John Kupchik
Ph.D. student
Department of Linguistics
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Current research interests:
Eastern Old Japanese, the Japonic Language family, Okinawan, Morphology, Typology, Historical Linguistics, the Ainu language, Middle Korean, Middle Chinese

Previous research interests:
Uralic linguistics, comparative music-language studies

Courses I have taught
LING 102: Intro to the study of human language (Fall 2005, Fall 2007)
LING 420: Morphology (Spring 2006)
JPN 471: Introduction to Okinawan Language and Culture (Fall 2007)

Presentations
-March 9th, 2006 -Distinguishing East from West: features of the Eastern Old Japanese poems in the Man'youshuu, Center for Japanese studies (CJS) seminar.
-November 23rd, 2004 -On the variation of morpheme order in Mari declension: variable morphotactics or morpheme scrambling?, UHM Linguistics Department's Tuesday seminar
-September 28th, 2004 -On musical genre: acquisition, dialect, and linguistic parallelism, UHM Linguistics Department's Tuesday seminar

Publications
2007. A comprehensive study of mwo, mö, mye, mey, po, pye, and pey syllables in the Eastern Old Japanese dialects. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 38 (7). [Available in pdf]

Background
BA in Japanese - University of Hawai'i, 2002
MA in Linguistics - University of Hawai'i, 2004
PhD candidate in Linguistics - University of Hawai'i, 2005-Present [achieved ABD in December 2007]
Dissertation title: A grammar of the Eastern Old Japanese dialects: phonology, morphology, lexicon, and taxonomy

Contact Info
E-mail:
kupchik@hawaii.edu

Mailing address:
569 Moore Hall
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA