Kensei Sugayama

(also known as Ken Sugayama)

Professor of English Linguistics

Department of English Linguistics

Kyoto Prefectural University

Kyoto 606-8522, Japan

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Me

I was born in Takada, Niigata-ken in 1952. Went to Niigata Univ. Attached Junior High School, Takada and Takada High School.

I am an 'emeritus' professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English and American Studies at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, where I studied and worked from 1975 to 2006.

Currently I am a Professor of English Linguistics in the School of Letters at Kyoto Prefectural University.

I have a BA in English Language and MA in English Linguistics, both from KCUFS.

My tutor and supervisor at KCUFS was the late Professor Tomoshichi Konishi, who was one of the greatest English grammarians of recent times in Japan and was best known for his work on Genius English-Japanese Dictionaries and Kenkyusha’s Lexical Grammar Series.

I stayed several years in London to do my postgraduate work at School of Oriental and African Studies (1978-79, Dept of Phonetics & Linguistics) under Professor R.H. Robins and at University College London (1985-86, 1990-91, Dept of Phonetics & Linguistics) under Professors Neil V. Smith and Dick Hudson.

I did a PhD course in (English) Linguistics in Osaka City University and at University College London supervised by Professor M. Ohnuma and Professor Dick Hudson respectively. My research has been in the framework of Dick Hudson’s Word Grammar.

I spent a year as a Visiting Scholar in the Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics in the University of Manchester from 1996 to 1997.

I was Visiting Professor of Linguistics in the Dept of Humanities, Michigan Technological University, Houghton MI, USA in Aug and Sept. 2010.

Research Interests ■Kobe Linguistics Club (KLC)　NEW

CV ■ELSJ Int’l Spring Forum Details

Main Publications

ELSJ Int’l Spring Forum 2009: My team and I will appear again on the resultative construction. NEW

Recent Talks　　　　　 ■Reading Group

Teaching New

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I was invited jointly by the the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary to give two talks on New Word Grammar at the Academy and the University on 20th and 22nd March 2012.

I will read a paper at the 18th International ■Story-telling performance in Kyoto

Congress of Linguists (CIL18) to be held in Seoul ■Details in Japanese/English　Aug 2008

From 20 to 26 July.

■ I will speak at ISLE 2008 in Freiburg in October. ■JSPS-funded researches etc.

■ Yan Huang’s Talk in November (2008)

■ I will speak at ICLCE3 to be held at Institute of English Studies, University of London, in July. New

LSJ 139th Autumnal AGM 2009: My team and I will appear in a workshop on New Word Grammar on Sunday 29th Nov. NEW

My talk at the international forum entitled ‘A New Perspective on Grammar of the English Language for Communicative Language Teaching’ with Geoff Pullum as a key-note speaker in Osaka on 20th Feb 2010. Slides. New.

I will speak again at the third ELSJ Int’l Spring Forum 2010 in April in Tokyo. Abstracts. New.

I will give a talk on NWG at the Seoul International Conference on Linguistics 2010 in June. Abstracts. New.

My team and I will organise a symposium on articles and determiners at the AGM of Society for English Grammar and Usage in October 2010. New.

I will organise a workshop on NWG at the AGM of ELSJ in Tokyo in November 2010. The speakers include Dick Hudson, And Rosta, Nik Gisborne, Takafumi Maekawa, Taiki Yoshimura, Mitsukazu Nakanishi and myself. New.　Details. New.

I will chair the session and speak again at the fourth ELSJ Int’l Spring Forum 2011 in April in Shizuoka. Abstracts. New.

n I spoke at ICLCE4, which was held in Osnabrück, Germany in July 2011.

n I gave a talk at International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2011) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Campus de la Comunicació, Barcelona, Spain, 5-7 Sptember 2011. New

n I’ll give a talk on the be-to construction in English at the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORDS: Lexical Meaning, Combinatorial Potential and Computational Implementation to be held at University of Murcia in Spain on 1-2 December 2011.

n Kyoto Working Papers in English and General Linguistics No. 1 has been published. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. ISBN: 978-4-7589-2153-4 New

Order your copy now from Kaitakusha

n I read a paper on object omission in English at the 8th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ENGLISH GRAMMAR to be held in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 12-14 January 2012.

● my co-edited book with Dick Hudson published by

Continuum, London.

● For the details, go to this site as well.

● Now available in paperback: go to the sites

below: Amazon.UK, Amazon.JP

Word Grammar: New Perspectives on

a Theory of Language Structure

My recent books:

The Scope of Modern Linguistics edited and written by me (2000, Tokyo: Eihosha)

『変容する英語』（2005,　京都：世界思想社）

『ことばの意味から文の姿を探る』

（2002,　東京：英宝社）

n Miscellaneous Links

· Word Grammar

· LAGB

· ISLE

· LSA

· Construction Grammar

· Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)

· Cognitive Grammar

· Functional Grammar (by Simon Dik)

· Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

· Lexical Functional Grammar

· Role and Reference Grammar

· Systemic-Functional Linguistics

n Fellow Researchers

· Dick Hudson (UCL)

· And Rosta (Univ. of Central Lancashire)

· Nikolas Gisborne (Univ. of Edinburgh)

· Jasper Holmes (Coventry Univ.)

· So Hiranuma (Language Centre, UCL)

· Eva Eppler (Roehampton Univ., London)

· Taiki Yoshimura (RIWL, Osaka Univ.)

· Yoko Iyeiri (Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto Univ.)

· Hiroyuki Takagi (Kinki Univ.)

· Michiko Yaguchi (Setsunan Univ.)

· Kairi Igarashi (Ryukoku Univ., Kyoto)

· Takafumi Maekawa (Hokusei-gakuen Univ. Junior College)

· Makoto Sumiyoshi (Setsunan Univ.)

· Tom Watanabe (Takushoku Univ.)

· Takahiro Teranishi (Doshisha Univ.)

· Yang Demin (Dalian Neusoft Institute of Information, China)

· Daisuke Suzuki (JSPS Research Fellow, PhD Student, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto Univ.)　

· Ayako Miyashita (Kyoto Seika University)

· Yasunori Nishina (Ritsumeikan University) New

n PhDs Supervised

· Yang Demin (Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies, completed 2009)

Comitative Expressions in Chinese and English: An Inquiry into the Relational Nature of

Case ‘Comitative’

· Ono, Kyoko (Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies, completed 2009)

Toward an Integrated Theory of Adjectival Past Participle

n External Examiner of PhDs

n Yoshikawa, Yusuke (Kyoto Univ. of Foreign Studies, completed 2011)

Compositionality of Constructions: A Lexical Semantic Approach to a Family of Argument Structure Constructions in English New

n PhD Coursework Supervised

· Yaguchi, Michiko (Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies, completed 2001)

PhD Research on Adverbs and Conjunctions

· Yoshimura, Taiki (Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies, completed 2006)

PhD Research on Word Grammar

· Nishina, Yasunori (Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies, transferred to University of Birmingham and completed 2010)

PhD Research on Lexical Semantics

· Miyashita, Ayako (Kyoto Prefectural University, completed 2009)

PhD Research on Construction Grammar

· Matsumoto, Toyoko (jointly with Prof. Shiro Wada, Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies, completed 2010)

PhD Research on the Construction in English

· Shin-ike, Kuniko (Kyoto Prefectural University, completed 2012)

Research topic: Covert arguments in English New