Visiting Researcher
Visiting Researcher
The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (hereafter, “the Institute”) accepts as Visiting Researchers those researchers specializing in Japanese language (including instruction in Japanese as a foreign language) or related fields at universities and research institutes (both domestic and abroad), who wish to conduct research at the Institute supported with either public or private funding. (The Institute does not assume any financial burden.) Researchers wishing to do research at the Institute under this provision should choose a Host Academic from the Academic Staff, and after obtaining informal consent from the Host Academic, should consult with a Department Head (for example, the Dean) of the institution of current affiliation, and thereafter make an application according to the guidelines below.
How to apply
The Institute requires persons desiring an appointment to apply for permission for acceptance by submitting the following documents to the Director-General of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics 2 months in advance of the starting date of the desired period of appointment (3 months in advance if obtaining visa is necessary).
Documents for submission
Curriculum Vitae, Record of Research Achievements, Research Plan (Japanese format) (English format), and a letter of request or a letter of recommendation from the President (or equivalent thereto) of the institution of current affiliation.
Period of appointment
The period is limited to one year in principle. However, renewal is possible for up to three years total.
Use of facilities, etc.
Use of the facilities, equipment, and materials of the Institute is made available.
Contact information for queries and submissions
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Administrative Department, Research Promotion Division
(Midori-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo-to 190-8561 JAPAN)
Tel.: +81-42-540-4374
Fax: +81-42-540-4334
E-mail: suishinka[at]ninjal.ac.jp (Replace [at] with @.)
Visiting Researchers Currently in Residence
KATAOKA Kiyoko
Department of Spanish, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kanagawa University
Research Topic: Theoretical comparative syntax between Japanese and Spanish; language-particular properties in the structure of predication
Period of Residence: April 2018 - March 2019
Armin MESTER
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: Studies on the rhythmic structure of Japanese and its dialects
Period of Residence: April 2018 - March 2019
SAWADA Jun
Department of Japanese Language and Literature, College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University
Research Topic: A pragmatic and discourse grammar study on Japanese deixis: From a historical and contrastive linguistic perspective
Period of Residence: April 2018 - March 2019
HAYASHI Yuka
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: A cross-dialectal study on the form and the function of Kakarimusubi in Ryukyuan and Hachijoan dialects
Period of Residence: April 2017 - March 2020
MATSUI Mayuki
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Interfaces between synchronically marginal sound patterns and diachrony
Period of Residence: April 2017 - March 2020
SHIMOJI Mika
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: 方言研究と古代日本語研究の融合による日本格配列システムの解明
Period of Residence: April 2017 - March 2020
YOKOYAMA Akiko
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: 危機言語の継承に向けた実践的研究 ―琉球沖永良部語を事例に―
Period of Residence: April 2017 - March 2020
: "Hakuho Foundation Japanese Research Fellowship"
Former Visiting Researchers
2018
Alexander FRANCIS-RATTE
Asian Studies, Furman University (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: Reconstruction of Proto-Korean-Japanese
Period of Residence: July 5, 2018 - July 18, 2018
TOMIOKA Satoshi
Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: Semantics and pragmatics of contrastiveness and focus association
Period of Residence: June 2018 - July 2018
2017
YANG Hong
Chongqing Three Gorges University (China)
Research Topic: Comparative study for modification of adjectives in Japanese and Chinese
Period of Residence: January 2018 - January 2019
TOMIOKA Satoshi
Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: Grammatical realizations of discourse-related information in Japanese and beyond
Period of Residence: December 2017 - January 2018
Hoyt LONG
East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: コーパス分析を活用した日本近代文学の研究
Period of Residence: November 13, 2017 - November 17, 2017
WANG Shihho
Japanese Literature, Soochow University (Taiwan)
Research Topic: A study of a context-oriented Japanese Pedagogical Grammar: Centered on the usage of Te-iru
Period of Residence: September 2017 - August 2018
SAITO Akemi
The Department of Japanese Language, Hallym University (Korea)
Research Topic: A study about the change of factores that influenced the motivations and impression in the learner of Japanese Language in Korea - Finding in studies about change over the years -
Period of Residence: September 2017 - August 2018
Armin MESTER
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: Tonal and metrical constraints in the pitch accent systems of Japanese
Period of Residence: June 2017 - March 2018
FUJITA Yasuyuki
Professor, Faculty of Letters, Ryukoku University (Japan)
Research Topic: Descriptive study of Japanese compound particles
Period of Residence: April 2017 - March 2018
2016
Giuseppe PAPPALARDO
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy)
Research Topic: Experimental analysis of phonetic characteristics of Japanese based on the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese
Period of Residence: October 2016 - November 2016
CHEN Fengchuan
Japanese Language of Foreign Studies College, JINAN University Faculty (China)
Research Topic: The practice of training in communicative competence in Japanese for students of Japanese language
Period of Residence: October 2016 - September 2017
YU Rong
School of Mongolia Studies，Inner Mongolia University (China)
Research Topic: Corpus-based comparative study of prosodic features in Japanese and Mongolian
Period of Residence: September 2016 - August 2017
LIU Jinfeng
Foreign Language and School of Sightseeing Studies, Wuxi Institute of Technology (China)
Research Topic: Japanese conjunctive expressions: A contrastive study between Chinese and Japanese
Period of Residence: September 2016 - August 2017
Armin MESTER
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: Match Theory and Syntax-Prosody Mismatches
Period of Residence: June 2016 - March 2017
2015
NGUYEN Bich Ha Thi
Japanese Language Department, Foreign Trade University (Vietnam)
Research Topic: Japanese-Language Education for Writing Academic Papers: Cultural Characteristics of the Vietnamese for choosing Sentence Style and Vocabulary
Period of Residence: March 2016 - August 2016
Monggungerel U
Faculty of Foreign Languages, Chifeng University (China)
Research Topic: Survey research on trends in change and transition in Mongolian Ordos
Period of Residence: March 2016 - August 2016
Stephen Wright HORN
Research Topic: Grammatical Analysis for a Diachronic Corpus of Pre-modern Japanese with an Orientation to Linguistic Research
Period of Residence: September 2015 - August 2016
TSURUTANI Chiharu
Associate Professor, Griffith University (Australia)
Research Topic: Prosodic characteristics in polite utterances by native and non-native speakers of Japanese
Period of Residence: September 2015 - February 2016
WANG Lili
Associate Professor, Changchun Normal University (China)
Research Topic: A contrastive study between Chinese and Japanese in adversative complex sentences
Period of Residence: August 2015 - February 2016
Armin MESTER
University of California, Santa Cruz (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: Geminate consonants in loan words in the Japanese Language
Period of Residence: June 2015 - March 2016
MIKI Yosuke
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Survey and record of the endangered Hachijo dialect, and the creation and publication of discourse materials
Period of Residence: April 2015 - March 2018
Clemens POPPE
Overseas Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Interaction between tone and vowel in the dialects of Japan as seen from the viewpoint of language typology
Period of Residence: April 2015 - March 2017
SHIMADA Yasuko
Professor, Nishogakusha University (Japan)
Research Topic: Research on the historical meaning of language change in Modern Japanese
Period of Residence: April 2015 - March 2016
NANBU Satoshi
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Experimental and corpus research on language variation
Period of Residence: April 2015 - July 2015
2014
HIRAYAMA Manami
Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)
Research Topic: Research on devoicing and incomplete neutralization in Japanese vowels
Period of Residence: October 2014 - March 2015
YOUN Ho-Sook
Professor, Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Korea)
Research Topic: A study on the acquisition of Japanese in e-learning education
Period of Residence: September 2014 - August 2015
OHNO Tsuyoshi
Professor, University of Alberta (Canada)
Research Topic: Formulaic language in Japanese everyday talk
Period of Residence: September 2014 - August 2015
CHANG Won-Jae
Associate Professor, Keimyung University (Korea)
Research Topic: Survey on translation materials for designing a Japanese-Korean translation corpus
Period of Residence: August 2014 - November 2014
HIRATA Yukari
Associate Professor, Colgate University (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: On the perception of vowel length opposition and consonant length opposition in Japanese
Period of Residence: July 8, 2014 - July 31, 2014
Armin MESTER
Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: On the phonological characteristics of Sino-Japanese words
Period of Residence: May 2014 - August 2014
SHIBATANI Masayoshi
Honorary professor, Rice University (U.S.A.)
Invitation Fellowships for Research in Japan (Long term), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Comprehensive research on compound verbs in Japanese and their theoretical significance
Period of Residence: May 2014 - August 2014
AOI Hayato
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Investigating the phonetic structure of the Miyako dialect with a focus on correlation
Period of Residence: April 2014 - March 2017
2013
Elga STRAFELLA
Overseas Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Extracting collocations from the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese for a Japanese-Italian Dictionary
Period of Residence: November 2013 - March 2015
Razaul Karim FAQUIRE
Professor, Modern Language Laboratory, The University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Research Topic: A Comparative Study between the Relative Clause of Japanese and Bengali: A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis
Period of Residence: October 2013 - September 2014
AZUMA Shoji
Professor, The University of Utah (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: Is globalization changing the Japanese of communication? An analysis of speech styles among political and business leaders in Japan
Period of Residence: October 2013 - August 2014
Bor HODOSCEK
Overseas Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Research on a register model for Japanese using corpora
Period of Residence: October 2013 - March 2014
Patrizia ZOTTI
Editor Assistant, Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" UNIOR (Italy)
Research Topic: Corpus-based semantic research on event expressions in Japanese
Period of Residence: September 2013 - August 2014
LEE Hyunwoo
Professor, Changwon National University (Korea)
Research Topic: Research on the differences between ‘kara’ and “node”
Period of Residence: July 2013 - April 2014
TSUDA Satoshi
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Research on aspect in Japanese dialects based on new perspectives and survey methods
Period of Residence: April 2012 - September 2015
GIRIKO Mikio
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Investigating prosodic characteristics of Japanese from the standpoint of accent levelling
Period of Residence: April 2013 - March 2015
2012
John PHAN
Overseas Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: Historical comparative analysis of the Viêt-Muong language family
Period of Residence: November 2012 - July 2014
KUYA Aimi
Graduate Student, University of Oxford (U.K.)
Research Topic: Corpus-based study of the sociolinguistics of loan words in the Japanese language
Period of Residence: November 2012 - February 2013
Tomoko Okazaki-HANSEN
Associate Professor, University of Oslo (Norway)
Research Topic: Dative Marking of Giver with Verbs of Receiving in Japanese
Period of Residence: November 2012 - December 2012
Irena SRDANOVIC
Assistant Professor, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Research Topic: Collocations in Japanese language learning
Period of Residence: October 2012 - September 2013
NAKAJIMA Kazuko
Honorary professor, University of Toronto (Canada)
Research Topic: The Development of Bibliographical Database of Heritage Language Education with Special Focus on Teaching Japanese as a Heritage Language
Period of Residence: October 2012 - September 2013
MA Ling
Graduate Student, Rice University (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: Chinese-Japanese contrastive study of noun modifying constructions
Period of Residence: June 2012 - July 2012
OKI Hiroko
Professor, Shinshu University (Japan)
Research Topic: Variation in discourse in Contemporary Japanese
Period of Residence: April 2012 - September 2012
NAGAYA Naonori
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (SPD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: The typology and history of expressions for spatial deixis and motion in the languages of East Indonesia
Period of Residence: April 2012 - March 2013
TAKAMATSU Ryo
Associate Professor, Saitama University (Japan)
Research Topic: A comparative analysis of spoken and written language
Period of Residence: April 2012 - March 2013
2011
HUANG Yuhan
Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Research Topic: Analysis of the pragmatics of modal expressions and research on their acquisition
Period of Residence: March 2012 - August 2012
Galina VOROBEVA
Japanese Advanced Lecturer, Kyrgyz National University named after Jusup Balasagyn (Kyrgyzstan)
Research Topic: Analysis of kanji hierarchical structures and its using for development of textbook "1001 kanji stories"
Period of Residence: October 2011 - September 2012
Borjigin BADAMAAODESIER
Mongolian language Research Director, Inner Mongolia University (China)
Research Topic: Research on the preservation and revitalization of endangered languages
Period of Residence: October 2011 - September 2012
Yasuko Nagano-MADSEN
Professor, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Research Topic: Analysis of Accent and Intonation in Japanese
Period of Residence: May 2011 - September 2011
Polly SZATROWSKI
Professor, University of Minnesota (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: Sensory Evaluation of Food and Cultural Identity in English,Japanese and Wolof
Period of Residence: May 2011 - August 2011
2010
Kerri RUSSELL
PD Researcher, University of Oxford (U.K.)
Research Topic: Lexical Representation of Argument Realization Patters in Pre-modern Japanese
Period of Residence: March 2011 - May 2011
YU Rong
Associate Professor, Inner Mongolia University (China)
Research Topic: Constructing a corpus for the Mongolian language
Period of Residence: February 2011 - April 2011
Stephen Wright HORN
PD Researcher, University of Oxford (U.K.)
Research Topic: Tagging noun phrases for grammatical role in a pre-modern Japanese languages corpus
Period of Residence: November 2010 - January 2011
Hyun Kyung Hwang
Overseas Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Topic: A contrastive study of prosody in Japanese and Korean
Period of Residence: September 2010 - September 2012
Alan H. KIM
Professor, Southern Illinois University (U.S.A.)
Research Topic: A comparison of polite language in Japanese and Korean
Period of Residence: August 2010 - November 2010
DENG Mu
Graduate Student, Beijing Foreign Studies University (China)
Research Topic: Competition between Sino-Japanese words and Western loan words in dictionaries of neologisms in modern Japanese
Period of Residence: July 2010 - September 2010
CAO Jing
Graduate Student, Beijing Japanese language Studies Research Center (China)
Topic : Observations on state of the use of loan words in the Minutes of the Diet
Period of Residence: April 2010 - August 2010
2009
YU Rong
Associate Professor, Inner Mongolia University (China)
Research Topic: Constructing a corpus of spoken Contemporary Mongolian
Period of Residence: October 2009 - September 2010
CHIU Hsueh-Chin
Associate Professor, National Taichung University of Science and Technology (Taiwan)
Research Topic: Automization of phonological processing of Japanese as a second language
Period of Residence: October 2009 - September 2010
Atay AYSEGUL
Assistant, Ankara University (Turkey)
Research Topic: The Japanese ‘ta’ inflection and the past tense inflection in Turkish
Period of Residence: October 2009 - May 2010
Shishir BHATTACHARJA
Associate Professor, The University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Research Topic: The status of the formation of compound words in grammar and morphology
Period of Residence: October 2009 - November 2010