Welcome to Yoko Iyeiri’s Homepage
Welcome to my personal website. I am a researcher specializing in the history of the English language, with a particular focus on syntactic development of English, orthographic variation, and corpus-based approaches. This site provides access to my publications, project descriptions, and current academic activities.
Yoko Iyeiri’s research
News
- Newly published — Uchida, Mitsumi & Yoko Iyeiri. 2025. “BE vs. HAVE in the perfect of mutative intransitive verbs: A study on the Middle English translation of Paris and Vienne“. Kwansei Gakuin University School of Sociology Journal 144: 17-29.
- Newly published — The following article has been published. Hundt, Marianne and Yoko Iyeiri. 2025. “Tracing the development of the perfect alternation in Early Modern English”. Diachronica 42(1): 47-81.
- An inaugural event for Irish Studies in Asia will be held in Kobe on 21-22 March 2025. For details, visit this page.
- Newly published — Iyeiri, Yoko. 2025. “Comments on Multiple Negation in the Early Modern English Period”, in Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Focus on Minoritized Languages Past and Present, ed. Samantha M. Litty and Nils Langer, pp. 43-62. Oxford: Peter Lang.
- Newly published — Iyeiri, Yoko. 2025. Benjamin Franklin’s English: Form to Function Analyses. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Newly published — Uchida, Mitsumi and Yoko Iyeiri. 2024. “Genitive Variation in Middle English Paris and Vienne“. Kwansei Gakuin University School of Sociology Journal 142: 45-58.
- Newly published — Iyeiri, Yoko. 2023. “Intra-text Variation as a Case of Intra-writer Variation: Middle English Scribal Behaviours, with a Focus on the Spelling Variation of WOMAN in MS Pepys 2125”, in Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics, ed. Markus Schiegg and Judith Huber, pp. 473-490. Peter Lang.
- Paper presented — Iyeiri, Yoko. 2023. “Exceeding Welcome vs. Exceedingly Welcome: Adverbs with and without –ly in Benjamin Franklin’s English”, HiSoN 12, 1 June 2023, Brussels.
- Newly published — Uchida, Mitsumi & Yoko Iyeiri. 2023. “Etymological and Non-etymological Spellings of FALCON and SOLDAN (SULTAN) in Caxton’s Paris and Vienne and Some Related French Versions”. Kwansei Gakuin University School of Sociology Journal 140: 69-83.
- Finished — Iyeiri, Yoko. 2023. “Jack’s Law and the History of English Negation”. George Jack Lecture 2023, 15:00-17:00, 17 April 2023, Kennedy Hall, School of English, University of St Andrews.
- Newly published — Yoko Iyeiri, Hiroshi Yadomi, David Selfe & Jeremy Smith (eds.), Variational Studies on Pronominal Forms in the History of English (Kaitakusha, 2022) (December 2022)
- Paper presented — Yoko Iyeiri. 2022. “Middle English Spellings of WOMAN: Findings Based upon the Middle English Grammar Corpus”, 12th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 12), University of Glasgow, 24 August 2022. (Online presentation)
- Paper presented — Iyeiri, Yoko. 2022. “Two Negatives and Three Negatives in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century English”, HiSoN 2022, University of Murcia, 2 June 2022.
- Newly published — Hotta, Ryuichi and Yoko Iyeiri. 2022. “The taking off and catching on of etymological spellings in Early Modern English: Evidence from the EEBO Corpus”, in English Historical Linguistics. Historical English in Contact. Papers from the XXth ICEHL, ed. Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux, pp. 143-163. John Benjamins.
