CURRICULUM VITAE January 2021 NAME: Masayoshi SHIBATANI TITLES: Deedee McMurtry Professor of Humanities and Professor of Linguistics, Rice University Professor emeritus, Kobe University (Japan) ADDRESS: Department of Linguistics-MS23, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, U.S.A. HOME ADDRESS: Current 5000 Montrose Blvd. 10b, Houston, TX 77006, U.S.A TELEPHONE: +1-713-348-3480 EMAIL: [email protected], [email protected] DEGREES Ph.D. (Linguistics) University of California, Berkeley, 1973 B.A. (Linguistics) University of California, Berkeley, 1970 HONORS/AWARDS Japan Society for the Promotion of Science International Invitational Fellowship (2019) Speaker, Peking University 120-year Anniversary Seminars by Distinguished Overseas Scholars (October 15-19, 2018) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science International Invitational Fellowship (2014) Collaborative Research Fellowship, Rice University Humanities Research Center (2012-2013) Japan Studies Fellowship, The Japan Foundation (May-December 2012) Honorary member, Linguistics Society of the Philippines (elected 2010) Japan Studies Fellowship, The Japan Foundation. (July-August 2010) Christensen Fellow, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University. (April-June 2009). Speaker, Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series in Linguistics, 2009, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (March 5-30, 2009) Masayoshi SHIBATANI 2 Distinguished Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University (Australia) (September 2008-February 2009) (Concurrent Visiting Fellow appointment at the Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University) Distinguished Speaker, Departments of Asian Studies and Linguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, October 2006 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (September 2000-June 2001) Visiting Fellow, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, Australian National University (December 1998-March 1999) Dr. Kyôsuke Kindaichi Memorial Prize (for the typological study of Philippine languages, 1989) B.A. with Great Distinction (Summa Cum Laude) (UC Berkeley, 1970) Phi Beta Kappa (1971) GRANTS (Recent) 2016: Brasil@Rice Collaborative Travel Grant ($5,000) 2015-2018: “Explorations in functional grammar, with a focus on nominalization”. Osaka University International Collaborative Research Grant. (ca $100,000; Co-PI with Dr. Sung Yeo Chung) 2014: Brasil@Rice Collaborative Travel Grant ($5,000) 2006-2011: “Austronesian voice systems: an eastern Indonesian perspective”. National Science Foundation. ($299,990) 2004-2005: “Biolinguistic diversity in the Nilgiris (India)” Shell Center for Sustainability. Rice University. ($17,000) 2000-2002: “A cognitive-typological study of valency structures: Japanese-German contrastive perspective” (A Japan-Germany cooperative project with Ekkehard König, Free University of Berlin), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft 1999-2002: "Urgent Research of ‘Moribund Languages’ of the Pacific Rim": Grant-in-aid (Special project), Japanese Ministry of Education, Sciences, Culture, and Sports/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Co-investigator with Osahito Miyaoka et al. 2 Masayoshi SHIBATANI 3 POSITIONS HELD October 16, 2018-February 28, 2019: Specially-appointed Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University February, 2008- December 2009: Faculty appointment, Graduate School, University of Colorado, Boulder April, 2004-: Professor emeritus, Kobe University July, 2003-June, 2008: Chair, Department of Linguistics, Rice University 2002-present: Deedee McMurtry Professor of Humanities and Professor of Linguistics, Rice University 1990-2003: Professor of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University 1982-1990: Associate Professor of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University 1979-1982: Associate Professor of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts, Kobe University 1979: Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California 1973-1979: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California VISITING APPOINTMENTS April 2015-March 2018: Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University. April, 2012-March 2017: Visiting Professor, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo March 2015: Faculty appointment, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Brazilian Association of Linguistics, Federal University of Para, Belem. May 2012: Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. November 2008: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 3 Masayoshi SHIBATANI 4 October, 2007: Visiting Professor, El Colegio dé Mexico. Mexico City. June-August 2006: Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Kyoto University. June-August 2001: Associate Director，Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute，University of California, Santa Barbara. June-August 2001: Faculty appointment, Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute，University of California, Santa Barbara. January-February 2000: Faculty appointment, Second International Winter School of Typology, Moscow State University for the Humanities, Moscow. July 1999: Faculty appointment, Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. August 1995-September 1996: Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles July 1994: Faculty appointment, Australian Linguistics Institute, La Trobe University, Australia October 1988-March 1989: Professorial Research Associate; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London September 1982: Visiting Professor; Keimyung University, Taegu, Korea July-August 1977: Faculty appointment, Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, University of Hawaii, Manoa. January-August 1977: Visiting Assistant Professor; University of Hawaii, Manoa Fields of specialization: Language typology, Language universals, Syntax, Semantics, Descriptive grammar, Japanese linguistics, Austronesian linguistics Ph.D. dissertations supervised: Akua Campbell, A Grammar of Gã. (Rice University, 2017) Haowen Jiang, Nominalization and Possession in Formosan Languages. (Rice University, 2016) Anne Marie Hartenstein, Middle voice in Northern Moldavian Hungarian. (Rice University, 2012) 4 Masayoshi SHIBATANI 5 Naonori Nagaya, The Lamaholot Language of Eastern Indonesia. (Rice University, 2011) Gujing Lin, Tsou Argument Structure: Simplex and Complex Predicates (Rice University, 2010) Andrej Filtchenko, A Grammar of Eastern Khanti (Rice University, 2007) Caleb Everett, Patterns in Karitiana: Articulation, Perception, and Grammar (Rice University, 2006) Sung Yeo Chung, Transitivity and Voice: A Korean-Japanese Contrastive Study of Semantic Transitivity and Syntactic Transitivity (Kobe University, 2000) Prashant Pardeshi, Transitivity and Voice: A Marathi-Japanese Contrastive Perspective (Kobe University, 2000) Dileep Chandraral, Spatial Concepts and Linguistic forms: A Study of Case Categories in Sinhala (Kobe University, 2000) Lú Tao, A Study of Grammaticalization of Spatial Verbs in Mandarin Chinese. (Kobe University, 1996) Isabel Espino DiValdivia, A Study of Zero Anaphora: An Empirical Discourse Analysis of Japanese and Spanish (Kobe University, 1990) Ikuhiro Tamori, A Study of Japanese Adverbs (University of Southern California, 1979) Taro Kageyama, Lexical Structures: A Comparative Study of Japanese and English (University of Southern California, 1977) Donald Pederson, Relative clauses in Guarani (University of Southern California, 1975) MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCES July 2003-June 2008: Chair, Department of Linguistics, Rice University. April 1998-March 1999: Chairman, Literature Division (Linguistics, English, French, German, Chinese and Japanese Lgs. & Lits.) Faculty of Letters, Kobe University. April 1991-March 1993: Chairman, Graduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University. Fall 1974-Spring 1978: Chairman, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California Spring 1974: Acting Chairman, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California. 5 Masayoshi SHIBATANI 6 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES Fieldwork Experiences: March 2015; Fieldwork on Parkatêjê, Amazonia, Brazil May-July 2008; Filed work on Sasak, Sumbawa, Sumba, Kambera, Manngarai, Riung and Sikka in eastern Indonesia (NSF-funded project) May-July 2007: Fieldwork on Balinese, Sasak, and Sumbawa in Bali and Lombok (NSF-funded project) December-January 2006-2007: Fieldwork on Sasak, Sumbawa, Sikka in Lombok and Flores Islands, Indonesia. (NSF-funded project) December, 2005: Fieldwork on Atayal, Wulai, Taiwan. Sept.- Nov. 1999: Fieldwork on Balinese, Bali, Indonesia. Dec. 1989; Oct. 1990: Fieldwork on Ainu, Sizunai, Hokkaido, Japan. Oct. 1984-Jan. 1985; Dec. 1986; Dec. 1990-Jan. 1991: Fieldwork on Cebuano; Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, The Philippines. Editorial experiences: Founding editor, Papers in Japanese Linguistics (1972-1985) Editor: 1992-1997: Co-editor, Pragmatics (Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association, Antwerp) 1991-1993: Gengo Kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan) Series editor: 1991-present: Studies in Japanese Linguistics Series (Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University and Kurosio Publishers, Tokyo) Series co-editor: 2011-present: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.