Kazuhiro Kawachi

河内 一博

Most of my papers are available on my Researchmap and Researchgate websites.

https://researchmap.jp/kazuhirokawachi/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kazuhiro-Kawachi-2/research

https://k-ris.keio.ac.jp/html/100015589_ja.html?k=%E6%B2%B3%E5%86%85%E4%B8%80%E5%8D%9A

https://k-ris.keio.ac.jp/html/100015589_en.html

近況報告 (Recent Happenings)

2025年6月18日：リヨンに到着してAgodaで予約していたアパートメントの持ち主がチェックインの方法についての連絡をよこさなかったので、部屋がわからず、近所の住民の部屋に入れてもらい、持ち主を突き止めて電話してもらいました。結局この人の部屋には2時間以上いさせてもらいました。後日この方への感謝の一席を設けました。（Pierre, ありがとう！）

2025年4月11日：エチオピア南部Sidaama national regional stateで朝散歩していたところ、突然男に次から次へと石を投げつけられ、その一つが腰に当たりました。幸い軽傷ですみました。

2025年2月2日：ウガンダで早朝虫の大群を避けながら歩いていたところ、見知らぬ男に後ろから、後頭部下（顎、首）を殴られ、倒れて気を失いました。  すぐに立ち上がったので、何も取られずにすみました。顎関節症がひどくなったのと、首にあざができ、歯の一部が欠けた程度ですみました。打ちどころが良かったのか、それ以来仕事が捗っています。（5月にかけた歯が痛みだし神経を抜きました。）

2019年12月21日：ウガンダ東部のKapchorwaで停電で真っ暗の夜道を歩いていたところ道にあった深さ4メートルの穴に落ちました。 幸い雨水が溜まっていたので、胸まで水につかったものの軽傷で済みました。 何人も落ちている穴で亡くなった人もいるそうです。

2017年12月：運動不足解消のために夜にほろ酔いで近所をパトロールしている時に、慣れない歩きスマフォをして高円寺北公園の入り口の鉄の柵につまずいて転んで、別の鉄の柵に顔をぶつけ、前にエチオピアで転んで打った顔の部分とほぼ同じ部分を５針縫いました。 助けてくれた若者たち、どうもありがとうございますです。公園には一週間くらい大量の血の跡が残っていました。 そのあとに学会でオーストラリアに行ったのですが、所属が所属だっただけに、北朝鮮人に殴られたのではないかと聞かれました。

2017年7月18日：エチオピア南部Sidaama national regional stateで暗闇を歩いていたところ、溝（か座っていて突然出した誰かの足？）につまづいて石畳に顔を打ちました。

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慶應義塾大学 (Keio University)

商学部 (Faculty of Business and Commerce)

〒223-8521  神奈川県横浜市港北区日吉4-1-1 

(4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 223-8521 Japan)

kawachi AT keio.jp

kazuhirokawachi AT gmail.com

kawachi AT buffalo.edu

台東区生まれ (Born and raised in Taito-ku)

1997年7月10日〜2007年6月1日 留学のためニューヨーク州バッファロー

(July 10, 1997 – June 1, 2007: Lived in Buffalo, New York, as a graduate student)（Chestnut Ridge Rd, Amherst => Ellicott Creek Rd, Tonawanda => Kaymar Dr, Amherst）

2015年から中央線沿線 (Since 2015: Living near a station on the Chuo Line)

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Curriculum Vitae

Kazuhiro Kawachi

CURRENT POSITION

Professor                                         

Faculty of Business and Commerce   

Keio University

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Linguistics (June 2007)

State University of New York at Buffalo

Dissertation: A Grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic Language of Ethiopia.

Committee members: Professor Matthew S. Dryer (advisor), Professor Leonard Talmy (co-adviser), Professor Jürgen Bohnemeyer

• M.A. in Linguistics (June 2001)

State University of New York at Buffalo

M.A. Project: Practice Effects on Speech Production Planning: Evidence from Slips of the Tongue in Spontaneous vs. Preplanned Speech in Japanese.

Committee members: Professor Jeri J. Jaeger (advisor), Professor Jean-Pierre Koenig, Professor Matthew S. Dryer

Ph.D. Qualifying Paper: Korean Putting Verbs Do Not Categorize Space Contrastively in Terms of “Tightness of Fit”

Committee members: Professor Leonard Talmy (advisor), Professor David Zubin

• Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (August 1996)

 University of California, Berkeley

• B.A. in British and American Literature, with specialization in English Linguistics (March 1992)

 Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

• B.A. in Business and Commerce (March 1990)

 Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

• Diploma (March 1986)

 Keio Boys’ Senior High School, Kanagawa, Japan

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Professor of Linguistics and English, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, April 2021 – present.

• Professor of Linguistics and English, Department of Foreign Languages, School of Liberal Arts and General Education, National Defense Academy of Japan, April 2017 – March 2021.

• Associate Professor, Information System Development Division, Information and Media Library, National Defense Academy of Japan, April 2011 – March 2012.

• Associate Professor of Linguistics and English, Department of Foreign Languages, School of Liberal Arts and General Education, National Defense Academy of Japan, October 2010 – March 2017.

• Assistant Professor of Linguistics and English, Department of Foreign Languages, School of Liberal Arts and General Education, National Defense Academy of Japan, October 2008 – September 2010.

• Research Fellow, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, July 2008 – September 2008.

• Part-time Instructor of English Communication, Meiji Gakuin University, Kanagawa, Japan, April 2008 – September 2008; April 2009 – present.

• Research Assistant / Project Staff Assistant, Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, August 2002 – May 2006.

• Teaching Assistant for LIN 438/538 Semantics (Professor Leonard Talmy), Department of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Fall 2004.

• Full-time Teacher of English, Keio Shiki Boys’ Senior High School, Saitama, Japan, April 1992 – February 2000.

• Part-time Teacher of Japanese as a Foreign Language, Keio Boys’ Senior High School, Kanagawa, Japan, June 1990 – July 1990; June 1991 – August 1991.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Typology and universals

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Morphosyntax

• Understudied languages, particularly in Africa

• Psycholinguistics

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Leadership Roles

• Project Leader, Kaken Research Project, “Cross-linguistic Studies on Grammatical Nominalization: With a Focus on Classifiers and Gender Markers”, April 2022 – present.

• Project Leader, Kaken Research Project, “Studies on Space, Person, and Time Deixis Based on East African Language Data”, June 2022 – March 2025.

• Project Leader, Kaken Research Project, “Iconicity in Language Use: Crosslinguistic Studies on Constructions Used to Describe Causal Relations”, April 2019 – March 2022.

• Project Leader, Kaken Research Project, “Studies on Information Structure in Sidaama and Kupsapiny Based on Discourse Data”, April 2015 – March 2020.

• Project Leader, Kaken Research Project, “Studies on Motion Expressions in East African Languages”, April 2012 – March 2015.

• Project Leader, Kaken Research Project, “Syntax, Information Structure, and Linguistic Forms in Nilotic Languages”, April 2012 – March 2015.

• Project Leader, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, “Event Integration Patterns in African Languages”, April 2012 – March 2015.

• Project Vice-Leader, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, “Information Structure in African Languages” (Leader: Osamu Hieda), April 2011 – March 2014.

• Project Leader, Kaken Research Project, “Data Collection for a Description of the Grammar of Sidaama and an Investigation of Theoretical Issues”, April 2009 – March 2012.

Joint Projects

• Joint Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization—from Theoretical, Fieldwork, Historical, and Dialectal Perspectives” (Leader: Prashant Pardeshi), April 2022 – present.

• Joint Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “Evidence-based Linguistics: Predicate Meaning and Grammar” (Leader: Yo Matsumoto), April 2022 – March 2025.

• Joint Researcher, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, “A New Development in Descriptive Linguistic Studies of Africa Based on Multilingual Situations” (Leader: Daisuke Shinagawa), April 2021 – March 2024.

• Joint Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar” (Leader: Haruo Kubozono), March 2017 – March 2022.

• Joint Researcher, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, “A Comprehensive Study of African Tone/Accent Languages” (Leader: Shigeki Kaji), April 2016 – March 2019.

• Joint Researcher, State University of New York at Buffalo, “Causality across Languages” (Leader: Jürgen Bohnemeyer), August 2015 – January 2023.

• Joint Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “Adnominal Clauses and Noun-Concluding Constructions (Mermaid Constructions): Grammaticalization of Nouns” (Leader: Tasaku Tsunoda), February 2011 – March 2012.

• Joint Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “Modal and Speech-Act Constraints on Clause Linkage” (Leader: Tasaku Tsunoda), February 2011 – March 2012.

• Joint Researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, “Predicate-centered focus types: A sample-based typological study in African languages” (Leader: Tom Güldemann), January 2011 – August 2015.

• Joint Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “A Typology of Motion Expressions and Japanese: A Cross-linguistic Empirical Study of Motion Expressions” (Leader: Yo Matsumoto), November 2010 – March 2014.

• Joint Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “Transitivity” (Leader: Prashant Pardeshi), August 2010 – March 2014.

• Joint Researcher, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, “Clause Combining” (Leader: Honoré Watanabe), April 2010 – March 2013.

• Joint Researcher, Research Institute for World Languages, Osaka University, “Lingua-Culture Contextual Studies in Ethnic Conflicts of the World”, October 2009 – March 2012.

• Joint Researcher, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, “Language Contact and Genealogical Inheritance” (Leader: Osamu Hieda), July 2008 – March 2010.

Memberships in Academic Societies

• Member, Japan Association for African Studies, January 2016 – present.

• Member, Japan Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies, April 2012 – April 2017.

• Member, Association for Linguistic Typology, October 2010 – present.

• Member, English Society of Japan, May 2010 – September 2024.

• Member, The Linguistic Society of America, August 2003 – July 2004; December 2009 – December 2014.

• Member, Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, July 2006 – June 2007; July 2009 – June 2010.

• Member, Aflang Research Group, Kyoto University and Osaka University, November 2008 – March 2019.

• Member, Grammar Research Group, University of Tokyo, June 2008 – December 2008.

• Member, Research Group for Motion Expressions, Kobe University, November 2007 – February 2017.

• Member, Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, September 2007 – present.

• Member, The Linguistic Society of Japan, October 2007 – present.

• Member, International Cognitive Linguistics Association, July 2003 – June 2004.

• Member, Cross-linguistic Slips of the Tongue Research Group, January 1991 – May 2001.

• Member, Role and Reference Grammar Research Group, August 1998 – May 2000.

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS 

Grants

• Ushioda Memorial Fund (Field Research Fund for Kupsapiiny), January 2025 – February 2025.

• Keio University Academic Development Fund, “Descriptions of the Grammars of East-African Languages to Contribute to the Speech Communities and the Development of the Writing Systems”, April 2022 – March 2023; April 2023 – March 2024.

• Keio Gijuku Fukuzawa Memorial Fund for the Advancement of Education and Research, “Descriptions of the Grammars of Kupsapiiny and Sidaama and Typological Studies on Theoretical Issues Using Data on These Languages”, April 2022 – March 2023; April 2023 – March 2024.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Cross-linguistic Studies on Grammatical Nominalization: With a Focus on Classifiers and Gender Markers” (Principal Investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi; Kaken Research Project No. 22H00659 / 23K21931), April 2022 – present.

• Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Studies on Space, Person, and Time Deixis Based on East African Language Data” (Principal Investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi; Kaken Research Project No. 22K18479), June 2022 – March 2025.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “A Crosslinguistic Study of the Parallelism of the Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Motion and Change of State” (Principal Investigator: Yo Matsumoto; Joint investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi, Kaken Research Project No. 19H01264), April 2019 – March 2023.

• Field Research Fund for Sidaama, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “Evidence-based Linguistics: Predicate Meaning and Grammar” (Leader: Yo Matsumoto), 2019.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Iconicity in Language Use: Crosslinguistic Studies on Constructions Used to Describe Causal Relations” (Principal Investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi; Kaken Research Project No. 19K00565), April 2019 – March 2022.

• Field Research Fund for Kupsapiiny, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “Evidence-based Linguistics: Predicate Meaning and Grammar” (Leader: Yo Matsumoto), 2017.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Why Linguistic Symbols Should and Should Not be Arbitrary: An Integrative Account from Language Evolution, Acquisition, and Brain Functions” (Principal Investigator: Mutsumi Imai; Joint investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi, Kaken Research Project No. 16H01928), April 2016 – March 2021.

• National Science Foundation Project, “Causality across Languages” (Principal Investigator: Jürgen Bohnemeyer; Joint investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi, Project Numbers: BCS-1535846 / BCS-1644657), August 2015 – January 2023.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Language Typology Based on Motion Event Descriptions: A Crosslinguistic Experimental Study” (Principal Investigator: Yo Matsumoto; Joint investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi, Kaken Research Project No. 15H03206), April 2015 – March 2019.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Studies on Information Structure in Sidaama and Kupsapiny Based on Discourse Data” (Principal Investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi; Kaken Research Project No. 15H05157), April 2015 – March 2020.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Studies on Motion Expressions in East African Languages” (Principal Investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi; Kaken Research Project No. 24520490), April 2012 – March 2015.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Syntax, Information Structure, and Linguistic Forms in Nilotic Languages” (Principal Investigator: Osamu Hieda; Joint investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi, Kaken Research Project No. 24320073), April 2012 – March 2015.

• Field Research Fund for Sidaama, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “Adnominal Clauses and Noun-Concluding Constructions (Mermaid Constructions)” & “Modal and Speech-Act Constraints on Clause-Linkage” (Leader: Tasaku Tsunoda), February 2012 – March 2012.

• Field Research Fund for Kupsapiiny, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “Adnominal Clauses and Noun-Concluding Constructions (Mermaid Constructions)” & “Modal and Speech-Act Constraints on Clause-Linkage” (Leader: Tasaku Tsunoda), July 2011 – August 2011.

• Travel Fund for the 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference at Xi’an International Studies University, “A Typology of Motion Expressions and Japanese: A Cross-linguistic Empirical Study of Motion Expressions” (Leader: Yo Matsumoto), July 2011.

• Field Research Fund for Sidaama, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, “A Typology of Motion Expressions and Japanese: A Cross-linguistic Empirical Study of Motion Expressions” (Leader: Yo Matsumoto), March 2011.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Data Collection for a Description of the Grammar of Sidaama and an Investigation of Theoretical Issues” (Principal Investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi; Kaken Research Project No. 00530891), April 2009 – March 2012.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Synchronic and Diachronic Comparative Studies on the Morphosyntax of Nilotic Languages” (Principal Investigator: Osamu Hieda; Joint investigator: Kazuhiro Kawachi, Kaken Research Project No. 21320074), April 2009 – March 2012.

• Grant for Research on Understudied Languages and Cultures, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, March 2009.

• Department of Linguistics Conference Travel Fund, August 2006.

• Department of Linguistics Conference Travel Fund, April 2006.

• Graduate Student Association Conference Fund, April 2006.

• Mark Diamond Research Fund Dissertation Grant, 2005–2006.

• Department of Linguistics Conference Travel Fund, April 2005.

• Graduate Student Association Conference Travel Fund, April 2004.

• Department of Linguistics Conference Travel Fund, July 2003.

• 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Travel Grant, July 2003.

• Department of Linguistics Field Methods Research Fund, Fall 2000 – Spring 2001.

Scholarships

• Graduate Student Association Child Care Scholarship, Fall 2006.

• Graduate Student Association Child Care Scholarship, Spring 2006.

• Center for Cognitive Science Research Foundation Fellowship, Summer 2004.

• Graduate Student Association Child Care Scholarship, Fall 2003.

• Center for Cognitive Science Research Foundation Fellowship, Spring 2001.

• Center for Cognitive Science Research Foundation Fellowship, Fall 1999.

• Department of Linguistics Scholarship, Fall 1998.

• Department of Linguistics Scholarship, Fall 1997.

Awards

• Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize, March 2014.

• Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Presidents’ Prize, August 2009.

• Department of Linguistics Summer Research Award, Summer 2006.

• College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, 2005–2006.

• Department of Linguistics Summer Research Award, Summer 2005.

• Department of Linguistics Summer Research Award, Summer 2004.

• Department of Linguistics Summer Research Award, Summer 2002.

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Books

Matsumoto, Yo, and Kazuhiro Kawachi. (eds.) (2020). Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Articles in Journals

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (Forthcoming) An investigation of Japanese causative constructions based on speakers’ acceptability ratings. Linguistics Vanguard: A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences, Special Issue on The Grammar of Causation: Language-Specific Perspectives.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (Forthcoming) Sidaama speakers’ atypical acceptability judgments of causative constructions used to describe causal event video stimuli. Linguistics Vanguard: A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences, Special Issue on The Grammar of Causation: Language-Specific Perspectives.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Prashant Pardeshi, Yu Li, and Maho Naito. (Forthcoming) Classifying nominalization in cross-linguistic perspective: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Foreign Language Education, Special Issue on Classifying Nominalization in Cross-linguistic Perspective.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (Forthcoming) Gender marking on grammatical nominalizations in Sidaama. Journal of Foreign Language Education, Special Issue on Classifying Nominalization in Cross-linguistic Perspective.

Ilic, Tatjana, and Kazuhiro Kawachi. (Forthcoming) So-called gender markers as classifying nominalizers in Swedish. Journal of Foreign Language Education, Special Issue on Classifying Nominalization in Cross-linguistic Perspective.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2025) Ideophones in motion event descriptions in Kupsapiiny and Sidaama: Conceptualization of manners of motion as sounds and postures. Cognitive Semantics, 11.2, 1–40.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2023) Long default and short indefinite noun forms in Kupsapiiny: Synchronic usage and diachronic development. Gengo Kenkyu: Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 163, 79–110.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2016) Introduction: An overview of event integration patterns in African languages. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 1–36.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2016) Event integration patterns in Kupsapiny. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 37–91.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2015) Insubordinated conditionals in Kupsapiny. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 9, 65–104.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2010) An overview of the sociolinguistic situation of Kupsapiny, a southern Nilotic language of Uganda. African Study Monographs, 31.3, 117–127.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2007) Korean putting verbs do not categorize space contrastively in terms of “tightness of fit”. Lingua, 117.10, 1801–1820.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2002) Practice effects on speech in Japanese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31.4, 363–390.

Articles in Books

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (Forthcoming). Reported speech constructions in Kupsapiiny. In Tatiana Nikitina, Stef Spronck, Denys Teptiuk, and Anna Bugaeva (eds.), Reported Speech. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (Forthcoming). Directional deixis: Speaker territory in deictic motion and its expansion or shift through Deixis am Phantasma and empathy. In Eric Pederson and Jürgen Bohnemeyer (eds.), The Expression of Space. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2025). Grammatical properties of motion verbs in English and other languages. In Naoki Otani, Hirosi Nakagawa, Hiroki Nomoto, and Naonori Nagaya (eds.), Gengo Kenkyuu ni Hisomu Eigo no Baiasu (English-centric Biases in Linguistic Research). Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2025). Does the degree of integration of constructions iconically reflect motion event types? The case of Sidaama. In Yo Matsumoto (ed.), Motion Event Descriptions across Languages, Volume 1: Case Studies of Linguistic Representations of Motion, 129–166. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2025). Kupsapiiny as a predominantly anti-verb-framed, nonhead path-coding language. In Yo Matsumoto (ed.), Motion Event Descriptions across Languages, Volume 1: Case Studies of Linguistic Representations of Motion, 91–128. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2023). Sidaama. In Ronny Meyer, Bedilu Wakjira, and Zelealem Leyew (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages, 320–343. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2021). The ‘along’–deictic-directional verb suffix complex in Kupsapiny. In Antoine Guillaume and Harold Koch (eds.), Associated Motion, 747–777. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Matsumoto, Yo, and Kazuhiro Kawachi. (2020). Introduction: Motion event descriptions in broader perspective. In Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi (eds.), Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions, 1–22. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2020). Should Talmy’s motion typology be expanded to visual motion? An investigation into expressions of motion, agentive motion, and visual motion in Sidaama (Sidamo). In Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi (eds.), Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions, 205–233. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2020). Sidaama. In Tasaku Tsunoda (ed.), Mermaid Constructions: A Compound-Predicate Construction with Biclausal Appearance, 679–733. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2020). Sidaama. In Rainer Vossen and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, 543–552. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bellingham, Erika, Stephanie Evers, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Alice Mitchell, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer (2020). Exploring the representation of causality across languages: Integrating production, comprehension and conceptualization perspectives. In Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal and Nora Boneh (eds.), Perspectives on Causation, 75–119. Cham: Springer.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Kupsapiny. In Tasaku Tsunoda (ed.), Levels in Clause Linkage: A Crosslinguistic Survey, 750–801. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Sidaama. In Tasaku Tsunoda (ed.), Levels in Clause Linkage: A Crosslinguistic Survey, 685–749. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Event integration patterns in Sidaama and Japanese. In Prashant Pardeshi and Taro Kageyama (eds.), Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics, 313–342. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Path expressions in Sidaama (Sidamo). In Yo Matsumoto (ed.), Idoo-dooshi no Ruikeiron Taisho-kenkyuu (Typological Studies on Motion Verbs). Tokyo: Kuroshio. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2015). Copula constructions in Kupsapiny and information structure. In Osamu Hieda (ed.), Information Structure and Nilotic Languages (Studies in Nilotic Linguistics Vol. 10), 97–115. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2014). Patterns of expressing motion events in Kupsapiny. In Osamu Hieda (ed.), Recent Advances in Nilotic Linguistics (Studies in Nilotic Linguistics Vol. 8), 103–136. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2012). Polysemy of the grammatical morpheme kule in Kupsapiny and its grammaticalization from a verb of saying. In Osamu Hieda (ed.), Studies in Nilotic Linguistics Vol. 4. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2012). Kupusabinyi-go (Kupsapiny). Katsuhiko Shiota (ed.), Afurika Shogo Bunpoo Yooran, 81–93. Hiroshima, Japan: Keisuisha. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2012). Shidaama-go (Sidaama). Katsuhiko Shiota (ed.), Afurika Shogo Bunpoo Yooran, 55–67. Hiroshima, Japan: Keisuisha. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Meanings of the spatial deictic verb suffixes in Kupsapiny, the southern Nilotic language of the Sebei region of Uganda. In Osamu Hieda (ed.), Descriptive Studies of Nilotic Languages (Studies in Nilotic Linguistics Vol. 3), 65–107. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Can Ethiopian languages be considered languages in the African linguistic area? The case of Highland East Cushitic languages. In Christa König, Osamu Hieda, and Hirosi Nakagawa (eds.), Geographical Typology and Linguistic Area—with Special Reference to Africa, 91–107. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2010). Distinction between two types of location (the location of an object and the location of an event) in Kupsapiny. In Osamu Hieda (ed.), Descriptive Studies of Nilotic Morphosyntax (Studies in Nilotic Linguistics Vol. 2), 125–146. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Sang-Hee Park, and Erika Bellingham (2020). Directness of causation and morphosyntactic complexity of constructions: Japanese and Korean cases. In Shoichi Iwasaki, Susan Strauss, Shin Fukuda, Sun-Ah Jun, Sung-Ock Sohn, and Kie Zuraw (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 26, 225–236. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Erika Bellingham, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer (2018). Different types of causality and clause linkage in English, Japanese, Sidaama, and Yucatec Maya. Papers from the 18th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 47–59.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Is Sidaama (Sidamo) a marked-nominative language? In Patricia Sutcliffe, Michael D. Kliffer, Alex Sévigny, William J. Sullivan, and Dan Mailman (eds.), LACUS Forum 37 (2010): Communication and Cognition: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 75–86. Houston, TX: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Kupusato biini-go Shidaama-go ni okeru tsuugengoteki keikoo to ruikei taipu no araware (Cross-linguistic tendencies and typological properties in Kupsapiiny and Sidaama). Proceedings of the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 362–367.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Kupusabiini-go no meishi no teisei no kubetsu: Dryer no teisei no hyooshiki no ruikeironteki wakugumi de no bunseki (Definiteness distinctions in Kupsapiiny nouns: An analysis within Dryer’s typological framework of definiteness marking). Proceedings of the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 330–335.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Kupusabiini-go no associated motion o arawasu koobun: Ruikeiteki shiten kara no bunseki (Associated motion constructions in Kupsapiiny: A typological analysis). Proceedings of the 156th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 295–300.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Bunretsu-koobun to Giji-bunretsu-koobun no kubetsu to shiyoo ni okeru zentei: Shidaama-go no jirei kara no koosatsu (Distinction between cleft construction and pseudo-cleft construction and their presuppositions: A case study of Sidaama). Proceedings of the 155th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 57–62.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Shidaama-go no ‘iu’/‘suru’ o arawasu hyoogen no kanyooka: Datsu-ideofonka to gokeisei (Idiomatization of expressions with ‘say’/‘do’ in Sidaama: Deideophonization and word formation). Proceedings of the 154th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 136–141.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Afurika no gengo-chiiki to gengo-chiiki to shite no Afurika (African linguistic areas and Africa as a linguistic area). Proceedings of the 146th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 22–27.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Dative external possessor constructions in Sidaama. In Crane, Thera, Donna Fenton, Hannah Haynie, Shira Katseff, Russell Lee-Goldman, Ruth Rouvier, and Dominic Yu (eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2007), General Session. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2012). Event integration patterns in Sidaama (Sidamo). In Berson, Sarah, Alex Bratkievich, Daniel Bruhn, Amy Campbell, Ramon Escamilla, Allegra Giovine, David Kamholz, Lindsey Newbold, Marilola Perez, Marta Piqueras, Russell Rhodes (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2008), General Session. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, and Abebayehu Aemero Tekleselassie. (2012). Modification within a noun phrase in Sidaama (Sidamo). In Berson, Sarah, Alex Bratkievich, Daniel Bruhn, Amy Campbell, Ramon Escamilla, Allegra Giovine, David Kamholz, Lindsey Newbold, Marilola Perez, Marta Piqueras, Russell Rhodes (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2008), General Session. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2012). External possessor constructions in Sidaama. In Bochnak, Ryan, Peet Klecha, Alice Lemieux, Nassira Nicola, Jasmin Urban, and Christina Weaver (eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2009), Volume 1: The Main Session, 319–333. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Noun phrases without nouns in Sidaama (Sidamo). In Sutcliffe, Patricia (ed.), LACUS Forum 36: Mechanisms of Linguistic Behavior (2009), 25–35. Houston, TX: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Are events that are expressed in verb-framed languages using non-characteristic patterns really macro-events? An examination of motion expressions in Sidaama (Sidamo). Papers from the 11th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 114–124.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2009). A report on the vitality of the Kupsapiny language (southern Nilotic) with a community profile of the Sebei region of Uganda. Proceedings of the 139th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 378–383.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2009). Sidaama-go no mokutekigo-ninshoo-setubiji ni yotte awarasareru bunpoo-kankei (Grammatical relation(s) indexed by the object pronominal suffix in Sidaama) Proceedings of the 138th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 166–171. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2009). Can Ikegami’s typology of DO- vs. BECOME-languages go beyond English-Japanese contrastive linguistics to be a general framework for semantic typology? An investigation of the semantic structures of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 339–349.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2008). Meisi-ku ni “Heddo” to iu gainen wa hituyoo-ka? Sidaama-go no kurityikku de arawasareru meisiku (Is the notion of ‘head’ necessary for noun phrases? Noun phrases formed with a clitic in Sidaama). Proceedings of the 137th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 148–153. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2008). “Shuushoku” to iu gainen wa fuhentekika? Eigo to Perusha-go to Heburai-go to Sidaama- (Sidamo-)go no hikaku (Is the notion of modification universal? A comparison of English, Persian, Hebrew, and Sidaama (Sidamo)). Proceedings of the 136th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 86–91. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2008). Japanese Enter/Exit verbs are motion verbs. In Stensrud, Kjersti, Rod Edwards, Patrick Midtlyng, and Colin Sprague (eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2005), Volume 1: The Main Session, 223–238. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2008). Middle voice and reflexive in Sidaama. In Adams, Nikki, Adam Cooper, Fey Parrill, and Thomas Wier (eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2004), Volume 2: Panels, 119–134. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2007). Sidaama- (Sidamo-)go no kaku no shisutemu (The case system of Sidaama (Sidamo)). Proceedings of the 135th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 190–195. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2007). Sidaama- (Sidamo-)go no kankei-setu no keisei no pataan (Patterns of relative clause formation in Sidaama). Proceedings of the 135th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 362–367. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2007). Feelings in Sidaama. In Reich, Peter, William Sullivan, and Arle Lommel (eds.), LACUS Forum 33: Variation, 307–316. Houston, TX: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2002). Do Korean verbs of putting make looseness vs. tightness distinctions? In McClive, Thomas, and Todd McDaniels (eds.), Proceedings from the 2001 Niagara Linguistic Society, 119–153. State University of New York at Buffalo.

Miscellaneous Publications

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2022). Book review: Motomichi Wakasa (2020) A Descriptive Study of the Modern Wolaytta Language. Nilo-Ethiopian Studies, 27, 19–21.

Ono, Hiromi, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Hirosi Nakagawa, Nobuko Yoneda, Nobutaka Kamei, Soya Mori, and Ritsuko Miyamoto. (2021). New directions in African language studies. African Studies 100, 67–72. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2016). Typological perspectives on language and their relevance to English teaching. JANES Newsletter, No. 33, 25–34. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2014). Why a Sidaama-Kupsapiiny linguist conducts research in cognitive linguistics. French Language Studies 48, 130–132. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2014). Transitivity pairs in Kupsapiny. In The World Atlas of Transitivity Pairs. Tokyo: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Available online at: https://watp.ninjal.ac.jp/en/

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2014). Transitivity pairs in Sidaama. In The World Atlas of Transitivity Pairs. Tokyo: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Available online at: https://watp.ninjal.ac.jp/en/

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Five levels in Sidaama. In Tasaku Tsunoda (ed.), Five Levels in Clause Linkage, Volume 2, 879–1084. Ibaraki, Japan: Tasaku Tsunoda/Matsueda Publishers.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Five levels in Kupsapiny. In Tasaku Tsunoda (ed.), Five Levels in Clause Linkage, Volume 2, 1085–1168. Ibaraki, Japan: Tasaku Tsunoda/Matsueda Publishers.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Mermaid constructions in Sidaama. In Tasaku Tsunoda (ed.), Adnominal Clauses and the ‘Mermaid Construction’: Grammaticalization of Nouns, 571–611. NINJAL Collaborative Research Project Reports 13-01. Tokyo, Japan: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Similarities between Japanese and Sidaama [4]: Mermaid constructions. Teaching English Now, Vol. 26, Around the World. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Similarities between Japanese and Sidaama [3]: ‘Become’ expressions. Teaching English Now, Vol. 25, Around the World. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Similarities between Japanese and Sidaama [2]: Omissions. Teaching English Now, Vol. 24, Around the World. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Similarities between Japanese and Sidaama [1]: Unclear expressions. Teaching English Now, Vol. 23, Around the World. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Some of those properties that are considered peculiar to Japanese can also be found in Africa. The case of Sidaama. NINJAL Forum Series 3: 5th NINJAL Forum (Japanese Seen from the World), 37–45. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. (Japanese)

PRESENTATIONS

Oral Presentations at Conferences

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2025). Renovative mutations in Sidaama: Grammatical properties unattested in neighboring languages. Presented at the Third Meeting on Cushitic Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University, December 11, 2025.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Maho Naito, and Tatjana Ilic. (2025). Unexpected patterns of genitives across languages in the context of Shibatani’s nominalization theory. Presented at the 171st Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Okayama University, November 22, 2025. (online)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2025). Gender marking on grammatical nominalizations in Afroasiatic languages. Presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies, Kyoto University, May 17, 2025. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2024). Gender marking on grammatical nominalizations in Sidaama. Presented at the Second Meeting on Cushitic Languages and Linguistics, University of Naples L’Orientale, December 5–6, 2024.

Erika Bellingham, Juergen Bohnemeyer, Andrea Ariño-Bizarro, Jing Du, James Essegbey, Stephanie Evers, Saima Hafeez, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Pia Järnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Thomas Fuyin Li, Tatiana Nikitina, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, Guillermo Montero-Melis, and Emanuel Bylund. (2023). Causatives cluster semantically by juncture level across languages. Presented at the RRG 2023: International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 14–16 August 2023.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2023). Grammaticalization of deictic-directional verbs into prior associated motion proclitics in Kupsapiiny: An investigation from a typological perspective. Presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies, Makuhari International Training Center, May 13, 2023.

Bohnemeyer, Juergen, Erika Bellingham, Andrea Ariño-Bizarro, Jing Du, James Essegbey, Stephanie Evers, Saima Hafeez, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Pia Järnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Fuyin Thomas Li, Yu Li, Tatiana Nikitina, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, Guillermo Montero-Melis, and Emanuel Bylund. (2023). Using statistical classification to discover cross-linguistic semantic prototypes: The causation domain. Presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, January 7, 2023.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2022). Diachronic development of associated motion constructions in Kupsapiiny. Presented at Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description 2022: Deixis and Other Topics in Motion-Event Description, Kyoto University, November 4, 2022.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2022). Diachronic development of idioms with the verbs ‘say’ and ‘do’ in Sidaama and their grammatical integration. Presented at Workshop on Typology of Ideophones, York University, Toronto, Canada, and Nagoya University, June 24, 2022. (online)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2022). Reports on a semantic-typology experiment on causative constructions: The Sidaama case. Presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies, Nagasaki University, May 21, 2022. (online)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2021). Usage range of venitive deictic motion verbs and verb suffixes in Kupsapiny. Presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies, Hiroshima City University, May 23, 2021. (online; Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Erika Bellingham, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer. (2021). Causer intentionality, causer type, and agentivity in causative event descriptions. Presented at Causal Constructions in the World’s Languages (Synchrony, Diachrony, Typology), Laboratory for the Typological Study of Languages at the Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. (online)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2020). Typological studies of morpho-syntax, semantics, and pragmatics based on video elicitation. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, May 23, 2020. (online; Japanese)

Bellingham, Erika, Pia Järnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Alice Mitchell, Guillermo Montero-Melis, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, Emanuel Bylund, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer. (2019). The semantic typology of causatives: New approaches to data collection and analysis. Presented at the Association for Linguistic Typology 13th Biennial Conference, University of Pavia, Italy, August 20, 2019.

Matsumoto, Yo, Anna Bordilovskaya, Kiyoko Eguchi, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Miho Mano, Takahiro Morita, Naonori Nagaya, Kiyoko Takahashi, and Yuko Yoshinari. (2019). A crosslinguistic experimental study of fourteen different paths: Toward a scale-based typology of motion event descriptions. Presented at the Association for Linguistic Typology 13th Biennial Conference, University of Pavia, Italy, September 4, 2019.

Bellingham, Erika, Pia Järnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Alice Mitchell, Guillermo Montero-Melis, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, Emanuel Bylund, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer. (2019). Modeling causative complexity across languages with the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy. Presented at the 15th Biannual International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, State University of New York at Buffalo, August 20, 2019.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Erika Bellingham, Jürgen Bohnemeyer, and Sang-Hee Park (2019). Iconicity in usage: A cross-linguistic study of causative event descriptions. Presented at the 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kansei Gakuin University, August 10, 2019.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Anja Latrouite, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer. (2019). Introduction. Theme session: “Causation in discourse and cognition: Crosslinguistic perspectives”. Presented at the 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kansei Gakuin University, August 9, 2019.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Ikuko Matsuse, and Yo Matsumoto. (2019). Speaker’s territory as a factor in the use of deictic verbs and verb affixes: The cases of Kupsapiny and Newar. Presented at the 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kansei Gakuin University, August 7, 2019.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2019). Definiteness, specificity, and animacy in Kupsapiny. Presented at the 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Vienna, Austria, May 30, 2019.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Erika Bellingham, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer. (2019). A typological analysis of causative event descriptions in Sidaama (Highland East Cushitic; Ethiopia). Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies, Kyoto Seika University, May 19, 2019.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2019). Motion event descriptions in Kupsapiny: Factors in the use of deictic verbs and suffixes. Presented at the NINJAL International Symposium: Motion Event Descriptions across Languages (MEDAL), National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, January 27, 2019.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2019). Motion event descriptions in Sidaama: Forms expressing different path types. Presented at the NINJAL International Symposium: Motion Event Descriptions across Languages (MEDAL), National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, January 26, 2019.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Sang-Hee Park, and Erika Bellingham. (2018). Directness of causation and morphosyntactic complexity of constructions: Japanese and Korean cases. Presented at the 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, December 1, 2018.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Cross-linguistic tendencies and typological properties in Kupsapiiny and Sidaama. Presented at the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Kyoto University, November 18, 2018. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Definiteness in Kupsapiiny. Presented at the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Kyoto University, November 17, 2018. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Associated motion constructions in Kupsapiiny. Presented at the 156th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo, June 23, 2018. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Erika Bellingham, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer. (2018). Causal event descriptions in Kupsapiny. Presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies, Hokkaido University, May 27, 2018.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Deictic directional suffix complex used for motion, associated motion, and aspect in Kupsapiny. Presented at the Association for Linguistic Typology 12th Biennial Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December 12, 2017.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Distinction between cleft construction and pseudo-cleft construction and their presuppositions: A case study of Sidaama. Presented at the 155th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Ritsumeikan University, November 25, 2017. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, and Erika Bellingham. (2017). Japanese juncture-nexus types used for different causality types: an experimental study. Presented at the 14th Biannual International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo, August 1, 2017.

Bellingham, Erika, Sang-Hee Park, Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Anastasia Stepanova, and Kazuhiro Kawachi. (2017). Causality in discourse: Crosslinguistic patterns. Presented at the 15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast Waterfront Center, Belfast, Northern Ireland, July 18, 2017.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Idiomatization of expressions with ‘say’/‘do’ in Sidaama: Deideophonization and word formation. Presented at the 154th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan University, June 24, 2017. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Cross-linguistically unusual causal clause construction in Sidaama. Presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies, Shinshu University, May 20, 2017.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2015). Event integration patterns in African languages: An overview. Presented at the 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, Kyoto University, August 23, 2015.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2015). Event integration patterns in Kupsapiny. Presented at the 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, Kyoto University, August 23, 2015.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Yuko Abe, Osamu Hieda, Kyoko Koga, Junko Komori, Nobuko Yoneda, and Hiroshi Yoshino. (2015). How African languages fit in Talmy’s typology of event integration. Presented at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle, England, July 24, 2015.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2015). Do speakers select constructions depending on the naturalness of described complex motion events? Cases of video descriptions in Kupsapiny and Sidaama. Presented at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle, England, July 24, 2015.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2015). Typological properties and construction choices in video descriptions of motion events in Kupsapiny (Nilotic, Uganda) and Sidaama (Cushitic, Ethiopia). Presented at the NINJAL International Symposium: Typology and Cognition in Motion Event Descriptions, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, February 24, 2015.

Morita, Takahiro, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yuko Yoshinari, Fabiana Andreani, Ikuko Matsuse, and Badema. (2015). Enigma of manner expressions: Saliency, frequency, and degree of integration. Presented at the NINJAL International Symposium: Typology and Cognition in Motion Event Descriptions, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, February 25, 2015.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2014). Copula constructions in Kupsapiny and information structure. Presented at the International Symposium on Information Structure in Africa, with an International Workshop on Nilotic Linguistics, Kyoto University, October 14, 2014.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). The distinction between exclusive and shared possession in Kupsapiny. Presented at the Association for Linguistic Typology 10th Biennial Conference, Downtown Campus, University of Leipzig, August 16, 2013.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Complexity of a motion event and satellite-framed and verb-framed patterns in Kupsapiny. Presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, June 28, 2013.

Yo Matsumoto, Kimi Akita, Fabiana Andreani, Kiyoko Eguchi, Noriko Imazato, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Ikuko Matsuse, Takahiro Morita, Naonori Nagaya, Kiyoko Takahashi, Ryosuke Takahashi, and Yuko Yoshinari. (2013). Crosslinguistic tendencies in the intralinguistic variations of motion descriptions: An experimental study of manner, path, and deixis. Presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, June 28, 2013.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). The Kupsapiny distinction between exclusive and shared possession and the inalienability distinction. Presented at Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium 2013, University of Cologne, May 22, 2013.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2012). Pitch accent patterns and meanings of full and insubordinated conditional constructions in Sidaama (Cushitic, Ethiopia). Presented at the International Symposium on Cross-linguistic Studies on Clause Combining: “Dynamics of Insubordination”, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, October 28, 2012.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Polysemy of the grammatical morpheme kule and its diachronic development in Kupsapiny. Presented at the International Symposium on Nilotic Linguistics: “Challenges in Nilotic Linguistics”, Kyoto University, December 3, 2011.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Can Talmy’s motion typology be expanded to visual motion? An examination of different types of motion expressions in Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia. Presented at the 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Xi’an International Studies University, July 14, 2011.

Matsumoto, Yo, and Kazuhiro Kawachi. (2011). Introduction. Theme session: “Typology of motion descriptions in broader perspectives: Going beyond motion to caused motion and vision”. Presented at the 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Xi’an International Studies University, July 13, 2011.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2010). Are events that are expressed in verb-framed languages using non-characteristic patterns really macro-events? Presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Rikkyo University, September 11, 2010. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2010). Is Sidaama (Sidamo) a marked-nominative language? Presented at the 37th Forum of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, McMaster University, July 24, 2010.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2009). Noun phrases without nouns in Sidaama (Sidamo). Presented at the 36th Forum of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, Pitzer College, August 8, 2009.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2009). Grammatical relation(s) indexed by the object pronominal suffix in Sidaama (Sidamo). Presented at the 138th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Kanda University of Foreign Languages, June 20, 2009. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2009). Can Ethiopian languages be considered languages in the African linguistic area? The case of Highland East Cushitic languages. Presented at the International Conference of the Global COE Program ‘Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education’: A Geographical Typology of African Languages jointly with an international workshop on Khoisan Linguistics, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, May 12, 2009.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2008). Is the notion of ‘head’ necessary for noun phrases? Noun phrases formed with a clitic in Sidaama (Sidamo). Presented at the 137th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Kanazawa University, November 29, 2008. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2008). Can Ikegami’s typology of DO- vs. BECOME-languages go beyond English-Japanese contrastive linguistics to be a general framework for semantic typology? An Investigation of the Semantic Structures of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic Language of Ethiopia. Presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Nagoya University, September 14, 2008.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2008). Is the notion of modification universal? A comparison of English, Persian, Hebrew, and Sidaama. Presented at the 136th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Gakushuin University, June 21, 2008. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2008). Event integration patterns in Sidaama (Sidamo). Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, February 8, 2008.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, and Abebayehu Aemero Tekleselassie. (2008). Modification within a noun phrase in Sidaama (Sidamo). Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, February 10, 2008.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2007). The case system of Sidaama (Sidamo). Presented at the 135th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Shinshu University, November 24, 2007. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2007). Dative external possessor constructions in Sidaama. Presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, February 10, 2007.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2006). Feelings in Sidaama. Presented at the 33rd Forum of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, University of Toronto, August 2, 2006.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2006). External possessor constructions in Sidaama. Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, April 6, 2006.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2005). Japanese Enter/Exit verbs are motion verbs. Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, April 7, 2005.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2004). Middle voice and reflexive in Sidaama. Presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, April 16, 2004.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2003). Tightness of fit does not distinguish Korean putting verbs. Presented at the 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of La Rioja, July 24, 2003.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2001). Do Korean verbs of putting make looseness vs. tightness distinctions? Presented at Niagara Linguistic Society Conference 2001, State University of New York at Buffalo, October 14, 2001.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (1999). Speech errors in preplanned speech and in spontaneous speech in Japanese. Presented at Niagara Linguistic Society Conference 1999, State University of New York at Buffalo, September 25, 1999.

Poster Presentations at Conferences

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, and Ikuko Matsuse. (2022). High frequency of deixis mention due to different types of obligatory requirements to specify deictic directions in Kupsapiiny and Kathmandu Newar. Presented at Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description 2022: Deixis and Other Topics in Motion-Event Description, Kyoto University, November 3, 2022.

Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, Erika Bellingham, Pia Järnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Alice Mitchell, Guillermo Montero-Melis, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, and Emanuel Bylund. (2020). The encoding of causal chains across languages. Presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, January 4, 2020.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Erika Bellingham, Jürgen Bohnemeyer, and Sang-Hee Park. (2018). An experimental study on causative event descriptions across languages (English, Japanese, Korean, Kupsapiny, Sidaama, and Yucatec Maya). Presented at the 8th Overseas Scientific Research Festa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, June 16, 2018.

Bellingham, Erika, Stephanie Evers, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Alice Mitchell, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer. (2017). An experimental approach to the semantic typology of causative constructions. Presented at the meeting for the Association for Linguistic Typology 12th Biennial Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December 13, 2017.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Yuko Abe, Osamu Hieda, Kyoko Koga, Junko Komori, Nobuko Yoneda, and Hiroshi Yoshino. (2015). Motion expression patterns in African languages. Presented at the NINJAL International Symposium: Typology and Cognition in Motion Event Descriptions, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, February 25, 2015.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2015). Fictive motion of the line of sight and the use of the verbs for turning in Sidaama (Cushitic, Ethiopia). Presented at the NINJAL International Symposium: Typology and Cognition in Motion Event Descriptions, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, February 25, 2015.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2014). Self-agentive motion events in video clips described in Kupsapiny (Southern Nilotic, Uganda). Presented at NINJAL Typology Festa 2014, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, February 22, 2014.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2009). A report on the vitality of the Kupsapiny language (Southern Nilotic) with a community profile of the Sebei region of Uganda. Presented at the 139th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Kobe University, November 29, 2009.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2007). Patterns of relative clause formation in Sidaama (Sidamo). Presented at the 135th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Shinshu University, November 25, 2007. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2003). Universality vs. language-specificity in the acquisition of spatial semantic organization. Presented at Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society Poster Session, State University of New York at Buffalo, April 24, 2003.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2003). The acquisition of spatial semantic organization. Presented at the Fourth Annual Cognitive Science Poster Session, State University of New York at Buffalo, April 9, 2003.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2001). Practice effects in speech production planning models. Presented at the Third Annual Cognitive Science Poster Session, State University of New York at Buffalo, February 28, 2001.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2000). Speech errors in preplanned speech and in spontaneous speech in Japanese. Presented at the Second Annual Cognitive Science Poster Session, State University of New York at Buffalo, March 1, 2000.

Presentations at Colloquia and Research Group Meetings

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Prashant Pardeshi, and Yu Li. (2025). Synopsis of data reports on the marking of grammatical nominalizations with classifying nominalization markers across languages. Presented at the meeting for the projects “Cross-linguistic Studies on Grammatical Nominalization: with a Focus on Classifiers and Gender Markers” and “Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization—From Theoretical, Fieldwork, Historical and Dialectal Perspectives”, Mita Campus, Keio University, May 10, 2025.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2024). Associated motion in the context of Talmy’s motion typology. Presented at the Séminaire DiLiS, Le Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, CNRS and Université Lumière Lyon 2, February 23, 2024.

Ilic, Tatjana, and Kazuhiro Kawachi. (2023). Gender marking on definite and indefinite noun phrases in Swedish. Presented at the meeting for the projects “Cross-linguistic Studies on Grammatical Nominalization: with a Focus on Classifiers and Gender Markers” and “Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization—From Theoretical, Fieldwork, Historical and Dialectal Perspectives”, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, October 28, 2023. (online)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2022). Can the constructions of different degrees of grammaticalization be placed on the same crosslinguistic implicational hierarchy? An investigation of the associated motion constructions in Kupsapiiny. Presented at the meeting of the Tokyo African Linguistics Research Group, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, November 23, 2022. (online)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2022). Descriptions of the grammars of East African languages to contribute to the speech communities and the development of the writing systems. Presented at the meeting for the project “A New Development in Descriptive Linguistic Studies of Africa Based on Multilingual Situations”, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, October 8, 2022. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2022). Nominalization in Sidaama and Kupsapiiny. Presented at the meeting for the project “Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization—From Theoretical, Fieldwork, Historical and Dialectal Perspectives”, TKP Tokyo Station Central Conference Center, March 23, 2022. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2021). Approach to cross-linguistic similarities and differences by means of experiments on causal relations: Issues of iconicity in language use and agentive encoding. Presented at the meeting for the Tokyo African Linguistics Research Group, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, May 21, 2021. (online; Japanese)

Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, Erika Bellingham, Andrea Ariño, Jing Milly Du, James Essegbey, Stephanie Evers, Saima Hafeez, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Pia Järnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Thomas Fuyin Li, Yu Li, Magalí López Cortez, Guillermo Montero-Melis, Tatiana Nikitina, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova. (2021). Causative at the syntax-semantics interface. Presented at the Semantic Typology Lab Meeting, Department of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo, March 29, 2021.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2020). Factors in the use of deictic verbs and verb suffixes in Kupsapiny: Territory and Deixis am Phantasma. Presented at the meeting for the project “A Crosslinguistic Study of the Parallelism of the Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Motion and Change of State”, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, December 12, 2020. (online; Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro (in collaboration with Erika Bellingham and Jürgen Bohnemeyer). (2020). Presented at the meeting for the project “A Crosslinguistic Study of the Parallelism of the Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Motion and Change of State”, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo, February 6, 2020.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2019). An overview of state-change expressions in Sidaama. Presented at the meeting for the project “A Crosslinguistic Study of the Parallelism of the Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Motion and Change of State”, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, June 7, 2019. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2019). An overview of state-change expressions in Kupsapiiny. Presented at the meeting for the project “A Crosslinguistic Study of the Parallelism of the Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Motion and Change of State” , Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, June 7, 2019. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Associated motion construction types. Presented at the meeting for the Tokyo African Linguistics Research Group, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, October 11, 2018.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (in collaboration with Erika Bellingham, Jürgen Bohnemeyer, and Sang-Hee Park). (2018). Constructions used to describe different types of causality: The cases of Korean and Kupsapiny. Presented at the meeting for the Tokyo African Linguistics Research Group, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, May 17, 2018.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Iconicity in usage: The case of causative event descriptions. Presented at the Linguistics Colloquium, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University, February 19, 2018.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). Spatial deixis expressions in Kupsapiiny: An analysis of video elicitation data. Presented at Prosody and Grammar Festa 2, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, February 18, 2018. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in English and Sidaama. Presented at the meeting for the Tokyo African Linguistics Research Group, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, September 27, 2017. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Ideophones in Sidaama. Presented at the meeting for the Tokyo African Linguistics Research Group, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, June 22, 2017. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). Head-marked and dependent-marked subordinate clause constructions. Presented at the meeting for the Tokyo African Linguistics Research Group, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, April 20, 2017. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2016). Report on the pilot study on Sidaama and Kupsapiiny 2. Presented at the meeting for the project “Why Linguistic Symbols Should and Should not be Arbitrary: An Integrative Account from Language Evolution, Acquisition, and Brain Functions”, Park Court Chiyoda Fujimi, the Tower, October 22, 2016. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2016). Report on the pilot study on Sidaama and Kupsapiiny 1. Presented at the meeting for the project “Why Linguistic Symbols Should and Should not be Arbitrary: An Integrative Account from Language Evolution, Acquisition, and Brain Functions”, Yamatocho, Nakano, August 29, 2016. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2016). Idiomatic expressions in Sidaama. Presented at the meeting for the project “Why Linguistic Symbols Should and Should not be Arbitrary: An Integrative Account from Language Evolution, Acquisition, and Brain Functions”, Tokyo office of Nagoya University, May 15, 2016. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Yuko Abe, Junko Komori, Osamu Hieda, Hiroshi Yoshino, Nobuko Yoneda, and Motomichi Wakasa. (2015). Outcome of the project “Event Integration Patterns in African Languages” and its future prospects. Presented at the meeting for the Aflang Research Group, Toyonaka Campus, Osaka University, December 5, 2015. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2015). Issues involving event integration in Kupsapiiny. Presented at the meeting for the Aflang Research Group, Toyonaka Campus, Osaka University, December 5, 2015. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2015). Information structure in Sidaama. African Linguistics Research Colloquium, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, November 3, 2015.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Motion expressions and constructions in Kupsapiiny. Presented at the meeting for the project “Event Integration Patterns in African Languages”, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, January 27, 2013. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2012). Issues involving motion expressions in Sidaama and Kupsapiny. Presented at Human Linguistics Circle, Rikkyo University, June 2, 2012. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2012). A report on my video experiment on motion expressions in Sidaama. Presented at the meeting for the project “A Typology of Motion Expressions and Japanese: A Cross-linguistic Empirical Studies of Motion Expressions”, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, February 27, 2012. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2012). Are so-called marked-nominative languages really marked nominative? The cases of Kupsapiny and Sidaama. Presented at the Workshop on the project “Crosslinguistic Studies on Case”, Reitaku University, January 28, 2012. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Conditionals in Kupsapiny. Presented at the meeting for the project “Information Structure in African Languages”, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, December 17, 2011. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Clause combining and insubordination in Kupsapiny, a Southern Nilotic language of Uganda. Presented at the International Workshop on Cross-linguistic Studies on Clause Combining, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, November 12, 2011.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). A report on my video experiment on motion expressions in Kupsapiny. Presented at the meeting for the project “A Typology of Motion Expressions and Japanese: A Cross-linguistic Empirical Studies of Motion Expressions”, University of Tokyo, November 11, 2011. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Transitivity in Sidaama and Kupsapiny. Presented at the meeting for the project “Transitivity”, Kyoto University, October 22, 2011. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). A preliminary analysis of my Sidaama motion-video data and a proposal for my Kupsapiny motion-video data collection. Presented at the meeting for the project “A Typology of Motion Expressions and Japanese: A Cross-linguistic Empirical Studies of Motion Expressions”, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo, Komaba, July 9, 2011. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Mermaid constructions in Sidaama. Presented at the meeting for the project “Adnominal Clauses and Noun-Concluding Constructions (Mermaid Constructions)”, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, April 23, 2011. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Deictic expressions in Kupsapiny. Presented at the meeting for the project “A Typology of Motion Expressions and Japanese: A Cross-linguistic Empirical Studies of Motion Expressions”, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, February 10, 2011. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Socio-linguistic background and grammatical structures of Sidaama. Presented at the Chikyuu Kotoba-Mura (Archives of the World Languages) meeting, Mita Campus, Keio University, January 22, 2011. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2010). Syntactic linkage and semantic relations in multi-verb constructions in Sidaama (Sidamo). Presented at the International Workshop on Cross-linguistic Studies on Clause Combining, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, October 30, 2010.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2010). An overview of clause linkage patterns in Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia. Presented at the First Meeting of the ILCAA Joint Research Project “Crosslinguistic Studies on Clause Combining”, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, May 23, 2010. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2010). Theoretical issues involving motion expressions in Sidaama (Sidamo). Presented at the Motion verb research project study group meeting, Kobe University, April 2–3, 2010. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2010). Theoretical issues involving Sidaama and Kupsapiny. Presented at the meeting for the project “Language Contact and Genealogical Inheritance”, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, March 20, 2010. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2009). Social and linguistic changes in the Sebei region of Uganda. Presented at the Faculty of Economics Workshop, Shiga University, December 4, 2009. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2009). Issues involving noun phrases in Sidaama. Presented at the meeting for the project “Language Contact and Genealogical Inheritance”, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, September 12, 2009. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2008). Issues involving motion expressions in Sidaama. Presented at the Motion verb research project study group meeting, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo, June 19, 2008. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2008). Path expressions in Sidaama. Presented at the Motion verb research project study group meeting, Kobe University, March 30, 2008. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2004). Middle voice in Sidaama. Presented at the Linguistics Colloquium, State University of New York at Buffalo, October 29, 2004.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2001). Practice effects on speech production planning: evidence from slips of the tongue in preplanned vs. spontaneous speech in Japanese. Presented at the Linguistics Colloquium, State University of New York at Buffalo, April 27, 2001.

INVITED LECTURES

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Erika Bellingham, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer. (2020). Agentive vs. non-agentive encoding in causative event descriptions in English and Japanese. Presented at the 13th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Kansai University, May 10, 2020.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2019). Noun phrase structure and nominalizations in Sidaama (Highland East Cushitic; Ethiopia) and Kupsapiny (Southern Nilotic; Uganda). Presented at the Osaka International Symposium on Nominalization, Toyonaka Campus, Osaka University, September 13, 2019.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2018). An experimental study on causative event descriptions across languages. Presented at the Linguistics Colloquium (public lecture), Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, February 26, 2018.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Erika Bellingham, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer. (2017). Different types of causality and clause linkage in English, Japanese, Sidaama, and Yucatec Maya. Presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Osaka University, September 16, 2017.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2017). My research. Presented at the Chikyuu Kotoba-Mura (Archives of the World Languages) meeting, Mita Campus, Keio University, January 22, 2017. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). African linguistic areas and Africa as a linguistic area. Presented at the symposium at the 146th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Ibaraki University, June 15, 2013. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2013). Why a Sidaama-Kupsapiiny linguist conducts research in cognitive linguistics. Presented at the meeting for the Japan Association for the French Language, International Christian University, June 1, 2013. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2012). Some of those properties that are considered peculiar to Japanese can also be found in Africa: The case of Sidaama. Presented at the NINJAL Forum Series 3: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics—5th NINJAL Forum (Japanese Seen from the World), Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, March 24, 2012. (Japanese)

Kawachi, Kazuhiro. (2011). Sociocultural background and grammatical properties of Sidaama. Presented at the Chikyuu Kotoba-Mura (Archives of the World Languages) meeting, Mita Campus, Keio University, January 22, 2011. (Japanese)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Keio University (Faculty of Business and Commerce; on sabbatical: April 2025 – present)

• Introduction to Linguistics — April 2021 – March 2025. (English)

• Topics in Cognitive Science — April 2021 – March 2025. (English)

• English Reading — April 2021 – March 2025. (English)

• English Communication — April 2021 – March 2025. (English)

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (School of Language and Culture Studies and School of Japan Studies)

• Topics in Linguistics — April 2019 – March 2022. (English)

• Japanese Linguistics — April 2019 – March 2022. (English)

• Introduction to Linguistics — October 2016 – March 2018. (English)

• Introduction to Linguistics — April 2016 – July 2016. (Japanese)

• Morphosyntactic and Semantic Typology — September 2014 – March 2022. (English)

University of Tokyo (Graduate School, Department of Linguistics, Hongo Campus)

• Special Lecture in Linguistics — October 2014 – March 2015. (Japanese)

National Defense Academy of Japan

• English (various levels) — October 2008 – March 2023. (English)

• Introduction to Psycholinguistics — April 2021 – March 2022. (Japanese)

• Introduction to Linguistics — April 2010 – March 2023. (English)

• English Linguistics — October 2008 – March 2010. (English)

Meiji Gakuin University

• English Communication — April 2008 – September 2008; April 2009 – March 2022. (Japanese)

State University of New York at Buffalo (Guest Lecture)

• LIN 581 Cognitive Foundations of Language (Professor Leonard Talmy; Fall 2002) — October 2002. (English)

High School Teaching

• English language skills (grammar, composition, pronunciation, conversation) — Senior high school students, Keio Shiki Boys’ Senior High School, April 1992 – July 1997. (English and Japanese)

• Introduction to Linguistics — Senior high school students, Keio Shiki Boys’ Senior High School, April 1996 – March 1997. (Japanese)

• Japanese language skills (grammar, composition, pronunciation, conversation) — for high school students from the Philippines and the United States, Keio Shiki Boys’ Senior High School, April 1994 – July 1997. (English)

• Japanese language skills (grammar, composition, pronunciation, conversation) — for high school students from the United States (Punahou School and Westminster High School), Keio Boys’ Senior High School and Keio Girls’ Senior High School, June 1990 – July 1990; June 1991 – August 1991. (English)

REVIEW ACTIVITIES

• Asian and African Lexicon (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

• Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Typology (De Gruyter Mouton)

• Gengo Kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan)

• Journal of Asian and African Studies (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

• Journal of Cognitive Linguistics (Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association)

• Kervan: Journal of African and Asian languages and literatures (Università di Torino)

• Linguistic Discovery (Dartmouth University)

• Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences (De Gruyter Mouton)

• Linguistique et Langues Africaines (LLACAN)

• Nilo-Ethiopian Studies (Japan Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies)

• Proceedings of the World Congress of African Linguistics

• Studies in African Linguistics (University of Florida Press)

• Studies in Language (John Benjamins)

• Studies in Language Sciences (Japanese Society for Language Sciences)

• Book chapters published by Language Science Press

• Book chapters published by De Gruyter Mouton

• Book chapters published by John Benjamins

ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Conference and Symposium Leadership

• Chair of the Afternoon Session, NAMED 2022 (Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description 2022: Deixis and Other Topics in Motion-Event Description), November 4, 2022.

• Chair, Meeting of the Tokyo African Linguistics Research Group, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, July 22, 2021, September 24, 2021.

• Chair of the Forum: “New directions in African language studies”, 57th Japan Association for African Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, May 23, 2020. (Japanese)

• Chair of the Theme Session: “Causation in discourse and cognition: Crosslinguistic perspectives” (with Anja Latrouite and Jürgen Bohnemeyer), 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kansai Gakuin University, August 9–10, 2019.

• Chair of the Morning Session (Motion Session), 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kansai Gakuin University, August 8, 2019.

• Chair of the Morning Session, 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Vienna, May 30, 2019.

• Chair of Research Group Meeting with Leonard Talmy, March 21, 2019.

• Chair of the Morning Session, 14th Biannual International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, August 8, 2017.

• Chair of the Theme Session: “Event Integration Patterns in African Languages”, 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, August 24, 2015.

• Chair of the Opening Ceremony, 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, August 21, 2015.

• Chair of the Symposium, International Symposium on Information Structure in Africa, with an International Workshop on Nilotic Linguistics, Kyoto University. October 4–5, 2014.

• Session chair, Meetings of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 145th meeting (November 24, 2012); 147th meeting (November 23, 2013); 148th meeting (June 7, 2014); 149th meeting (November 15, 2014); 150th meeting (June 20, 2015); 155th meeting (November 25, 2017).

• Chair of the Symposium, International Symposium on Nilotic Linguistics, “Challenges in Nilotic Linguistics”, Kyoto University, December 3–4, 2011.

• Chair of the Theme Session: “Typology of Motion Descriptions in Broader Perspectives: Going beyond Motion to Caused Motion and Vision” with Yo Matsumoto, 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Xi’an International Studies University, July 13–14, 2011.

Organizing Committees and Administrative Roles in Conferences

• Committee Member, NAMED 2022 (Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description 2022: Deixis and Other Topics in Motion-Event Description), June–July 2022.

• Organizing committee member, 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, May 2014 – August 2015.

• Organizing committee member and abstract reviewer, The Linguistic Society of Japan, July 2012 – June 2015.

Reviewing and Refereeing for Conferences and Awards

• Reviewer, Grants‐in‐aid for Scientific Research (English Linguistics), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Academic years 2016–2017 and 2017–2018.

• Abstract reviewer, Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference, April 2016 – July 2017.

• Referee, Best Presenter Award, Meetings of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 143rd meeting (November 26, 2011); 145th meeting (November 24, 2012); 148th meeting (June 7, 2014); 149th meeting (November 15, 2014); 150th meeting (June 23, 2018); 155th meeting (November 16, 2019).

Academic and Institutional Service

• Member, Board of Directors, The Linguistic Society of Japan, April 2015 – March 2023.

• Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member, University of Tsukuba, April 2015 – March 2016.

• Volunteer for colloquia, Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, January 2001 – May 2002.

• Member of the Executive Council, Department of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Fall 1999 – Spring 2001.

• Senator, Cognitive Science Graduate Student Association, State University of New York at Buffalo, Fall 1999 – Spring 2001.

• Chair of the Foreign Languages Department, Keio Shiki Boys’ Senior High School, April 1993 – March 1994.

• Member of the Board of Directors, Exchange Program for Keio High Schools, October 1992 – February 2000.

Lecture and Seminar Organization and Invited Academic Roles

• Organizer of lecture by Christine Lamarre, Hiyoshi Campus, Keio University, June 28, 2024.

• Organizer of lecture by Masayoshi Shibatani, Mita Campus, Keio University, July 16, 2023.

• Discussant (with Masayoshi Shibatani and Scott DeLancy), Osaka International Workshop on Nominalization, September 13–14, 2019.

• Chair of lecture by Monica Kahumburu, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics and the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, January 29, 2019.