Research theme for competitive and other funds (1)：
2016 - 2019 スワヒリ語南部諸方言の記述と方言分類の批判的検証
Papers (18)：
Makoto Furumoto. Re-thinking the Genesis of Coastal Swahili. Journal of Swahili and African Studies. 2024. 35. 207-216
Makoto Furumoto, Hannah Gibson. Variation in Kimakunduchi and Standard Swahili:Insights from verbal morphosyntax. Linguistique et langues africaines. 2022. 8(1)
Makoto Furumoto. Clues about functional development of the Kimakunduchi copula. Working Papers in African Linguistics. 2022. 1. 29-51
Makoto Furumoto. Two Narrated Folktales in Kitumbatu: Wealth or Blessing, The Woodcutter and the Angel of Death. Asian and African languages and linguistics. 2022. 16. 351-371
Maseanakoena Amina Mokoaleli, Kristina Riedel, Makoto Furumoto. Sesotho (S33). Descriptive Materials of Morphosyntactic Microvariation in Bantu vol. 2: A microparametric microvariation in Southern Bantu languages. 2021. 387-426
On Potential Contributions of Nominalization Theory to the Description of Kimakunduchi
(International workshop on Bantu linguistics and Swahili studies: Dialogues in Swahili and Bantu linguistics 2024)
Narrative Collection of the Swahili dialects in Zanzibar
(JSAntu Project Meeting 5 2024)
Review of the importance of comprehensive understanding of Kimakunduchi for argumentation in its description
(Grammatical Studies Workshops 24 “Re-considering the Role of Scientific Argumentation in Language Description” 2024)
On Grammatical Nominalizations in the Kimakunduchi dialect of Swahili
(Joint Meeting “Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization-from Theoretical, Fieldwork, Historical and Dialectal Perspective” Project and “Cross-Linguistic Studies on Grammatical Nominalizations: With a Focus on Classifiers and Gender Markers” Project 2023)
Linguistic Documentation of Memory of the Male Circumcision Rite in Zanzibar
(35th Swahili Colloquium | Kongamano la Kiswahili la 35 2023)
