KIKUTA Chiharu
Faculty of Letters Department of English
Professor
Last Updated :2023/05/28

Researcher Profile and Settings

      Research funding number

      40278453

    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, 英文学専攻, - 1993
    • Doshisha University, Graduate School, Division of Letters, - 1993
    • University of Victoria, Department of Linguistics (ph.d. programme), 1989/09 - 1992/11
    • ヴィクトリア大学大学院, 言語学科, 言語学, - 1992
    • Doshisha University, 文学研究科, 英文学専攻, - 1988
    • Doshisha University, Graduate School, Division of Letters, - 1988
    • Doshisha University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English, - 1986
    • Doshisha University, Faculty of Literature, - 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

    • 幹事, 2022/04 - Today, 日本英語学会
    • 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, 2008/04 - Today, 関西言語学会, Society, 関西言語学会
    • editor, 2008/05 - 2022/03, Kansai Linguistic Society, Society

    Published Papers

    • 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 Daigaku Eigo Eibungaku Kenkyu, 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 Daigaku Eigo Eibungaku Kenkyu, 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』, 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.
      73 79 - 114, 2001
    • “Information-Based Syntax and Semantics: A Review of C. Pollard and I.A. Sag, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar."
      宇田 千春
      English Linguistics. (日本英語学会)[367-395], 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

    • 『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
      宇田 千春
      Garland Publishing Inc. (New York), 1994

    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
      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