| Toshiya Tanaka | Last modified date：2013.5.14 |
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Department of Linguistic Environment
Department of Linguistic Environment
Faculty of Languages and Cultures
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my educational activities, academic research and personal history.
Academic Degree
Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)
Field of Specialization
Historical Linguistics
Outline Activities
I am interested in historical and comparative approach to Old Enlish grammar, especially to the Old English or Proto-Germanic verbal system.
Research
Research Interests
Membership in Academic Society
- A historical and comparative study of the verbal system in Old English or other Germanic languages
keyword : Old English, verbal system, historical and comparative linguistics
2005.04.
Books
| 1. | Toshiya Tanaka,A Morphological Conflation Approach to the Historical Development of Preterite-Present Verbs: Old English, Proto-Germanic, and Proto-Indo-European,花書院（福岡）,xiii + 320 pages,2011.03 [URL]. |
Reports
| 1. | 田中俊也,「語等置の方法」を用いたゲルマン語動詞体系生成に関する比較言語学研究 （課題番号 17520270） 平成１７年度～平成２０年度科学研究費補助金 （基盤研究（C）） 研究成果報告書,xiii + 258 pages （本文はすべて英語による）,コロニー印刷,2009.03. |
| 2. | 田中俊也,ゲルマン語動詞体系成立に関する非ブルークマン的モデルからの研究 （課題番号 14510624） 平成１４年度～平成１６年度科学研究費補助金 （基盤研究（C）（２）） 研究成果報告書,xv + 335 pages （本文は英語による）,コロニー印刷,2005.03. |
| 3. | Toshiya Tanaka,Review: Peter Collins and David Lee (eds.), The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston,pp.79-87,Studies in English Lieterature, English Number 43 (The English Lieterary Society of Japan),2002.03. |
| 4. | Shogakukan's Word Pal English-Japanese Dictionary, comp. by Kazuo Araki and Masachiyo Amano, Shogakukan, Tokyo, January 2001.. |
| 5. | A Dictionary of Technical Terms of English Linguistics. |
| 6. | A Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary English Usage and Abusage, ed. by Kazuo Araki, Kenkyusha, Tokyo, December 1996.. |
| 7. | Introduction to Chaucerian English, by Arthur O. Sandved.. |
| 8. | Sanseido's New Dictionary of English Grammar, edd. by Kazuo Araki and Minoru Yasui, Sanseido, Tokyo, July 1992.. |
Papers
| 1. | Some Thoughts on the Origin and Development of the Germanic Strong IV and V Preterite Plural Formations. |
| 2. | Toshiya Tanaka,Osthoff's Law and the Rise of the Strong I-III Preterite Plural Formations in Proto-Germanic,『言語文化論究』第２５号（九州大学言語文化研究院）, pp.7-15,2010.03. |
| 3. | Toshiya Tanaka,The Proto-Germanic Third Person Strong Preterite and the Proto-Indo-European 'Type I' Thematic Present Formations: With Special Reference to the Strong IV and V Classes,『言語科学』第４４号（九州大学大学院言語文化研究院言語研究会）,第４４号、pp.1-23,2009.03. |
| 4. | Toshiya Tanaka,The Origin and Development of the *es- vs. *wes- Suppletion in the Germanic Copula: From a Non-Brugmannian Standpoint,NOWELE Volume 40 (Odense University Press), pp.3-27,2002.04. |
| 5. | Toshiya Tanaka,Prosodic Features of Old English Preterite-Present Verbs: Evidence from Beowulf,『英語英文学論叢』第５１集（九州大学英語英文学研究会）, pp.1-26,2001.01. |
| 6. | Toshiya Tanaka,Old English MAGAN and Related Verbs: Further Evidence for a Hyperlexical Approach.,天野政千代、他（編）『言語の深層を探ねて』（東京：英潮社）, pp.489-506. ,1996.10. |
| 7. | Toshiya Tanaka,Mental Representations in Developing Modals: A Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Review. ,J. Altarriba (ed.) Cognition and Culture: A cross-cultural approach to cognitive psychology (Advances in psychology103, Amsterdam: North-Holland), pp. 77-94. ,1993.10. |
| 8. | Toshiya Tanaka,Characteristics of Ability-Signifying Verbs in Earlier English and Other Languages: A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation.,Linguistics Vol. 29, No. 3 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter), pp.361-396. ,Vol.29,No.3,1991.08. |
| 9. | Toshiya Tanaka,Semantic Changes of CAN and MAY: Differentiation and Implication.,Linguistics Vol. 28, No. 1 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter), pp.89-123.,1990.05. |
Presentations
| 1. | Verner's Law in Germanic Strong Class V Preterite Plural Formations: With Special Reference to the Case of *wes- 'be, stay, dwell'. |
| 2. | Why do the Germanic Strong IV and V Preterite Plural Formations Morphologically Differ from the Preterite-Present IV and V Present Plural?: A Critical Examination of Schumacher’s (2005) Treatise and a New Proposal in View of a Morphological Conflation Theory . |
| 3. | Toshiya Tanaka "Some Thoughts on the Origin and Development of the Gmc. Strong IV and V Preterite Plural Formations." A Paper read on 18 December 2011 at the first conference of the Japan Society for Historical Linguisitcs held at Toyonaka Campus, Osaka University.. |
- The Linguistic Society of Japan
- English Linguistics Society of Japan
- English Literary Society of Japan
- Japan Society for Historical Linguistics
- The Philological Society
Educational
Educational Activities
I am teaching English to 1st and 2nd year students at Ropponmatsu. I contributed my manuscripts to A Passage to English, textbook edited by the English Department and published by Kyushu University Press.
Other Educational Activities
- 2009.03,An editorial staff member for A Passage to English (5th edition 3nd print), while also comtritubing my own manuscripts to this textbook..
- 2008.03,An editorial staff member for A Passage to English (5th edition 2nd print), while also comtritubing my own manuscripts to this textbook..
- 2007.03,An editorial staff member for A Passage to English (5th edition), while also comtritubing my own manuscripts to this textbook..
- 2006.03,An editorial staff member for A Passage to English (4th edition), while also contributing my own manuscripts to this textbook..
Social
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