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Name:	Midori  Osumi (IPA: midoɾi o:sɯmi)
Institution:	Tokyo Woman's Christian University
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State and/or Country:	US Japan
Linguistic Field(s):	General Linguistics Typology
Subject Language(s):	Tiri Neku
Selected Publications:	/Tinrin Grammar,1995 The University of Hawai'i Press, /Tinrin Word Order and Passive Structure, 1995, in Essays in Linguistics and Philology Presented to Professor Kinsuke Hasegawa on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, Tokyo, Kenkyuusha，247-266 /Body parts in Tinrin, 1996, in Chappell, H. & W.McGregor (eds), The Grammar of Inalienability: a Typological Perspective on the Part-whole Relation, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 433-462 /Languages in Changing Societies: New Caledonia and Okinawa,1998, Ronshuu 48, no.2, 125-141，Tokyo Woman’s Christian University /Gengono Kooboo, (translation of The Rise and Fall of Languages by R.M.W.Dixon),2001,Iwanami Publishing Co., 237pp /Language and Identity in Okinawa Today,2001, in Noguchi, Mary Goebel and Sandra Fotos (eds), Studies in Japanese Bilingualism, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters，68-97 /The sociolinguistic situation in New Caledonia,2001, in Languages of the South Pacific Rim, vol 1, Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim, Kyoto: Nakanishi Printing Co. 106‐113 /Shoosuu Gengoo Meguru 10 no Tabi (Ten journeys into indigenous languages), 2003, Sanseidoo. /The possessive structures of Neku compared with Tinrin, 2004,in Languages of the South Pacific Rim, vol 3, Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim, Kyoto: Nakanishi Printing Co. 135-153 /Language Endangerment: an Okinawan Case,2006, in Japaneseness versus Ryukyuanism, ed. By Josef Kreiner, Bier’sche Verlagsanstalt, 49-57
Courses Taught:	field linguistics Oceanic linguistics phonetics
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