Fumio INOUE　Japanese | English

A curriculum vitae of Fumio Inoue Born in May 17, 1942 in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. 1966 Graduated from Faculty of Letters, Tokyo University. 1968 Master of Arts, Graduate course of linguistics, Tokyo University. 1971 Got enough units for a condidate to doctor's degree 1971 to 1974 Assistant of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, Tokyo University 1974 to 1977 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, Hokkaido University 1977 to 1986 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 1986 to 2005 Professor, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 2005 to 2013 Professor, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Meikai University 2012 to present Invited Professor, Department of Language Change and Variation, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Major in Sociolinguistics, Dialectology. Awarded "Kindaichi Kyosuke Prize" in 1986 for the study of "new dialect".

English Papers

Some papers are available as PDF files.

English Papers on Sociolinguistics and Computational Dialectology --- anguage Market, New Dialect and Dialect Image --- (Sanseido Word-Wise Web)

Main Publications (in Japanese) :

"A Sociolinguistic Study of <<New Dialect>> and <<Language Deterioration>>" (1983)
"Neologisms in Japanese: Materials" (with Tsunao Ogino) (1984)
"The Changing Japanese Language --- Distribution and Change of <<New Dialect Forms>> ---" (Meiji Shoin, 1985)
"Age-Area Distribution of the Kanto and Tohoku Dialects (SF Glottograms)" (1985)
"New Landscape of Language Use (Honorifics and Dialect)" (Akiyama Syoten,1989)
"Dialect Dictionary of Saitama Prefecture" (editing) (Ofusha) (1989)
"Nihongo Watching" (Iwanami Shinsho) (1998)