Staff Profiles

Modules taught

JPNS4001: Japanese for Beginners (Module Leader)

JPNS4002: Japanese Reading and Writing 1 (Module Leader)

JPNS5001: Japanese Reading and Writing 2 (Module Leader)

JPNS5005: Tandem Language Learning (Module Leader)

JPNS5010: Academic Studies in Japan (Module Leader)

JPNS6002: Advanced Japanese Reading and Translation (Module Leader)

JPNS6005: Japanese 4B

Research projects

"Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese", University of Oxford, 1 January 2009 - present. http://vsarpj.orinst.ox.ac.uk/corpus/

"A Diachronic Contrastive Study of Japanese Interrogatives", National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 2013-2015. https://www.ninjal.ac.jp/english/research/project/a/dji/

"The Japanese Lexicon: A Rendaku Encyclopedia", National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 2011-2014. http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/english/research/project/a/sequentialvoicing/

"Verb semantics and argument realization in pre-modern Japanese", University of Oxford, 1 January 2009 - 20 June 2014. http://vsarpj.orinst.ox.ac.uk/

Further information

The Rendaku Database http://www-h.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~irwin/site/Rendaku_Database.html with Mark Irwin and Mizuki Miyashita. 

Journal articles

• Russell KL, Horn SW, 'Verb semantics and argument realization in pre-modern Japanese: A corpus based study.'
  Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal 25 (2012) pp.129-148
  ISSN: 1017-7132
  
• Horn SW, Russell KL, 'Null pronouns in selected subordinate clauses in Old Japanese'
  Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics 44 (2) (2012) pp.207-226
  ISSN: 0374-0463
  Abstract

  Using data from the Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese, we examine null pronouns in Old Japanese, focusing on their distribution in Provisional, Conditional, and Concessive clauses. We demonstrate that the three clause types are subordinated within their larger syntactic context. Next, we investigate the ratios of occurrence of null pronouns in these clauses. We show that Provisional clauses are less likely to contain null pronouns than Conditional and Concessive clauses, and note other differences between the three clause types. We consider which aspects of clause-internal and -external properties might be responsible for these differences and reject the notion that Old Japanese has a grammaticized switch-reference system involving these inflections.

  Website 
• Frellesvig B, Horn SW, Russell KL, Sells P, 'Verb Semantics and Argument Realization in Pre-Modern Japanese: A Preliminary Study of Compound Verbs in Old Japanese'
  Gengo Kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan) 138 (2010) pp.25-65
  ISSN: 0024-3914
  Abstract

  Th is paper introduces the collaborative corpus-based research project Verb semantics and argument realization in pre-modern Japanese. As part of the project, we are developing a corpus of pre-modern Japanese texts which is encoded with grammatical, and in particular syntactic, information and we here present two pilot studies based on the corpus, concerning verb-verb (V1-V2) compounds in Old Japanese (8th century). We fi rst focus on V2s, with a view to understanding what properties are characteristic of the loosely defi ned class of ‘auxiliary verbs’ (hojodōshi 補助動詞). We apply a number of tests to compounds, including for lexical integrity and transitivity harmony, and thereby identify a number of V2s that can take part in ‘non-lexical compounds’ (compounds relatively unconstrained by the semantics of their component verbs), as well as some distributional and combinatory patterns typical of non-lexical compounds. Second, we examine a single high-frequency verb, omop- ‘think, feel’, in order to examine its argument-taking properties when used as a predicate alone and when used as a V1 in a compound. We identify interesting diff erences, in particular fi nding that omop-V2 compounds are less likely to take clausal complements than when omop- is used as a predicate on its own.

  Website 

Book chapters

• Maruyama, T, Horn SW, Russell, KL, and Frellesvig, B., 'On the Multiple Clause Linkage Structure of Japanese: A Corpus-based Study' in Nobuo Kazashi and Marcella Mariotti (ed.), New Steps in Japanese Studies: Kobe University Joint Research (Ca' Foscari Japanese Studies 5)., Edizioni Ca' Foscari (2017)
  ISBN: 9788869691539 eISBN: 9788869691522
  Abstract In this paper, we will describe the distribution of the multiple clause linkage structure within actual spoken and written Japanese. We will examine three Japanese corpora: BCCWJ, CSJ and OCOJ. By identifying distributions of multiple clause linkage structures in corpora of contemporary Japanese (BCCWJ and CSJ), we shed light on what kinds of settings give rise to what type of clause linkage structures through what processes. The dynamic rewriting rule proposed by Kondo (2005) is introduced as a model for the incremental production of multiple clause linkage structures. Some common patterns of such structures occurring in Old Japanese are identified by OCOJ and compared to patterns in BCCWJ and CSJ.Website 
• Russell KL, '上代東国語の移動動詞について ― コーパスによる研 究― = Motion verbs in Eastern Old Japanese: A corpus based study' in Takubo, Yukinori, John Whitman, and Hirako Tatsuya (ed.), 琉球諸語と古代日本語 : 日琉祖語の再建にむけて = Ryukyuan and premodern Japanese: Toward the reconstruction of proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan, くろしお出版, Kuroshioshuppan (2016)
  ISBN: 9784874246924
  
• Horn SW and Russell KL, 'The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese' in Kondo, Yasuhiro, Makiro Tanaka, and Toshinobu Ogiso (ed.), 「コーパスと日本語史研究」 Corpus-Based Historical Studies in Japanese, ひつじ書房 Hituzi Syobo Publishing, Tokyo (2015)
  ISBN: 9784894767515
  
• Russell KL, 'Contraction and Monophthongization in Old Japanese' in Toshiki O, Vovin A (ed.), Nihongo keitōron no genzai/Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese Language, Nichibunken (2003)
  

Conference papers

• Russell KL, Sells P, 'The syntax of mood constructions in Old Japanese: A corpus based study'
  (2015)
  ISBN: 9789027248534
  Website 
• Frellesvig B, Horn SW, Russell KL, Sells P, 'Provisional and Conditional Clauses in Old Japanese'
  (2013)
  
• Frellesvig B, Horn SW, Russell KL, Sells P, 'Provisional and Conditional Clauses in Old Japanese'
  67 (2013) pp.65-78
  Website 
• Russell KL, 'Noun incorporation in Old Japanese (上代日本語における名詞抱合について)". 通時コーパスと日本語史研究'
  (2012) pp.51-52
  

Other publications

• Irwin M, Miyashita M, Russell KL, 'The Rendaku Database v3.1'
  A regualarly updated database on morphophonemic sound changes which happen in word compounding in Japanese. (2017) Website 
• Irwin M, Miyashita M, Russell KL, 'The Rendaku Database v3.0'
  A database on morphophonemic sound changes which happen in word compounding in Japanese.  (2016) Website 
• Russell KL, 'From Text to Tech: Corpus and computational linguistics for powerful historical text processing'
  (2015)
• Russell KL, '"Shakespearean Hackfest" at HiCor: a Cross-Disciplinary Network for History and Corpus Linguistics'
  (2014)
• Russell KL, You Z, 'The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese Lexicon'
  (2014) Website 
• Russell KL, Sells P, 'The syntax of mood constructions in OJ'
  (2014)
• Frellesvig B, Horn SW, Russell KL, Sells P, 'Null pronouns in certain clause types in OJ'
  (2014) Website 
• Russell KL, Sells P, 'The syntax of mood constructions in Old Japanese: A corpus based study'
  (2014) Website 
• Russell KL, Whitman J, Yanagida Y, 'Was Old Japanese a polysynthetic language?'
  (2014) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Digital Humanities in Oriental Studies'
  (2014) Website 
• Russell KL, Sells P, 'The syntax of mood constructions in Old Japanese: A corpus based study'
  (2013) Website 
• Russell KL, 'The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese'
  (2013) Website 
• Frellesvig B, Horn SW, Russell KL, 'The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese'
  (2013) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Motion verbs in Eastern Old Japanese: A corpus based study'
  (2013) Website 
• Horn SW, Russell KL, 'Null Pronouns in Old Japanese: A study of Concessive, Conditional, and Provisional clauses'
  (2013) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Lexical Representation of Argument Realization Patterns in Pre-modern Japanese: An IPS Research Project'
  (2012) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Demonstration of the Oxford corpus of Old Japanese (オックスフォード上代日本語コーパスのデモンストレーション)'
  (2012) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Noun incorporation in Old Japanese (上代日本語における名詞抱合について)'
  (2012) Website 
• Frellesvig B, Horn SW, Russell KL, 'Provisional and Conditional Clauses in Old Japanese'
  (2012) Website 
• Horn SW, Russell KL, 'AHRC: 'Verb semantics and argument realization in pre-modern Japanese' and the Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese'
  (2011) Website 
• Frellesvig B, Horn SW, Russell KL, You Z, 'Panel: Corpus based studies of Japanese grammar'
  (2011) Website 
• Horn SW, Russell KL, 'Semantic roles and case marking in Old Japanese'
  (2011) Website 
• Frellesvig B, Horn SW, Russell KL, 'Null Arguments in Pre-modern Japanese'
  (2011) Website 
• Russell KL, '通時辞書の構築について (Constructing a diachronic dictionary)'
  (2011) Website 
• Russell KL, '通時コーパスで使用する辞書の構築について (Constructing a dictionary for use with a diachronic corpus)'
  (2011) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Pre-Modern Japanese Syntax: A Corpus Based Study'
  (2010) Website 
• Horn SW, Russell KL, Frellesvig B, 'Verb semantics & argument realization in premodern Japanese: A preliminary study of verbal compounds'
  (2010) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Argument structure in Old Japanese: A corpus based study'
  (2010) Website 
• Frellesvig B, Horn SW, Russell KL, Sells P, 'Introducing the project 'Verb Semantics and Argument Realization in Pre-Modern Japanese''
  (2010) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Verbal Semantics and Argument Realization in Pre-modern Japanese: An Introduction'
  (2010) Website 
• Russell KL, 'A Brief Overview of Ryukyuan Morphophonemics'
  (2010) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-Japonic'
  (2009) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Verbal Semantics and Argument Realization in Pre-modern Japanese: A Corpus Based Study'
  (2009) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Contraction and Monophthongization in Eastern Old Japanese'
  (2009) Website 
• Russell KL, 'The WOJ/EOJ Vowel Correspondences'
  (2008) Website 
• Russell KL, 'Vowel Assimilation in Western Old Japanese Derivational Morphology'
  (2005)
• Vovin A, Russell KL, 'An Introduction to the State of the Art in the Field of Koreo-Japonic Linguistics'
  (2005) Abstract

  Opening remarks for the “Workshop Language Reconstruction and Relations in North-East Asia” at the XVIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics
  

• Vovin A, Russell KL, 'How the Field Must Change'
  (2005) Abstract

  Closing remarks for the “Workshop Language Reconstruction and Relations in North-East Asia”
  

• Russell KL, 'Web Resources And Ideas For Teaching The Four Skill Areas'
  (2002)
• Russell KL, '便利なウェッブサイトの紹介 (An Introduction to Convenient Web Sites)'
  (2001)
• Frellesvig, B, Horn SW, Russell KL, Sells P, 'The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese'
  Digitized corpus of all texts recorded in Old Japanese, the language of 8th century Japan. Texts are romanized and annotated with linguistic data, including morphology and syntax. Published online and updated regularly 2011-2018 (ongoing).  Online at: http://vsarpj.orinst.ox.ac.uk/corpus/corpus.html () Website 

Further information

A day in the language of 8th century Japan: Just another DAY OF DH 2015 Sites site http://dayofdh2015.uned.es/myocojday/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerri-russell-60b0353/