Hiroto Uchihara

• I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics at University at Buffalo, State University of New York, since 2008.
• I'm also an instructor for Japanese 101 and 102 and Linguistics at University at Buffalo.

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Areas:
• Phonology (suprasegmental phonology, mora and syllable, abstractness, morphologically conditioned phonological alternations)
• Morphology (templatic and hierarchical structure, discontinuous dependencies, rule and analogy, word formation)
• Historical linguistics (historical phonology & morphology)
• Polysynthesis (noun incorporation)
• Non-configurationality
• Grammatical relations (subjecthood, voice, ergativity, active/agentive system)
• Word class typology
• Semantic typology (spatial and temporal semantics, lexicalization patterns)
• Language description and documentation
• Languages:
• Native American languages (esp. Cherokee, Iroquoian, Valley Zapotec)
• Caucasian languages (esp. Georgian)
• Japanese

Education

• Ph.D. in Linguistics, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, in progress.
• M.A. in Linguistics, the University of Tokyo, 2007.
• B.A. in Language and Culture, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2004.

Publications

1. 2014. Noun Incorporation in Cherokee Revisited. International Journal of American Linguistics (in print).
2. 2009. High Tone in Oklahoma Cherokee. International Journal of American Linguistics, 75.3: 317-336. link
3. 2007b. Laryngeal Alternation, Laryngeal Metathesis and Aspirated Consonants in Oklahoma Cherokee. Tokyo University Linguistic Papers 26, 49-72. pdf
4. 2007a. Cherokee Phonology and Verb Morphology. Unpublished Master's thesis, Department of Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo. Contents

Papers Presented

1. 2013. Valley Zapotec diphthongs (with Dr. Gabriela Perez Baez). Work-in-Progress Workshop, University at Buffalo, NY. April 12.
2. 2011. Floating high tone in Oklahoma Cherokee. The CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. June 16.
3. 2011. Noun Incorporation in Cherokee Revisited. Morphology Workshop. The University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. April 1.
4. 2010. Tonal patterns on underived disyllabic nouns in Cherokee. 3rd Annual Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Languages. Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK. April 17-18. pdf
5. 2008. Katsukaku-gata gengo ni okeru shugosei - Cherokee-go no jirei kara [Subjecthood in a language with active marking system - a case study in Cherokee] (in Japanese). Tokyo daigaku gengogaku kenkyuu happyoukai 6. University of Tokyo, Tokyo. June 27. pdf
6. 2007. Lexical High Tone in Oklahoma Cherokee. Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 10. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. May 11-12.

Current Projects

• Description of Cherokee phonology and morphology
• Typological properties of the Cherokee suprasegmental system
• Cherokee accents and extrametricality
• Morphosyntactic functions of Cherokee accents
• Hierarchical structure of verbs in Cherokee
• Discontinuous dependencies in Cherokee
• Cherokee aspectual suffixes and inflectional class
• High tone spreading in Oklahoma Cherokee
• VOT analysis of Cherokee plosives (with Professor Tsan Huang)
• Morphosyntactic voice operation in Cherokee

• Valley Zapotec phonology (with Dr. Gabriela Perez-Baez)
• Valley Zapotec diphthongs
• Valley Zapotec glides
• Functions of tones in Valley Zapotec
• Phonology of Valley Zapotec phonations and tones

• Typological studies of the languages of the Americas
• Typology of clothing verbs
• Interaction of theme specific verbs and noun incorporation in the languages of the Americas

Selected Term Papers

1. Spring 2010. Pronominals in Edo. Final Paper for Field Methods II (LIN528, Professor Jeff Good)
2. Spring 2010. Japanese Verb Inflection. Final Paper for Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (JPN511, Professor Mitsuaki Shimojo)
3. Fall 2009. Valency and Grammatical Functions in Cherokee. Final Paper for Argument Structure (LIN 622, Professor Jean-Pierre Koenig)
4. Spring 2009. Cut and Break Verbs in Russian. Final Paper for Semantic Typology (LIN623, Professor Juergen Bohnemeyer)
5. Fall 2008. Phonetics of Latvian. Final Paper for Phonetics (LIN531, Professor Tsan Huang)

Contact

• 448 Baldy Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
• TEL: (716)-645-0111
• e-mail: uchihara at buffalo dot edu
• Office Hour: T 11:00-12:00, Th 11:00-12:00

link

• Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo
• Japanese Program, University at Buffalo
• Department of Linguistics, University of Tokyo