2011 Hertford College Magazine (Issue 91)
2011 Hertford College Magazine (Issue 91)
2011 Hertford College Magazine (Issue 91)
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“ It is easy for us who live and<br />
work here to take Oxford and<br />
<strong>Hertford</strong> for granted and to forget<br />
what a splendid place it is ”<br />
Crossing continents: the Universities of Kobe, top,<br />
and Kyoto, bottom, and the Taylorian, middle.<br />
Photos: Creative Commons<br />
HERTFORD COLLEGE MAGAZINE<br />
<strong>Hertford</strong> year: Subjects and research<br />
‘On the research front, I was fortunately<br />
also able to devote some time to<br />
the large AHCR funded project on premodern<br />
syntax which I am directing. The<br />
project is going well (anyone who is interested<br />
can visit the project website at http://<br />
vsarpj.orinst.ox.ac.uk/). In 2010 we published<br />
some early results in an article in<br />
the Japanese journal Gengo Kenkyū (Language<br />
Study) entitled “Verb Semantics<br />
and Argument Realization in Pre-Modern<br />
Japanese: A Preliminary study of Compound<br />
Verbs in Old Japanese”, and we<br />
also published an online corpus of 8th century<br />
Japanese texts. Unrelated to that project,<br />
I published an article together with<br />
my colleague from Cornell University,<br />
John Whitman, on “Prenominal Complementizers<br />
and the Derivation of Complex<br />
NPs in Japanese and Korean”. I was<br />
also invited to sit on the editorial boards<br />
of two new book series: Conceptual History<br />
and Chinese Linguistics and Brill’s<br />
Studies in Historical Linguistics.<br />
‘I visited Japan for about a month in the<br />
spring of <strong>2011</strong>. During my visit I gave invited<br />
lectures at Kyoto University, Osaka<br />
University and Kobe University (on reconstruction<br />
of pre-Old Japanese morphology),<br />
and worked with colleagues in Japan.<br />
However, my visit took place shortly<br />
after the devastating earthquake and tsunami<br />
which hit northern Japan and killed<br />
more than twenty thousand people and destroyed<br />
the homes of several hundred thousand<br />
others, and the academic side of my<br />
stay in Japan was somewhat overshadowed<br />
by those events and the enormous psychological<br />
effect the disaster had, and continues<br />
to have, throughout Japan, also in those<br />
areas which were not physically affected.<br />
Our students who were out in Japan at the<br />
time are thankfully all well and safe’.<br />
67.
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