Kimi AKITA, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of English Linguistics

Graduate School of Humanities

Nagoya University

Welcome to my website!
Email: akita dot kimi atsign nagoya hyphen u dot jp
Mailing address: Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi 464-8601, Japan (Room 614, Integrated Research Bldg for Humanities & Social Sciences)

Research interests (03/21/22: topics for future research)
CV (07/29/21)
Collaborations (08/11/18)
Teaching (02/06/22)
Publications (06/01/22: J/K29, ideophonic verbs, binomial adjective doublets)
Presentations (06/25/22)
Bibliographies on sound-symbolic phenomena (10/16/19: slightly updated)
Encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics (09/15/13: updated)
Links (05/01/15: NU)

Workshops & symposia

Workshop on Typology of Ideophones (online, 06/24-25/22) (03/14/22)
Workshops on Mimetics (12/22/20)
Shigeto Kawahara's talk (Nagoya U/online, 12/06/21) (10/30/21)
29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (online, 10/09-11/21) (08/20/21)
NINJAL International Symposium 2016: Mimetics in Japanese and Other Languages of the World (NINJAL, 12/17-18/16) (05/07/19: publication)
LSJ145 Workshop "Mimetics & Linguistic Theories" (Kyushu U, 11/25/12) (12/01/12)