Masato Kobayashi
    Associate Professor in Linguistics

Postal address: Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033
Research Interest: 1. Old Indo-Aryan (Vedic) and Native Grammar
2. Dravidian languages (Kurux and Malto)

   Education:
1988-1992  B.A. Sanskrit Kyoto University
1992-1994  M.A. Sanskrit Kyoto University
1996-2000  Ph.D.  Linguistics   University of Pennsylvania

   Employment:
1998-2000 Research Assistant Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
2000 COE Research Fellow Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2001-2009 Associate Professor School of Education, Hakuoh University

Publications and Presentations:

Texts and Grammar of Malto. Vizianagaram: Kotoba Books, 2012.
   Recordings (MP3)
クルフ語、マルト語の過去語幹. 言語研究 140 (2011), 23 - 49.
Rezensionsartikel: Martin Kümmel, Konsonantenwaldel, Wiesbaden 2007. Kratylos 55 (2010), 45 - 54.
Indo-Aryan Loanwords and the Prehistory of Kurux and Malto. in Yoshida, Kazuhiko, and Brent S. Vine (eds.), East and West: Studies in Indo-European Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2009.
Kera' Mundari (with Ganesh Murmu). in Anderson, Gregory (ed.), The Munda Languages. London: Routledge Curzon, 2006.
Panini's phonological rules and Vedic: Astadhyayi 8.2. Journal of Indological Studies 18 (2006).
yy and the development of Sanskrit semivowels. 13th World Sanskrit Conference, July 2006, Edinburgh.
Malto basic words and sentences -- in comparison with Kurux. Research in Minority Languages in South and Southeast Asia: Working Papers, ILCAA: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. March 2006.
Kera' Mundari, to appear in Anderson, Gregory ed., The Munda Languages, 2006. Recordings we used for writing this paper
Panini and irregular retroflexion in Vedic Samhitas (PDF). 215th meeting of the American Oriental Society, March 18, 2005, Philadelphia.
Historical Phonology of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants (PDF). Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Monograph Series 42, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, November 2004.
Development of Proto-Indo-European *sk into Sanskrit cch (handout, PDF). 12th World Sanskrit Conference, July 16, 2003, Helsinki.
Report on a Preliminary Survey of the Dialects of Kherwarian Languages. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 66, 2003, 331-356. (PDF 9.8MB)
Recordings transcribed in this paper
Conjunct Vowels and Voiced Obstruents in Old and Early Middle Japanese Poetry, Nihongo Keitouron no Genzai, 2003, Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
Scripts I used for writing this paper
Phonological rhythm in South Asian languages. 212th meeting of the American Oriental Society, March 2002, Houston.
Syllable rimes in Old Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, Journal of Asian and African Studies, 62. 2001: 91--106. (PDF 13MB)
Syllable-boundary rules in Early Old-Indo-Aryan and Dravidian (PDF). 210th meeting of the American Oriental Society, March 2000, Portland, OR.
Materials I prepared for the metrical analysis: occurrences of overlong syllables (last updated: 3/20/2000)
Bartholomae's Law and Root-suffix asymmetry in Sanskrit (PDF). 75th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2001, Washington, DC.
Nominal Compounds in the Yâjñavalkyasmrti (PDF). Zinbun 36-2, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto (2001/2002).
Historical Phonology of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants. Dissertation. December 2000. (Published from ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, in November 2004) (PDF)
LDC American English Spoken Lexicon (with A. Seidl and Z. Wu), Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, July 1999.
(CD-ROM edition: December 1999. ISBN 1-58563-156-6)
Deocclusion of Sanskrit dh after front vowels (PostScript) 209th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, March 1999, Baltimore.
The Usage of IDAM and ETAD in Yâska's Nirukta, 10th World Sanskrit Conference, January 1997, Bangalore.
Vedisch ríp- (Excursus to the below) (PDF).
Die Namen der Erde -- Nighantu 1,1 als Beispiel einer frühen Vedaexegese--(2) (PDF). Kodai Bunka 48, Kyoto, Nov. 1996, pp.663-678.
Die Namen der Erde -- Nighantu 1,1 als Beispiel einer frühen Vedaexegese--(1) (PDF). Kodai Bunka 46, Kyoto, Dec. 1994, pp.691-703.

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