SAWADA, Hideo Associate Professor, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies   Contact Details E-mail: sawadah@aa.tufs.ac.jp TEL/FAX: +81-42-330-5687 Postal Address: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Asahi-cho 3-11-1, Fuchuu, Tokyo, 138-8534 JAPAN   Qualifications: BA, MA (Kyoto University)

Research Area

• Linguistics : descriptive study of Burmish languages Lhaovo (Maru) and Lacid (Lashi) spoken in Northern Myanmar (Burma).
• Grammatology : study on origin and development of non-Indian Indic scripts, especially Monic scripts including Mon and Burmese scripts, under `Grammatological Informatics based on Corpora of Asian Script (GICAS)' research project of ILCAA.

Works

Linguistics

• 2010. "`Upward-Curling' Realization of Tone L in Lhaovo (Maru) Language". Forty Years of Sino-Tibetan Language Studies: Proceedings of ICSTLL-40. Heilongjiang University Press.
• 2010. "Case-marking of P and A in Lhaovo". Abstract of Thesis, Workshop on Optional Case Marking, 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium, SOAS, London.
• 2008. "Grammatically Conditioned Vowel Alternation of Lacid (Lashi) in Kachin State". Abstract of Thesis, the 41th International Conference of Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguisitics, SOAS, London.
• 2006. "ʔă-prefixation on Verbs and Auxiliaries in Lhaovo (Maru) Language: Non-derivational Use". Abstract of Thesis, the 39th International Conference of Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle.
• 2005. "Lhaovo (Maru) Tonal Alternations as Grammatical Markers". Abstract of Thesis, the 38th International Conference of Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Xiamen University. pp.117-123.
• 2004. "A Tentative Etymological Word-list of Lhaovo (Maru) Language". Setsu FUJISHIRO (ed.) Approaches to Eurasian Linguistic Areas (Contribution to the Studies of Eurasian Languages (CSEL) series) vol.7. Kobe City College of Nursing. pp.61-122.
• 1999. "Outline of Phonology of Lhaovo (Maru) of Kachin State". Linguistic & Anthropological Study on the Shan Culture Area, Report of Research Project, Grant-in-Aid for International Scientific Research (Field Research). pp.97-147.
• 1995. "On the Usages and Functions of Particles -kou_/-ka. in Colloquial Burmese". Senri Ethnological Studies 41. pp.153-187.
• 1994. "Significance of Pseudo-cleft Construction in Burmese". H. Kitamura, T. Nishida, and Y. Nagano (eds.) Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. pp.723-729.
• 1994. "On the Complement Sentences of Modern Colloquial Burmese". H. Kitamura, T. Nishida, and Y. Nagano (eds.) Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. pp.749-755.

Grammatology

• 2003. "Tonal Notation of Indic scripts in Mainland Southeast Asia". Peri BHASKARARAO (ed.) Working Papers of International Symposium on Indic Scripts, Past and Future. ILCAA, Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, pp.318-349.
• 2002. "Some Properties of Indic Scripts of Mainland Southeast Asia --- Exemplification by Burmese and Thai Scripts ---". R K Arora, Mahesh Kulkarni, Hemant Darbari, The Indo-European Conference on Multilingual Communication Technologies(IEMCT). Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited. 151-160.

The list of (almost-)complete works including Japanese papers is here.

GICAS sub-project "Origin and Development of Southeast Asian Scripts(ODSEAS)"

Sawada’s Burmese transliteration system [in Japanese]

On-line Exhibition "Old Bagan: the Land of Enormous Pagodas" [in Japanese]

to the storage site of Burmese Textbooks [in Japanese]