Collaborations
Funded
1. Video-based experiments on the typology of deictic/mimetic motion expressions (PI: Yo Matsumoto; since 2005)
2. A developmental, evolutional, and crosslinguistic study of sound symbolism (PI: Mutsumi Imai; since 2009)
3. A study of the typology, translation, and acquisition of motion expressions (and ideophones) (PI: Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano, etc.; since 2010)
4. Syntactic, semantic, and morphological characteristics of the Japanese lexicon, NINJAL (PI: Taro Kageyama; since October 2011)
5. Compilation of Handbook of Usage of Japanese Basic Verbs for JFL Learners, NINJAL (PI: Prashant Pardeshi; since 2011)
6. Iconicity in mimetics, sound symbolism, and poetic language (PI: Kazuko Shinohara; April 2013 to March 2016)
7. The typology of ideophonic/mimetic morphosyntax (w/ Mark Dingemanse; since February 2013)
8. An areal typology of expressives in South, Southeast, and East Asian languages (PI: Nathan Badenoch; since October 2015)
9. An experimental study of cross-modal correspondences (PI: Jan Auracher; since January 2017)
10. A study on encyclopedic semantics (PI: Yo Matsumoto; since April 2017)
11. A crosslinguistic experimental study of sound symbolism (PI: Kazuko Shinohara; since April 2017)
12. A comprehensive typology of "words" (PI: Li Shen; April 2019)
Non-funded
13. Japan Club of Mimetics and Sound Symbolism (since July 2008)
14. Science Cafe: Statistics for Linguistics (Japanese menu only; hosted by Hajime Takeyasu; since March 2008)
15. The syntax and semantics of mimetics (w/ Takeshi Usuki; since 2011)
16. An interdisciplinary project on the dialectology and diachrony of Japanese mimetics (w/ Sachiko Hirata, Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, etc.; since November 2011)
17. Kansai Cognitive Linguistics Group
18. The semantics of stative predicates in Japanese (w/ David Y. Oshima & Shin-ichiro Sano, since February 2016)
19. Cognitive Linguistic Science Forum, Tokyo
20. NILLS: Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (w/ William J. Herlofsky, etc.; since April 2016 or earlier)
21. The iconicity of mimetic and prosaic words in Japanese (w/ Arthur Lewis Thompson; since May 2017)
22. Workshops on Mimetics (w/ Keiko Murasugi; since September 2017)
23. A semantic map approach to sound symbolism across languages (w/ Bonnie McLean; since July 2018)
24. Interdisciplinary approach to sound symbolism (w/ Shigeto Kawahara, Julián Villegas, and Michiko Asano; since 2021)