2020 - 2024 A Comprehensive study of children's writing evaluation and developmental stages besed on the competitive compositions
2021 - 2023 A study on online dictionary use and vocabulary choices in L2 learning using smartphone video recording
2019 - 2022 A New Stage of Empirical and Descriptive Research on Formal Words
2018 - 2020 Development of quasi-balanced ultra large-scale Japanese corpus and its high-speed search tool
2016 - 2020 Construction of Japanese language learner corpus through overseas collaboration and applied studies to language acquisition and education
2016 - 2020 Inference Use in Reading Comprehesion Processes among JSL Learners
2016 - 2019 Large-scale corpus based research on functional words in Japanese and its application to the development of a search tool
2015 - 2019 A cross-linguistic research on getting-stuck disfluency
2014 - 2017 A Comprehensive Research on So-Called Formal Words and Morphemes, With Special Focus on Compound Particles that Allow for Rich Expressivity in Japanese
2011 - 2015 Study on spoken Japanese based on situation and its pedagogical application
2011 - 2015 汎用的日本語学習辞書開発データベース構築とその基盤形成のための研究
2006 - 2011 代表性を有する書きことばコーパスを活用した日本語教育研究
2007 - 2010 Grammar of Spoken Language based on "Characters"
2006 - 2010 Compilation of a Balanced Corpus of Written Japanese : Infrastructure for the Coming Japanese Linguistics
2004 - 2007 A Japanese, Chinese and Korean Contrastive Study for Research and Education of Language
2003 - 2006 Research on a methodology for contrastive description of Japanese language with foreign languages
2002 - 2004 An integrated study of 'fukugouji'(compound particle) in Japanese
2001 - 2003 Research on Grammar of Japanese Speech
2001 - 2002 日本語に於ける話し言葉の文法研究
1996 - 1998 日本語の語順の原理と分の談話機能に関する基礎研究
1995 - 1998 An integrated approach to grammaticalizations of space expressions
1993 - 1993 個別言語学における文法カテゴリーの一般化に関する理論的研究
1988 - 1989 Research toward the compiling of the Verbal Valency Lexicon of Japanese for the development of the teaching materials for the intermediate and advanced level of the Japanese language teaching
- 1982 Osaka University of Foreign Studies Graduate School, Division of Foreign Language
Professional career (2)：
Ph.D. (University of Tsukuba)
文学修士 (大阪外国語大学)
Work history (1)：
University of Tsukuba Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Emerita
Committee career (4)：
2009 - 2012 日本言語学会 学会誌委員
2008 - 2009 日本語文法学会 評議員、大会委員長
2000 - 2002 日本語学会 編集委員
1999 - 2001 日本語教育学会 理事、学会誌委員長
Awards (2)：
2023/12 - 文化庁 文化庁長官表彰
2012/05/16 - 日本語教育学会 日本語教育学会賞
Association Membership(s) (5)：
The Pragmatics Society of Japan
, The Society of Japanese Grammar
, THE SOCIETY FOR TEACHING JAPANESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
, The Society for Japanese Linguistics
, THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
