Today's episode is with Michinori Shimoji, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Kyushu University in Japan. He has a PhD from the Australian National University (ANU). He has published extensively on fieldwork-based descriptions of Ryukyuan languages, particularly Irabu Miyako, which is his father's native language. His research focuses on empirical and inductive generalizations of linguistic systems and structures, with a particular emphasis on typological generalizations. With Patrick Heinrich and Shinsho Miyara, he is the editor of the Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages History, Structure, and Use (2015). He is also the editor of An Introduction to Ryukyuan Languages (2011), along with Thomas Pellard.
Things mentioned in this episode:
Ep 10: Fieldwork Q&A with Vera Ferreira & Hugo Cardoso (Part 2)
Ep 9: Fieldwork Q&A with Vera Ferreira & Hugo Cardoso (Part 1)
Ep 8: Lauren Gawne on Funding Fieldwork
Ep 7: Community Collaboration for Language Documentation in the Tanzanian Rift Valley with Andrew Harvey
Ep 6: Madoka Hammine on Insider Research in the Ryukyus
Ep 5: Khairunnisa on Insider Researcher Language Documentation on Sasak
Ep 4: Hugo Cardoso on Researching Creoles in Sri Lanka & India
Ep 3: Lyle Campbell on Language Documentation in the Americas
Ep 2: Vera Ferreira on Linguistic Fieldwork in Europe
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