KIKUSAWA Ritsuko

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Name
KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
E-mail
ritsukominpaku.ac.jp
Affiliation
The National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
Section
Department of Cultural Research & Center for International Academic Exchange
Job title
Associate Professor
Degree
Ph.D. (Linguistics)

Career

 
Apr 2009
 - 
Today
Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Research and Center for International Academic Exchange (double position), National Museum of Ethnology
 
Apr 2006
 - 
Today
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Studies, Graduate University for Advanced Studies
 
Dec 2006
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Nov 2007
Affiliated Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, Leiden, the Netherlands)
 
Apr 2005
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Mar 2009
Associate Professor, Department of Advanced Studies in Anthropology, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
 
Apr 2000
 - 
Mar 2005
Associate Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
 
Mar 2000
 - 
Feb 2002
Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (RSPAS-ANU, Canberra, Australia)
 
Apr 1995
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Mar 2000
Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
 

Prizes

 
Jul 2009
The Ralph Chikato Honda Distinguished Scholar Award, [Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation]
 
Mar 2008
JSPS Prize, [Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science]
 
Mar 2005
The Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies Prize, [The Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies]
 

Papers

 
Comparing languages: Methods and purposes of “comparison” in Linguistics. [Reprint, the original version appeared in Minpaku Tsuushin 115:8-11. In Japanese]
KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
90. 319-326.   2010   [Refereed]
(with M. Itoh) Presenting the structure of language in a physically visible form: Developing the Kotoba Stamp for the Language Exhibit of the National Museum of Ethnology [in Japanese]
KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
Tenjigaku   48. 148-149.   2010   [Refereed]
Collaborating in the compilation of the Satawalese Cultural Dictionary: Thirty years of a dictionary project initiated by cultural anthropologists
KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
People and Culture in Oceania   26. 137-147.   2010   [Refereed]
The movement of people and plants in the Pacific: Reconstructing culture-history based on linguistic data
KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
In 2009 International Symposium on Austronesian Studies, ed. by Masegseg Z. Gadu and Hsiu-Man Lin, Taitung: National Museum of Prehistory.   77-96.   2010   [Invited]
When the ‘majority rule’ does not apply: Ergative to accusative drift in Austronesian languages and how we know.
Kikusawa, Ritsuko.
Papers from the International symposium on Linguistic Substrata in the Tibeto-Burman Area. Senri Ethnological Studies 75.   169-187.   Oct 2009
Historical changes in pronoun positions in Extra-Formosan languages.
Kikusawa, Ritsuko.
Current Issues in Austronesian Linguistics: Papers from the 10th ICAL. Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures (SPLC) 17.   66-87.   2008
Transitivity in the analysis of Betsimisaraka Malagasy.
Kikusawa, Ritsuko.
Current Issues in Austronesian Linguistics: Papers from the 10th ICAL. Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures (SPLC) 18.   44-66.   2008
Proto who utilised turmeric, and how?
Kikusawa, Ritsuko and Lawrence A. Reid
Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry Crowley, ed. by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades, Creole Language Library 30.   341-354.   2007   [Refereed]
A Malagasy (Betsimisaraka) text with grammatical notes.
Kikusawa, Ritsuko.
Journal of Asian and African Studies   71: 5-37.   2006   [Refereed]
Standardisation as Language Loss: Potentially Endangered Malagasy Languages and Their Linguistic Features
KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
Plenary presentation at The 3rd Oxford-Kobe Seminar “The Linguistics of Endangered Languages”. St. Catherine’s College, Oxford-Kobe Institute. (Kobe, April 2-5, 2006).      2006   [Invited]

Bibliography

 
Proto Central Pacific Ergativity: Its Reconstruction and Development in the Fijian, Rotuman and Polynesian Languages. Pacific Linguistics 520.
Kikusawa, Ritsuko.
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics   2002   

Teaching Experiences

 
 

Research Projects (Competitive Research Funds)

 
National Institutes for Humanities Collaborative Research Grant: To host the International Workshop on the Development of Sign Languages, July 28, 2011
Project Year: Jul 2011       Investigator(s): KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition ’70 Grant: To host the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, July 25-30, 2011
Project Year: 2011       Investigator(s): KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Fellowship (NWO): To conduct research on “An Examination of the Genetic Affiliation of the Malagasy Languages: Their Internal and External Relationship in the Austronesian Language Family” at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands
Project Year: Dec 2006 - Nov 2007    Investigator(s): KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
Japan Ministry of Education and Science Research Grant (JSPS): To conduct research on “The Development of the Number System in Austronesian Pronouns”
Project Year: Apr 2003 - Mar 2005    Investigator(s): KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad: To conduct research on "Actancy Systems and Their Historical Development in Oceanic Languages" at the Australian National University, Australia
Project Year: Mar 2000 - Feb 2002    Investigator(s): KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
Japan Ministry of Education Conference Travel Grant: To attend the Fourth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics in Niue
Project Year: 1999       Investigator(s): KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
Japan Ministry of Education Conference Travel Grant: To attend the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics at Academia Sinica, Taipei
Project Year: 1997       Investigator(s): KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
University of Hawai‘i Arts and Science Advisory Council Award: Conference Travel Grant: To attend the Third International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Project Year: 1996       Investigator(s): KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
The Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Award: for Ph.D. studies at the University of Hawai‘i
Project Year: Sep 1995 - Aug 1997    Investigator(s): KIKUSAWA Ritsuko

Committee Career

 
2010
 - 
Today
Journal of Historical Linguistics  Editorial Board
 
2010
 - 
Today
Historical Syntax Series  Editorial Board
 
2008
 - 
Today
European Research Council  referee in research project reviews
 
2006
 - 
Today
Language Documentation and Conservation  Editorial Board
 
2006
 - 
2012
International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics  Steering Committee
 
Apr 2005
 - 
Mar 2009
Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies  Executive Committee
 
Apr 2005
 - 
Mar 2009
People and Culture in Oceania  Editor
 
2005
 - 
Today
International Society for Historical Linguistics  Executive Committee
 
2009
 - 
2011
International Society for Historical Linguistics  President