KIKUTA Chiharu
Faculty of Letters Department of English
Professor
Last Updated :2025/04/28

Researcher Profile and Settings

      Research funding number

      40278453

    Research Interests

    • 通時的構文文法
    • 構文化
    • 複合動詞
    • 主要部内在型関係節
    • 句構造文法

    Research Areas

    • Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics

    Research Experience

    • 同志社大学文学研究科英文学・英語学専攻 博士後期課程教授, 2010/04 - Today
    • 同志社大学文学研究科英文学・英語学専攻 博士前期課程教授, 2004/04 - Today
    • 同志社大学文学部英文学科 教授, 2004/04 - Today
    • 同志社大英文学科英文学科 助教授, 1998/04 - 2004/03
    • 同志社大学文学部英文学科 専任講師, 1995/04 - 1998/03
    • 関西外国語大学嘱託講師, 1994/04 - 1995/03
    • 同志社大学嘱託講師, 1993/04 - 1995/03

    Education

    • Doshisha University, 文学研究科(博士後期課程), 英文学専攻, - 1993
    • University of Victoria, Department of Linguistics (ph.d. programme), 1989/09 - 1992/11
    • Doshisha University, 文学研究科(博士前期課程), 英文学専攻, - 1988
    • Doshisha University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English, - 1986

    Degree

    • Ph.D., University of Victoria
    • Master of Literature, Doshisha University

    Association Memberships

    • 関西言語学会
    • 言語科学会
    • 日本語文法学会
    • 日本認知言語学会
    • 日本言語学会
    • 日本英語学会
    • アメリカ言語学会
    • Kansai Linguistic Society
    • The Society of Japanese Grammar
    • The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association
    • The Linguistic Society of Japan
    • The English Linguistics Society of Japan
    • Linguistic Society of America

    Committee Memberships

    • 副会長, 2023/05 - Today, 関西言語学会, Society
    • editor, 2021/07 - Today, The English Society of Japan
    • councillor, 2020/04 - Today, The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association
    • councillor, 2019/04 - Today, The English Linguistics Society of Japan
    • 運営委員, 2008/05 - 2023/04, 関西言語学会, Society, 関西言語学会
    • 幹事, 2022/04 - 2023/03, 日本英語学会
    • editor, 2008/05 - 2022/03, Kansai Linguistic Society, Society

    Published Papers

    • A Constructional Approach to the Development of the Internally-Headed Relative Clause in Classical Japanese
      Chiharu Kikuta
      Doshisha Studies in English, 106 57 - 97, Mar. 2025
    • A usage-based approach to the diachronic development of the conjunctive particle: The internally-headed relative clause and the audience design.
      Chiharu Kikuta
      Doshisha Studies in English, 105 49 - 88, Mar. 2024, Research institution
    • The inchoative V-kak.ar and V-kak.e in Late Middle and Early Modern Japanese: Their interactions from a perspective of the constructional network
      Chiharu Kikuta
      Doshisha Studies in EnglishD, 104 99 - 136, Mar. 2023, Research institution
    • A Diachronic Construction-Based Analysis of Kakari-Musubi
      Chiharu Kikuta
      Journal of Cognitive Linguistics: The Journal of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistic Association, 6 63 - 85, Mar. 2021, Scientific journal
    • The constructional expansion of the concessive imperative in Japanese: Chunking and historical changes in vocabulary
      Kikuta, Chiharu
      Doshisha Studies in English, 102 109 - 139, Mar. 2021, Research institution
    • The conditional and concessive imperatives in Japanese and Traugott's hypothesis of the unidirectionality of semantic change: A construction-based analysis of the process of constructionalization
      Chiharu Kikuta
      Doshisha Daigaku Eigo Eibungaku Kenkyu, 101 83 - 126, Feb. 2020, Research institution
    • Development of Conditional Imperatives in Japanese: A Diachronic Constructional Approach
      KIKUTA Chiharu Uda
      Cognitive Linguistics, 29(2) 235 - 274, May 2018, Scientific journal
    • The process of constructional changes in temiru conditionals: The interaction of pragmatic strengthening and a hierarchical constructional network
      Chiharu Kikuta
      『認知言語学論考』, ひつじ書房, No. 11(11) 163 - 198, 2013
    • On the case marker Ga in old Japanese : an argument against the active-alignment hypothesis
      Kikuta (Uda) Ciharu
      Doshisha studies in English, Doshisha University, 89(No. 89) 89-123. - 123, 2012
    • The Development of the Non-Volitional Usage of Te-miru : A Case of Pragmatic Strengthening
      菊田 千春
      『日本語文法』, 日本語文法学会, 11巻(2号) 43 - 59, 2011
    • The Development of Tokoro-Relative Clause : Analogy as an Indirect Factor Promoting Grammaticalization
      Kikuta Chiharu
      Doshisha studies in English, Doshisha University, 84(No. 84) 71-106. - 106, 2009
    • The grammaticalization of Japanese inchoative markers, V-kakar and V-kake: The emergence of construction and its extension
      Kikutai Ciharu
      Doshisha studies in English, Doshisha University, 81(Nos. 81-82.) 115 - 165, 2008
    • The Development of the Nominative Case Marker GA : A Competing Constraints Approach
      Kikuta Chiharu Uda
      Doshisha studies in English, Doshisha University, 79 61 - 104, 2006
    • 「格助詞の体系化と語順制約:最適性理論からの上代wh-移動再考」
      菊田 千春
      JELS 22: Papers from the Twenty-Second National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan., 41 - 50, 2005
    • "An Optimality Theoretic Alternative to the Apparent Wh-Movement in Old Japanese."
      KIKUTA Chiharu Uda
      On-line Proceedings of the LFG2004 Conference., 289 - 306, 2005
    • Lexical Semanitics and Pragmatic Inference: A Generative Lexicon Approach to the Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clause
      Kikuta Chiharu
      同志社大学英語英文学研究, 同志社大学人文学会, (76) 21 - 52, Mar. 2004
    • "Syntactic Consequences of Morphological Case Marking."
      KIKUTA Chiharu Uda
      Proceedings of The 2004 LSK International Conference: Vol. I. (Linguistic Society of Korea), 2004
    • 「が・の交替現象」に派生は必要か?:HPSGで名詞性と述語性をつなぐ」
      菊田 千春
      JELS 20: Papers from the Twentieth National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan., 61 - 70, 2003, Research society
    • Subject case marking in early Classical Japanese: A new perspective from Stochastic optimality theory
      CU Kikuta
      JAPANESE/KOREAN LINGUISTICS, VOL 12, UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, Vol. 12 152 - 164, 2003, International conference proceedings
    • Ga-No Conversation in the New Light : A Non-Derivational,Mixed Category Analysis
      Kikuta Chiharu
      Doshisha studies in English, Doshisha University, 74 93 - 136, 2002, Research institution
    • "Integrating the Complement and the Adverbial Analyses of Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clause."
      KIKUTA Chiharu Uda
      Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG-2001)., 202 - 220, 2002, International conference proceedings
    • Accommodating the Lack of Constructional Stability in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: A Case of Internally-Headed Relative Clauses in Japanese.
      Kikuta Chiharu
      『同志社大学英語英文学研究』, 同志社大学人文学会, 73(73) 79 - 114, 2001, Research institution
    • "Qualia Structure and the Accessibility of Arguments: Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clauses with Implicit Target."
      KIKUTA Chiharu Uda
      PACLIC 14: Proceeding of the 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 153 - 164, 2000, International conference proceedings
    • “Lexicalization of Information: Reflexivity and the Resulative Information of Te-ir and Te-ar Constructions."
      KIKUTA Chiharu
      Doshisha studies in English, Doshisha University, 71 99 - 129, Mar. 1999, Research institution
    • "Lexical information and Pragmatic Information; Reflexivity of an Event and Resultative Constructions in Japanese."
      KIKUTA Chiharu Uda
      PACLIC 13: Proceeding of the 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 75 - 86, 1999, International conference proceedings
    • "A Multiple-Inheritance Analysis of the Internally-Headed Relative Clause in Japanese."
      KIKUTA Chiharu Uda
      PACLIC12 ( Language, Information and Computation: Proceedings of the 12th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation), 82 - 93, Feb. 1998, International conference proceedings
    • "Beyond Telicity and Affected-Theme: Semantic Factors Contributing to the Resultative Interpretation of Predicates in Japanese."
      UDA Chiharu
      Language, Information and Computation: Selected Papers from the 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 147 - 156, Dec. 1996, International conference proceedings
    • A Cognitive Approach to the Aspectual Ambiguity of the Te-ir Construction : Against the Syntactic Approach
      Uda Chiharu
      Doshisha studies in English, Doshisha University, 66 159 - 180, Mar. 1996
    • "Te-aru Resultatives in Japanese: A Non-Lexical Approach in HPSG."
      UDA Chiharu
      The Proceedings of the 1994 Kyoto Conference: A Festschrift for Professor Akira Ikeya, 83 - 92, Oct. 1995, International conference proceedings
    • ”On the Semantics of the Japanese Resultative -te aru."
      UDA Chiharu
      『表現研究』, 表現学会, 62(62) 73 - 81, Sep. 1995, Scientific journal

    MISC

    • "Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena. Smirnova, Lotte. Sommerer, and Spike Gildea編 Diachronic Construction Grammar."
      KIKUTA Chiharu
      『歴史言語学』, 日本歴史言語学会 ; 2012-, (5) 55 - 65, Nov. 2016, Book review
    • "Predicate Concatenation: A Study of the V-teV Predicate in Japanese, by Kentaro Nakatani."
      KIKUTA Chiharu
      English Linguistics. No. 32. (日本英語学会)[357-370]., 32 357 - 370, Dec. 2015, Book review
    • The development of the nominative case marker "ga" and the dawn of Modern Japanese: A competing motivations model.
      79 61 - 104, 2006
    • The emergence of the system of case markers and the word order constraint: The wh-Movement in Old Japanese Revisited from the Optimality-Theoretic Perspective
      JELS 22: Papers from the Twenty-Second National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan., 41 - 50, 2005
    • Do we really need "derivation" for the ga/no conversion?: A Mixed Category approach in HPSG.
      JELS 20: Papers from the Twentieth National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan., 61 - 70, 2003
    • A non-derivational analysis of the ga/no conversion: The nominality of the predicate in attributive form.
      74 93 - 136, 2002
    • Analysing "constructional unstability" in a constraint-based phrase structure grammar: The case of Internally-Headed Relative Clause.
      Kikuta Chiharu
      同志社大学英語英文学研究, 同志社大学人文学会, 73(73) 79 - 114, 2001
    • INFORMATION-BASED THEORY OF SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS:Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, by Carl Pollard and Ivan A. Sag, Chicago University Press, Chicago/CSLI, Stanford, CA, 1994, xiv+442
      UDA CHIHARU
      EL, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, 13 367 - 395, Nov. 1996, Book review
    • "SUBCAT Feature and Valence Features: More Evidence from Japanese Passives."
      UDA Chiharu
      Studies on the Universality of Constraint-Based Phrase Structure Grammars, ed. T. Gunji. (Report of the International Scientific Research Program. Joint Research Project No. 06044133), 203 - 215, May 1996
    • "On the Syntactic Structure of the Japanese Resultative -te aru."
      UDA Chiharu
      『制約に基づく日本語の構造の研究:国際日本文化研究センター共同研究報告書』, 13 - 29, Apr. 1996

    Books etc

    • 認知意味論を目指して I
      Talmy, Leonard (岩田, 彩志; 宮浦, 国江; 菊田, 千春; 友次, 克子; 眞田, 敬介 訳)
      開拓社, Jun. 2023, 第2章「言語における仮想的移動と「知覚/概念化」
    • 『ことばとの対話―理論・記述・言語教育』
      菊田 千春
      英宝社, 01 Feb. 2019, Joint work, 「主体化・主観化から見たテミル条件文の展開」(pp. 107-116)
    • Perspectives on English Linguistics (Chapter 13: Language and Cognition)
      菊田 千春
      Nan'undo, 2015
    • An Approach to Modern Linguistics (Chapter 3: The rise of Modern English
      菊田 千春
      Eihosha, 2013
    • 『言語研究の接点―理論と記述―』
      菊田 千春
      英宝社, 2004, Joint work, 「上代日本語におけるノ・ガ格と名詞性:規則性と例外の共存をめざして」(pp. 125-138)
    • Linguistics Today (Chapter 2: Phonetics, Chapter: 11: Aspects of Japanese)
      宇田 千春
      Kinseido, 1996
    • Complex Predicates in Japanese
      Chiharu Uda
      Garland Publishing Inc. (New York), 1994, Single work

    Presentations

    • ”An unexpected blocking of language change: The asymmetry in Japanese inchoative constructions.”
      Chiharu Kikuta
      11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11), 20 Aug. 2021, 18 Aug. 2021, 20 Aug. 2021, Oral presentation
    • "A Diachronic Constructional Analysis of the Word Order Restriction Japanese: A Mismatch in Grammatical Constituency"
      Chiharu Uda Kikuta
      15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC15), 07 Aug. 2019, Poster presentation
    • "A Diachronic Construction Grammar Analysis of the Focus Construction (Kakari-Musubi) in Japanese."
      KIKUTA Chiharu Uda
      International Conference on Construction Grammar 10 (ICCG10), 17 Jul. 2018, Poster presentation
    • A Constructional Approach to the Historical Development of Conditional Imperatives in Japanese
      菊田 千春
      12 th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 2013
    • テミロ条件命令文とその成立過程:構文ネットワークの役割
      菊田 千春
      日本語文法学会第13回大会, 2012
    • “An Optimality-Theoretic Alternative to the Apparent Wh-Movement in Old Japanese.”
      菊田 千春
      9th International Conference of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG04), 2004
    • “Optimality-theoretic account of case marking on subject in early classical Japanese.”
      KIKUTA Chiharu Uda
      12th Japanese/Korean Linguistic Conference., Nov. 2002, Oral presentation
    • 「『が・の交替現象』に派生は必要か?:HPSGで名詞性と述語性をつなぐ」
      菊田 千春
      第20回日本英語学会, 2002
    • “Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clause as a Marked Head-Complement Structure”
      菊田 千春
      The 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 2001
    • “Integrating the Complement and the Adverbial Analyses of Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clause.”
      菊田 千春
      The 8th International Conference of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG-2001), 2001

    Research Projects

    • Refinement of the network model in Diachronic Construction Grammar
      菊田 千春
      本研究は認知言語学の枠組みで文法的構文の成立や変化の過程を分析し、構文ネットワークモデルの理論的な検討と精緻化を目指している。以前より研究を進めていた始動相構文の研究を踏まえ、主要部内在型関係節構文についての研究に着手する予定であった。 2021年度は当初の予定通り、まず構文ネットワークに関する理論的理解を深めるための文献調査をおこなった。近年の通時的構文文法では、同種の構文間の縦の関係に加え、異なる構文間に働く類推を支える横の関係に注目が集まっている。形式主義の影響が強い構文文法ではネットワークのそれぞれの節点(node=構文)の記号的構成を精緻化することを重要視するが、現在、構文の関係性(link)をより重視し、nodeの存在そのものを疑問視する立場が生まれてきていることがわかった。このことは、本研究の方向性にも影響を与える可能性がある。nodeを重視しないモデルの方が文法を動的に捉えやすいが、現在の研究は語彙レベルのものが多く、本研究が対象とするようなスキーマ性の高い構文にも適合するかは検討の余地がある。 2021年8月には、ベルギーのアントワープ大学で開催されたInternational Conference of Construction Grammarで口頭発表(オンライン参加)を行なったが、そのために始動相構文の分析を改めて行う中で、構文の横の関係を複層的に捉える必要性に気づいた。また、特定の語彙を含む始動相構文はスキーマ性が中位であることから、上記のnodeかlinkかという問題にも貢献できると考え、現在、論考をまとめている。始動相構文も主要部内在型関係構文も、その成立や変化には構文ネットワークの影響が大きく、また、意味機能上の類似性と、表層的な形の強い類似性が変化の鍵を握るという点に共通性が伺え、主要部内在型関係節の研究にも示唆を与えるものと考える。, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2021/04 -2025/03, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Doshisha University
    • Research on the learning processes of lexical senses : Japanese learners of English as a foreign language
      AKAMATSU Nobuhiko; AIZAWA Kazumi; MOCHIZUKI Masamichi; ISO Tatsuo; HOSHINO Yuko; KIKUTA Chiharu; OSHIMA Jun
      This research project revealed that living experience in an English-speaking country appears to help Japanese learners of English (JLE) acquire lexical senses of polysemous prepositions that are similar to those of native speakers of English. The research project also found that JLEs have difficulty in appropriately using English articles for individuated abstract and material nouns. This appears to be due to the fact that JLEs’lexical senses of those nouns are often biased via their prejudged senses towards them., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2010 -2013, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Doshisha University
    • Compilation of the Generative Japanese Lexicon on the WWW : Organizing the Japanese Grammar by Focusing on the Role of the Lexicon.
      TONOIKE Toshiyuki; KATO Hisao; KIKUTA Chiharu; OMURO Takeshi; SUGIMOTO Takeshi; SAGAWA Yuji
      It is assumed that the reader has installed the IPAL lexicon and can refer to lexical information given by the lexicon http://www.ipa.go.jp/STC/NIHONGO/IPAL/ipal.html The results of this project can be summarized as follows : 1 extension possibilities Lexical descriptions given by the IPAL lexicon are often categorical. There are a lot of extension possibilities. Some linguistically significant extension possibilities are given as Excel files. 2 Magnitude Estimation Magnitude estimation (ME) is a technique often applied in psychophysics to measure judgments of sensory stimuli. ME can be used as a way of collecting grammaticality/ acceptability judgments of native speakers. It provides us an experimental tool to capture gradience of grammaticality/ acceptability judgments. How to make an experiment by using ME and one experiment result are given. The results of this project can be accessed : http://www.lang.angoya-u.ac.jp/~tonoike/glexicon.html, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 1998 -2000, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Nagoya University
    • Universality of Constraint-based Phrase Structure Grammars
      GUNJI Takao; YATABE Shuichi; HARADA Yasunari; MATSUI Michinao; NAKAGAWA Hiroshi; HASIDA Koiti; TONOIKE Toshiyuki; TSUDA Hiroshi; SIRAI Hidetoshi; SHIRAI Ken-ichiro; UDA Chiharu; IMANI Ikumi; IGARASHI Yoshiyuki; FLICKINGER Dan; SELLS Peter; SAG Ivan
      1994 In August, the head investigator and some of the investigators visited Stanford University for about a week and had a series of discussions with the U.S.investigators. The Japanese side presented their previous studies on Japanese based on constraint-based formalisms, while the American side presented their latest research activities Dr. Flickinger, who was expected to participate in our project in the following year, described the Verbmobil project, which attempts to build a large working English grammar with the collaboration of German researchers. In December, we invited three American investigators to Japan and had a closed workshop in Kyoto for a few days. All the Japanese investigators visited Stanford University again in February and March in 1995, where we concluded the research in the first year and discussed how to extend the research in the second year. 1995 Most of the Japanese investigators visited Stanford University from July so September and had a series of discussion with the American investigators. The following facts were noted as either common aspects on both sides or significant in some way. 1. The apparent different approaches to the Japanese causative construction on both sides indeed have much in common. 2. The research on other complex predicates were also closely related to the above mentioned researches. 3. Some researches related to lexicon also had many common aspects. 4. Researches on negation on both sides were also closely related to one another. In December, all the American investigators visited Japan, and we had a semi-closed workshop in Tokyo for a few days. The papers presented in this workshop were later collected in proceedings, which were published and distributed in March, 1996. Finally, some of the Japanese investigators visited Stanford University again in February and March to conclude the past two years of research and discuss possible continuation of the research in other forms., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 1994 -1995, Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research, Osaka University