IMANISHI Yusuke
Organization
School of Policy Studies Department of Policy Studies Professor
Research Fields, Keywords
Linguistics, Syntax, Morphology, Field Linguistics (Mayan and Ryukyuan languages)
Teaching and Research Fields
ヒトをヒトたらしめている特質の一つに言語があります。世界には約6000の言語があり、これらは表面的には非常に異なる側面を持ちます。しかし、抽象的なレベルで考察してみると普遍的な規則・原理に基づいて成り立っていることが分かります。私は生成文法という言語理論に基づき、様々な言語を分析することにより、人間言語の普遍的側面を解明しようと努めています。更に、消滅危機言語のフィールドワーク研究にも取り組んでいます。多くの言語学者の試算では、今世紀の終わりまでに少なくとも半分の言語が消滅してしまうと言われています。私はこれまでに中米グアテマラにおいて現地調査をおこない、消滅危機言語であるカクチケル語（マヤ語族）の研究をおこなってきました。最近では、奄美・喜界島で話されている喜界語の研究・調査も開始しました。ユネスコは2009年に、日本においても消滅危機言語が8つ存在し、喜界語はその一つであると報告しています（注：厳密に言うと、ユネスコの報告書では喜界語は奄美語の喜界方言として分類されている）。講義や演習を通じて、学生の皆さんと共に言語の分析手法や理論の構築方法を議論していきたいと思います。また、「消滅危機言語を研究することは重要なのか」や「消滅危機言語を記録・保全することは必要なのか」といったなかなか答えが出しにくいような問題についても学生の皆さんと活発な議論を交わしていきたいと考えています。
Mail Address
yimanishi@kwansei.ac.jp
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Graduating School:Kwansei Gakuin University
Faculty:Faculty of General Policy
Course / Major:Policy Studies
Kind of school:University
Date of graduation:2007.03
Completion status:Graduated
Country location code:Japan
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Graduate school:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department:Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Course:Linguistics
Course completed:Doctor's Course
Date of completion:2014.09
Completion status:Completed
Country:United States -
Graduate school:Osaka University
Department:Graduate School, Division of Letters
Course:English linguistics
Course completed:Master's Course
Date of completion:2009.03
Completion status:Completed
Country:Japan
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Name of institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Name of job or career: Ph.D. student
Date: 2009.09 - 2014.09 -
Name of institution: Emory University
Name of job or career: Exchange student
Date: 2004.08 - 2005.05
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Degree name:Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics
Classified degree field:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics
Conferring institution:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Acquisition way:Coursework
Date of acquisition:2014.09 -
Degree name:Master of Arts in Literature
Classified degree field:Humanities & Social Sciences / English linguistics
Conferring institution:Osaka University
Acquisition way:Coursework
Date of acquisition:2009.03 -
Degree name:Bachelor in Policy Studies
Classified degree field:Policy Studies
Conferring institution:Kwansei Gakuin University
Acquisition way:Coursework
Date of acquisition:2007.03
Career 【 display / non-display 】
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Affiliation:Kwansei Gakuin University
Department:School of Policy Studies
Title:Professor
Date:2022.04 - -
Affiliation:Kwansei Gakuin University
Department:School of Policy Studies Department of Policy Studies
Title:Associate Professor
Date:2019.04 - 2022.03 -
Affiliation:Kwansei Gakuin University
Department:School of Policy Studies Department of Policy Studies
Title:Assistant Professor
Date:2018.04 - 2019.03 -
Affiliation:Kwansei Gakuin University
Department: Sign Language Research Center
Title:Researcher
Date:2016.08 - -
Affiliation:Kwansei Gakuin University
Department:School of Policy Studies Department of Policy Studies
Title:Assistant Professor
Date:2014.04 - 2018.03
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Academic society name:The Linguistic Society of Japan
Academic country located:Japan -
Academic society name:日本英語学会
Academic country located:Japan -
Academic society name:The Linguistic Society of America
Academic country located:United States -
Academic society name:The Linguistic Society of America
Academic country located:Japan
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Research field:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics
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Research subject: 分裂能格性の比較統語研究：名詞化と動詞の意味的特性を中心とした実証研究
Periods of research: 2018.04 -
Classification of research form:Individual
Research program:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
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Research subject: 日本手話の統語現象に関する研究—結合価変換現象を中心に—
Periods of research: 2016.08 -
Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics
Classification of research form:Individual
Research program:The Other Research Programs
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Research subject: Morphosyntactic investigation of (split) ergativity in Kaqchikel and other Mayan languages
Periods of research: 2015.04 - 2018.03
Classification of research form:Individual
Research program:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
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Language: English
Title: Parameterizing split ergativity in Mayan
Journal name: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Date of publication: 2020
Author(s): Yusuke ImanishiDOI: 10.1007/s11049-018-09440-9
Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)
Co-author classification: Single Author
Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics
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Language: English
Title: On the realization of external arguments in nominalization
Journal name: Osaka University Papers in Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics vol.2 (p.29 - 40)
Date of publication: 2025
Author(s): Yusuke ImanishiType of publication: Part of collection (book)
Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics -
Title: Split ergativity and nominalization in Mayan
Journal name: Glottotheque: Mayan Languages. online resource vol.-
Date of publication: 2024
Author(s): IMANISHI Yusuke
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Language: Japanese
Title: 聴者の成人日本手話学習者の中間言語−空項の解釈−
Journal name: Journal of Sign and Spoken Languages (p.13 - 22)
Date of publication: 2024
Author(s): 山田一美・前川和美・下谷奈津子・内山宏美・今西祐介Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics
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Language: English
Title: The incredible shrinking noun phrase: Ongoing change in Japanese word formation
Journal name: Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research vol.4 (p.1 - 23)
Date of publication: 2024
Author(s): Kevin Heffernan and Yusuke ImanishiType of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)
Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics
Books 【 display / non-display 】
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Language: Japanese
Title: 手話言語学のトピック：基礎から最前線へ
Publisher: くろしお出版
Date of publication: 2023
Author(s): 内堀朝子・今西祐介・上田由紀子
Type of books: Scholarly book
Area of responsibility: 文末指さし
Authorship：Joint author
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Language: Japanese
Title: Ergativity: Its Puzzles and Prospects
Publisher: ひつじ書房
Date of publication: 2020.03
Author(s): 今西祐介
Type of books: Scholarly book
Authorship：Sole author
Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics -
Language: English
Title: Default Ergative
Publisher: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL)
Date of publication: 2014.09
Author(s): Yusuke Imanishi
Type of books: Scholarly book
Authorship：Sole author
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Research category:基盤研究(C)
Project year：2024.04 - 2027.03
Title:分裂能格性の包括的統語研究：カクチケル語と喜界語を中心とした実証研究
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Research category:若手研究
Title:分裂能格性の比較統語研究：名詞化と動詞の意味的特性を中心とした実証研究
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Research category:Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Project year：2018.04 - 2021.03
Title:分裂能格性の比較統語研究：名詞化と動詞の意味的特性を中心とした実証研究
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Research category:Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)
Project year：2015.04 - 2018.03
Title:カクチケル語及びマヤ諸語の（分裂）能格性の形態統語論的研究
Social Contribution 【 display / non-display 】
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Title:Reviewer
Date：2016.08 -
Title:学術書査読委員 (Blackwell Companion to Syntax)
Date：2014.12 -
Title:書類選考委員 (フルブライト奨学金）
Date：2014.11 -
Title:国際学会アブストラクト査読委員（The Third Formal Approaches to Mayan Linguistics）
Date：2014.07 -
Title:学術書査読委員（Studies in Kaqchikel Grammar）
Date：2012.12