RIHITO SHIRATA
Last Updated :2025/02/03
- Affiliations, Positions
- Hiroshima University
- E-mail
- rshirata
hiroshima-u.ac.jp
- Self-introduction
- My academic interests are in field-work-based descriptive studies of Ryukyuan languages, particularly those spoken in the northern part of the Amami Islands.
Basic Information
Major Professional Backgrounds
- 2021/04, Hiroshima University, Associate Professor
- 2021/12/20, 2021/12/23, Kyushu University, Graduate School of Humanities, School of Letters, Part-Time Lecturer
- 2021/08/30, 2021/09/02, Okinawa International University, Department of Japanese Language and Culture, College of Grobal and Regional Culture, Part-Time Lecturer
- 2019/04, 2021/03, The International University of Kagoshima, Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Part-Time Lecturer
- 2018/04, 2021/03, Shigakukan University, Faculty of Humanities, Assistant Professor
- 2016/04, 2018/03, University of the Ryukyus, University Education Center, Part-Time Lecturer
- 2015/04, 2018/03, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science / University of the Ryukyus, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists
- 2016/10, 2017/03, University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Law and Letters, Part-Time Lecturer
- 2015/04, 2017/03, Kyoto University, Faculty of Letters, Part-Time Lecturer
- 2012/04, 2015/03, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists
- 2012/05, 2013/03, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists
Educational Backgrounds
- Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Doctoral Program, Department of Linguistics, Division of Behavioral Studies, 2012/04, 2015/03
- Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Master's Program, Department of Linguistics, Division of Behavioral Studies, 2010/04, 2012/03
- Kyoto University, Faculty of Letters, 2006/04, 2010/03
Academic Degrees
Research Fields
- Humanities;Linguistics;Linguistics
- Humanities;Linguistics;Japanese linguistics
Research Keywords
- Linguistics
- Descriptive Linguistics
- Field Linguistics
- Language Documentation
- Ryukyuan Languages
- Amami Dialect
- Kikai Dialect
- Ryukyuan
Affiliated Academic Societies
- THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
- DIALECTOLOGICAL CIRCLE OF JAPAN
- THE PHONETIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
- THE SOCIETY FOR JAPANESE LINGUISTICS
- JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC SCIENCES
Educational Activity
Course in Charge
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Fundamental Seminar of Japanese Language Culture I
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Survey of Japanese Language and Culture A (National Culture and Language)
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Seminar of Japanese Language Culture A(Japanese Linguistics)
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Studies of Japanese Language Culture A(Japanese Linguistics)
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Methodologies for Studying Japanese Language Culture V
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Practice in Teaching B
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Teaching Practice at Junior and Senior High School I
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Teaching Practice at Junior and Senior High School II
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Teaching Practice at High School III
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Study in Japanese Language and Culture Education A
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Study in Japanese Language and Culture Education A
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Basic Course in Teaching Material Design for Language and Communication Expression (Japanese)
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Advanced Course in Teaching Material Design for Language and Communication Expression (Japanese)
Research Activities
Academic Papers
- Expansion of Verbal Accentual Units and Sentence-Final Prosody of Yes/No Questions in Kikai Ryukyuan, New Developments in Prosodic Studies, 214-235, 20220223
- Influence of Vocative Intonation on Address Nouns: The Case of the Onotsu Dialect of Kikai Ryukyuan, Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 25, 23-40, 20210430
- Personal Pronouns as Markers of Spatial Deictic Anchors: The Case of the Demonstrative System in Kikai Ryukyuan, Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 27, 165-175, 202007
- Embedded Questions in the Imazato Dialect of Amami Ryukyuan, Nanto Bunka, 42, 153-166, 202003
- Predicative wh-words in the Kamikatetsu dialect of Kikai, a Northern Ryukyuan language, Studies in Dialects, 5, 239-265, 201909
- On the deictic use of demonstratives in Northern Kikaijima dialects, NANTO BUNKA, 40, 41-53, 201803
- Why without reasons: wh-exclamatives in Kikaijima Ryukyuan, Proceedings of the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 321-336, 2018
- A Linguistic Text: A Tale of Jogo (an Amami Place Name): A Folktale in the Ura Dialect of Amami-Oshima, Northern Ryukyuan, 15, 68-55, 201711
- The Animacy Hierarchy in Amami Ryukyuan Dialects : Ura (Amami-Oshima), Kamikatetsu and Onotsu (Kikaijima), HUE Journal of Humanities, Social and Natural Sciences, 38(4), 111-133, 201603
- The nominalizer su and sentence-final soo in Kikaijima Ryukyuan : Comparison with Japanese no(da) and (no)dewanaika, Kyoto University Linguistic Research, 33(33), 253-279, 201412
Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation
- Accentual system of inflected words in the Onotsu dialect of Kikai Ryukyuan: The similarity between long verbal/adjectival stems and nouns, Rihito Shirata, Phonology Festa 16 (2021), 2021/03/09
- Expansion of verbal accentual units and sentence-final prosody of yes/no questions in Kikai Ryukyuan, Rihito Shirata, The 161st Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 2020/11/22
- Two functions of the particle ba in Amami Oshima dialects of Northern Ryukyuan: Object marking and toritate, Hiromi Shigeno; Rihito Shirata, The 161st Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 2020/11/21
- Progressive/regressive vowel height assimilation in the Ikeji dialect of Amami-Ryukyuan, Rihito Shirata; Hiromi Shigeno, The Thirty-Fourth General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 2020/09/27
- Sentence-final question markers and speech acts in the Onotsu dialect of Kikai Ryukyuan: With a focus on questions about actions to be performed by the speaker, Rihito Shirata, The 159th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 2019/11/16, Nagoya Gakuin University (Nagoya)
- Personal pronouns as markers of spatial deictic anchors: The case of the demonstrative system in Kikai Ryukyuan, Rihito Shirata, The 27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, 2019/10/19, Sogang University (Seoul)
- Prosody of address nouns in the Onotsu dialect of Kikai Ryukyuan, Rihito Shirata, Phonology Festa 14 (2019), 2019/03/05, Meikai University (Urayasu)
- Vowel length alternation of address terms in the Onotsu dialect of Kikai Ryukyuan, Rihito Shirata, The Thirty-Second General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 2018/09/15, Okinawa International University (Ginowan)
- On predicative wh-words of the Kamikatetsu dialect of Kikai Ryukyuan, Rihito Shirata, The 154th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 2017/06/24, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Hachioji)
- Why without reasons: wh-exclamatives in Kikaijima Ryukyuan, Lukas Rieser; Rihito Shirata, The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 2017/05/25, The University of Chicago (Chicago)
- Why and how are why-clauses different? The case of Kikaijima Ryukyuan nuwa/nuka, Rihito Shirata; Lukas Rieser, The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, 2016/10/14, NINJAL (Tachikawa)
- On the adjective and comparative expressions of Kamikatetsu Kikai-Amami, Rihito Shirata, The 151th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 2015/11/28, Nagoya University (Nagoya)
- Evidentials in Kamikatetsu Kikai-Ryukyuan, Rihito Shirata, Kyoto Workshop on linguistics and philosophy: Evidence and inference: the foundation of linguistics and philosophy, 2015/11/01, Kyoto University (Kyoto)
- Grammaticalization of Kikaijima Ryukyuan soo, Lukas Rieser; Rihito Shirata, NINJAL International Symposium: Grammaticalization In Japanese and Across Languages, 2015/07/04, NINJAL (Tachikawa)
- On the 'Centralized Vowels' in Northern Dialects of Kikai Amami: with a focus on their phonetic characterization, Rihito Shirata, The 9th Meeting of Phonology Festa, 2014/02/24, KKR Hotel Atami (Atami)
- On the accent of Kamikatetsu-Kikai Ryukyuan, Rihito Shirata, Phonology Festa 7, 2012/02/17, Hotel Komolebi (Otsu)
- Common Nouns as Proper Names in Kamikatetsu-Kikai Ryukyuan, Rihito Shirata; Masahiro Yamada; Chisako Ogino; Yukinori Takubo, The 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, 2011/10/22, Seoul National University (Seoul)
Awards
- 2020/06, The Best Presentation Award of LSJ, Linguistic Society of Japan
- 2014/11, The Best Presentation Award of LSJ, The Linguistic Society of Japan
External Funds
Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds
- Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, 2019/04, 2023/03
- Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2016/04, 2019/03
- Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow (PD), 2015/04, 2018/03
- Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow (DC1), 2012/04, 2015/03