Zisk Matthew

ジスクマシュー | Zisk Matthew

Affiliation and department：

Research field (2)： Linguistics , Japanese linguistics

Research keywords (9)： Japanese linguistics , history of the Japanese language , historical linguistics , descriptive linguistics , language contact , borrowing , morphology , glossing , translation

Research theme for competitive and other funds (8)：

2024 - 2029 Construction and Publication of a Shо̄mono Corpus and its Application in Comprehensive Studies of Japanese Historical Linguistics
2024 - 2027 A Comparative Study of the Influence of Glossing on the Historical Development of Japanese and the Languages of Europe
2021 - 2025 Construction of a Shо̄mono Corpus and its Application in Japanese Historical Linguistics
2019 - 2023 Development of a multilingual dictionary of Japanese linguistics terminology and a glossing standard for Japonic languages
2016 - 2021 Basic research on grammaticalization in Japanese and neighboring languages

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Papers (33)：

Matthew Zisk. A Comparison of Morphogram-driven Linguistic Innovations Throughout the Sinographic Cosmopolis and Beyond. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. 2025. 10. 1. 5889-5889
Zisk, Matthew. The Word Formation of Directly Translated Expressions in Kundoku Texts of the Early Heian Period: Focusing on Konkо̄myо̄ saishо̄о̄-kyо̄ (Golden Light Sutra), Saidaiji MS. In: Saitō Michiaki & Xiū, Déjiàn. Studies in Japanese Lexicology. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 2024. 244-275
Irwin, Mark, Zisk, Matthew. Editor's Introduction to the Inaugural Volume. Language in Japan. 2024. 1. 3-4
Matthew Zisk. Grammaticalization in kuntengo: Focusing on imitational borrowing from Literary Sinitic (Kanken Chinese Character Culture Research Incentive Award: 1st Place). Journal of Chinese Character Culture. 2024. 14
Matthew Zisk. Sinograms from the perspective of the "Foreigner". In: Japan Society for Cultural Studies of Chinese Characters (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Chinese Character Culture. Maruzen Publishing. 2023. 356-357

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MISC (10)：

Matthew Zisk. List of Japanese Functional Morphemes (2025.03.31). 2025
Matthew Zisk. Classical and Modern Japanese Glossing Rules (2025.09.20). 2025
Matthew Zisk. List of Japanese Functional Morphemes (2024.12.31). 2024
Matthew Zisk. Classical and Modern Japanese Glossing Rules (2024.12.31). 2024
Matthew Zisk. List of Japanese Functional Morphemes (2024.09.10). 2024

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Books (2)：

Japanese Linguistics
Asakura Publishing 2019 ISBN:9784254516814
An Encyclopedia of Japanese Language and Linguistics
Asakura Publishing 2014 ISBN:9784254510348

Lectures and oral presentations (46)：

Possible Interpretations of Classical Japanese Verb Stems
(2025)
Introducing the Beta Version of "A Multilingual Dictionary of Japanese Linguistics Terminology"
(2025)
A Comparison of Sinogram-driven Linguistic Innovations throughout the Sinographic Cosmopolis
(2025 LSA Annual Meeting (@Philadephia) 2025)
The Significance of Early Christian Sources in Japanese Historical Linguistics
(The Sixth Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies (@ Tohoku University) 2024)
The Origins of the Network for the Study of Glossing and the Handbook of Glossing
(The 131st Meeting of the Society for Research on Kunten Language 2024)

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Education (4)：

2009 - 2013 Tohoku University Graduate School of Arts and Letters Department of Japanese Linguistics
2007 - 2009 Tohoku University Graduate School of Arts and Letters Department of Japanese Linguistics
2002 - 2006 Penn State University College of the Liberal Arts Japanese / Comparative Literature
2004 - 2005 Tohoku University Faculty of Arts and Letters Department of Japanese Linguistics (One-year study abroad)

Work history (3)：

2020/04 - 現在 Tohoku University Graduate School of International Cultural Studies Associate Professor
2020/04 - 現在 Yamagata University Institute of Arts and Sciences Adjunct Lecturer
2012/04 - 2020/03 Yamagata University Graduate School of Science and Engineering Assistant Professor

Committee career (7)：

2024/04 - 現在 The Society for Research in Kunten Language Steering Committee member
2021/11 - 現在 The Society for Japanese Linguistics Vice Editor-in-Chief of Language in Japan
2021/11 - 現在 The Society for Japanese Linguistics Committee for the Promotion of Internationalization chairperson
2021/04 - 現在 Japan Society for Cultural studies of Chinese Characters Council member
2021/06 - 2024/05 The Society for Japanese Linguistics Public Relations Committee chairperson

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Awards (2)：

2024/03 - The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation 2023 Chinese Character Culture Research Incentive Award: 1st Place Zisk, Matthew. 2024. Grammaticalization in Kuntengo: Focusing on Imitational Borrowing from Literary Sinitic. Chinese Character Culture Research, 14
2009/03 - The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation 2008 Chinese Character Culture Research Incentive Award: 2nd Place Zisk, Matthew. 2009. The influence of Chinese characters on native Japanese words: Taking Literary Sinitic xiě (写) and Japanese utus-u as an example. Chinese Character Education Research, 10: 6-45

Association Membership(s) (3)：

Japan Society for Cultural Studies of Chinese Characters , The Society for Research on Kunten Language , The Society for Japanese Linguistics

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