The characteristic systematicity of human language can be observed at every level of its organization, from words through sentences to connected discourse, both in its formal and semantic aspects. What kind of systematicity prevails at each level, and how these different kinds of systematicity relate to each other constitute the most fundamental questions in linguistic research, and contrastive linguistic approaches often prove effective and revealing in analyzing specific languages.
Complementing this line of research are studies on the nature of language universals and the range of possible diversity found in human language, as well as those on diachronic change and synchronic variation. These make essential contributions to the whole enterprise of defining human language by elucidating the dynamic capacity for adaptation through interaction with various factors which lies beneath its static, internal systematicity.
Faculty
- Phonetics:
- Izabelle Grenon
- Phonology:
- HIROSE Yuki, TANAKA Shin'ichi, TERASAWA Jun, YOSHIKAWA Masayuki
- Writing Systems:
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IWATSUKI Jun'ichi,
UEDA Hiroto,
YADA Tsutomu,
YOSHIKAWA Masayuki,
KAWASAKI Keigo
- Syntax:
- FUJII Seiko,
HIROSE Yuki,
INABA Jiro,
ITO Takane,
MORI Yoshiki,
OGOSHI Naoki,
ONO Hideki,
TANAKA Shin'ichi,
TERASAWA Jun,
TSUBOI Eijiro,
YATABE Shuichi,
OSEKI Yohei
- Semantics:
- FUJII Seiko,
ITO Takane,
KATO Tsuneaki,
MORI Yoshiki,
OGOSHI Naoki,
ONO Hideki,
TSUBOI Eijiro,
YATABE Shuichi,
WATANABE jun-ya,
KAWASAKI Keigo
- Discourse:
- FUJII Seiko,
KATO Tsuneaki,
MATSUMOTO Kazuko,
MORI Yoshiki,
ONO Hideki,
USAMI Yo,
WATANABE jun-ya
- Contrastive linguistics:
- FUJII Seiko,
INABA Jiro,
MORI Yoshiki,
OGOSHI Naoki,
ONO Hideki,
TANAKA Shin'ichi,
TSUBOI Eijiro,
USAMI Yo,
WATANABE jun-ya,
KAWASAKI Keigo
- Universals of language:
- HIROSE Yuki,
INABA Jiro,
ITO Takane,
KAWASAKI Yoshifumi,
MATSUMOTO Kazuko,
MORI Yoshiki,
TANAKA Shin'ichi,
YATABE Shuichi,
WATANABE jun-ya,
KAWASAKI Keigo
- Cross-linguistic diversity and language variation:
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FUJII Seiko,
HIROSE Yuki,
INABA Jiro,
KAWASAKI Yoshifumi,
MATSUMOTO Kazuko,
MORI Yoshiki,
OGOSHI Naoki,
ONO Hideki,
TANAKA Shin'ichi,
TSUBOI Eijiro,
USAMI Yo,
WATANABE jun-ya
- Language change:
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KAWASAKI Yoshifumi,
MATSUMOTO Kazuko,
MATSUMURA Takeshi,
TERASAWA Jun,
YADA Tsutomu,
YOSHIKAWA Masayuki,
WATANABE jun-ya,
KAWASAKI Keigo
- Dialectology:
- HIROSE Yuki,
KAWASAKI Yoshifumi,
MATSUMOTO Kazuko,
TANAKA Shin'ichi,
TERASAWA Jun,
YOSHIKAWA Masayuki,
WATANABE jun-ya
