Natsuko Tsujimura

Email:

tsujimur@indiana.edu

Education

• Ph.D. University of Arizona (Linguistics)
• MA University of Arizona (Linguistics)
• BA Tsuda College, Japan (English)

Research Interests

• Japanese linguistics (phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, sociolinguistics); lexical semantics; general linguistic theory; sociolinguistics; first language acquisition; second language acquisition; language pedagogy; the language of food; food studies

Courses Recently Taught

• EALC J401-J402/J543-J544 Fourth Year Japanese 1-2
• EALC E320 Tasting Food in Japanese
• EALC J421/J520 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
• EALC E505 Mimetics, Ideophones, and Sound-Symbolism
• Mini University (IU), Tasty Adjectives and Succulent Metaphors

Awards and Grants

• Retired Faculty Grant-in-Aid, Office of the Vice Provost of Research, Indiana University, 2022
• Research Fellowship, College Arts & Humanities Institute, Indiana University, 2019-2020
• Japan Studies Grant, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, 1998, 2004, 2015
• Short-Term Fellowship, Japan Foundation, 2007-08, 2009-2010
• TEL-COMS Communication Award for Excellence in Distance Education and Teletraining, Parker Communications Corporation and TEL-COMS, 1990
• Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University, 1997, 2005

Publications

Books

• Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways, Lexington Books. 298pp. 2023.
• Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese. Lexington Books. 161pp. 2022.
• An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, Third Edition, Wiley-Blackwell. 466pp. 2014.
• An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, Second Edition, Blackwell. 501pp. 2007.
• Japanese Linguistics: Critical Concepts - Volume I: Phonology and Morphology (ed.) Routledge Library of Modern Japan, Routledge. 2005.
• Japanese Linguistics: Critical Concepts - Volume II: Syntax and Semantics (ed.) Routledge Library of Modern Japan, Routledge. 2005.
• Japanese Linguistics: Critical Concepts - Volume III: Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Language Contact (ed.) Routledge Library of Modern Japan, Routledge. 2005.
• The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics (ed.) Basil Blackwell. 1999.
• An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, Basil Blackwell. 401pp. 1996. 

Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)

• “Recipe Names in Japanese Cookbooks as a Gateway to Interpersonal Communication” Names: A Journal of Onomastics 66.4: 233-245. 2018.      DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2018.1452941

• “Toward a Taxonomy of Loanword Prosody” (with S. Davis & J-Y Tu) Catalan Journal of Linguistics 11, 13–39. 2012.

• “A Construction Approach to Innovative Verbs in Japanese” (with S. Davis) Cognitive Linguistics 22.4, 797–823. 2011.

• “A Construction-Based Approach to Phrasal Adjuncts in Japanese” Language Research 45, 111–129. 2009.

• “Japanese Enter/Exit Verbs Revisited: A Reply to Kita (1999)” Studies in Language 26.1, 165–180. 2002.

• “A Constructional Approach to Stativity in Japanese” Studies in Language 25.3, 525-553. 2001.

• “Revisiting the Two-Dimensional Approach to Mimetics: A reply to Kita (1997)” Linguistics 39.2, 409-418. 2001.

• “Degree Words and Scalar Structure in Japanese” Lingua 111, 29-52. 2001.

• “Two Types of Zi-Verbs in Japanese,” (with T. Aikawa) Journal of Association of Teachers of Japanese 33.1, 26-43. 1999.

• “Deverbal Nominals and Telicity in Japanese,” (with M. Iida) Journal of East Asian Linguistics 8.2, 107-130. 1999.

• “Resultatives and Motion Verbs in Japanese” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 24.2, 429-440. 1994.

• “Licensing Nominal Clauses: The Case of Deverbal Nominals in Japanese” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Vol 10, 477-522. 1992.

• “An Interactive, Televised Japanese Language Class:  Lessons Learned by Professor and Director” (with E. Fink) Educational Technology, 46-50. 1991.

• “An Autosegmental Account of Japanese Verbal Conjugation” (with S. Davis) Journal of Japanese Linguistics 13, 117-144. 1991.

• “On the Semantic Properties of Unaccusativity” Journal of Japanese Linguistics 13, 91-116. 1991.

• “Unaccusative Hypothesis and Noun Classification” Linguistics 28, 929-957. 1990.

• “Ergativity of Nouns and Case Assignment: Linguistic Inquiry 21.2, 277-287. 1990.

• “Some Accentuation Properties in Japanese and Lexical Phonology” Linguistic Inquiry 20.2, 334–338. 1989.

• “The Accent of Long Nominal Compounding in Tokyo Japanese” (with S. Davis) Studies in Language Vol.11, 199-206.1987.

•  “A Note on Weak Crossover in Japanese” (with A. Farmer and K. Hale) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Vol.4, 33-42. 1986.

• “Control and Null Anaphora in Japanese” Journal of Asian Culture Vol.9, 52-68. 1985.

Book Chapters

• "The Language of Food in Japanese through a Linguistic Lens" Kiyoko Toratani (ed.) The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive Perspectives and Beyond, 27-52. John Benjamins. 2022.

• “Japanese Word Formation in Construction Grammar” (with S. Davis) Geert Booij (ed.) The Construction of Words. Advances in Construction Morphology, 373-398. Springer. 2018.

• “Arabic Nonconcatenative Morphology in CxM” (with S. Davis) Geert Booij (ed.) The Construction of Words. Advances in Construction Morphology, 315-339. Springer. 2018.

• “Syntax and Argument Structure” M. Shibatani, S. Miyagawa, and H. Noda (eds.) Handbook of Japanese Syntax, 751-782. Mouton de Gruyter. 2017.

• “Japanese Linguistics” M. Aronoff (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. 2017. DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.168.

• “How Flexible should the Grammar of Mimetics be? A View from Japanese Poetry” N. Kawasaki, P. Sells, and K. Akita (eds.) Grammar of Japanese Mimetics, 103-128. Routledge. 2017.

• “Morphological Construction for Negotiating Differences in Cross-Stratum Word-Formation” L. Körtvélyessy, P. Stekauer, and S. Valera (eds.) Word-Formation Across Languages. 357-374. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2016.

• “Lexical Semantic Role in Reorganization of the Resultative Construction” T. Kageyama and W. Jacobsen (eds.) Transitivity and Valency Alternations: Studies on Japanese and Beyond. 155-180. Mouton de Gruyter. 2016.

• “Mimetics” (with K. Akita) T. Kageyama and H. Kishimoto (eds.) Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation. 133-160. Mouton de Gruyter. 2016.

• “Non-concatenative Derivation: Other Processes” (with S. Davis) R. Lieber and P. Stekauer (eds.) Handbook of Derivational Morphology. 190-218. Oxford University Press. 2014.

• “Mimetic Verbs and Meaning” F. Rainer, F. Gardani, H. C. Luschützky, and W. U. Dressler (eds.) Morphology and Meaning, 303-314. John Benjamins.  2014.

• “Dragon Ash and the Reinterpretation of Hip Hop: On the notion of rhyme in Japanese Hip Hop” (with S. Davis) H. S. Alim, A. Ibrahim, and A. Pennycook (eds.) Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language, 179-193, Routledge. 2009.

• “A Constructional Approach to Mimetic Verbs” M. Fried and H.C. Boas (eds.) Grammatical Construction: Back to the Roots, 137-154, John Benjamins. 2005.

• “Perfective -ta and Prenominal Modifiers” (with M. Iida) in M. Minami and Y. Alam (eds.)  Linguistics and Japanese Language Education II, Kuroshio, 93-110. 2001.

• “Lexical Semantics” in N. Tsujimura (ed.) The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, Blackwell, 349-377. 1999.

 Articles in Conference Proceedings

•  "From Tasty Adjective to Succulent Metaphor: What the language of food reveals" Japanese/Korean Linguistics 25, 309-326. 2018.

• “Language Change in Progress: Evidence from Computer-Mediated Communication” BLS 33, 436-447. 2013.

• “The Manifestation of Intrasentential Code-Switching in Japanese Hip Hop” (with S. Davis) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19, 407-418. 2011.

• “Motion Verbs, Telicity, and Argument Projection” Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 13, 323-332.  2008.

• “Rock Rhymes in Japanese Hip-Hop Rhymes” (with K. Okamura and S. Davis) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 15, 222-233. 2007.

• “Mimetic Verbs and Innovative Verbs in the Acquisition of Japanese” BLS 31, 371-382. 2007.

• “Semantic Integration of Mimetics in Japanese” (with M. Deguchi) CLS 39-1, 339-353. 2007.

• “Event Cancellation and Telicity” Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 12, 388-399. 2003.

• “Motion and Path in the Acquisition of Japanese Intransitive Verbs” Proceedings of the 31^st Stanford Child Language Research Forum. 2003.

• “Intrinsic Reflexivity and Inalienable Possession in Japanese” (with T. Aikawa) Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 2, 267-282. 1996.

•  “Another Look at Unaccusative Mismatches in Japanese” Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 22, 406-416. 1996.

• “Unaccusative Mismatches and Resultatives in Japanese” Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 1, 335-354. 1994.

• “Adjuncts and Event Argument in Restructuring” Japanese/Korean Linguistics 3, 121-136. 1993.

• “Event Argument in Restructuring” Proceedings of the Third Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America 3, 341-355. 1993.

• “Unaccusative Nouns and Resultatives in Japanese” in Hoji, Hajime (ed.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, The Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, 335-349. 1990.

• “Unaccusative Mismatches in Japanese” Proceedings of the Sixth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics 264-276. 1990.

• “The Morphophonemics of Japanese Verbal Conjugation: An Autosegmental Account” (with S. Davis) Proceedings of the Fifth Eastern State Conference on Linguistics 488-499. 1989.

• “Switch-Reference and Categorial Grammar” Proceedings of the Sixth West
  Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 305-316. 1988.