Natsuko Tsujimura « Faculty
Professor and Department Chair, EALC
Adjunct Professor, Linguistics
tsujimur 
indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 316
(812) 855-5884
Education
- PhD in Linguistics, University of Arizona
Research Interests
- Japanese Linguistics
- Theoretical Linguistics
- Lexical semantics
- First and Second language acquisition
- Language pedagogy
Courses Recently Taught
- First-, Second-, and Fourth-Year Japanese
- EALC J421/J520 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
- EALC E505 Linguistic Issues in Translation
- LING L490/L590 Structure of Japanese
- LING L546 Semantics
- LING L700 Seminar on Lexical Semantics and Argument Structure
Awards and Distinctions
- Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies and the U.S. Friendship Commission, 2004
- Japan Foundation, Short-Term Fellowship Program, 2007-08, 2009-2010
Publication Highlights
- An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, Third Edition, Wiley-Blackwell (to appear)
- “Toward a Taxonomy of Loanword Prosody” (with Stuart Davis and Jung-yueh Tu) in Catalan Journal of Linguistics 11, 13–39 (2012)
- “A Construction Approach to Innovative Verbs in Japanese” (with Stuart Davis) in Cognitive Linguistics 22.4, 797–823 (2011)
- “The Manifestation of Intrasentential Code-Switching in Japanese Hip Hop” (with Stuart Davis) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19 (2011)
- “A Construction-Based Approach to Phrasal Adjuncts in Japanese” in Language Research 45, 111–129 (2009)
- “Dragon Ash and the Reinterpretation of Hip Hop: On the notion of rhyme in Japanese Hip Hop” (with Stuart Davis) in H. Samy Alim, Awad Ibrahim, and Alastair Pennycook (eds.) Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language, 179-193, Routledge (2009)
- “Linguistic Research and Language Teaching” in Language and Linguistics Compass (2008)
- An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, Second Edition, Blackwell. 501pp (2007)
- Japanese Linguistics: Critical Concepts, Volumes III: Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Language Contact (ed.) Routledge Library of Modern Japan, Routledge. (2005)
- Japanese Linguistics:Critical Concepts, Volumes II: Syntax and Semantics (ed.) Routledge Library of Modern Japan, Routledge (2005)
- Japanese Linguistics:Critical Concepts, Volumes I: Phonology and Morphology (ed.) Routledge Library of Modern Japan, Routledge (2005)
- The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics (ed.) Basil Blackwell. 543pp (1999)
My research area is lexical semantics and Japanese linguistics in general. I have been investigating theoretical issues of verb meaning including the internal structure of verb meaning and children's acquisition of it. I have worked on a wide range of topics in Japanese linguistics. I am review editor of Language.
