General

This is a general page that describes various projects of mine. For details of each project, please follow the links provided.

Benjamin Franklin’s English

I have been woking on Benjamin Franklin’s English, focusing on some stylistic features in his letters and autobiography. I have read a paper on negation in his English at the Fourth Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (19 September 2018, Takamatsu, Japan), and its PDF is available in the list of my publication.

This project has produced some conference papers and publication. Also a book entitled Benjamin Franklin’s English: Form to Function Analyses will be coming out soon. For details, please go to the Benjamin Franklin project page.

Some projects based on Early English Books Online

Some of my projects are based on EEBO, either in its original form or in the form of the EEBO Online Corpus at various internet sites. Some of the lingusitic features I have investigated are: the complementation of the verb forbid, convince, etc.; the addition of –s to always and its relationship to algate(s) in Middle English.

Also Ryuichi Hotta at Keio University and I have been woking on etymological spellings in the Early Modern English period by use of the EEBO Online Corpus.

Some late Middle English projects

I have been working on some late Middle English texts, focusing on various linguistic features. Texts include the Paston Letters, Hereford MS P.l.9., etc.

Also collaborating with Mitsumi Uchida, I have been working on various texts published by William Caxton. We have published some papers on The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers and Paris and Vienne. See the list of my publications.

Spoken professional American English

This project is continuous. Collaborating with Michiko Yaguchi at Kanazawa University and Yasumasa Baba at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, I have been exploring discoursal techniques used in spoken interactions in contemporary American English by use of the Corpus Spoken Professional American English.