Core Research Projects
- Syntactic, Semantic, and Morphological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon
- Modeling of the Ecology of Writing and Its Application to Sociolinguistics
- The Japanese Lexicon: A Rendaku Encyclopedia
- General Research for the Study and Conservation of Endangered Dialects in Japan
- Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects
- Exploring Variation in Contemporary Japanese: Multiple Approaches
- Formation Processes of Japanese Language Varieties and Creoles
- Comprehensive Research Based on Large-Scale, Long-Term Studies of Japanese
- A Diachronic Contrastive Study of Japanese Interrogatives
- Basic Research on Corpus Annotation
- Research on Language and Education for Communication
- Design of a Diachronic Corpus
- Foundations of Corpus Japanese Linguistics
- Universals and Crosslinguistic Variations in the Semantic Structure of Predicates
- Adnominal Clauses and the "Mermaid" Construction: Grammaticalization of Nouns
- Typological and Historical/Comparative Research on the Languages of the Japanese Archipelago and their Environs
- Modal and Speech-Act Constraints on Clause-Linkage
- Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon
- Study on Teaching and Learning Japanese as a Second Language in a Multicultural Society
