James Marshall Unger | |
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| Born | May 28, 1947 |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Thesis | Studies in Early Japanese Morphophonemics (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel E. Martin |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Ohio State University,University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,University of Maryland |
| Main interests | Historical linguistics,Japanese studies |
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 he has also published on Japanese mathematics of the Edo period. [1]
He chaired academic departments at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,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 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).
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