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| 1994- | Ph.D. studies (Linguistics, PhD Candidate. Areas of specialization: Comparative Oceanic linguistics, Syntax theories, Typology and universals), University of Hawai'i |
| 1993-94 | Ph.D. studies (Linguistics), University of Tokyo |
| 1993 | M.A. (Linguistics), University of Tokyo |
| 1990 | B.A. (Linguistics), University of Tokyo |
| 1998-99 | Lecturer (Linguistics), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
| 1997-99 | Lecturer (Linguistics), Yokohama City University |
| 1995- | Assistant Researcher (tenured), Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
| 1994 | Instructor (Fijian Language One Day Course for Japanese teachers), Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1993-94 | Instructor (Fijian Language Course), Japan-Tuvalu Friendship Association, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1999 | Field Research, Fiji (Nadrau and Wainiabia villages on Viti Levu Island), June |
| 1998 | Field Research, Fiji (Kadavu Island), February-March |
| 1995 | Field Research, Fiji (Kadavu Island), July-August |
| 1994 | Research on Satawalese, Honolulu, Hawai'i, September-November |
| 1994 | Field Research, Fiji (Kadavu Island), February |
| 1993 | Field Research, Vanuatu (Malekula Island), September |
| 1992 | Field Research, Fiji (Kadavu Island), July-November |
| 1991 | Field Research, Fiji (Kadavu Island), May-August |
Scholarships, Research and Travel Grants, and Awards
| 2000-02 | 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) |
| 1998 | Japan Ministry of Education Conference Travel Grant (to attend the Fourth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics) |
| 1997 | Japan Ministry of Education Conference Travel Grant (to attend the Eighth International Conference of Austronesian Linguistics) |
| 1996 | University of Hawai'i Art and Science Advisory Council Award: Conference Travel Grant (to attend the Third International Conference of Oceanic Linguistics) |
| 1994-96 | The Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Award (for Ph.D. studies at the University of Hawai'i) |
| 1993 | Mitsubishi Shintaku Yamamuro Memorial Scholarship Research and Travel Grant (to conduct fieldwork in Fiji and Vanuatu) |
| 1992-95 | Nihon Ikueikai Scholarship (for Master's and Ph.D. studies at the University of Tokyo and the University of Hawai'i) |
| 1992 | Mitsubishi Shintaku Yamamuro Memorial Scholarship Research and Travel Grant (to conduct fieldwork on the Kadavu dialect of Fijian) |
| (forthcoming) | Historical implications of a syntactically ambiguous structure in Standard Fijian, Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Steven Roger Fischer and Wolfgang B. Sperlich (eds.) [ MS-Word97 file (149KB) and a figure (28KB)] |
| (forthcoming) | Where did suli come from? A study of the words connected to taro plants in Oceanic languages, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Paul A. Geraghty and Bill Palmer (eds.) |
| 1999a | An Introduction to Standard Fijian (in Japanese). Tokyo: ILCAA, pp.161. |
| 1999b | (with Apolonia Tamata) A Standard Fijian Learners' Dictionary (in Japanese). Tokyo: ILCAA, pp. 250. |
| 1998a | A formal analysis of the so-called 'passive' in Fijian. Journal of Asian and African Studies 56:111-139. [ MS-Word97 file (118KB)] |
| 1998b | Fiji (in Japanese). Encyclopedia of Ethnic Play and Games, 402-406. Tokyo: Taishuukan Shoten. |
| 1997a | Ergativity and transitive verbs in Polynesian languages with a special reference to Tongan (in Japanese). Typescript. [ MS-Word97 file (101KB)] |
| 1997b | Notes on noun incorporation in the Wailevu communalect of Fijian. Typescript. |
| 1996 | The so-called 'articles' in the Wailevu Communalect of Fijian: Determiners or something else? Proceedings of the 5th Annual East-West Center Centerwide Conference, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 137-144. |
| 1995a | On the Meaning of Saa in the Wailevu Communalect of Fijian. Man and Culture in Oceania 11:45-60. |
| 1995b | Names of Marine Animals in the Wailevu Communalect, Kadavu, Fiji: An interim report. Tokyo University Linguistics Papers 14:699-736. |
| 1993a | Abstract: On the meaning of saa in the Wailevu communalect of Fijian (in Japanese). Gengo Kenkyuu 105:155. |
| 1993b | An Interim Report on the Language spoken in Leklak Village on Malekula Island, Vanuatu (in Japanese). A research report submitted to Mitsubishi Shintaku Yamamuro Memorial Scholarship Foundation. |
| 1992 | The verb system in the Wailevu communalect of Fijian (in Japanese). M.A. thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Tokyo. |
| 1990 | Prepositional phrases in Standard Fijian (in Japanese). Graduation thesis submitted for B.A. degree in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Tokyo. |
| 1998 | Notes on taro in Wailevu village in Fiji (in Japanese). Meeting of the joint research project "Root Crop Agriculture in Oceania", at the National Museum of Ethnology. (Osaka, June 12, 1998) |
| 1998 | Verb morphology and transitivity in Fijian. Meeting of the ILCAA joint research project "Transitivity and Actancy Systems in Syntactic Typology", at ILCAA. (Tokyo, June 7, 1998) |
| 1998 | A formal analysis of the so-called 'passive' in Fijian. Fifth Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA V), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i. (Honolulu, March 29, 1998) |
| 1998 | A reconstruction of the main verbal structures in Proto-Central Pacific. Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawai'i. (Honolulu, February 19, 1998) |
| 1998 | The history of root-crop agriculture in Oceania from a comparative linguistics point of view: An introduction, Taro (1) (in Japanese). Meeting of the joint research project "Root Crop Agriculture in Oceania", the National Museum of Ethnology. (Osaka, January 24, 1998) |
| 1997 | Comparative syntax of Fijian and Tongan: How a single proto-language developed into two different actancy systems. Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (8ICAL), Academia Sinica. (Taipei, December 28, 1997) |
| 1997 | Transitivity: The Lexicase approach. International Workshop on Language Contact and Typology, Session 1 "Transitivities", ILCAA. (Tokyo, December 21, 1997) |
| 1997 | Ergativity and accusativity in Polynesian languages: The ergative system and ergative patterns in diachronic typology. Second Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology (ALT II), University of Oregon. (Eugene, September 13, 1997) |
| 1997 | Transitivity and ergativity in Polynesian languages. A meeting of the project "Transitivity and Ergativity/accusativity in Syntactic Typology", ILCAA. (Tokyo, June 14, 1997) |
| 1997 | An Introduction to Lexicase grammatical theory (in Japanese). Lectures given at study meetings of the ILCAA joint research project "Analysis and Description of Individual Languages and Linguistic Typology", ILCAA. (Tokyo, February 14, 21, 1997) |
| 1997 | A re-examination of grammatical ergativity in Tongan. The Third International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (TRICOL), University of Waikato. (Hamilton, January 15, 1997) |
| 1996 | The so-called 'articles' in the Wailevu Communalect of Fijian: Determiners or something else? The East-West Center Student's Conference, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu. (Honolulu, February 1996) |
| 1995 | Where did suli come from?: A study of the words connected to taro plants in Oceanic languages. Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (SICOL), the University of the South Pacific (Suva, July 1995) |
| 1994 | On the subject pronoun suffix -i in the Wailevu Communalect of Fijian (in Japanese). 10th conference of Japanese Society of Oceanic Studies (Shizuoka, March 1994) |
| 1993 | On the meaning of 'Sa(' in the Wailevu Communalect of Fijian (in Japanese). 107th conference of the Japanese Linguistic Society (Ehime, June 1993) |
| 1993 | Village life in Fiji (in Japanese). A talk for Primary School children, Kumon private school in Shiga, Japan. |
| 1992 | Japanese ways of request: How they ask and how they respond. Symposium on The Japanese Mind. School of Social and Economic Development of the University of the South Pacific. (Suva, July 1992) |
| 1998. 3 | The 'tradition' of Hawai'i. Tsuushin 92:36. ILCAA. |
| 1998. 2 | Writing tradition and speaking tradition. Gengo 27(2):4-5. Tokyo: Taishuukan-shoten. |
| 1997. 9 | Fijian style grilled fish. Kokusai Gakujutsu Kenkyuu News Letter 36:52. |
| 1997. 3 | Cooking in a Japanese way. Kokusai Gakujutsu Kenkyuu News Letter 34:18-19. |
| 1996.12 | To have various peoples in a society. Vasa Lanumoana:10-shuunen kinenshi, pp.57-64. Japan-Tuval Friendship Association. |
| 1996.11 | A coconut tree climbing. Tsuushin 88:15. ILCAA. |
| 1995. 7 | My name. Tsuushin 84:37. ILCAA. |
| 1995. 1 | Campus report from the University of Hawai'i 1-4. Vasa Lanumoana 16-19, Japan-Tuvalu Friendship Association. |
| 1998.3 | Conference report: The Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (8ICAL), Tsuushin 92:42-43. |
| 1998.3 | Project meeting report: The first meeting of the ILCAA joint research project "Human Flow and Creation of New Culture in South East Asia, Linguistic Section: Standardization, Multi-linguistic situation, and Creolization" Tsuushin 92, pp.45-46. |
| 1997.7 | Conference report: The Third International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (TRICOL) and the Second Conference of Pacific Creole Languages Association (PACLA), Tsuushin 90, pp.54-55. |
| 1997.7 | Project meeting report: A symposium of the ILCAA joint research project "Analysis and Description of Individual Languages and Linguistic Typology" Tsuushin 90, pp.64-65. |