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:
- HIRAYAMA Manami
- Phonology:
- HIROSE Yuki, TANAKA Shin'ichi, HIRAYAMA Manami, YOSHIKAWA Masayuki
- Writing Systems:
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IWATSUKI Jun'ichi,
YADA Tsutomu,
YOSHIKAWA Masayuki,
KAWASAKI Keigo
- Syntax:
- HIROSE Yuki,
INABA Jiro,
ODA Hiromune,
OKANO Shinya,
ONO Hideki,
OSEKI Yohei,
TANAKA Shin'ichi,
TSUBOI Eijiro,
HIRAYAMA Manami,
MIURA Ayumi,
LI Jialiang,
YATABE Shuichi
- Semantics:
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ONO Hideki,
TSUBOI Eijiro,
MIURA Ayumi,
LI Jialiang,
YATABE Shuichi,
WATANABE jun-ya,
KAWASAKI Keigo ,
ODA Hiromune,
OKANO Shinya
- Discourse:
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HAYASHI Katsuhiko,
MATSUMOTO Kazuko,
LI Jialiang,
ONO Hideki,
USAMI Yo,
WATANABE jun-ya,
OKANO Shinya
- Contrastive linguistics:
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INABA Jiro,
ODA Hiromune,
OKANO Shinya,
ONO Hideki,
TANAKA Shin'ichi,
TSUBOI Eijiro,
USAMI Yo,
HIRAYAMA Manami,
LI Jialiang,
WATANABE jun-ya,
KAWASAKI Keigo
- Universals of language:
- HIROSE Yuki,
INABA Jiro,
ODA Hiromune,
OKANO Shinya,
KAWASAKI Yoshifumi,
HIRAYAMA Manami,
MATSUMOTO Kazuko,
TANAKA Shin'ichi,
YATABE Shuichi,
WATANABE jun-ya,
KAWASAKI Keigo
- Cross-linguistic diversity and language variation:
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HIROSE Yuki,
INABA Jiro,
KAWASAKI Yoshifumi,
MATSUMOTO Kazuko,
ODA Hiromune,
OKANO Shinya,
ONO Hideki,
TANAKA Shin'ichi,
TSUBOI Eijiro,
USAMI Yo,
HIRAYAMA Manami,
MIURA Ayumi,
LI Jialiang,
WATANABE jun-ya
- Language change:
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KAWASAKI Yoshifumi,
MATSUMOTO Kazuko,
HIRAYAMA Manami,
MIURA Ayumi,
LI Jialiang,
YADA Tsutomu,
YOSHIKAWA Masayuki,
WATANABE jun-ya,
KAWASAKI Keigo,
ODA Hiromune
- Dialectology:
- HIROSE Yuki,
KAWASAKI Yoshifumi,
MATSUMOTO Kazuko,
TANAKA Shin'ichi,
HIRAYAMA Manami,
LI Jialiang,
YOSHIKAWA Masayuki,
WATANABE jun-ya,
ODA Hiromune
