J. Marshall Unger

James Marshall Unger, (born May 28, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio), is emeritus professor of Japanese at the Ohio State University. He specializes in historical linguistics and the writing systems of East Asia, but has also published on Japanese mathematics of the Edo period.[1]

James Marshall Unger
BornMay 28, 1947
Cleveland, Ohio
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Academic work
InstitutionsOhio State University
Main interestsHistorical linguistics, Japanese studies

He chaired academic departments at the University of Hawai’i, University of Maryland, and the Ohio State University from 1988 to 2004, and has been a visiting professor/researcher at Kōbe University, Tsukuba University, the University of Tōkyō, the National Museum for Ethnography (Minpaku) in Senri, and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tachikawa. Among various research grants, he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,[2] Ford Foundation, and the Japan Foundation (twice).

Books
  • Studies in Early Japanese Morphophonemics (Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1977; 2nd ed. 1993)
  • With F. C. Lorish, M. Noda, Y. Wada A Framework for Introductory Japanese Language Curricula in American High Schools and Colleges (Washington, D.C.: National Foreign Language Center, 1993)
  • The Fifth Generation Fallacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
  • Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004)
  • The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009)
  • Sangaku Proofs: a Japanese Mathematician at Work (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 2015)
  • Sangaku Reflections: a Japanese Mathematician Teaches (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 2017)

References

Notes

  1. Quinn, Charles. "An historic historical linguist (and then some)". Buckeye East Asian Linguistics 2 (BEAL 2). Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  2. "J. Marshall Unger". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 11 September 2016.

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