{"id":637,"date":"2023-07-27T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T04:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp\/igpls\/?page_id=637"},"modified":"2024-05-09T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T02:34:36","slug":"zisk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp\/igpls\/people\/zisk\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Zisk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Matthew Zisk<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I work on historical linguistics with a focus on the Japanese language. In particular, I am interested in the history of language contact between Japanese and Sinitic languages and Sinitic borrowings in Japanese. While most research on borrowing in Japanese focuses on loanwords proper (i.e., the wholesale adoption of foreign vocabulary into the language), my research focuses on the influence of Literary Sinitic (Classical Chinese) via kanbun kundoku (the practice of adding glosses to Literary Sinitic texts and reading them in a vernacular language) on the native vocabulary of Japanese (i.e., semantic borrowing, loan translations, morphological and syntactic influence, etc.). Currently, I am working on developing a comprehensive classification of borrowings in kanbun kundoku and comparing the borrowing strategies used in kanbun kundoku with those found in other contact scenarios, in particular the glossing and translation of Latin texts in medieval Europe. In addition to my research on borrowing, in recent years, I have been working on developing a number of tools to help scholars more easily publish papers on Japanese linguistics in English. These include a multilingual dictionary of Japanese linguistic terminology and a set of rules for accurately transcribing and adding interlinear morphemic glosses to example sentences from Japonic languages (Modern Japanese, Classical Japanese, major dialects and Ry\u016bky\u016ban languages). My major publications include An Encyclopedia of Japanese Language and Linguistics<\/i> (Asakura Shoten, 2014; coeditor), for which I provided English translations for over 3,500 Japanese linguistic terms and Japanese Linguistics<\/i> (Asakura Shoten, 2019; coauthored with Mark Irwin), in which we provide a comprehensive analysis of the Japanese language in English, including its origins and affiliation, history, phonology, grammar, writing system and much more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Japanese Linguistics, History of the Japanese Language, Historical Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Contact, Borrowing, Morphology, Translation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2013 - PhD (Japanese Linguistics), Tohoku University
2009 - MA (Japanese Linguistics), Tohoku University
2006 - BA (Japanese & Comparative Linguistics), Penn State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Zisk, Matthew. 2023. \u201cGlossing Glosses: Methods for Transcribing and Glossing Japanese Kundoku Texts\u201d<\/a>. In: Cinato, Franck et al. (eds.) Glossing Practice: Comparative Perspectives, pp. 47-82. Lexington Books.<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Irwin, Mark & Zisk, Matthew. 2019. Japanese Linguistics<\/a><\/i>. Asakura Publishing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Zisk, Matthew. 2017. \u201cOrigin of the Japanese Writing Expressions nor-u and nos-u: From the Perspective of Semantic Borrowing through the Medium of Chinese Characters\u201d<\/a>. Kuntengo to Kuntenshiryo<\/i> 139: 28-52 (in Japanese).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Zisk, Matthew. 2017. \u201cMiddle Chinese Loan Translations and Loan Derivations in Japanese\u201d<\/a>. Japanese\/Korean Linguistics<\/i> 24: 315-329.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Sato, Takeyoshi; Maeda, Tomiyoshi; Kudo, Mayumi; Sakanashi, Ryuzo; Sakono, Fuminori; Sugito, Seiju; Hayata, Teruhiro; Hida, Yoshifumi; Murakami, Masataka; Yamanashi, Masaaki; Yuzawa, Tadayuki; Yoshida, Kazuhiko; Kobayashi, Takashi & Zisk, Matthew (eds). 2014. An Encyclopedia of Japanese Language and Linguistics<\/a><\/i>. Asakura Publishing (main text in Japanese).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Contact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    zisk (add [at] + \"tohoku.ac.jp\")<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Personal Website<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/researchmap.jp\/mzisk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/tohoku.academia.edu\/MatthewZisk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    List of PEOPLE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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