Mark Irwin - Selected Recent Publications


2019 Japanese Linguistics. Tokyo: Asakura Press. (with Matthew Zisk)


2016 The Rendaku Database. In Sequential Voicing in Japanese, ed. Vance & Irwin. Amsterdam: John Benjamins


2016 Rendaku in Tohoku Japanese: The Kahoku-cho Survey. In Sequential Voicing in Japanese, ed. Vance & Irwin. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Mizuki Miyashita, Ian Wilson & Timothy Vance)


2016 Rendaku Awareness of Japanese Language Learners in Taiwan. In Sequential Voicing in Japanese, ed. Vance & Irwin. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Nakazawa Nobuyuki, Timothy Vance & Paul Lyddon)


2016 Rosen’s Rule. In Sequential Voicing in Japanese, ed. Vance & Irwin. Amsterdam: John Benjamins


2016 Rendaku and Homophony. In Phonological Studies 19 (with Paul Lyddon)


2016 English Loanwords. In The Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation, ed. Kageyama & Kishimoto. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter


2015 Rendaku Lovers, Rendaku Haters and the Logistic Curve. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 22, ed. Giriko et al. Stanford: CSLI Publications


2015 Rendaku Across Japanese Dialects. In Phonological Studies 18 (with Timothy Vance)


2014 Rendaku in Japanese Dialects that Retain Prenasalization. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 21, ed. Nam, Ko & Jun. Stanford: CSLI Publications (with Timothy Vance & Mizuki Miyashita)


2014 Rendaku Across Duplicate Moras. NINJAL Research Papers 7


2012 Rendaku Dampening and Prefixes. NINJAL Research Papers 4


2012 Late Middle Japanese. In The Languages of Japan and Korea, ed. Nicolas Tranter. London: Routledge (with Heiko Narrog)


2011 Mora Clipping of Loanwords in Japanese. Journal of Japanese Linguistics 27


2011 Loanwords in Japanese. Amsterdam: John Benjamins


2009 Prosodic Size and Rendaku Immunity, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 18


2009 Mora Obstruent Allomorphy in Sino-Japanese Morphemes. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag


2008 Homomorphemic Diffusion in Japanese Nonce Lexemes, Japanese Language and Literature 42


2006 English For Law. Tokyo: Sanshusha (with Todd Enslen)


2005 Rendaku-Based Lexical Hierarchies in Japanese: The Behaviour of Sino-Japanese Mononoms in Hybrid Noun Compounds, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 14



Mark Irwin - selected recent presentations


2017 (Mar) The Resistance of Moraic Nasals to Rendaku Inhibitors, 12th Phonology Festa, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (with Paul Lyddon)


2016 (Sept) Rendaku and Labial Lenition, 2nd European Association of Japanese Studies Japan Conference, Kobe University (with Paul Lyddon)


2016 (June) Les Composés Apophoniques en Japonais, XXIXe Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (with Laurence Labrune)


2015 (Aug) Rendaku and Homophony, Phonology Forum 2015, Osaka University (with Paul Lyddon)


2014 (Jun) Rendaku Across Japanese Dialects, Phonological Society of Japan Spring Conference, Tokyo Metropolitan University (with Tim Vance)


2014 (Feb) Rendaku Across Duplicate Moras, 9th Phonology Festa, Atami


2013 (Sept) No English Spoken Here: The Prohibition of English in Japan 1940-45, 1st European Association of Japanese Studies Japan Conference, Kyoto University


2013 (Aug) A Rendaku Database For Old Japanese, 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oslo (with Tim Vance)


2013 (Jan) Spatial Rendaku - Rendaku Across Dialects With Particular Reference to Yamagata, Tokyo Circle of Phonologists, Tokyo University (with Tim Vance & Mizuki Miyashita)


2012 (Nov) Rendaku in the Kahoku Dialect of Yamagata Japan, Alberta Conference on Linguistics, University of Lethbridge (with Mizuki Miyashita & Tim Vance)


2012 (Oct) Rendaku Lovers, Rendaku Haters and the Logistic Curve, Japanese/Korean Linguistics XXII, NINJAL, Tokyo


2012 (Jun) First Statement of Lyman's Law, 25th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (with Tim Vance)


2011 (Dec) Rendaku Dampening and Prefixes, ICPP2011, Kyoto University


2011 (Dec) Replication of Epenthetic Vowels in Japanese Loanwords from the 16th to the 21st Century, Japanese Society for Historical Linguistics Inaugural Conference, Osaka University


2011 (Oct) Rendaku in Japanese Dialects That Retain Prenasalization, Japanese/Korean Linguistics XXI, Seoul University (with Tim Vance & Mizuki Miyashita)


2010 (May) Mora Splitting in Loanword Compound Clipping, Tokyo Circle of Phonologists, Tokyo University


2008 (July) Rendaku Immunity and Prosodic Size, International Congress of Linguists XVIII, Korea University, Seoul 


2005 (Nov) Homomorphemic Diffusion in Japanese, 16th Meeting of Linguistic Society of New Zealand, University of Auckland

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Mark Irwin was born in Ulster in 1967 and is a dual national of the UK and the Irish Republic. He holds a BA and MA from Cambridge University and an MA and PhD from Sheffield University. He has lived in Japan since 1995 and, prior to Yamagata University, has worked for Hokkaido University and the Hachinohe City Education Board (Aomori Prefecture). He is also a Project Collaborator at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics in Tokyo. His current research topics include Japanese sociolinguistics, phonology and historical linguistics. He is author of Japanese Linguistics  and Loanwords in Japanese.