Historical Linguist Professor Toshiya TANAKAʼs Homepage
Toshiya TANAKA
Professor
Department of English
Factulty of Languages and
Kyushu University
744 Moto’oka
Nishi-ku,
819-0395
e-mail toshiyat[at]flc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Academic Background:
BA in English Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, Nagoya University, March 1984
MA in English Linguistics, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University, March 1986
Lecturer, Faculty of
Education, Kagoshima
University, April 1988 – September 1990
Associate Professor, Faculty of
Education, Kagoshima
University, October 1990 – March 1991
Associate Professor, Institute
of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University, April 1991 – March 2000
Associate Professor, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University, April
2000 – December 2010
PhD in Linguistics and English
Language, Faculty of Humanities, the
Professor, Faculty of
Languages and Cultures,
Major Publications:
“Semantic Changes of CAN and MAY: Differentiation and
Implication”, Linguistics 28/1 (
“Characteristics of Ability-Signifying Verbs in Earlier
English and Other Languages: A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation”, Linguistics
29/3, (
“English WIT and Related Verbs: A Semantic Quality”, in
Nakano, H. et al. (eds.), Structural and Historical Studies on Languages (
“Mental Representations in Developing Modals: A
Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Review”, in J. Altarriba
(ed.), Cognition and Culture: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Cognitive
Psychology (Advances in Psychology 103.
“Old English MAGAN and Related Verbs: Further Evidence for
a Hyperlexical Approach”, in M. Amano et al. (eds.) Inquiries
into the Depth of Language (
“Gmc. Preterite-Presents and IE Nouns of Agency: A Test for the Original Stativity”, Masachiyo Amano, Toshiya Tanaka, Masayuki Ohkado, Miho Nishio, Makoto Kondo, Tomoyuki Tanaka (eds.) Synchronic and Diachronic Studies on Language: A Festschrift for Dr. Hirozo Nakano (Linguistics and Philology 19), Dept. of English Linguistics, Nagoya University, pp.291-305, 2000.
“The Origin and Development of the *es-
vs. *wes- Suppletion
in the Germanic Copula: From a Non-Brugmannian
Standpoint” North-Western European Language Evolution (
A New Historical and
Comparative Approach to Old English Preterite-Present
Verbs, A PhD Thesis, the Department of Linguistics
and English Language, the Faculty of Humanities, the
The Genesis of Preterite-Present Verbs:
the Proto-Indo-European Stative-Intransitive System
and Morphological Conflation (Languages and
Cultures Series XIX), x + 246 pages.
“The Proto-Germanic Third
Person Plural Strong Preterite and the
Proto-Indo-European ‘Type I’ Thematic Present Formations: With Special
Reference to the Strong IV and V Classes.”
Linguistic Science (FLC,
“Osthoff’s
Law and the Rise of the Strong I-III Preterite Plural
Formations in Proto-Germanic.” Studies in Languages and Cultures (FLC,