e-mail: ykawaguchi(AT)jcom.home.ne.jp or ykawa(AT)tufs.ac.jp
Research
1977: French Section, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
1981: Master student of French Linguistics, TUFS
1982-83: Turkish Government Scholarship Student at Istanbul University
1984-86: Japanese Government Scholarship Student at University of Sorbonne Nouvelle
1987: Master of French Linguistics, TUFS
1987: French Government Scholarship Student at University of René Descartes
Degree
2002: Docteur, Nouveau Régime, University of Reims
Title: Recherches Linguistiques sur le champenois méridional au moyen âge - Aspects phonétiques et graphiques -. Jury: M. Tamine, J. Chaurand, M.-R. Simoni-Aurembou, J.-M. Eloy, M.-G. Boutier, P. Demouy
1985: DEA of University of Sorbonne Nouvelle
Title: Phonétisme de l’ancien français – autour du remplissage des cases vides -. Jury: I.Fónagy, J. Perrot, J. Chaurand
1987: Master, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Title: Système des voyelles orales de l’ancien champenois, Jurys: Yoshiro Watase, Yoichiro Tsuruga
Official Title
1988: Assistant, Faculty of Humanities, Shizuoka University
1990: Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Shizuoka University
1995: Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2000: Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2012-2015: Dean of the School of Language and Culture Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2019-2023: Program Officer, Research Center for Science Systems,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2022- : Joint Research Project Investigator, National Institute for Japanese Language
and Linguistics (NINJAL)
2023: Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Scientific Activities
Member of Societas Japonica Studiorum Romanicorum, since 1989-
Member of Société Japonaise de Linguistique Française, 1995-
Member of Société Internationale de Diachronie du Français, 2010-
Member of The Japan Association of Foreign Language Education, 1998 (President 2010-2013)
Leader of 21st Century Center of Excellence "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics", Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2002-2006
Expertise of Action Concertée Incitative PROSODIE, Ministery of National Education, Superior Education and Research, France, 2004
Paper Referee of Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2005-2006
Referee (Humanities Section) of Support Program for Improving Graduate School Education, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2007
Co-chercheur du projet canadien, Grands Travaux de Recherche Concertée (GTRC) Le français à la mesure d’un continent : un patrimoine en partage, 2011-17
Marsden Fund Proposal, Referee, July 2011.
Comité scientifique du Deuxième Colloque de la Société Internationale de Diachronie du Français (SIDF), Cambridge/France, 2014
Évaluateur de la revue LINX 73 Énonciation et marques d’oralité dans l’évolution du français, Paris X, 2015
Professeur invité, Modyco, Paris-X, Nanterre, 2015.9
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017
External evaluator of University of Jordan, 2017
Comité scientifique, Mots de liaison et d'intégration Prépositions, conjonctions et connecteurs, Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa 34, John Benjamins, 2017
Senior Program Officer, Research Center for Science Systems, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2019-2023
QS Global Academic Survery 2020
Comité scientifique du Colloque international Description de l’oral et Méthodes d’analyse en linguistique: Perspectives actuelles Hommages à Claire Blanche-Benveniste (1935-2010), 2021.10.20-22
Comité de relecture de la revue LINX 82 Entre vieillissement et innovation : le changement linguistique, Université Paris X, 2021
Évaluateur de la revue Géolinguistique 23, 2023.