Miura Ayumi

ミウラアユミ | Miura Ayumi

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor
Homepage URL (2)： https://www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/info/research/faculty/list/lis/f031484.html , https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/k0001_05165.html

Research field (2)： Linguistics , English linguistics

Research keywords (8)： history of the English language , Middle English , Latin , Old English , syntax , semantics , lexicology , lexicography

Research theme for competitive and other funds (3)：

2022 - 2025 Latin-based vocabulary and grammar in the Wycliffite Bible and their historical development
2019 - 2022 Reception of Latin vocabulary and grammar in _An Alphabet of Tales_
2014 - 2017 Syntactic and semantic changes in the history of English with verbs derived from nouns expressing status, occupation or role

Papers (22)：

Ayumi Miura. Internet resources for the history of English. New Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume III: Change, transmission and ideology. 2025
Ayumi Miura. Manner/result complementarity: A view from _orphan_ verbs and _captain_ verbs. LEXICON. 2024. 54. 1-19
Ayumi Miura. Reception of Latin among new English words in the _Wycliffite Bible_: Some case studies of synonyms. Comparison and Exchange of Language and Culture 11. 2024. 37-44
Ayumi Miura. Reception of Latin vocabulary and introduction of new words in _An Alphabet of Tales_. Comparison and Exchange of Language and Culture 10. 2023. 20-33
Ayumi Miura. Translation effects on the use of impersonal verbs _irken_ and _uggen_ in _An Alphabet of Tales_. Comparison and Exchange of Language and Culture 8. 2021. 35-42

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MISC (6)：

Ayumi Miura. Review of Castro-Chao, Noelia. 2021. Argument Structure in Flux: The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with Special Reference to Verbs of Desire. Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-0343-4189-9. https://doi.org/10.3726/b17694. Research in Corpus Linguistics. 2022. 10. 1. 213-227
Ayumi Miura. Emendation of _he þis_ in _York Plays_ XXX 112. Notes and Queries. 2020. 67. 3. 350-351
Ayumi Miura. Matsuji Tajima, _Studies in Middle English_ (Nan'un-do, 2016). Studies in English Literature. 2019. 96. 182-188
Ayumi Miura. Review of Hideshi Ohno's _Variation between personal and impersonal constructions in Geoffrey Chaucer: A stylistic approach_ (2015, University Education Press). Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature. 2017. 32. 111-125
Ayumi Miura. _Beowulf_ 2334a _ealond utan_: On the validity of Mitchell and Robinson's reading. A collection of research notes on the history of the English language. 2008. 61-65

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Books (11)：

Lighthouse English-Japanese Dictionary (7th edition)
Kenkyusha 2023 ISBN:9784767415079
Categories, constructions, and change in English syntax
Cambridge University Press 2019 ISBN:9781108419567
Compass Rose English-Japanese Dictionary
Kenkyusha 2018 ISBN:9784767415321
Dictionary of the latest terms of English linguistics and linguistics
Kaitakusha 2015 ISBN:9784758922159
Middle English verbs of emotion and impersonal constructions: Verb meaning and syntax in diachrony
Oxford University Press 2014 ISBN:9780199947157

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Lectures and oral presentations (35)：

EfAS in the age of AI
(Symposium by Department of English Language, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, 'English education at the University of Tokyo in the age of AI' 2025)
How Are Middle English Studies in Japan Likely to Change?
(Symposium 'The Future Past: JSMES and Medieval English Studies in the Coming Ages', The 40th Congress of The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies 2024)
Reassessing foreign influence in the rise and spread of the combining form _-in-law_ in Middle English
(34th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM 34) 2024)
Manner/result complementarity: A view from orphan verbs and captain verbs
(Symposium 'Manner/result complementarity', The 75th Congress of The Regional District of Chubu Branch, The English Literary Society of Japan 2023)
Unveiling EfAS (and UoT students): My agony and findings in the 2023 S semester
(FD seminar for English for Arts and Sciences 2023)

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Works (2)：

HEL on the Web
Ayumi Miura 2009 - 現在
A Gateway to Studying HEL
MIURA Ayumi 2008 - 現在

Education (3)：

2008 - 2011 The University of Manchester School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures Linguistics and English Language
2003 - 2008 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Field of Specialisation of Language and Information Sciences
1999 - 2003 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Foreign Studies English Department of European and American Studies I

Professional career (3)：

PhD (Linguistics) (The University of Manchester)
MA (The University of Tokyo)
BA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Work history (12)：

2024/04 - 現在 International Christian University Graduate School, School of Arts and Sciences Master's Course, Education and Psychology Program Part-time lecturer
2023/04 - 現在 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Language and Information Sciences Associate Professor
2022/04 - 2023/03 Osaka University Division of Language and Culture, Graduate School of Humanities Associate Professor
2017/09 - 2022/03 Osaka University Studies in Language and Culture, Graduate School of Language and Culture Associate Professor
2019/10 - 2020/03 The Open University of Japan Osaka Centre Part-time lecturer

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Committee career (12)：

2016/09 - 現在 The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics Affiliate
2024/07 - 2025/05 CBDA-8 (Colloque Bisannuel de la Diachronie de l’Anglais) Scientific Committee
2024/06 - 2025/04 HEART 2025 Conference (Historical English Analysis and Research Tradition) Scientific Committee
2021/04 - 2024/03 The English Literary Society of Japan Member of the Editorial Committee
2018/04 - 2024/03 The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies Councillor

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Awards (5)：

2021/11 - Osaka University Osaka University Prize (Junior Researchers)
2021/03 - Osaka University President's Special Prize
2021/01 - The Japan Academy 17th Japan Academy Medal
2020/12 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 17th (FY2020) JSPS Prize
2008/04 - Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORSAS)

Association Membership(s) (8)：

The University of Tokyo Language Variation and Change @ Komaba (UTLVC@Komaba) , ISLE (The International Society for the Linguistics of English) , Modern English Association , The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies , The Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language , The English Literary Society of Japan , Iwasaki Linguistic Circle , SAKIGAKE Club, Osaka University

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