Zisk Matthew

ジスクマシュー | Zisk Matthew

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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 (7)：

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
2016 - 2019 Reevaluation of the role of kanbun kundoku in the formation of the Japanese language from a contact/cross-linguistic perspective

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Papers (30)：

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
Matthew Zisk. The history of kun-yomi. In: Japan Society for Cultural Studies of Chinese Characters (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Chinese Character Culture. Maruzen Publishing. 2023. 222-223
Matthew Zisk. Sinogram semantics in Japan: The creation of new meanings. In: Japan Society for Cultural Studies of Chinese Characters (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Chinese Character Culture. Maruzen Publishing. 2023. 214-215
Matthew Zisk. Sinogram semantics in Japan: The adoption of preexisting meanings. In: Japan Society for Cultural Studies of Chinese Characters (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Chinese Character Culture. Maruzen Publishing. 2023. 212-213

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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 (40)：

Are Japanese Particles Clitics? (revisited)
(Discussion on Glossing Japanese Dialects (@Tohoku University) 2024)
Tips for writing academic papers on Japanese linguistics in English: Focusing on terminology and glossing
(The Linguistic Society of Japan Workshop on Strengthening the International Dissemination of Information (Workshop #4) 2023)
Handbook of Glossing: Project Overview
(Handbook of Glossing Workshop 2023)
Proposal of a Glossing Standard for Modern and Classical Japanese
(17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS 2023) 2023)
Morphemic Boundaries and Phonemicization in the Description of Classical and Modern Japanese
(2nd Meeting of the 2022 Academic Year for Research Project: "Development and Utilization of a Shōmono Corpus for Researching the History of the Japanese Language" 2023)

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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 (2)：

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

Committee career (6)：

2024/04 - 現在 The Society for Research in Kunten Language Steering Committee member
2021/11 - 現在 The Society for Japanese Linguistics Committee for the Promotion of Internationalization chairperson
2021/06 - 現在 The Society for Japanese Linguistics Public Relations Committee chairperson
2021/04 - 現在 Japan Society for Cultural studies of Chinese Characters Council member
2020/10 - 現在 The Society for Research in Kunten Language Committee member

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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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