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Daniel Long

E-mail:dlong@bcomp.metro-u.ac.jp

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Summary CV

Research Interests

Language Variation and Change
Japanese Dialectology
Language Attitudes
Japanese as a Second Language Education
Principal Publications

External Grants

2004-2005, Principal Investigator, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research, #16652033.  Field Research to Investigate the Formation Processes of New Language Systems Created through Linguistic Contact , *1,600,000.

2002-2004, Principal Investigator. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, B1 #14390043. Field Research on Japanese people of Western Descent, their maintenance of a unique identity and their assimilation . 3 year award, *4,100,000; *3,300,000; *800,000.

2002, 2003 Contributing researcher, Ministry of Education (MEXT) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research #13410139, Research on Interlanguage Variation in Japanese Dialects: From the standpoint of Variation Theory.

 2000, 2001 Principal Investigator, Ministry of Education (MEXT) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas #12039233, #13019205.  Field Research on the Endangered Language Varieties of the Ogasawara Islands , *1,600,000;  *1,800,000

1999, 2000 Contributing researcher, MEXT Grant #11480052, Japanese Language Education and Variation in Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics, Grammar and Discourse of Modern Japanese , *1,000,000; *500,000

1998, 1999 Principal Investigator, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists #10710259, Research on Language Contact on Chichijima, Ogasawara Islands , *1,300,000

Principal Creative Works

Long, D with Naoyuki Hashimoto. 2005.04.  Talking Dictionary of the Bonin Islands Language .  (In Japanese and English). Kagoshima: Nanpo Shinsha.

Long, D with Makoto Inaba. 2004  Ogasawara Handbook . (In Japanese). Kagoshima: Nanpo Shinsha.

Editor.  2003.  The Disappearing Japanese Language Variety of the Westerners of the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands .  Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim series number A4-023.

Editor.  2002.  The Disappearing English Language and Culture of the gWesterners of the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands .  Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim series number A4-015.

Editor. (2002) An Introduction to Ogasawara Studies (In Japanese). Kagoshima: Nanpo Shinsha. Reviewed in Asahi Shimbun 2002.11.03; Okinawa Times 2003.01.04; Nishi Nippon Shimbun 2002.10.01.

Co-editor with S. Nakai, H. Miyaji.  ( 2001) An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics . Kyoto: Sekai Shisosha. (In Japanese).

Co-editor with Dennis Preston. (2001) Perceptual Dialectology Handbook II . Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Editor. 1998. The Linguistic Culture of the Ogasawara Islands . (In Japanese).  Reviewed 1998.09 in Nihongogaku 17.10: 100.

2004. The Last Yankee in the Pacific: Eastern New England Phonology in the Bonin Islands (with Peter Trudgill). American Speech 79.4: 356-367

2004 Japanese Language on Saipan:  Some Research Topics in the Northern Marianas for Japanese Linguists. Nihongo Kenkyu 24: 69-77.

2004  Island Hoppers and Linguistic Interaction with Japanese.  The Sea of Japan: Asia’s Mediterranean .  Toyama:  Keishobo.  237-253 (in Japanese)

2004 Two Faces of Island Languages: Between Contact and Isolation.  Gekkan Gengo 33.1:42-50 (in Japanese)

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Current Teaching

Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University

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