Reijirou Shibasaki

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Affiliation: Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University

Degree: Ph.D. in Linguistics(University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
Master of Arts (summa cum laude)(Rikkyo University)
Bachelor of Arts (salutatorian)(Rikkyo University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 200901013521347662
researchmap Member ID: 5000095747

External link: https://gyoseki1.mind.meiji.ac.jp/mjuhp/KgApp?resId=S001500&Language=2

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics / Historical linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, contrastive linguistics, grammaticalization, constructionalization, language contact

Research History

Mar, 2023 - Present

Visiting Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia
Apr, 2018 - Present

Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences Full Professor
Apr, 2016 - Present

Researcher
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

Faculty of Letters, Department of English, Hosei University
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2018

Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences Associate Professor
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2016

Keio University Part-time lecturer(Linguistics)
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2016

Rikkyo University Part-time lecturer(Linguistics, English Linguistics)
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2013

Okinawa International University Department of British and American Language and Culture Associate Professor
Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2007

Okinawa International University Department of British and American Language and Culture Associate Professor
Apr, 2005 - Mar, 2006

Okinawa International University Department of British and American Language and Culture Full-time lecturer

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2018 - Present

A member of the board of directors, Modern English Association
Apr, 2018 - Present

Director, The Modern English Association
Apr, 2018 - Present

A member of the editorical committee, The Pragmatics Society of Japan
Apr, 2018 - Present

編集員, 日本語用論学会
Apr, 2018 - Present

Editorial board member, The Pragmatics Society of Japan
Apr, 2018 - Present

編集委員, 日本語用論学会
Apr, 2016 - Present

「言語変化・変異研究ユニット」研究員, 東北大学大学院情報科学研究科
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2022

理事, 近代英語協会
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

Editor-in-chief (EIC) for Studies in Modern English, The Modern English Association
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

編集委員長, 近代英語協会
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

A member of the editorical committee (Editor in Chief, EIC), Modern English Association
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

学会誌 Studies in Modern English 編集委員長, 近代英語協会
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

Member of editorial board, The Modern English Association
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

編集委員, 近代英語協会
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

A member of the editorical committee, Modern English Association
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

学会誌 Studies in Modern English 編集委員, 近代英語協会
Dec, 2014 - Dec, 2017

The Conference Organizing Committee, The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ)
Dec, 2014 - Dec, 2017

大会運営委員, 日本英語学会
Dec, 2014 - Nov, 2017

The English Linguistic Society of Japan
Dec, 2014 - Nov, 2017

大会運営委員, 日本英語学会

Awards

Nov, 2015

The English Linguistics Research Paper Award, The English Linguistic Society of Japan
Mar, 2015

EL Article Award, The English Linguistic Society of Japan
May, 2010

The Modern English Association Research Paper Award

Major Papers

"A little more thought to the decline of iwis: Analogy, reanalysis and obsoletism" (Peter Lang)

Reijirou Shibasaki

Linguistic and Stylistic Approaches to Speech, Thought and Writing in English, 2024 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
"Formulaicity and formulaic expressions in Japanese: An introduction" (De Gruyter Mouton)

Reijirou Shibasaki

Journal of Japanese Linguistics: Special Issue: Formulaicity and formulaic expressions in Japanese (De Gruyter Mouton), 39(1) 5-14, May, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
"From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb" (John Benjamins)

Reijirou Shibasaki

Different slants on grammaticalization (eds. by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci), 2023 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
"Grammaticalisation of Discourse Markers in East Asian Languages: Introduction" (East Asian Pragmatics)

Rhee, Seongha, Reijirou Shibasaki, Xinren Chen

East Asian Pragmatics; Special issue; Grammaticalisation of Discourse Markers in East Asian Languages (Equinox), 6(3) 271-281, Nov, 2021 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
"Discourse markers in the making: Pragmatic differentiation of jijitsujoo from jijitsu in Modern through Present Day Japanese"(East Asian Pragmatics)

Reijirou Shibasaki

East Asian Pragmatics, Special issue: Grammaticalization of discourse markers in East Asian languages (Equinox), 6(3) 303-329, Nov, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
"Reanalysis and the emergence of adverbial connectors in the history of Japanese" (John Benjamins, SLCS219)

Reijirou Shibasaki

Studies at the grammar-discourse interface, 101-124, Jul, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
"From Parataxis to Amalgamation: The emergence of the sentence-final is all construction in the history of American English" (De Gruyter Mouton)

Reijirou Shibasaki

Grammar - Discourse - Context: Grammar and usage in language variation and change (eds. by Kristin Bech and Ruth Möhlig-Falke, De Gruyter Mouton), 171-191, Feb, 2020 Peer-reviewed
"On the rise of douride 'no wonder' as a projector and the reformulation of discourse sequential relations in Japanese" (JK25)

Shin Fukuda, Mary Shin Kim, Mee-Jeong Park, Haruko Minegishi Cook

Japanese/Korean Linguistics 25, 25 383-395, Jun, 2019 Lead authorCorresponding author
"Sequentiality and the emergence of new constructions" (John Benjamins, SLCS198)

Explorations in English Historical Syntax (Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Leisbet Heyvaert, and Charlotte Maekelberghe. eds.), 285-308, Sep, 2018 Peer-reviewed
On the grammaticalization of the thing is and related issues in the history of American English

Reijirou Shibasaki

STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE VI: EVIDENCE AND METHOD IN HISTORIES OF ENGLISH, 85 99-121, 2015 Peer-reviewed
"More thoughts on the grammaticalization of personal pronouns" (John Benjamins)

Sylvie Hancil, Ekkehard König

Grammaticalization Theory and Data (John Benjamins, SLCS), Sep, 2014 Peer-reviewed
"On the development of the point is and related issues in the history of American English" (English Linguistics)

English Linguistics 31 (1), 31(1) 79-113, Jun, 2014 Peer-reviewed
"Semantic constraints on the diachronic productivity of Japanese reduplication"

Grazer Linguistische Studien 71 (Special Issue: Reduplication), 71 pp. 79-97, Dec, 2009 Peer-reviewed
"Another look at the development of epistemic meanings in English: A historical collocational approach"

Studies in Modern English 25, 25 pp. 62-84, May, 2009
Ellipsis and discourse-syntactic structures in Japanese interview discourse: The emergence of the evidential marker to

Reijirou Shibasaki

LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS, 8(4) 939-966, Oct, 2007
"The evolution of Preferred Argument Structure in English: With focus on referential forms and information status"

English Linguistics 23 (1), 23(1) pp. 1-26, Jun, 2006
Personal Pronouns and Argument Structure in Japanese: Discourse Frequency, Diachrony and Typology (Ph.D. dissertation)

xxiv+309pp, Dec, 2005 Peer-reviewed
「証拠表示化する「と」と談話構造－頻度から見た文法化の層状的拡大－」

『日本語の研究』, 1(4) pp. 47-60, Oct, 2005
"Patterns of semantic harmonization in English: The case of May Well"

Proceedings of the 29th Annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS29), 29 pp. 391-402, Jun, 2004
"Diachronic aspects of Preferred Argument Structure in English and broader implications"

Proceedings of the 28th Annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS28), 28 pp. 289-301, May, 2003

Books and Other Publications

"Expansion of discourse-syntactic structures and constructionalization: With special reference to jijitsu 'fact' in Modern through Present-day Japanese" (Hituzi Syobo Publishing, Tokyo)

Shigehiro Kato, Masato Takiura

Hituzi Syobo Publishing, Dec, 2017
"Anacolutha in American English: With a focus on the edge of clause" (Kurosio Publishers, Tokyo)

Midori Amano, Naoko Hayase

Kurosio Publishers, Nov, 2017
「現代アメリカ英語の二重コピュラ構文」(ひつじ書房)

秋元実治, 青木博史, 田満

ひつじ書房, Nov, 2015
"Functions of the thing is in spoken American English: With its origins and development." (Eihosha)

Eihosha, Jun, 2014
"Please tilt me-ward by return of post: On the vicissitude of a marginal pronominal construction in the history of English" (John Benjamins)

Irén Hegedűs, Alexandra Fodor

John Benjamins, Nov, 2012 (ISBN: 9789027248435)
「述部語要素としての人称詞と間主観的談話機能－2人称詞「あなた」の通方言的・通言語的考察」(早稲田大学出版部)

早稲田大学出版部, Mar, 2011
"From nominalizer to stance marker in the history of Okinawan" (CSLI Publications, Stanford Univ.)

CSLI Publications, Stanford University, Feb, 2011
"Frequency as a cause of semantic change: With focus on the second person form omae in Japanese" (John Benjamins)

John Benjamins, Nov, 2010
"On the transition of transitivity in English" (Peter Lang)

Peter Lang, Aug, 2010
『言語文化のクロスロード－沖縄からの事例研究－』(文進印刷, 沖縄)

(Role: Supervisor (editorial), pp. 13-59, 133-158, 目次, 索引, あとがき, 等)

文進印刷株式会社, Jan, 2009 (ISBN: 9784872152579)
"On the grammaticalization of verbal reduplication in Japanese." (Mouton de Gruyter)

Mouton de Gruyter, Apr, 2005
"On sound symbolism in Japanese and Korean" (CSLI Publications, Stanford Univ.)

CSLI Publications, Stanford University, Mar, 2002
"From the inside to the outside of the sentence: Forming a larger discourse unit with jijitsu 'fact' in Japanese" (John Benjamins)

Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban, Jose Vincente Lozano

John Benjamins

Presentations

PANEL: Sequentiality and emergence of discourse-pragmatic markers (org by Yuko Higashiizumi, Noriko O. Onodera & Reijirou Shibasaki

The 16th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA-16), Jun, 2019, International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
"Versatility of nominal compounds and the emergence of pragmatic markers: Perspectives from Japanese with reference to East Asian languages" (Plenary)

Plenary speakers: Bernd Heine, Peter Auer, Richard Waltereit, Reijirou Shibasaki

International Conference on Current Trends in Linguistics, 28-29 March 2019, Mar, 2019, Sylvie Hancil Invited
"From a clause-combining conjunction to a sentence-initial adverbial connector in the history of Japanese: With special attention to totan(-ni) 'at the moment'"

The 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK26), Nov, 2018
"Versatility of nominal predicates and the emergence of pragmatic markers in Japanese" (invited)

Referentiality in Asian Languages (The 2018 JK PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP ), Nov, 2018, Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta, Canada) and Sandra Thompson (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
"From a clause-combining conjunction to a sentence-initial adverbial connector in the history of Japanese: With special attention to totan(-ni) 'at the moment'"

The 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK26), Nov, 2018
"Flexibility of temporal nouns in Japanese: With special reference to shunkan '(at the) moment'"

Referentiality Workshop, Sep, 2018, Saori Daiju (University of Alberta, Canada) Ritva Laury (University of Helsinki, Finland) Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta, Canada) Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta, Canada) Ryoko Suzuki (Keio University, Japan) Kanza Tariq (University of Albert
"Learner perceptions of active learning: Some issues of poster session activities in ESP university classes"

Madoka Kawano, James A. Elwood, Yuya Koga, Reijirou Shibasaki

The 3rd International Psychology of Language Learning Conference (PLL3), June 7-10, 2018, Jun, 2018
"Emergence of stand-alone formulae from the predicate: Another look at douride in Modern and Present-day Japanese"

Linguistics of spoken language (?), Feb 24, 2018, Ryoko Suzuki et al.
"A historical study of wh-clefts as projector constructions: What the progression of the progressive reveals about"

Interface between cognitive linguistics and discourse-functional linguistics: In search of usage-based linguistics (closed workshop), Dec 10, 2017, Toshihide Nakayama & Naoki Otani
"On formulaic expressions and formulaicity in Late Modern through Present-day English"

Convenor, Takuto WATANABE, Panelists, Yoshitaka KOZUKA, Akinobu TANI, Takuto WATANABE, Reijirou SHIBASAKI

The Thirty-Fifth Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Nov, 2017, The English Linguistic Society of Japan
"On the rise of douride 'no wonder' as a projector and the reformulation of discourse sequential relations in Japanese"

The 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK25), Oct, 2017
"On the matter of chemistry between wh-clefts and the progressive" (Plenary)

Society for Language Change and Variations, Oct, 2017, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo at Komaba Invited
"A study of present progressive forms in projector constructions: With attention to wh-clefts in American English"

International Workshop on Fixed Expressions with Mental Verbs and Related Expressions, Sep, 2017, Convenor: Tomoko Endo (Seikei University)
"Active Learning through Poster Sessions: Ongoing Development of a Presentation Course" (with James A Elwood and Madoka Kawano)

James A Elwood, Madoka Kawano

JACET 56th International Convention 2017, Aug, 2017, The Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET)
"Clause combining and integration at right periphery of utterance: ..., is what I'm saying in American English"

Organizers, Yuko Higashiizumi, Noriko O. Onodera, Reijirou Shibasaki

The 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA 2017), Jul, 2017, International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
"On the rate of language change at the edge of clause: English WH-cleft constructions at left and right peripheries"

MEIJI INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: New Directions in Pragmatic Research: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives, Mar 20, 2017, Meiji University (conveners: Naoko Osuka & Reijirou Shibasaki)
"Poster presentations: An authentic, effective method of enhancing communication skills of academic English."

Madoka Kawano, James A Elwood, Reijirou Shibasaki

JACET 55th International Convention 2016, Sep, 2016, JACET
"On the rise of a sentence-final quotative construction in American English"

Language change, variation and linguistic theory: What cannot be revealed by introspection (tentative translation), Sep, 2016, "Language change-and-variation research unit" (tentative translation), Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, 7-8 Sept., 2016
"Look, I'm just saying I'm undecided, is all: The emergence of a sentence-final quotation marker in English"

The 4th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE-4), Sep, 2016
"All the way to adverbs from nominal predicates: The case of constructionalization with jijitsu 'fact' in Japanese"

The Second International Conference on Grammaticalization Theory and Data (Gramm2), Apr, 2016, University of Rouen

Teaching Experience

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

"Formulaicity in everyday interaction: On the model construction of linguistic structures based on spoken language" (provisional)

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) project by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2021

Ryoko Suzuki, Keio
"Historical development of projector constructions and constructionalization: Empirical studies in the history of English" (Project Leader: Reijirou Shibasaki, 16K02781)

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) project by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Reijirou Shibasaki, Meiji Universi
"Competing motivations between head and dependent relations in the history of English: A cross-linguistic heterogeneity of English in the past, present and future"

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) project by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2016
"From head-marking to dependent-marking in the history of English: With special attention to personal pronouns"

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) project by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2013
"Special research fund" (Okinawa International University)

Apr, 2009 - Mar, 2010
"Information flow of grammatical subjects in discourse: Evolution of grammar-in-use from the perspective of English"

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientist (B) project by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2009
A pilot study in spatial perception in Okinawa (Uruma City, Okinawa, Japan)

Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2007

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