL15))
81.	2007/12	"The structure-basis of semantic and informational change in English" (Research Forum by the Linguistics Society of Hong Kong (LSHK))
82.	2007/09	"Semantic constraints on the diachronic productivity of Japanese reduplication and cross-linguistic implications" (The 2nd Graz Conference on Reduplication)
83.	2007/08	"Homographic disambiguation in Japanese" (The 2nd Conference of the UK-Cognitive Linguistics Association)
84.	2007/07	"Left-dislocation and argument structure in Abou Dida, an Eastern Kru language" (The 3rd Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics)
85.	2007/06	"Observations of word searchers in conversational discourse in Okinawa" (The 21st Pacific Science Congress (PSC21))
86.	2007/05	(Modern Engllish Association)
87.	2006/11	"Observations of personal pronouns with respect to person hierarchy: A frequency-based approach" (High Desert Linguistics Society 7 (HDLS7))
88.	2006/08	"Frequency as an indicator of semantic change: Towards a unified account of modal verb-adverb co-occurrence in Early Modern through Present Day English" (The 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL14))
89.	2006/08	"What does discourse frequency reveal about grammatical categories?: The case of Japanese personal pronouns" (rganization in Discourse 3: The Interactional Perspective (OID-3))
90.	2006/06	"Aspects of intercultural pragmatics in East Asia: Cultural blending with Chinese characters" (The 2006 LSK, Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2006))
91.	2006/02	"Metaphorical mappings in discourse: The case of homophonic compounds" (The 2nd International Workshop on Metaphor and Discourse)
92.	2005/07	"Functional convergence via grammaticalization: The case of personal pronouns in nonstandard English, French and Japanese" (The 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL17))
93.	2005/05	"Personal pronouns and argument structure: A discourse-frequency based approach’" (Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.)
94.	2005/02	"Argument structure as a reflection of grammaticalization: With focus on the second person pronoun omae in Japanese" (From Ideational to Interpersonal: Perspectives from Grammaticalization (FITIGRA))
95.	2004/05	"Explorations of noun-modifying tautological constructions across languages" (Diversity and Universals in Language: The Consequences of Variations)
96.	2003/08	"The evolution of Preferred Argument Structure: A case from drama texts in Middle through Modern English" (The 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL16))
97.	2002/11	"Clause integration and semantic change in Japanese verbal reduplication" (GRAZ REDUPLICATION CONFERENCE 2002)
98.	2002/10	"Visual iconicity and blending: A case study of homographic compounds in Japanese and Korean" (Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language 6 (CSDL6))
99.	2002/04	"Grammaticalization of demonstratives into discourse markers in the history of Japanese: Unidirectionality and typological implications" (New Reflections on Grammaticalization 2 (NRG2))
100.	2001/07	"Construction reanalysis and paradigmatic changes in Japanese reduplication: A functional-philological perspective" (The 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-7))
101.	2001/07	"Phonosemantics in Japanese and Korean" (Iconicity Workshop)
102.	2000/02	"Historical analysis of adverbial reduplication in Japanese" (The 8th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL8))
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■ Academic Qualifications

1.		〔Doctorial Course〕, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Completed, Ph.D. in Linguistics
2.		〔Doctorial Course (1st Semester)〕, Graduate School, Division of Letters, Rikkyo University, Completed, Master of Arts (summa cum laude)
3.		Faculty of Literature, Rikkyo University, Graduated, Bachelor of Arts (vice valedictorian)

■ Career History

1.	2023/03～2024/03	University of British Columbia Dept of English Language and Literatures Visiting Professor,
2.	2018/04～	Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences Full Professor
3.	2013/04～2018/03	Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences Associate Professor
4.	2007/04～2013/03	Okinawa International University Department of British and American Language and Culture Associate Professor
5.	2006/04～2007/03	Okinawa International University Department of British and American Language and Culture Associate Professor
6.	2005/04～2006/03	Okinawa International University Department of British and American Language and Culture Full-time lecturer
7.	2024/04～	Japan Women's University, Dep of English Part-time researcher for university or other academic organization (Contrastive studies in language anc culture 1・2)
8.	2016/04～2024/03	Researcher
9.	2014/04～2016/03	Rikkyo University Part-time lecturer(Linguistics, English Linguistics)
10.	2014/04～2016/03	Keio University Part-time lecturer(Linguistics)
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■ Teaching Activities

● Efforts to Improve Educational Contents and Method (Including Teaching Evaluation)
1.	2023/05	'A round-table talk: Literacy education at the library and its future role'
● Textbook and Other Teaching Materials of your own
1.	2019/07	A complete translation of Language Change (Joan Bybee, Cambridge UP, 2015), Kaitakusya, Japan
2.	2009/01	Language and Culture at the Crossroads: Case Studies from Okinawa

■ Major Subjects

English I A/I B, English II A/II B, English III A/III B (Presentation), English Test Preparation (TOEIC)

■ Academic Associations Membership

1.		The English Linguistic Society of Japan
2.	2014/12～2017/11	∟ Member of the conference organizing committee
3.	2015/12～2016/04	∟ Vice-Chair of ELSJ Spring Forum 2017
4.	2016/05～2017/04	∟ Chair of ELSJ Spring Forum 2017
5.	2024/02～	∟ Editorial board
6.		International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
7.	2014/06～2015/09	∟ External reviewer of Pragmatics
8.		Modern English Association
9.	2014/04～2018/03	∟ A member of the editorical committee
10.	2016/04～2018/03	∟ A member of the editorical committee (Editor in Chief, EIC)
11.	2018/04～2022/03	∟ A member of the board of directors
12.		The Pragmatics Society of Japan
13.	2016～2017	∟ Outside refereeing service
14.	2018/04～	∟ Member of the editorical committee
15.	2020/04～2022/03	∟ Member of the steering committee
16.	2022/04～	∟ A board of trustees
17.		The Linguistic Society of Japan
18.	2019/12～2022/11	∟ Member of the conference organization
19.	2021/07～2022/11	∟ Member of the Selection Committee
20.		English Literary Society of Japan
21.		The Society for Japanese Linguistics
22.		The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association
23.	2015/04～2017/03	∟ Peer-reviewing service
24.	2015/10～2017/09	∟ Chair of the 17th annual Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association
25.		Japan Association for English Corpus Linguistics
26.		Foreign Language and Literature Society of Okinawa
27.		Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
28.		Human Linguistics Circle
29.		ISLE (The International Society for the Linguistics of English)
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■ Social Activities

1.	2024/11	Iwis: The growth and decline of iwis as a pragmatic marker (Special lecture)
2.	2023/11	"Discourse markers of Sino-Japanese compounds and their discourse structure: With special reference to <I>jijitsujoo</I> and <I>jijitsu</I>" (Invited talk)
3.	2023/10	"Discourse sequence and the rise of the evidential marker to in Japanese" (招待発表)
4.	2023/09	A supplemental lecture on Haiku and metaphor (UBC, Dept of English Language and Literatures)
5.	2023/09	Pragmatics Gran Prix 2
6.	2023/05	'A round-table talk: Literacy education at the library and its future role'
7.	2023/01	"Degrammaticalization in Japanese through language contact with European languages" (Invited talk)
8.	2022/10	"Thoughts race through my mind: Discourse-pragmatic markers in Japanese from the perspective of East Asian languages and beyond" (Invited talk)
9.	2022/03	Lectures on tips for international presentations and publications: With a focus on Grammar (JASS)
10.	2021/12～2022/01	Reviewing board for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (2021)
11.	2021/12	Talk on tips for successful presentations and publications internationally (The Pragmatics Society of Japan)
12.	2021/05	"Thoughts on formulaic expressions in English in a cross-linguistic perspective" (招待講演)
13.	2020/12～2021/01	Reviewing board for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (2020)
14.	2019/12	Announcement of New Book: Corpus and the History of the English Language (The Hituzi Companion to English Corpus Studies Volume 6)
15.	2020/11	"New Trends in Pragmatics (3): Historical Linguistics, Language Usage, and Conversational Analysis"
16.	2019/03	"From nominal predicates pragmatic markers in the history of Japanese With special reference to East Asian languages" (招待講演)
17.	2018/12	Report on the first session (The history of English) JAECS 44
18.	2018/08～2019/01	Scientific Committee for ICLC 2019 Track Chair (Language Change)
19.	2017/10	"On the matter of chemistry between <I>wh</I>-clefts and the progressive" (Plenary talk)
20.	2017/05	TBA (Active Learning, Language education and studies) (Toyo University at Hakusan Campus, Tokyo, Japan)
21.	2016/12～2017/01	Reviewing board for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (2017)
22.	2015/12～2016/01	Reviewing board for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (2016)
23.	2012/03	Intensive lectures at Human Linguistics Circle
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■ Research Topics, Consignment Studies & KAKENHI Researches

1.	2022/04～	'Toward a constructional view of the co-evolution of formulaic expressions and discourse structure: A case from the history of English' (PI: Reijirou Shibasaki, No. 22K00610) (Key Word : )
2.	2019/04～2024/03	The discourse-basis of anacoluthonic constructions in the history of English: Constructionalization across time and space (19K00693) (Key Word : )
3.	2017/04～2023/03	"Formulaicity in everyday interaction: On the model construction of linguistic structures based on spoken language" (provisional) (Key Word : )
4.	2019/04～2021/03	Basic research on grammaticalization in Japanese and neighboring languages (Key Word : )
5.	2016/04～2019/03	"Diachronic aspects of projector constructions in English: Empirical studies from the perspective of constructionalization " (Key Word : )
6.	2013/04～2016/03	"Competing motivations between head and dependent relations in the history of English: A cross-linguistic heterogeneity of English in the past, present and future" (Key Word : )
7.	2010/04～2013/03	"From head-marking to dependent-marking in the history of English: With special attention to personal pronouns" (Key Word : )
8.	2009/04～2010/03	"Special research fund" (Okinawa International University) (Key Word : )
9.	2006/04～2009/03	"Information flow of grammatical subjects in discourse: Evolution of grammar-in-use from the perspective of English" (Key Word : )
10.	2006/04～2007/03	A pilot study in spatial perception in Okinawa (Uruma City, Okinawa, Japan) (Key Word : )
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■ Committees and Associations

1.	2011	Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale Refereeing Service
2.	2014/04～2018/03	The Modern English Association Member of editorial board
3.	2014/12～2017/12	The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) The Conference Organizing Committee
4.	2015/10～2016/09	The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association The Organizing Committee (Chair at Host University)
5.	2015/12～2016/04	The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) Vice-chair of the International spring Forum 2016
6.	2016/02～2016/08	SAGE Publications Article Editor
7.	2016/04～2018/03	The Modern English Association Editor-in-chief (EIC) for Studies in Modern English
8.	2016/05～2017/04	The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) Chair of the International spring Forum 2017
9.	2016～2017	The Pragmatics Society of Japan Reviewer for Studies in Pragmatics 18
10.	2018/04～	The Pragmatics Society of Japan Editorial board member
11.	2018/04～2022/03	The Modern English Association Director
12.	2018/08～2019/01	Scientific Committee for ICLC 2019 Track Chair (Language Change)
13.	2019/12～2022/11	The Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ) Member of the conference organizing committee
14.	2022/04～	The Pragmatics Society of Japan A board of trustees
15.	2024/02～	Editorial board (21st term), The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) Member of editorial board
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■ Award History

1.	2015/11	The English Linguistic Society of Japan The English Linguistics Research Paper Award
2.	2015/03	The English Linguistic Society of Japan EL Article Award
3.	2010/05	The Modern English Association Research Paper Award

■ Current Specialized Field

Aesthetics and art studies (Key Word：Historical Linguistics, Discourse Studies, Typology, Grammaticalization, Historical Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, The History of English, Japanese Linguistics, Asian Languages)

■ Courses and Lectures taught or delivered in the past

1.	English IA/B (conducted in English, online/offline)（Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences）
2.	English II A/B (conducted in English, online/offline)（Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences）
3.	English III A/B (Presentation skills, conducted in English, online/offline)（Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences）
4.	English Test Preparation (TOEIC), Online/Offline（Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences）
5.	Linguistics (conducted in English)（Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences）
6.	English VII (TOEIC)（Okinawa International University）
7.	Contemporay Japanese Grammar I/II（Okinawa International University）
8.	Basic Seminar, Advanced Seminar, Graduation thesis（Okinawa International University）
9.	English Linguistics, Linguistics, International Communication（Okinawa International University）
10.	Lectures on Sociolinguistics and Cognitive Linguistics（Okinawa International University）
11.	Introduction to English Linguistics, Introduction to Corpus Linguistics（Rikkyo (St. Paul) University）
12.	Linguiatics I/II（Keio University School of Economics）
13.	English and General Linguistics（Hosei University Dept. of English）
14.	Contrastive studies in language and culture 1・2（Japan Women's University）
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