C U R R I C U L U M   V I TÆ

J. Marshall Unger

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

                                                The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

                              1996–                Professor of Japanese

                                                University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

                          1992–96                Professor of Japanese

                                                University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i

                          1987–92                Professor of Japanese

                          1982–87                Associate Professor of Japanese

                          1977–82                Assistant Professor of Japanese

                                                University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

                          1975–76                Senior Lecturer in Japanese

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

                                                Kōbe University, Kōbe, Japan

                                2005                Visiting Scholar (full year)

                                                The Ohio State University, Department of Linguistics

                              1999–                Adjunct Professor

                                                National Museum of Ethnology, Senri (Ōsaka), Japan

                                1991                Visiting Professor (Summer)

                                                University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba (Ibaraki), Japan

                                1989                Visiting Professor (Spring)

                                                University of Tōkyō, Komaba campus, Japan

                                1985                Visiting Scholar (full year)         

EDUCATION

                                                Yale University

                                1975                Ph.D., Linguistics

                                1972                M.A., Linguistics

                                                University of Chicago

                                1971                A.M., Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations

                                1969                A.B., Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations (General Honors)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

                 Forthcoming        The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages.  Honolulu:  University of Hawai’i Press.

                                2004        Ideogram:  Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning.  Honolulu:  University of Hawai’i Press.

                                2001        Senryō-ka Nihon no hyōki kaikaku:  wasurerareta rōmaji ni yoru kyōiku jikken  (Script Reform in Japan under the Occupation:  the Forgotten Experiment in Education through Romanization).  Japanese edition of Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan.  Translated by Mutsuyo Okumura.  Tōkyō:  Sangensha.

                                1996        Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan:  Reading between the Lines.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

                                1993        Studies in Early Japanese Morphophonemics.  Second edition.  Bloomington:  Indiana Linguistics Club.

                                1992        Konpyūta shakai to kanji (Computer Society and Chinese Characters).  Japanese edition of The Fifth Generation Fallacy.  Translated by Mutsuyo Okumura.  Tōkyō:  SIMUL Press.

                                1987        The Fifth Generation Fallacy:  Why Japan Is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligence.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

                                1977        Studies in Early Japanese Morphophonemics.  Bloomington:  Indiana Linguistics Club.

Edited Volumes and Reports

                                1997        Shaping the Next Generation:  Papers from the Conference on National Strategic Assessment of Japanese Language Education, University of Maryland at College Park, 1995.  Columbus, O.:  Foreign Language Publications.

                                1993        A Framework for Introductory Japanese Language Curricula in American High Schools and Colleges.  With Fred C. Lorish, Mari Noda, and Yasuko Wada. Washington, D.C.:  National Foreign Language Center.

                                1992        Language, Writing Systems, and Literacy.  With Sakiyama Osamu and Umesao Tadao.  Senri Ethnological Studies 39.  Senri:  National Museum of Ethnology.

                                1992        Report of the Mini-committee on Telecommunications, Audio-Visual materials, and Instructional Software and Hardware (McTAVISH).  With Kazumi Hatasa and Ron Granich.  Middlebury, Vt.:  Association of Teachers of Japanese.

Chapters in Books and Contributed Papers

                                2008        Early Japanese Lexical Strata and the Allophones of /g/.  Proto-Japanese, ed. Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman, pp. 43–53.  Amsterdam:  John Benjamins.

                                2008        Dating the Collapse of Kō-otsu Distinctions and the Status of /mo/.  Current Issues in the History and Structure of Japanese, ed. Bjarke Frellesvig, Masayoshi Shibatani, and John Charles Smith, pp. 339–50.  Tōkyō:  Kuroshio shuppan.

                                2006        Ōbei ni okeru Nihongo kigen ron:  gengogaku 30-nen no kaiko to tenbō [American and European theories about the origins of the Japanese language:  looking back over the past 30 years of linguistics and toward the future].  Kansai Linguistic Society 26, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Anniversary Meeting, pp. 450–60.

                                2005        Japan:  Writing System.  Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., ed. Keith Brown, vol. 6 pp. 95–102.  Amsterdam:  Elsevier.

                                2004        Foreword to special issue honoring Samuel E. Martin, Japanaese Language and Literature, vol. 38 no. 2 p. 257.

                                2003        Substratum and Adstratum in Prehistoric Japanese.  Language Contacts in Prehistory:  Studies in Stratigraphy, ed. Henning Andersen, pp. 241–58.  Philadelphia:  John Benjamins.

                                2002        Foreword to Acts of Reading:  Exploring Connections in Pedagogy of Japanese, by Mari Noda and Hiroshi Nara, pp. ix-xii.  Honolulu:  University of Hawai’i Press.

                                2002        The First Framework:  Getting down to Basics, edited reprint of A Framework for Introductory Japanese Language Curricula in American High Schools and Colleges (1993) with a new introduction.  Advanced in Japanese Language Pedagogy, ed. Hiroshi Nara, pp. 336–428.  Columbus, O.:  Foreign Language Publications.

                                2002        How the Ideographic Myth Misleads Historians:  An Example from the Occupation of Japan.  Difficult Characters:  Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese Writing, ed. Mary Erbaugh, pp. 194–204.  Columbus, O.:  Foreign Language Publications.

                                2000        Rendaku and Proto-Japanese Accent Classes.  Japanese-Korean Linguistics 9, ed. Mineharu Nakayama and Charles J. Quinn, Jr., pp. 17–30.  Stanford:  Center for the Study of Language and Information.

                                1996        The Role of Talent in Learning a Second Language and Becoming Literate.  Gengogaku-rin 1995–1996 [The Grove of Linguistics, 1995–1996].  Festschrift for Professor Shibata Takeshi in celebration of his 77th Birthday, pp. 1065–77.  Tōkyō:  Sanseidō.

                                1995        Logographic and Semasiographic Writing Systems:  A Critique of Sampson’s Classification.  With John DeFrancis.  Scripts and Literacy:  Reading and Learning to Read Alphabets, ed. David. R. Olson and Insup Taylor, pp. 45–58.  Dordrecht:  Kluwer.

                                1994        A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Accessing Timely Information on Japan.  Proceedings from Japanese Information:  Easing Access, ed. Gretchen Shinoda, pp. 26–28.  Washington, D.C.:  National Planning Association, Japan Information and Culture Center.

                                1993        The Fifth Generation Fallacy:  Looking Back from 1993.  Human-Computer Interaction:  Software and Hardware Interfaces, ed. G. Salvendy and M. J. Smith (2 vols.) vol. 2 pp. 933–38.  Amsterdam:  Elsevier.

                                1992        Literacy East and West:  Data from Linguistics and Psycholinguistics.  Language, Writing Systems, and Literacy, ed. Umesao Tadao, J. Marshall Unger, and Osamu Sakiyama.  Senri Ethnological Studies, no. 34 pp.  93–107.  Senri:  National Museum of Ethnology.

                                1991        Acquisition of Resources for Teaching Japanese in Colleges and Universities.  Japanese:  Language, Culture, ed. Galal Walker, pp. 18–26.  Boulder:  Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

                                1991        Memorizing Kanji:  Lessons from a Pro.  Schriftfestschrift:  Essays on Writing and Language in Honor of John DeFrancis on His Eightieth Birthday, Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 27 pp. 49–58.  Philadelphia:  Victor H. Mair.

                                1991        Minimum Specifications for Japanese and Chinese Alphanumeric Workstations.  Characters and Computers, ed. Victor H. Mair and Yongquan Liu, pp. 131–40.  Amsterdam:  IOS Press.

                                1990        Japanese and What Other Altaic Languages?  Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology, ed. Philip Baldi, pp. 547–61.  Berlin; New York:  Mouton de Gruyter.

                                1990        Summary Report of the Altaic Panel.  Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology, ed. Philip Baldi, pp. 479–82.  Berlin; New York:  Mouton de Gruyter.

                                1990        The National Research Council’s December 1989 Symposium on Japanese-English Machine Translation.  First International Japanese-English Translation Conference:  Proceedings, pp. 53–58.  Tōkyō:  Japan Association of Translators.

                                1990        Kanji to arufabetto no yomikaki nōryoku [Literacy in Chinese and Alphabetic Characters].  Kotoba no hikaku bunmeigaku (Language and the comparative study of civilizations), ed. Umesao Tadao and Ogawa Ryō, pp. 263–308.  Tōkyō:  Fukutake shoten.

                                1989        Language Engineering versus Machine Engineering:  A Linguist’s View of the Character Input Problem.  Text Processing Chinese by Computer:  Characters, Speech and Language, ed. Wesley A. Clark, pp. 113–23.  Washington, D.C.:  National Academy of Sciences.

                                1988        Machine Translation in Japan:  Where Are They Coming From?  Where Are They Headed?  Languages at Crossroads:  Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the American Translators Association, ed. Deanna Lindberg Hammond, pp. 93–102.  Medford, N.J.:  Learned Information.

                                1986        Teaching Japanese on the PLATO Computer-Based Education System.  Getting America Ready for Japanese Science and Technology, ed. Ronald A. Morse and Richard J. Samuels, pp. 165–81.  Washington, D.C.:  Asia Program of the Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution.

                                1986        Nihonjin no yomikaki nōryoku to konpyūta [Japanese Literacy and Computers].  Kyōto Sangyō Daigaku Kokusai Gengo Kagaku Kenkyūjo Shohō, vol. 7 no. 2 pp. 167–75.  English translation in Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 6 (1988).

                                1986        Kyōiku de no konpyūta no jōzu na shiyōhō [Good Ways to Use Computers in Education].  Nihongo kyōiku kokusai shinpojiumu, pp. 131–36.  Nagoya:  Nanzan Daigaku.

                                1983        Chinese Input in Computer-Based Education (Abstract).  Proceedings of the International Conference on Chinese Information Processing [Beijing], vol. 1 pp. 332.

                                1983        A Compressed Representation of Line-Drawn Chinese Characters.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Text Processing with a Large Character Set [Tōkyō], pp. 352–53.

                                1983        Rendaku [Sequential Voicing].  Kōdansha Encyclopedia of Japan, vol. 6 pp. 296.  Tōkyō:  Kōdansha.

                                1971        A Note on Old Japanese Verb Inflection.  Papers from the Seventh Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 553–68.

Journal Articles

                                2006        Ongoing Sound Change in Standard Japanese.  Japanese Language & Literature, vol. 40 no. 2 pp. 219–22.

                                2005        When was Korean First Spoken in Southeastern Korea?  Journal of Inner and East Asian Studies, vol. 2 no. 2 pp. 88–105.

                                2005        Internal Reconstruction in Hungarian.  Diachronica, vol. 22 no.1 pp 109–54.

                                2004        Alternations of m and b in Early Middle Japanese:  the Deeper Significance of the Sound-Symbolic Stratum.  Japanese Language and Literature, vol. 38 no. 2 pp. 323–37.

                                2001        Functional Digraphia in Japan as Revealed in Consumer Product Preferences.  International Journal of the Sociology of Language no. 150 pp. 141–52.

                                2001        Rejoinder to Mikiso Hane, Review of Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan.  Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 60 no. 4 p. 1115.

                                2001        Layers of Words and Volcanic Ash in Japan and Korea.  Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 27 no. 1 pp. 81–111.

                                2000        Reconciling Comparative and Internal Reconstruction:  The Case of Old Japanese /ti ri ni/.  Language, vol. 76 no.3 pp. 655–81.

                                1998        Rejoinder to Roy Andrew Miller, Review of Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan.    Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 40 no. 2 pp. 333–34.

                                1998        Homophones and Homographs:  Reflections on L’ambiguïté en japonais écrit, by Maurice Coyaud.  Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 30 no. 2 pp. 55–63.

                                1996       Taking Digraphia Seriously:  Future Software for East Asia.  Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, vol. 31 no. 3 pp. 45–55.

                                1994        Rejoinder to Geoffrey Sampson, Chinese Script and the Diversity of Writing Systems, with John DeFrancis. Linguistics, vol. 32 no. 3 pp. 549–54.

                                1993        Rejoinder to Chad Hansen, Chinese Ideographs and Western Ideas.  Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 52 no. 4 pp. 949–54.

                                1993        Two Cultures Still:  Lessons Learned Criticizing the Fifth Generation Project.  Asian and Pacific Quarterly, vol. 25 no. 2 pp. 18–27.

                                1991        More on Nihonjinron:  A Surrejoinder to Miller.  Asian and Pacific Quarterly, vol. 23 no. 3 pp. 39–45.

                                1990        The Very Idea:  The Notion of Ideogram in China and Japan.  Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 45 no. 4 pp. 392–411.

                                1990        Nihonjinron.  Asian and Pacific Quarterly, vol. 22 no. 3 pp. 19–24.

                                1988        Rejoinder to Wm. C. Hannas, Review of The Fifth Generation Fallacy.  Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 8 pp. 6–11.

                                1988        Middle Chinese Syllable-Final Stops in Sino-Japanese:  A Critique of Vance’s Theory.  Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 108 no. 4 pp. 627–31.

                                1987        Beikoku kara mita Nihongo kyōiku no mondaiten [An American View of the Basic Problems of Japanese Language Teaching], with Mutsuyo Okumura.  Nihongo kyōiku, no. 62 pp. 118–33.

                                1986        Japanese Research and Policy on Health Hazards of Video Display Terminals.  Office of Naval Research Far East Scientific Bulletin, vol. 11 no. 1 pp. 4–12.

                                1984        Japanese Orthography in the Computer Age.  Visible Language, vol. 18 no. 3 pp. 238–53.

                                1984        Japanese Braille.  Visible Language, vol. 18 no. 3 pp. 254–66.

                                1983        The Classification of Old Japanese Adjectives.  With Yōko Itō Tomita.  Papers in East Asian Languages, vol. 1 pp. 52–65.

                                1983        A Mnemonic Code for Sino-Japanese Characters (Kanji) Based Entirely on their Readings.  Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental Languages, vol. 1 no. 2 pp. 135–44.

                                1983        Real-time Han’gŭl Input on the PLATO Computer-Based Education System.  Korean Linguistics, vol. 3 pp. 145–58.

                                1983        The Problem of Japanese Input.  Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 18 no. 1 pp. 56–64.

                                1982        Social Philosophy in Computer–Based Education.  Hawai’i Science, Technology, and Education, vol. 1 no. 1 pp. 44–46.

                                1980        Etymology of the Word /kana/.  Papers in Japanese Linguistics, vol. 7 pp. 173–84.

                                1980        Revision of Proto-Korean-Japanese *s.  Korean Linguistics, vol. 2 pp. 91–96.

                                1979        Kanamajiribun Editing and the PLATO Computer-Based Education System.  Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 14 no. 2 pp. 141–56.

                                1978        Intuition and Rigor:  More on Kō-type O-ending Syllables in Old Japanese.  Papers in Japanese Linguistics, vol. 5 pp. 337–92.

                                1975        On the Kō-type O-ending Syllables of Old Japanese.  Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 10 nos. 2–3 pp. 201–207.

                                1974        Dōshi katsuyōkei no kigen shiron [Initial Theory of the Origins of Japanese Verb Conjugations].  Abstract.  Kokugogaku, no. 98 pp. 81–82.

                                1971        Evidence of a Consonant Shift in Seventh-Century Japanese, with S. Robert Ramsey.  Papers in Japanese Linguistics, vol. 1 no. 2 pp. 270–95.

Reviews

                                2007        The Peopling of East Asia:  Putting together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics, edited by Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench, and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas.  Diachronica, vol. 24 no. 1 pp. 199–204.

                                2005       Multilingualism in China:  the Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949–2002, by Minglang Zhou.  Language, vol. 81 no.3 pp. 761–65.

                                2003        Ruigo daijiten (Kōdansha Thesaurus), compiled by Shibata Takeshi, Yamada Susumu, et al. Japanese Language and Literature, vol. 37 no.1 pp. 90–93.

                                2001        The Japanese Mental Lexicon:  Psycholinguistic Studies of Kana and Kanji Processing, by Joseph F. Kess and Tadao Miyamoto.  Word, vol. 52 no. 3 pp. 479–83.

                                2001        Word-processing Technology in Japan:  Kanji and the Keyboard, by Nanette Gottlieb.  The Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 12 October.

                                2000        Kokugo to iu shisō:  kindai Nihon no gengo ninshiki (National language thought:  language consciousness in modern Japan), by I Yonsuku.  Social Science Japan Journal, vol. 3 no. 1 pp. 147–51.

                                1999        The Book in Japan:  a Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century, by Peter Kornicki. Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 58 no. 1 pp. 204–5.

                                1998        The Symbolic Species, by Terrence Deacon.   Modern Language Journal, vol. 82 no. 3 pp. 437–39.

                                1998        Cartels of the Mind:  Japan’s Intellectual Closed Shop, by Ivan P. Hall.  The Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 17 July.

                                1998        Signs, Language, and Communication, by Roy Harris.  Modern Language Journal, vol. 82 no. 2 pp. 289–90.

                                1998        Signs of Writing, by Roy Harris.  Modern Language Journal, vol. 82 no. 1 p. 123.

                                1998        Language Contact in Japan:  A Socio-linguistic history, by Leo J. Loveday.  Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 40 no. 2 pp. 346–48.

                                1998        Asia’s Orthographic Dilemma, by Wm. C. Hannas.  Journal of Japanese Studies, vol.24 no. 1 pp. 197–201.

                                1997        A Case Study in Diachronic Phonology:  The Japanese Onbin Sound Changes, by Bjarke Frellesvig.  Diachronica, vol. 14 no. 2 pp. 363–66.

                                1997        The World’s Writing Systems, edited by Peter McDaniel and William Bright.  With John DeFrancis.  Language in Society, vol. 26 no. 3 pp. 436–39.

                                1997        Japan’s Name Culture, by Herbert Plutschow.  Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 23 no. 1 pp. 206–10.

                                1995        Diversity in Japanese Language and Culture, edited by John C. Maher and Gaynor Macdonald.  The Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 25 August.

                                1994        The World on Paper, by David R. Olson.  The Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 2 December.

                                1994        Language, Thought, and Logic, by John M. Ellis.  The Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 12 August.

                                1994        Understanding Japanese Information Processing, by Ken Lunde.  Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 28 no. 1 pp. 103–10.

                                1991        A History of Writing in Japan, by Christopher Seeley.  Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 46 no. 3 pp. 381–84.

                                1991        Language the Modern State, by Nanette Twine.  Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 46 no. 4 pp. 548–50.

                                1988        Nihongo:  in Defence of Japanese, by Roy Andrew Miller, and The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness, by Peter N. Dale.  Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 47 no. 4 pp. 891–93.

                                1986        Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Japanese Writing System, by Michel Paradis, Hiroko Hagiwara, and Nancy Hildebrandt, and The Chinese Language, by John DeFrancis.  Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 20 no. 2 pp. 232–40.

                                1982        The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language, by James Patrie.  Papers in Linguistics, vol. 15 no. 4 pp. 317–20.

                                1981        Origins of the Japanese Language, by Roy Andrew Miller.  Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 41 no. 1 pp. 145–47.

                                1974        The Phonology of Eighth-Century Japanese, by Roland A. Lange.  Canadian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 19 no. 2 pp. 217–24.

                                1973        Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages, by Roy Andrew Miller.  Papers in Japanese Linguistics, vol. 2 no. 1 pp. 155–69.

 

                Last update:  11 February 2008