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Welcome to the homepage of Yoko Yamazaki.

I am a linguist specialized in the (pre-)history of Lithuanian and Indo-European comparative linguistics. I have been interested in the prehistorical developments of the languages and linguistic reconstructions. Right now I am working as a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University on the historical development of the voice systems of the Baltic, Slavic, and Germanic branches. The information on my current project "Traveling Voices" is available here.

Since August 2021, I started a blog in linguistic topics as a part of my outreach activity. Some language- or linguistics-related topics are presented in Japanese in a small-talk style. Your visits are much welcomed.

My education as a linguist started at the Linguistics Department, Kyoto University. Prof. Kazuhiko Yoshida supervised my bachelor's thesis and master's thesis. From fall 2010 to spring 2011, I was a visiting fellow at the Linguistics Department of Harvard University. There I was introduced to advanced topics in Indo-European by Prof. Jay Jasanoff and Prof. Jeremy Rau, and learned Old Church Slavonic with Prof. Michael Flier. I returned to Kyoto University in the summer of 2011, and finished the graduate school of Kyoto University in 2012 spring. I worked there for just one semester as a part-time lecturer for the departmental seminar. In the summer of 2012, I started studying the Baltic linguistics for my PhD dissertation with Prof. Jenny Larsson and Prof. Pēteris Vanags at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German, Stockholm University.

My PhD thesis is entitled "Monosyllabic Circumflexion in Lithuanian'', defended in 2016. The public defence was held on 23rd September at Stockholm University. The thesis received a prize for "förtjänt vetenskapligt arbete 2015-2016" (outstanding scientific work) on 20th March 2017 from Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien.

The dissertation is available in pdf format at DiVa. The list of errata is available here. It will be updated from time to time.

List of Publications
Talks
The handouts of my talks are available.
  • "The simple thematic present ending in the 2nd person singular in East Baltic"
    September 13th, 2023, Arbeitstagung der indogermanischen Gesellschaft , University of Köln. [presentation slides]

  • "The 3rd person thematic ending in Baltic"
    November 30th, 2022, Indo-European Seminar, Uppsala University. [presentation slides]

  • "The Baltic verbal endings - what happened to them while traveling from the IE homeland?"
    September 22nd, 2022, Tarptautinė Kazimiero Būgos konferencija, Vilnius University.

  • "Dar kartą apie kláusti, klausýti ir jiems giminingų formų priešistorę (Examining once again the prehistory of kláusti, klausýti, and their related forms)"
    May 27th, 2022, 3-ioji tarptautinė hibridinė Prano Skardžiaus konferencija, Vilnius. [presentation slides]

  • "Introducing Traveling Voices — The diachronic development of the voice system in the Baltic, Slavic, and Germanic branches from a migrational perspective"
    March 23rd, 2022, The Next Step — Shaping the Future of Indo-European Studies, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. [Presentation slides].

  • "Diathetic problem of the Baltic ā-preterits to the simple thematic presents"
    October 14th, 2021, XIII Starptautiskā Baltistu Kongress, University of Latvia. [Presentation slides].

  • "Investigation on the prehistory of the Baltic preterit system"
    November 28th 2019, Språkhistoriska seminariet, Stockholm University. Available on youtube.

  • "A preliminary investigation on the “medial-intransitive” -preterits in Baltic”
    September 27th 2019, International Conference on the occasion of the 140th Anniversary of Kazimieras Būga, Birštonas.

  • "Diathetic Problem in the Baltic Preterit System"
    March 28th 2019, Kyoto Indo-European Roundtable in Honor of Kazuhiko Yoshida, Kyoto.

  • Luzius Thöny & Yoko Yamazaki "Shared retentions and the periphery: From dialect maps to computer simulations"
    July 25th 2018, IXth Congress of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics, Vilnius University.

  • "Sievers-Edgerton’s Law, Stang-Larsson’s rule, and Narten Imperfects in Baltic"
    April 5th 2018, 4th Indo-European Research Colloquium, University of Zürich.

  • "A revisit to the origin of the root vocalism of Lith. dãvė / dẽvė 'gave'"
    October 20th 2017, Kalbų ir Tarmių Transformacijos, Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas.

  • "The root vocalism of Lithuanian ė-preterit''
    May 7th 2017, Revitalizing Baltic Linguistics in Bern, University of Bern.

  • "The root vocalism of Lithuanian ė-preterit"
    April 20th 2017, 3rd Indo-European Research Colloquium, University of Vienna.

  • "What are they fighting about? The different schools of Balto-Slavic accentology"
    December 15th 2016, Språkhistoriska seminariet, Stockholm University [PDF file].

  • "Monosyllabic Circumflexion of the Lithuanian 3rd person future forms: its distribution and origin"
    August 20th 2016, Nordiska Slavistmötet, Stockholm. [PDF file]

  • "Historical phonology in Lithuanian and Balto-Slavic: relative chronology of Monosyllabic Circumflexion"
    December 4th 2015, Phonology Colloquium, Stockholm University.[PDF file]

  • "The Tones of Lithuanian Demonstrative Pronoun ‘tas/ta’"
    October 30th 2015, 12th International Congress of Balticists, Vilnius University.[PDF file]

  • "The relative chronology of Monosyllabic Circumflexion"
    May 29th 2015, Workshop on Baltic and Slavic Accentology, Stockholm University.[PDF file]

  • "The accentuation of the East Baltic particles and Monosyllabic Circumflexion"
    March 2015, First Indo-European Colloquium, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.[PDF file]

  • "The Accentuation of East Baltic Reflexes of PIE Root Nouns"
    IWoBA X, October 2014, University of Ljublijana. [PDF file]

  • "The East Baltic accentuation of the former root nouns in PIE"
    March 14th 2014, conference on Baltic and Scandinavian studies, Yale University. [PDF file]

  • "Some Notes on the 3rd Person Future Forms in Lithuanian"
    30th July, 2013, The Lengthened Grade in Indo-European, Leiden University. [PDF file]

  • "Monosyllabic Circumflexion in Lithuanian - with an investigation of some dialectal forms -"
    6th March, 2012, Conference on Indo-European Linguistics, Kyoto University. [PDF file]

  • "The Chronology of Monosyllabic Circumflexion in Lithuanian"
    April 8th 2011, Harvard University. [PDF file].

  • "On the Intonation of the Nominative Singular Ending of n-stems in Lithuanian and the Minimal Word Syndrome"
    June 12th 2010, Stockholm University. [PDF file].
Teaching
  • "Introduction to Baltic linguistics" Spring term 2016, baltiska språk, Stockholm University.

  • "Tutorial on Historical Linguistics" a class meeting on 26/04/2012 −Departmental Seminar at Division of Behavioral Studies, Kyoto University.
CV
The newest version of my CV is available here.
Contact
email:
yoko.yamazaki `at` balt.su.se
 

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